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Venerdi Dantesco.

25-Mar-16

forward Today is Good Friday, and an unusual one: it’s also March 25th, the day of the Annunciation, traditionally New Year’s Day by the Catholic calendar.  It was believed to be the day God created the world, and hence the day He began it again with the Incarnation; the day of the Passover as well (in […]

Happy New Year.

25-Mar-09

http://preferredmode.com/tag/bike-style/page/35/ The Twenty-Fifth of March is always a strange day for me.  Traditionally in Christian countries it was New Year’s Day (England did not abandon this practice until the 1750s, which is why George Washington, born in February of 1731, was born, by our standards, in February of 1732).  Since this is spring, it’s actually a […]