NEW YEAR’S DAY
The Russian Duma, finding calendar reform a troublesome subject, has shelved tho Bill recently introduced to substitute the Gregorian calendar- for that of Julius Caesar, and thirteen days out of gear with tho sun the Julian New Year’s Day will be celebrated to-day in those European countries in communion with tho Greek Church, of which Russia’, Greece, and Bulgaria aro the principal. Another New Year's Day will this year fall on February Cth, when some 600 million people of tho Par East, mainly in China and Japan, will welcome the beginning of tho fiftieth year of the seventy* sixth cycle of tho Chinese Era. At the spring equinox at the end of March the Persians will celebrate the New Year’s Day according to Umar Khayyam’s calendar, which is more accurate in its estimate of the length of the solar year than any other calendar yet devised.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8367, 1 March 1913, Page 10
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149NEW YEAR’S DAY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8367, 1 March 1913, Page 10
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