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...appeal for an end to divisions, and then hurried off to Beijing for a meeting with leaders of ? uh, the Politburo. The only part of Lenin?s legacy still intact on the 80th anniversary is the date: The Bolsheviks swept away the Czar?s 10-month Georgian calendar, commemorating their ?Great October Socialist Revolution? on November...
Mark Potok, director of publications at Klanwatch, a hate group monitoring project run by the Southern Poverty Law Center, says a group must take action--be it publish literature, run an active Web site, distribute leaflets or hold rallies--within a calendar year in order to be listed as an active hate group...
...childish" rather than examining it seriously. Halloween is seen as a fact of life, an amusing bench-mark in the celebratory vacancy that stretches from Columbus Day to Veterans Day. But history has some explaining to do when it comes to Halloween; its prominent place in the American calendar requires some justification. Indeed, it's a strange bird...
...Hallos' Eve. In 998, the Abbot of Clugny instituted an accompanying celebration on Nov. 2, which became known as All Souls' Day. Thus, the Church used this two-day period to commemorate the entire deceased community of Christians, and both holidays remain in the Catholic calendar (the Church of England eliminated All Souls' Day during the Reformation, but reinstituted...
...fearful of Japanese militarism, stripped the titles of Japanese-extended imperial family, as well as the rest of Japanese aristocracy and removed the emperor from his purportedly divine status. However, Emperor Akihito is still head of state in all but name, and the Japanese continue to base their calendar by the number of years Emperor Akihito has reigned. Japan, for all its increasingly egalitarian society, is still respectful of their imperial family...