Across the country, at the stroke of midnight, fireworks displays explode under the night sky to mark the beginning of a new ...

It was ordered to decorate Moscow’s main streets and the homes of the nobility with conifer trees and branches. The New Year festivities lasted for seven days, topping the holiday off with a bonfire ...

It is clear that diversity rules India much too strongly, and this is one area where there is little scope for uniformity, on ...

Hanukkah—also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew—is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional ...

Over thousands of years, various cultures have developed calendars based on astronomical observations, leading to diverse ...

It is not her fault that Nigerians have never learnt to queue properly, even inside the banks, at ATM machines, at supermarkets, any and everywhere ...

That doesn’t sound like much, but those minutes add up to days over time. Pope Gregory XIII solved this problem in 1582 when he came up with the Gregorian calendar we use today, the most widely used ...

We take a moment to wish a Happy Hanukkah — the Festival of Lights — to members of the Jewish community in the area. Hanukkah ...

The year will end with a somewhat rare black moon having in the night sky over Wyoming. While that may sound like an ominous ...

Hanukkah is one of the most famous holidays in the Jewish calendar, but here are facts about the Festival of Lights that you ...

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Great Britain's most remote community still hasn't celebrated Christmas, for one huge reason. It's only been two days since ...