California State University, Fresno, commonly referred to as Fresno State, is one of the campuses of California State University, located at the northeast edge of Fresno, California, at the foot of the majestic Sierra Nevada mountain range. The surrounding San Joaquin Valley is one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, and Fresno County is the sixth largest metropolitan area in California. The university is within an hour's drive of many mountain and lake resorts and ...
This article details various mathematical algorithms to calculate the day of the week for any particular date in the past or future. There are a number of other algorithms to do this, including, for example, the Doomsday Algorithm, but they are all variants of each other, simply using different rules to achieve the same result.
A typical application is to calculate the day of the week on which someone was born or some other special event occurred.
Calculating the day of the week - Introduction.
The b ...
The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial or, in Latin, the Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, held in Rome on January of 897. During the proceedings, the decomposing body of Formosus, who had been dead for nine months, was dressed in his papal vestments and seated on a throne while his successor, Pope Stephen VII, read the charges against him and conducted the trial. The Cadaver Synod is remembered as one of the most bizarre episodes in the ...
The Bretton Woods system of international monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states. The Bretton Woods system was the first example in world history of a fully negotiated monetary order intended to govern monetary relations among independent nation-states.
Preparing to rebuild the international economic system as World War II was still raging, 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in the town of B ...
Bon Jovi is a Rock and Roll band from New Jersey that has sold more than 100 million albums in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and played live concerts in major cities in Asia, Europe, Australia, Canada and South America, in addition to a large number of cities in the USA. Bon Jovi has sometimes been classified as Hair Metal — sometimes even regarded as the form's prime shapers — but has proved much more durable than most groups so labeled. It has been a band which inspired lots of today's bands, and also created the "Unplugged" style ...
The Borivali National Park, officially known as the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, is a rare National Park that lies within city limits. The park lies on the northern fringes of suburban Mumbai, India. It encompasses an area of 104 square kilometres and is surrounded on three sides by one of the world's most populous cities. It is possibly one of Asia's most visited National Parks with 2 million annual visitors.
Within the Park, the ancient Kanheri Caves dating back 2,400 years were sculpted out of the rocky cliffs. T ...
O-bon (Jap. お盆) or only Bon is a Japanese Buddhist holiday to honor the departed spirits of one's ancestors. This Buddhist festival has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people from the big cities return to their home towns and visit and clean their ancestors' graves. Traditionally including a dance festival, it has existed in Japan for more than 500 years. It is held from 13th of July to the 16th ("Welcoming Obon" and "Farewell Obon" respectively) in the eastern part of Japan (Kanto), and in August in the ...
Bloc Party are a British art rock/post-punk band. The band has been around in various guises since 2002, with names like The Angel Range, Diet and Union, before settling on Bloc Party in September 2003. The name is a play on block party, a name for a quasi-informal neighborhood festival, which might hire a local band as entertainment. The name was not intended to be an allusion to the Soviet Bloc ...
Rudbeckia hirta 'Double Gold'
Rudbeckia hirta 'Indian Summer'
Rudbeckia hirta 'Marmalade'
Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima
The black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an upright annual (sometimes biennial or perennial) native to the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. The black-eyed Susan is the state flower of Maryland since 1918, when it was de ...
Blind Faith was a band formed in late 1968 when Eric Clapton (ex-Cream) and Steve Winwood (ex-Traffic) were at a loose end following the demise of their former bands and began to spend time together again (they had previously collaborated on a record as "Powerhouse"), jamming and working on new material at Clapton's house in Surrey. At Winwood's instigation, Cream's former drummer Ginger Baker was invited along, and they subsequently spent some time recording in the studio. Rick Grech, bassist with Family was invited to join them (he left Family, mid-tour). Record producer Jimmy Miller came in to brin ...
Born Again is Black Sabbath's 11th studio album, released in August 1983.
The album features the vocals of Ian Gillan, the former Deep Purple vocalist, who joined Sabbath in 1983 to replace departed vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Original Sabbath drummer Bill Ward returned to the band as a replacement for Vinny Appice (who had left with Dio to form the band Dio), but quit the band right before the 1983 tour.
The album's s ...
The Boston and Albany Railroad (AAR reporting mark BA) was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York, later becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system. Passenger service is still operated on the line by Amtrak (as part of their Lake Shore Limited), and the MBTA Commuter Rail system uses the section east of Worcester as their Framingham/Worcester Line.
Boston and Albany Railroad - History.
The Boston and Worcester Railroad was chartered June 23, 1831 and ...
The month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as some natural period related to the motion of the Moon. The traditional concept arose with the cycle of moon phases; such months (lunations) are synodic months and last ~29.53 days. From excavated tally sticks, researchers have deduced that people counted days in relation to the Moon's phases as early as the Paleolithic age. Synodic months are still the basis of many calendars.
Month - Astronomical background.
The moti ...
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors. His novels feature a "flat affect" and a glossy, empty style that garners him extremely polarized reviews. Ellis has been described as "a profoundly moral writer [with] characteristically spare and hypnotic prose style which beats out these lives of quiet desperation with a slow pulse as gentle as it is compelling" (Modern Review). He has called himself a moralist, while he has b ...
A bratwurst is a fried sausage, composed of pork, beef, and sometimes veal. Etymology: German, from Old High German brAtwurst, from brAt meat without waste + wurst sausage. Popular etymology suggests "fried sausage"; this, however, is incorrect. The word bratwurst can refer to a sausage that is as yet uncooked (but meant to be cooked before eating), or already cooked by any means regardless of the word's origins. The word usually refers to a mostly pork product, but can be used to refer to an all beef product [1]. The word is also used for vegetarian ...
Boxing in the 1980s was filled with important fights, events and personalities that shaped the sport. Boxing in the 1980s was shaped by many different situations, such as the continuous corporate battles between the different world sanctioning organizations, the void left by Muhammad Ali as the sport's ambassador and consequent search for a new boxing hero, the continuous presence of Don King as the sport's most famous promoter and the surge of rival promoters as Bob Arum, Butch Lewis and Murad Muhammad. In 1986, Mike Tyson cro ...
Dutty Boukman a papaloa, or vodoun priest, who's death is largely considered the start of the Haitian Revolution. In late August of 1791, Boukman conducted a ceremony at the Bois Caïman and prophesied that Jean François, Biassou, and Jeannot would be leaders of a slave revolt that would free the slaves of Haiti.
Soon after the revolt began, Boukman was taken and beheaded by French authorities. The French then publicly displayed Boukman's head in an attempt to dispel the aura of invincibility that Boukman had cultivated. The attempt failed and Boukman was eventually admitted into the pantheon of loa ( ...
Canadian Forces Maritime Command (MARCOM) is the naval branch of the Canadian Armed Forces. As the naval branch, it is also the senior branch or service of the Canadian Armed Forces, following the tradition that comes from the Royal Navy. MARCOM is the descendant of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) which was Canada's naval service from the navy's foundation in 1910 until 1 February 1968. Prior to 1910, the Royal Navy provided naval protection for Canada. After 1968, the RCN was merged with the army and air force to form the Canadian Armed Forces. MAR ...
Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born September 2, 1936 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American businessman. He participated in the founding of Intel Corporation and was a key driving force in its rapid success.
Grove was born "Gróf András" (note: in Hungary, the family name comes first) to a middle-class Jewish family. Growing up he was known to friends as "Andris". In 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution, he left his home and family under the cover of night, and emigrated ...
The Curse of the Billy Goat, or Billy Goat Curse (curse supposedly began in 1945) is the name of an urban myth, superstition, or scapegoat used to explain the World Series drought that Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs have had to endure since their last appearance in the 1945 World Series, and their last World Series championship in 1908.
Curse of the Billy Goat - The semi beginning.
As the story goes, William "Billy Goat" Sianis, a Greek immigrant who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy ...
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was the most famous rock festival of its era. It was held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in Bethel, New York, on 15, 16, and 17 August, 1969. The Woodstock Festival represented the culmination of the counterculture of the 1960s and the ultimate climax of the "hippie era". Many of the best-known musicians of the times appeared during the rain-plagued weekend, much of which was captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock. Joni Mitchell's song Woodstock encapsulated th ...
