Chill out at home with my family, make lots of snacks for us all to munch on while we wait to watch the ball drop, then have a glass of champagne with my husband at midnight - after getting a new years kiss of course. The kids get sparkling grape juice, lol. Then we'll all probably go to bed.
2006-10-27 00:28:06
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answered by freyas_kin28 6
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The Bahá’à Calendar
Among different peoples and at different times many different methods have been adopted for the measurement of time and fixing of dates, and several different calendars are still in daily use, e.g., the Gregorian in Western Europe, the Julian in many countries of Eastern Europe, the Hebrew among the Jews, and the Muhammadan in Muslim communities.
The Báb signalized the importance of the dispensation which He came to herald, by inaugurating a new calendar. In this, as in the Gregorian Calendar, the lunar month is abandoned and the solar year is adopted.
The Bahá’à year consists of 19 months of 19 days each (i.e. 361 days), with the addition of certain “Intercalary Days” (four in ordinary and five in leap years) between the eighteenth and nineteenth months in order to adjust the calendar to the solar year. The Báb named the months after the attributes of God. The Bahá’à New Year, like the ancient Persian 179 New Year, is astronomically fixed, commencing at the March equinox (usually March 21), and the Bahá’à era commences with the year of the Báb’s declaration (i.e. 1844 A.D., 1260 A.H.).
In the not far distant future it will be necessary that all peoples in the world agree on a common calendar.
It seems, therefore, fitting that the new age of unity should have a new calendar free from the objections and associations which make each of the older calendar unacceptable to large sections of the world’s population, and it is difficult to see how any other arrangement could exceed in simplicity and convenience that proposed by the Báb.
The months in the Bahá’à Calendar are as follows:
Arabic Name Translation First Days
1st Bahá Splendor March 21
2nd Jalál Glory April 9
3rd Jamál Beauty April 28
4th ‘Azamat Grandeur May 17
5th Núr Light June 5
6th Rahmat Mercy June 24
7th KalÃmát Words July 13
8th Kamál Perfection Aug. 1
9th Asmá’ Names Aug. 20
10th ‘Izzat Might Sept. 8
11th MashÃyyat Will Sept. 27
12th ‘Ilm Knowledge Oct.16
13th Qudrat Power Nov. 4
14th Qawl Speech Nov. 23
15th Masa’il Questions Dec. 12
16th Sharaf Honor Dec. 31
17th Sultán Sovereignty Jan. 19
18th Mulk Dominion Feb. 7
Intercalary Days Feb. 26 to March 1, inclusive.
19th ‘Alá Loftiness March 2
2006-10-27 07:41:09
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answered by GypsyGr-ranny 4
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I don't understand why people say New Years. It's New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day or the New Year. It has an apostrophe in it.
2006-10-27 07:49:21
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answered by DeborahDel 6
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Ditto
2006-10-27 07:27:41
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answered by Anonymous
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Usually help out with the senior's dinner at the home.
2006-10-27 07:31:39
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answered by Anonymous
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I can not wait any more
Body I am planing to go to my country (Iran)
from here (USA)
to meet my sister and her familly
Oh God!!
2006-10-27 07:34:22
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answered by vachool 2
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flip my calender to January and go to bed
2006-10-27 07:26:07
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answered by J D 5
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party
2006-10-27 07:26:31
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answered by Anonymous
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go to the beach, drink, smoke pot, pop an e and bang girls
2006-10-27 07:27:07
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answered by ? 4
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probably will spend it with my girlfriend on the mountains
2006-10-27 07:26:41
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answered by Martin the baby 6
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