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THE TEKAS ALMANAC. 47
Era of Nabonazzar -Year 2676 begins
April 29, 1927, Juliani calendar.
Japanese Era-Year 2587 (being six-
teenth year of the period of Taisho) be-
gins Jan. 1, 1927, Gregorian calendar.
Era of Seleucidae, or Grecian Era-
Year 2239 begins Sept. 1, or Oct. 1, 1927,
Julian calendar, according to different
sects of present day. Ancient usage dated
beginning of year from vernal equinox.
Era of Diocletian-Year 1644 begins
Aug. 30, 1927, Julian calendar.
Era of Hegira, or Mohammedan Era-
Year 1346 begins at sunset June 30, 1927,
Gregorian calendar.
Independence of United States-The
1524 year of the independerice of the
United States begins July 4, 1927, Gre-
gorian calendar.
Independence of Texas-The 92d year
of the independence of Texas begins
March 2, 1927, Gregorian calendar.
2.424,882 is the Julian day number of
Jan. J, 1927, Gregorian calendar.
CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES, 1927.
Dominical letter, B; Epact, 27; Lunar
cycle or golden number, 9; solar cycle, 4;
Roman indiction, 10; Julian period, 6640.
ANNIVERSARIES AND FESTIVALS, 1927.
*New Year's Day...............Sat., Jan. 1
Epiphany ...................Thurs., Jan. 6
,incoln's Birthday............ Sat., Feb. 12
Septuagesima Sunday......... Sun., Feb. 13
*Washington's Birthday.....Tues., Feb. 22
Quinquagesima ..............Sun., Feb. 27
Ash Wednesday..............Wed., Mar. 2
Palm Sunday ................Sun., Apr. 10
Good Friday ....... ...... Fri., Apr. 15
First Day of Passover ....... Sun., Apr. 17
Easter Sunday ............... Sun., Apr. 17
Rogation Sunday............. Sun., May 22
Ascension Day ............Thurs., May 26
Memorial Day.............Mon., May 30
Pentecost (Whit Sunday)..... Sun., June 5
Hebrew Pentecost
(Shebuoth) .............. .Mon., June 6
Trinity .Sunday............. Sun., June 12
Corpus Christi.............Thurs., June 16
*Independence Day............ Ion., July 4
*Labor Day ...............Ion., Sept. 5
Hebrew New Year (Rosh
-lashonah) ............. ..Tues., Sept. 27
Day of Atonement (Yom
Kippur) D............ . Thurs., Oct. 6
First Day of Feast of Tabernacles
coSukkoth) ................. Tues., Oct. 11
Coumbus Day............... Wed., Oct. 12
'Election Day (some States)..Tues., Nov. 8
*Thanksgiving Day........Thurs., Nov. 24
First Sunday in Advent...... Sun., Nov. 27
*Christmas Day............. .Sun.. Dec. 25
*Days marked with asterisk above are
legal holidays according to statutes of the
State of Texas. Election Day in Texas is
held on even years hence will not be
among the States holding general elec-
tions on Nov. 8, 1927. In addition to the
above general holidays, the following spe-
cial Texas and Southern holidays are
legal in Texas:
Arbor Day (Washington's
Birthday) ................Tues. Feb. 22
Texas Independence Day......Wed,,Mar. 2
San Jacinto Day........... Thurs., Apr. 21
Jefferson Davis' Birthday.....Fri., June 3
Texas Pioneers' Day.........Fri., Aug. 12JEWISH CALENDAR.
For Jewish Year 5687.
1926.
Rosh Hashonah .............Thurs., Sept. 9
Yom Kippur .................Sat, Sept. 18
Sukkoth . ..............Taurs., Sept. 23
Shemini Atzereth... ......Thurs. Sept. 30
Hanukah ................... Wed., Dec. 1
1927.
Purim ........................... Wed.. Mar. 18
Passover .................... Sun., Apr. 17
7th Day Passover .............Sat., Apr. 23
Shavuoth ....................Mon., June 6
Beginning Jewish Year 5688.
Rosh Hashonah, or New
Year .................... Tues., Sept. 27
Yom Kippur, or Day of
Atonement . .......... . Thurs., Oct. 6
First Day of Sukkoth or Feast of
Tabernacles .............. Tues, Oct. 11
Last Day of Sukkoth........ Tues., Oct. 18
Simchath Torah, or Rejoicing of
the Law ...... Wed., Oct. 19
Chanukah or Feast of Lights.Mon., Dec. 19
COMETS,
Of the great number of comets which
have temporarily visited our solar system
or have become permanent members of it
none has surpassed Halley's in historical
associations. It has a record dating back
to B13. C. 240; its visitations spread alarm
and consternation throughout Europe
during the Middle Ag s, it was the first
whose return was predicted by an astron-
omer royal of England, and will, there-
fore, for these reasons, be an object of
great scientific interest for all time. Its
periodic time is 76.8 years, and in April,
1910, it made the perihelion passage for
the twenty-ninth time.
Eneke's Comet.
The second of the periodic comets to be
discovered was Encke's, as Halley's was
the first, Encke's comet has the shortest
period known-namely, about forty
months. The observed visitations, from
January, 1819, to September, 1924, foim
an uninterrupted series, thirty-three in
number.
Encke's is unique among comets in that
its motion is constantly accelerating and
its period is decreasing in proportion, be-
ing now 1.203 days as compared with 1,205
days in 1519. At first this was ascribed
to a resisting medium, but it is more
probably due to repeated passage of the
comet through a cloud of meteors.
Comets of 1843 and 1882.
In the last 100 years only two comets
have been brilliant enough to be seen by
day with the unaided eye. Of these one
was in February, 1843, the other in Sep-
tember, 1882. Together with the comet of
1668 and that of 1887, they form a comet
group; each member, at perihelion, nearly
brushes the sun's surface, that of 1843
having a velocity of 366 miles per second
and-passing half way around the sun in
two hours. These visitors are expected to
return after six or seven centuries. The
four comets were probably a single body
until too close an encounter with the sun
resulted in disruption.
Donatits Comet.
This was the finest comet of the nine-
teenth century and is known as the typi-
cal comet. In October, 1858, its- tail
reached half way from the horizon to the
zenith. Its period is 2,000 years.
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