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Carmentalia was the feast day (11 January to 15 January) of the Roman goddess Carmenta, an ancient oracle who later was deified by the Romans. She had her temple atop Capitoline Hill. The festival was chiefly observed by women. Read more

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An Agonalia or Agonia was an obscure archaic religious observance celebrated in ancient Rome several times a year, in honour of various divinities. An Agonium occurs on January 9 in the Fasti Praenestini, albeit in mutilated form. Read more

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Distaff Day, also called Roc Day, is 7 January, the day after the feast of the Epiphany. Read more

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The opening of this year's FIRST Robotics Competition is held in Manchester, New Hampshire. Spoiler

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Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas. It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly...

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Like occultations, there is another class of celestial phenomena that hold attraction to the astronomer. Known as 'transit' it represents the passage of a planet across the solar disc. Viewing from the earth there are only two planets that can come in between the Sun and ourselves: Mercury and Ven...

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December d h d h 3 1 Jupiter at opposition 14 11 Pluto 0.1S of Moon Occn 5 6 Mercury greatest elong W(21) 15 8 Mars 5.4S of Moon 5 11 Regulus 5.7N of Moon 18 2 Neptune 5.8S of Moon 6 15 LAST QUARTER 18 5 Mercury 5.4N of Antares 9 11 Spica 0.6N of Moon Occn 20 5 FIRST QUARTER 10 10 Saturn 3.8N of Moon 20 16 Uranu...

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Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.Read more

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The public is invited to a presentation of "Astronomy and the Citizen Scientist" Friday, January 9 at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. The program is part of PARIs monthly Evening at PARI series and will feature a presentation on the role the public can play in worldwide scie...

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All-girl space exploration team ready to blast off Space Ed-Ventures, a locally based educational platform and the region's only space exploration programme, opened applications for an all-girl cohort of aspiring engineers, researchers and astronauts between the ages of 12 and 18 in November...

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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more powerful form of synthetic chemistry than those u...

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Heritage Malta invites young people to 'Excavate Gozo!' This event is aimed at children aged between 10 and 14 years and it will take place at the Gozo Museum of Archaeology, The Citadel, Gozo, on Friday, the 4th of January 2013. The maximum number of participants is 20. The price is 5 each and Culture C...

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Yule or Yuletide ("Yule-time") is a winter festival that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic people as a pagan religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas. Read more

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Nochebuena, (literally "Good Night"), is a Spanish word referring to the night of Christmas Eve. Read more

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The Night of the Radishes (Spanish: Noche de rábanos) is celebrated every year on December 23 and it began in 1897 in the "zócalo" (main plaza) of Oaxaca city. Although it lasts only a few hours, it attracts thousands of people to this plaza each year. Read more

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	Carmentalia (Preview) Carmentalia was the feast day (11 January to 15 January) of the Roman goddess Carmenta, an ancient oracle who later was deified by the Romans. She had her temple atop Capitoline Hill. The festival was chiefly observed by women. Read more	Blobrana	1	Jan 11 07:30 2013 by Blobrana
	Fasti Praenestini (Preview) An Agonalia or Agonia was an obscure archaic religious observance celebrated in ancient Rome several times a year, in honour of various divinities. An Agonium occurs on January 9 in the Fasti Praenestini, albeit in mutilated form. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jan 9 07:39 2013 by Blobrana
	Distaff Day (Preview) Distaff Day, also called Roc Day, is 7 January, the day after the feast of the Epiphany. Read more	Blobrana	1	Jan 7 07:33 2013 by Blobrana
	FIRST Robotics Competition (Preview) The opening of this year's FIRST Robotics Competition is held in Manchester, New Hampshire. Spoiler	Blobrana	0	Jan 6 00:55 2013 by Blobrana
	Twelfth Night (Preview) Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas. It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly...	Blobrana	0	Jan 5 07:31 2013 by Blobrana
	The transit of Venus ( 1 2 ) Venus Transit (Preview) Like occultations, there is another class of celestial phenomena that hold attraction to the astronomer. Known as 'transit' it represents the passage of a planet across the solar disc. Viewing from the earth there are only two planets that can come in between the Sun and ourselves: Mercury and Ven...	Blobrana	12	Jan 3 22:44 2013 by Blobrana
	December 2012 ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) December d h d h 3 1 Jupiter at opposition 14 11 Pluto 0.1S of Moon Occn 5 6 Mercury greatest elong W(21) 15 8 Mars 5.4S of Moon 5 11 Regulus 5.7N of Moon 18 2 Neptune 5.8S of Moon 6 15 LAST QUARTER 18 5 Mercury 5.4N of Antares 9 11 Spica 0.6N of Moon Occn 20 5 FIRST QUARTER 10 10 Saturn 3.8N of Moon 20 16 Uranu...	Blobrana	29	Jan 2 00:16 2013 by Blobrana
	People's Republic of China (Preview) Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.Read more	Blobrana	3	Jan 1 07:49 2013 by Blobrana
	Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (Preview) The public is invited to a presentation of "Astronomy and the Citizen Scientist" Friday, January 9 at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. The program is part of PARIs monthly Evening at PARI series and will feature a presentation on the role the public can play in worldwide scie...	Blobrana	6	Jan 1 01:23 2013 by Blobrana
	Space Ed-Ventures (Preview) All-girl space exploration team ready to blast off Space Ed-Ventures, a locally based educational platform and the region's only space exploration programme, opened applications for an all-girl cohort of aspiring engineers, researchers and astronauts between the ages of 12 and 18 in November...	Blobrana	1	Dec 30 07:09 2012 by Blobrana
	There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (Preview) There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more powerful form of synthetic chemistry than those u...	Blobrana	0	Dec 29 07:28 2012 by Blobrana
	Gozo Museum of Archaeology (Preview) Heritage Malta invites young people to 'Excavate Gozo!' This event is aimed at children aged between 10 and 14 years and it will take place at the Gozo Museum of Archaeology, The Citadel, Gozo, on Friday, the 4th of January 2013. The maximum number of participants is 20. The price is 5 each and Culture C...	Blobrana	0	Dec 28 19:55 2012 by Blobrana
	Yule (Preview) Yule or Yuletide ("Yule-time") is a winter festival that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic people as a pagan religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas. Read more	Blobrana	1	Dec 24 07:33 2012 by Blobrana
	Nochebuena (Preview) Nochebuena, (literally "Good Night"), is a Spanish word referring to the night of Christmas Eve. Read more	Blobrana	1	Dec 24 07:28 2012 by Blobrana
	The Night of the Radishe (Preview) The Night of the Radishes (Spanish: Noche de rábanos) is celebrated every year on December 23 and it began in 1897 in the "zócalo" (main plaza) of Oaxaca city. Although it lasts only a few hours, it attracts thousands of people to this plaza each year. Read more	Blobrana	0	Dec 23 07:34 2012 by Blobrana
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