Happy New Year 2011!
 

Happy New Year 2011!
Best wishes to all!

Not a Happy New Year, and with the "old New Year!

Yes, sir!

Dear colleagues, I wish you the same thing wished for the New Year!

And a lot of money in his personal life!



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Simple: in order and enough toys!

Of course!
"A man can easily do without necessities, but can not without an extra (s)

Happy New Year 2011 from Christmas! (According to the Julian calendar). We wish first of all spiritual wealth. Else, I hope, will follow. "Money is not happiness," - as stated in the folk wisdom.

In the Russian tradition to celebrate New Year at midnight on January 13, January 14, due to the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church continues to meet all the church holidays of the Julian calendar ("old style"). Hence the conventional term "Old New Year".
In this modern new year falls on Christmas post - Orthodox forty-day fast in honor of Christmas.

According to scientists, the new year to celebrate the humanity at the dawn of civilization - five thousand years ago. This custom originated in ancient Mesopotamia: each spring, streets filled with noisy parades, carnivals and masquerades in honor of the supreme god Marduk. In this festive tradition of the Babylonians took over the Greeks, and then it passed to Romans. In 1946 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar reformed calendar, which then become available to all countries belonging to the Roman Empire. His naturally, became known as Julian. Year of the Julian calendar has 365.25 days.
In the year 325 at the I Ecumenical (Nicene) Cathedral of the Julian calendar was adopted and the Christian Church. In VI century Roman monk Dionysius the Small was first proposed by the so-called "Christmas calendar" (the starting point of a new era began to consider Christmas), which until now used in most countries.

Since mankind lived not tuzhilo over one thousand six hundred years (!), While in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII decided not to reform the old calendar (to cope with the inevitable errors in calendar) and coined the new "Gregorian", by which time the countdown is now the entire Western world. Year on this "new" calendar is 365.2425 days. The difference between old and new style then was 10 days.

If we compare the Julian and Gregorian calendars with the star, it appears that the latter they differ by 0.00175 and 0.0038 percent respectively. Thus, the rigorous mathematical calculations, it turns out that Julian calendar is still more accurate !

In Russia, the "new chronology" of the Gregorian calendar was introduced by the Soviet authorities in 1918, but the tradition of celebrating New Year at midnight on January 13, January 14, survived.

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Russia, Russia - which I neither have a look!
For all your sufferings, and the battle
I love thee, Russia, old
Thy forests, graveyards and prayers ...

Russia, Russia! Take care of yourself and cherish!
Look back into the forest and thy dales
On all sides they descended,
Other times of the Tatars and Mongols ...

Crosses, crosses ... I can not!
I greatly take away from the eyes of the palm
And suddenly I see: quietly in the meadow
Grass chewed hobbled horses.

Zarzhut they - and somewhere in aspen
Pick up the echo of a slow neighing,
And me - the immortal stars of Russia,
Quiet stars boundless flicker ...

Nikolay Rubtsov

"The accuracy of the Julian calendar is low: every 128 years, accumulated an extra day. Because of this, such as Christmas, initially almost coincides with the winter solstice, gradually shifted toward the spring. The most noticeable difference between spring and autumn days near the equinox, when the rate of change in the length of day and the position of the sun is maximal. In many churches, according to a plan of founders, the vernal equinox, the Sun should fall into a certain place, such as in St. Peter's in Rome - is a mosaic. not only astronomers but also the higher clergy, headed by the Pope could make that Easter does not fall into place. After a long discussion on this issue in 1582 the Julian calendar in Catholic countries, the decision of Pope Gregory XIII was replaced with a more accurate calendar. Protestant countries refused from the Julian calendar, gradually, over the XVII-XVIII centuries, the last were Great Britain (1752) and Sweden.

In Russia the Gregorian calendar was introduced by Decree of People's Commissars adopted January 24, 1918, in Orthodox Greece - in 1923, without the CPC.

"Until now, for a series of calculations, astronomers used the old style, but in any astronomical yearbook of the world by day is to" Julian "day - JD. It also uses the Julian calendar and historians when dealing with long intervals of time."

In addition, there are signs of excess, not to pay attention to which it is impossible. Holy Fire - it's an amazing phenomenon happens only in the Orthodox Holy Saturday (the day before the Resurrection of Christ) - on our old, Julian, calendar!

It's a miracle, which indicates that God is near us, there is in Jerusalem, the Temple of the Holy Sepulchre. This temple was built around that cave in which lay the body of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion. Each year on this day, the Patriarch of Jerusalem goes into the cave with a sheaf of unlit candles and comes with burning. The sacred fire descends from heaven and burn them! The fire that has some special, unknown to us the nature of - the first time does not burn, and therefore present in the church as people try to "bathe" them. This miracle happens only once a year - to the Orthodox Holy Saturday! And admit it, and Catholics, Muslims and all other faiths.

So that we can with certainty say that we, the Orthodox people living in a single calendar, with the heavens. And if we tear off on our dates - burst sacred bond earthly and celestial. "

Russian spark
                
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Immersed in a lingering cold,
Snow around me numb!
Numb little spruce
And the sky was dark with no stars.
What a wilderness! I was the one living,
One living in the vast field of the dead!
Suddenly, the soft light
(Dreaming, or what?)
Gleamed in the desert, as a watchdog ...
I was just like a snowman,
Entering the house (the last hope!)
And heard, shaking the snow:
- Here is a furnace for you and warm clothes ...
Then the owner listened to me
But in a dim view
Life was short,
And, still sitting by the fire,
She just seemed to have dozed off ...
How many yellow shots in Russia
In such a simple and gentle rim!

What beautiful poems, Thank you

tchaika, heart!