Word: gregorian
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...only people in the world who are more insistent than body-building enthusiasts are calendar reformers. A high-school course in plane geometry has imbued them with a passion for neat mathematical balance and their sensitive souls are seared by the irregularity of Gregorian months. Unfortunately, spring has its animating influence on the just and on the unjust, and the Fixed Calendar League has emerged from its hibernation to plague honest...
...Gregorian chants are used to furnish an appropriate musical background and the visual setting for the performance is the Germanic Museum reproduction on the "Golden Gate" of the Cathedral of Freiburg, Germany...
...Gregorian Chants by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (Victor, $24)?Preferred ritual music of the Roman Catholic Church (its arrangement is attributed to Pope Gregory I), sung in the preferred...
...except in leap year when it had 30. In 8 B.C. Emperor Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...
...different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed tonight consists of nine scenes. It was first composed in the late fifteenth century and is representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants are used to furnish an appropriate musical background for the action. The visual setting for the performance is the Germanic Museum reproduction of the "Golden Gate" of the cathedral of Freiburg, Germany...