"New" Easter Knights
We updated the website! It's now easier on fattenedcalf.com to buy cards as well as allow you to purchase only one card if you like. No more bundles are required. What a day.
If you've been reading Ginger's blog, you also know we are in New Jersey now. For some reason, that's just cool. I love states that start with "New". Was there an "Old Jersey"? An "Old York"? An "Old Hampshire"?
Did everyone move from the old to the new or is there a bitterness between the two? When we went to "new and improved" greeting cards we added a 1/16" overhang so they were easier to open. What did "Old York" do to gain the new title? I know crime has dropped dramatically since they used to be the murder capital of the world. Perhaps that's it.
Who decided they get the "New" title though. The Queen of England? She gets to decide who is knighted (and how cool is that!) The Pope? I think he gets to pick out what day Easter is on each year.
Or do you get to just call yourself what you want - like our congress recently decided to give themselves a pay raise even though the government was essentially shut down for a bit.
I'm not sure which is cooler - making the call on Easter, deciding who is knighted, or being able to raise you paycheck at the expense of taxpayers. I'll let you decide...
Sir Jean-Luc
posted by Jean-Luc @ 1:30 AM
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3 Comments:
I hope all of your readers are smart enough to know that Easter is calculated not by the Pope's whims, but by lunar cycles. It's the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring...because Christ's death and resurrection were linked to the Passover, a feast calculated according to the Jewish lunar calendar. Orthodox churches calculate the beginning of spring by a different calendar, so sometimes their Easter doesn't coincide with the Catholic and Protestant churches.
I am excited to have such wisdom in my readership.
You are absolutely correct. To my knowledge, the last Pope to influence Easter's timing was Pope Victor(189-199 AD) who merely stated it should be on a Sunday. That was followed up with The Council of Nicea's (AD 325) clarification.
You have truly shown human schooling is better than cow schooling. Next time I will at least check with a fish...
York is a city in England dating back to roman times, the name York derives from the latin name Eboracum which derives from the name of a celtic chief (presumably a man called Ebor). New York wasn't named directly after York though... it was named after the Duke of York. Since York was one of medieval England's most important cities, the Duke of York came to be a high position within the royalty (currently held by Prince Andrew) and there wasn't much to connect the Dukes of York with the city itself... so the connection between New and Old York is purely incidental. There is a British nursery rhyme called 'The Grand Old Duke of York'.
Jersey is an island in the English Channel. It is owned by the UK, but not part of the UK... neither is it an ordinary dependency, it's status is somewhere between the two. During the English Civil war the Governer of Jersey was a staunch royalist, and in return (after a period where England was a republic) the new King rewarded him by giving him land in the new world, which he named New Jersey.
Hampshire is a county in southern England... it is unclear as to why they chose to name the new colony after this particular county, but one of the earlist cities in New Hampshire is called Portsmouth. There is also a Portsmouth in 'old' Hampshire... Old Portsmouth is the home of the British Navy.
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