Brain broken!

[kiya]

I poked at the web and found a calendar for 1773 with holidays marked on it (for running the plot I'm currently running on NE2.

So now I know when Ash Wednesday fell in 1773, which is the critical bit of information that I needed.

The calendar also includes Martin Luther King Day, Australia Day, Professional Secretaries Week, Earth Day, International Labour Day, . . . Independence Day for the States. . . .

. . . I didn't know there was a Mother-in-law's Day. . . .

(gwynyth, if you didn't know about this thing, it's here and I got there from here. In case you would find such useful.)

Comments

[redbird]

There are an incredible number of "holidays" that someone thought you could be convinced to spend money on greeting cards for. A really useful thing online would be a variant of this that knew when each holiday had first been celebrated, so wouldn't give you Earth Day, Australia Day, etc. for 1773. (This would be handy if you needed to know whether Mother's Day had been celebrated in 1903, for example; I hope we all realize that if it's France in 1743, nobody was celebrating Martin Luther King Day.)