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Easter Fun Fats

Americans spend 2 billion dollars on Easter candy Over 60 million chocolate rabbits are sold Which part of the rabbit gets eaten first? 75% eat the ears first 12% eat the feet first 10% eat the tail first 65% of Americans prefer milk chocolate or dark chocolate Americans buy 600 million peeps for Easter Americans [...]

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Easter Island

Easter Island was named by Admiral Rogeveen who ‘discovered it’ in 1722. Its people and language are called Rapa Nui and they know the island as ‘te Pito o te Henua’ or the navel of the world. Easter Island has been an archeological mystery ever since it was first discovered. The island is covered with [...]

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Easter Lily

The Easter lily owes it’s thanks to Louis Houghton who brought them back from a trip to Bermuda in 1919. He returned home to Oregon with a suitcase packed with bulbs he distributed to family and friends. In 1945 there were 1200 lily farms in Oregon and the US displaced Bermuda and Japan who dominated [...]

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Easter Gift Basket

In most Christian and many non-Christian families Easter basket are given out to children. These baskets are usually filled with fake grass, excelsior or some other packing material and filled with chocolate, jelly beans and other candies, and no basket is complete without a few Easter eggs. Some families also include a few gifts as [...]

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Why Does Easter Move

It’s an imaginary full moon that is used to compute of the date of Easter. It is the 14th day of the moon, counting from its first appearance after conjunction (roughly speaking, conjunction is the dark of the moon). You can see the ecclesiastical moon table or use our easter calculator Here is the offical [...]

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Why Does Easter Move

Easter, unlike Christmas is a movable holiday. Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical moon after the vernal equinox. There are some differences between a full moon and an ecclesiastical moon. Generally these two fall on the same day, but this was not the case in 1876. When pope Gregory the XIII [...]

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Easter Sunday

The White House Easter Egg roll is believed to have originated by Dolly Madison. According to newspapers of the time there were public egg rolls as early as 1872, but these occurred on the lawn of the capital not the White House. In 1876 there was large crowd and heavy damage was inflicted upon the [...]

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Palm Sunday

Easter Sunday is holiest days in the Christian calendar, second only to Christmas. The Easter holiday is a celebration of Christ’s resurrection. After Christ died on the cross he was placed in a borrowed grave on Good Friday. Three days later when the apostles went to the tomb they found stone covering the door had [...]

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Good Friday

Good Friday is celebrated on the Friday before Easter. This day is in remberance of crucifixion Jesus endured on the cross. When the word good entered the English language it was initially only used in association with god

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Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday is thought to have come from muand baskets used in English fishing communities. Hundreds of years ago fairs were held, and people bought and sold cattle, horses, and other foodstuffs. Fisherman sold fresh fish from their maund baskets. Hats and other clothing items were also popular items for sale. Many Historians believe this [...]

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