• 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 by 15 million jellybeans for Easter, enough to circle the earth three times
• Jellybeans were not an Easter tradition until the 1930′s when they were invented by William shrafft a Boston candy maker
• Jellybean flavor preferences
  • Cherry 19%
  • Strawberry 13%
  • Grape 10%
  • Lime 7%
• Marshmallow peeps were 50 years old in 2003
• The first peep took 27 hours to produce it now takes 6 minutes
• 700 Million peeps will be produced this Easter
• The most popular peeps for Easter are chicks and bunnies and come in pink, lavendar, blue, white and yellow, the yellow chick is the most popular
• You can freeze, microwave roast or top your pizza with peeps

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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 giant monolithic stone statues known as Moai. Much like the pyramids of ancient Egypt modern scholars are uncertain how the primitive people were able to construct, transport and erect the giant statues with limited technology. Many scientists have tried to re-enact erecting the statues, but none have met with success. To this day the moai remain and enigmatic unsolved mystery

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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 the Lily market up until that time. Lilies are their highest demand the two weeks before Easter, but is still a marketable product being the fourth largest flower crop in the United States.

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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 well.

Some adults and corporations are also giving out Easter Gift Baskets where appropriate. The most appreciated ones are these tailored specifically to the recipient like gourmet cooking items, golf equipment, beauty and healthcare products, even some personal development and business books. There are no hard and fast rules it’s all about being creative.

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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 way easter is calculated

• Easter Sunday is first sunday after the paschal full moon

The Paschal full moon is the first Ecclesiastical full moon after march 20th

To calculate Easter take the current year divide it by 19. Then take the remainder and add 1 to it, this is called the golden number. Use the table below to calculate the paschal moon date. Easter will be the Sunday after that date

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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 standardized the calendar in 1582 the primary reason was to get Easter back in synchronization with the calendar (10 days in October had to be entirely skipped). According to Butchers algorithm Easter can fall between March 22nd and April 25th

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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 capital grass and the turf protection law was enacted to prevent this area from being used in the future. The 1877 festival was rained out. In 1878 there was a notice sent out at the last moment that using the lawn of the capital building was prohibited. There is some debate about the sequence of events. Some say an angry crowd stormed the White House gates and demanded that they be allowed to roll the eggs, or the president heard about the crowd and ordered the gates opened. The White House Easter egg roll has been a tradition ever since.

The celebrations have evolved over the years and have included the first radio address, maypole dances, circuses, petting zoos and hot air balloons. However the most anticipated part is the arrival of the Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny is traditionally a White House staff member who wears a costume head. This Easter Bunny is kept secret and never seen without its costume head. The most famous bunny was the wife of Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Ursula Meese. She enjoyed the part and played the role for six years, causing the press to give her the nickname ‘the Meestor bunny’

In some countries eggs are rolled downhill, and to symbolize the stone that blocked Christ’s tomb being rolled away. This symbolism contradicts with the opinion of many religious scholars who believe the stone covering the door was actually rolled uphill.

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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 been rolled back and the body was not in the tomb. Later the apostles had a vision of Jesus who had been resurrected.
Like many of the Christian holidays it has its origins in pagan traditions. Early Europeans celebrated the return of spring with a festival for the goddess Eastre. To help spread Christian beliefs they incorporated them into the pagan ceremonies. Slowly over time the pagan rituals were replaced with the Christian ones and the name was changed from Eastre to Easter.

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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 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 is the origin the Easter bonnet.

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