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solar calendar - a calendar based on solar cycles

calendar - a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year

Gregorian calendar, New Style calendar - the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752

Julian calendar, Old Style calendar - the solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February

Revolutionary calendar - the calendar adopted by the first French Republic in 1793 and abandoned in 1805; dates were calculated from Sept. 22, 1792

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APR Aug calendar church calendar Dec December ecclesiastical calendar epact Feb Gregorian calendar Gregorian calendar month Jan Julian calendar June New Style calendar Nov Oct October Old Style calendar			It should be taken into account that our ancestors led their lives according to a solar calendar and Latvians have lots of traditions related to the sun. A little ray of sunshine by McIntosh, Kate / The Baltic Times (Riga, Latvia) While there was a fall in the number of arrests over the Afghan year ending March 21, which follows the solar calendar, the amount of drugs seized rose, counternarcotics officials told reporters. Afghanistan seizes 1bn dollar drugs haul over year by AFP / AFP South Asian Edition Hours later, a remote-controlled bomb blew up in nearby Khost province among hundreds of men gathered around a small hilltop shrine for picnics to mark the start of the New Year in Afghanistan, which uses the solar calendar. 11 dead as blasts mar Afghan New Year by AFP / AFP Asian Edition			Solanum aviculare Solanum burbankii Solanum carolinense Solanum commersonii Solanum crispum Solanum dulcamara Solanum elaeagnifolium Solanum giganteum Solanum jamesii Solanum jasmoides Solanum macranthum Solanum melanocerasum Solanum melongena Solanum nigrum Solanum nigrum guineese Solanum pseudocapsicum Solanum quitoense Solanum rostratum Solanum tuberosum Solanum wendlandii Solanum wrightii solar solar apex solar array solar battery solar calendar solar cell solar collector solar constant Solar cycle solar day solar dish solar eclipse Solar ecliptic limit solar energy Solar engine solar flare Solar flowers solar furnace solar gravity solar halo solar heater solar heating Solar hour solar house Solar lamp solar magnetic field solar mass Solar microscope solar month solar myth			Solar Array Paddle Subsystem Solar Array Release Mechanism Solar Array Retention & Deployment Assembly Solar Array Special Checkout Equipment Solar Array Wing Solar Array Wing Assembly Solar Aspect Angle Solar Aspect System Solar astronomy Solar astronomy solar atmospheric tide solar attachment Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer solar batteries solar batteries solar battery solar battery Solar Beam Experiment Solar Blind Channel Solar Blind UV Solar box cooker Solar box cooker solar bridge solar burn solar burn solar burn solar burn solar burn solar burst solar calendar solar cavity solar cell solar cell solar cell Solar cells Solar cells Solar Charge Controller solar cheilitis solar cheilitis solar cheilitis Solar chimney Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand Solar City Air Filtre solar climate Solar clock Solar clock Solar collapse Solar collapse solar collector solar collector solar collector solar collector Solar Collector Assembly solar collector efficiency Solar Combined Heat and Power Solar combisystem Solar concentrator Solar concentrator Solar Concentrator Array with Refractive Linear Element Technology Solar Concentrator Group

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