In the United Kingdom, the first Aldermaston March organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took place at Easter 1958, when several thousand people marched for four days from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment close to Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons.

The oral history of the people of Easter Island, at least as it was documented by Heyerdahl, is completely consistent with this theory, as is the archaeological record he examined ( Heyerdahl 1958 ).

In particular, Heyerdahl obtained a radiocarbon date of 400 for a charcoal fire located in the pit that was held by the people of Easter Island to have been used as an " oven " by the " Long Ears ," which Heyerdahl's Rapa Nui sources, reciting oral tradition, identified as a white race which had ruled the island in the past ( Heyerdahl 1958 ).

In 1958 two Workers ' Youth League ( Norway ) members ( Berge Furre and Kåre Sollund ) contacted MPs of the labour party, to have MPs sign a petition, as a part of what is known as the Easter Uprising of the Labour Party.

They point out that even in the current French Fifth Republic ( 1958 –), school holidays mostly follow the Christian liturgical year, even though Easter holidays have been replaced by Spring holidays, which may or may not include Easter, depending on the years.

He worked on screenplays for such films as Ambassador Bill ( 1931 ) and Easter Parade ( 1948 ), and published four novels, Flowers for the Living ( with Bernard Newman, 1958 ), The Olympians ( 1961 ), The Enchantress ( 1964 ), and Gracious Living ( 1966 ).

In 1958, the local chapter of Berge Furre and Kåre Sollund, Sosialistisk Studentlag, was closed down, as a result of their contacting MPs to sign a petition as a part of what is known as the Easter Rebellion of the Labour Party.

B. Priestley's Angel Pavement in 1958, and his one-man stage performance of The Gospel According to Saint Mark, transferred to television by Thames for Easter 1979.

The DAC produced the first badges with the Nuclear Disarmament / Peace symbol, and organised various actions of civil disobedience against nuclear weapons and also the first of the Aldermaston Marches in Easter 1958.

He designed the nuclear disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, organised by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War in Easter 1958 ( 4 – 7 April ).

It was on the street in front of the building that the leaders of the rising assembled before their march to the General Post Office on Easter Monday.

The Committee's interest in Greek politics was sparked by the banning of a march by the Greek " Bertrand Russell Committee of 100 " in Easter 1963, by the expulsion of some of the British Committee of 100's members when they attempted to join the march, and by the murder of Grigoris Lambrakis, a Greek MP and peace activist.

On Easter Monday, 1916, Padraig Pearse left the school for the last time and made his famous 5-mile march to the GPO.

The music played in the scene immediately before the Easter Beagle arrives, in which Sally accuses Linus of ruining her Easter, is the funeral march from the second movement of the same Beethoven symphony.

The list was headed by ( Henry ) Hutton of St. John's who was matriculated from St. John's at Easter, 1625.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

He had trusted to the sanctity of Easter for immunity from attack.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

Another road leads coastwards from Easter Aberdour.

A milestone in the evolution of the canon of New Testament books is his Easter letter from Alexandria, written in 367, usually referred to as his 39th Festal Letter.

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, the first fatal clashes occurred when Croatian police from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior ( MUP ) entered the Plitvice Lakes national park to expel rebel Serb forces.

They objected to his Celtic Easter and his exclusion of men as well as women from the precincts of his monasteries.

Charlton's relegation from the Championship was all but confirmed on Easter Monday ( 13 April ) when, despite picking up a point in a 0 – 0 draw at Coventry, they found themselves 12 points from safety with four games remaining.

Between 1959 and 1965 it organised the Aldermaston March, which was held over the Easter weekend from the Atomic Weapons Establishment near Aldermaston to Trafalgar Square, London.

Easter Island has suffered from heavy soil erosion in recent centuries, aggravated by agriculture and deforestation.

Hanácké kraslice, Easter eggs from the Haná region, the Czech Republic, decorated with straw

Though an egg appears to be like the stone of a tomb, a bird hatches from it with life ; similarly, the Easter egg, for Christians, is a reminder that Jesus rose from the grave, and that those who believe will also experience eternal life.

Candle dripped Easter eggs from South Bend, IN, USA made using a PAAS kit.

Easter eggs from the Czech Republic decorated by boiling with onion skins

In the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, shed on the Cross, and the hard shell of the egg symbolized the sealed Tomb of Christ — the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead.

File: Czech easter eggs 2005-03-26 00. jpeg | Easter eggs from the Czech Republic

File: Belokranjske pisanke. JPG | Easter eggs or pisanke from Slovenia

File: Paskagg1. jpg | Easter eggs from Sweden

Thereafter, CND organised annual Easter marches starting at Aldermaston and ending in London.

It was decided to postpone action until after Easter Monday, and in the meantime Nathan telegraphed the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell, in London seeking his approval.

Together with Mellitus, the Bishop of London, Justus signed a letter written by Archbishop Laurence of Canterbury to the Irish bishops urging the native church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.

Her husband visited her for four days at Easter 1559 and she spent a month around London in the early summer of the same year.

The Great Chronicle, compiled 30 years later from the contemporary London municipal records, says the rumour of the princes ' death did not start circulating in London until after Easter of 1484.

Due to an Easter shut-down, the first London Underground service on the line was on 5 April 1994.

During the Easter vacation in 1856, while Hofmann was visiting his native Germany, Perkin performed some further experiments in the crude laboratory in his apartment on the top floor of his home in Cable Street in east London.

Picked up by London publisher Harrap, he started with two commissions which were never completed: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( his work on which was destroyed during the 1916 Easter Rising ) and an illustrated edition of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.

The Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs ( London, Christie's 1997 ) ISBN 0-297-83565-3

The archbishop was present, along with Archbishop Wulfstan of York, at council that proclaimed the first of these law codes and which was held by Edmund at London, over Easter around 945 or 946.

They also played three dates over Easter 2009 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the release of How to Make Friends and Influence People, at the Manchester Academy, Wolverhampton's Wulfrun Hall, and the Shepherd's Bush Empire, London.

Each year at Easter the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Marathon is held on a course between Devizes and Westminster in London.

In the spring of 1961, while on her Easter holiday in London she learned of the original British National Party.

That Easter, Mandela came to London to attend a concert at Wembley Stadium to thank the anti-apartheid Movement and the British people for all their years of campaigning against apartheid.

* Moncreiffe of Easter Moncreiffe, Iain, Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms, and Pottinger, Don, Herald Painter Extraordinary to the Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms Simple Heraldry, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London andf Edinburgh, 1953 ; splendidly illustrated

* " The Easter Egg Party " ( 1938 ) in The London Mercury

The race is held every Easter over a course of from Devizes in Wiltshire to Westminster in central London.

* The Easter Hare, and Other Stories, illustrations by Decie Merwin, Methuen ( London, England ), 1932.

She became the first presenter to rejoin Blue Peter after having a baby, but on 23 January 2006, she told viewers that she would be leaving the programme at Easter and moving away from London so she could spend more time with Dexter and the rest of her family.

Zeller: The Day-of-Week and Easter Formulae by J R Stockton, near London, UK.

Smith played for a number of sides including Glasgow University, Cambridge University, London Scottish F C, Gosforth, Ebbw Vale, Edinburgh Wanderers and Barbarians FC ( the latter on their famous 1957 Easter tour of Wales, when they beat Cardiff RFC 40-0 ).