With the expansion of Western culture to many other places in the world during recent centuries, the Gregorian calendar has been adopted by many other countries as the official calendar, and the 1 January date of New Year has become global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days ( such as China and India ).

With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year's Day is the closest thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts.

With 329 common years of 52 weeks, plus 71 leap years of 53 weeks, leap week calendars can synchronize with the Gregorian every 400 years.

With these scenes restored in the revised and expanded edition of 2012, however, the novel ’ s meaning to Armenians is all the more poignant, as Vartan Gregorian writes in the preface, " The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was meant as a memorial set against a new historical phenomenon that had been described as " the murder of a nation ," " the extermination of a race ," and " the assassination of Armenia ..." The novel, in its expanded form, has even more relevance as a document of genocide.

With the original adoption of the Gregorian calendar in the 16th century the discrepancy was 10 days and had increased to 11 days in the 18th century when Scandinavia adopted the new calendar, with Winter solstice falling on December 9.

With the reform of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints in 1969, this feast was transferred to September 29 for celebration together with Saint Michael and Saint Gabriel.

* Most Weeks With a Number 1 Album in a Calendar Year: 22 in 1960, tied for a Number 4 ranking ; 18 in 1959, tied for a Number 7 ranking

Note: With minor alterations, much of the material on this page is taken from TheWORDshop's " The Fisherman's Calendar.

Radio host Dave Ross noted that “ The concern, of course, is that if Congress has the power to outlaw one word, it has the power to outlaw another word .... And the fact that it was indecency and not politics doesn't make that much difference, because if you give the government the power to decide what you can hear, you've given them power over discourse .” With responses like these, the legislation eventually lost the momentum behind it. The last action on the bill occurred as it was placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders.

The Falcons wore the all black combination against the New Orleans Saints for 4 straight seasons starting in 2004, With the last time being in 2007, losing 34 – 14.

With the production already $ 2 million over budget and everyone back at the starting gate, the studio pulled the plug on the project.

With colleague Lucien Febvre he founded the Annales School in 1929, by starting the new scholarly journal, Annales d ' Histoire Economique et Sociale (" Annals of economic and social history "), which broke radically with traditional historiography by insisting on the importance of taking all levels of society into consideration and emphasized the collective nature of mentalities.

With young players waiting in the minor leagues, during the off-season the key additions were starting pitcher and 2006 NLCS MVP Jeff Suppan, starter Claudio Vargas, reliever Greg Aquino, catcher Johnny Estrada, and returning Brewer Craig Counsell.

With the aid of French session musicians Barney Wilen, Pierre Michelot, and René Urtreger, and American drummer Kenny Clarke, he recorded the entire soundtrack with an innovative procedure, without relying on written material: starting from sparse indication of the harmony and a general feel of a given piece, the group played by watching the movie on a screen in front of them and improvising.

With work like this going on, Germany's enemies naturally took note of the various Opel plants and, starting in August 1944, began visiting them by air.

With Pink Flamingos ( 1972 ) and Reefer Madness ( 1936 ) making money in midnight showings nationwide, RHPS was eventually screened at midnight, starting in New York City on April Fools ' Day of 1976.

With the two side-by-side, the new ideas of the Protestant Reformation could be quickly implemented, and sermons in the church where held in Swedish starting in 1525 and Latin abolished in 1530.

With less than two minutes remaining in the half, Dallas advanced to the Pittsburgh 32-yard line, after starting from their own 34-yard line.

With Marino and Montana, the game became the first Super Bowl in which the starting quarterbacks of each team both threw for over 300 yards.

With the creation of Al-Andalus, most of the Iberian peninsula is conquered by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost eight centuries of Muslim presence there.

With the recent volcanic activity starting in 2004, the glacier lobes were pushed aside and upward by the growth of new volcanic domes.

With the gradual breakup of the Bell monopoly, starting with Hush-A-Phone v. United States, which allowed some non-Bell owned equipment to be connected to the network ( a process called interconnection ), equipment on customers ' premises became increasingly owned by customers, not the telco.

With the decline of the Holy Roman emperors ' power starting in the 13th century, the Low Countries were largely left to their own devices.

With the invention of the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) technique, DNA profiling took huge strides forward in both discriminating power and the ability to recover information from very small ( or degraded ) starting samples.

With the Byzantines and Bulgarians together with the Franks both successfully blocking further expansion, internal social troubles came to a head, starting with the Great Berber Revolt of 740, and ending with the Battle of the Zab, and the destruction of the Umayyad Caliphate.

With the climactic image of the Statue of Liberty as the boatload of immigrants docks in New York Harbor, Stavros puts his tribulations behind him, starting out as a shoeshine boy and gathering the pennies and dollars that will eventually bring his family to the land where their descendants, including Elia Kazan, will have the chance to fulfill their potential.

With a set starting rotation of Battie, Howard, Türkoğlu, DeShawn Stevenson, and Nelson, the Magic mounted a surprising run at the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, including an 8-game winning streak and twelve consecutive home wins.

With these additional players and the previous year's starting five, the Bulls again made it to the Conference Finals, and pushed the Pistons to seven games before being edged out for the third straight year, who would go on to repeat as NBA champions.

With a new starting lineup of point guard Randy Brown, shooting guard Ron Harper, newcomer Brent Barry at small forward, power forward Toni Kukoc, and center Bill Wennington, the team began the lockout-shortened 1998 – 99 season.

With the exception of Sessions in the first series and Stiles and Mochrie starting with the seventh and eighth series ( respectively ), there were no fixed regulars on the show, though there were many recurring regulars ( including Fry ).

For example, in " The Trouble With Tribbles ", Scott stands idly by and even keeps Chekov from starting any trouble as a Klingon insults Kirk ; however, Scott is finally provoked into violence when the Klingon insults the Enterprise herself.

With 980 BCE as the starting date for Hiram, his twelfth year would be 969 or 968 BCE, in excellent agreement with the Biblical date for this event.

With the Scouting movement starting in 1910, the New Haven Register reported on August 21, 1910 that the Lion and the Arrow Patrols were forming.

With help from Duke Charles, he in 1582 escaped on a boat to Charles sister Elisabeth in Mecklenburg, Germany, to avoid the trial.

With the Empire's population reaching 30, 000, 000 people by 1600, shortage of land placed further pressure on the government.

With more than 6, 300 students, about 700 faculty, and approximately 1600 staff and support personnel, the colleges offer more than 2000 courses to students.

With over 1600 staff, it is now the largest non-clinical CRO in Europe.

With regards to the Sigma SD14 which uses a more recent Foveon X3 sensor, one reviewer judged its noise levels as ranging from " very low " at ISO 100 to " Moderate " at ISO 1600 when using the camera's Raw image format.

With the " Return to Power " of Formula One the gap between F1 and F2 was felt to be too wide, and the introduction of new 1600 cc production-based engine regulations for F2 restored the category to its intended role as a feeder for F1.

With the help of local tribes in about 1600, the Portuguese, and numerous other European powers, including France, Britain and Sweden, set up a thriving slave trade along the West African coast.

With the 1600 cc engine, the Pampas developed, perfect for the transport of the most varied loads and with the model which ran on alcohol.

With the exception of Sheila E .' s 1985 album Romance 1600 ( also the label's debut non-Prince release ), Tevin Campbell's single " Round and Round ", and The Time's 1990 release, " Pandemonium ", the label never had any commercial successes by artists other than Prince.

With over 1600 students, IPBS is the largest integrated cooperation program between universities in Europe.

With Ford's Escort RS 1600, he established his reputation as a hard-charger on the 1973 RAC Rally by finishing third, despite rolling his car on the first day and dropping to 178th place.

With the introduction of reserved seats provision in the 2002 Emergency Loya Jirga, when ten percent of 1600 seats were reserved for women, the ground was laid for participation of Afghan women in parliament.

With its delightful subtropical climate and an altitude of 1600 – 1800 m it tempts foreigners to settle.

With regard to mean sunshine duration, the lake Geneva region is again advantaged with more than 1900 hours, whereas in the rest of the Swiss Plateau, it is between 1600 ( especially in the east ) and 1900 hours.

With about 1600 civilian employees the U. S. air base is the City's most important employer.