Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yo, Mark: The Persian New Year is called (if you speak English...) Noh Rooz. Simply means, "New Year". Back in the day (mid 60's) as a young Marine I attended the (then) U.S. Army Language School in Monterey, CA. Now it's gentrified and call the Defense Language Institute, West Coast. One of the greatest years of my life; a single Marine Corporal living in Monterey for 48 weeks among other young service personnel and the odd Spook from CIA/DIA/NSA/Dept. of State etc. in one of the most beautiful regions in North America. Learning Farsi (Persian) from Iranian ex-pats during the day and drinking and eating out almost every night with other guys learning Russian, Chinese, Czech, you name it. And racing over to Carmel at lunch, down to Big Sur or up to San Francisco on the weekends. Amazing bunch of folks. The Persian history, traditions and culture was fascinating, the range of backgrounds of the instructors from a Bakhtiari (nomadic tribe) to elitist academics and the Persian food was superb. So yeah; happy Noh Rooz, dude! Bob in Seattle On Mar 19, 2008, at 20:45, Mark Rabiner wrote: The Vernal equinox, spring in in a couple of hours and 4 minutes 1:48 AM Eastern Standard Time. The Jews, Chinese, Christians all have their own ideas of when the year starts and ends and what number we're on but to me its the first day of spring. And I have mine. I saw on the internet this week the Iranians might be the only ones who agree with me if I read that right. We have an Iranian on the LUG now so maybe he'll set that straight. In any regards I'm looking forward to a terrific year 2525 I think I'll number it. Not the shortest or the longest day of the year but the one right in the middle I think. What they'll tell you is its when the sun goes up directly in the east and sets in the due west. As on other days it a bit off. This helps of you live on this crazy island of Manhattan which is set on 45 degree angle but all the maps make you think its straight up and down. 1/1/2525 Mark William Rabiner markrabiner.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information