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  • ...erved over four days, usually from January 14 to 17, in the Tamil month of Thai. The term 'Pongal' in Tamil means "to boil", and this festival is celebrate ...ically falls on the first day of the tenth month, Thai, in the Tamil solar calendar.
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  • ..._Fleet_command_ship_USS_Blue_Ridge_(LCC_19).jpg|US Navy 100417-N-7280V-204 Thai dancers in traditional dress perform a cleansing ritual for Sailors assigne ...New Year until 1888 when King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) adopted the Gregorian calendar.
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  • ...ountiful harvest. It is one of the few Hindu festivals that follow a solar calendar and is celebrated on the 14th of January every year.
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  • ...h festival which occurs during the month of Ashvin in the Indian lunisolar calendar, around the new moon day (Amavasya). It celebrates the release from prison ...of [[Assam]] in India in mid-April. It marks the first day of Hindu Solar calendar. It is a time of celebrations as Spring arrives and there is happiness all
    19 KB (3,026 words) - 13:05, 7 February 2021