"7"" of the Month Club The 7"" of the Month Club is a series of twelve 7"" records released by punk band NOFX over the course of about one year. Each record was planned for release at the beginning of its specified month, but it quickly fell behind schedule, with records being released shortly after the specified month. The record expected for December was released in early February due to the holiday closing of record label Fat Wreck Chords, and the twelfth ""January"" record was released in early March. The records included several running games: for one, a 24-part joke"
"of Spring. 1 May: May Day, a time of festival and drinking, the first day of summer and the Welsh equivalent of Beltane. 20–21 June: Alban Hefin, a time of festival and drinking, (Summer Solstice) 24 June: Gwyl Ifan (St John's Day), a time of festival and drinking, otherwise known as Midsummer's day. Around 1 August: The first day of Autumn, a time of festival and drinking, the Welsh equivalent of Lughnasadh, or Lammas. 22–23 September: Autumn Equinox, a time of festival and drinking, the middle of Autumn. 31 October and 1 November: Winter's eve and the first day of"
"Dwynwen) is the Welsh day of love much like St. Valentine's Day. Celebrated on 26 December, in Wales Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day is known as Gŵyl San Steffan. 1 January: The Welsh New Year's Eve and Day celebration involving the tradition of giving gifts or money Calennig to celebrate the new year. 2 February: Literally translates as ""Mary's Festival of the Candles"", and it is equivalent to Candlemas and Imbolc. In Paganism, the Welsh holiday name is just ""Gŵyl y Canhwyllau"", meaning ""The Festival of Candles"". 20–21 March: Spring Equinox, a time of festival and drinking, the middle"
"is called ""maaliskuu"", which is believed to originate from ""maallinen kuu"", during March, earth finally becomes visible under the snow (other etymological theories have however been put forward). In Ukrainian, the month is called ""березень""/""berezenʹ"", meaning ""birch tree"", and březen in Czech. Historical names for March include the Saxon ""Lentmonat"", named after the March equinox and gradual lengthening of days, and the eventual namesake of Lent. Saxons also called March ""Rhed-monat"" or ""Hreth-monath"" (deriving from their goddess ""Rhedam""/""Hreth""), and Angles called it ""Hyld-monath"". In Slovene, the traditional name is ""sušec"", meaning the month when the earth becomes dry enough so"
"the Maltese is known as 'ix-xahar tal-bard' ('the coldest month') February by the Maltese is known as 'ix-xahar ta' San Pawl' ('Saint Paul’s month') March by the Maltese is known as 'ix-xahar ta' San Ġużepp, tal-Lunzjata u tar-roħs' ('Saint Joseph, the Annunciation and Sales' month') April is known by the Maltese as 'ix-xahar tan-nwhar u ta' San Girgor' ('the month of blossoms and Saint Gregory'). The following feasts are moveable, as they can occur either in March or in April. May by the Maltese is known as 'ix-xahar tal-ħsad, tal-Madonna ta' Pompej' ('the month of harvest, Our Lady of Pompeii')"
"March March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the second of seven months to have a length of 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere's March. The name of March comes from ""Martius"", the first month of the earliest Roman calendar. It"
"Andrews, some of the students gather on the beach late on April 30 and run into the North Sea at sunrise on May Day, occasionally naked. This is accompanied by torchlit processions and much elated celebration. In Wales the first day of May is known as ""Calan Mai"" or ""Calan Haf"", and parallels the festival of Beltane and other May Day traditions in Europe. Traditions would start the night before (""Nos Galan Haf"") with bonfires, and is considered a ""Ysbrydnos"" or ""spirit night"" when people would gather hawthorn (""draenen wen"") and flowers to decorate their houses, celebrating new growth and"
"the year than Northern Ireland and Scotland and has milder winter minima than England, but cooler winter maxima than Northern Ireland. Wales is wetter throughout the year than Northern Ireland and England, but has fewer rainy days than Northern Ireland; meaning that rainfall tends to be more intense. Wales is also drier than Scotland in every month apart from May, June and December, and there are fewer days with rain than in Scotland. Sunshine totals throughout the year are more than that of Scotland and Northern Ireland, but less than that of neighbouring England. May is the sunniest month, averaging"
"Hreðmōnaþ Hrēðmōnaþ (modern English: ""Rheda’s month"") was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of March. The first definition of the name explains that: “On ðæm þriddan mōnþe on geāre biþ ān and þrittig daga and se mōnþ is nemned on lǣden martius and on ūre geþeōde hrēdmōnaþ.” ""“In the third month in the year are one-and-thirty days, and the month is called in Latin ""martius"", and in our language, ""hrédmónaþ.""” The Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede explains the name in his treatise ""De temporum ratione"" (The Reckoning of Time), saying ""Rhed-monath is named for the goddess, to whom they sacrificed in this"
"Gŵyl Mabsant A Gŵyl Mabsant (Welsh for ""Feast of the Patron""), also known as the Patronal Festival or Wake of a parish, is a traditional Welsh festival held annually in commemoration of the patron saint of a parish. Prior to 1752, the corresponding fair was reckoned by the Saint's Day according to tradition or to the official Catholic or Anglican Calendar of Saints; following the shift to New Style dating, however, the fair was reckoned eleven days later. (For example, St. Teilo's Fair in Llandeilo was originally held on February 9 but came to be held on the 20th.) By"
"the Laws of Hywel Dda, the three main holidays (""gwyliau"") of the medieval Welsh kingdoms were Christmas (""Nadolig""), Easter (""Pasg""), and Whitsuntide (""Sulgwyn""). Other important holidays were the feasts of St Patrick (""Gwyl Badric"") on 17 March; St. Quiricus (""Gwyl Giric"") on 16 June; the Beheading of John the Baptist (called in Welsh ""Gwyl Ieuan y Moch"" St. John of the Swine as it was the day the pigs were turned out into the woods to forage through the winter) on 29 August; St Michael (""Gwyl Fihangel"") on 29 September; and the Calends of Winter (""Calan Gaeaf"") on 1 November,"
"month.” Hreðmōnaþ Hrēðmōnaþ (modern English: ""Rheda’s month"") was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of March. The first definition of the name explains that: “On ðæm þriddan mōnþe on geāre biþ ān and þrittig daga and se mōnþ is nemned on lǣden martius and on ūre geþeōde hrēdmōnaþ.” ""“In the third month in the year are one-and-thirty days, and the month is called in Latin ""martius"", and in our language, ""hrédmónaþ.""” The Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede explains the name in his treatise ""De temporum ratione"" (The Reckoning of Time), saying ""Rhed-monath is named for the goddess, to whom they sacrificed in"
"Calennig Calennig is a Welsh word meaning """"New Year celebration/gift"""", although it literally translates to ""the first day of the month"", deriving from the Latin word kalends. The English word ""Calendar"" also has its root in this word. The capital of Wales, Cardiff, holds Calennig celebrations at the Cardiff Civic Centre to welcome in the New Year, including free live music, fairground rides, a midnight fireworks display and an opportunity to ice-skate into the new year at Cardiff's Winter Wonderland. The tradition of giving gifts and money on New Year's Day is an ancient custom that survives even in modern-day"
"Martius (month) Martius or mensis Martius (""March"") was the first month of the ancient Roman year until possibly as late as 153 BC. After that time, it was the third month, following ""Februarius"" (February) and preceding ""Aprilis"" (April). ""Martius"" was one of the few Roman months named for a deity, Mars, who was regarded as an ancestor of the Roman people through his sons Romulus and Remus. March marked a return to the active life of farming, military campaigning, and sailing. It was densely packed with religious observances dating from the earliest period of Roman history. Because of its original"
"the Welsh Marches. It was his dispute with Owain Glyndŵr over a piece of moorland called the common of Croisau that caused the latter's rebellion against King Henry IV of England. Margaret's father was taken prisoner by Glyndŵr in January 1402, and ransomed for the sum of 10,000 marks which was paid by King Henry. In September 1400, the town of Ruthin had been razed to the ground by the Welsh in revenge for the destruction of Glyndŵr's manor of Sycharth by Grey and his men, however, the castle was left standing, and its inhabitants unharmed. On 7 February 1415,"
"gave his name to the third month in the Roman calendar, ""Martius"", from which English ""March"" derives. In the most ancient Roman calendar, ""Martius"" was the first month. The planet Mars was named for him, and in some allegorical and philosophical writings, the planet and the god are endowed with shared characteristics. In many languages, Tuesday is named for the planet Mars or the god of war: In Latin, ""martis dies"" (""Mars's Day""), survived in Romance languages as ""martes"" (Spanish), ""mardi"" (French), ""martedi"" (Italian), ""marţi"" (Romanian), and ""dimarts"" (Catalan). In Irish (Gaelic), the day is ""An Mháirt"", while in Albanian"
"Adar Adar ( ; from Akkadian ""adaru"") is the sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to the month of March in the Gregorian calendar. It is a winter month of 29 days. The Month of Adar in the Holy Scriptures comprises in Esther 09, 21. In leap years, it is preceded by a 30-day intercalary month named Adar Aleph (, Aleph being the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, also known as ""Adar Rishon"" (""First Adar"") or ""Adar I"") and it is then itself called Adar"
"Calan Gaeaf Calan Gaeaf is the name of the first day of winter in Wales, observed on 1 November. The night before is ""Nos Galan Gaeaf"" or ""Noson Galan Gaeaf"", an ""Ysbrydnos"" when spirits are abroad. People avoid churchyards, stiles, and crossroads, since spirits are thought to gather there. Children and women would dance around a village fire and, during this process, everyone would write their names on rocks and place them in and around said fire. When the fire started to die out they would all run home- whereas if they stayed, 'Yr Hwch Ddu Gwta' (a bad omen"
"apple tripod-wise; and so it borne round from house to house; and the children got cakes and sweets, and-those were wild days, remember-small cups of ale. Machen traces the Calennig to the Roman Saturnalia and suggests that the custom was brought to Caerleon by the Romans. Calennig Calennig is a Welsh word meaning """"New Year celebration/gift"""", although it literally translates to ""the first day of the month"", deriving from the Latin word kalends. The English word ""Calendar"" also has its root in this word. The capital of Wales, Cardiff, holds Calennig celebrations at the Cardiff Civic Centre to welcome in"
"the north, via Whitchurch, Shrewsbury, Leominster and Abergavenny to Cardiff in South Wales. The Marches School is a secondary school in Oswestry, Shropshire. The school has several meeting rooms named in Welsh, and has students and staff from both sides of the border. Welsh Marches The Welsh Marches () is an imprecisely defined area along the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom. The precise meaning of the term has varied at different periods. The English term Welsh March (in Medieval Latin Marchia Walliae) was originally used in the Middle Ages to denote the marches between England and"
"to . The coldest month was January 1963, with a mean minimum temperature of . Rainfall averages around per year, with at least falling on 146.4 days. Cardigan, Ceredigion Cardigan (, ) is a town and community in the county of Ceredigion in Wales. The town lies on a tidal reach of the River Teifi at the point where Ceredigion, formerly Cardiganshire, meets Pembrokeshire. Cardigan was the county town of the historic county and it is the second-largest town in Ceredigion. The largest town, Aberystwyth, is one of the two administrative centres; the other being Aberaeron. The settlement at Cardigan"
"of the text remains unclear. The Coligny calendar was found in 1897 in Coligny, France, with a statue identified as Mars. The calendar contains Gaulish words but Roman numerals, permitting translations such as ""lat"" evidently meaning days, and ""mid"" month. Months of 30 days were marked ""matus"", ""lucky"", months of 29 days ""anmatus"", ""unlucky"", based on comparison with Middle Welsh ""mad"" and ""anfad"", but the meaning could here also be merely descriptive, ""complete"" and ""incomplete"". The pottery at La Graufesenque is our most important source for Gaulish numerals. Potters shared furnaces and kept tallies inscribed in Latin cursive on ceramic"
"also used in modern Welsh: The ""month day year"" order (for example """") was previously more common, it not being unusual to see a Welsh ""month day year"" date next to an English ""day month year"" date on a bilingual plaque from the latter half of the 20th century. """" is read as with the usual soft mutation of M to F after O (""of""). The year 1999 can be read as either (thousand nine nine nine) or (one nine nine nine). Both the 24-hour and 12-hour notations are used in the United Kingdom: The 24-hour notation is used in"
"as ""Galvano"", and in English as Gawain. The later forms are generally assumed to derive from the Welsh ""Gwalchmei"". The element ""Gwalch"" means hawk, and is a typical epithet in medieval Welsh poetry. The meaning of ""mei"" is uncertain. It has been suggested that it refers to the month of May (""Mai"" in Modern Welsh), rendering ""Hawk of May"", Rachel Bromwich considers this unlikely. Kenneth Jackson suggests the name evolved from an early Common Brittonic name *""Ualcos Magesos"", meaning ""Hawk of the Plain"". The ""Gwyar"" (meaning ""gore"" or ""spilled blood/bloodshed"") in Gwalchmei ap Gwyar is likely the name of Gwalchmei's"
"Faoilleach ' or ', anglicised as Fulteachs, futtick, furtock etc., is a Scottish Gaelic term which originally referred to a certain period in the agricultural calendar and which refers to the first month of the year, January, in modern Scottish Gaelic. Nowadays, the term has fallen out of English and Lowland Scots, but is still used in Gaelic for the month of January specifically. It would appear to be a very old term, as it seems to come from ' or ' meaning a wolf, a creature which has been extinct in Scotland for centuries. The Gael of old regarded"
"(in editions surviving from the 12th and 13th centuries) make repeated references to periods of ""nine days"" (""nawfed dydd""), rather than the ""eight nights"" that make up the current word ""wythnos"". Many calendrical and time-keeping terms used in the medieval and modern Celtic languages were borrowed from Latin and reflect the influence of Roman culture and Christianity on the Insular Celts. The words borrowed include the month names ""Januarius"" (Old Irish ', Irish ""Eanáir"", Welsh '), ""Februarius"" (Old Irish ', Irish ""Feabhra"", Welsh '), ""Martius"" (Old Irish ', Welsh '), ""Aprilius"" (Old Irish ', Irish ""Aibreán"", Welsh '), ""Maius"" (Welsh"
"(1 February), Beltane (1 May), Lughnasadh (1 August), or Samhain (1 November). In Scotland, by the village of Munlochy on the A832, is a clootie well at an ancient spring dedicated to Saint Curetán, where rags are still hung on the surrounding bushes and trees. Here the well was once thought to have had the power to cure sick children who were left there overnight. In the heart of Culloden woods near the battlefield is a walled clootie well also known as St Mary's well. This well was traditionally visited on the first Sunday in May up until the early"
"Wales, though nowadays it is now customary to give bread and cheese. Many people give gifts on New Years morning, with children having skewered apples stuck with raisins and fruit. In some parts of Wales, people must visit all their relatives by midday to collect their Calennig, and celebrations and traditions can vary from area to area. In ""Stations of the Sun"", Ronald Hutton gives an example the following examples of Calennig rhyme from 1950s Aberystwyth, ""Dydd calan yw hi heddiw,<br>"" ""Rwy'n dyfod ar eich traws<br>"" ""I 'mofyn am y geiniog,<br>"" ""Neu grwst, a bara a chaws.<br>"" ""O dewch i'r"
"(Day of Lúnasa). In Modern Scottish Gaelic (), the festival and the month are both called . In Manx (), the festival and the month are both called . The day itself may be called either or . In Welsh (), the day is known as , originally a Latin term, the ""Calends of August"" in English. In Breton (), the day was known as , the ""Feast of August"". In Irish mythology, the Lughnasadh festival is said to have begun by the god Lugh (modern spelling: ) as a funeral feast and athletic competition (see funeral games) in commemoration"
"standing stones do have a link with the heralding of spring by the first cuckoo of that season to arrive. In the churchyard at Nevern in Wales is an old stone cross, carved with intricate knotwork. Villagers of Nevern would wait for their ""harbinger of spring"" and on 7 April, St Brynach's feast day, the first cuckoo of the year would arrive from Africa, alighting on the cross and singing to announce the arrival of spring. A local belief of the Gaelic-speaking community on the Isle of Lewis was that when the sun rose on midsummer morn, the ""shining one"""
"Some Wiccans enact a ritual union of the May Lord and May Lady. In Irish, the festival is usually called ""Lá Bealtaine"" (""day of Beltane"") while the month of May is ""Mí Bhealtaine"" (""month of Beltane""). In Scottish Gaelic, the month is called ""(An) Cèitean"" or ""a' Mhàigh"", and the festival is ""Latha Bealltainn"". Sometimes the older Scottish Gaelic spelling ""Bealltuinn"" is used. The word ""Céitean"" comes from ""Céad Shamhain"", an old alternative name for the festival. In modern Scottish Gaelic, ""Latha Buidhe Bealltainn"" or ""Là Buidhe Bealltainn"" (""the yellow day of Beltane"") is used to describe the first day"
"is that the Welsh language belongs to all Welsh citizens and that everyone can contribute to its future vitality. Shwmae Sumae Day Shwmae Sumae Day (Welsh: ""Diwrnod Shwmae Sumae"") is a day marked each year in Wales to celebrate and promote the Welsh language. ""Shwmae"" and ""Sumae"" are informal greetings used in the south and the north respectively to start a conversation. The day is celebrated on 15 October each year in order to promote community use of the language and encourage non-Welsh speakers to consider learning the language. The day was held for the first time in 2013, and"
"to follow the tradition of the pre-1752 Julian calendar and celebrate New Year () on 13 January. Children walk from house to house, and sing traditional Welsh language songs. In return, householders provide gifts, or ""calennig"", of sweets and money. In 2012, it was reported that most children from the local primary school would be absent that day to take part in the celebrations. The community (Pontfaen) contains a primary school (""Ysgol Llanchllwydog"") and a pub of considerable local renown named the ""Dyffryn Arms"", known locally as ""Bessie's"" and run by Bessie Davies's family since 1845. The pub was originally"