Happy Nowruz!Hi Reinhold,
What a nice email. I had no idea of Nowruz, and that Iranians like Chinese have
a different New Year to us in the West. At least there is an astronomical basis
for their year.
However, with my tongue firmly in my cheek, I have to point out that the image
contains an alarm clock in the right foreground, rather than a sundial ;-). I
realise that it is off-topic, but do you have any idea about the significance
of the two cats in the image?
Cheers, John
John Pickard
john.pick...@bigpond.com
From: Reinhold Kriegler
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 4:10 AM
To: Sundial Mailing List ; Carpe Diem ML ; Gnomonicaitaliana
Cc: Philippe Sauvageot
Subject: Happy Nowruz!
All My Dear Friends,
Happy Nowruz.
What is the Nowruz?
Nowruz (Persian: نوروز, literally "New Day") is the name of the Iranian New
Year, is celebrated by Iranian people worldwide as the beginning of the New
Year. It has been celebrated for over 3,000 years in the Balkans, the Black Sea
Basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Nowruz is the day of
the beginning of the spring occurs on March 21 or the previous.
With best wishes from
who forwarded this message from Younes Karimi Fardinpour & Narges Assarzadegan!
Just in case you don't know the link about my Ottoman sundial:
http://www.ta-dip.de/sonnenuhren/meine-sonnenuhren/ottomanische-sonnenuhr.html
or this:
http://www.ta-dip.de/fileadmin/user_upload/bilder/cf3c35583e62d617cb702f408accc5ef_K.R%20_Les%20marqueurs%20du%20midi.pdf
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http://www.ta-dip.de/salon-der-astronomen/musik-im-salon-der-astronomen.html
www.ta-dip.de/dies-und-das/das-b-a-u-h-a-u-s-museum-in-dessau-rosslau.html
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