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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 29 20:31:35 2024
    XPost: alt.fan.countries.new-zealand, soc.culture.new-zealand, alt.fan.countries.australia
    XPost: soc.culture.australian, aus.general

    I know that most pagans in the northern hemisphere celebrate
    Beltane on May 1 while many in the southern hemisphere
    celebrate Samhain then.

    So does anyone (pagan or not) Down Under celebrate
    Hallowe’en (Samhain Eve) on the evening/night of April 30?

    Of course here in Canada April 30 is tax deadline. :-)

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    David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to
    find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (Sarah McLachlan)

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  • From Willy Nilly@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Tue Apr 30 01:43:33 2024
    On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, David Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
    Of course here in Canada April 30 is tax deadline. :-)

    Go back to Newfoundland, you twit, and ask them why they lost their independence in 1936.

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to Willy Nilly on Tue Apr 30 00:39:55 2024
    On Apr 29, 2024, Willy Nilly wrote
    (in article <[email protected]>):

    On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, David Dalton<[email protected]> wrote:
    Of course here in Canada April 30 is tax deadline. :-)

    Go back to Newfoundland, you twit, and ask them why they lost their independence in 1936.

    It was an a result of Newfoundland spending a lot in lives and
    money to support the UK in the First World War.

    Also, there was a conspiracy in which the UK gave Newfoundland
    to Canada in 1949, when perhaps joining the USA should have
    been on that second ballot. The conspiracy is depicted (partially fictionalized) in the movie Secret Nation, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIOurc19aA
    or
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf_nilzn3OM .

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    David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to
    find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (Sarah McLachlan)

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  • From Willy Nilly@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Tue Apr 30 05:13:12 2024
    On Tue, 30 Apr 2024, David Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Apr 29, 2024, Willy Nilly wrote
    Go back to Newfoundland, you twit, and ask them why they lost their
    independence in 1936.

    It was an a result of Newfoundland spending a lot in lives and
    money to support the UK in the First World War.

    Also, there was a conspiracy in which the UK gave Newfoundland
    to Canada in 1949, when perhaps joining the USA should have
    been on that second ballot. The conspiracy is depicted (partially >fictionalized) in the movie Secret Nation, available at >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIOurc19aA
    or
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf_nilzn3OM .

    Now that is very interesting, thanks.

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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Tue Apr 30 19:26:54 2024
    XPost: alt.fan.countries.new-zealand, soc.culture.new-zealand, alt.fan.countries.australia
    XPost: soc.culture.australian, aus.general

    David Dalton wrote on 30/4/24 9:01 am:
    I know that most pagans in the northern hemisphere celebrate
    Beltane on May 1 while many in the southern hemisphere
    celebrate Samhain then.

    So does anyone (pagan or not) Down Under celebrate
    Hallowe’en (Samhain Eve) on the evening/night of April 30?

    Never heard of it previously .... so NO!!

    Of course here in Canada April 30 is tax deadline. :-)

    Roughly that time of year in Aus as well .... if you get your Tax Return
    done by an Accountant. (Might actually be 15th/16th April or thereabouts!)
    --
    Daniel

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 4 18:04:28 2024
    XPost: alt.fan.countries.new-zealand, soc.culture.new-zealand, alt.fan.countries.australia
    XPost: soc.culture.australian, aus.general

    On Apr 29, 2024, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<[email protected]>):

    I know that most pagans in the northern hemisphere celebrate
    Beltane on May 1 while many in the southern hemisphere
    celebrate Samhain then.

    However, if you define it as halfway between the equinox and
    the solstice, it is exactly 1158 UTC May 5, 2024, not May 1.

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    David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to
    find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (Sarah McLachlan)

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