For thousands of years, ancient civilizations organized their lives around the moon rather than the sun. They tracked lunar ...

So some districts have peppered a few extra days off around breaks or in stretches of the calendar with fewer holidays. If everyone has the day off, teachers can keep students on the same page in ...

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the year, is on December 31. In many countries, New Year’s Eve is celebrated at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, ...

Rochelle Bilow is an editor, food writer, and novelist. A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, she has been writing about food professionally for over a decade. She has contributed 20+ reviews ...