Tradition dictates that Ramadan, like other holy months in the Islamic calendar, begins the day after the thin crescent of the new moon is first seen with the naked eye.
In China and parts of Asia it's believed to be the day with the brightest moon of the year.
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But what's novel about the CEAC design is that it incorporates a bio-regenerative life-support system -- the kind of technology that could one day not only feed an outpost on the moon or Mars, but also provide it with oxygen and recycle its water.
The Mauni Amavasya is a day when sun, moon, Venus and Mercury are in the zodiac of Capricorn, a rare but perfect alignment of planets, devotees believe.
"At the end of the day, the finish to these games sends everybody home absolutely over the moon, " Ferguson told the magazine.
The Moon Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
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Start your day of shopping with an early morning tour of old world Arabia at Souq Waqif, located behind the crescent-moon shaped waterfront Corniche.
Knowledge of the Moon predates the human species if we go by the female 28 day (ie, lunar month) cycle.
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It might, if one heeds the words of Ban Ki-moon, be more suitably designated Global Lack of Nutrition Day.
It's a day of reunions for families and friends in China, who will come together to eat mooncakes under the full moon.
CNN: Best way to see supermoon? On a Chinese moon-viewing flight
In the summer of 1969, almost 42 years ago to the day, the entire world was talking about Americans going to the moon.
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