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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:34 pm
Shakespeare’s birthday is often given as April 23 but the only evidence is that he was baptised on April 26.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:35 pm
St George (275-303), Ethelred the Unready (968-1016) and Ethelred, King of Wessex (837-871) all died on April 23.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:35 pm
So did the poets William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Rupert Brooke (1887-1915).

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:35 pm
St George is thought to have been a soldier in the Roman army who was martyred for his Christian beliefs, though some doubts have been expressed about whether he existed at all.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:36 pm
Easter Day falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon that falls on or after March...but the 'full moon' referred to is not the real moon but a theoretical moon that doesn't quite match the one in the sky.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:36 pm
In 1928, the House of Commons voted to fix the date of Easter, subject to agreement by the various Christian churches. That agreement, however, has never been reached.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:37 pm
According to www.bakewithstork.com the UK will eat 38 million hot cross buns this Easter, which means the average person will eat 0.6 of a bun.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:37 pm
Easter Sunday may fall on any date between March 22 and April 25.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:37 pm
The term ‘Easter’ derives from an old English word ‘Easter’ or ‘Eostre’.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:38 pm
According to the Venerable Bede, Eostre was an Anglo-Saxon goddess. No other writer mentions her.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:38 pm
Ten per cent of the annual spending on chocolate in the UK takes place over Easter.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:38 pm
The custom of giving eggs at Easter dates back to an ancient Egyptian practice associating eggs with a symbol of life returning in spring.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:39 pm
In the United States, it is estimated that 16 billion jelly beans are eaten at Easter.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:39 pm
Rhino horns, unlike those of other horned mammals, have no bone in their core but are formed entirely of keratin, like hair and fingernails.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:39 pm
The plural of rhinoceros is either rhinoceroses or (far rarer) rhinocerotes. Rhinoceri is wrong.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:40 pm
The word rhinoceros comes from two Greek words meaning nose-horn.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:41 pm
There are five species of rhinoceros: white, black, Indian, Javan and Sumatran

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:41 pm
Indian and Javan rhinoceroses have one horn, the other three species have two.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:42 pm
The collective noun for a group of rhinos is a crash.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:42 pm
In 1993, a spoof Rhinoceros Party was founded in Montreal, Canada, so called because the rhinoceros is a “thick-skinned, clumsy, stupid animal which loves to wallow in the mire but can move fast when it senses danger”.
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