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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Dick van Faassen">R. F. Hahn <a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span name="Dick van Faassen"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Holidays"</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>As the </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Easter</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> days are approaching this week and the Jewish days of </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Passover</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> (<em>Pesach</em> <span class="script-hebrew" lang="he" lang="he" style="font-family:"SBL Hebrew",David,Narkisim,"Times New Roman","Ezra SIL SR",FrankRuehl,"Microsoft Sans Serif","Lucida Grande"" dir="rtl">פֶּסַח</span>) will begin tonight, I wish happy holidays to whomever celebrates these.</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal">
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Dick van Faassen"><span class="gD" name="Mike Morgan">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a>></span></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><span name="Dick van Faassen"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Holidays" 2013.03.22 (03) [EN]</span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dick,<br>
<br> Groetjes!<br><br> Welllllllll, actually there are a number of New Years' celebrated in<br> India (and as many more again in Nepal where I currently live)...<br> depending on the community. 1 Jan is celebrated as the common New<br>
Years by everyone in India (in Nepal 1 Jan IS a holiday, but it is not<br> the most important New Years); 21 March (plus or minus) is the<br> "Iranian" New Years tradition, brought here by the Parsis<br> (Zoroastrians) the largest group of whom live here in Mumbai (smaller<br>
numbers in Gujarat which is where they originally settled after<br> leaving Persia, and elsewhere throughout the world).... (in Bombay<br> itself, Marathi New Years is the 2nd most important NY, more important<br> that Parsi Nuroz... but EVERYONE enjoys, if not the traditions, at<br>
least the day off work that comes from other groups' holidays!)<br><br> Nepali New Year (will be the year 2070 according to Bikram sambat)<br> comes in about a month and a half, so you will be hearing from me<br> again soon!<br>
<br> cheers!</font></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><br><font color="#888888" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">mwm || *U*C> || mike || माईक || мика || マイク (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br>
sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br> academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research<br> NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal">
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