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January 1

Definitions: January 1

January 1

Noun

1. (Roman Catholic) a holy day of obligation.

2. The first day of the year.

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Specialty Definitions: January 1

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19th Century Satire

New Year's Day. On this day the Flowing Bowl is filled-- and emptied--and the Genial Palm circulated in forty-three States and Territories out of forty-nine. In Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the Indian Territory there. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: January 1

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

January 1 is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining (365 in leap years).

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

See Also:

December 31 - January 2 - December 1 - February 1 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "January 1."

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Synonyms: January 1

Synonyms: New Year's (n), New Year's Day (n), Solemnity of Mary (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: January 1

English words defined with "January 1": calendar year, civil year ♦ The United Kingdom. (references)
Specialty definitions using "January 1": Acorn Computers Ltd., Adjustment to Immigrant Status, Amerasian, America's Community Bankers, Appliance Standards, astronomical constants ♦ BARTEL'S ROTATION NUMBER, BAS, Boundary and Annexation Survey, Boundary Validation Program ♦ Compliance Cycle, Cuban/Haitian Entrant ♦ European Monetary Union, Explorer 1 ♦ fictitious year ♦ Harmonized system, Hemispheric Ceilings, HYDROELECTRIC SPILL GENERATION ♦ intellectual property rights ♦ Julian day ♦ legal entity, Legalized Aliens ♦ Mercado Commun del Sur, Montreal Protocol ♦ Nationalization Act ♦ Oberon-2 ♦ period averages, period means, period means averages, PRECCX ♦ Registry Date ♦ Small Hog Operation Payment ♦ transitional period ♦ United States League of Savings Institutions. (references)

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Commercial Usage: January 1

DomainTitle

Books

  • Florida Rules of Civil Procedure: As Amended Through January 1, 2001 (reference)

  • Five Year Index to Periodicals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, January 1, 1981 to December 31, 1985 (reference)

  • Dietary chemicals vs. dental caries; based on a Symposium on Dietary Chemicals in Relation to Dental Caries, sponsored by the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division at the 1966 winter meeting of the American Chemical Society, Phoenix, Arizona, January 1 (reference)

  • Post-incunabula and their publishers in the low countries : a selection based on Wouter Nijhoff's L'art typographique published in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Martinus Nijhoff on January 1, 1978 (reference)

  • Reagent Chemicals: American Chemical Society Specifications, Official from January 1, 1987 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: January 1

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Ringing in the New Year with the drop of a mooring anchor at 00:00:00 on January 1, 1997. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

January 1, 1931. Credit: Library of Congress.

Port Royal Island, S.C. Coosaw Ferry; battleground of January 1, 1862, in the distance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Careyville, northern Florida. The mill closed down January 1, 1937 and the occupants of these houses were dispersed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rear view of the Wright brothers' 1903 motor in the shop, January 1, 1928, before its shipment to the Science Museum in London on January 31, 1928. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: January 1

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

For the purpose of this Article the gold coins mentioned above shall be defined as being of the weight and fineness of gold as enacted by law on January 1, 1914. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: January 1

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Business

As noted earlier, as of January 1, 1996, the Korean retail market became open to foreign investors. (references)

In conjunction with its January 1, 1996 accession to the EU Customs Union, Turkey adopted a new import regime. (references)

The monopoly expires on January 1, 2001. The monopoly does not extend to data services and voice over Internet. (references)

Children

Switzerland

Article 8.4 of the new Constitution (in effect as of January 1, 2000) provides for equal opportunities for persons with disabilities. (references)

Sri Lanka

In the period from January 1 to June 30, 2000, the police recorded 680 cases of crimes against children, compared with 767 cases for January 1 to the end of August. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mexico

The PNJM document also reported that from January 1 to May 31, there were 44 incidents of press intimidation and harassment. (references)

Economic History

Italy

Constitution: January 1, 1948. (references)

Guinea

Fiscal Year: January 1 - December 31. (references)

Australia

Independence (federation): January 1, 1901. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

Between January 1 and August 31, 36 murders with presumed or proven drug connections occurred in the Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua area. (references)

Nepal

For example, on January 1, Maoists shot and killed Nepali Congress supporter Ram Bharose Shah in Sarlahi District in the southeast. (references)

Bulgaria

Notwithstanding changes in the Criminal Procedure Code, which became effective on January 1, 2000, significant improvements have not taken place. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

Then-President Wahid met several times with Papuan leaders and visited Papua on December 31, 1999 and January 1, 2000, when he announced that the name of the province would be changed to Papua. (references)

Political Economy

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

National stamp taxes and import surcharges on manufactured items were repealed as of January 1, 1995. (references)

JORDAN

A new Income Tax Law will come into force on January 1, 2002. The new Law imposes a 35 percent maximum marginal rate. (references)

Political Rights

Switzerland

In 1999 voters approved a new Constitution, which went into effect on January 1, 2000. The percentage of women in government or politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population. (references)

Argentina

When Senator Puerta resigned his Senate leadership position, the interim presidency passed to Deputy Eduardo Camano, President of the Chamber of Deputies, who again called the Legislative Assembly to vote--this time for a President who would serve out the remainder of De la Rua's term ending in 2003. On January 1, 2002, the Legislative Assembly elected former Buenos Aires Provincial Governor Eduardo Duhalde. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

All imported food products effective January 1, 1997 should carry labels in the Ukrainian language. (references)

Travel

Chad

A tax on informal sector businesses, the Impot General Liberatoire (IGL) was install on January 1, 1998, assessed at 5 percent of the annual turnover. (references)

Italy

When Italy joined the European Economic and Monetary Union, effective January 1, 1999, the exchange rate between the Euro and lira was fixed at L1936 +AD0- 1 Euro. (references)

Italy

Europe will move to the Euro as the single currency effective January 1, 2002. The single currency will become part of daily life, and Euro notes and coins will finally come into circulation. (references)

Women

Liechtenstein

The new law entered into force on January 1. The Government has taken additional steps to end discrimination against women. (references)

Finland

Of the 109 complaints processed by the Ombudsman between January 1 and June 30, 20 cases were judged to be violations of the law. (references)

Worker Rights

Japan

The Immigration Bureau of the Justice Ministry estimated that, as of January 1, there were 252,000 foreign nationals residing illegally in the country. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: January 1

Language Translations for "January 1"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

tammik. 1. päivästä lukien (as from January 1). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

元三 (January 1 to 3, New Year's Day). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

が"ざ" (first range of mountains, foothills, January 1 to 3, New Year's Day, the whole mountain). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anuaryjay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: January 1

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "1-a-a-j-n-r-u-y"

-3 letters: ruana, unary.

-4 letters: ajar, aura, jura, jury, nary, raja, raya, yarn, yuan.

-5 letters: ana, any, jar, jay, jun, nay, raj, ran, ray, run, rya, urn, yar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: January 1


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 61 6E 75 61 72 79      31

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01100001 01101110 01110101 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 00110001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#97 &#110 &#117 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#49

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0061 006E 0075 0061 0072 0079      0031

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

44678087678491219

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Translations: Modern 		9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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