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  2. Birthday - Wikipedia

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    A voicemail from a child wishing his mother a happy birthday. In certain parts of the world, an individual's birthday is celebrated by a party featuring a specially made cake. It may be decorated with lettering and the person's age, or studded with the same number of lit candles as the age of the individual.

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography - Wikipedia

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    Birth and death places, if known, should be mentioned in the body of the article, and can appear in the lead if relevant to notability, but not in the opening brackets alongside the birth and death dates. Birth and death labels are included only when needed for clarity. When given, use full words, whether immediately preceding a date or not:

  4. Date of the birth of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    It was believed that, based on the Anno Mundi calendar, Jesus was born in the year 5500 (5500 years after the world was created) with the year 6000 of the Anno Mundi calendar marking the end of the world.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words (16 or sixteen, 84 or eighty-four, 200 or two hundred). When written as words, integers from 21 to 99 that are not multiples of 10 are hyphenated (including when part of a larger number): fifty-six and fifty-six thousand , but five hundred ...

  6. Old Style and New Style dates - Wikipedia

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    The issue spans the changeover; the date heading reads: "From Tuesday September 1, O.S. to Saturday September 16, N.S. 1752". [1] Old Style ( O.S.) and New Style ( N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in ...

  7. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. June 4, 2024) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [2] and time in 12-hour notation (6:42 pm). International date and time formats typically follow the ISO 8601 format (2024-06-04) for all-numeric dates, [3] write the ...

  8. Nativity of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judaea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.

  9. Template:Birth date - Wikipedia

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    Birth date. Template:Birth date will return a person's date of birth. Using this template rather than simply inserting the date into articles allows for the inclusion of hidden metadata about the date. This metadata can be used by web browsers and other software tools to extract the details, and display them using some other website or mapping ...