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"Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days [4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile] is a stunning achievement, helmed with a purity and honesty that captures not just the illegal abortion story at its core but the constant, unremarked negotiations necessary for survival in the final days of the Soviet bloc," writes Jay Weissberg for Variety of the Romanian Competition entry.
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Built at the end of the second century B. C.E, the device was used to calculate and display moon phases and a luni-solar calendar.
Boing Boing: November 26, 2006 - December 2, 2006 Archives 2006
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The hair remains off of my head, this is the luni, the Canadian dollar.
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This luni was worth at one point worth 60 cents and now it is worth $1.
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The year is luni-solar, and, according as it is ordinary or embolismic, consists of twelve or thirteen lunar months, each of which has 29 or 30 days.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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_ -- The ecclesiastical calendar, which is adopted in all the Catholic, and most of the Protestant countries of Europe, is luni-solar, being regulated partly by the solar, and partly by the lunar year, -- a circumstance which gives rise to the [v. 04 p. 0992] distinction between the movable and immovable feasts.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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It is plain, therefore, that the Jewish year has long been, and still is, a luni-solar year.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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On the extreme left, the first pair of disks, with globes and cylinders, and crank shafts with cranks at right angles between them, driving their two cross-heads, corresponds to the K1, or luni-solar diurnal tide.
The Tides Lord Kelvin 1909
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But there is evidence, from certain numbers in the book which bears his name, that Daniel was acquainted with luni-solar cycles which quite transcended that of the Jubilees in preciseness, and indicate a knowledge such as was certainly not to be found in any other ancient nation.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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Forty-nine years make a convenient luni-solar cycle, reconciling the lunar month and the tropical solar year.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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