Easter Eggs
Sunday, 23rd March 2008 by James Turnbull
Today is Easter Sunday, and it is the earliest Easter we've had since 1913.
In fact, it's almost the earliest possible date for Easter, which via a very complex calculation falls between March 22nd and April 25th (inclusive). The last time Easter fell on March 22nd was 1818, and it will not do it again until 2285, so unless you're still around in 2160 for the next March 23rd Easter, today is the earliest Easter of your lifetime.
So to celebrate, we're found some giant Easter eggs.
Mainau is a private island on the German side of Lake Constance. The island is run as a garden visitor attraction which often features seasonal flower arrangements, and last April they had these large easter eggs in the courtyard.
There's a ground level picture on Flickr. You can also bore your family to tears with the details on how to calculate Easter and even a date distribution graph over at Wikipedia.
Thanks to Nick.
Happy Easter, everyone!
wow i dint know that this was the shortest easter. i don’t celebrate it but it’s still cool to know these things.
Not to be too picky, but Lake Constance isn’t “just off the coast of Germany.” It’s in the middle of the continent. Germany’s coast is in the north.
I am sure the sentence was supposed to be phrased:
“Mainau is a private island just off the coast of Lake Constance in Germany.”
I suppose I did mean that, but after looking into it, you can’t have a coast on a lake. So I’ve reworded the sentence.