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Happy Ramadan / Ramzan

Ramadan (Arabic: رمضان) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and the month in which the Qur'an was revealed.

CE / AD	AH	First day	Last day
2005	1426	4 October	2 November
2006	1427	24 September	23 October
2007	1428	13 September	12 October
2008	1429	1 September	30 September
2009	1430	22 August	20 September
2010	1431	11 August	9 September
2011	1432	1 August	29 August
2012	1433	20 July	18 August
2013	1434	9 July	7 August
2014	1435	28 June	27 July
2015	1436	18 June	16 July
Ramadan dates between 2005 and 2015

Ramadan is the holiest of months in the Islamic calendar. Fasting in the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The month is spent by Muslims fasting during the daylight hours from dawn to sunset. The name came from the time before the Islamic calendar, when the month of Ramadan fell in the summer. Fasting during this month is often thought figuratively to burn away all sins. Muslims believe that the Qur'an was sent down to the lowest heaven during this month, thus being prepared for gradual revelation by the angel Gibril (Gabriel) to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

New York City -- Once upon a time!!!

Rare & Beautiful Photos of NYC

Camel cigarette advertisement. Times Square, Feb 1943.

Chorus girls arriving to New York City from England, in 1926. George Grantham Bain.

View from 27th floor. December 1931.

Clam seller in Mulberry Bend. Around 1900.

Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Check out the decorative ironwork. Photographed by Berenice Abbott. November 27, 1935

Grand Central Terminal. October 1941.

Italian Festa.

A girl carrying kimonos. Thompson St, February 1912.

Suffragettes on way to Boston.

A row of hanging oppossums.

Produce market on Washington Street. 1952.

52nd St. and E. River. December 1931.

School children around May poles in Central Park.

S.S. Coamo leaving New York. December 1941.

Rear view of tenement, 134 1/2 Thompson Street. Lewis Wickes Hine. February 1912.

The Mall, Central Park. Around 1905.

View from Empire State Building to Chrysler Building and Queensboro Bridge. January 1932.

Washington Market, 1917.

Huts made of salvaged materials. Notice the baby carriage. Photographed by Berenice Abbott. October 25, 1935.

An old woman carrying a heavy load on Lafayette St. February 1912.