The Moon Festival is coming soon next month. It is a different way to celebrate the harvest moon of Mid Autumn festival. The Moon Festival (also called the Mooncake or Mid-Autumn festival) falls on September 22nd in the year 2010. What is the Moon festival? Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month [...]

If you’ve ever wondered why hurricanes arrive like clockwork during “hurricane season,” it’s because conditions are just right. With the warm waters of late summer, low pressure systems, and other conditions in place, hurricanes are born.
Hurricanes start out as low pressure weather systems over Africa and emerge as tropical disturbances over the warm waters of [...]

Each day of Ramadan, from sunrise to sunset, Muslims aged twelve and older traditionally practice fasting. The Arabic word for fasting literally means to “refrain,” which is what is religiously proscribed – not just abstaining from eating and drinking, but also restraining every part of one’s physical body.
The mouth, for example, is restrained from idle [...]