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Calendar across history; author's calendar
HAVLOVÁ, Michaela
Theoretical-practical thesis which focuses on the historical development of a calendar and on its own realization. Theoretical part starts with a definition of a term calendar, characterizes basic units used for compiling calendars and also describes divisions of calendar systems. Subsequently the thesis pays attention to the oldest calendars, from all sorts of prehistoric time recording devices, to the highly developed Mayan systems. There is also an outline of the development of calendars, which are used in the modern era. In the practical part the author deals with the design and the realization of her own calendar. Thesis is accompanied by picture attachments and photo documentation.
Seasonality of Marriage Rate
Nedomová, Radka ; Pechholdová, Markéta (advisor) ; Kačerová, Eva (referee)
Bachelor thesis is titled Seasonality of marriage rate and its primary goal is to capture and analyse changes in the development of the distribution of marriages by months of the year in the Czech lands since the early 17th century to the present. Seasonality of marriage rate is presented in the form of seasonal indexes of marriage rate and variation coefficients calculated for each period. In the distant period the impact of two major religious holidays and agricultural year on the choice of the date of wedding is emphasized, period after the Second World War is characterized by the appearance of the May superstition about the fate of unhappy marriages entered into in May, whose influence still reduces in recent years and the choice of the term of wedding is today more influenced by weather and interesting magical data. In the period 2003-2010 is analysed seasonality of marriage rate by order of marriage. The thesis also focuses on international comparison of seasonality of marriage rate between years 2000-2010 for which five countries were selected. Italy and Croatia represent countries with stronger Christian tradition, Qatar represents countries with Islamic religion and the countries Latvia and Mauritius were chosen due to their different climatic conditions.

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