The year before the pandemic, only one-seventh of the respondents did not celebrate the second day of Easter, while during the pandemic, more than a half of the respondents had to give up these festivities. Although the number of people attending Easter celebrations together dropped, the number of Easter dishes did not change; the respondents explained it as a family tradition or simply as a tradition.

The article discusses how restrictions on freedom of religion and belief (FoRB) have been addressed under the Australian Constitution and the American First Amendment. The analysis shows that without constitutional protection for fundamental rights and freedoms, such as FoRB, excesses may occur without remedy. However, when rights are protected, restrictions should be balanced with the need to preserve public health while respecting FoRB for all. The article concludes that protecting FoRB is crucial because it prevents encroachment on other core principles of liberty, freedom, and the rule of law, and the threat that violations of one right could lead to the denial of many others. Safeguarding religious freedom is essential in promoting democratic government and defending individual rights.

A paper has investigated the damage to glass façades caused by the coordinated suicide bombings that occurred inside two five-star hotels in central Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 21st April 2019. Blast-related injuries are often caused by free-flying glass fragments, so laminated glass (LG) is recommended for use in areas that may be subject to explosions. However, when an explosion occurs inside a building, damage to the building elements and occupants can be severe if the blast pressure cannot escape easily. Therefore, both these aspects should be considered when designing glass façades for a credible blast load. LG has better blast resistance than monolithic glass, and this paper presents a comprehensive review of the effect of the Easter bombings on glass façades and recommends design strategies for blast-resistant glazing based on available literature and design standards.

Cultural evolutionary studies continue to strive towards understanding the evolution of cultural diversity in human populations. However, small and isolated populations can face challenges in retaining the richness and diversity of cultural information due to drift. Such information can have significant fitness consequences, particularly when environmental conditions change unpredictably. The semantics of the traits and spatially structured social networks can affect the outcomes of drift within a population. Researchers have used cultural transmission simulations to explore how social network structure and interaction can affect the rate of trait retention and extinction. Using Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) as an example, they develop a model-based hypothesis on how the structural constraints of communities living in small, isolated populations prevented the loss of cultural information in both community patterning and technology. The study sheds light on how cultural diversity can be preserved in small, isolated populations despite the challenges they face. The research highlights the importance of social structure and interaction when it comes to keeping cultural traditions alive.

The Great Easter is a novella/memoir published in French in 1969 that tells the story of French composer Jacques Besse's marathon stroll through Paris over Easter weekend in 1960. This first-person account sees Besse transform from a fragile flaneur to the god of war, Mars. His unending ambulation combines past and present, real and not-real, and includes encounters with a prostitute, Sergei Eisenstein, and even the entire universe, which gather above Gare d'Austerlitz. The story reflects Besse's hallucinations, insomnia, and increasing fragility. The Great Easter is significant because it is referenced in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus as the "double stroll of the schizo" and highlights Besse's stint as a patient at Guattari's psychiatric clinic La Borde. The Great Easter is an engrossing, surreal, and cult favorite in France. Overall, this novella/memoir is a strange, but fascinating glimpse into the mind of a man who wanders the streets of Paris in a hallucinatory state.

The article discusses S.N. Durylin's unpublished Easter story "On an unrelated grave" (1922), which renews the genre of Easter stories by presenting a unique ontological project. The author expands the possibilities of the biblical subtext by creating an intertextual evangelical plot that unfolds parallel to the main one. Through the use of modernist experiences of L.N. Andreev and M. Gorky, the symbolist writers, Durylin disputes travesty and fantastic versions of the interpretation of Easter story. The article highlights the author’s depiction of the plot of the resurrection of the soul of the main character, Andrei Omutov, who thinks about eternity after his mother's death. The author expresses the concept of infinity and the absence of boundaries through the temporal triad "past-present-future." The spiritual path to the eternal “to be” represents the inner plot of this story. The milestones of this plot are intertextually indicated by Easter exapostillarium. In conclusion, Durylin's work has contributed to the development and renewal of the poetics of Easter literature, and his unique ontological project presents a new interpretation of the Easter story.

The article explores the artistic development of Alexander Pushkin's Kamennoostrovsky Cycle and argues for the presence of an Easter narrative within it. The author emphasizes the need to limit arbitrary interpretations of the cycle to the numbering of poems provided by Pushkin himself. By analyzing the sequence of poems recognized by Pushkin scholars, the author shows how the surviving poems in the cycle correlate with Holy Week, with references to the prayer of Ephraim the Syrian, the betrayal of Judas, and the crucifixion of Christ. The missing links in the poetic construction are reconstructed, and the poetics of Pushkin's individual poems and the unity of the cycle are described using the categories of mimesis, paraphrasis, and catharsis. The article offers a new understanding of the first five poems of the Kamennoostrovsky Cycle and devotes the second part of the work to analyzing Pushkin's "Monument." Overall, the article demonstrates the artistic logic of Pushkin's cycle and shows how an Easter narrative informs its structure and composition.

Man-made disasters resulting in mass fatalities are a criminal act, and proper death investigation is essential for justice administration and community health and safety. Proper management of the dead includes identifying the deceased, collecting forensic evidence for crime investigation, and maintaining respect and dignity for the deceased. Despite efforts, a percentage of victims and human remains may remain unidentified in most mass fatality incidents, particularly in cases of severe fragmentation. To minimize this percentage, a suitable process for dealing with missing persons and identifying the remains should be established.

The Easter Sonata by Fanny Mendelssohn was written in 1828 and mentioned briefly in her diary and letters the following year. The manuscript's whereabouts remained unknown until it was performed in Paris in the 1970s. In 2010, the manuscript was rediscovered and identified as a work by Fanny Mendelssohn. This article describes the history of the Easter Sonata, provides musical analysis to identify Fanny Mendelssohn's compositional voice, and places the piece in the context of the Mendelssohn family's social constructs. The discovery of the manuscript sheds light on Fanny's talent and role in the family's musical legacy as her brother Felix was often the face of the family's musical achievements. The Easter Sonata is a significant addition to Fanny's known compositions and offers insight into her artistic style and development.

The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) surprised U.S. officers and officials in 1972 with their Easter Offensive against the Army, Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in the northwest corner of South Vietnam. Despite U.S. intelligence recognizing the likelihood of a major offensive, they believed it would coincide with the Tet holiday to provoke urban unrest in support of placing Vietnam under Hanoi's control. When the attack did not materialize as expected, U.S. commanders breathed a sigh of relief, assuming North Vietnam might allow U.S. ground forces to evacuate South Vietnam before moving in to deliver a final blow to Saigon. However, author W.R. Baker in Break in the Chain argues that U.S. military intelligence failed to recognize the PAVN's use of tanks and artillery and their coordination with local guerrilla forces, contributing to the ARVN's defeat. Baker also notes that U.S. intelligence underestimated the PAVN's will to fight, suggesting that the U.S. could have changed the outcome of the Easter Offensive if they had taken a different approach. The conclusion is that the U.S. intelligence failure in Vietnam needs to be understood in full, including recognition of the strengths of the Vietnamese enemy, in order to learn from history for better future decision-making.