As the polymaths here know, the date for Easter is calculated as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal [nod to the Antipodeans present] equinox. This wanna-be who hopes to achieve poymathdom by cyber-osmosis understands this could possibly stem from a pagan spring holiday, but she was recently told the date for Passover is *also calculated in that fashion. Whence the difference, since the two dates rarely coincide?

Also, in Portuguese, and, I believe, in Spanish, Easter and Passover are the same word - pascoa and pascua. Is that the case in any other language?