Silla (month) and Maha Shivaratri (Nepal Bhasa: सिला चह्रे "Silā Charhe") on the 14th day of the dark fortnight. Shree Panchami is the first day of spring while Shivaratri honors the Hindu deity Shiva. On the full moon day, the month-long Swasthani sacred story reciting festival ends. Silla (month) Sillā (Nepal Bhasa: सिल्ला) is the fourth month in the Nepal Era calendar, the national lunar calendar of Nepal. The month corresponds to Magha (माघ) in the Hindu lunar calendar and February in the Gregorian calendar. Sillā begins with the new moon and the full moon falls on the 15th of the lunar
Joan S. Valentine Joan S. Valentine Joan Selverstone Valentine (born 1945) is a biological inorganic chemist and biochemist. Valentine's current work examines the role of transition metals, metalloenzymes, and oxidative stress in health. Her foremost expertise is superoxide anion and its functional enzyme superoxide dismutase. Valentine has been a member of the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles since 1980, she has served as Editor-in-Chief of "Accounts of Chemical Research" since 1994, and she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 1967, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Smith College and a Ph.D.