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Topic: When There Were Only 10 Months to a Year
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astro junkie
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posted January 03, 2005 05:36 PM
 
Was watching TV, which is rare for me, but it was like the History Channel or something - and they said that way back before the Roman heyday, there were only 10 months given to a year. I think they said, January & February were added on later, if I'm not mistaken. I'd never heard of this!! Could it be why Virgo & Gemini share Mercury, and why Libra & Taurus share Venus?IP: Logged |
Archer
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posted January 03, 2005 10:11 PM
thought planmets ruling a sign was based on study of planets charactericts and matching them with the signs characteristics. do u mean it was just assigned based on dates?IP: Logged |
hailstorm
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posted January 03, 2005 10:17 PM
Wrong. July and August were added on in honor of the respective Caesars' names.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/99aughistory1.html
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Lauren Leigh
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posted January 04, 2005 12:59 AM
I was just thinking about how screwed up the 12 month year is the other day...September should obviously be the 7th month, October the 8th, November the 9th and December the 10th. They were named to be that way! IP: Logged |
sassygrrrl
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posted January 04, 2005 01:07 AM
Wasn't there some kind of confusion way back in the day when the calendars switched over to/from the Julian & Gregorian calendars? (I never can get it straight which one is which.  ) Supposedly many people were greatly annoyed by the change and refused to acknowledge it. I suppose I can understand their grievance. Because don't even get me started on the annoyance that is Daylight Savings Time.  IP: Logged |
Archer
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posted January 04, 2005 02:24 AM
encarta and britannica and two online encyclopedia which might have some info.IP: Logged |
LeylaLeFay
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posted January 04, 2005 07:15 AM
Huh? I had always heard there were 13 months, with 13 signs, but they got rid of one when goddesses fell out of favor to make it into a masculine 12. (Which is also why people in male-dominante cultures find 13 so "unlucky.") But maybe that was a different place/time in history.IP: Logged |
astro junkie
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posted January 04, 2005 02:27 PM
Thank you hailstorm - I wasn't sure of the exact months.------------------
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astro junkie
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posted January 04, 2005 03:59 PM
"Novel calendar system creates regular dates -11:30 03 January 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Maggie McKee A US physicist is lobbying for people to adopt his novel calendar in which every date falls on the same day of the week each year. The current calendar, which runs for 365 days, was instituted by Pope Gregory in 1582 to bring the length of the year in line with the seasons. But because the Earth actually orbits the Sun every 365.24 days, a 366-day "leap year" must be added every four years to account for the extra fraction of a day. In this Gregorian system, a given date (such as New Year's Day) falls on different days of the week in different years because 365 is not evenly divisible by seven..." www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6835 ------------------
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Secret Garden
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posted January 06, 2005 12:27 AM
hailstorm u are right, this is one of the many oddities about history. Ceaser added July and August in his own honor. August for Augustus and July for Julius (Julius Augustus Ceaser).
There are MANY other weird things. Had a western civ class last summer, and the professor was the most knowledgeable person
I've come across yet. She knew all these little things that I found amazingggg. IP: Logged |
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