Tag: Calendar
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July 21, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week we introduced a couple of less than mainstream calendars . This week, we want to move back into a look at the contemporary calendar, as based upon the Roman calendar. Julius Caesar, of course, attended to the discrepancies in the calendar. …
July 14, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Merriam-Webster defines calendar as “a system for fixing the beginning, length, and divisions of the civil year and arranging days and longer divisions of time (such as weeks and months) in a definite order”. The reasons for developing such a system are easy …
