TRIVIA BITS ...
THE CALENDAR
The Western world uses the 365-day Gregorian calendar.
Pope Gregory XIII (1502 - 1585)
This is based on Earth's orbit of the sun, so the sun appears in the same place in the sky on the same date each year.
Many other calendars have been devised throughout history.
The traditional Chinese, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim calendars are based on the moon's cycles.
The ancient Aztec calendar was solar, like the Gregorian, but consisted of 18 months of 20 days and five extra days that were considered lucky.
The word is derived from the Latin calendarium, meaning "interest register" or "account book," itself a derivation from calendae/kalendae, the first day of the Roman month, the day on which future market days, feasts, and other occasions were proclaimed.
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