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The roman calendar started the year in spring as well with March (hence the names September/October/November/December are literally the 7th/8th/9th/10th month). The Greek apparently were all over the place with the year starting in summer/fall/winter depending on region/polis.
I'd heard this was because July and August (for Julius and Augustus) were added later to the calendar and originally there were only 10 months that started with January.
The original with ALL of the excuses is at the British Museum here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA5634
Interesting that the dates are "Month 3 of Summer, Day 24" etc. The curious bit to me being the enduring use of 4 distinct seasons, when there are obviously other ways to mark a year. Is anyone aware of a culture that did/does not have exactly 4 seasons?
Sub saharan people (and many Asian), have two seasons, rainy and dry.
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As I find always interesting, we are as far to the Romans in history as the Romans were from the construction of the pyramids.
Cleopatra was closer to the moon landings them to the building of the pyramids!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_time_off?wprov=sfla1
Citing Wikipedia doesn't negate the fact that my company calls it "Personal." And since I wrote the original comment, I'm probably more familiar with my company's terminology than Wikipedia.
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Cleopatra was closer to the moon landings them to the building of the pyramids!
She can't have been that far away, didn't she live in Egypt? I'm fairly sure the moon is always further away
Actually its the distance in time.
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Cleopatra was closer to the moon landings them to the building of the pyramids!
She can't have been that far away, didn't she live in Egypt? I'm fairly sure the moon is always further away
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Dogs also hunt scorpions. Dogs are not immune to scorpion stings, they're just ignorant.
I live a block off the salt marsh here on the coast and mine'll hunt after Fiddler Crabs[0] until they get pinched on the snout. The mutt learned and the Lab just keeps on going after them... strange creatures, dogs are. [0] - https://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/mrri/acechar/speciesgallery/In...
Seeing the frequency of the days off and the reasons really humanizes these people that (at least I) just imagine as some alien beings that I had nothing in common with. Also there’s just some that are funny given cultural norms today - I’m assuming it was more akin to taking bereavement leave, but imagining telling my boss I won’t be working because I’ll be drinking for 3 days is pretty comical to me: day 24 (LIBATI…
I think "Brewing Beer" would be a perfectly acceptable excuse in a lot of these new hipstery startups
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> Said nobody on their death cot ever, “I wish I’d spent more time carving hieroglyphs down at the Pharoah’s tomb!” That actually may not be true. Pharaoh was a religious figure, considered to be god on earth. He was also the embodiment of Osiris, the god of the afterlife, and Egyptians' conception of the afterlife was linked to Pharaoh, and their prospects for the afterlife were linked to how close they were to Phar…
Such ridiculous, delusional devotion is for the clergy. The whip is for the slaves.