Happy New Year
The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon 4000 years ago. The Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon after the first day of spring. The Romans in 153 BC established January 1 as the beginning of the New Year. The Greeks [...]
The Ones Have It
Today is January 11th in the year 2011. When written out as numbers it’s 1/11/11. For the second time this year the date has had all ones in it when written as numbers. The first was New Year’s Day with 1/1/11. And there is still another one. It comes on the eleventh day of the [...]
The Beginning of Summer
Summer is one of the four seasons. One common beginning of the season is the Summer Solstice. The Summer Solstice is an astronomical event that happens twice each year. It’s when the tilt of the Earth axis, North or South, is most inclined towards the sun. But this should be considered the middle of the [...]
Month of June
June is the sixth month of the calendar. It is one of the months that has 30 days. The Roman poet Ovid provides two possible sources for June’s name in his poem entitled the Fasti. The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter. The second is that [...]
Established: 1960
Motel 6 Motel 6 was founded in 1960 in Santa Barbara, California by building contractors, William Becker and Paul Greene. Their plan was to build motels that could offer rooms a a bargain price. After calculating the all cost it was decided that a room would have a nightly cost of $6, hence the company [...]
May Day
May 1st is a holiday in many countries. One such holiday is International Workers’ Day (a name used interchangeably with May Day) a celebration of the achievements of the international labor movement. In the United States many view it as a socialist or communist celebration, although the day is the commemoration of the Haymarket Riot [...]
The First of the Year
In ancient Rome the first month of the new year was the same one in which spring began. That month was called Martius after the God of War, Mars. Today we call the month March. Spring would seem a natural time for the new year to begin, since that’s when the climate changes and the [...]
From Julian to Gregorian
By the middle of the 16th the Calendar used by the Christian Religious leaders was off. The Julian Calendar designed and adopted during the reign of Julius Ceasar in 45 BC was off by 10 to few days. This was causing confusion on when Easter as adopted by the First Council of Nicaea in 325. [...]
December
The month of December is the last month of the year. Even though decem means “ten” and it was the 10th month of the old Roman Calendar, even then it was the last month of the year. The winter period between the end of December and the 1st of March was considered monthless. December has [...]
A Third Friday the 13th
2009 is one of those rare years when there are three months that have a Friday the 13th. The first was February followed a month later in March. The third is today. Instead of repeating the Friday the 13th post from earlier in the year, just take a look at it: Friday the 13th
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