Did You Know? 2009 Calendar Oddities
If you have been reading 6 Things to Consider over the past few months you already know that there are 3 Friday the 13th in 2009. February, March and November.
If looking at Sunday being the first day of the week February’s calendar page which began on a Sunday and ended on a Saturday only [...]
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night falls on the evening of January 5th or the eve of the Epiphany. It is the last night of the period called Christmastide, which begins on Christmas Day.
The song the 12 Days of Christmas relates to the days of Christmastide.
The Epiphany is the celebration of of the coming of the Magi. [...]
Happy New Year
This was has been my New Year’s Eve post the past two years. Have a 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 [...]
The Month of July
In the ancient Roman Calendar Quintilis was the fifth month of the year. It was renamed July for Julius Ceasar who was born in the month. Quintilis is latin for fifth.
July and April each year begins on the same day of the week and in a leap year also January.
On average the month [...]
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 [...]
Did You Know?
The rock band Jethro Tull took their name from an 18th century English agricultural pioneer. Tull invented the seed drill, a device that allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths at a specific seed rate in 1701.
In 1752, not only was it the year that Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar, [...]
It’s Daylight Saving Time Again
For those who don’t know the rhyme we spring ahead an hour in the spring and fall backward one hour, in the fall. Some people mistakenly call it Daylight Savings Time, but it is Daylight Saving Time. In 2007 with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that President George Bush signed into law in [...]
March
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 [...]
February
February is without a doubt an odd month. Everyone knows that it’s the shortest month of the year. It’s the only one that has less than 30 days and has 28 days except leap years when a day is added since each year is 365 and quarter day long. On those leap [...]
Remembering 2007
1) They Died in 2007.
Brad Delp lead singer for the rock group Boston died on March 9th.
Kitty Carlisle died on April 17 at the age of 96.
Lois Maxwell, who we all fondly remember as Miss Moneypenny died on September 29.
Joey Bishop, the last member of the famed Rat Pack, died on October 17.
Teresa [...]
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