Of course, all the renaming and reorganizing meant that some of the months’ names no longer agreed with their position in the calendar (September to December, for example). Later, emperors tried to name various months after themselves, but those changes did not outlive them!
Everybody knows the United States of America, and almost everybody knows most of the States by name. Even the citizens of other nations will often be familiar with the names of the 50 U.S. states because they all feature so prominently in popular culture—in the movies of Hollywood, the...
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The Origins of Months’ Name One night, at about 7, I hurried to the classroom to attend selective course and luckily arrived on time. The teacher was calling the roll. I took a seat discreetly near the rear door for fear that I might be called. “Stephanie!” I stood up silently and...
《Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives》作者:Free Press,出版社:2011年7月,ISBN:126.50。Whatmakesusthewayweare?Somesayit’sthegenesweinheri
Origins of the Olympic Winter Games, The first organized international competition involving winter sports was introduced just five years after the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896. This competition, the Nordic Games, included only athletes from the
The film was released in June 1938, twelve months after Pablo Picasso painted Guernica.Guernica is the name of the village in northern Spain whose inhabitants, mainly women and children (most men were away fighting for the Republic), were attacked by German and Italian warplanes, at the ...
After the name of man had been fixed; After An had carried off heaven, After Enlil had carried off earth, After Ereshkigal had been carried off into Kur as its prize; After the father for Kur had set sail, After Enki for Kur had set sail; p. 38After he had set sail, after he ha...
As their name suggests, they suck the blood of prey mam- mals. The interesting thing is that, on a good night, they bring back a surplus; on a bad night, nothing. Their dark business is highly unpredictable. As a result, the lucky (or skilled) bats often share blood with the less ...
Courtesy of Sean Harmon/Instagram “The character of Gibbs has been an important part of my life for 20 years, both in watching my father craft the role and previously having the honor to play young Gibbs myself,” Sean said in a January press release. “I always felt there was a ta...