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Was The Gregorian Calendar Invented to help you celebrate?
Was The Gregorian Calendar Invented to help you celebrate?
Yes, our people on Earth speak thousands of different languages, how is it that most of us use the same calendar?
The Gregorian calendar became the international standard used almost everywhere in the world. It takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds for the Earth to make a full revolution around the sun.
Most of the Western world used the Julian calendar, which was put into place and named after Julius Caesar on 45 BCE, which was the year 709 for them since their calendar started on the year Rome was founded). The Julian calendar had 365 days every year with an extra day every four years. This was pretty accurate but made a year on average 11 minutes and 14 seconds too long. This little glitch wouldn’t be dealt with until 1582.
That’s the year that the Gregorian calendar started finally being used because that 11-minute glitch in the older calendar created a problem with Easter. It was supposed to be celebrated on the Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. But as it slipped later and later each year, Pope Gregory got concerned, so he commissioned Italian scientist Aloysius Lilius to “fix it” realizing that the Catholic world had to skip ahead ten full days to catch up.
The Gregorian calendar is more accurate than the Julian because it still had a leap year every four years, except for years that are divisible by 100, and unless that year is divisible by 400 (so 2000 was a leap year, but 2100 will not be.) Of course, nothing’s perfect, and the Gregorian calendar is no exception: in 4909, is will be a full day ahead.
Christian Monk Dionysius Exiguus is credited for the denominations BC (before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, Latin for “The Year of Our Lord”). Academic and scientific communities have been increasingly using the more neutral, less Christianity-centric BCE and CE for “Before Common Era” and “Common Era”.
Of course, there are other calendars that people use, and even some more-exacting calendars that some propose adopting The Mayan Calendar or The Tranquility calendar, which starts on the day we landed on the Moon and has 13 28-day months, all named after scientists.
Grooving tune for your day:
Israel Ka?ano?i Kamakawiwo?ole (Hawaiian: pronounced [k??m?k??vivo??ole]; Hawaiian for ‘”the fearless eye, the bold face”‘; May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997), also called Bruddah Iz or IZ, was a Native Hawaiian singer-lyricist, musician, and Hawaiian sovereignty activist.
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in the U.S., today’s Doodle celebrates the Miracle of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s Life. He did not die with this song inside him. He gave us …Dreams, lullabies, rainbows, ablue birds flying…. “DREAMS DO COME TRUE! Where trouble melts like Lemon Drops!”
He is perhaps best known for touching the world with his beloved rendition of “Over the Rainbow” and forever changing the face of Hawaiian music. Through his joyful songs and lifelong advocacy for the islands’ values and culture, Israel has been widely referred to as the “Voice of Hawai’i.”
Appreciate for yourself:
View with your Heart this video that could unlock your creativity and your own personal calendar!
Evolve your Creativity and Abilities with this Exercise
Multiple Reflections
Go out on a clear night and see the moon reflected in your neighborhood. Look for it in windows, lakes, ocean, the path on which you walk. Then see the very same moon reflected in a bowl in your own home, in a teacup, in a single drop of water.
Right now use the same essential truth to “see” the reflected sunshine within each person who you choose to have in your life.
Make a list of what you value about each!
You will know yourself.
Let your list include everyone you appreciate and value from a small child who knows only the story to a great sage who plumbs its inner secrets.
You will “see” what you value about yourself!
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