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What Has January Got in Common with Two-Faced Janus?

What if I told you that January was not always the first month of the year? That the ancient Romans used a different calendar system and their year began in March and ended in December? That traditionally, the original Roman Calendar consisted of 10 months totaling 304 days? Then about 713 BC, Emperor Numa Pompilius, […]

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Did You Know that Making New Year Resolutions Started 4,000 Years Ago?

The ancient Babylonians are said to have been the first people to make New Year’s resolutions, some 4,000 years ago. They were also the first to hold recorded celebrations in honor of the new year—though for them, the year began not in January but in mid-March, when the crops were planted. During a massive 12-day

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