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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The Leap Day That Wasn't
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Bernard of Botone (d.1266) gloss on Leap Day Most of you know that Julius Caesar in the 1st century BCE wanted to fix the fact that sol...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
The New Year
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Tying the start of a year to the season of spring makes perfect sense in agrarian cultures. The Romans started their year in spring for a lo...
Monday, September 17, 2012
Got Silk?
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Silk was not a medieval invention. According to Chinese tradition , Empress Si-Ling-Chi in 2460 BCE watched silkworms spinning cocoons; she ...
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