Are You Bissextile?
Answer: only during Leap Year… The great-grand-daddy of our February 29th Leap Day goes back to the ancient Romans. I know what you’re thinking: Don’t we have anything that doesn’t go back to them? Uh,...
View ArticleGrape Day – Vendémiaire 1st – French New Year
September 22 Happy New Year! Today is the first day of the first month (Vendémiaire, or “grape harvest”) of the French Republican Calendar, which was used between 1792 and 1806. The French Republican...
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