Friday, January 15, 2010

How Many Days Make a Year?




Latin Scholars began the New Year by learning about the calendar in ancient Rome. Did you know that there were originally 305 days in the year and that the 61 days of deep winter -- January and February -- were not even named? That while they were on the lunar calendar September could happen in March? Or that at one point during the Empire there were 220 days of holidays? Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory fixed that!