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Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Guest Post: The gods behind the days of the week

Margaret Clunies Ross , University of Sydney The origins of our days of the week lie with the Romans. The Romans named their days of the w...

Monday, January 01, 2018

Guest Post: Who was Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings?

Caillan Davenport , Macquarie University January 1 can be a day of regret and reflection – did I really need that fifth glass of bubbly l...

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Guest Post: Why Easter is called Easter

by Brent Landau , University of Texas at Austin This Sunday, April 16, Christians will be celebrating Easter, the day on which the resurre...

Saturday, December 13, 2014

12/13/14

It's December 13, 2014 or, expressed another way, it's 12/13/14. Numerically successive dates only occur twelve times each century...

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