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Today is the
Ides of March. What is the
Ides of March? It is March 15th in the ancient Roman calender, the first day of the Roman New Year and the first day of spring. The
Roman calender refered to days by names not numbers, thus each month has an Ide day, although not always on the 15th. The Ides of March is best known as the day Julius Caesar was assasinated in the Senate (44 BC) and made famous by the
Shakespeare line "Beware the Ides of March". It modern times it has come to symbolize
foreboding and bad luck. Iggy Pop
sang about it prophetically with todays current events, and in Rome where it all started it's a good day to
Toga Party.
posted by stbalbach
on Mar 15, 2003 -
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A 32,000 year old
etching on an ivory mammoth tusk is linked to the constellation Orion which may have been used as a primitive "pregnancy calendar" designed to estimate when a pregnant woman will give birth. The oldest known drawing of a star pattern, it was created by the mysterious Aurignacian people about whom we know next to nothing save that they moved into Europe from the east supplanting the indigenous Neanderthals.
posted by stbalbach
on Jan 26, 2003 -
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