Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...origin of the present calendar year was in 46 B.C. when Julius Caesar ordered the solar Julian Calendar to supersede the old lunar one. in this calendar every other month had 31 days, the rest 30, except February which had 29 except in leap year when it had 30. In 8 B.C. Emperor Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days...
...Caesar", Professor Moore, Sever...
...Caesar", Professor Moore, Sever...
Like a Mark Antony come to bury Caesar, M. Briand reached his first climax by weeping with a purpose over Germany's late, great Dr. Stresemann, his colleague in striving for Peace and swift evacuation of the Rhine: "While he lived there were Germans who criticized and ridiculed Stresemann. Many called him traitor for his friendship to France! Now they heap flowers on his tomb. . . . The French Nationalists have attacked me, as the German Nationalists attacked Stresemann! . . . He died at his task. Must one die then, to prove one is sincere...
Repertory--"Julius Caesar". Disappointing...