Word: equinox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time it may have reminded people of what an arbitrary and imperfect thing the Gregorian calendar is. Although Caesa, and Pope Gregery put it inot fair harmony with the solar year, it is full of odd quirks. For instance it begirs on January first instead of with the vernal equinox because the Renaissance advanced the entrance of the consuls into office, their official opening of the new year, to get some respectable generals for a war. Then Easter depends upon the full moon, not because the Jewish Passover did, but because at the time of the Council of Nicea, navigators...
...Define the following terms: Loess, rain-shadow, equinox, cyclone, dry-farming, phylloxera, water table, solstice, Gregorian calendar...