Word: gregorian
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...order to make reasonably sure that archeologists of 6939 would know of the treasure consigned to them, Westinghouse sent books of record to world's leading libraries, telling how to calculate the date when the capsule should be opened, by use of the Gregorian, Chinese, Jewish, Mohammedan and Shinto calendars, and by astronomical time if no calendars survive...
...west. Dr. Johnson asked the Buhl Planetarium to turn their big projector back through nearly 52 centuries. The planetarium did it, although the job required 20 hours. On the first try, the sky was not as it should have been. Then Johnson realized that the planetarium was using the Gregorian calendar, whereas he was going by the Julian calendar of Julius Caesar. When a correction for this difference was made, the moon and the Dog Star were just where he wanted them...
...performed since the composer's day. Enjoyed most by delegates and outsiders alike was a concert of medieval music at The Cloisters, Manhattan's museum-piece museum of Gothic art, where bull-necked French Tenor Yves Tinayre and a girls' choir sang motets, trouvere songs, Gregorian chants...
...bounce from bright topical lyrics sung by the Foursome, and from such staged and unstaged effects as: 1) Colman ending a discussion of injustice by reading Socrates' speech to his judges; 2) Gary Grant explaining interruptions for station identification by chanting the Federal radio law with Gregorian solemnity; 3) Madcap Carole warmly arguing that women, by simply being practical, could easily run the world without...
...annual American Folk Song Festival. Local roads were choked by the unaccustomed burden of some 6,000 tourists who had come to see the fun. Present were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman" who founded the festival after "traipsin'"all over the neighboring mountains collecting the songs of the mountaineers...