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There are three principal defects in the present (Gregorian) calendar: 1) Three divisions of the year (months, quarters and half years) are of unequal length. Months vary from 28 to 31 days in length, quarters from 90 to 92 days, half years from 181 to 184 days. 2) The month is not an even multiple of the seven-day week. Except for February each month contains four weeks plus two or three days. For 1927, January, April, July, October and December have five Saturdays, other months but four. Day names and dates change each month. 3) The calendar...
...tinker with the calendar is Professor Marvin's dearest hobby. He would like to supplant the Gregorian calendar with one of his own, which has 13 months to the year, four weeks to the month, and one extra day each year which would be a super-holiday. Such a calendar, said the able professor, would run until the year 17600 A. D. with no ill effects, except to deprive women of Leap Years, which will come only once each 600 years...
...government of Russia was seized by the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd (now Leningrad) Soviet on Oct. 25, 1917. Last year, the Bolsheviki replaced the Julian Calendar with the Gregorian and the Bolshevik Bastille Day or Fourth of July was celebrated...
...modified decimal multiple system with a base of 20. Such a system; was unknown to the Greeks and Romans and was not used in Western Europe until introduced by the Arabs in the 12th Century. Dr. Spinden has worked out a day-by-day correlation between Mayan and Gregorian calendars showing that while the Mayas did not interpolate leap-year days in their calendar year of 365 days, they allowed for them, and their calculations were correct, while our present calendar is a day out in about 3300 years...
...never dropped leap year days; consequently, their natural year did not always begin on the same calendar day. Dr. Spinden's final solution is too complicated to describe in a few words, since it rests on a great number of coincidences between recorded astronomical events in the Mayan and Gregorian calendars...