The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya...
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Long count or slow count is a term used in boxing. When a boxer is knocked down in a fight, the referee will count over them and the boxer must rise to...
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The Long Count Fight, or the Battle of the Long Count, was a professional boxing 10-round rematch between world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney and former...
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Maya calendar (redirect from Large count)
This is the Long Count. It is a count of days since a mythological starting-point. According to the correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars...
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Mesoamerican calendars (section Long Count)
CE). The Long Count provided the ability to uniquely identify days over a much longer period of time, by combining a sequence of day-counts or cycles...
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Maya civilization (category CS1: long volume value)
largely defined as when the Maya were raising sculpted monuments with Long Count dates. This period saw the Maya civilization develop many city-states...
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century BCE, several centuries before the earliest known Long Count date artifact. The Long Count calendar required the use of zero as a place-holder within...
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This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and festivities took place on 21 December 2012...
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being worked on. The "Long Count" portion of the Maya calendar uses a variation on the strictly vigesimal numerals to show a Long Count date. In the second...
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these Long Count dates, the earliest of which (on Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas) has a date of 36 BC. Since the eight earliest Long Count dates...
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Jack Dempsey (section Tunney rematch: "The Long Count")
the neutral corner rule and conflicting counts, the Dempsey–Tunney rematch remains known as "The Long Count Fight". Dempsey retired from boxing following...
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Aaron Dessner (section The Long Count)
2019. "The Long Count". January 1, 2011. Archived from the original on January 1, 2011. Retrieved February 6, 2019. "ELLNORA: The Long Count | Krannert...
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ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to one day. It is the smallest unit of Maya time to be counted as part of the long count and it usually...
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Bryce Dessner (section The Long Count)
of The National whose show, The Long Count, opens @ BAM tonight ++ 2 MP3's". 28 October 2009. "Ellnora: The Long Count". Krannert Center for the Performing...
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(properly bʼakʼtun [ɓakʼtun]) is 20 kʼatun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years. The...
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Long Count, uses the epoch of 11 or 13 August 3114 BC. The Maya Long Count calendar was first used approximately 236 BC (see Mesoamerican Long Count calendar#Earliest...
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Count von Count (known simply as the Count) is a Muppet character on the PBS/HBO children's television show Sesame Street. He is meant to parody Bela Lugosi's...
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There are three main Maya calendars: The Long Count is a count of days. There are examples of Long Counts with many places but most of them give five...
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induction Long Count Date: 9.4.0.0.0. Lintel 12 depicts Ruler C receiving 4 captives, including Knot-eye Jaguar of Yaxchilan. Stela 30, long count 9.5.0.0...
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the conception or birth of Jesus. Years AD are counted forward since that epoch and years BC are counted backward from the epoch. There is no year zero...
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Chehalis began their count of lunar months from the arrival of spawning chinook salmon (in Gregorian calendar October), and counted 10 months, leaving an...
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scholars of Maya civilization also use it, especially when converting Long Count dates (1st century BC – 10th century AD). The best practice for citation...
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the world) as used in the Hebrew calendar (3761 BC). The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar uses the creation of the fourth world in 3114 BC. Olympiads,...
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Unix time (section Variant that counts leap seconds)
count leap seconds). Because TAI has no leap seconds, and every TAI Day is exactly 86400 seconds long, this encoding is actually a pure linear count of...
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York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 86–105. Van Stone, Mark (2011). "The Maya Long Count Calendar: An Introduction". Archaeoastronomy. 24: 8–11. "French Republican...
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Roman calendar (category CS1: long volume value)
for 38 nundinal cycles, each forming a kind of eight-day week—nine days counted inclusively in the Roman manner—and ending with religious rituals and a...
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the Long Count, is based upon the number of elapsed days since a mythological starting-point. According to the calibration between the Long Count and...
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years. It is the second digit on the normal Maya long count date. For example, in the Maya Long Count date 12.19.13.15.12 (December 5, 2006), the number...
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remains one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight. He retired undefeated as a heavyweight after his victory over Tom...
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