• Calends (redirect from Kalends)
    The calends or kalends (Latin: kalendae) is the first day of every month in the Roman calendar. The English word "calendar" is derived from this word...
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    observational lunar one. In particular, the most important days of each month—its kalends, nones, and ides—seem to have derived from the new moon, the first-quarter...
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  • Cardea (redirect from Bean Kalends)
    another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph...
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    their years by these consulships, rather than sequentially, and making the kalends of January start the new year aligned this dating. Still, private and religious...
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  • day (inclusive: i.e. what we would call the fifth day before) before the Kalends (first day) of March, i.e. what we would call 24 February) was doubled...
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  • Occupation(s) Chairman and CEO of Kalends Inc.[citation needed] CEO of Opay Chairman and CEO of Opera Software Known for Founder of Kalends Inc. and Beijing Kunlun...
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    occiderunt comitem domno Gomez in campo de Spina. Era 1049 [AD 1111], 7th Kalends of November [26 October]. King Alfonso of Aragon and count Henry killed...
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  • The first day of the month was the Kalends (or Calends, from which the English word "calendar" derives). Each Kalends was sacred to Juno, and the Regina...
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  • arranged the months such that each month started on the ninth day before the kalends of the corresponding Roman month; thus the year began on 23 September,...
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  • Cervula or Cervulus was a Roman festival celebrated on the kalends of January (1 January). According to Chambers (1864), remnants seem to have been incorporated...
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    "the 8th day before the Kalends of Quinctilis", during the Republican era, but IX Kal. Iul., "the 9th day before the Kalends of July", in the Imperial...
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    quarto decimo Kalendarum Ianuariarum", on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of the pre-Julian, twenty-nine day December, on the oldest Roman religious...
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    in the arms of those who tried to help him, on the ninth day before the Kalends of July [June 23], at the age of sixty-nine years, seven months and seven...
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  • specific days of the Roman calendar, not of the Greek, and so the "Greek Kalends" would never occur. ad libitum (ad lib) toward pleasure i.e, "according...
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  • of the month: the Nones (5th or 7th), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of December was the 5th, and the...
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    translates as "The dedication of the church of St Paul on the ninth before the kalends of May [23 April] in the fifteenth year of King Ecgfrith and the fourth...
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    and the Kalends (Kalendae, 1st) of the following month. Thus, the last day of Quintilis was the pridie Kalendas Sextilis, "day before the Kalends of Sextilis"...
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  • Brutus that the life of the Republic is indeed "in your hands." 12 12 "Kalends of February" Alan Taylor Bruno Heller 20 November 2005 (2005-11-20) 2.59...
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    female or ambiguous in gender, opening with the Feast of Venus on the Kalends. The Romans thought that the name Aprilis derived from aperio, aperire...
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    complex, built in ancient Rome starting from 104 AD and dedicated during the Kalends of July in 109. Baths of Diocletian – in ancient Rome, these were the grandest...
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    1 April (the Kalends). Verticordia may have supplanted or been a refinement of an older form of Venus originally honored on the Kalends, and she shares...
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  • of the month: the Nones (5th or 7th), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of October was the 7th, and the...
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  • The White Ship disaster on 25 November 1120 (called 7 kalends of December by Farrer) claimed the lives of numerous high-ranking people of Norman England...
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     142–158; Simpson 1981, p. 503. Suet. Calig., 58 "On the ninth day before the Kalends of February... Ruled three years, ten months and eight days". Cassius Dio...
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    , "the 8th day before the Kalends of September," but on the Julian calendar X Kal. Sept., "the 10th day before the Kalends of September". On the calendar...
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    army at the Colline Gate, the decisive battle of the civil war, fought on Kalends of November; 78 BC – Sulla dies in the spring; 73 BC – Revolt of Spartacus...
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  • during the reign of Claudius, he was consul suffectus from the Kalends of March to the Kalends of July, together with Sextus Palpellius Hister. Secundus was...
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    Brennan / Harrison 3 episodes 2005 Rome Lucius Tillius Cimber Episode: "Kalends of February" Broken News Sam French, Bullet Points Presenter 6 episodes...
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    etymology. Janus owes the epithet Iunonius to his function as patron of all kalends, which are also associated with Juno. In Macrobius's explanation: "Iunonium...
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    some connection with the earlier pagan (Roman) feasts of Saturnalia and Kalends or the later bourgeois in Sotie. Over the course of a week, the ceremonies...
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