Resolutions.
TRIVIA TODAY – Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Wow…tomorrow is New Year’s Eve already! Has everyone
decided on their resolutions? My resolution for 2010 is to
finish the application process for graduate school and get
all the paperwork mailed in!
If accepted, I plan to begin working on getting my Master
in Library Science degree in the summer and hopefully finish
within a couple of years. It will be a challenge to get back
into the mode of doing schoolwork while working full-time,
but it will be worth it in the end!
Enjoy!
Melissa
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TODAY’S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep,
is this: To rise above the little things.”
HINT: (1837-1921), American naturalist and essayist
important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation
movement.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
The earliest recording of a new year celebration is
believed to have been in Mesopotamia, c. 2000 B.C. and was
celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox, in mid-
March. The early Roman calendar designated March 1 as the
new year. The calendar had just ten months, beginning with
March.
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September through December, our ninth through twelfth months,
were originally positioned as the seventh through tenth
months (septem is Latin for “seven,” octo is “eight,” novem
is “nine,” and decem is “ten.”
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The first time the new year was celebrated on January 1st
was in Rome in 153 B.C. The new year was moved from March
to January because that was the beginning of the civil
year, the month that the two newly elected Roman consuls—
the highest officials in the Roman republic—began their
one-year tenure.
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VIDEO CLIP
New Years Resolution – Absolutely Fabulous
New Years has come and Edina and Patsy have made their
resolutions. Watch how they plan to celebrate their
resolutions in this clip from Absolutely Fabulous.
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=12020
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In 46 B.C. Julius Caesar introduced a new, solar-based
calendar that was a vast improvement on the ancient Roman
calendar, which was a lunar system that had become wildly
inaccurate over the years. The Julian calendar decreed that
the new year would occur with January 1, and within the
Roman world, January 1 became the consistently observed
start of the new year.
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In medieval Europe, however, the celebrations accompanying
the new year were considered pagan and unchristian like,
and in 567 the Council of Tours abolished January 1 as the
beginning of the year. At various times and in various
places throughout medieval Christian Europe, the new year
was celebrated on Dec. 25, the birth of Jesus; March 1;
March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation; and Easter.
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In 1582, the Gregorian calendar reform restored January 1
as new year’s day. Although most Catholic countries adopted
the Gregorian calendar almost immediately, it was only
gradually adopted among Protestant countries. The British,
for example, did not adopt the reformed calendar until
1752. Until then, the British Empire —and their American
colonies— still celebrated the new year in March.
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I am a path situated between high natural masses.
Remove my first letter & you have a path situated
between man-made masses.
What am I?
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Answer will be posted in Friday’s Trivia Today. Good Luck!
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email me your complete name and address and I will ship
your prize.
Be sure to put “Winner” in the subject line.
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QUOTE: “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep,
is this: To rise above the little things.”
ANSWER: John Burroughs.
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