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History of the calendar
Thursday, January 1, 2015 7:55
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The first unit of measurement of time that humans probably used was the cycle of day and night. Later, when it became necessary to account for longer periods, the lunar calendar appeared, which is simply to count the number of full moons in a given period. Hence the word “month”, derived from “moon”. But to get to our modern calendar we had to journey a long way.
