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According to Important Dates in History, at least 147 different things, including: 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage 1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England 1913 First Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) 1968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold 1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position So how is it none of these important dates gets commemorated, but everybody has heard of the day, using the ancient term "The Ides of March." Every month has an Ides. We just forget about the Ides of any other month. The Ides are (were?) the 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of any other month in the ancient Roman calendar. Originally Ides were meant to be the full moon, but with calendars ranging from 28 days to 31 days, that doesn't work more than a month or two. Kalends was the day of accounting, the day bills were due. The nones were supposed to be nine days before the ides, but they couldn't count with any more sense than they could make calendars, so they counted the beginning and the ending day in counting, making the nones really eight days before the ides. They just used those three named days and counted everything else from there: March 1 - Kalends March 2 - VI Nones March 3 - V Nones March 4 - IV Nones March 5 - III Nones March 6 - Pridie Nones ("on the day before") March 7 - Nones March 8 - VIII Ides March 9 - VII Ides March 10 - VI Ides March 11 - V Ides March 12 - IV Ides March 13 - III Ides March 14 - Pridie Ides March 15 - Ides March 16 - XVI Kalends March 17 - XV Kalends March 18 - XIV Kalends March 19 - XIII Kalends March 20 - XII Kalends March 21 - XI Kalends March 22 - X Kalends March 23 - IX Kalends March 24 - VIII Kalends March 25 - VII Kalends March 26 - VI Kalends March 27 - V Kalends March 28 - IV Kalends March 29 - III Kalends March 30 - II Kalends March 31 - Pridie Kalends Now, consider that on some months the dates would all be different since you're counting backwards from a different day of the month. There's some speculation that Julias Caesar didn't "beware the Ides of March" because he was thinking that was the 13th of March instead of the 15th and he thought the day the astrologer Spurinna had warned him about had already passed! I better beware of wasting any more time today on this Ides of March. Have a happy one. Share | posted by Barbara Rollins @ 11:29 AM 14 Comments: At 3:16 PM ,  Anonymous said... [url=http://directlenderloansonlinedirectly.com/#qolsq]payday loans online[/url] - direct lender payday loans , http://directlenderloansonlinedirectly.com/#ndlrs payday loans online   At 6:36 AM ,  Anonymous said... [url=http://cialisdirectly.com/#fcjsb]buy cheap cialis[/url] - order cialis , http://cialisdirectly.com/#tkcdt cialis 10 mg   At 6:00 AM ,  Anonymous said... [url=http://cheapcialisdirectly.com/#ivisg]buy generic cialis[/url] - buy cialis , http://cheapcialisdirectly.com/#oqjbn cialis online   At 2:40 AM ,  Anonymous said... 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