A Commonplace Book

Category: calendars...

  • Norman Rockwell's Boy Scout calendar
  • making a photo calendar of family members
  • The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. (C. Fadiman)
  • I've been on a calendar, but never on time. (Marilyn Monroe)
  • Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash according to how we spend it. (M. Ende)
  • calendar comes from Latin calendarium "interest register, account book" from calendae, the first day of the Roman month, when market days, feasts, and other forthcoming events were announced
  • calendars evolved to measure periods for agricultural, business, domestic (etc.) reasons - the first known being that of the ancient Egyptians though the lunisolar formula was probably invented in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC

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