Posts tagged ‘calendar’
Leap Year
It takes the earth one day to complete one spin on its axis. The time it takes the earth to complete one […]
02/16/2012. Category: trivia. Tags: calendar, leap year
The Third Millennium
The third millennium started at about 21h00 on 31 December 2000. Basically, the year 2000 is celebrated one year earlier because the […]
02/07/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: calendar, millennium, time
Want a date?
In 1905 Einstein showed in his theory of relativity that time is affected by motion so that the faster one goes the […]
02/07/2010. Category: trivia. Tags: calendar, date
History of the calendar
In September 1752 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its American colonies. The Julian calendar […]
02/04/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: calendar, gregorian, time
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