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Roman Calendar Terms: www.thoughtco.com/roman-calen...
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Roman Calendar: latininscriptions.ashmus.ox.a...
Kalends Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/calen...
Nones Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/nones
Ides Etymology: mashedradish.com/2017/03/16/w...
Pridie Etymology: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pridie
The Ides Of March: www.stneotsmuseum.org.uk/arti...
Beware The Ides Of March: www.shakespearesglobe.com/dis...
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The Month That use To Exist: www.dictionary.com/e/mercedon...
Latin Months Of The Year: blogs.transparent.com/latin/m...
Roman Inventions: slowtours.com/blog/travel-art...
15 Of March In History: kidskonnect.com/history-timel...

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@NameExplain 3 ай бұрын

Can you figure out what your birthday would be on the Roman calendar? Mine lands on the Nones of September!

@hinatwinz917 3 ай бұрын

Mine’s 15 days until the Kalends of October.

@the80hdgaming 3 ай бұрын

Same...

@Furienna 3 ай бұрын

9 days until the Kalends of July, if I counted correctly.

@kandipiatkowski8589 3 ай бұрын

I want to say 7 days before the kalens of October, but the pirides (or however it's spelled) confuses me. I'll stick with the current calendar where my birthday is the 25th of September. Lol

@Furienna 3 ай бұрын

@@kandipiatkowski8589 Unless I counted wrong, it should be 8 days until Kalends of October.

@CreepersNeedHugs 3 ай бұрын

7:09 "I realized after recording this video that the moon comes out at night." What a fantastic quote.

@pre-debutera6941 2 ай бұрын

The moon only comes out at night on a full moon.

@robnorris4770 3 ай бұрын

Now the ides of March is known as the day after Pi day.

@imagiguard 3 ай бұрын

not on tumblr! the ides is a legit holiday on tumblr and a bigger deal than pi day there

@Hehehebwb 2 ай бұрын

Is it not the 14th? Not the ides?

@coyote4237 3 ай бұрын

That Shakespeare guy - Wild Bill - he was pretty good with words.

@jeff4926 3 ай бұрын

Note on 7:09 : if you think about it a little more, the more specific part of the calendar is the phase when the moon is visible in the sky before sundown. the long pre-kalends period is when the moon doesn't rise until after sunset, past full. So during the day, they can tell the date with more precision, at a glance, earlier in the month. If you can't see the moon, it must be...any day before the kalends.

@Furienna 3 ай бұрын

Interesting.

@qirex3093 3 ай бұрын

2:30 I like how February is described as “FAB” here🥰

@NBK1122 3 ай бұрын

The Ides of March is also the name of a 1970s American rock band, famous for the song "Vehicle."

@ourdivinemouseoverlord3308 3 ай бұрын

I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned how both Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar each jacked a day from February so the two months named after them could have 31 days. EDIT: OK, apparently this is just a popular legend. Sorry to spread misinformation.

@DaveSCameron 3 ай бұрын

Nein

@ourdivinemouseoverlord3308 3 ай бұрын

@@DaveSCameron What do you mean "no?" I heard from two separate sources growing up that that was what happened. If I'm wrong, tell me.

@augustuscaesar8287 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for rescinding that silly little rumor those damn barbarians from across the Rhine had spread.

@FebruaryHas30Days 3 ай бұрын

WHO CARES ABOUT BOTH OF THEM, FEBRUARY SHOULD HAVE 30 DAYS.

@doomsdayrabbit4398 3 ай бұрын

@@FebruaryHas30DaysWe could give every month 30, but then we'd have five extras.

@rateeightx 3 ай бұрын

2:28 I am still mad that whoever created January and February put them at the start of the year rather than the end. The end would be a so much better place for them, Not only would September through December still have accurate named, But Winters would be held within a single year rather than weirdly stretching between two!

@melissahealy1950 3 ай бұрын

and the leap would be at the end

@gyorokpeter 3 ай бұрын

15 March is a public holiday in Hungary, to commemorate the revolution that took place on this day in 1848. In Latin, the words corresponding to those special days (Kalendae, Nonae and Idus) are always plural. So "ad Kalendas Graecas" ("on the Greek Calends", i.e. never, because the Greeks didn't use this system) uses the plural form of the adjective instead of the singular. The original leap day was done by "bis dicitur sexto Kalendas", i.e. the sixth day to the Calends of March being said twice. (This is also the source of the term "bissextile year".) That day corresponds to 24 February. Therefore any event that repeats every year (birthdays, name days/saint's feast days) that falls between 24-28 Feb is supposed to be shifted to one day later in a leap year.

@davidroddini1512 3 ай бұрын

10:13 “You’re probably just as likely to get stabbed by a group of senators on any day of the month, not just the ides of March.” Wait! I am?! 😮

@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture 3 ай бұрын

In the Jewish calendar, which is a lunar calendar, a leap year has an additional month 7 times every 19 years (years 3, 6 ,8, 11, 14, 17 and 19), after the final month of the non-leap years.

@DaveSCameron 3 ай бұрын

Nein

@highpath4776 3 ай бұрын

how did they work that out, what kind of tally sticks for everyone to remember?

@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture 3 ай бұрын

@@highpath4776 since they had an actual alphabet and record keeping, I can only presume they kept written records.

@trien30 3 ай бұрын

Same thing similar with the Chinese calendar but both the Chinese and Hebrew calendars are now lunisolar but they were lunar calendars in ancient times.

@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture 3 ай бұрын

@@trien30 the current Jewish system was put in place in the 9th century CE/AD. A leap year is also called Shanah Me'uberet (pregnant year). Also, to prevent certain holidays from falling on a certain day: In addition to these regular (kesidrah) year lengths, both common and leap years can be a day shorter (cheserah or deficient year with 353/383 days) or a day longer (shlemah or complete year with 355/385 days). These alterations are designed to prevent Rosh Hashana and other holidays from falling on certain days of the week. In practice, a day is added to the 8th month (Marcheshvan) or subtracted from the 9th month (Kislev).

@ComanderSazabi2000 3 ай бұрын

Caesar wasn't an emperor btw, he was a dictator.

@modmaker7617 3 ай бұрын

Well dictators usually don't use the title "dictator" and use different titles to hide it. The title "Emporer" is more of an anachronism as the Latin title "Imperator" (which is where the word "Emporer" comes from) meant "military general".

@LuisSierra42 3 ай бұрын

@@modmaker7617 came to say this. What we understand today as "Emperor" comes directly from Roman history but for them it had a different meaning

@DaveSCameron 3 ай бұрын

*Dictatore 😂😂😂

@reda84. 3 ай бұрын

@@modmaker7617⁠The term dictator literally originated as an emergency function in the Roman Republic which had zero negative connotations. Caesar was a dictator who used the title of dictator, was referred to as a dictator and never was at any point an emperor since the Empire begun after his death and in fact *because* of his death since it caused a civil war

@jeff4926 3 ай бұрын

"Marc Anthony did nothing wrong!"

@Random2 3 ай бұрын

GASP! YOU TAKE THAT BACK! WINTER ROCKS! *fires ballistic snowball all the way from Scandinavia*

@sabkobds 2 ай бұрын

And Iron Maiden's The Ides of March (opening instrumental number for the album Killers) was actually released on 16 February 1981. 😁 🤘

@hannahtikvah 3 ай бұрын

I'm Jewish, so I'm used to dates starting at sundown, each month being a lunar cycle, and inserting a leap-month every 2-3 years to align the lunar calendar to the solar calendar. So, my jaw dropped when I saw your message at 7:10. We were told in Sunday school that the date starts at sundown, because in Genesis chapter 1 there was evening before there was morning. It never occurred to me that when you use the moon to determine the month/date, that the moon comes out at night, so it just makes sense to count from the nights. Mind blown.

@LShropper 3 ай бұрын

Today is my birthday and I knew the whole Caesar being murdered thing, but never knew what “Ides” of March meant. Thank you for the explanation!

@sydhenderson6753 3 ай бұрын

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!

@R08Tam 3 ай бұрын

You beat me to it

@richdobbs6595 3 ай бұрын

Can we hope that both of our Presidential nominations have a Julius Caesar sort of day? Or will the KZfaq algorithmic censors find that is not copacetic?

@allanrichardson1468 3 ай бұрын

The original deadline for filing US income tax returns was the 15th of March, resulting in much gallows humor about the Ides of March. Later, to accommodate the extra work required of taxpayers (or their accountants) with complex returns, it was moved back to the 15th of April, or the next following regular business day, and that is where it sits today.

@Nik_Stopher 3 ай бұрын

Yaaay, I was born in the ides of March - my birthday is easy to remember

@cockneyse 3 ай бұрын

You know Caesar wasn't an emperor but was instead called a dictator even though they were effectively the same in many ways

@brad6630 3 ай бұрын

Going back to not having a specific month for winter wouldn't work now for a uniform global calendar. The southern hemisphere has summer from December to February.

@highpath4776 3 ай бұрын

2.29 misplaced vowel just looks fab

@triviavesta6899 2 ай бұрын

There was also the Julian calendar, used by the Romans, which is still used by the military today.

@marienkijne 3 ай бұрын

I was wondering where the ksp space music came from until the sun and moon showed up, orbit lines and all

@rubenlarochelle1881 2 ай бұрын

5:01 Kalends, Nones and Ides are actually plural in today's Italian (Calende, None, Idi)

@rateeightx 3 ай бұрын

3:19 We actually still do pretty much the same thing on the Hebrew calendar, Every few years an extra month is added in because otherwise it would drift out of sync, Being several days shorter than the Solar Year. I also once tried to create a similar system for a fictional society I was worldbuilding (Their months were based around 32 days because they just really liked the number 32, Rather than around the phases of the moon), But I could not for the life of me figure out how often to add the extra month for it to work.

@EdKolis 2 ай бұрын

Makes me think they might need a reverse leap year, where days are taken away. Wonder if any societies ever tried that? Or were these aliens on another planet with a different moon or moons or no moon at all (but hopefully not a battle station)?

@jasmijnwellner6226 3 ай бұрын

7:07 The moon does not always come out at night. It comes out at night when it's full moon, but at new moon it comes out during the day. The waxing moon is out in the evening and the waning moon is out in the morning. The phase of the moon is related to the relative position of the moon in relation to the earth and the sun, so if the moon always came out at night, it would always be new moon. It's easy to think the moon only comes out at night, after all during the day the moon is harder to see both because the sky is lit up by the sun, so there is very little contrast, and it'll be around new moon anyway, which means the moon is even harder to see.

@cockneyse 3 ай бұрын

I guess you like February if you think it's "Fab"

@jorgelotr3752 2 ай бұрын

I must say that I'm impressed with the ability of the romans to predict the phases of the Moon, and not in the sense "ancient people were dummies" (they weren't). To name the days in such a way, they had to be very confident that their calculations for when the next phase would show up were flawless, and they switched from a moon-based calendar to a fixed number of days per month at the vey latest in the 1st century BC. The Bible contains a mention from the 1st century AD that shows that the jews still adjusted their calendars manually by checking on the moon (a question about if it was allowed for someone to announce the start of the new month if they saw the new moon during Sabbath), and the japanese adjusted their calendars thrice a month, skipping days wherever needed (which was at least once a month) on the new moon (set 1st day of the month), the full moon (set 15th day of the month) and the day before the new moon (set 30th day of the month; yes, they had faux 30-day months, as well as faux 6-day weeks, which are still used for fortunetelling).

@ajwinberg 3 ай бұрын

I agree that winter sucks. 😅

@DaveSCameron 3 ай бұрын

👍☘️📚

@AttackChefDennis 3 ай бұрын

EXCUSE ME!! But, Winter in South Florida is ehen we dont die outside from heat stroke just getting to our cars. The humidity, you have to cut your way through it.

@eliplayz22 3 ай бұрын

I was just talking about this this morning

@jennifern1453 3 ай бұрын

oh boy! Little Caesars day!

@beargreen1 3 ай бұрын

There are different ways cultures measured time

@r-labs9357 2 ай бұрын

Strange how can easily imagine what dating was like in Roman civilisation

@cennethadameveson3715 3 ай бұрын

Ides "OF" March at 8.52?

@richdobbs6595 3 ай бұрын

Its interesting that you say "throughout human history" then list a bunch facts that are close to be constants over that period of time, that are incorrect over geological times!

@MatthewCaunsfield 3 ай бұрын

On 09:16 was Julius Caesar actually the emperor? I thought he was "only" assigned the role of dictator for life

@EdKolis 2 ай бұрын

Funny how emperor and commander have the same etymological meaning but one outranks the other!

@MarS-267 3 ай бұрын

March 15 in Fairly Oddparents: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bcBmktmf3rnWXWw.htmlfeature=shared

@SuprousOxide 3 ай бұрын

Why no date to mark the 3rd Quarter moon?

@VCOTABFONDD 3 ай бұрын

I’m sad that leedle leedle leedle lee wasn’t one 😂😂

@EdKolis 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if it's really pronounced like that, though. In Latin, wouldn't ides be pronounced EE-dase? And wouldn't kalends be spelled calends since Latin didn't have a letter K?

@proxxyBean 3 ай бұрын

8:54 The Ides -OR- March?

@beargreen1 3 ай бұрын

Maybe we should add Mercedonius back

@rateeightx 3 ай бұрын

0:19 Uh, Weren't Sewers invented by the Indus River Valley civilisation? Pretty sure Roads predate the Romans as well, Although I'm not sure about Concrete.