In honor of Leap Day, this read is for the history nerds. Ever wonder how America caught our calendar up with the rest of the world? In September 1752, we skipped 11 days. According to NASA, the Earth ...

(WHTM) — In 45 B.C.E. Rome adopted a new calendar proposed by Julius Caesar which, not surprisingly, became known as the Julian Calendar. (Credit where credit is due: a Greek astronomer and ...

This morning we all faced resetting our clocks unless you did it before going to bed last night. We have returned to Standard Time in which ideally the clock is aligned with the sun. Stated simply, ...

It was not a time machine, nor a TARDIS that caused 11 days to go missing from the calendar in 1752. It was a calendar change, a long overdue one in fact. For centuries, much of the world had existed ...

Did you happen to check the date this morning? It's Feb. 22, and according to the calendar, George Washington's birthday. Yes. Then again, no. Our nation's first president was actually born on Feb. 11 ...

In the SR’s “Looking Ahead” of Wednesday, 27 May, (“June is just around the corner”), the anonymous writer claims that it is “the Julian calendar that we use to this day.” This is just — by 432 years ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Gregory XIII, the 16th century pontiff responsible for the Gregorian calendar, now has another celestial claim to fame. ROME (AP) — Pope Gregory XIII, the 16th century pontiff ...

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