
Did you hear about the people who stole a calendar?
They each got six months!
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Did You Know?
"Six months" refers to both prison time and calendar pages! The modern calendar system we use, the Gregorian calendar, was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. Before printed calendars became common in the 1800s, people used various methods to track time including sundials and lunar cycles. The word "calendar" comes from Latin "calendae," the first day of the Roman month when debts were due!




