But beyond this surface and calendric artificiality, there was something more fundamentally false about the Millennium as a historical event. |
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Caesar called the best of mathematicians and philosophers, including the Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes to discuss the calendric reforms. |
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The correct answer, I noted to her, to the calendric question, What is today? |
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This is due to a calendric technicality whereby Rosh Hashana, the first day of Tishrei, never occurs on a Wednesday. |
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The New Yorker, April 22, 1974P. 109 REPORTER AT LARGE about Alexander Marshack's innovative calendric interpretation of prehistoric cave art. |
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The temple architecture reflects calendric and cosmological time cycles. |
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Anyone attempting to draw up a calendric schedule for the central events of Martin Chuzzlewit will run into some perplexing and thought-provoking anomalies. |
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When the issue is the efficiency, competence and foresight of U.S. intelligence agencies, one hopes the passage of 365 days is more than a calendric event. |
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For instance, as is now commonplace, Intia has inserted clock times and calendric dates into her narrative. |
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Both of these practices, however, are embedded in one way or another in virtually all other Buddhist rituals, including calendric rituals, pilgrimage rituals, rites of passage, and protective rites. |
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Of course, we have to be very careful to include calendric or 'leap' days when they occur. |
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It makes no effort to keep calendric and seasonal years together. |
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Maya performance contexts include shamanic rituals for curing, house blessing, and protection of crops and livestock, as well as calendric observances honouring ancestral deities. |
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