Học tiếng Anh: Lý do tháng 2 có 28 ngày
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…(21)…Confused? You should be. Numa! This system could have worked, every 19 years, lunar and solar calendars tend to line up, so add enough …(22)…leap months to keep the seasons in order and eventually everything will reset itself.
Except, these leap months weren’t always added according to plan. Politicians would ask for leap months to extend their …(23)…terms or “forget” them to get their opponents out of …(24)…office. And if Rome was at war, sometimes the leap month would be forgotten for years, and by the time Julius Caeser came to …(25)…power, things had gotten pretty confusing. Caesar had spent a lot of time in Egypt, where 365-day calendars were all the rage, so in 46BC, he flushed Rome’s lunar calendar down the aqueduct and installed a solar calendar. …(26)…January and February had already been moved to the beginning of the year, and Caesar added 10 days to different months to get a …(27)…total of 365. And since a tropical year is a tad longer than 365 days, Julius added a leap day every four years, …(28)…except they inserted it after February 23, right down in the middle of the month. Apparently, February is the trash heap of the calendar, just do whatever feels good.
For all their work to …(29)…reform the calendar and other stuff they did, the 7th and 8th months of the year were renamed for Julius and his successor Augustus Caesar, despite the …(30)…fact that Pope Gregory would have to adjust it again in 1500 years. But that’s a story for a different day. Or month, I don’t even know anymore.
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