GEN:Beware the Ides of March! Roman calendars.

[Sybil Finemel <sfinemel@COMCAST.NET>]

From Weekly Reader Teacher Companion:







March 15 (Monday)
"Beware the Ides of March! Roman calendars divided the days in every month
into three parts: kalends (starting the 1st ), nones (beginning the 5th or
the 7th), and ides (usually starting the 15th). Ask students to determine
their birth dates according to Roman calendars."



Here is a useful site from LII.ORG:



 <http://lii.org/search?goto=020792> The Ides of March: Just One of a Dozen
Ides

"The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, 'Beware the Ides of March,' has
forever imbued [March 15] with a sense of foreboding." This site from
Infoplease.com explains the meaning behind the expression "Ides of March"
and the system of Kalends, Nones, and Ides used in the Roman calendar. Also
includes links to related calendar information.

 <http://lii.org/search?goto=020792>
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/ides1.html









Some Trivia!



"March 19
On this date in 1994, the largest omelet in the world was made in Yokohama,
Japan-using 160,000 eggs! Have kids figure out about how many one-dozen egg
cartons would be needed to cook up this record breaker? [Answer: 13,334
cartons holds 160,008 eggs.]"



Sybil Finemel
Library Director MLIS.CIO.
Los Angeles CA
Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet
 http://lii.org/
Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
24/7 Reference Librarian.
sfinemel@comcast.net





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corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant,
steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

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