Đáp án phần 1
Although February 2015 might …(1)…fit perfectly on the page every year it’s the runt of the monthly litter. This deficit of days, this calendar …(2)…craziness, this oddity of the annum, like so much of …(3)…modern culture, is the Romans’ fault. Here’s the crazy story of why February has 28 days… except when it doesn’t.
Romulus, the maybe-mythical, maybe-real …(4)…founder and first king of Rome, had a problem. With an increasing number of festivals, feasts, military ceremonies, and religious celebrations to keep track of, Romans needed a …(5)…calendar to organize all of them. Ancient astronomers already had accurate calculations for the time between two …(6)…solar equinoxes or solstices, but nature had given people a nice, easy pie chart in the sky to track the passage of time, so early Rome, like many other cultures, worked off a …(7)…lunar calendar.
The calendar of the Romulan republic had ten months of either 30 or 31 days, beginning in March and ending in December, and we can still see traces of that calendar today. Problem was, that year was a few days short of four …(8)…seasons. Romans were too busy not dying during winter to count those 61 and a quarter extra days… they’d just start the next year on the new moon before the …(9)…spring equinox. It’s actually not a bad …(10)…system, as long as you don’t have to figure out what day it is between December and March.
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