August, Olympics... and MORALES!!

August is the eighth month, meaning sixth, to honor their emperor, Augustus.August is the height of the summer time in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. The longest days of the year is passed, but the hot days remain. The birds are already planning to fly south for the winter. The insects are more noisier and numerous than in any other month. This is perhaps the busiest month for businesses, since most people take their vacations in August.

Not only did the Senate name a month after Augustus, but it decided that since Julius's month, July, had 31 days, Augustus's month should equal it: under the Julian calendar, the months alternated evenly between 30 and 31 days (with the exception of February), which made August 30 days long. So, instead of August having a mere 30 days, it was lengthened to 31, preventing anyone from claiming that Emperor Augustus was saddled with an inferior month.

To accommodate this change two other calendrical adjustments were necessary:

• The extra day needed to inflate the importance of August was taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was now reduced to 28 days (29 in a leap year).
• Since the months evenly alternated between 30 and 31 days, adding the extra day to August meant that July, August, and September would all have 31 days. So to avoid three long months in a row, the lengths of the last four months were switched around, giving us 30 days in September, April, June, and November.

I'm truly enjoying this year's Olympics... Hope you are too!!

      

Wishing you a GOLD MEDAL summer --  “The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... this is a true international emblem.”

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    Diane Morales          630.709.9882

http://www.entourages.com/barbs/august.htm
http://purpleslinky.com/trivia/history/august-history-and-unusual-trivia-facts/
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/history-of-august.html
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_six_colours-including_the_white_background/218792.html