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How did JANUARY & FEBRUARY get their names?
SOLUTION ON PAGE 15
Would you believe JANUARY was not always the first month of the year? The ancient
Romans used a different calendar system, and their year began in March and ended in February! Even though our modern system may be quite different from the ancient Romans’, they gave us something very important: the months’ names. Around 690 B.C., Numa Pompillius (legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus) turned a period of celebration at the end of the year into a month of its own, named after the festival FEBRUARY. FEBRUARY IS NATIONAL DENTAL MONTH.
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