Happy New Year
Posted by: Barbara Bibel
As the year comes to an end and we get ready to disgard our 2009 calendars, it is interesting to look at the calendar and its history. There are approximately forty different calendars in use throughout the world today. The Gregorian calendar is the international standard for civil use, but the Hebrew, Muslim, Chinese, and Indian calendars are the basis of many cultural and religious traditions. The Mayan and Aztec calendars are complex and the source of misguided comments about the world ending in 2012. http://charon.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html has excellent information about the history of the world’s major calendars. http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/calendar.html is a site about Aztec culture which includes an explanation of the calendar.
Don’t forget to recycle your old calendars.
Happy new year!
