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    The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably...
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    this Calendar Round sequence was of ritual significance to a number of Mesoamerican cultures. A third major calendar form known as the Long Count is found...
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    date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and festivities took place on 21 December 2012 to...
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  • accurately. To specify dates over periods longer than 52 years, Mesoamericans used the Long Count calendar. The Maya name for a day was kʼin. Twenty of...
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    Olmecs (category Mesoamerican cultures)
    "Mesoamerican Long Count calendar & invention of the zero concept" section cited to Diehl, p. 186. Haughton, p. 153. The earliest recovered Long Count...
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    possibly as soon as 2012, corresponding to the end of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Sitchin's writings have been universally rejected by mainstream...
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    Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican calendars...
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  • International Fixed Calendar (also known as the IFC, Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar and the Eastman plan) is a proposed calendar reform designed by...
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  • A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual...
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  • Indian state of Assam. The New Year in the Assamese calendar is known as Bohag Bihu. The calendar is counted from the date of the ascension of Kumar Bhashkar...
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  • (2050 in the first edition, currently 2086). The end of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar ushered in the "Sixth World", with once-mythological beings...
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    In Thailand, two main calendar systems are used alongside each other: the Thai solar calendar, based on the Gregorian calendar and used for official and...
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  • the French term for local currency Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, the Mayan or Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    solar year over the long term. The term calendar is taken from kalendae, the term for the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, related to the verb...
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    edu/ Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine). The oldest Mesoamerican Long Count calendar date yet discovered, December 36 BCE, was found on Stela 2...
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  • Georgian calendar (Georgian: ქართული კალენდარი) is the ancient or modern calendar of Georgia. Though Georgia now uses the modern Gregorian calendar, the old...
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    The Punjabi calendar (Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਜੰਤਰੀ, پنجابی جنتری) is a luni-solar calendar used by the Punjabi people in Punjab and around the world, but varies...
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  • The Zulu calendar is the traditional lunar calendar used by the Zulu people of South Africa. Its new year begins at the new moon of uMandulo(September)...
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  • Various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between autumn and winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in summer....
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  • subcontinent), Chinese calendars and Mesoamerican calendars. These are not specific calendars but series of historical calendars undergoing reforms or...
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    of the former. New Year, the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count is incremented, originally coincided with the date...
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    Gregorian calendar, is "Juche 1" in the Juche calendar. The calendar was adopted in 1997, three years after the death of Kim Il Sung. The calendar borrows...
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  • Mesoamerican calendar used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.[citation needed] The tzolkʼin, the basic cycle of the Maya calendar...
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    A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, incorporating lunar calendars and solar calendars. The date of lunisolar calendars therefore indicates...
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  • The Ethiopian calendar (Amharic: ዓውደ ወር; Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ; Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ), or Ge'ez calendar (Ge'ez: ዓዉደ ወርሕ; Tigrinya: ዓዉደ ኣዋርሕ; Amharic: የኢትዮጲያ ዘመን...
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    La Mojarra Stela 1 (category Mesoamerican inscriptions)
    the stone, matched by eight longer columns to the figure's right. Among these glyphs are two Mesoamerican Long Count calendar dates which correspond to...
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  • Igbo calendar (Igbo: Ògụ́àfọ̀ Ị̀gbò[citation needed]) is the traditional calendar system of the Igbo people from present-day Nigeria. The calendar has...
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    The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring...
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  • Saturday - uMgqibelo Xhosa language Xhosa people Xhosa clan names Zulu calendar Kirsch et al., Clicking with Xhosa, David Phillip Publishers, Cape Town...
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  • the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years differently so as to make the average calendar year 365.2425 days long, more closely...
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