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Podcast: English Learning for Curious Minds
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#13: Why is New Year, New Year?
Category: Education
Duration: 00:09:37
Publish Date: 2019-12-31 00:10:00
Description:

Have you ever wondered why January 1st is the start of the new year?

In today's episode we cover:

  • History of the celebrations of New Year
  • When New Year used to be in mid-March
  • How the Romans tried to fix the calendar
  • The longest year in history
  • The Julian calendar (why it worked, and why it didn't)
  • The pope who brought things back to January 1st
  • New year today


Key vocabulary: Pressing, Conversation starter, Bringing in, Topical, Timely, Observed, Festivity, Falling out of sync, Toasted, Implemented, Leap year, Pagan, Befitting, Abolished, Circumcision, Circumcised, Reticent, Colonies, Millennia, Custom, Neglected, Myriad, Skipping over

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