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Why does the number of days in months differ? Detailed answer
Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? Why does the number of days in months differ? The first people who adopted the year as a unit of time and divided it into approximately equal parts were the ancient Egyptians. They created a lunar (monthly) calendar, which was based on the appearance of a new moon every twenty-nine to thirty days. But this calendar was not entirely accurate. The Romans also adopted a lunar calendar, and in order to harmonize it with the solar year, they had to add additional months as needed. In the end, Julius Caesar approved a calendar that takes the longitude of the solar year as 365 days. Some changes have been made to the units into which the year is divided - the months - to make the calendar more accurate. Here are the changes regarding the months made by Caesar and other Roman emperors. January used to be the eleventh month and had twenty-nine days. Caesar made it the first month of the year and increased it to thirty-one days. In his calendar, February had twenty-nine days, and in leap years it had thirty. Emperor Augustus took one day from this month and added it to the month named August in his honor. The number of days in March has always been thirty-one. April as a lunar month had twenty-nine days. Caesar added another day to it and got thirty. May has always had thirty-one days, and that hasn't changed. There were twenty-nine days in June, and Caesar made thirty. The duration of July (this month was named after Julius Caesar) he set thirty-one days. When August was a lunar month, it had twenty-nine days. Caesar increased it to thirty. Emperor Augustus, who named this month after himself, added to it another day, taken from February, to make it equal to July, named after Julius Caesar. There were twenty-nine days in September when it was a month of the lunar year. Caesar increased it to thirty-one, but Augustus reduced it to thirty days. October, which had thirty days in the Julian calendar, was extended by August to thirty-one days. In November, according to the Julian calendar, there were thirty-one days, and Augustus reduced it to thirty. Initially, there were twenty-nine days in December, Caesar made thirty, and then Augustus added another day, bringing the number to thirty-one. For a calendar to be useful, one must start from the premise that the total number of days in a year is three hundred and sixty-five. The number of days in months, as you can see, was arbitrarily set first by Julius Caesar and then by Augustus. We borrowed our calendar from the Romans. Author: Likum A.
Why is the bagpipe pulled? The bagpipe is a musical instrument that is very similar to a bag of straws. This bag, which is called "fur", is an air reservoir, it is made of goatskin or calfskin. Several tubes are inserted into the bag. Through one of them, air is supplied to the bag, and then it inflates like a balloon. The second pipe resembles a flute with holes - it is played by a piper. There are several other tubes that continuously emit bass sounds. The musician can simply hold the instrument under his arm, pressing it with his elbow, and the bagpipe will sound itself. When the bag is compressed, air escapes from it and the tubes begin to play. This lingering and rather nasal sound of the bagpipes is compared by the people with any sluggishness and slowness. Hence the expression familiar to everyone: "pull the bagpipe", "pipe".
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