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11 Frankenstein's Birthday!
I was not aware hir/hes birthday was known Terri!
Wonder if its wa one of those Ides(sp?) of March thingees?

What is that anyway? Bad Weather? Winds?
A place?

I was struck Frankenstonian silly in July of 83.
Sort of glad to know it was not a birthday event for ole' Frank!
I do believe twinny and I were born in March.
She was for sure

I wanted a snail smiley for obvious reasons<winekeye<
Although the idea of a smiley is grand I think it looks like a snail going high speed to the right/a side view

Hmmm, it does look like a snail if you look at it that way.

Ides - in the Roman calendar, the Calends were the first day of the month, the Nones the 5th/7th and the Ides the 13th/15th. They were originally associated with lunar phases, only things got complicated with feast days and the like. Julius Caesar was assassinated on 15th March - as prophesised by a seer.

Thanks Ed - Can you say any more about the Nones?
Anymore about the reasons or superstitions behind the numbers?

I do not recall reading about this part
I love new (to me) stuff!

As I say...the Calends etc were originaly associated with the lunar phases. The nones would have been the half moon. But...the romans standardised on a year of ten monthes (hence OCTOber NOVEmber DECEmber), with some in-betweenie festival periods.

'fraid that's all I remember from my O-Level Latin (I speak Latin like a native ). For more...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar

I don't think. there was any 'significance' - it's just what they did, and it worked for them. There's a tendency to think of the ancients as being more in tune with nature yadda-yadda-yadda. In reality, they were just like you or me. The ones who set the calendar would have been city dwellers so things like full moons weren't particularly interesting to them. On the other hand, they did regulate what day was market day, what day legal procedings could be held on, etc.


In the Netherlands, Christmas Day is traditionally always on a Sunday. If it inconventiantly falls on a Wednesday instead, then the week goes Monday Tuesday Sunday Thing Poets Doobry...