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The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning

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What are the halcyon days? On what date do the dog days begin? How do Chinese, Muslim, Mesoamerican, Jewish, and Babylonian calendars differ from Christian calendars? The answers to these and hundreds of other intriguing questions about the way humans have marked and measured time over the millennia can be found in "The Oxford Companion to the Year." of illustrations.

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The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780192142313

Hardcover