By Janice Weaver
• Why are american citizens superstitious approximately two-dollar bills?
• Why will we have three hundred and sixty five days in a 12 months rather than ten, or six, or maybe twenty?
• Why can we rejoice foolishness at the first day of April?
• Why is yawning contagious?
• Why is the quantity 13 thought of to be unfortunate in such a lot of diversified cultures?
The A to Z of daily Things tells the magnificent tales in the back of twenty-six possible usual items and actions. From calendars and cash to tulips and sideburns, this booklet makes use of standard goods to discover the wealthy yet usually ignored cultural heritage of our daily lives. in spite of everything, The A to Z of daily Things deals us an image of contemporary existence and the way we came in a humorous, quirky, and hugely readable shape.
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To get things back on track once again, he dropped ten days from October 1582. He then declared that although most years divisible by 4 would be leap years, those marking centuries would not be leap years unless they could be divided by 400. That is why the year 2000 was a leap year, while 1800 and 1900 were not. This prevents those pesky extra days from sneaking in again in the future. Not everyone jumped right on the Gregorian calendar band-wagon, however. There’s always great resistance whenever someone starts messing with time itself — especially when that someone is a religious leader, not a scientist or even an elected official — and many countries that were using the Julian calendar took hundreds of years to accept Pope Gregory’s reforms.
The commonly held belief is that eating with the hands is unsanitary, and therefore that the fork represents a more civilized, refined way to take food. ” And while this was certainly something to consider back when we were all dipping our possibly unwashed hands into communal bowls, is it really an issue today, when we eat from separate plates and no one else (except the cook) comes anywhere near to touching our food? Over the years, people have offered other explanations for the rise of the fork.
You can even immerse yourself in virtual worlds, strapping on a cyberglove and trying your luck against players from around the corner or across the globe. What would those Trojan warriors think? H Holidays In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the lives of people in many parts of the world were turned upside down by the arrival of power-driven machines and large factories, a period of history we call the Industrial Revolution. In Europe and, to a lesser extent, North America, the net of small-scale, rural communities was converted into a society of vast, densely populated cities.