Twelve Months

This cyclical pattern of month lengths matches the musical keyboard alternation of white and black keys with the note 'F' correlating to the month of January. The ides occur on the thirteenth day in eight of the months, but in March, May, July, and October, they occur on the fifteenth. The nones always occur 8 days one Roman week before the ides, i.

The calends are always the first day of the month, and before Julius Caesar's reform fell sixteen days two Roman weeks after the ides except the ides of February and the intercalary month. The Hebrew calendar has 12 or 13 months. See Islamic calendar for more information on the Islamic calendar. The Hindu calendar has various systems of naming the months. The months in the lunar calendar are:. These are also the names used in the Indian national calendar for the newly redefined months.

Purushottam Maas or Adhik Maas translit. The names in the solar calendar are just the names of the zodiac sign in which the sun travels. It is a solar calendar with regular years of days, and leap years of days. Years are composed of 19 months of 19 days each days , plus an extra period of " Intercalary Days " 4 in regular and 5 in leap years.

Days of the year begin and end at sundown. The Persian names are included in the parentheses. It begins on the northern Spring equinox. The Bangla calendar , used in Bangladesh , follows solar months and it has six seasons.

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The months and seasons in the calendar are:. The months in the Nanakshahi calendar are: Like the Hindu calendar, the Khmer calendar consists of both a lunar calendar and a solar calendar. The Khmer solar calendar is used more commonly than the lunar calendar. There are 12 months and the numbers of days follow the Julian and Gregorian calendar. The Khmer lunar calendar contains 12 months; however, the eighth month is repeated as a "leap-month" every two or three years, making 13 months instead of The Tongan calendar is based on the cycles of the moon around the earth in one year.

Each full moon Poya day marks the start of a Buddhist lunar month.

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The old Icelandic calendar is not in official use anymore, but some Icelandic holidays and annual feasts are still calculated from it. It has 12 months, broken down into two groups of six often termed "winter months" and "summer months". The calendar is peculiar in that the months always start on the same weekday rather than on the same date. February 8 to February New Year in ancient Georgia started from September.

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Like the Old Norse calendar, the Anglo-Saxons had their own calendar before they were Christianized which reflected native traditions and deities. The months were so named after the moon; the new moon marking the end of an old month and start of a new month; the full moon occurring in the middle of the month, after which the month was named. Calendarium Tyrnaviense from Historically Hungary used a month calendar that appears to have been zodiacal in nature [10] but eventually came to correspond to the Gregorian months as shown below: The ancient civil Egyptian calendar had a year that was days long and was divided into 12 months of 30 days each, plus 5 extra days epagomenes at the end of the year.

The months were divided into 3 "weeks" of ten days each. Because the ancient Egyptian year was almost a quarter of a day shorter than the solar year and stellar events "wandered" through the calendar, it is referred to as Annus Vagus or "Wandering Year". The Nisga'a calendar coincides with the Gregorian calendar with each month referring to the type of harvesting that is done during the month.

It was based on the fairy tale of the same name written by Samuil Marshak.

Famous manga artist Osamu Tezuka served as co-producer and character designer on the film. A spoiled, young queen asks for the impossible during a cold winter and requests for a bouquet of Galanthus, a spring wildflower, for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward of gold. One greedy woman desires to collect the bounty and instead of sending her own daughter, readily sends her young stepdaughter, Anja, to look for the white-blossomed flowers in the deep forest during a night snowstorm despite knowing the task will be impossible.

Despite refusing, Anja is cast into the blizzard by her stepmother and in the barren forest, falls unconscious from the freezing cold. Later, she is awoken and is drawn to a light in the distance from a mysterious bonfire, surrounded by spirits whom reveal themselves as the Twelve Months.

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Learning of her task, the twelve spirits take pity on Anja. They use their powers to temporarily bring spring to allow the flowers to grow and be collected but requests no one is to know how and where she obtained the Galanthus. The stepdaughter says the magic words April taught her and runs away.

At once there comes the Spring, and then — Summer. Around the queen it becomes dry and warm. Then there comes Autumn. The queen, having been drenched under the strongest autumn heavy rain, freezes suddenly as Winter arrives. The blizzard carries away all the fur coats which the court had taken off during the brief arrival of Summer. They begin to freeze and, abandoning the queen, the court flees back to the palace.

With her remains only an old soldier and the professor.

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They cannot return home on the sledge as the horses had been taken by the court to return to the palace. An old man in a white fur coat brother month January comes out of the wood and suggests that everyone think of one desire. The queen wishes to return home, the professor — that the seasons return to normal, the soldier — "it is simple to get warm at a fire", and the stepmother and her daughter for fur coats made of dog fur.

January begins with the last request and gives the two fur coats.

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They begin to squabble each other, and transform into dogs. They are harnessed to the sledge, and the queen tries to use them to go back to the palace, but they don't get far. The soldier comes to get warm at the brother months' fire. There he meets the stepdaughter, in all new furs and with a team of beautiful snow-white horses.

The soldier suggests to the queen that they ask to borrow the horses so they may return home to the castle. The queen demands them, and offers the stepdaughter wealth and power in return, but the stepdaughter refuses. The soldier explains to the haughty queen that it is necessary to ask kindly. Once she does, the stepdaughter with pleasure lends them her horses and gives them warm fur coats.