It all started in Italy,
What is AD ?
Common Era; Christians use AD for Anno Domini, "year of our Lord"
BC - Before Christ
AD is not After Christ.. and there is lot of confusion in terms of dates as to when Jesus was born
“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:10–11
Birth,Death and resurrection are major events which made us get to this notation of everything before Christ in terms of human civilization and everything after.
While Jesus was born in Nazareth and Major events of his life including resurrection happened in Asia .. Italy took the lead in establishing Vatican city as a major christian center.
Isn't that interesting?
Think about it..
Christianity , Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,Jainism which covers 90% of our 7 billion popoulation (if you do the math you should get....try it..)
While Jesus was born in Nazareth and Major events of his life including resurrection happened in Asia .. Italy took the lead in establishing Vatican city as a major christian center.
Isn't that interesting?
Every major religion on earth today is from Asia
Think about it..
Christianity , Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,Jainism which covers 90% of our 7 billion popoulation (if you do the math you should get....try it..)
When you read a line such as
"Poompuhar - It served as a great port before 2 B.C. Ships from Tamralipati (West Bengal), Palur (Orissa ) used to visit Kaveripoompattinam before they set sail to South Asian Countries, Arabia and Rome"
in Quora.com (thanks to my Nephew I am a great fan of Quora) we understand humans - Homo sapiens have existed for 200,000 years and lots of stuff has been happening before Jesus of Nazareth came along.
So even though it feels like 2017 it is 202,017 .. (That is a lot of zeros!)
Last week when I was in Gym (come on.. this year this was the first time I went to Gym in last 2 months and yes it is a new year and new year resolution et all) I saw a guy walk up to weighing machine after 30min - 1 hour of exercise to find out how much weight he lost.
This is the part I love about Gym
While we all work actively to 'put on' some weight .. losing it is not as simple as losing money while shopping in a mall.. It takes a 'looooooooong time' but guess what we all love to see 'Instant Karma' in action.
Run/walk 30min check if you lost 2 pounds...eat 2 chips bags and check again...
We are very simple minded Home Sapiens
It is always nice to see this phenomenon in action which you would miss if you run outside .
So lesson for everyone go to Gym and make fun of other guys who want to lose weight soon and don't worry about making fun of you (some else will be doing it for me.. i double checked the weight I lost after 30 min )
Now who is pope Gregory XIII (notice roman numbers..)
XIII -= ? 13
Rome is in Italy .
Vatican City is inside Rome.
Naples gave us Pizza(yay!!)
Rome gets to give us Numbers.
Vatican gave us Calendar.. What?? Really?
Let's do a fun math exercise
This shortcut I write works for 2017 and not anything else
Jan -0
Feb - 3
Mar- 3
Apr- 6
May-1
June -4
July- 6
Aug-2
Sep-5
Oct- 0
Nov-3
Dec-5
Let's find what day is Feb 5 2017 - Superbowl LI (=51 ) day
Feb code(from above) =3
Day = 5
Ignore year
3+5=8
Divide by 7 = 8/7 Remainder =1
1 - Sunday
2-Monday
3- Tuesday
4- Wednesday
5- Thursday
6- Friday
0 or 7 - Saturday
Try Finding what day of week is May 22 (my birthday)
Why is Pope Gregory important?
Pope Gregory wanted all Christians to celebrate Easter on the same day
Why Easter and not Christmas?
Easter is the major catholic holiday which celebrates resurrection of Jesus . Every human is born and dies. No human resurrects from death.
Calendar reform commission in 157 decided to use Aloysius Lilius's proposal.
So if you are wondering who created or who is the first author of the new calendar/Gregorian calendar it is Aloysius Lilius
We use Hindu Arab numerals today with 0 used as a placement value(Whatever that means)
In the meantime let's learn super bowl numbers (and old fashioned analog clock numbers) also called Roman numbers
| I | Denotes 1, II -2 , III - 3 and so on |
| V | 5. IV is 4 and not IIII 9 is .. wait for it.. |
| X | X means 10. 9 is IX |
| L | 50 . XL - 40 LX - 60 .. you got it Buddy!! |
| C | C stands for centum, we used it today as Century for 100 . CCCLXIX is 369. |
| D | D stands for 500. As you can probably guess by this time, CD means 400. So CDXLVIII is 448. (See why we switched systems?) |
| M | M is 1,000. MMDCCLI. |
Good.. Now tell me what is LI
Yes 51.. You got it...Go Cowboys!!!
Try these for home learning/home work
Happy new year
Keep Learning
Siva
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