Have you ever wondered why January 1st is the start of the new year?
In today's episode we cover:
- History of the celebrations of New Year
- When New Year used to be in mid-March
- How the Romans tried to fix the calendar
- The longest year in history
- The Julian calendar (why it worked, and why it didn't)
- The pope who brought things back to January 1st
- New year today
Key vocabulary: Pressing, Conversation starter, Bringing in, Topical, Timely, Observed, Festivity, Falling out of sync, Toasted, Implemented, Leap year, Pagan, Befitting, Abolished, Circumcision, Circumcised, Reticent, Colonies, Millennia, Custom, Neglected, Myriad, Skipping over
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Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/why-is-new-year-new-year
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