Category Archives: Calendar History
A Calendar within a Calendar
A 30m high step pyramid dominates this world-renowned site, within a cluster of pyramids and temples, representing an astronomical calendar where the total number of levels, terraces, platforms and stairways add up to 365.
Can you see a calendar in your mind?
Calendar Synaesthetes are a small minority of people who can see the year, months and days quite clearly in their mind. Scanning forwards and backwards through the months, just like an actual calendar, dates are visualised in many ways. Read more about this interesting phenomenon.
Dates and time – from sundials to water clocks
From sundials to water clocks, find out we told the time before the sun was a guide. Water clocks or klepsydras were used as far back as 1500 BC and there are even a few fun examples of water clocks left to discover today………..
Saying Goodbye after 50 years at Rose Calendars
Earlier in June we said farewell to someone who has been with our company for half a century. We bid farewell to our colleague John after 50 years of service with the company.
Dick Rose – Making a Difference
On the anniversary of the death of Dick Rose, we remember a dear friend and colleague and the contribution he made to the business and charities.
Why Is Easter When It Is?
Have you always wondered how it is determined when Easter falls? There can be as much as 4 weeks difference year-on-year. Easter Day this year is on 16 April 2017. Here we learn about why.
