There are a few basic facts of life we're all taught at a young age. "Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words may never hurt me." Also, we should always look both ways before crossing the ...

The Gregorian calendar is a relatively recent invention, and it's pretty far removed from how we originally tracked our days and seasons. Up until 1582, most cultures known to us relied on a 13-moon ...

For something that’s meant to lend order to our lives, the modern Western calendar has a messy history. The mess, in part, comes about because of the difficulty of coordinating the orbits of celestial ...

Thanks to the widely adopted Gregorian calendar, most people have marked the new year on Jan. 1 for centuries. But with so ...

MINNEAPOLIS — There are many ways to measure time: the seasons and occasions, but perhaps the most helpful way is a calendar. "If you think about what a calendar is really for, it's to give you the ...

Newsroom discussions about Leap Day 2024 developed into this calendar commentary. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Gregorian calendar, used across most of the world and right here in the USA, was ...

If January felt endless, February may be refreshing since it's only 28 days long. Thank the Romans for that oddity. Before the Gregorian calendar used today, Roman King Numa Pompilius (715-673 BC) set ...

Could you imagine watching the ball in Times Square drop around March? You might have been, had much of the Western world not adopted the modern calendar that begins each year on Jan. 1. The oldest ...

Imagine a country where you could time-travel without a machine. A place where the calendar on your phone doesn't match the one people live by. This isn't a fantasy story; this is real life in ...