The real question, of course, is why does February have 28 days when January and March each have 31? Why didn't they just take one day from January and one day from March, and make them all 30 days? You could end January on the 30th. Oh, I see -- you can't start March on the 2nd.
in the northern hemisphere, february is the time when cardiovascular productivity is at it's nadir. the doc's have labeled it 'heart health month,' and then there's that good heart/bad heart holiday. ya know, you can present for a heart test with exactly the same appearance in feb and august, yet the feb one can display a 70% blockage while the august one can display a 20% blockage.
many don't like february. i sez that it's a reliably good time to hit the slopes. vitamin d ('
d-fense! d-fense! d-fense!') an' all that, i suppose.
'The original Roman calendar only had ten months, because, curiously, the Romans didn’t
demarcate winter.
In the 700s b.c., the second king of Rome,
Numa Pompilius, changed that, adding January and February to the end of the calendar in order to conform to how long it actually takes Earth to go around the sun. The two new months were both originally 28 days long.'
the word
February comes from the Roman festival of purification called
Februa, during which people were ritually washed. hmmm, not named for a god, unlike the others. heck, they even named a god after the holiday, and not the usual reverse for that custom.
february is just different. better living thru clean undershorts, i guess.
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