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The six-hour clock is a traditional timekeeping system used in the Thai and formerly the Lao language and the Khmer language, alongside the official 24-hour clock.Like other common systems, it counts twenty-four hours in a day, but it divides the day into four quarters, counting six hours in each.
Thai birth certificates record the date, month and time of birth, followed by the day of the week, lunar date, and the applicable zodiac animal name. Thai traditionally reckon age by the 12-year animal-cycle names, with the twelfth and sixtieth anniversaries being of special significance; but the official calendar determines age at law.
To keep the years in sync with the seasons, Thai lunar years may add a day to the 7th month or repeat the 8th month. Therefore, years may have one of three lengths – 354, 355 or 384 days – yet retain a nominal length of twelve months.
A panel from a typical calendar, showing the month of August 2004 (B.E. 2547). Lunar dates are also provided. The Thai solar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินสุริยคติไทย, RTGS: patithin suriyakhati thai, "solar calendar") was adopted by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1888 CE as the Siamese version of the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Thai lunar calendar as the legal ...
Swan Lake is the second largest lake in Waldo County, Maine. Originally known as Goose Pond, during the 19th century it came increasingly to be referred to as Swan Lake, after the town of Swanville, Maine , which before incorporation had been known as the Plantation of Swan.
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The Swan River is a 17.3-mile-long (27.8 km) [2] river in Presque Isle County, Michigan. It originates in a swamp south of Belknap and east of Hawks . It flows generally northeast, between the Trout River and Little Trout River watersheds.
Swan Lake is a lake in geographic Lee Township [3] and geographic Maisonville Township [4] in the Unorganized West Part of Timiskaming District, in northeastern Ontario, Canada. [2] The lake is in the James Bay drainage basin and the nearest community is Sesekinika , 4.9 kilometres (3.0 mi) to the northeast.