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  2. International Fixed Calendar - Wikipedia

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    The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal) [1] was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902. [2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each.

  3. Moses B. Cotsworth - Wikipedia

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    Moses Bruines Cotsworth (3 December 1859, Willitoft, East Yorkshire – 4 June 1943, Vancouver, British Columbia) was a British accountant, statistician, and calendar reformer. After emigrating to Canada he worked for the British Columbia provincial government and chaired the Civil Service Reform committee.

  4. Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar - Wikipedia

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    Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar pre-2016 version with weeks still starting Sunday, but Xtra already at the end of the year. In 2004, Richard Conn Henry, a professor of astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, proposed the adoption of a calendar known as Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time (CCC&T), which he described as a modification to a proposal by Robert McClenon.

  5. Calendar reform - Wikipedia

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    The International Fixed Calendar is a more modern descendant of this calendar: invented by Moses B. Cotsworth and financially backed by George Eastman. [ 8 ] Around 1930, one James Colligan invented the Pax Calendar , which avoids off-calendar days by adding a 7-day leap week to the 364-day common year for 71 out of 400 years.

  6. Cotsworth - Wikipedia

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    Cotsworth L25S, a James Cycle Co. motorcycle manufactured from 1959 to 1962; Moses B. Cotsworth (1859–1943), British accountant, business analyst, and calendar reformer Cotsworth calendar, an International Fixed Calendar model developed by Moses B. Cotsworth; Staats Cotsworth (1908–1979), American old-time radio actor

  7. Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church.Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.

  8. Perennial calendar - Wikipedia

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    The term perennial calendar appeared as early as 1824, in the title of Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster's Perennial calendar and companion to the almanack. [1] In that work he compiled "the events of every day in the year, as connected with history, chronology, botany, natural history, astronomy, popular customs and antiquities, with useful rules of health, observations on the weather ...

  9. Runic calendar - Wikipedia

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    Runic calendar from the Estonian island of Saaremaa with each month on a separate wooden board. A Runic calendar (also Rune staff or Runic almanac) is a perpetual calendar, variants of which were used in Northern Europe until the 19th century. A typical runic calendar consisted of several horizontal lines of symbols, one above the other.