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Saturnalia was a small, bipedal animal that probably reached a length of 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) [7] and weighed between 4 and 11 kilograms (8.8 and 24.3 lb). [a] The skull of Saturnalia was only about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long, giving it a proportionally small head as in other sauropodomorphs. [5]
The first book is devoted to an inquiry as to the origin of the Saturnalia and the festivals of Janus, which leads to a history and discussion of the Roman calendar, and to an attempt to derive all forms of worship from that of the Sun. [6] The second book begins with a collection of bons mots, to which all present make their contributions ...
Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through 19 December. By the 1st century B.C., the celebration had been extended through 23 December, for a total of seven days of festivities. [ 1 ]
In ancient Roman culture, sigillaria were pottery or wax figurines given as traditional gifts during the Saturnalia. Sigillaria as a proper noun was also the name for the last day of the Saturnalia, December 23, [ 1 ] and for a place where sigillaria were sold. [ 2 ] A sigillarius was a person who made and sold sigillaria, perhaps as an ...
Praetextatus' birthday is unknown, but the sources show he was born before Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and Virius Nicomachus Flavianus.They also state that in 384, the year of his death, Praetextatus had been married to his wife Aconia Fabia Paulina for forty years; [3] if Paulina was his first wife and if they married when he was twenty/twenty-five years old, as was customary among the ...
Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. [ 1 ] In the fulfillment of that mission—the ninth in NASA's Discovery Program — Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 16, 2011, and completed a 14-month survey ...
John Clarence Karcher (April 15, 1894 – July 13, 1978) was an American geophysicist and businessman. He invented and eventually commercialized the reflection seismograph, applying for patents in 1919. By the patenting, and development of reflection seismography, he created the means by which most of the world's oil reserves have been discovered.
The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (December 21, December 22, or December 23) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (June 20, June 21, or June 22). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term also refers to the day on ...