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Arkadium was named one of 14 New York Tech Companies to watch in 2016 by Forbes, [15] and 'Best Workplace' by Inc. Magazine in its 2016 [16] and 2017 issues. [17] The company was named by Digiday as Employer of the Year, Tech platform category, in 2017, [18] Crain's 100 Best Places to Work in New York City in 2017, [19] and number 27 in AdAge's Best Places to Work in 2017. [20]
The history of calendars covers practices with ancient roots as people created and used various methods to keep track of days and larger divisions of time. Calendars commonly serve both cultural and practical purposes and are often connected to astronomy and agriculture . Archeologists have reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to ...
Origin: = 17th-century England. Descended from: Irish. Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia.
This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...
Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. [ 1][ a] It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas issued by Pope Gregory XIII, which introduced it as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years ...
Calendar. A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system.
A lunisolar calendar was found at Warren Field in Scotland and has been dated to c. 8000 BC, during the Mesolithic period. [2] [3] Some scholars argue for lunar calendars still earlier—Rappenglück in the marks on a c. 17,000 year-old cave painting at Lascaux and Marshack in the marks on a c. 27,000 year-old bone baton—but their findings remain controversial.
The Attic calendar was an exclusively local phenomenon, used to regulate the internal affairs of the Athenians, with little relevance to the outside world. For example, just across the border in Boeotia, the months had different names, and the year even began in midwinter. In Athens, the year began six months later, just after midsummer.