Did you know ... When the Julian calendar bumped October (from the Latin octo, for eight) from eighth to tenth in the month order, numerous attempts were made to rename the month after various Romans? But “October” stuck. Maybe it seemed like bad luck to fiddle with the name of such a beautiful time of year. “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” Keats called it—a luminous month of fall foliage, bright orange pumpkins, and a bittersweet sense of change!
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:23:32 +0000
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