Do you ever wonder?

Ares or Mars?

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MARCH....

http://www.timekeepers.org/calendar.htm#TWO

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mars.html

Named for the Roman God Mars, who was the god of war and guardian of the state. Mars was the father of

Romulus and Remus. http://www.pantheon.org/articles/r/romulus.html

In the Middle Ages most European countries used the Julian calendar and observed New Year's Day on March 25.

March has 31 days.

Here is a cute project by first graders.

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/month/

and another history of the months of the year

http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/months.html

Additional Links for the click happy!

If you want more exploration of this topic from other cultures try:

The Gregorian Calendar from Rice University http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/gregorian_calendar.html

The Jewish Calendar

http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm

The Japanese Calendar

http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/history/02_index1.html

The Islamic Calendar

http://islam.about.com/library/weekly/aa032801b.htm

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Citations: We have generally just included the links for our sources for your viewing. Where applicable we found a citation section and include that here for one of the reference articles:

"Romulus." Encyclopedia Mythica.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/r/romulus.html

[Accessed March 01st, 2003.]