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I guess it's safe to assume that, if
you are reading this, you have survived the turning of the
year, and the monster Y2K bug has not eaten everything in
sight. Given the obsession with calendars and time at the
beginning of the year in general, and this year in particular,
I thought I'd search the Net for interesting calendar sites.You
just never know when you'll need this kind of useless trivia
for a book, now do you?
To start back a ways, how about the
Aztec Calendar? This site lets you input a "Christian"
date and it displays the Aztec date. http://www.azteccalendar.com/calendar.html
Okay, not far enough back? How about
making your own astronomical calendar? Let's see, the Druid
priest is planning Stonehenge ... http://www.efn.org/~jack_v/AstronomicalCalendar.html
Oh, you want to look forward? What's
going on in Space this year? Maybe you've got an astronaut
caught in a meteor shower on Mars (hey, futuristics still
exist, despite all rumors to the contrary!). http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/#0001
Setting your book somewhere outside
the U.S.? Do you need a calendar of elections? Check this
one out: http://www.agora.stm.it/elections/election/calendar.htm#2000
(An interesting note: according to this site, the U.S. is
electing a president and a parliament this year. The
things you miss when you don't read the papers!)
Okay, now for a really useful site.
This one has the calendar for a whole year with phases of
the moon and U.S. holidays (though decidedly only government
and Christian). You can also create a customized calendar
-- great when trying to keep track of time in your story or
your time spent on a project. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
There are a ton of other calendar related
sites. Go to Yahoo.com and search on "calendar",
but be careful. You could get so lost in time you forget to
get those pages written! Happy New Year, everyone!
Laurin's web address is: http://www.wittig.com/laurin.
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