29 junho 2015

Everyone’s favorite time for ice cream and big-budget action movies: summer! Here’s a...

Everyone’s favorite time for ice cream and big-budget action movies: summer! Here’s a few facts about this particular season:

  • “Summer” is from the Proto-Indo-European root *sam-, meaning summer. The root *sam is a variant from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-, which means “together/one.”
  • The “dog days of summer” refer to the weeks between July 3 and August 11 and are named after the Dog Star (Sirius) in the Canis Major constellation
  • In southern England, over 37,000 people gather at Stonehenge to see the summer solstice.
  • The month of June was named after either Juniores, the lower branch of the Roman Senate, or Juno, the wife of Jupiter
  • Historically, epidemics tended to be in the summer. Even today infectious diseases are more readily caught in the heat, including the Bubonic Plague and leprosy

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