monochrome scarab lineart

2025-10-09,
of eights and nines

Buckwheat, Thursday, 9 October 12025
Sarrasin, Octidi, 18 Vendémiaire CCXXXIV

lavender-colored puffball flower, Baan Pha Sert Nai, Thailand

2016-08-23 – Nikon D3300
lavender-colored puffball flower, Baan Pha Sert Nai, Thailand

M&H Band – Popcorn ↗

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in addition to the western seven-day week and the French Republican ten-day décade, the ancient Romans had the nundinae – an eight-day week named after the “ninth-day fair” – the Romans used inclusive counting for days, you included both the day you were counting from and the day you were counting to making each fair nine days after the previous fair

Nundinae ↗

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the day after
the day before
the month before
the season before
the year before

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