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[–] FederatedSaint 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they're not even correctly numbered! Stupid Julius and Augustus ruined friggin EVERYTHING

Sep - 7 Oct - 8 Nov - 9 Dec - 10

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone else already pointed out: it was January and February that were added later. July and August just replaced the old names.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To add for anyone that's new to this, January and February were originally considered not a real part of the year because everyone was hunkered down for the winter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We should do that again.