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mommamea13 · 01-10-2010, 07:45 AM

Hey everyone!!! I'm back. It's good to be home. I was on vacation, my first since 1998.

Today's DCT - January. What is there to know about January?

It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere
January is named after Janus (Ianuarius), the god of the doorway; the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin word for door (ianua) - January is the door to the year
Although March was originally the first month in the old Roman Calendar, January became the first month of the calendar year either under Numa or under the Decemvirs about 450 BCE (Roman writers differ).
In Finnish, the month is called tammikuu, meaning month of the oak, but the original meaning was the month of the heart of winter, as tammi has initially meant axis or core
In Czech this month is called leden, meaning ice month In Ukrainian it is січень meaning cutting or slicing perhaps referring to the wind.
January's birthstone is the garnet which represents constancy.
Its birth flower is the Dianthus caryophyllus or Galanthus