May
May is the fifth month of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. May have been named for the
Roman goddess[?] Maia or more likely the Roman
goddess of fertility
Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May.
In Japan, there is the so-called May sick[?], a kind of sick where new students or workers start to be tired of their new schoolwork or jobs. It is due to a Japanese custom that every schoolyears[?] and fiscal years start on April 1st.
Events in May:
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
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was in
bed soon after dark. On the day that he went
shooting, Martin
any difficulties or
independent proposals, but to show him two pieces of
quantity of it. "Why did the
man not get it all from him?" says greedy
should do any trading," says
Martin Alonso, and conceives himself to have
of the Pinta, adds
Martin Alonso, has found whole trees of it. "The
was omnipotent; if he had said that it was
manna they would have had to
his
word for it, as
Martin Alonso certainly had to do; so that it was the
spices, showed some
cinnamon and
pepper to the natives; and the obliging
south-east."
Columbus then showed
them some
gold and pearls; and
amount of gold; the
people wore it in their ears and on their
arms and
the south-east. Finding this
information, which was probably entirely
received, the natives added that "a long
distance from there, there were
when they caught a
man they beheaded him and drank his blood" . . .
Journal, solemnly entering all these facts in it. It is the most
have been! To
live thus smelling the most
heavenly perfumes, breathing
upon the
track of
gold and pearls and
spices and
wealth and dog-nosed,
.
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