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As each month approaches, we begin to think about those things that mark those months, be they holidays, birthdays, special planned events, a planned vacation, the first day of school, the last day of ...

Some think it has links to astronomy with the locations of the constellations Leo (lion) and Aries (ram or lamb). At the start of the month, Leo is on the eastern horizon at sunset and at the end ...