Mexico a la Carta

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Toluca, Estado de México

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Zócalo Ciudad de México

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La inflación vuelve a subir; se acelera a 4.88% al inicio de 2024

Entre los precios que más subieron, la cebolla mostró un aumento del 145.62%, el jitomate del 63.52%, el tomate verde del 51.69%, y el melón del 12.59%

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Cómo saber la ubicación de un familiar en tiempo real por WhatsApp en 2024

Descubre cómo rastrear la ubicación de tus seres queridos en tiempo real utilizando WhatsApp en caso de emergencia.

27/01/2024

Según cálculos del Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO), el Tren Maya habrá consumido más de 516 mil millones de pesos considerando el nivel de precios proyectado, lo que representa 3.3 veces los 156 mil millones de pesos presupuestados originalmente.

25/12/2023

Buenos días Feliz Navidad

02/12/2023

What is December named for?

December has marked the end of the year and the coming of winter since the ancient Romans established their first calendar. As its etymology indicates, December is formed from the Latin root decem- which means “ten” … but December is our twelfth month. The strange numbering discrepancy is also present for the months of September, October, and November, which reference “seven,” “eight,” and “nine,” even though they’re our ninth, tenth, and eleventh months.

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Why? Well, the ancient Roman calendar only had ten months in the year, beginning with the month of March. January and February were eventually added after December to the end of the year. But, by the time the Julian calendar was established in 45 BCE, January and February appeared at the beginning of the year, which bumped all of the original months (and their originally assigned names) back by two.

What are the older names for December?
Before December entered Old English, the names Ǣrra Gēola or Gēolmōnað, meaning “yule month,” were used. The early Germanic people referred to this wintry season as yuletide, a two-month period that spanned December and January. Geōl means “Christmas day” or “Christmastide” (a word for the period from Christmas Eve to related feast days in early January).

Geōl is related to the Old Norse jōl, the name of the Pagan winter feast lasting 12 days. Many of the customs of the feast of yule influenced the ways that Christmas is celebrated, such as the tradition of burning a yule log at Christmastime. Fun fact: the word jolly may have derived from the same Old Norse root that brought us yule.

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