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January is named after the old Roman god Janus. It was said that he was a two-faced god. One of his faces looked toward the past while the other face looked toward the future. January's flower is the snowdrop.
The birthstone for January is a Garnet. The Zodiac signs are the Capricorn through January 19 and Aquarius for the remainder of the month.
January has 31 days. It is easy to remember the days each
month has if you memorize the little poem below.
30 days hath September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have 31, except February.
Many famous people were born during the month of January, perhaps you might choose one to study this month. It is fun to study the names you do not recognize? Some are: Paul Revere, Betsy Ross,
Pope Gregory XIII, J. R.R. Tolkien, Jacob Grimm. Saint Joan of Arc, Carl Sandburg, Millard Fillmore,
Richard M. Nixon, Alexander Hamilton, Sir John Macdonald, William James, Benedict Arnold, Albert Schweotzer, Moliere, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Martin Luther King,Jt., Benjamin Franklin, Anne Bronte, Anton Chekov, Daniel Webster, A.A. Milne, James Watt, Robert E. Lee, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Henry Bessemer, Paul Cezanne, John Charles Fremont, Stonewall Jackson, Francis Bacon, Lord George Gordon Byron, John Hancock, Edouard Manet, Frederick the Great, Edith Wharton, Robert Boyle, Robert Burns,
Douglas MacArthur, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Gompers, Auguste Piccard, Jackson Pollock, Thomas Paine, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Schubert, Irving Langmuir,
Jackie Robinson and of course, my mom :)
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