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To this day, people of Persia and Media use these names of the months — Nisan, Tishri, and the others — as we do. Thus through the names of the months we remember our second redemption even as we had done until then with regard to the first one.
Why Babylonian Names for Jewish Months? By Menachem Posner. In the pre-Babylonian era, we find in the Scriptures only four months on the calendar that are identified by name: The first month (Nissan): Aviv 1. The second month (Iyar): Ziv 2. The seventh month (Tishrei): Eitanim 3. The eighth month (Cheshvan): Bul 4.
18 gru 2019 · Whereas previously the meaning of a ringing bell could vary between cities and needed to be gleaned from context (time of day, anticipated public events, etc.), the new mechanism always struck once for the first hour, twice for the second hour, and so on.
8 wrz 2020 · With the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s, city routes were motorized for the first time, with Jeeps, sit-stand trucks and small vehicles known as “mailsters” among the earliest delivery ...
25 cze 2020 · An ancient Persian institution served as the model and inspiration for the United States Postal Service and other such delivery services.
3 dni temu · This need was met by the cursus publicus, the most highly developed postal system of the ancient world. The relay stages of the cursus publicus, established at convenient intervals along the great roads of the empire, formed an integral part of its complex military and administrative system.
Levi Mandel. From 1753 to 1774, as he oversaw Britain’s colonial mail service, Benjamin Franklin improved a primitive courier system connecting the 13 fragmented colonies into a more efficient...
