Fresno Pacific University History Program

Happy August 11 (5138?)! Glad for my student, now colleague, Alfredo Ramirez -- because of him, I have thought about the long-count calendar: Wikipedia, "The Long Count calendar identifies a date by counting the number of days from a starting date that is generally calculated to be August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or September 6 in the Julian calendar (or −3113 in astronomical year numbering). There has been much debate over the precise correlation between the Western calendars and the Long Count calendars. The August 11 date is based on the GMT correlation."

TLDR: Did the world start on August 11?

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - Wikipedia The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the Maya Long Count calendar. Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a....

FPU Student Colleagues: please be sure to apply for Private Donor Scholarships! We don't want you to miss them because of their mid-summer release!
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The annual plaques are inscribed for another year and displayed in the Honors Hall: congratulations to Jan, Jasmine, Joseph, and Bre!