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calendar reminders that time keeps a scoreboard and you keep showing up
means The yearly recurrences of a notable date — weddings, deaths, foundings — marked as the same point on the calendar comes around again.
from Straight from Latin: anniversarius, 'returning yearly,' built from annus 'year' (the root behind 'annual') and versus, the past participle of vertere 'to turn' (a cousin of 'reverse' and 'version'). So an anniversary is literally the year turning back around to the same spot — the calendar making a full circle and finding you still there.
- name origin
- Latin annus plus versus: the year turning back
- paper to diamond
- traditional gifts harden as marriages survive longer
- 60th is diamond
- Queen Victoria's 1897 jubilee cemented the diamond tradition
- reaction effect
- brains anchor memories to dates, triggering grief on cue
- odd custom
- 7th year traditionally gifts wool or copper
apollo 11 moon landing — humans first walked on the moon on july 20, 1969
titanic sinking — rms titanic struck an iceberg and sank on april 15, 1912
pearl harbor attack — japanese forces attacked us naval base on december 7, 1941
fall of berlin wall — wall dividing east and west berlin fell on november 9, 1989