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	THE NAMES OF THINGS While the written histories included on the atlas were products of my own imagination, the information regarding The Names of Things is simply regurgitation of facts to clarify the nomenclature– some background on holidays, astrological tidbits, and other arcana with which the reader may not be familiar. All of the information in these pages was found with the tireless and unflappable assistance of Google™ and Wikipedia™, though it has been edited for brevity. Use the menu above to navigate AMIDST the sovereignties. ON NAMING A WORLD I arrived at Calendria in a small eureka moment of stumbling into the obvious (after much dithering along more oblique paths). Thereafter came some poking and research for curiosity's sake, and having some acquaintance with the Roman root. (I briefly considered Calendaria, but preferred the shorter incarnation, research be damned– it's an imaginary world, after all.) What I found, in brief: The Calends, CALENDARIA (Latin Kalendae "the called", gen. plural -arum), correspond to the first days of each month of the Roman calendar. The Romans assigned these calends to the first day of the month, signifying the start of the new moon cycle[citation needed]. On that day, the pontiffs would announce at the Curia Calabra the rest days for the upcoming month, and the debtors had to pay off their debts that were inscribed in the Calendaria, a sort of accounts book. The date (in this calendar system) was measured relative to days such as the Calends, Nones or Ides, for example, in modern terms, three days past Calends would be the 4th of the month. This sort of system would be used to date documents, diary entries, etc. CALENDRIA A calandria is the reactor core of the CANDU reactor. The calandria contains heavy water, a moderator used to moderate neutrons to achieve nuclear fission. A calandria is also a shell-and-tube unit used as a thermosiphon reboiler for distillation or evaporation.

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