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McAninch Family History NewsletterVolume XX, Number 4, October , 2012.
A clearing house for McAninch and related surnames [McAninch, McIninch, McNinch (-sh)]. Published Quarterly since 1993. Articles solicited, and Queries accepted.
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Table Of Contents |
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Early McAninch Families in Rhode Island (Oliver, Arthur, and William) |
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John W. McAninch (1841-1930), Putnam County, Indiana; 1930 Obituary |
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Mayan 'Long Count' Continues, Next b’ak’tun Starts in December 2012 |
December 2012 marks the conclusion of another b’ak’tun (almost 400 years) in the Mesoamerican |
Long Count calendar which was used in Central America prior to the arrival of Europeans. Probably |
invented earlier by the Olmec, the Long Count is now associated with the Maya civilization, and it |
is still used in parts of Guatemala and Mexico today [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar]. |
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Mayan numbers were essentially vigesimal (i.e., base-20). The Maya name for a day was k’in. |
Twenty k’ins are known as a winal or uinal. Eighteen winals make one tun. The Maya Haab’ was |
their solar year, with eighteen months of twenty days each, plus five days ("nameless days") at the |
end of the year known as Uayeb. In the Maya Long Count (which is independent of the solar year), |
twenty tuns are known as a k’atun, and twenty k’atuns make a b’ak’tun ([144,000 days, 394.3 years). |
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‘Long Count’ dates record the number of days from the Mayan creation (August 11, 3114 BC in the |
proleptic Gregorian calendar), in a modified base-20 notation. December 21 (or 23), 2012, is the day |
that the Mayan calendar rolls over to the next b'ak'tun, at Long Count 13.0.0.0.0, and it will move on |
to the next piktun (a complete series of 20 b'ak'tuns), at Long Count 1.0.0.0.0.0, on October 13, 4772. |
This McAninch Family History Newsletter is Published by Frank and Jan (Mauk) McAninch |
17531 Montbury Circle, Huntington Beach, California 92649-4823 Telephone: 714-846-5134 |
Email: frank[at]McAninch.net, FrankMcAninch[at]alumni.uci.edu, mcaninch92649[at]verizon.net |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XIX n.4 / October 2012 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2011-39 |
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