DID YOU KNOW:
1. The name for the month of March does not come from the homonym, which means to walk deliberately. Instead, the name of the month dates back the Roman calendar. March was named for Mars, the Roman god of war.
2. March was the first month of the year until the Gregorian calendar began to be used in 1752.
3. March was called Hlyda or Lide in Old English, which is a reference to the loud winds.
4. An old proverb says, "March comes in a like a lion, and goes out like a lamb," which is reference to winter ending and spring beginning.
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