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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dc39f22e-6874-40e8-80b1-c2c809ddf65c/9F0658FD-2715-441D-94CE-45F791FDFD45/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://survive2012.com/index.php/mayan-calendar.html" href="http://survive2012.com/index.php/mayan-calendar.html" style="font-size: 11px;">survive2012.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://survive2012.com/index.php/mayan-calendar.html"><H2>Mayan Calendar<FONT size="-1"> 
</FONT></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://survive2012.com/index.php/mayan-calendar.html"><FONT size="-1">The life of the Maya revolved around the concept 
of time. Priests were consulted on civil, agricultural and religious matters, 
and their advice would be derived from readings of the sacred calendars. Time 
was of such importance that children were even named after the date on which they 
were born.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://survive2012.com/index.php/mayan-calendar.html"><P><FONT size="-1">Maya math uses only three symbols - a 
shell-shaped glyph for zero, a dot for one and a bar for five to represent units 
from zero to 19. For instance, the number 13 was represented as three dots and 
two bars.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://survive2012.com/index.php/mayan-calendar.html"><P><IMG height="210" width="189" mce_src="http://www.survive2012.com/imagesb/glyph.jpg" src="http://www.survive2012.com/imagesb/glyph.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://survive2012.com/index.php/mayan-calendar.html"><FONT size="-1">Zero was 
an advanced concept in those days, something that the Romans were not aware of. 
Yet the Maya were comfortable enough with it to use a shell as its symbol, a tangible 
object representing an abstract concept. The Maya also used metrical calculation 
and place numeration, which were very clever for a culture that didn't use the 
wheel!</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://survive2012.com/index.php/mayan-calendar.html"><P><FONT size="-1">Although they had many calendars, they marked 
the passage of time with three cycles that ran in parallel. </FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9F0658FD-2715-441D-94CE-45F791FDFD45/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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