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Why is New Year's Day on January 1? | Learn English phrase 'seek to'

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John Herschel died in 1871, but his dream is not dead. Humanity still has time to correct the mistake in the Gregorian calendar. By the way, we may never get a year to be exactly a year. The speed of the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down.

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