At birth, your newborn babyâs umbilical cord is clamped and cut. The clamp will be removed within 24 to 48 hours. The stump of the umbilical cord on your babyâs navel will look bluish-white and moist at first. However, the umbilical cord stump will quickly lose water and become black and dry.
Tuesday. The simple answer is that it was on a Tuesday that Julius Caesar (forever may his name be given honor) was horrifically killed by the conspiracy of Brutus and Cassius. The longer answer would be that there were technically no days of the week so it took much research on the Julian and Gregorian calendars to calculate that the day of the week that he actually was killed.
Months in the ancient Roman calendar include: 1  Mercedonius - an occasional month after February that would be used to realign the Roman calendar. 2  Quintilis - renamed July in honor of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. 3  Sextilis - renamed August in honor of Roman Emperor Augustus in 8 BCE.