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.
The Nones fell on day 7, with days 8â14 âbefore the Idesâ and the 15th as the Ides. Afterward the days were counted as âbefore the Kalendsâ of the next month. In shorter months these days were shifted accordingly. You have probably heard of the Ides of March, however, because it is the day Roman statesman Julius Caesar was assassinated. The immortal words âBeware the Ides of Marchâ are uttered in William Shakespeareâs Julius Caesar to the leader by a fortune-teller. Other bad things have happened on March 15, of course, but thereâs probably no reason to beware Marchâs Ides more than the Ides of any other month.