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  2. 10,000 Days (Tool album) - Wikipedia

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    10,000 Days is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Tool. The album was released by Tool Dissectional and Volcano Entertainment on April 28, 2006 in parts of Europe, April 29, 2006 in Australia, May 1, 2006 in the United Kingdom, and on May 2, 2006 in North America. It marked the first time since recording 1993's Undertow that the ...

  3. Sahasra purna chandrodayam - Wikipedia

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    This is a Hindu custom in India. The time between similar lunar phases, the synodic month, is on average 29.53 days, and thus 1000 moons equals 29530 days = 80.849 years = approximately 80 years, 10 months on the Western calendar. In practice the celebration traditionally is held 3 full moons before a person's 81st Birthday.

  4. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    30 days (1 month) of Pitris = 30 solar months (2.5 solar years) 12 months (1 year) of Pitris = 30 solar years (1 month of Devas) 100 years (lifespan) of Pitris = 3,000 solar years; Deva. The lifespan of the Devas (gods) lasts for 100 of their years. 24 hours (1 day & night) of Devas = 1 solar year (Sun's two 180-day motions: northern and ...

  5. Clock of the Long Now - Wikipedia

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    Many of the usual units displayed on clocks, such as hours and calendar dates, may have little meaning after 10,000 years. However, every human culture counts days, months (in some form), and years, all of which are based on lunar and solar cycles. There are also longer natural cycles, such as the 25,765-year precession of Earth's axis. On the ...

  6. List of calendars - Wikipedia

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    365-day calendar used for accounting. Unix time, number of seconds elapsed since 1 January 1970, 00:00:00 (UTC). Julian day, number of days elapsed since 1 January 4713 BC, 12:00:00 (UTC). Heliocentric Julian Date, Julian day corrected for differences in the Earth's position with respect to the Sun.

  7. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy, more technically called the curtate expected lifetime and denoted , [a] is the mean of —that is to say, the expected number of whole years of life remaining, assuming survival to age . [152] So, (2) Substituting ( 1) into the sum and simplifying gives the final result [153]

  8. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    In the so-called five-phase calendar, the year consists of 10 months and a transition, each month being 36 days long, and the transitions 5 or 6 days. During the Warring States period (~475–220 BC), the primitive lunisolar calendars were established under the Zhou Dynasty, known as the six ancient calendars ( simplified Chinese : 古六历 ...

  9. How Much Does a $10,000 CD Make in a Year? - AOL

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    At the national average of 1.81%, a one-year CD compounding monthly with a $10,000 opening deposit would be worth $10,182.51 when it matures. A five-year CD with a $10,000 opening deposit, earning ...