Please join us for the first in a year-long series of talks on a wide range of subjects - philosophy, science, art, religion, music, history, travel, sports - almost anything. You will be entertained, informed, and amused.

For January the topic - The Calendar and Time

From the earliest recorded date (4236 B.C.), people have tried to organize their lives according to the movements of the sun, moon and stars--and have, for the most part, consistently gotten it wrong. This presentation takes the listener on an extraordinary journey through man's reckoning of time, ranging from one of the earliest calendars (a series of markings gouged into an eagle bone 13,000 years ago) to the atomic clocks of today.

The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in Washington, the world's official timekeeper since the 1960s. We visit cultures from Vedic India and Cleopatra's Egypt to Byzantium and the Elizabethan court; and meet an impressive cast of historic personages from Julius Caesar to Charlemagne, and giants of science such as Galileo and Copernicus. Its development is one of the great untold stories of science and history.