Until recently, Qadhafi was the only ruler known to be fond of changing the familiar names from time to time to changing the calendar itself. He imposed a change in the names of the months, replacing January with, for example, any fire (or where the fire) and February with light, May with water, June with plowing, and so on.
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Until recently, Qadhafi was the only ruler known to be fond of changing the familiar names from time to time to changing the calendar itself. He imposed a change in the names of the months, replacing January with, for example, any fire (or where the fire) and February with light, May with water, June with plowing, and so on.