Calendar (stationery)

A calendar is used to display dates and related information, usually in a

style.

History

Ancient documents and inscriptions, such as those from

Decorative calendars

Alongside their practical use, calendars have developed into a decorative item. Typically, each page will include a new image, which may be related to the season. Common subjects include landscapes, automobiles, wildlife, male or female models and popular culture. Businesses frequently give wall calendars branded with their names and contact information away for free to customers as promotional merchandise.

An especially influential type of calendar is the

calendar - a calendar containing images of either scantily-clad or naked models. Some are essentially pornographic in nature, but a more recent evolution is calendars featuring people in comic situations and published for charity.

A popular subgenre of pin-up calendar is the firefighter calendar.^[5]

Gallery

There are many types of calendar, serving a wide variety of uses.

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  A Soviet day calendar, showing 12 December 1937 and reminding citizens that it is

  Election Day
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  A late 15th century Welsh calendar of saints
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  A Soviet calendar, showing 22 October 1935, with a daily chess problem for entertainment
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  An Ottoman day calendar showing the same day in multiple formats and languages: Rumi, Julian, Gregorian, Islamic and Hebrew
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  An early

  pin-up

  calendar
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  A calendar printed on a dodecahedron
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  A propaganda calendar using pin-up style to urge measures against malaria
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  A prayer calendar from the Book of Common Prayer
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  A nude calendar
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  A firefighter calendar
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  Detail of an Advent calendar with some doors opened
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  A Vietnamese calendar issued for the year Bảo Đại 19 (1944) showing all the national holidays and observations of the Nguyễn dynasty.

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