Pretty sure it's the fact that dollars are American currency, but "queue" isn't commonly used in American English. We don't believe in putting that many silent letters in a word.

Not quite accurate. However, I will say that the story behind the Julian Calendar is hilarious. Before Julius Caesar, the Roman calendar was approved each year by the Roman Senate. Eventually Senators figured out that they could add a few days here to make their own term in office longer, or take a few away there to shorten their rival's term. They kept doing this, and pretty soon the calendar was so fucked up that it was snowing in June. So, Julius Caesar finally came along, told them to knock it off, made an extra long year to get everything back on track, developed a nice 365 day calendar, named a month after himself (July), and invented leap years.

Then his nephew Augustus came along and decided he wanted a month named after himself, too, and changed Sextilius to August, thereby robbing us of a month with the abbreviation "Sex."

Nope, that joke is supposed to be about capitalizing letters.

Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse.

Helping your uncle jack off a horse.

No need for a comma in either sentence.

And, as the shortest day/longest night of the year, it's commonly associated with death and resurrection/rebirth, so the themes fit nicely with Jesus.

It's also the Birthday of Mithras, an Indo-Iranian god who had become popular with Roman soldiers, and just 2 days before the Birthday of the Egyptian god Osiris. Notably, both of these deities have myths involving their death and resurrection. It's also close enough to the Winter Solstice that Christians were able to syncretize the celebration of Yule/Jule as Christianity moved into Northern Europe. This celebration was often connected with Odin/Woden, who has a myth wherein he sacrificed himself to himself on the World Tree.

We can, in fact, determine the coloration of dinosaurs , given well-preserved specimens. Most of these have been pigmentation of feathers. Microraptor had iridescent black feathers like modern crows, Anchiornis had black, white and grey feathers all over its body and a crest of dark red or ochre feathers on its head, and Sinosauropteryx had rusty orange feathers over its body and white rings on its tail. However, we have been able to discern the pigmentation of a couple of non-feathered dinosaurs. Psittacosaurus was counter-shaded (dark back, pale belly) and had stripes and spots resembling camouflage patterns seen in some modern animals such as certain deer. Borealopelta was also counter-shaded in shades of brown.