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I have no comment on New Testament apocrypha, but the Book of Enoch is omitted from the Jewish canon for two basic reasons:It is silly and embarrassing. The first half of the Book of Enoch is largely concerned with the bad results to be expected when humans have sex with angels.It doesn’t conform with the Hebrew calendar. The second half of the Book of Enoch is basically an astronomy text and promulgates a solar calendar. Since the Jewish calendar is based on the phases of the moon, inclusion of the Book of Enoch would be confusing at best.The Book of Enoch is superfluous to the ethical scope of the Tanakh. Other texts have been omitted from the canon, notably the Books of the Maccabees and the Book of Jasher. Why should Enoch be any different?

I'd have to say Spa Francorchamps, Belgium.Constructed in 1920, it was originally a 20 km behemoth of a track. Now, it's 'only' a paltry 7 km long stretch of asphalt nirvana. This is probably one of the most iconic of all the Formula 1 tracks and not without reason.The original Spa was so fearsome that a few drivers actually lost their lives here. Many drivers including world champions Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark actually protested against the inclusion of the track in the F1 calendar.After many revisions, the modern track, at 7 km is still an amazing circuit and in my mind, the most picturesque of them all. Just look at it.Set in the hills, with long, twisting turns and frequent changes in elevation, it truly must be a magical experience to drive through there at speeds touching nearly 200 mph.Besides, it has what is in my opinion, the best corner in the whole F1 calendar. The stunning Eau Rouge.While I've never had the good fortune to look at this track in reality, I have raced on it in a video game. I have to say, I was simply astounded, both by the breathtaking beauty of its scenery and the design of the circuit. Other circuits just don't seem to hold a candle to this masterpiece.Having said so, I can only feel envious of racers who get to experience this for real.

Great question! A calendar describes a solar year, the time it takes for a full revolution of the Earth. How then did people before Copernicus, who propounded the near-heretic heliocentric theory, come up with it if they believed the Earth was the center of the universe?To understand this, we need to look at the purpose of the calendar. Why did people need calendars? Keeping astronomy aside, what would they have used one for? For seasons and festivals; but primarily for seasons. Historic calendars were devised to keep track of when the first snow came, when the Nile flooded, when the rains started, and when it got too hot to plant certain kinds of crops.Later, when religion came into picture, people needed a certain day to celebrate a certain occasion. This was especially true for Christians, whose "year" was calculated forwards and backwards from Easter.To make such a proto calendar, there needed to be a frame of reference; something that had constant, visible cycles. And everyone's eyes went to our companion, the Moon. The Moon completed one full cycle every 29.5 days, and seasons repeated themselves after approximately 12 lunar cycles. So the first calendars (that each evolved independently) were all lunar calendars with either 29 or 30 days each month (348 days and 360 days a year respectively). In fact, even today, most religious calendars are lunar calendars that have been passed down through centuries.Today's calendar, called the Gregorian Calendar, owes its origin to two important calendars of yore -- the Greek and the Egyptian. The Hellenic (Greek) calendar had a year of 354 days, with alternating months of 29 and 30 days. The Egyptian calendar had months of 30 days each, with 360 days in a year. However, seasons would frequently become out of sync in Greece, and the Nile flooded later and later every year. So the Greeks added an extra "month" (called intercalary) of 10 days and Egyptians added five extra days of holiday to their calendars, bringing both calendars to a total of 364 and 365 days respectively. In fact, the Egyptians didn't care much about the seasons. They simply accepted that the seasons get shifted by a few days every year. Their five days were added to the calendar to keep it in sync with the rising and setting of their favorite star, Sirius.Astronomers by this time had figured out that the position of the Sun changed with respect to seasons and decided to incorporate the Sun as a frame of reference in their calendar. These calendars came to be known as the Lunisolar calendars. Most reforms to existing calendars were the inclusion of a few days to keep it in sync with the Sun, and then dividing the number of days by 12 to give the length of a month.The Romans, by this point, through Romulus, had adapted the Greek calendar for their own use. Then Julius Caesar came along, and in 46 BC, reformed the Roman Calendar to keep it in sync with the movements of the Sun. Since the addition of intercalaries in Rome was up to religious priests who presumably did so at their whim, the year 46 BC needed to be amended. So, Julius Caesar added 3 intercalary months, and from 355 days, made the calendar 365 days to keep it in sync with the solar year. This was our first Solar calendar.But upon conversing with Egyptian astronomers, Julius Caesar found out that the Egyptian calendar fell out of whack every 40 years. He worked out that a solar year should be 365.25 days. He introduced the concept of a leap year, and gave the months we have today their number of days. It is important to know that at this point that the Greeks had known the length of a solar year almost a century before Julius Caesar came along, but chose to keep with the lunar calendar.Now comes the interesting part. By Julius Caesar's calendar, each year was 365.25 days. That's 365 days and 6 hours. However, the actual length of a solar year is 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes 12 seconds. That's hardly ten minutes a year, but those ten minutes added up and in 128 years, there was one full day's difference in the year. This was of particular concern to the Church in the early 16th Century. The Church realized Easter was moving back in the calendar because date of Easter was determined by Spring Equinox. The Julian Calendar had to be reformed.Talks of reformation went on for almost a century. Incidentally or coincidentally, Nicolaus Copernicus, who had been studying the movements of Mars and Saturn, was approached and then submitted his proposal for the calendar reform. This was between 1512 and 1516. It was also around the same time that he secretly revealed his work on heliocentricism.It wasn't until 1582 that an 80 year old pope, Gregory XIII, reformed the calendar to what we have today -- the Gregorian Calendar. It's still not perfect, though. Our calendar is 26.8 seconds longer than a solar year. It would need to be reformed again in 49th century.So really, it was all religion. Heliocentricism had nothing to do with our calendar at all.Sources:A Brief History of the CalendarHistory of the Egyptian CalendarThe History of the Western CalendarCopernicus and his Heliocentric System of the UniverseThe Fall of the Geocentric Theory