Duplicate "Home" calendars on iCloud, Mac, and iOS

I have 18 (and counting) "Home" calendars showing up in Calendar on my Macs (OS X 10.9.2), iOS (iOS 7.2), and on the iCloud.com site.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3999 says
If your calendars are duplicated on iCloud.com, contact iCloud Support.
which I haven't done except to look in these discussions.
Here is what I see in Calendar on the Mac and aslo on iCloud. (iOS is similar, but I think you all get the point from these two screenshots).
It seems that the list of Home calendars is growing over time, but I haven't carefully verifying that.
So how do I effienctly check which ones I can delete, and how do I prevent this from re-occurring.

There is no feature that would cause this to happen. Either the iCloud account itself has something wrong with it, or one of your Apple devices/computer connected to it has something wrong with it.
If you really want to try to fix this yourself, I would recommend disconnecting all of your devices form iCloud, like 100% sign out of icloud completely on your Macs and Delete Account on your iOS devices. Then use icloud.com to compare the calendars and delete the duplications.
If you have the ability to go without your calendar for a few days, I would keep all the devices off of it and see if it duplicates. If all seems clear, log back into your Macs and devices one per day checking to see if it runs wild again that way you can identify which device if causing the issue.
If not, logging out/delete account cleaning it up then logging back in may fix the issues.
I would certainly recommend creating a backup of your calendars before you start and when you do log out of icloud and delete it off you devices, tell it to delete calendars that way only the copy you clean up on iCloud.com is left and hopefully bug free.
I hope this helps.

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i need one universal shared calendar to use between 2 macs and 2 iphones.
i'll explain what i need to do, since i am so confused.
we operate our company using 2 computers, an iMac & a macbook. we also have 2 iphones.
i want to be able to edit/add/delete events and to-do's in 1 shared calendar between all of them.
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i need one universal shared calendar to use between 2 macs and 2 iphones.
i'll explain what i need to do, since i am so confused.
we operate our company using 2 computers, an iMac & a macbook. we also have 2 iphones.
i want to be able to edit/add/delete events and to-do's in 1 shared calendar between all of them.
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we have a mobileme account as well.
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