Post #116,451
9/3/03 9:44:29 AM
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[mike@halfadozen Board]$ cal 9 1752\n September 1752\nSu Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa\n 1 2 14 15 16\n17 18 19 20 21 22 23\n24 25 26 27 28 29 30 -YendorMike
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Post #116,452
9/3/03 9:48:59 AM
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well done
Now, what exactly happened?
-drl
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Post #116,455
9/3/03 10:16:42 AM
9/3/03 10:17:49 AM
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They were talking about this on the radio...
This morning....
Apparently, sometime in 1752, the authorities realized that there was some diversion between the calendar and the planetary alignments.
So, they decided to fix it. Today, we would probably try to move the celestial bodies around, but back then they just changed the calendar. I remember them saying something on the radio about 11 or 12 days, but then a child interrupted me, so I didn't get the rest of the story (as Paul Harvey used to say).
Glen Austin
Edited by gdaustin
Sept. 3, 2003, 10:17:49 AM EDT
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Post #116,457
9/3/03 10:24:18 AM
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Re: They were talking about this on the radio...
The Brits did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752. The motivation for this stubbornness was probably a matter of faith:
[link|http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-British.html|http://webexhibits.o...text-British.html]
[link|http://www.uwe.ac.uk/fas/wavelength/wave12/johnson.html|http://www.uwe.ac.uk...ve12/johnson.html]
-drl
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Post #116,503
9/3/03 7:40:33 PM
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Trivia: most recent adoption of Gregorian calendar?
Please state year and country. \r\n\r\n Bonus points if you can name all the countries which didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until the 20th century. --\r\n
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Post #116,511
9/3/03 8:40:03 PM
9/3/03 8:41:56 PM
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I know Russia adopted it after 1917
which is why The Great October Socialist Revolution was celebrated November 7th
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Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them.
--Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Edited by Arkadiy
Sept. 3, 2003, 08:41:56 PM EDT
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Post #116,517
9/3/03 10:24:51 PM
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Wasn't the last
Not even the most recent decade. --\r\n
Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n
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Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
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Post #116,525
9/4/03 1:54:15 AM
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California?
Peter
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Post #116,531
9/4/03 4:31:00 AM
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No, but...
That does raise the interesting question of when the reformation was adopted by different regions within the USA. And why. \r\n\r\n Hint: a western state was the last to adopt the Gregorian calendar. Which one? Why? --\r\n
Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n
[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n
[link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n
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Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
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Post #116,535
9/4/03 5:05:59 AM
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WAG -
Utah.. it just sounds so Mormonish.
(some things don't even need to be verified ;-)
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Post #116,543
9/4/03 8:32:14 AM
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Alaska.
Because it used to be a part of the Russian Empire.
-YendorMike
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Post #116,591
9/4/03 2:00:47 PM
9/4/03 2:28:38 PM
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Bingo ;-)
The other regions include the original 13 states and westward expansion thereof, which converted in 1752 with England. Louisiana Territory states converted with France (a Catholic country), in 1582. \r\n\r\n The difference is religion: the Gregorian calendar is named after Pope Gregory, and its adoption was hindered on account of objection to the Church, despite the technical improvement of the Gregorian calendar over the Julian, neatly pressaging DeSitter's objections to Debian on similar illogical religious grounds, despite technical advantages.... --\r\n
Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n
[link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n
[link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n
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Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Edited by kmself
Sept. 4, 2003, 02:28:38 PM EDT
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Post #116,640
9/4/03 6:00:43 PM
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Feel a doggerel wolfin on..
Gaudeamus Debian
Juvenes dum sumus
Then ol Karsten has the yen
Twits poor Ross for bein wuss
Post icundum
iuventutem
Those with SuSE
Tend to loose-y
Post molestam
senectutem
Red Hat fecund
Comes in second
Nos habebit humus.
Not to break that humerus.
:-\ufffd
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Post #116,594
9/4/03 2:05:44 PM
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Since Alaska became US territory in 1867
and yes there was a lot of russian orthodox (still is) but from a governmental unit of time we have been trucking along with the rest of the gomers. Since the original purchase.
thank you,
Bill
America, Love it or give it back
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Post #116,528
9/4/03 3:06:39 AM
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Didn't someone hold out until 1952?
It was a country over near the Black Sea, IIRC.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #116,456
9/3/03 10:24:02 AM
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...[2]
[link|http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/3358.asp|Your answer].
-YendorMike
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