[OT] 10 missing days (was Re: Is/was 1400 a leap year?)
Karl Ramberg
karl.ramberg at chello.se
Wed May 16 20:04:27 UTC 2001
Ned Konz wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 16 May 2001 09:56, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
> > Ten days
> > following that date were eliminated by the reformation, so the calendar
> > for that month is a bit unusual.
>
> For an interesting description of what really happened during those ten days,
> read Thomas Pynchon's _Mason and Dixon_
>
And the October revolution in Russia was always celebrated in November
because they changed from Georgian to Julian calendar after the revolution.
Karl
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