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Re: Welcome to the Ohs
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 1 Jan 2000 22:51:07 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote in message ...
> Well, if we were to stick to convention, does anyone have any solid
> historical evidence of whether people living around the end of the first
> millennium considered 1000 or 1001 to be the first year in the new
> millennium? How about 1800/1801 1900/1901 for centuries?
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> Frank
My grandmother born in 1899 probably would have the answer re 1900/01,
but she just passed away this past year. The oldest living person
(according to the Guinness Book) born in 1880 would know it, too, but she
died 2 days ago. I'm sick of people dying.
--
Have fun!
John
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| Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) stick (...) Well, if we were to stick to convention, does anyone have any solid historical evidence of whether people living around the end of the first millennium considered 1000 or 1001 to be the first (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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