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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
- Message-ID: <11661@hogg.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:30:51 GMT
- References: <722101150snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk> <9gTHuB16w165w@mantis.co.uk>
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- In article <9gTHuB16w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
- >The idea of having a calendar was invented by the Mayan civilization;
- >however, they soon gave up the idea because of the difficulty of fixing the
- >correct date for Christmas, Easter and so on.
-
- Oh dear. I always thought that the reason they had managed to come up
- with the most precise calender in the world was that they didn't have
- to think of such events as Christmas or Easter.
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- `Haud yer wheesht! Come oot o the man an gie him peace.' (The Glasgow Gospel)
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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