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That page was very interesting. It says the Winter Solstice is Dec. 25th in
the Julian calendar, which is obviously different than the Gregorian
calendar that we use today.
I find it also interesting to note that there was no year 0 when the dude
created the calendar because the concept hadn't been invented yet..
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Bryan Rabeler
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord
Acton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linus Akesson" <lairfight@softhome.net>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: A83: (no subject)
>
> In accordance with the prophecy, Bryan Rabeler uttered:
>
>
> > Well the Winter Soliace (sp?) is exactly on December 23rd and Christmas
is
> > exactly on December 25th. Not the same day. :)
>
> (sigh - I actually joined in on this thread)...
>
> It's called Winter Solstice, and it is a term used even today, to refer to
> the longest night of the year. After the winter solstice, the days start
> getting longer again.
>
> In Sweden, we don't call it Christmas, we call it "Jul", which is of
course
> related to the English word Yule. Yule was celebrated long before
> Christianity entered the scene, simply because 1. You want to have a feast
to
> cheer yourself up in the middle of the winter, when it's cold and dark and
2.
> You won't have enough food to be able to feed all your cattle during the
> winter, so you have to slaughter some animals and eat them, the outcome of
> which is a very big meat eating party.
>
> As for y2k being the next milenium or not, I don't want to join the
> discussion. However, (not necessarily saying that I agree with it) here is
an
> interesting text:
>
> http://www.georgian.net/rally/madness.html
>
> Linus
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