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Post by Blackbird on Apr 8, 2005 5:39:45 GMT -1
And people seemed to forget that this 11 days was a correction of a gradual drift. Its not as if the calendar had always been 11 days different. In England, the adoption of the new calendar caused riots, with people demanding 'give us back our eleven days!' People thought that the Government had literally stolen those days from their lives. ;D Article on that here: www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2279/is_n149/ai_17782422
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Post by kern on Apr 8, 2005 16:46:06 GMT -1
That Why I will stick to the ancient method of starting months By the New Moon and keeping the Festivals on the Full moons.That reminds me this Year Calan Haf/Beltainne falls on the 24th(Full Moon) according to the ancient non Romanised/Xtian Celtic customs.
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