• NathA
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    7 hours ago

    Yes. I didn’t realise the English persisted with Julian after 1582, though.
    I just looked it up: England skipped 11 days in September 1752.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s a major plot point in Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. So it stuck in my little pink mind more than might otherwise have done. Stunning book that - self-delusion on steroids.