melbaboutown to Melbourne · 1 month agoDaily Discussion Thread: 🌞🍹🪭Thursday, November 21, 2024message-squaremessage-square190fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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minus-squareNathAlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoYes. I didn’t realise the English persisted with Julian after 1582, though. I just looked it up: England skipped 11 days in September 1752.
minus-squareTheWitchofThornburylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt’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.
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.
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.