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Wow, 1,000 pages and coming up on 20,000 posts.

 

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[Elixir]

 

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[Angry Floof]

From the OB/GYN's office...

 

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[SLD]

A few days late, but a good one!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Born about 11 months earlier on January 4, 1643. I think it should be a third class felony to falsely attribute a celebrity / scientist to a meme. Almost as bad as a meme laughing at itself.

 

[SLD]

Born about 11 months earlier on January 4, 1643. I think it should be a third class felony to falsely attribute a celebrity / scientist to a meme. Almost as bad as a meme laughing at itself.

???

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I presumed it was misinformation. Looked it up, saw the January date and went witth that. Appears to be an issue of calendar standards.

Isaac Newton was born Jan. 4, 1643. It used to be that we celebrated Newton’s birthday on Dec. 25, for his own birth records attest that he came into the world on Christmas Day, 1642. But the Julian calendar in use in England at the time of Newton’s birth was 10 days behind the Gregorian calendar that had been adopted by most of the Continent, so if you had asked Christiaan Huygens or Pierre Fermat for Newton’s birthday, they would have said Jan. 4, 1643. The generally accepted practice among historians today is to convert all Julian dates between 1582 (when the Gregorian calendar was first implemented) and 1752 (when England finally adopted the “new style” calendar) to Gregorian dates, and we have done so here.

 

[SLD]

I presumed it was misinformation. Looked it up, saw the January date and went witth that. Appears to be an issue of calendar standards.

Isaac Newton was born Jan. 4, 1643. It used to be that we celebrated Newton’s birthday on Dec. 25, for his own birth records attest that he came into the world on Christmas Day, 1642. But the Julian calendar in use in England at the time of Newton’s birth was 10 days behind the Gregorian calendar that had been adopted by most of the Continent, so if you had asked Christiaan Huygens or Pierre Fermat for Newton’s birthday, they would have said Jan. 4, 1643. The generally accepted practice among historians today is to convert all Julian dates between 1582 (when the Gregorian calendar was first implemented) and 1752 (when England finally adopted the “new style” calendar) to Gregorian dates, and we have done so here.

Funny. Wikipedia has his birthday as December 25, 1642.

 

[Elixir]

Funny. Wikipedia has his birthday as December 25, 1642.

That’s what they reported at the time.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Jebus... okay, I think I got it. Newton was born on December 25th (Julian Calendar) in 1642.

In 1752 England switched to the Gregorian Calendar by skipping ahead 11 days. December 25th (Julian) -> January 4th (Gregorian) the following year. So he was born on what was Xmas day, and what some still celebrate as Xmas Day. But on our calendar, it is January 4th.

More interestingly, there are 12 days between through the two... the 12 Days of Christmas? The song dates back to the 18th century if I'm not mistaken.

prepares for bilby fact check

 

[Elixir]

I’m not making any decisions until I get Donald Trump’s expert opinion!