Posted on 01/02/2010 3:56:23 AM PST by rawhide
Identical twin boys in Florida will get to celebrate their birthdays individually after they were born in separate decades.
Margarita Velasco delivered the twins by cesarean section at Tampa General Hospital.
Marcello was delivered just before midnight. His twin, Stephano, was delivered just as the new year began.
Their father Juan says it'll be good for each boy to have his own birthday party.
The twins are in intensive care because they were born about 10 weeks early.
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The first is Marcello, who was delivered at 11:59 p.m. Dec. 31. The second is Stephano, who arrives just after the stroke of midnight. It's Jan. 1, 2010. Marcello is 2 pounds, 4 ounces and 15 1/2 inches long. Stephano is 2 pounds, 4 ounces and 15 inches long.
Neat that they are twins, but this decade will end December 31, 2010. There are ten years in a decade and we just completed the ninth.
Actually that doesn’t work for decades. The 20s were 192X, not 1930. If you were to say this is the 200th decade, you might have a point. But ti doesn’t work like centuries, mainly because we are referring to the date when we say “the sixties” and not “counting” them.
I see your point, but there is many who argue over this point. The neat thing is that they were born in different years.
2000 to 2009 ?
As a certified tax preparer, I no that the family will only be able to claim one of them for the 2009 tax year BUT they will be able to claim the whole dependent tax credit of 750 Gazillion dollars give or take a penny!
...but what do I know. I'm not the Count!
Just curious as to which decade you would assign January 2nd, 2000 to?
Exvept pf cpurse they weren’t since 10 is still part of the decade
The decade will not end until Dec 31st 2010.
You must have 10 years in a decade and there is no year zero. For example, The last year of the 70s was 1980, because we cannot have 197010. Mark Davis got it all wrong.
Just curious as to which decade you would assign January 2nd, 2000 to?
Why can’t Jan 1st, 2000 be the first day of a new decade?
both are anchor babies...Resident zer0 declares them citizens...
because there was no year 0.
Call it what you want, but for the next TEN years, the date will end with 201_, beginning yesterday, and THAT’s a fact.
It’s surprising how many people I have to explain that to.
Wouldn’t Dec 31st, 0000 be considered the last day of the first year?
It would have been if there had been a year 0, but there was no year 0.
So what decade do you put day 12-31-00 into? It has to be considered the last day of the first year of the first decade of the first century. (Do not confuse my argument with the years BC and the years AD). I am making the arguemnt as if the beginning of time began on 1-1-00.
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