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To: Old Student

I don't "use" BCE but I read it with the proper reference. The time division is, just coincidentally, related to the birth of Christ. It is a Christian notation, however you want to call it. I shan't change my usage for political correctness. Now if some different time divisìon were to be decreed, say, the Reign of Hammurabi then I should have to read the notation BH as Before Hammurabi.


16 posted on 11/14/2005 4:46:17 AM PST by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: ThanhPhero

As you like it.


18 posted on 11/14/2005 6:15:51 PM PST by Old Student (WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
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