[SunkenCiv]

Wow, I'd forgotten about this one:

• Astronomers Revise Date of Ancient Greek-Persian Battle [7/22/2004]

  Analysis of lunar records show the 490 B.C. battle occurred not on the long accepted date of September 12, but a full month earlier, researchers said... Having the run occur in August "makes it a little more plausible that he keeled over and died," said physics lecturer Russell Doescher, who worked on the study with team leader Donald Olson and colleague Marilynn Olson at Texas State University at San Marcos.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I missed the 2,500 year anniversary party. You'd think someone would have had a Marathon in his honor on August 12. BTW, the story is almost certainly apocryphal.

I have Babylon, April 15, 136 BC saved as .snf (Starry Night file) on my laptop. (It was a Monday, - Patriot's Day, so people in Massachusetts had an extra day to file their 1040s.) I think it's awsome that the coders of Starry Night had the eclipse fall in Babylon and not Mallorca.