To: blam
I hate to be pedantic, but there was no 'Year 0', of course.
To: headsonpikes
"I hate to be pedantic, but there was no 'Year 0', of course." To steal a phrase, "I post'em, you decide."
3 posted on
06/22/2003 9:22:48 AM PDT by
blam
To: headsonpikes
To: headsonpikes
"I hate to be pedantic, but there was no 'Year 0', of course."
It's silly, in any case, since the Chinese calendar goes back some 5000+ years. We're so presumptuous to believe that history revolves around Western civilization. Feh!
6 posted on
06/22/2003 9:43:16 AM PDT by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: headsonpikes
Well, what would be the proper way to state it? The year immediatley preceeding the year 1?
11 posted on
06/22/2003 9:54:41 AM PDT by
tjg
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