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Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Changing the Year
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[ Notate bene : this post is based on one that originally appeared on 30 June 2012. ] Pope Paul III, as played by Peter O'Toole in ...
Friday, August 3, 2012
How far are the stars?
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Rabbi Levi ben Gerson, also known as Gersonides, lived from 1288-c.1344. He was from a family of scholars: his father, Gerson ben Solomon of...
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Changing Time
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Since today will have one extra second added to it, I thought it would be a good time to talk about calendar corrections in history. We'...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Nicholas of Cusa
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American History has a charming anecdote that the head of the US Patent Office once declared there was nothing left to invent. The backgroun...
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