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Grimbal
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Anniversary
« on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:12am » |
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What happened on March 14, 1592 at 6:53 ?
Try to find it without google.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #1 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:35am » |
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Without G-G-G-Google? I can't eat my breakfast without Googling it first... 
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #2 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:36am » |
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6:53 Greewhich time or another local time? (actually I don't think time zones existed back then)
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #3 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:39am » |
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To be timed to the minute like that it would have been something notable (not to mention to be able to remember without google).
Was it birth or death of a famous person?
Was it volcanic eruption or earthquake?
Was it a celestial event (e.g. a total solar eclipse)?
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #4 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:41am » |
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Which time zone? Er... tricky question. As a matter of fact, it doesn't really matter. But I think GMT would be appropriate. Local time would be better. Any local time. 
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #5 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:44am » |
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on Mar 14th, 2007, 6:39am, denis wrote:Was it birth or death of a famous person?
Was it volcanic eruption or earthquake?
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No, no and no.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #6 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:47am » |
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From memory, I recall they changed calendars about that time period from Julian to Gregorian. But I don't think it was exactly in 1592. btw they lost about two weeks in the month of the switchover. The regular folks still had to pay a full months rent but only received two weeks wages.
Caused lots of rioting and other wonderfull moments.
[edit] actually happened in 1752 so I was wayyyy off]
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #7 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:49am » |
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It was not the gregorian calendar.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #8 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:51am » |
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Julius Ceasar was murdered on the ides of March (March 14) but at least 1500 years off. And maybe even the wrong calendar at that.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #9 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 6:52am » |
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It would have been the death of a famous person anyway.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #10 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 7:07am » |
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on Mar 14th, 2007, 6:12am, Grimbal wrote:| Try to find it without google. |
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Can I use wikipedia?
Sounds about 100 years after columbus; could also be the anniversary of the reconquista (or however it's spelled)
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #11 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 7:07am » |
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Don't forget to mention the 58 seconds and some thousands ...
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #12 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 7:11am » |
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Good thing google isn't the only search engine 
Also, some people format their dates differently!!
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #13 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 7:42am » |
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Yes, there are different date formats but for some reason I felt like the British/US date format would be good to use today.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #14 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 7:45am » |
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Did it happen on what was to be known later on as Amercian soil?
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #15 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 7:52am » |
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Hm... it is not something that happened physically. It is something that makes that particular date and time special.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #16 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 8:00am » |
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OK I got it.... I was going in circles until I finally found it... Did not use any search engine but Tower's hint was pretty good. Funny thing is I read about it in the papers two days ago and it didn't click till now.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #17 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 8:53am » |
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Heads will roll...
Yeah, I was trying to figure out when the official introduction of the guillotine was (Scottish Maiden ~1564)...when I realized that there is finally evidence to the early claims of Frederick Tiedmann stating that brain size is directly related to intelligence. Thus putting the pieces together...in the future there will be a savage law to eliminate dumb people from our planet--if the circumference of your skull fits through the hole--lop it off!
brain size cite site
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #18 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 9:29am » |
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on Mar 14th, 2007, 6:12am, Grimbal wrote:| What happened on March 14, 1592 at 6:53 ? |
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March. 
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #19 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 9:40am » |
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I was thinking about this today. Funny that someone posted it here. Mathematicians will have the party of the century in 2015 with just five digits. Imagine what it would be like back then.
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #20 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 11:50am » |
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i got it!
[/hide] pi day 3/14/1592/6:53 [hide]
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #21 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 1:45pm » |
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Google was callin me ... 
and Hi everyone, i had been reading riddles like crazy here for like the last 6 months and registered just 2 days ago 
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #22 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 2:48pm » |
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Welcome, ATR...your icon is a little large, even on my high speed it took a while to load, but now it's cached, so...Welcome!
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #23 on: Mar 14th, 2007, 2:59pm » |
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Yeah, 1.2 MB for a picture shown at 65x65 resolution is a bit much.. 
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Re: Anniversary
« Reply #24 on: Mar 19th, 2007, 1:10am » |
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My birthday is on "pi day" and since I discovered that fact I've been wondering about the accuracy of the digits of pi that we've all been using. I'm thinking now that the ratio of circumference to diameter is more like 3.1419 rather than 31.1415. Has anyone else noticed any anomalies in their calculations?
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