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Title: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Sep 15th, 2004, 8:39pm The years are Gregorian C.E. Here is a partial non-consecutive list: 1617, 1682, 1748, 1780, 1813, 1911, 1943, 1976, 2008 The first year that is special in this way was, if you interpolate the Gregorian calendar back, somewhere in the second half of the first millennium C.E (telling you the century will probably spoil the puzzle - this is a spoiler already). The sequence is not in the online encyclopedia yet, but I've submitted it already - no peeking. |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Sep 20th, 2004, 8:29am A hint: the sequence has something to do with the word "blue": in this case as in "once in a blue year". Knowledge of astronomy is not required. |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by asterix on Sep 20th, 2004, 7:28pm So this would be a spoiler: [hide] the 7th century [/hide] |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Sep 20th, 2004, 7:31pm asterix, you're right, but what's "blue"? Send me a personal message, if you can. |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by asterix on Sep 21st, 2004, 8:59am What does it have to do with blue? Well, in my extensive research I discovered that it was originally bleu. People thought the moon was made of bleu cheese until one day a wise sage said (as he brushed his hair with, oh, never mind), he said, "That's silly. Anyone can see it's Swiss cheese." And so began the holey wars. The French, of course, surrendered immediately. After all, the Swiss army had those little knives. That was the second time the French had surrendered in the same month, which really doesn't happen very often, not more than a couple times a year. Umm, what was the question? [hide]When was the last time New Year's Day and New Year's Eve fell in the same year? [/hide] |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Sep 21st, 2004, 11:22pm What is the event that relates the listed years and the notion of "blue as in blue moon"? |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by John_Gaughan on Sep 22nd, 2004, 6:02am Those years contain a season with four full moons instead of the usual three. edit: More accurately, those years contain a month wherein there is a fourth full moon of a season. |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Sep 22nd, 2004, 7:56am Why would that start in the second half of the first millennium C.E (see my first post)? |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Nigel_Parsons on Sep 25th, 2004, 8:25am The reason the connection starts in the latter half of the first millennium is that the method of reckoning years after the (official) birth year of Christ was not introduced until the 6th century. |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Sep 25th, 2004, 8:51am What connection? |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Nigel_Parsons on Sep 25th, 2004, 9:18am The connection in the date: "The first year that is special in this way was, if you interpolate the Gregorian calendar back, somewhere in the second half of the first millennium C.E (telling you the century will probably spoil the puzzle - this is a spoiler already). " |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Sep 25th, 2004, 11:36am No, this is not the reason, and the first year in the sequence is not in the 6th century. |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by John_Gaughan on Sep 25th, 2004, 7:47pm This is driving me nuts. I am not an expert on calendars, but I cannot figure out what is so special about that time and how it would help define this riddle. Any more clues? |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Sep 26th, 2004, 1:42am The first element is 640. |
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Title: Re: What is so special about those years? Post by Leonid Broukhis on Mar 6th, 2005, 11:21am To provide closure: listed Gregorian years contain two Islamic new year days. |
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