comes from the Latin _tiro_, recruit, hence a novice or beginner.
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> From: Rudolf Hooijenga
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 9:19 AM
> To: Sundial List
> Subject: Tyro?
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> This is one for my private word list:
> what is a "Tyro" ? Of course I understand the
No offence taken.
Another result of the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar is the loss of 10
days. People's birthdays were recomputed, which is why Washington's
Birthday is celebrated on 22 February, despite the fact that he was actually
born on 11 February.
Brad 39N 77W
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At 05:14 PM 11/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>No offence taken.
>
>Another result of the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar is the loss of 10
>days. People's birthdays were recomputed, which is why Washington's
>Birthday is celebrated on 22 February, despite the fact that he was actually
>born on 11 Fe
Andrew,
You are probably correct - the information below is ex Encarta - note the
reference to Napoleon III
Mike
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Chester, UK
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Hans Christian Oersted, a Danish chemist, first isolated aluminium in 1825,
using a chemical process involving potas
Julian calendar; I believe it adds or subtracts one day every 10,000
years, and I don't think 2000 was the first year of use. That law is
thus doubly in abeyance, but would be a sort of candidate.
Bill Thayer
41N53 87W38
col cuore a
42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m
(off topic slightly - Napoleon and Aluminium)
Interesting; I long ago heard the first story, that his second-best dinner
service was gold, and understood that at the time Al was more expensive
weight for weight than gold. So at first I doubted whether it would actually
have been affordable for Fr
"The Shaws" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How times have changed...
> <<...aluminium is cheap...>>
> ..reminds me of the story that Napoleon had an extensive monogramed dinner
> service made from aluminium - just because it was the most expensive metal
> of his day.
I heard the story differently
Jim_Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've thought of another tip for spotting worthless horizontal sundials
> (such as is sold in garden shops, etc)--if the shadow of the gnomon
> crosses the hour lines it's no good. This test requires only
> horizontal positioning, not polar alignment, and a
Greetings fellow dialists and calendrists,
A note about the millennium leap year that I recently came across in the
journal History Today: When the next leap day arrives, on 29 February
2000, it will be, for Britain, the result of the adoption of the
Gregorian calendar in 1752. By then most oth
Art,
You are, of course, correct. And if the FAQ committee prefers to go
with your approach, I have no objection.
The picture I had in mind was slowly turning the dial around to
simulate various hours of the day. Since looking at shadows cast on
the dial by the gnomon is the modus operandi for
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the treatment of 1800 as a
normal year was a result of the Gregorian reform in England and her
colonies, but not the treatment of year 2000 as a leap year? Under
both Julian and Gregorian systems 2000 would be a leap year.
Furthermore, the treatment of 18
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