insightful responses I received to my
off-topic question.
It looks like the easiest 'fix' is to replace 'to' with 'like to' or 'which
compares to'. That the one is to be taken positive, the other negative, is
implied: with heaven and hell, few would find that u
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die
eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang.
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Steve, Peter, Jack,
Thanks so much for your replies.
esses that “to” means “like.”
Jack Aubert
From: sundial On Behalf Of Peter Mayer
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2023 4:19 AM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de; R. Hooijenga
Subject: Re: Off topic: English text explanation please
Dear Rudolf,
I share your interest in 17th century madrigals. (Although
Dear Rudolf,
I share your interest in 17th century madrigals. (Although I'm a firm
non-smoker, one of my favourites has the line "tobacco is like
love..."). My interpretation is that this is a compressed form of
poetical expression. Decompressed, I think, it would be: […] thus did
they sing:
off topic question. My colleagues from the UK could
not help me with the details; but they are aerospace boffins - not
historians, librarians, or English language experts. Then it occurred to me
that those qualities are all to be found on this very list.
If you think this is inappropriate, please
Good evening,
As part of my research I have been looking for patents of wire strainers
used in fences. One GB patent has eluded me, and given the extraordinary
range of knowledge and skills of list members, I am wondering if any one can
help me.
The patent is probably by Edward Allen Ironsid
If anyone may be still interested in the loss of a ship through the
slaking of its quicklime cargo an example may be found at:
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/
and search for "The Late Gale", sloop "Mary", 14 September 1833 on page 9.
Water soaked her cargo, she took fire, and the lime swelled an
Greetings fellow dialists,
Watching the conservation of an eighteenth century stone dial on a local
church (report pending in Bul. BSS) I became interested in the lime
mortar being used by the stonemason. He cut out a great deal of Portland
cement around the dial to replace it with this kinder
: Off topic but well worth sharing
Thank you, Tony.
An encouraging and even touching video, in these times of European tensions.
A side note: the recording was made before the building of a Spanish bank!
Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
Visit my website about the
Thanks, Tony. You bring the best to the list. The 9th always seems like the
most un-Beethoven of Beethoven's symphonies, doesn't it? Nevertheless, good
stuff and fun to sing.
John Bercovitz
From: Tony Moss
Sent: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 12:26 am
Hi all,
The List has been quiet of lat
Bravo from America...thank you Tony!
Best,
Jim Tallman
www.spectrasundial.com
www.artisanindustrials.com
jtall...@artisanindustrials.com
Tony Moss wrote:
>Hi all,
> The List has been quiet of late so I hope you won't mind me sharing
> something which just 'blows me away.'
>
>Sound on
Thank you, Tony.
An encouraging and even touching video, in these times of European tensions.
A side note: the recording was made before the building of a Spanish bank!
Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) with
a
thank you Tony, my day started in the best way.
Fabio
Fabio Savian
fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it
Paderno Dugnano, Milano, Italy
45° 34' 10'' N, 9° 10' 9'' E, GMT+1 (DST +2)
From: Tony Moss
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 9:26 AM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: Off to
A clarification
Using the correct value (Google Earth) of the Latitude of the Kaaba in
Mecca(and
not an old value, slightly inaccurate) the day when the Sun will be almost
at the Zenith of Mecca will be May 27 , at Mecca noon, with a zenith
distance of only 1 '57 ".
On day 28, the distance will be
Hi all,
Wikipedia and Google can offer nothing useful and I know no
greater collection of contactable intellect than the SML.
A phrase in Shakepeare has intrigued me since 'A' Level Eng. Lit'. and
I think I have a feasible interpretation of it. Off list to discuss if
you are intere
Hello Brent and all,
Wave height and strength depends on the strength and duration of a
generating wind and on the fetch, or uninterrupted distance before the
waves spread to reach the observer. In the Southern Ocean and the
American west coast all of these, especially fetch, are large. If you
I believe that is illegal as the Moon has been declared as the heritage of
mankind.
(ie. notwithstanding the 1969 'flag' planting which was just symbolic).
So what the 'lunar registry' site shows is just money down the drain (or
rather, down someone's pants at the other end!).
On Mon, Jul 4, 20
I never realized people were buying and selling the moon!
That's hilarious, $30 per acre:
http://www.lunarregistry.com/land/index2.shtml
On 7/3/2011 6:15 PM, David Patte wrote:
The moon is the right size and distance for a perfect
eclipse. This is true, and also a coincidence. Current
theory sa
This is not really off topic. Sundial science can teach us a lot about the
tides. Have a look at the presentation "Time and Tides Waits for Gnomon" on my
website, specifically at
http://www.walkingshadow.info/Publications/Time&Tide.ppt . View the PowerPoint
presentation as a s
The moon is the right size and distance for a perfect eclipse. This is
true, and also a coincidence. Current theory says that the moon and
earth split from each other eons ago, so we just happen to be living at
the right time.
Now, something else very odd about the moon, which most of us take
Hello again;
I ask because there are a lot of very smart people on this list.
It seems odd to me that the moon just happens to be the
right size and the right distance between the earth and the
sun to do the perfect eclipse. Is this just coincidence or
is there some good reason for that?
Al
Greetings, fellow dialists,
I'm still vaguely puzzled to know how Captain Fitzroy of the "Beagle"
made his estimate of the time when faced with 22 chronometers. Taking
the best small number of instruments that closely agreed, perhaps? But
how many to take? Or the mean of all 22? Could the confi
Evans"
To: "Sundial"
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:51 PM
Subject: time, off topic
During Darwin's famous voyage aboard the "Beagle", Captain Fitzroy had 22
chronometers aboard, no doubt to obtain accurate longitudes. This seems
pretty excessive and I'm wonder
Dear Frank,
To add to Kevin's reply I have a contact at Greenwich Observatory who replied
to my amazement that there were that many chronometers on board, and said:
Dear Doug,
Yes there were that many, not all were government, if I remember properly 5
were Fitzroy's own, 2 were loaned by makers
Fitzroy was the geek of his time - he was rich enough to own 22 chronometers
and he was interested in everything - (especially meteorology - hence the
Shipping weather forecast zone called after his name and the Fitzroy Storm
Glass) A 'normal' naval ship in those days carried three chronometers
During Darwin's famous voyage aboard the "Beagle", Captain Fitzroy had
22 chronometers aboard, no doubt to obtain accurate longitudes. This
seems pretty excessive and I'm wondering how many (or few) chronometers
would have reduced his time errors to an acceptable level. Any thoughts?
Poisson di
Brad,
Many thanks for your prompt response. Yes, as you found, my old shipmate
will now easily calculate the day on which the sun's upper limb was just
not visible in April 1911, taking into account refraction and
semi-diameter. Scott's Hut is at 77deg. 38'S, 166deg. 24'E. Scott's
party kept t
Greetings, fellow dialists,
An old shipmate asked me if the date of the start of winter at Scott's
Hut in Antarctica in 1911 could be found. I at once thought of those
wise people, the sundial group! He needs the sun's declination for any
single date close to 20 April 1911. He knows the latitud
Hello again;
If we could get rid of hours and minutes and seconds as well
as the 360 degree circle I would also get rid of the math we
use to measure round things.
I am a house designer and I noticed that a larger house is
cheaper to build per square foot than a similar shaped
smaller house
your location but you can certainly find
your way without access to clocks and other sophisticated instruments.
...Tom Kreyche
-Original Message-
From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On
Behalf Of Frank Evans
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:04 AM
To: Sundial
Su
Greetings fellow dialists,
Brent posits: "Suppose I was on an island in the middle of the ocean". A
Polynesian navigator would know the bearing and distance (not in those
terms) of the island from his starting point without the aid of any
instruments. Star risings and settings, wind and swell
I have been thinking about how I could get rescued if I ever got lost
without anything.
I could determine my latitude as discussed earlier but my longitude
seems elusive without knowing Greenwich mean time.
However, there are some clues I could give in many circumstances.
Of utmost importance w
Thanks Tony,
I have captured it and made copies for all my family so that we could watch
it as often as we like and not tie up the net. Wonderful indeed!
Edley.
Fellow shadowWatchers.
The following link has
nothing
whatsover to do with sundials but it
> The following link has nothing
> whatsover to do with sundials...
My sound card has gone but I watched
carefully while this nice lady very
closely examined a gnomon which, much
of the time, she held at an angle that
seemed just about right for the latitude
of West Lothian. I think the nodus a
Hi Tony,
My wife and I were Susan-Struck about 2 days ago. We have watched it so
many times that of the 20 million You-Tube hits, my wife and I are
probably responsible for about 2 million of them.
If you are British, then you must be able to sing like that too. I
think you owe a performance
Fellow shadowWatchers.
The following link has nothing
whatsover to do with sundials but it would be a sin not to share it.
Apologies if you've already seen it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
Tony Moss.
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of trouble.
- Original Message -
From: "James E. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:24 PM
Subject: WAY off topic
>I know this is way off topic, but there seem to be some pretty savvy
>computer people out there who may b
I know this is way off topic, but there seem to be some pretty savvy computer
people out there who may be able to provide some insight. I was encouraged by
the recent thread about Vista.
I've had a few people contact me because they bought a new computer or video
adapter and The Ele
Hello:
I have been trying to contact a vendor in Florence by email with no success. I
may be going about it incorrectly and would appreciate some advice.
Thanks
Steve
370 7" 20" N
760 28'25" W
Yorktown VA USA
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Greetings, fellow dialists,
I think I am most of the way to finding a solution to the problem of the
divergence of great circle and rhumb line tracks in high latitudes. The
NavPac Compact Data 2006-2010 book, produced by H. M. Nautical Almanac
Office and published by TSO London (used to be The S
Greetings fellow dialists,
Nowadays, oil exploration is conducted within government concessions.
These are areas defined by a succession of points, often at sea, to form
a closed box. All you do is join the points on a chart and you have your
concession plotted. But how do you join the points? D
Thanks to all who replied to my query earlier today.
Everyone gives me the same answer, so I'll take it that I now know the answer.
If not interested, stop reading here.
Mike Shaw
53.37N
3.02W
www.wiz.to/sundials
=
Two vehicles are both travelling in the sa
I am trying to solve a ballistics question for a friend.
If there's anyone out there who thinks they can help, could you please contact
me off list.
If you're not interested, stop reading now.
Mike Shaw
53.37N
3.02W
www.wiz.to/sundials
===
If you're still w
Fellow shadow watchers,
Perhaps like me you have tried and failed to find
a source of those sealable card mailing slips in which we receive CD Roms
- typically from the USA. Judging by the ones I receive covered in re-use
sticky labels the problem is not unknown elsewhere.
So that will something like the sundial created by Piet Hein:
http://www.egeskov.dk/english/sightseeing/10.html
Thibaud Chabot
At 08:31 16-10-2006, John Pickard wrote:
Some of the solid shapes on the
same web site are truly amazing. Would be interesting to figure out how
to make some of them (wi
Good afternoon,
Many thanks to Andrew Pettit, Gordon Uber and John B. for their very rapid
responses to my questions. Once I got started using their suggestions, I trawled
a few web sites and found this one, which had more information than any
mere mortal would ever want to know about geome
There are a limited number of entries at the bottom of this page which may be of help.
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/reference/CRC-formulas/
John B
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de
Sent: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 7:25 PM
Subject: Slightly off-topic
Uber
San Diego
At 07:25 PM 10/14/2006, John Pickard wrote:
Good afternoon everyone,
This is a bit off-topic, but given the range of expertise available
on the Sundial List, I think I can get an answer ...
I need names for some geometric shapes for some research I am doing.
Two are not
Good afternoon everyone,
This is a bit off-topic, but given the range of expertise available on the
Sundial List, I think I can get an answer ...
I need names for some geometric shapes for some research I am doing. Two
are not a problem:
Sector: a part of a circle bounded by the
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
Anyone who attended the NASS Conference in Chicago
but missed seeing the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park can regain
a lttle of that amazing experience at:
http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/ShowBuilding/233.php
When we first approached it
Hi!
the lateness of pips on digital radio or television (terrestrial ) is
caused by the time it takes to digitise the analogue video/audio input plus
the delay when the reverse procedure takes place in the receiver.This is
called latency
If you are viewing /listening on satellite there is
Hello friends,
Many thanks to all who tried to access the URL which was troubling
me, and reported their results. I've still not been able to load
http://www.de-zonnewijzerkring.nl using my normal setup (DSL),
although things did get VERY exciting here (as in instant panic)
when, for a whil
Hi Mac,
When things like this happen to me it is usually a routing problem.
Trace the route and if necessary work through an intermediate link or
a mirror, anything to force a different route. This usually clears up
the transmission for me.
Enjoy the Light!
Edley McKnight
-
I just checked like your friends and see nothing funny.
But check also with your provider, sometimes a provider blocks certain
websites/adresses for some reason (often; spam, but that is not always so).
Thibaud Chabot
At 17:31 02-03-2004, Mac Oglesby wrote:
Hello list members,
For several d
Hello list members,
For several days I've been unable to load the Dutch Sundial Society web page at
http://www.de-zonnewijzerkring.nl (.)
Friends (and my ISP) report that the page opens OK for them. What I
get is nothing at all, or, after a lengthy interval, error messages
saying a connecti
>> The long list of random words are an attempt to 'dilute' the real
content with innocuous words in order to try and defeat anti-spam
programmes that scan a message and reject any that score higher than a
certain mark against likely spam words. The real content is usually
displayed in HTML, and
oups.yahoo.com/group/webgnomonices
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/igbulletin/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meridiane/
- Original Message -
From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:11 AM
Subject: RE: Off top
Anne,
Your information on tides in high N latitudes pretty much mirrors tides in
Antarctica: very small range. I can't give you exact figures, but if you go
to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre on the site of the Australian
Antarctic Division (http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=5212), you
iagra merchants who
really home in on you.
John Smith
Tempus Fugit
Indigo Fugit
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of tony moss
Sent: 12 January 2004 12:50
To: Sundial Mail List
Subject: Off topic... but very brief!
Fellow Shadow Wat
Message text written by INTERNET:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
>I'm puzzled by the number of totally blank and gibberish items. The
latter seem to be just strings of unconnected words.<
They are intended to be read by web based e-mail systems where the extra
characters can be prevented from being di
In fact that too is just a screen; for what exactly, I haven't been
able to determine, nor has anyone else in most cases. Careful parsing
of the headers of all these junk mails -- copies of which by the way
should be sent (with headers) to the special UCE (Unsolicited
Commercial E-mail) data
On 12/1/04 12:50 pm, "tony moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fellow Shadow Watchers,
>In common with many others these days I receive
> about 90% 'spam' with my email. Much of it is predictable rubbish but
> I'm puzzled by the number of totally blank and gibberish items.
Hi Tony,
Most of what you describe is done to fool spam filters, I think.
Many ISPs are implementing spam filters on their end to try to stem the tide
of junk mail, which overload their servers. Most of these filter programs
identify certain message elements that make them think an e-mail is spa
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
In common with many others these days I receive
about 90% 'spam' with my email. Much of it is predictable rubbish but
I'm puzzled by the number of totally blank and gibberish items. The
latter seem to be just strings of unconnected words.
Do the
Allow me an off-topic question please - is there any way to obtain the
messages within this group as a daily 'digest' format as with other mailing
lists?
Thank you
Alex
-
Title: Message
On December 27 Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a beautiful photograph
of the Pleiades star cluster.
Try the links on the page - especially .
Click on the image itself, and you will be taken to a 1280x827 version.
Windows users can right click and save the image to/as:
book, "A Choice of sundials discusses the "Greek pelekinon sundial".
The shape of the hour and day lines suggest the bouble headed ax
found in Greece. On a recent trip to Greece I saw an ax of this type
in a museum in Macedonia.
Hope this helps a little bit.
Sure does; you've solved the my
Peter and other list members,
I haven't followed this discussion too closely. However, Dolan's book, "A Choice of sundials discusses the "Greek pelekinon sundial". The shape of the hour and day lines suggest the bouble headed ax found in Greece. On a recent trip to Greece I saw an ax of this t
repository of concensus information - som emay be bogus or just
plain silly, but a lot is helpful. Democracy at its best/worst, I
suppose...
If we ever get to the bottom of "plekhnaton" -- I'm convinced it's
bogus, but it's deucedly hard to prove a negative -- we should get
back in touch wi
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Peter Tandy wrote:
> For those who quoted from the 'Wikipedidia (never heard of it before -
> sounds like an encyclopedia written on a Hawaiian beach.but maybe I'd
> better not get into the oringin of THAT word!!), it appears, from memory,
> to be EXACTLY what Bill Nye use
Regards,
Albert FrancoPeter Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Shadow casters,Thank you to the 4-5 people who responded to my littlemessage/question/gripe about the use of the word "plekhnaton" - at least itseems to prove that I was not totally mistaken in my curiosity about it.Had 100+ peo
Dear Shadow casters,
Thank you to the 4-5 people who responded to my little
message/question/gripe about the use of the word "plekhnaton" - at least it
seems to prove that I was not totally mistaken in my curiosity about it.
Had 100+ people responded along the lines of "haven't you met that one
b
like any actual Greek I know.
Liddell & Scott's Greek Lexicon at Perseus
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform
is confirming me on it, listing no ancient Greek root *plech- or *plekh-.
Notice that this "plekhnaton" is suspect even to the volunteers who
run Wikipedia:
http://en.wiki
Quoted from a Google search of the encyclopedia Wikipedia:
Plekhnatons
The ancient Greeks used a type of sundial called a plekhnaton. The gnomon was a rod or pole upright in a horizontal face or half-spherical face. The shadow of the tip of the rod sweeps out hyperbolic curves on a flat face,
- Original Message -
>From: Peter Tandy
>To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003
11:32 AM
>Subject: Plekhnatons (slightly
off-topic)
>Dear Shadow watchers (if not shadowy types!)>A little
while ago, someone (can&
-
From: "Peter Tandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)
-
Dear Shadow watchers (if not shadowy types!)
A little while ago, someone (can't remember who now) posted a report about
Martian sundials by Bill Nye. Several pages into it he refers to early
Greek sundials by the name Plekhnaton(s). I had never met this word before,
and wondered what it meant. By
I have been taking a glance at some web design groups and testing frames on
several navigators and on W3C validators and I gathered that tag
is not recommended by anybody and, in fact, it can scramble your layout
in some
navigators... but it doesn't mean it's unreliable.
I have seen that is
Bonjour François,
I am having problems receiving mail. Messages from individuals overseas are
often rejected. I get all the messages from the sundials mailing list but
some of the mail from individuals in Spain, France, New Zealand and some in
the US is bounced. My ISP suspects the problem is tha
analemma? ;-)
>Thibaud
>
>At 23:11 21-07-2002 +0200, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>And why not ESPERANTO ?
>>It's a universal language, not based on the language war, but on human
>>comprehension.
>>
>
Thibaud
At 23:11 21-07-2002 +0200, you wrote:
Hello,
And why not ESPERANTO ?
It's a universal language, not based on the language war, but on human
comprehension.
Excuse me for this friendly off topic :-)
Alain R MORY
---
Hello,
And why not ESPERANTO ?
It's a universal language, not based on the language war, but on human
comprehension.
Excuse me for this friendly off topic :-)
Alain R MORY
21/07/02 16:14:47, "Roger Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
>Hi Anselmo,
>
>I r
Now I am afraid I'll have to apologize again!
My sincere apologizes, Khirman: my ironical e-mail went to this guy in the
list, I can't remember his name, that from time to time writes saying
that he does not understand gringo (ie., English) and complaints for
our not using Castillian Spanish...
Hi Anselmo,
I recently read and recommend the book by Mark Kurlansky "The Basque History
of the World". (ISBN 0-676-97366-3). This gave me a perspective on the
importance of language in defining cultures, so I recognize your sensitivity
to language wars.
Post notes on your mailing list in Eusker
Would you mind dumping this message into Spanish
to CabraLoca, best know as PsykoKidd, who can't read
a single word of English?
I do not know where you come from, but I really appreciate :-0
your enthusiastic (?) defense of our language. As a true-blue Castillian
(I live 500 meters away fro
Hi All,
Peter Tandy wrote:
> so-called 'straight-dates'. These are:
...
> 7/8/90
On this date occurred:
12:34:56 7/8/90
Bob
Many years ago (presumably in 1967, as we shall see..), as a schoolboy, I
seem to remember hearing on the BBC 'Today' breakfast programme, about
so-called 'straight-dates'. These are:
1/2/34
2/3/45
3/4/56
4/5/67
5/6/78
6/7/89
7/8/90
at which point the series seems to end unles we go to 8/9/01
Th
The first 12 years of the millenium are interesting in that each month has
its turn in subsequent years
01/01/01
02/02/02
03/03/03
04/04/04
05/05/05
06/06/06
07/07/07
08/08/08
09/09/09
10/10/10
11/11/11
12/12/12
dialllist
The Shaws wrote:
> Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor):
>
> Back and Forth
>
> SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a
> palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur
> normally only once in 110 years (as in 1661,177
The Shaws wrote:
> Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor):
>
> Back and Forth
>
> SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a
> palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur
> normally only once in 110 years (as in 1661,17
ent: Monday, January 07, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)
> Allow me to add that on 20th february, the whole date will be
palindromic...
> 20/02/2002
> 2002/20/02
>
> Alexei Pace
> malta
>
>
Bill Gooesman wrote
>Well, if you write your 2's in the same shape that they are formed in an
>older LCD display calculator, then 2002 reads the same upside down as right
>side up. So there.
and we in the UK have the village of CHIDEOCK with a horizontal line of
symmetry.
Tony M.
Sorry to have started on off topic hare running ... but having started :-
19.11.1999 was unusual in that every digit in the date was odd. This will
not happen again for 1112 years, not until 1.1.3111 in fact.
The last all even day was 2.2.2000, the first one since 28.8.888, a gap of
(surprise
Furthermore, at two minutes past 8pm on 20th February it will be
2002.20/02/2002. I believe this does not hold in the US, where they
write the date differently. Spoilsports!
Frank 55N 1W
--
Frank Evans
In a message dated 1/7/2002 5:59:27 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> It is also worth recording that many of us also experienced the year 1961,
> which reads the same when viewed normally or upside down; an inverted
> palindrome, perhaps? There have only been three oth
20/02/2002
2002/20/02
Alexei Pace
malta
Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor):
Back and Forth
SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a
palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur
normally only once in 110 years (as in 1661,1771,1881, etc). However, at the
en
My apology to all readers of this list.
Frank Evans remarks are so very welcome. It was a
great blunder for me to
mention names. The facts speak for themselves.
This is not a proper forum to discuss causes or
consequences of these tragic
events. I can only hope that they will not greatly
affe
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
If anyone has direct contact with a schoolteacher
in their area (English-speaking & outside the UK please) whose pupils
would like to make email contact with their counterparts in an English
'First School' (age-range is 5yrs to 9yrs) please contact
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