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From: evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Counting Years
Message-ID: <386@pedsgo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 08:57:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  2 08:57:40 1986
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Organization : Concurrent Computer Corp. (a Perkin-Elmer Company), Tinton Falls, NJ
Keywords: Julius Gregory

In article <241@geops.geops.UUCP> charles@geops.UUCP (Bad Charles) writes:
>Jesus Christ!  BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini [Year of the
>Lord] or After Death) are outdated.  Now we say for the present, 
          ^^^^^^^^^^^
>"CE" for Christian era, or "BCE" for before Christian era.  Thanks
>be to the people listed in the Keywords line of this message.
>	  /Charles/
>

The idea of referring to AD as 'After Death' always amused me.  I always
figured that when he was alive, there must have been a period called years 
1-30 C or something.  Otherwise, he didn't live long enough to have had the 
kind of impact he did.
-- 
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