Re: Happy New Year 2000

2000-01-01 Thread David / Susan
Slawek K. Grzechnik wrote: Judging by incoming email quite a few shadow watchers checked their computers at or after their local midnight. Gosh, and I thought I was the only one! Actually my 9 year old grandson was so worried given the dooms day stuff in the newspapers, I let him boot up my

Sundial Glossary Update

2000-01-01 Thread John Davis
Happy New Year to all diallists! To prove that I haven't got too much of a hangover, a new version (including downloadable files) of the Glossary is now online at www.btinternet.com/~john.davis This version has a major upgrade of the text, based on all the inputs I have gratefully

Re: Christmas...New Years

2000-01-01 Thread John Shepherd
Concerning [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] comments on christmas and the start of the Year my information is as follows: When Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 46 BC the traditional dates for tthe Vernal equinox was infact March 25th and the Winter Solstice December 25th. In his

Re: Christmas...New Years

2000-01-01 Thread PsykoKidd
Here's a good site I dug up about the roman calander. Many of our holidays are roman holidays in disguise. Enjoy! http://www.clubs.psu.edu/aegsa/rome/romec.html