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I found this on a box of matches and It's realy bugging me. Anyone know the answer?? "Betty and Lucy were touring the West Country on holiday. Lucy was particulrly fond of old country churchyards, and in one found an extraordinary gravestone. It was that of a child who, according to the gravestone, was born on 15 May 1658 and died, aged eight months, on 24 January the same year! Is this possible?" |
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... I give up. |
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Did 1658 occur twice? Or did the stone cutter slip while carving the nine and make it an eight in the hope no one would notice? |
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Maybe Betty and Lucy are stupid drunks that can't read gravestones properly? |
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http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calpic/tumba.html |
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Maybe find out if our calendar has a few glitches? Wait,could the child have died as a 8 month old fetus and then pronounced dead at birth or something. yuk. |
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pOgO, help us! I'm dying to know! |
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Yeah i reckon the baby was dead at birth or something, which is a bit unpleasant... |
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Up until January 1752, 25 March was celebrated as New Year's Day in England. So it was more a question of knowledge than intelligence. |
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Lol,trivial knowledge r00ls |
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I don't know !!! That's the problem !!! There was no answer and it's driving me MAAAADDD !!! In regards to the dead baby thing, it makes no sense. If the baby was born in may and died @ 8 months , that means that the dead baby would be 3 months over due..... I think ?!? It hurts my head =o( |
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COOLL !!!!! Thanx pete ! I think that's going in my calender !! =o) |
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no idea what the hell you are talking about |
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Dates, and I'm not talking the hot ones. |
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I like dates. mmm |
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I prefer rasins =o) |
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I think 1685 was one of those years where they realised they had messed up the calenders and played around with the calender to sort it out. There was once a riot in Britain in the middle ages when this happened because people believed that they had had 12 days of their life taken away! |
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