Don't think that Yeovil were a league club at the time he played for them.
OK. Which country has just ordered loads of electric typewriters and why?
OK. Which country has just ordered loads of electric typewriters and why?
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Still paid their players though.
Russia - given the presence of Snowden, they're worried about secrets being leaked via computer systems.
Because the dating system was devised many years after the birth of Christ and the Romans had not invented the concept of zero in their numbering system.
No doubt true, but doesn't tell us why there was no Year 0!Because the year O was still within the first year of Christ's birth ? Just as a boy may be e.g. called 7 (Because that was his last birthday) although he is in fact in his 8th year - or something along those lines. Zero simply doesn't exist in reference to time. Any more than you could have a house called number O in a street.
As an aside why do we use BC and AD, Before Christ and Anno Domini? Surely both should be in English or both Latin. We could go down the PC route of Before Common Era and After Common Era (BCE/ACE). After all we know that we are in year 5773 anfd even in Luton time it is different again, 1434.
I suppose AD would suffice for both Ante Domini and Anno Domini, so a bit of confusion there. We could have BC and AC, After Christ.
Also why do we start with 1AD as a baby is always aged in months until the first year is complete?
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I suppose AD would suffice for both Ante Domini and Anno Domini, so a bit of confusion there. We could have BC and AC, After Christ.
Also why do we start with 1AD as a baby is always aged in months until the first year is complete?
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Give you that one - close enough. Our current dating system wasn't actually established until 525 AD and zero as a number wasn't introduced until approx 40 years after that.
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I don't think there is a definitive answer to that. It would make sense to use Latin as that would give a 'world-wide' term, in similar fashion to the way the scientific community use it in classification systems. But why BC was used is anyone's guess. I believe that other countries used their own language originally - eg French used 'avant JC' & German used 'wv. Chr. Geb' for Before Christ. I suppose that the same problem would exist for BCE/CE.
The only Alec Guinness film I can think of with a stadium scene was the Quiller Memorandum - but it was set in Berlin. Was the old West Ham stadium used in the absence of the Berlin stadium?
Zen for us is easy. f.Kr and e.Kr fyrir Krists burð and eftir Krists burð or before Krists birth and after.
He was in many films of novels but the only one I can think of which was written then is Arnold Bennett's 'The Card'. I'm sure there's something about the main character buying a centre forward or something like that. All Bennett's novels were set in the five towns so I'm guessing either Stoke City or Port Vale.