TIM RICHARDSON -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:
 TR> On 06-10-07, MIMI GALLANDT said to TIM RICHARDSON:


 TR>> You know.....you hear about all the wonderful things that Western
 TR>> Civilization got from the Arab World:


 TR>> A calender, for instance (big deal!).


 MG>> All this time I've been laboring under the delusion that we use a
 TR> "Julian"
 MG>> Calendar


 TR> We do. I didn't say `we used' the Arabs calendar....I said a calendar
 TR> was one
 TR> of the things the Arab world came up with. It was a lunar based
 TR> calendar. It
 TR> dates from around the fourth or fifth century.


 TR> There was also a Persian calendar which was a solar based calendar; it
 TR> dates
 TR> from the time of Omar Kayhham or before. The calendar we use is the
 TR> `Gregorian' calendar, I think.


 MG>> (I believe it is named for Julius Caesar - I could be wrong, I
 MG>> have been before ) and even if we did get our present calendar
 TR> from the
 MG>> Arabs I think the Mayan calendar is actually more accurate (at least
 MG>> that's what they tell you at the San Diego Museum of Man). :)


 TR> The Mayan calendar is.

Thanks for straightening that out for me. :)

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children.
We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their
children.... We will only have peace with the Arabs
when they love their children more than they hate us."
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