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At 23:47 20/10/1995 +0000, you wrote:
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>to all our maritime history colleagues -- Happy 190th Trafalgar Day, Oct. 21
Trafalgar ? Trafalgar ? Waterloo ? Waterloo ? I do not remember of
anything like it
anywhere...
Vive Napoleon !
Vive la France !
:-)
>as for decades, it is probably going to be impossible to stop folks from having
>a big, misinformed party the night of 31 Dec 1999. So, we might just have to
>agree the first century of this era had only 99 years, the first to 99AD, and
>the second century began in the year 100.
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>I am still worried about all the two digit date boxes in my computer when the
>calendar changes and I have to tell the difference between 1901 and 2001.
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>cheers
>Mac Swackhammer
>trapped inland
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Jean-Paul Viaud, curator
Canadian Railway Museum
Delson/St-Constant, Quebec, Canada
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