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[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

Spain used the Gregorian calendar, which in England was regarded as a
papist abomination, so they stuck with the Julian calendar. 23 April
Gregorian was 14 April Julian in the 17th Century. In the 20th Century
the difference was 12 days, thus the October revolution on 26 October
1917 (Julian) or 7 November (Gregorian).


Terrance wrote:
> 
> Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quichotte de la Mancha and William
> Shakespeare both died on the 23rd of April 1616. Three days after
> Cervantes was buried, Shakespeare rose from his seat and declared,
> 
> "ah, we have lost the greatest  writer in all of Europe."
> 
> How can this be?
> 
> Hint: Shakespeare was born and died on St. George day.
> 
> Death eats up all things, both the young lamb
>  and old sheep; and I have heard our parson
>  say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that
>  comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no
>  mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather
>  or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn:
>  he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach'd, for he swallows without
> chewing,
>  and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and tho' you can see
> no belly
>  he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives,
> which he
>  guggles down like mother's milk.
> 
>  -- Miguel de Cervantes: Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote, pt. 2, bk. 5, ch.
> 20
> 
> http://www.delcohistory.org/ashmead/ashmead_pg19.htm
> 
> No le gusta caminar.
> No puede montar a caballo.
> ¿Como se puede bailar?
> !Es un escándalo!