Monday, December 21st, 2009

Numbering the Years

On a show I was watching the other night someone stated that the reason for the discrepancy between the actual year of Jesus’s birth and the year we have numbered from was due to the person who worked out the count using the year of Emperor Augustus’s reign to work it out but with their [...]

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Start and End of the Week

There seems to be plenty of disagreement both between different religions and also between different countries as to exactly what day a week starts and ends on. Why there needs to be such disagreements I don’t know since the very way in which the names were first allocated to the days of the week makes [...]