Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:51:42 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Coronations (was: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.history) Message-ID: <19990802115142.A54968@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19990802160559.T64532@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:05:59PM %2B0930 References: <199908011954.MAA54650@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990802101401.H64532@freebie.lemis.com> <19990802074955.C54109@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19990802160559.T64532@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:05:59PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 2 August 1999 at 7:49:55 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> > * Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com) [990802 04:13]:
> >> On Sunday, 1 August 1999 at 12:54:02 -0700, Nik Clayton wrote:
> >>> nik 1999/08/01 12:54:02 PDT
> >>>
> >>> Modified files:
> >>> usr.bin/calendar/calendars calendar.history
> >>> Log:
> >>> Richard the Lionheart was crowned on 3rd September 1189, not the 27th
> >>> February.
> >>
> >> I'm glad to see we're finally getting the serious bugs out.
> >
> > Nik did do better research then some of us do or did.
> >
> > [like my fantastic crashdump and no debugging kernel =P]
> >
> > Anyways, 't was fun to read ;)
>
> Definitely. Of course, this has meant that I have had to follow it up
> with my own investigations. Since he was a Frenchman, I looked up a
> French source, unfortunately not a very good one, but they claim he
> became king in 1184, not 1189. They do agree that his father died (of
> chagrin) in 1189, so it's not clear why they say 1184. Is this a
> misprint, or did he abdicate?
Must be a misprint. Every source I looked at said 1189, and Henry II
definitely snuffed it in 1189, so Richard couldn't possibly have become
king before then.
I'm considering carrying on the theme -- Satoshi has his ports INDEX
module and prime numbers quirk, I have kings and queens of England. . .
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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