Anglo-Saxon village re-enactment event in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 2008.
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Hundreds of years ago, people spoke Old English – but it is very different to English today.
Amid the pandemic, confetti fell on an almost-empty Times Square last New Year’s Eve.
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Today most societies take the A.D. time system for granted. That wasn’t always the case.
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Since the middle ages, scholars have been saying that our dates might be out by decades.
The Venerable Bede.
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The medieval English scholar was a devoted student of Computus – the calculation of the date of Easter.