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That was really interesting, Allan. It's one thing to have an idea and simple understanding of the dating system but it's another to see its history laid out like that.
That was pretty good. It got a few laughs from me.
Three seems to be a pretty magical number in composition (both artistic and written). Cool article :) Thanks for posting, Allan.By the way, I thought the "2" article was really clever. Maybe I should come up with "two things" for each of my courses--before students start taking their finals :)
I was expecting real significance in the fact the values added to 365, but it was just a simple coincidence.
Have had a couple of busy days, so am a little behind here. Anyway-number 5!http://www.theguardian.com/books/book...
I like the idea of five components to your soul and how they live on after death. A nice piece to read to start the day
Cheers again, Allan. There's a lot more religion/mysticism to these than I expected.
(Standard advent calendar acknowledgement and thanks.)
As The Beatles said on The White Album-number 9...number 9...http://www.theguardian.com/books/book...
It makes being Chinese seem like hard work.
I enjoyed the one about the magpies. Very strange that they eat meat! Sounds like it'd be a very fun book in general to read
I didn't realise the history of astrology went quite so far back as the Sumerians.
@Seraphina. It sounds like a really interesting little book of trivia.
@Seraphina. It sounds like a really interesting little book of trivia.
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If I'm right, Susan discussed this book in her 'in person' book club, so might be able to elaborate even further on the extracts! :)