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When calendars were corrected, people woke up to find several days ‘skipped.’ As errors accumulated, the fix was blunt: dates jumped forward and some days never existed on paper.
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When calendars were corrected, people woke up to find several days ‘skipped.’ As errors accumulated, the fix was blunt: dates jumped forward and some days never existed on paper.
Volcanic eruptions were Hephaestus"s forge, earthquakes were Poseidon"s rage. Every natural event had a god.
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