( warning: i have against my better judgement allowed the latin police to return but at my insistence i have required them to leave the Fiat 500 at home...so if you encounter a horde of them riding Vespas...sorry)
it is common practice to use the terms BC and AD when referring to dates, (i prefer BCE and CE...but that's just me)
in talking to a friend she told me that she was taught that AD...meant after death...a reference to the death of Christ....sorry but not so (not the first time i've heard that and probably not the last)....it comes from the latin phrase "in anno domini nostri" in english
"in the year of our lord"...aka the year of his birth...
in brief they got the wrong date ...........most probably between 5 and 3 BCE (or if you prefer BC)
( the mad one gets off his high horse, after chasing away the latin police with a mace (the medieval weapon, not the modern spray))
it is common practice to use the terms BC and AD when referring to dates, (i prefer BCE and CE...but that's just me)
in talking to a friend she told me that she was taught that AD...meant after death...a reference to the death of Christ....sorry but not so (not the first time i've heard that and probably not the last)....it comes from the latin phrase "in anno domini nostri" in english
"in the year of our lord"...aka the year of his birth...
in brief they got the wrong date ...........most probably between 5 and 3 BCE (or if you prefer BC)
( the mad one gets off his high horse, after chasing away the latin police with a mace (the medieval weapon, not the modern spray))
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