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January 26, 2005

Unusual

Via Wikipedia:Unusual articles, the apparently serious, and bizarrely compelling, suggestion that the apparent lack of action between Alfred's burnt cakes and Cnut's "thus far but no further" has a simple explanation: the Early Middle Ages did not exist (PDF).

Between Antiquity (1 AD) and the Renaissance (1500 AD) historians count approximately 300 years too many in their chronology. In other words: the Roman emperor Augustus really lived 1700 years ago instead of the conventionally assumed 2000 years.
This seems to be what the Internet is for.

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