<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14846" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14847">Supposedly, there were riots in 13th or 14th century London when people were upset that they were robbed of 3 months' wages when the Crown moved the beginning of the year from March 1 to January 1. Anybody know about this? I don't recall where I saw this, and I haven't found a reference to it since the internet arose.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15019" dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15021" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15020">Kind of reminds me of the radio journalists who laughed at the U.S. Postal Service for spending $7 million to develop self-adhesive stamps - then the journalists then let slip the number of older stamps that fell off each year and a quick mental calculation showed that the postal customers lost $13 million a year as a result! They couldn't do the math!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15391" dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15381" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15380">I once did an interview in which I expressed my opinion that I preferred "amateur radio" over "ham radio" and nearly half of the resultant article was of a supposed major conflict among hams over this! </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15415" dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15098" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_15347">Is "decent journalist" an oxymoron?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14886"><span> </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14904" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14976">As to current differences in politics, it is said it is no accident that Yanks run for office and Brits stand for office. That probably cuts both ways.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14947" dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14946" dir="ltr"><span>Yes, I was always told that people are hanged while pictures are hung</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14887" dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1472996754857_14888" dir="ltr"><span>W1TFD </span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, September 4, 2016 1:40 PM, RICHARD BARTH <w3hwn@comcast.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9884717486">
<div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">And we thought American politics was confused, and confusing.</span><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">Don't miss part two of this thing.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent;">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/great-fire-london-was-blamed-religious-terrorism-180960332/?utm_source=smithsoniantopic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160904-Weekender&spMailingID=26412336&spUserID=NzQwNDU3NTY1MTkS1&spJobID=880396814&spReportId=ODgwMzk2ODE0S0</span></div></div>
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