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Re: Did you know?



..but also 11:11, 11/11, 1111 and more if you place months before dates as
is usual in the U.S.

Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
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-----Original Message-----
From: Constance L. Jones [mailto:Business_media@MAHONINGHISTORY.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 1:34 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: FW: Did you know?


Believe it or not but 8:02pm on February 20 this year will be a historic
moment in time.  It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks or
the ringing of bells, but at that precise time, on that specific date,
something will happen which has not occurred for 1,001 years and will
never happen again.

As the clock ticks over from 8:01pm on Wednesday, February 20, time will,
for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002, 2002, or to
be more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002.  This historic event will never have
the same poignancy as the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month which
marks Armistice Day, but it is an event which has only ever happened once
before, and is something which will never be repeated.

The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long
before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock at 10.01am on
January 10, 1001.  And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is
something that will never happen again.

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