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| − | Hi, what i'm doing here is changing the format so that it can accomidate much more detailed chronological information. It might get so dense that it requires a page per year, but it's not there yet. Until I put in correct dates, I'm leaving the info that was already in the timeline.
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| − | | + | after changing the format of this page I realized that I wanted to have a more organized way to talk about chronology. link to [MD DbD] |
| − | I also want to ask folks about citation for this section. If the info was determined based on the journals, should that be noted? Also, when I got to the timeline, people had already intered information that is from the historical record but is useful. I want to be able to put events on the correct day that characters are reacting to the next week such as "patrick henry gives famous 'give me liberty' speech" which is then referred to a little later inthe conversation with thomas jefferson.--[[User:Jeffersonista|Jordan]] 14:33, 25 January 2007 (PST) | + | |
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| − | Julian dates follow the convention 4 June(OS) to denote the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates Old Style] and (NS) to denote the new. It is desirable to list the both dates:<br>
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| − | '''4 June 1745(OS)= 15 June 1745 (NS)'''<br>
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| − | remember that it isn't simple a converstion of 15 days: months have different lengths. Here is a [http://isotropic.org/date/ good site] to help get the calculation right.
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Latest revision as of 03:13, 26 January 2007
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after changing the format of this page I realized that I wanted to have a more organized way to talk about chronology. link to [MD DbD]
