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NUMBERS COUNT

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Posted: December 1, 2012 at 2:35 a.m.

1582 Pope Gregory XIII shortens the Julian calendar and institutes the Gregorian calendar. The new calendar addressed an error that amounted to three days every 400 years.

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Religion, Pages 12 on 12/01/2012

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