OT: Battle of Hastings

[Jonathan Lighter]

You were just falling in line with my old students, who often reckoned
centuries similarly.

JL

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 10/26/2012 01:05 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >In my day, the Patriots fought the battle of Breed's Hill in the 17th
> >century, in which the Tories suffered many "casualties".  Nowadays
> >it's the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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> 18th, of course.  A Fingerfehler -- or at least that's my excuse.
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> Joel
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