"pig" as policeman

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:22 AM +0100 8/10/06, Darryl Francis wrote:
>If the 60s ended in 1974 with RMN's resignation, when did the 70s
>begin? Could have begun before 1974? Was there indeed an overlap with
>the 60s?
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>Are there examples of other decades overlapping into "factually
>incorrect" dates?
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>Did any decades begin AHEAD of their "factually correct" dates?
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>How about centuries? When did particular centuries start and finish? I
>wouldn't be surprised if the 19th century ended with the detah of Queen
>Victoria.

I wasn't making up the notion that the 20th century began with the
assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; I don't know if others have
claimed that the 21st began on 9/11/01, that was just a WAG.  I
believe it's been claimed, maybe by Hobsbawm (quoted earlier by Jim
Parish) that the "long 19th century" began with the storming of the
Bastille on my birthday (but not birth year) in 1789 and ended with
Princip's shot in Sarajevo.  I'm sure there are other calendars out
there.  "The Sixties" typically doesn't include the first three or
four years of the 1960's.

LH

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>--- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>>  Yes, but that was '62.  The sixties began in '63 when Kennedy was
>>  assassinated, or maybe it was the Beatles, or when we let our hair
>>  grow.  And they ended in the summer of '74 when Nixon resigned.  (Nor
>>  is this unprecedented; after all, the 20th century began in 1914 with
>>  the outbreak of WWI and, I suppose, ended at dawn 9/11/01.)
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