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Re: Kings vs. queens -- puzzle

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Keith F. Lynch <kfl@keithlynch.net> wrote:
> Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:
>> Consider all the changes,natural and manmade,visited upon the world
>> in all the time from then [1881] to September 2022.
> 
>> And now consider this...Queen Elizabeth II was on the Throne
>> for MOST of that time from then until her death...and until
>> June 2093 [SIC...I think April is correct]
>> will have been on the Throne for most of the time
>> since her accession.
> 
> I love timeghosting (term invented by Randall Munroe).  Other
> examples:  Cleopatra, who ruled Egypt in the BC years, lived closer
> to the present than to when the pyramids were built.  The first
> tyrannosaurs lived closer to the release date of Jurassic Park
> than to the actual Jurassic.  I've been using email for more than
> a quarter of the time since the (American) Civil War.  I've lived
> through more than a quarter of all US history.

All but one of the Presidents of the LDS Church has lived through
all or most of its history (but the exception is the immediate
past president,born 97 years after it was founded and died at 90,
not the incumbent,born 94 years after it was founded and alive at 98).

Only in recent years did Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral in London
reach a greater age than its larger predecessor that was destroyed
in the Great Fire of 1666.

> Robert Scott, who died on his way back from the south pole, likely
> died on the same day that the Titanic sank.  Shakespeare and Cervantes
> died on the same date (though not the same day).  Lincoln and Darwin
> were born on the same day.  The two deadliest disasters in Washington
> DC in the past hundred years happened during the same hour (a plane
> crash and an unrelated Metrorail crash, both at 4 pm on January 13,
> 1982).

Note of course that the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was not the
worst fire in terms of either life or property loss to occur along
Lake Michigan the night that it happened.
 
> Two of the most infamous recent US prisoners died just five days apart
> (Robert Hanssen ("the spy next door") 6 days ago, and Ted Kaczynski
> ("the unabomber") 1 day ago.  They had spent most of their sentences
> in the same federal prison.  Another coincidence is that "the spy next
> door" (the title of a book about the FBI turncoat) was almost literally
> that to me, as he and I both lived in the same town when he was caught.
> (I never met him, but I had walked past his house, and past his dead
> drop.)

I hope Trump fills one of the vacated cells in Florence.

> JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley died on the same day.  So did the
> US's 2nd and 3rd presidents, who both died on the 50th anniversary of
> US independence.
> 
>> Do your multiple answers relating to "Britain" relate to the Acts
>> of Union?
> 
> No.  They're all more recent than that.  I'll answer in a couple days
> unless someone asks for more time.

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at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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Kings vs. queens -- puzzle "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2023-05-27 18:10 +0000
  Re: Kings vs. queens -- puzzle Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2023-06-11 17:58 +0000
    Re: Kings vs. queens -- puzzle "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2023-06-11 21:55 +0000
      Re: Kings vs. queens -- puzzle "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> - 2023-06-16 01:10 +0000
        Re: Kings vs. queens -- puzzle Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2023-08-09 08:46 +0000
      Re: Kings vs. queens -- puzzle Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2023-08-09 08:35 +0000

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