BBC documentary - Arts - The Secret of Drawing

Posted: 11:06:11 PM  
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Posted: 9:52:43 PM  
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by Chris M. Halvorson

The Urantia Book says that Jesus was born 'at noon, August 21, 7 B.C.'.
However, the authors do not say if this is a Julian Calendar date or a proleptic Gregorian Calendar date. That is, does the date refer to the calendar that was in use at that time; or does it refer to the current calendar, extended backward in time?

More to the point, if Jesus' birthday is celebrated on August 21 of the current calendar, is that really the anniversary of his birth?

When the Julian Calendar was established, Julius Caesar set March 25 as the date of the vernal equinox, which was also taken by many people as the beginning of a new year.
(The conception of Mithras' and subsequently, the incarnation of Jesus'was assumed to be at the start of a year, with the birth nine months later on December 25, the winter solstice.) Due to the imprecision of the Julian leap year system (viz., every fourth year, with the extra day added before February 25), the date of the vernal equinox drifted as the centuries passed. One of the goals of the calendar reform of Pope Gregory XIII was to reset the date of the vernal equinox to roughly the same date that it held at the time of the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325, when the original method for calculating the date of Easter was established. To that end, the day following Thursday, October 4, 1582 (in the Julian Calendar) was declared to be Friday, October 15, 1582, the first official date of the Gregorian Calendar.

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Posted: 2:48:21 PM  
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The heir is assassinated - the Emperor is dead

Franz Ferdinand

Missing from most discussions about Rennes-le-Chateau and the Habsburg are references to the Emperor himself: Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia from 1848 until November 21, 1916. His 68-year reign is the second-longest in the recorded history of Europe and spanned the entire period of Sauniere's life except the final few months.

It was his succession that was at the core of World War I. Franz Ferdinand was heir to the Austrian throne, at one point "only" third in line, but through two untimely deaths - that of the Emperor's son, Crown Prince Rudolph, who killed himself (and his sixteen year old mistress) in 1889 and the death of his father, Archduke Charles Louis, in 1896 - Franz Ferdinand would succeed Franz Joseph whenever he would die. However, the Archduke and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 (their fourteenth wedding anniversary) by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. The assassination is historically known as the direct reason why World War I broke out. Hence, the assassination definitely changed history.

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Posted: 2:32:50 PM  
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