Word: armaugh
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...relatively contemporary roots be came a popular pastime, man sought to account for his ultimate origins. In the Middle Ages he looked to the Bible for the answer Turning to the book of Genesis, which says that God created man on the sixth day. James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armaugh, decided in 1650 to determine when that day had occurred By calculating backward through all the biblical "begats" he figured that man was created in 4004 B.C. John Lightfoot, master of St. Catherine's College at the University of Cambridge, shortly thereafter pinpointed the time of the momentous event even...
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