Word: dionysius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shut the door of my bedroom and peered down at him. Here, I said to myself, we see the inevitable results of drunkenness and license. And I was glad I spend all my evenings in the library, writing my thesis about the influence of Dionysius the Areopagite on D. H. Lawrence...
...down upon by many well-informed citizens who pointed out that there had been no year Zero A.D.; therefore the 20th Century could not begin until Jan. 1, 1901. (Actually, the pedantic insistence on Jan. 1, 1901 has been overborne by other pedants who say that when the monk Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th Century began the fashion of counting years from the birth of Christ, he missed from one to seven years. So the year 1900 may have been really 1901 or 1907.) In pedantic Boston, the 1901 view prevailed. On Jan. 1, 1901 throngs gathered on the Common...