hank Wrote:
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> Err, uhm excuse me? This was brought up in a
> thread in 2020 (or was it 2019?) and flogged to
> death back then. And yes, I was one of the culp-
> rits at the time.and as I pointed out in that thread,
> Gregorian is usually taken to mean in the reign
> of George III so that doesn't work either. The nit-
> pickers choice was "Post Edwardian" at the end
> of that discussion, IIRC.
Err, uhm. excuse me too, but IIRC the 'Gregorian Calendar' dates from the reign of Pope Gregory in the 16th century, and Gregorian Chants are from another 500 years even earlier . . .
Ed Horan Wrote:
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> Thought to ponder on
: 2 Eds are better than one.
> I'd like to point out that not only is this barely Vic-
> torian, it's also barely Edwardian as King Edward
> VII passed away in 1910. George V was the mon-
> arch from 1910 till his passing in 1936.
But 'Georgian' is already in use for an even earlier time, Ed -
"Georgian style, or Georgian architecture is a regal style that takes its name from being the most popular architectural style between 1714 and 1830, a time period during which the first four British monarchs ruled. Those British monarchs, as one might guess, were all named George and were from the same family, the House of Hanover — George I, George II, George III, and George IV." And the more restrained elegance of the true Edwardian era lasted at least 'til the outbreak of WWI. Per Wikipedia, 1910-15 might be called the
post-Edwardian era, but IMHO styles – at least in the decorating of machines – didn't change enough in those five years to warrant a distinction. At least we're not dealing with someone named 'Georgiana', during whose reign at the Colorado Histœrical Society things got really loopy at a certain railroad a few miles directly west of Denver
. . . (See [
ngdiscussion.net] for further information.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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