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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:39:28 +1100
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r242849 - head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars
Message-ID:  <20121111233928.GC10902@eureka.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <DA942F60-364E-4B20-8BC2-245DF90854A2@msys.ch>
References:  <201211100449.qAA4n98l029415@svn.freebsd.org> <DA942F60-364E-4B20-8BC2-245DF90854A2@msys.ch>

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On Sunday, 11 November 2012 at 21:16:11 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
>
> The date of the encounter is not clear at all.  Some sources list
> oct. 27, some oct. 28, and some nov. 10
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley).

I took my information from Wikipedia, the source of all wisdom.  It's
a pity that the German and English Wikipedias can't even agree on a
date, and that other documentation says 10 November.

> So this should be researched a bit more.

I've done a bit of Googling and come up with Stanley's book "How I
found Livingstone",
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/5/1/5/5157/5157-h/5157-h.htm

It states clearly and in great detail that the encounter was on 10
November, though it contains the confusing statement:

  This was that famous letter bag marked 'November 1, 1870,' which was
  now delivered into the Doctor's hand 365 days after it left
  Zanzibar!

That would mean 1 November.

I've updated the calendar and the English and German Wikipedias, so I
thought the matter was done and dusted.  But that was the book, not
the diary.  And then I read in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morton_Stanley#Finding_Livingstone :

  This famous phrase may be a fabrication, as Stanley tore out of his
  diary the pages relating to the encounter.

The diary is available too, but not online.  I'll check.

And all this for what was really just a spelling error!

Greg
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