Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> and I can't find references via google!) that a researcher at CalTech or > something showed that at the start of the Chinese calendar around the New > Year, there was a spectacular planetary conjunction with the new moon. The > event is very rare and the author surmises that it made such a strong > impression on the ancient Chinese that they fixed the calendar on the > event! > I bet it was a planetary thing. To the tune of all life on earth wiped out but a few remain to start a new .... Generation. My local Leica Vietnamese friends told me that Vietnamese people follow the Chinese calendar. Strange as they are millenniums long enemies! But how can you hold a war if the armies show up at the wrong dates! Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/