>>>And, in fact, Russian didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1917.
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>>...and in Greece, 1923.
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>That I didn't know. I thought Russia was the last of the Western countries to adopt it.
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Tamar,
That was according to my copy of Encarta Deluxe 2000. But it also said, "Soviet Union" in 1918.< s >
George
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