A fellow and I have been debating about the existence of the year 0.

I believe that it does not exist, while my friend thinks the opposite.

My justification is that there is no such thing as a 0th year on a timeline.

He argues that time works much like a mathematical numberline, so when 1bc is over the next year would be 0.

Please give me a reasonable arguement that the year 0 doesn't exist. We have consulted our history teacher and he took my side. I have also used sources from the internet to prove my point but he still believes that these sources aren't credible enough.

The arguement is about the Gregorian Calendar and nothing else.

Please help me to prove this dumdum that he is wrong.

Fulgencio Batista was born in a United Fruit town, can this be linked to the Cuban revolution? I know they fucked Guatemala, but are they also had some dealings in Nicaragua right?

I understand they now speak Arabic because of the Muslim conquests. But prior I have read that they spoke Coptic.

I am specifically interested in verifying what the word Black means in Ancient Egyptian language. I watched a lecture about Alchemy and the authority said Egypt was what the Greek called them, but that Egypt was actually called Khemet. The name Khemet was the word used for black or dark and was likely used because of the black soil that the Nile would flood the land with.

Are there any other good sources for this?

I understand that slavery is morally abhorrent, i just doubt that it was all whips and beatings and starvation. That just seems like bad economic practice.

Did they become German? Move back to Russia? Stay in the land?

Assuming I don't speak the languages (a safe assumption).

Today within my humanities class my professor emphatically said the civil war was about slavery while I have always grown up learning it as states right which is right ? Sorry if this comes up too often thank you all the same

Obviously, there would not be much help and a great deal of stigma. I'm guessing most people's antidepressants were alchohol and the really mentally ill people were killed, stuffed away somewhere, or something.I'm just curious about the details. Thank you so much :)

I was just wondering what the reaction of survivors of the actual Titanic was to the movie "Titanic". I lived through 9-11, and I know eventually there will be a big movie about it in my lifetime...but i'm not sure I could stand to see it..

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