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Posted by Dyre Dan on Thu May 23 10:47:27 2013, in response to Re: Tunnel Names, posted by Joe on Wed May 22 13:32:19 2013. >> And what does A.U.C. indicate, the years since 1775?That seems like a most remarkable coincidence, or synchronicity if you will, and I can't resist commenting on it. As you probably know, A.U.C (ab urbe condita) was a dating system used by Roman historians to indicate years since the founding of Rome in what we would call 753 B.C. Some people regard the United States as the new Rome, so a similar system of dating things in years since the founding of the U.S. is not illogical. Indeed, such a system was used (in addition to A.D. dates) in a number of documents from early U.S. history, and even in a few more recent ones. An example would be James Madison's proclamation urging people to help defend against the British invasion in the war of 1812, which concludes with the line "Done at the city of Washington, the 1st day of September, A.D. 1814, and of the Independence of the United States the thirty-ninth." This system counts the first year of Independence as beginning when independence was declared in July of 1776, and could also be construed as "years since 1775". But I rather suspect that the "A.U.C. 207" reference in the document shown has something to do with 207th St. yard, and nothing actually to do with the years of American Independence. As for listing "A/CC/JFK" as using the Clark St. Tunnel, obviously somebody goofed. |
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