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   From: giles@poetic.com   
      
   On 3/27/2012 3:25 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:18:10 -0500, Weland  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I am sure that I had discussed this here before.  In Medieval thought,   
   >> or at least some, March 25 is the day of the Fall but also the date of   
   >> the Annunciation and Incarnation, Jesus becoming a zygot in Mary and   
   >> will be the date of the Second Coming (though less of that last than the   
   >> other).  So the date of Sauron's fall not only well chosen, but   
   >> significant to all kinds of issues we talk about in reference to Tolkien.   
   >   
   > I think you need to check on the difference between a zygote and a   
   blastocyst.   
   >   
   > Also, there was the belief that a prophet died on the same day of the year on   
   > which he was born.   
   >   
   >   
   Except in this case it is the date his mother was impregnated, and not   
   the date of his birth.   
      
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