Re: naming schemes (was Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released)
On 22 Jul 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 04:28, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Last time I checked, they were a handy lower bound for the founding of
> > most towns in the US ...
>
So they should be called the bounding fathers?
> (Is anyone considered to have "founded" England as it is known now
> (Magna Carta? William the Conqueror? the 1st post-Saxon king), or is
> that just not part of the English tradition?
>
In school we were taught the first King of All England was Egbert of
Wessex. A quick google search gives his dates as 809-830 AD.
Or if you believe the Arthurian legends, it was Aurelius Ambrosius.
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