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Nov. 1, 2026
Turning Back Time: The Lost Days of Christmas
It's Christmas Podcast Day and we are talking about lost time! Since we just turned back the clocks, it's a perfect time to talk about the time we have lost.
So pull up a chair, because I have to tell you about the time eleven days just… vanished.
In September 1752, people in Britain and the American colonies went to bed on Wednesday the 2nd and woke up on Thursday the 14th. Not because of a wild night out, but by Act of Parliament. And when Christmas rolled around that winter, a whole lot of ...
So pull up a chair, because I have to tell you about the time eleven days just… vanished.
In September 1752, people in Britain and the American colonies went to bed on Wednesday the 2nd and woke up on Thursday the 14th. Not because of a wild night out, but by Act of Parliament. And when Christmas rolled around that winter, a whole lot of ...