On Dec. 31, people from cultures all around the world will be raising a toast to welcome in A.D. 2022. Few of them will think about the fact that A.D. signals “anno Domini,” Latin for “in the year of ...
Even a casual reader of history will have noticed over the past many years that the antiseptic term Common Era (CE) has slowly but surely replaced the elegant Anno Domini (AD) as the marker of the ...
The BBC has been accused of 'absurd political correctness' after dropping the terms BC and AD in case they offend non-Christians. The Corporation has replaced the familiar Anno Domini (the year of Our ...
In a world encouraged to embrace differences, BC and AD are increasingly finding themselves on the wrong end of the religious sensitivity metre. HT Image Educators and historians say schools from ...
As part of the revamped curriculum for Tamil Nadu State Board schools, textbooks for Classes 6, 9 and 11 no longer have the abbreviations B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini) to denote the ...
December 24, 2021 by Miriamne Ara Krummel Professor of English, University of Dayton. Today, many people use the expressions “common era” and “before the common era,” or C.E. and B.C.E., instead of ...
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