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Subject: The Year X - a quantitative approach
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DL wrote:
> In a lame attempt to inject some classical significance into
> this, let me ask how many books this learned list can name whose
> titles proudly proclaim a focus upon a single year.

I have held back as I thought it too obvious.  But no.

Given that "how many" is at the heart of the inquiry, let us turn our
attentions to the quantitative aspect of the matter.  And as there is no
proviso to the contrary, let us take it that a book which treats with a
single year may be counted even if the year itself is not mentioned in the
title.

That settled, I would propose that the year winning the Grand Prize for
having the most books written about it (or rather, of course, about the
things that took place in the course of it) is...

(are you ready)...

     1215

At least in the English-speaking world.

Which in terms of book consumption is likely a Grand Prize winner too.

CRR

PD: There is, of course, a considerable irony that surrounds those June
events at Runnymede.  But the receivers of this message will surely need no
reminder.



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