Another bunch of rather less intelligent people insist that there was
a year zero, ...

Actually, there was a year zero but for reasons that are self-evident
if you know what happened then, there's been a huge cover-up ever
since. You're not supposed to know that. Despite the disinformation
that it was a rather ordinary year in Augustinian Rome, it's when
people first realized that the al~~~r~~~!~
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