Packet 6: Tossup 21

Riots in Oxfordshire over the abandonment of this system are only recorded in the Hogarth painting An Election Entertainment (-5[1])and a satire by its opponent Lord Chesterfield. A revised (-5[1])form of this system (15[1])created by Milutin Milanković was used by Renovationists. (15[1])This system was supposedly inspired by a conversation about floods of the Nile (15[1])with an Egyptian holy man at a banquet. (15[1]-5[1])Hemerologia tables were used to fit local practices to this system, (15[1])which disposed of the (*) Mercedonius (-5[1])controlled (-5[1])by the Pontifex (10[1])maximus. The reluctance (10[1])of Protestant countries (-5[2])to abandon this system (10[1])required (10[1])the (10[1])use (10[1])of (10[2])O.S. (10[1])and N.S, (10[6]-5[1])or (10[1])Old Style and New Style. (10[4])The prolonged use of (10[1])this system informed (10[1])the name of the October Revolution. (10[3])For 10 points, Pope Gregory (10[1])XIII names the replacement for what (10[1])system instituted by a Roman (10[1])dictator? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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