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Show 1 Jewish Calendar Now Reads 5715 The Jewish calendar, which th Jews adopted during the 15th cm tury, reads 5715 in relation to 1954 A. D. Use of the notation A D was inaugurated by Charles III of Gp many, who affixed the symbolism to the years of his reign in 879 ' uA2Paw U?. the tons were the first to figure out any "exact" ' measurement of time. They dp ' vised their calendar about 4nnn B. C. After the calendar, thw ' turned their attention to estimat ing dates of the "beginning" and the Mundane era of Alexander ' fixed that estimate at 5502 B r 3 Modern research has developed a new time clock, which uses the principle of radioactivity. Wood -samples can be radioactively dat- td back as far as 4,600 years ' |