![]() I never explained who was leaping Sam-was it God, fate?" 2. And the quantum leap is a physical thing that happens that you can’t explain. “I was reading a book called Coming of Age in the Milky Way and it took man from when he looked up at stars and all the way to quantum physics, and it gave the history of everything. Bellisario explained the provenance of the show’s title to Emmy TV Legends. The show's title came from a physics books. Here are some facts about the series, on the 30th anniversary of its debut. In 1993, the show met its demise when NBC abruptly canceled it. As a result, the show gained a cult status, and fans-who called themselves Leapers-held conventions throughout the years and even funded Stockwell’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star. Though it wasn’t a ratings juggernaut, for two summers in a row NBC aired episodes five nights a week to get more people watching. Also, Beckett could only see the person he possessed when he looked in a mirror, and it was up to him to figure out the problem that needed to be fixed. (It was.) There were rules to Beckett’s time travel, though: He was born in 1953 and wasn’t allowed to travel outside of his age-though one episode did see him leaping into his great-grandfather’s body to experience the American Civil War. Bellisario pitched the show because he wanted to do an anthology with two characters and felt the time travel element would be attractive to legendary NBC president Brandon Tartikoff. The show highlighted social issues and occasionally aired divisive episodes. Beckett’s snarky hologram sidekick, Al (Dean Stockwell), helped the doctor navigate the historical sequences. Scott Bakula starred as Beckett, and in each episode he ended up inside a different person, ranging from a pregnant woman to Lee Harvey Oswald. ![]() Sam Beckett “leaped” from person to person to right epic wrongs and change the course of world history in Quantum Leap. TL:DR - boring historical trivia - pope invents latest calendar.For five seasons between 19, physicist Dr. But Russia was still on the Julian Calendar, 11 days behind, so they called it the "October Revolution". Trivia Question - what month was the October Revolution? It happened November 10th, 1917. The Orthodox Church still hasn't recognized the Catholic calendar, so Ukrainian and Russian Christmas happens on Jan 6, 11 days after western Christmas but Dec. The Eastern Orthodox church - Greece, Russia, eastern Europe - did not recognize the Pope's authority, so they never re-arranged the calendar there until after the Russian Revolution. The biggest "gotcha" - to get date numbers back on track, the calendar required skipping 11 days, which confused a lot of commerce - landlords insisted on a full rent for a month only 20 days long, etc. Of course, the protestant European countries did not like the Catholic church and resisted adopting the calendar until the early 1700's. Pope Gregory called this new design the "Gregorian" calendar. Hence the change described in the earlier post. Based on 1500 years of observations, it was apparent that the correction was - a leap year every 4 years was off by 3 days every 400 years. Pope Gregory commissioned a redesign of the calendar. Easter, for example, is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox - but that date had been creeping every few years since Julius. ![]() Dates were important to the church which had a full calendar of saints to honor. By the 1500's it was obvious it was not quite correct. The Roman Julian calendar was adopted and used across the Roman Empire for centuries, and then by the Christian churches. which is why September, October, November and December are off by 2 months (Sept - Latin for 7, Octo - 8, Nov - 9, Dec - 10). His nephew Augustus formalized it and of course made sure there were months named after Julius and Augustus. Julian Calendar, where leap years happened every 4 years. When the calendar feast days got out of whack with the celestial events they celebrated, like summer solstice, the rulers just decreed added days to make the calendar work again. In the Good Old Days, Roman times, calendars were pretty arbitrary.
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