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Select from the English alphabet only those letters, and just once each, which represent Roman numerals. Place them in a special order to represent a year in history that holds significance.
What is that year, and what are at least two reasons for that significance?
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Submitted by brianjn
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1666
MDCLXVI = 1666
* Each Roman numeral is used only once, in order from the biggest to the smallest value.
* L'Académie des sciences is founded by Louis XIV.
* The Great Fire of London destroys most of the City.
* Dutch-English wars.
* Isaac Newton develops what is today known as classical mechanics.
* Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, dies in India
Note: The links above may not explicitly yield the information as written but should be found with a little research. That said, the links also provide other instances which are not noted above.
This was prompted by an exchange within the forum of a non-problem site with the solution text essentially being a precis from that source; that site has no value for Perplexus and so I will not link.
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