Am I Richer Than King Richard I?

lostinrates

who was born after generation x? what is their collective term?

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

who was born after generation x? what is their collective term?

Generation Y, rather disappointingly.

adouglasmhor

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I'm Generation X, and I've always assumed it to be late 60's til early 80's.

From Wiki.....

London newspaper The Guardian cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965 and 1982 and referred to it as the "'me generation' of the Eighties."[28]

The Telegraph cited Generation X birth dates as falling into a longer time span (1965-1985) [29], whilst the The Independent estimated an earlier range of birth dates (1963-1978) compared to other writers or researchers.[30]

A BBC News article about a lack of "mid-career volunteers" in their 20s provided a Generation X age range, which, in 2007, would suggest birth years that fall between 1962 and 1982.[31]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

The me gen of the 80s for me was when they were socially dominant not when they were born.

Baby boom years for some countries from wiki. So as i said earlier you can be a boomer and an X'er

France 1946–1974
United Kingdom 1946–1974
Finland 1945–1950
Germany 1955-1967
Sweden 1946–1952
Denmark 1946–1950
Netherlands 1946–1972
Ireland 1946–1982
Hungary 1946-1957
Iceland 1946–1969
New Zealand 1946–1961
Australia 1946–1961

Kennyboy66

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Older than that - Eleanor of Aquitaine was in her 80s when she died (somewhere between 82 and 85, as her date of birth isn't known for sure). She had 10 children who lived past being babies, and only two survived her - King John and Queen Eleanor of Castile.

I don't think you're necessarily right about height, though. As I understand it, having read a paper on osteology at Wharram Percy, people were shorter then, on average, that now.

Wharram Percy is the best-known "DMV" or deserted medieval village.

Babies were breastfed until 18 months to 2 years old, and were similar in size to healthy infants now. But then their height fell behind - the avergae 14 year old in Wharram Percy was the height of an average (white, European descent) 10 year old today. They did carry on growing a bit later though - into their early 20s, rather than stopping in their late teens as we do now.

I think the average height for men was about 5 ft 6.

40% of adult burials were of people aged 50 or over - so 60% of people who made it to adulthood died before the age of 50.

I thought men where a little taller in 11th Century (5' 8")

Average height then fell by about 3 inches over the next 800 years (Wellingtons army scum of the earth and all that)

http://historymedren.about.com/b/2004/09/15/tall-medieval-men.htm

zagubov

Just finished Crawford's "Deadly Companions" about the plagues that have been surrounding and infecting us for centuries (and more). Anybody that thinks that Richard's world was in any way comparable to ours should get a checkup from the neck up.

Rich people could overindulge in food drink etc. as they were unlikely to be around when negative consequences would develop. People did get cancers in his day but they were unlikely to live that long and it would often go undiagnosed. Long life encourages cancer because it gives you more time to do everything including get cancer.

Oh and the general best way to bury nostalgia for previous lifestyles or golden ages is to repeat the mantra "anaesthetic dentistry"

pqrdef

Kennyboy66 wrote: »

I thought men where a little taller in 11th Century (5' 8")

I suspect skewed samples. The underclass of slaves, beggars, cripples, vagrants, lepers, casual labourers and prostitutes was large, but beneath notice. They didn't necessarily get formal burials.

System

zagubov wrote: »

Oh and the general best way to bury nostalgia for previous lifestyles or golden ages is to repeat the mantra "anaesthetic dentistry"

And in future ages just say to yourself "voluntary euthanasia".

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

who was born after generation x? what is their collective term?

Generation Whine.

neverdespairgirl

fc123 wrote: »

Just out of curiousity, when did cancers 'start'...or was it because no-one knew what someone had died of?

Another question....are you a boomer or an X'er if born in 1963? Different dates come up and seems to fall on either side.

Cancers have been around always.

There was a bronze age skelton dug up a while ago that showed signs of breast cancer.

AIUI, Harthacanute is thought to have died from diabetes.

neverdespairgirl

StevieJ wrote: »

With all that going for him, wonder why he was out there putting his life on the line all the time? He probably did well to reach 41.

he liked fighting. Spent pretty much all his time doing it.