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Featured article: September 5, 2004

Anno Domini (Latin for "In the Year of the Lord"; commonly abbreviated AD) refers to the conventional numbering of years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It defines an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus. Years before the epoch were denoted a.C.n. (for Ante Christum Natum, Latin for "before the birth of Christ"), although BC (Before Christ) is now usually used in English. The Anno Domini era is the only system in everyday use in the Western hemisphere, and the main system for commercial and scientific use in the rest of the world. Some non-Christians or secular persons, however, object to a system based upon an event in the Christian faith; for this reason, the same epoch is also referred to as the Common Era, abbreviated CE.

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The Emperor Gum Moth caterpillar feeding on a eucalyptus leaf. Caterpillars of the Emperor Gum Moth pass through five stages, shedding their skin and changing their appearance at each stage of development, before spinning a dark brown silken cocoon and metamorphosing into the adult moth.

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Featured list: List of people with epilepsy

This is a list of notable people who have, or had, the medical condition epilepsy. Following from that, there is a short list of people who have received a speculative, posthumous diagnosis of epilepsy. Finally there is a substantial list of people who are often wrongly believed to have had epilepsy.

Name	Life	Comments	Reference
Bud Abbott	1897–1974	The straight man in the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. He had epilepsy all his life, and tried to control and hide it by drinking.	^[1]
Ward Bond	1903–1960	A film actor. His epilepsy meant that he was rejected from the draft for World War II.	^[2]
Danny Glover	born 1946	An actor and film director who had epilepsy from age 15 to age 35.	^[3]
Margaux Hemingway	1955–1996	A film actress and model who had epilepsy from the age of 7. Her death was attributed to suicide by an intentional overdose of phenobarbital, which is an anticonvulsant, but see the footnoted article for an alternative explanation.	^[4]
Martin Kemp	born 1961	Actor and former bassist with the pop band Spandau Ballet. He has had epilepsy since having two brain tumours in the 1990s.	^[5]
Rik Mayall	born 1958	A comedian and actor who was seriously injured and put in a coma for five days after a quad bike accident in 1998. Initially prescribed phenytoin prophylactically, he has since had two seizures, possibly due to not taking his medication.	^[6]
Hugo Weaving	born 1960	An actor who has taken anticonvulsants for epilepsy since his first seizure age 13.	^[7]^[8]

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