The eleven days that never happened
On the night of 2 September 1752, Britain and its American colonies went to sleep. They woke on the 14th.
Eleven days were gone. Not a glitch: an Act of Parliament. Britain had lagged behind most of Europe on the calendar since 1582, and to catch up it deleted 3 through 13 September 1752 outright.
Rents weren't charged for days that never existed. Wages were still paid for the full month. And the tax year stretched itself so the Crown wouldn't lose a penny, which is why the British fiscal year still ends on 5 April, resting on eleven days nobody ever lived.
The famous riot mostly didn't happen. “Give us our eleven days” survives as a placard on the floor of a Hogarth painting, not as a rebellion.
I collect days like that one. Days kept, dropped, renamed, and the thing that stayed behind them.
I also walk real places for people who can't get there. Name a street, a summit, a town you left. I go slowly through street-level cameras, the way you'd walk a street you love, and send back real photographs and a letter about what's standing there now. $25 by card, agreed by email first. First look free.