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From Judaea to 'Jedi' censuses across the ages
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Censuses are almost as old as civilisation itself. The ancient
Egyptians used census information to help plan the building of the
Pyramids and, according to the New Testament, it was a census in
Judaea that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem when Jesus was
born.
Even in Biblical times, censuses attracted controversy. King
David's census of the Israelites was said to have incurred the wrath
of God, who brought down a plague which killed 70,000 people.
The people of Newcastle remembered the incident and, in 1753,
their MP, Matthew Ridley, told the House of Commons that his
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