Vice-President Al
Gore wasn't the first person in history to concede a hotly disputed
election. In the fifth century, a monk named Cedda, brother of St. Cedd
and St. Cynibild, was born around 620 A.D. in Northumbria, England.
Cedda was educated at the great abbey of Lindisfarne on Holy Island,
off the coast of Northumbria, under the abbey's founder, Abbot St. Aidan.