Word: millennia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goats roam where they may. After two millennia...
...Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection of Indian and Nepali Art the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, closed yesterday. The Collection spanned four millennia, from 2,000 B.C. to the mid-20th century, and included 300 of the finest examples of sculpture, palm leaf manuscripts, paintings, textiles, and decorative arts outside India...
Ever since the Trung sisters spurred Viet Nam toward independence two millennia ago, women have played a major role in the nation's life. They run not only their homes but shops, factories and farms as well. And thanks to the exploits of Mme. Nhu, everyone knows the pinnacles they can reach in politics. Last week, as South Viet Nam's fledgling National Constituent Assembly got down to business, a new femina politica was on the ascendant: Mme. Tran Thi Xa, the lady delegate from Gia Dinh...
...Essay "On Understanding Asia" [July 1]. The Asia that "had produced strikingly little written history" must not include China, which has the longest continuous historiographical tradition in the world, and probably the most voluminous. Scientists rely on precise Chinese records of supernovae, sunspots, etc., for the nearly two millennia that Europeans did not believe in such phenomena and thus did not see them. That the Chinese have no word for "no" is a statement about syntax, not diction-there are common words for "not," "don't," "never," etc.-and even so, TIME'S statement is true only...
...make Italy a major force in the rich, ruggedly competitive field of interna tional construction. The Gli Insabbiati started with projects in the deserts of North Africa - hence their nickname -but now they are spreading around the world. More and more, they resemble the Caesars' legions, who two millennia ago built highways, aqueducts and cities from Scotland to Syria...