Word: millennia
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...example, believes that neither side is ready yet to talk theology, but sees no reason for Jews to fear that the dialogue with Christianity will involve a disguised attempt at conversion. On the contrary, he argues, it represents a "chance to change a relationship which has lasted two millennia" and is based on mutual hostility and ignorance...
...more impact than those he has littered in Rome during the past two years?" No! Nothing the Pope utters will have any impact as long as he refuses to expiate his church's complicity in the slaughter of Jews and other "accursed" people during the almost two millennia of the church's existence...
...threewheeled chariots built in a single day by the Greek god of fire, Hephaestus, the master craftsman who dwelt on Mount Olympus. Though ordinary Greek chariots lacked the gift of self-propulsion, the Greeks once led the ancient world in the production of wheeled vehicles. For the past several millennia, however, the Greek vehicle industry has been in quite a slump. In modern times, while such smaller nations as Portugal and Israel have managed to produce autos of their own, Greece has had no automotive industry...
...three millennia, men have been fascinated by this grisly tale. Stesichorus recorded it, and Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides all found in it a theme for tragedy. Voltaire reworked the theme in Oreste, and in Mourning Becomes Electra Eugene O'Neill adapted it to the American scene. In this noble, ceremonious, and sometimes serenely beautiful film. Greek Director Michael Cacoyannis (Stella) has attempted an adaptation of Euripides' Electra. Up to a point, the attempt excitingly succeeds. The performers, most notably Irene Papas, who interprets Electra, move with the dignity of figures in a ritual, speak with a largeness suggesting...
...prehistoric men, who observed the influence of the sun on the seasons and the moon on the tides, it was not illogical to believe that the five visible planets of the solar system had their own varied and subtle influences on man. Over the millennia, a system was evolved, assigning certain characteristics to the cosmic forces (Venus, love; Mars, will, etc.) and charting their position in twelve divisions of the year called Signs and Houses. The relation of these elements at the instant of birth (what Sign was rising, which planets were in which Signs and Houses, etc.), astrologers believe...