Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pursuit of scientific knowledge is not what manned spaceflight is all about. No, it's about humanity transcending its current planetary limits. And it's about astronauts sailing through the blackness of space and walking on the surface of new worlds, just as Christopher Columbus did half a millennium...
...dynamite, Gingrich's gavel represents to his followers the instrument by which the rubble could be bounced into a new political arrangement, one that Republicans could dominate for years to come. It was that prospect, the blood-tingling thought that they might be witnessing the start of a G.O.P. millennium, that brought a real fervor to the Republican side of the House on their marathon opening day. "Newt, Newt, Newt!" they chanted. "It's a whole Newt world...
...Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. John Paul has long spoken of mending the breach between the Roman and Eastern churches that became final in - 1054. The Berlin Wall, put up in 1961, came down 11 years into his papacy; undoing the effects of a millennium may take him a little longer...
Martin then linked the slave trade to the Talmud by asserting a 1,500-year-old "Jewish monopoly" on racist ideas that began with the Talmud and continued until the advent of Black slavery. According to Martin, the Jewish people carefully nurtured these racist ideas for a millennium and a half until the rest of Europe decided to join...
Time magazine's special report on rising leaders 40 years of age and under hit newsstands Monday, drawing on hundreds of interviews and apparently a Harvard directory for its selection of 50 people "to help guide us in the new millennium...