Word: millennium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...neither desires nor expects people to leave the church en masse or to go around ripping up their own photos of the pope. All she wants is for people everywhere to realize that there are some inescapable problems with the Catholic hierarchy that have persisted for over a millennium and will not go away simply by stifling dissent...
...Continent's southern flank, villages on the Aegean islands were busily trading olive oil, wine and pottery with the Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium earlier.) And in the Balkans metallurgists were hard at work crafting elaborate tools of lead, copper and iron and spectacular ornaments of gold...
...Egyptians were far ahead of anyone else in Africa, but the 4th millennium B.C. was a crucial time for the rest of the continent as well. The climate started to get progressively dryer, and the Sahara expanded into a vast desert. Nomadic tribes that herded cattle, sheep and goats on the fringes of the Sahara and the Sahel and in the Sudan were forced southward to the Central African savannas, where they gradually displaced hunter-gatherers who had dominated the area for thousands of years. Only in southern Africa, where farming was difficult, did the Stone Age hunter-gatherers...
...more bit of advice: Relax. However you spend Millennium Eve, you can't really go wrong. After all, humankind has been down this path only once before -- and it's not likely anyone did anything so memorable the first time round. So to recap: You can sit home pondering new names for 20th Century Fox and making earnest millennium resolutions. Or you can plan early, play hard and party late. Whatever you decide, have a nice millennium...
...stems from the magical allure of special numbers, and some of it from Scripture. The 20th chapter of the New Testament book of Revelation (or Apocalypse) inscribes a famous vision of martyrs who "reigned with Christ a thousand years." This is the origin of the celebrated capital-M Millennium (from the Latin for thousand...