Word: millennium
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Hence, argued the founding father of Afrocentrist history, the late Senegalese writer Cheikh Anta Diop, whatever is Egyptian is African, part of the lost black achievement; Imhotep, the genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements...
...anguish for the single country, forged over a millennium, beautiful, horrible, yet spiritual and poetic, created and lived in by my forefathers, grandfather, father and mother...
...upheaval, a planetary neighbor and a man from the 3rd millennium...
...wide availability of fat-free desserts -- even progress in South Africa, lower interest rates and a glimmer of hope for Middle East peace. Can a drop in homelessness and law-school enrollments be far behind? It's almost as if everything is being tidied up for 2000, the new millennium...
...actor who finds success in Los Angeles in the movie Annie Hall, explains that he has encased himself in a foil-like eternal-youth suit because it "keeps out the alpha rays . . . You don't get old." It is the place where cruciferous vegetables were first worshiped. As the millennium draws near, a refurbished Muscle Beach stands as a clogged monument to the mesomorphic, hikers and bikers create traffic jams all over the diminishing wilderness, and rolfers and herbologists find themselves more in demand than ever...