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Mhesh Kapoor, the manager of Tanjore Regional Indian Cooking on 18 Eliot St., said he did not know who was responsible for the pollution in the Eliot Street storm drain...
...said the owner of the building which houses Tanjore recently asked tenants not to dump waste in the drain in the alley next to the building. To limit waste, the owner also installed metal grates on the alley's drainage holes...
...according to Professor of English and American Literature Daniel G. Donoghue, England might have missed the millennium. The king's scribes, he said, kept faulty records, and may have thought the date was 1049 or 1069, when it was actually 999. The error was not discovered until it was already 1000, he said lightheartedly...
...Professor of Medieval History Thomas N. Bisson noted that relatively few people knew what the date was in 1000, and few people cared. The time of the new millennium was already a time of crisis, with a rapid increase in the numbers of castles and knights, Bisson said...
...Landes disagreed with their dismissal of first millennium tensions, and said that scribes manipulated the dates at the end of the millennium because they feared an apocalypse. They shifted their interpretation of the beginning of "A.D." to avoid the year...