How To Use Millennium In A Sentence
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You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival?
Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
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By the 3rd millennium B.C., they had developed a primitive form of cost accounting, elaborate techniques of budgeting and planning, and calculative techniques for devising labor standards.
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In far northern Europe, bicephalous animal motifs seem to be traceable at least as far back as the early 7th millennium B.C.
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A people known as the Hyksos later seized control of the northern Nile valley, but the New Kingdom arose in the middle of the second millennium B.C. and extended its power all the way to the Euphrates River.
Alexander the Great
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A scientist who discovered that by holding down the shift key on your PC can bypass the copyright protection on music CDs has been threatened with legal action under America's infamous Millennium Act.
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Many, many people in the last two millenniums got into my way.
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The Glen Lyon Millennium Event takes the form of a horseshoe route which follows an old peat track past a flowing burn, replete with deep pools, rockfalls and ancient trees.
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Will the next millennium see man obsessed by athletic entertainment to the exclusion of other kinds of culture?
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It was the coming of the new Millennium that set him to thinking about writing a book.
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Congress is now debating agricultural policy for the new millennium.
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London's FTSE 100 index peaked at 6,900 at the turn of the millennium.
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Some of her archaeologist husband's finds can be seen in the museum, which is a must if you want to grasp the sophistication of Syrian art and civilisation of the two millenniums before Christ.
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Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
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Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility.
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Ironically, at the very end of this millennium, demotions, warnings, and anathemas have again come into vogue in several regions of our nation.
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As most folks know by now, this same issue underlies the great, unresolvable, and basically silly debate about whether the new millennium starts at the beginning of 2000 or of 2001.
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As the portentous millennium approached, evangelical thoughts turned to the long-awaited Second Coming of Christ and thence to Armageddon.
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(To do this, you have to break the copy-protection scheme -- an act that is specifically outlawed by the anticonsumer Digital Millennium Copyright Act.)
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For the millennium the hotel planted 600 trees to create an arboretum.
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What would be the point of Blackburn fans rejoicing in the victory over the ‘old enemy’ if many can't be bothered to cheer the side on to a potential semi-final clash at the Millennium Stadium?
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An exaggerated sense of antiquarianism, anthopologism, confusion of roles between the ordained and the non-ordained, a limitless provision of space for experimentation -- and indeed, the tendency to look down upon some aspects of the development of the Liturgy in the second millennium -- were increasingly visible among certain liturgical schools.
Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform
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Is couscous the trendy dish of the new millennium?
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It would be the perfect irony if today's opponents provided the spark that Scotland need to beat them in their own magnificent Millennium Stadium.
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Does the millennium begin with the year ending in zero or in one?
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A record crowd thronged the streets of Castlecomer on the first day of the new millennium.
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Although the date of the millennium is arbitrary, it has undeniably affected how people behave.
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The international community's historic commitment to slash worldwide poverty in half by 2015 -- known collectively as the Millennium Development Goals -- has resulted in real advances: Primary school enrollment is up, new cases of preventable diseases are down, and millions of people have climbed out of extreme poverty.
Martti Ahtisaari: World Leaders Must Address Global Youth Employment Crisis
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The Millennium Stadium on match days is absolutely brimming with redundant miners, with coal dust in their hair and their pick-axes left at the turnstiles.
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At the beginning of the first millennium of the Christian era, synagogues were all-purpose buildings for assembly in village and town.
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Are we looking at something kept immaculate like the USS Enterprise, something a bit grungier like the Millennium Falcon, or something else entirely?
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The Millennium Development Goals are outlined in eight respects, including eradication of poverty and hunger; universal elementary education; gender equity and women's autonomy; reduction of children's mortality; reduction of women's mortality; and the fight against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), paludism (malaria) and other diseases.
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Research is continuing, but it poses the question, do we have here a unique glazed stone item, reminiscent of the glazed steatite of 5th millennium Mesopotamia?
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The administrative reorganization of France into departments, sweeping away the jurisdictional jungle grown up over a millennium, survives not much altered to this day.
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THE JORDAN TIMES editorial, entitled "A Thought for Humanity", in the 25th of December edition of the THE JORDAN TIMES indicates the degree of impatience Jordan and other neighbouring Holy Land states are having with both Israel's and Hamas 'belligerent (i.e. round-the-wagons) approach to governance and failed peacemaking in this new Millennium.
William Walker Reports from Rachel's Tomb Checkpoint of the Massive Barrier Wall Near Bethlehem this Christmas
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He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.
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So, with the turn of the new millennium, and her two boys planning to head off to university, she quit her job and set herself up as a freelance HR consultant.
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Of course it's happened before – as recently as 2009 – but with so much worry about the power of the euro and the wealth of the French clubs, an Anglo-Irish set-to at the Millennium Stadium in three weeks would come like a breath of fresh air.
Leinster and Northampton can reverse trend and make French toast | Shaun Edwards
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The new millennium has also seen a swing in public opinion and political attitude towards independent education.
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The beginning of the new millennium brings renewed hope and new saviours.
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Shortly thereafter we enter a stretch of shallow pools and channels cut into the rock by a millennium of erosion.
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They played a big part in the rise and rise of crunk too, combining their old skool soul sensibilities with a new millennium base and creating something totally on their own, off the wall, unique, crazy and brilliant.
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Next up: Millennium Park's Crown Fountain retrofitted into blazing Prozac towers by CDC-licenced landscape architects.
Archive 2006-12-01
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He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.
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Mitchell overran the ball, had to reach back and pluck it barehanded from the sky, a guaranteed end-of-the-millennium highlight film clip.
USATODAY.com - Current players pick their favorite plays
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This book has unfolded the millennium latter mammoth humanity interspace epic poem!
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More than 2000 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers and Guiders from York, Selby and Tadcaster packed into York's Barbican Centre for their Millennium Thinking Day.
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The chances of finding the Thai Millennium coins in your change are very small.
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Masculine desperation is rapidly evolving into the vogue cinematic theme of the new millennium.
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Yet in a deeper sense the phrase is apt for the new millennium.
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Still, it must be remembered that the truly ecumenical councils of the first millennium produced great and charismatic saints to guide the church.
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Portlaw 2000 was set up by award-winning amateur photographer Sean O'Brien as a special project commemorating the Millennium and can now be seen by net browsers all over.
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However, the Millennium Volunteers initiative, set up by the Government in 1999, has set a new benchmark for youth volunteering.
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For a millennium before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early sixteenth century, great cities flourished close to what is now the lively Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, as they did elsewhere in Peru.
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While shuttling between the late 1960s and new millennium, the focus lingers claustrophobically on one hot summer holiday, by the seaside, when Julian's father was called away from his family and back to the prison.
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The first element of the vision was radical at the turn of the millennium.
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The Heritage at Millennium Park includes a doorman, an Olympic-sized indoor pool, a sundeck, a health club, a business center, a dog run and a storage room.
'Like New' in Chicago
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However, at the turn of the millennium, a gene called activation induced deaminase AID was discovered to be essential for all three processes.
3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb
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More than 300 six-year-old oak and beech trees have been chopped down at the Millennium Wood at Crowle, North Lincolnshire.
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One word, however, may still be said about that evolution of the race -- that progress which all creation, with mankind at its head, is ever destined to achieve century by century, millennium by millennium, manvantara by manvantara, and kalpa by kalpa.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
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First spotted at the beginning of the second millennium in a Latin-to-Anglo-Saxon glossary under the heading “Concerning Tools of Farmers,” it is now “a term of obloquy.”
No Uncertain Terms
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However, I had just made what I called my millennium resolution—a resolution for the next one thousand years.
The Sacred Promise
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They viewed the Civil War as the beginning of the ‘wars and rumors of wars’ that were prophesied would proceed the millennium.
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Shortly thereafter we enter a stretch of shallow pools and channels cut into the rock by a millennium of erosion.
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Oblivion from outer space is a suitably millennial topic, and is something for all the worriers and doomsters to dwell on now the world didn't end last Saturday and the Millennium Bug turned out to be about as threatening as a ladybird.
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She was sent to England, where she foaled the Kingmambo filly, to be bred to the ill-fated Dubai Millennium.
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In this case, not a lot has changed in the past millennium and a half, except that we're more likely to be wearied by tedium, ennui or heartsickness than by physical fatigue.
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Surely that thought is a good enough companion as we take our first faltering steps into the new century and the third millennium.
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People turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium
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More than 200 Yorkshire dignitaries, town mayors and mayoresses and Yorkshire Society representatives marched through York today in full regalia to celebrate the Millennium Yorkshire Day.
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First home on the nearside was Royal Millennium in fifth with the heavily-backed 7-2 favourite Frizzante just behind him on the stands' side in sixth.
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His Millennium Falcon was stationed on Hoth's Echo Base during the Imperial attack there.
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It takes its name from the early Christians' anticipation of Christ's Second Coming, to be followed by a millennium, or thousand-year reign of peace and tranquillity.
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Complaints about young people drinking in the Millennium town Park were aired at last week's meeting of the Town Council.
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Millennium Time Gallery in Beijing is already nine years of art history of professional arts institutions.
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She will also play her first concert in Wales at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on July 30.
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They also stepped up on their weapons cache since the turn of the millennium.
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This hole is the start of a project initiated to commemorate the millennium for the people of Trowbridge.
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They held a spectacular firework display to mark the new millennium.
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It would have made clear that this administration had a sense of historic purpose and that it was not going to funk the most important single issue facing Britain in the new millennium.
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To the rest of the Millennium frosh: university isn't always peaches and cream, but I hope when all is said and done, these were the best times of your lives.
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The new millennium was marked by special awards.
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Acupuncture was practised in China as long ago as the third millennium BC.
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A couple of moments do flag, but Millennium artistic director John Gunn mostly keeps his actors moving briskly through their paces.
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In re-inventing Manchester for the new millennium, the city council has proved very astute.
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With such sartorial concessions not available any longer, men of the new millennium need to refer to good bespoke tailors or salesmen retailers to find out how long the tie should hang.
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For the first millennium of mankind's navigation of the seas, we only skimmed the surface.
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York Volleyball Club have good reason to celebrate a memorable Millennium season both on and off the court.
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It was elaborated upon by the Byzantines, but in essence it was a system that endured for another millennium - far longer than the original Empire.
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Byzantium continued to flourish for yet another millennium.
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The tripartite agreement between Carmarthenshire County Council, the National Assembly and the Millennium Commission will now be presented to the attraction's board of trustees.
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Fukuyama reinvents this narrative of technology's capacity to usher in a new millennium, by suggesting that the paradise we are destined to find at the end of history is not that of Milton, but of Adam Smith.
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Visible outdoors is the Frank Gehry-designed bandshell in Chicago's Millennium Park.
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Make sure the Millennium Stadium is full, boyos, and you might just do it.
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But fifty years is a long time, he added; the millennium was approaching.
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The huge influx of cash at the turn of the millennium led to the whole Web being built in the image of the Bay area.
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Whatever grand claims spin-doctors make of their fabled and bewitching powers, they can no more teach a dunce to run the Department for Education than make a marquee the most exciting destination of the new millennium.
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A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.
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In his recent writings, Millennium People [10] and Kingdom Come, [11] Ballard depicts a Britain bereft of social values other than those of daytime TV and the shopping centre, and while his central characters can lack credibility his general description of the cultural landscape is far more accurate than almost anything that has been published in the pages of any recent architectural publication.
Ballardian » A Near Future: Nic Clear’s Tribute to JG Ballard
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But we discover that the commission given in Matthew 28: 18-20 was for their ministry in the millennium.
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There are concrete beams, two kinds of truss, a suspension arch (like a miniature Sydney Harbour Bridge) and finally the elegant and ingenious Millennium Bridge: imagine a pair of wishbones joined at the tips.
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Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, has been used to make sculptural objects as early as the seventh millennium BC.
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The idea of welcoming in the new millennium by standing in the cold outside government buildings without a drink to raise in a toast did not, it seems, appeal to most of the capital's population.
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Over the course of the millennium, the sea level could rise by 20 feet.
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When delirious crowds tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989 many hallucinated that a millennium of borderless freedom was at hand.
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What did you do to celebrate the millennium?
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Of course it's happened before – as recently as 2009 – but with so much worry about the power of the euro and the wealth of the French clubs, an Anglo-Irish set-to at the Millennium Stadium in three weeks would come like a breath of fresh air.
Leinster and Northampton can reverse trend and make French toast | Shaun Edwards
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Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ); Millennium Indicators Database.
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His books - "Millennium Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine" (Ten Speed Press, 1998, $24.95) and "The Artful Vegan: Fresh Flavors from the Millennium Restaurant" (Ten Speed Press, 2003, $24.95) - offer recipes for elements such as dressings and sauces that can be used to create his fancy fare, or to dress up a simple dish you might make at home.
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From these remote outposts, about a dozen species of Caribbean parrot saw in the third millennium.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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At least the frugal Germans and their coin hoards will bring some joy to archaeologists in the fourth millennium.
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A couple of moments do flag, but Millennium artistic director John Gunn mostly keeps his actors moving briskly through their paces.
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We thoroughly enjoyed a trip to Maxi's Restaurant in the dying days of the last Millennium - until we got the bill.
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The new millennium begins with the launch of a new orbiter and a lander, ideally with a rover payload.
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Moreover, many of the persistent autocracies of the Middle East and North Africa—most notably Iran, Iraq, and Egypt—antedate Islam by more than a millennium.
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Over a millennium, through long-range canoe voyages, their distinctive pottery was distributed throughout the Pacific at sites from the Bismarck Archipelago in eastern Papua New Guinea to Samoa.
East Rennell, Solomon Islands
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Since 1993, Oakhurst has been helping to reforest the Portland area through the Oakhurst Millennium Tree Challenge.
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The meaning of life and the struggle for power are aspects our society still grapples with as we enter into the new millennium.
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Maybe in a millennium or two, they'll be able to follow you through three collapsar jumps like following footprints.
A Separate War
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In the discussion over the turn of the Millennium, disregarding the finer point of exactly when that may be, I heard one startling comparison.
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We are now entering the third millennium and we are about to collide with a post-modern, post-Christian world.
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Shanghai was to become tile economic engine - room which would send China hurtling into the new millennium.
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For better than half the worlds population that had been mired in the muck of socialism for half a century and several millennium of feudal slavery before that, to suddenly break free and to begin to realize some of their innate potentials as human beings is truly one of the great events in human history.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Thought for the Day
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For all of its bagginess and verbosity, though, "Millennium People" does occasionally show Ballard to good effect—particularly his acute sense of the absurd middle-class protesters wave signs that read: "We don't like the kind of people we've become" and his icy skill with scenes of violence.
'The Bonfire Of the Volvos'
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A millennium and more since their final fall, little remains of the limites today but ruins and echoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or maybe flaming disembodies testicles are just the flaming dice of the new millennium.
My Bike, It's Full of Stars! Every Material, Every Color, All the Time
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The Millennium Stadium avoids climatic crassness by being the first one in the UK to have a roof that can be completely closable over the pitch.
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As we start the new millennium the only certainty is change, and lots of it.
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Orton-based Tony Hull, of Eden Media, who did Orton's millennium video, took out his camera in all weathers to capture such rites of passage as lambing, shearing and horn burning.
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Africa can make an even greater mark during the next millennium provided we all join hands and refuse to be distr acted by temporary setbacks.
Address at Howard University, Washington
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Dubai Millennium had fractured a bone in his hind leg on the gallops earlier that morning.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Current infrastructure policies are in some respects ill equipped to deal with the current backlogs, let alone the challenges of the next millennium.
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However, the Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century continued to hold the Augustinian view of the millennium; nevertheless they suggested changes in eschatological interpretation that led to a renewal of premillennialism in the seventeenth century.
The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America!
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No floods, no fires, no storms, a major moonquake is a minor earthquake -- and significant meteor impacts happen once a millennium.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Finally there are the everyday bits and pieces of life on earth in the new millennium — a smorgasbord of climate change, natural and unnatural disasters, the political ergotism presently infecting America, animal news, poetry, technology, good books and better gossip.
Archive 2009-12-01
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He never hit a duff note, running through Road To Mandalay, Eternity, She's The One and Millennium.
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After completion, this will provide a firm base to push the Pattaya Sports Club into the new Millennium.
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How can this be reconciled with the market-driven, high-octane, modernising spirit of the new millennium?
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The citizens approached the residents of Brigade Millennium apartments to see if some work could be done on the roads.
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people turn to mysticism at the turn of a millennium
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Dubai Millennium had fractured a bone in his hind leg on the gallops earlier that morning.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Belief in a future millennium either preceding or following (postmillennialism) the second coming of Christ, when he will reign on earth in a kingdom of his saints.
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An incongruent digital clock atop a regal edifice displayed the minutes to the millennium - and beyond.
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When reminded that he was once designated the ‘frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium,’ Cumming says he found it ‘hilarious.’
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The start of a new decade, century and millennium, the Year 2000 naturally created some collective uneasiness.
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By the 1st millennium bc iron tyres were being fixed to the outside of the rim of spoked wheels, proving to be a far more robust yet lightweight structure.
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What is it about a fourteenth-century English anchoress that could be so appealing to people living at the beginning of the second millennium?
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The long road to Cardiff's Millennium Stadium - rather than Wembley - begins tomorrow for a number of non-league clubs in the region.
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The chances of finding the Thai Millennium coins in your change are very small.
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We have children waiting in the pouring rain, in a roofless hut, their eyes eagerly awaiting the arrival of their teacher to guide them into the new millennium.
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Who else but HBO could truly do justice to an unexpurgated concert special showcasing the Madonna of the new millennium: the protean and prolific and perversely unpredictable Lady Gaga.
Matt's Weekend Picks: May 6-8
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There was room for two people to move comfortably, and a little altar of rock, at which Probus had prayed from sunrise to sunset, mortifying the flesh, dreaming of the Millennium.
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You will need more than a bachelor's, master's or Ph.D. degree to be successful in the new millennium.
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And yet the state, which includes all the citizens of the state, believes that it can blot out this wisdom of mine in the final dark by means of a rope about my neck and the abruptive jerk of gravitation — this wisdom of mine that was incubated through the millenniums, and that was well hatched ere the farmed fields of Troy were ever pastured by the flocks of nomad shepherds!
Chapter 1
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Despite an expansion of population in the preceding half millennium, the region was still sparsely populated compared with West Africa and the interlacustrine region.
E. West Central Africa
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YANG LIWEI, CHINESE ASTRONAUT (translated): This mission has achieved the millennium dream of the Chinese people to fly in space, and I am very proud of this accomplishment.
CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2006
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Let South Asia truly become the invincible giant of the new millennium.
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No narrow patriotism of race, country or religion will stand in the way of the millennium of universal peace.
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Notwithstanding that only a few men yearn to be compleat gentlemen - to live chivalrously - the yearning is a constant, from one millennium to the next.
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Through half-shut eyes, it was possible to imagine the matchlessly fertile land the first explorers glimpsed, and to ponder what they might have made of the developments of the subsequent half-millennium.
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Domestication led to the emergence, as early as the 6th millennium bc, of cultivated barley with firmly attached grains.
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We are preparing to celebrate the bimillennium of St. Paul's birth with a special jubilee year.
Archive 2008-06-22
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The scientists made the measured cautious statement on page 1294 col 2 penult para of their paper “Thus, proxy-derived series suggest that twentieth century warming is unique in the last millennium for both its mean value and probably for its rapidity of change.”
Stern Review – Technical Appendix « Climate Audit
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He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.
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The increasingly centralised organisation of the third millennium BC created a disciplined labour force, which was used to build vast royal monuments and elite tombs.
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Given my propensities and proclivities, I do not know how, in this symbolic sense, I could have spent the inception of the millennium in a more meaningful way.
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The last time I was in the Holy City, in 1999, on the eve of the new millennium, local officials expected a large outbreak of the so-called Jerusalem syndrome, defined by doctors from the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center in a paper published by the British Journal of Psychiatry as “a psychotic decompensation… related to religious excitement induced by proximity to the holy places of Jerusalem.”
The Lampshade
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Inside you can attempt to ponder the meaning of a millennium of art, from fat cherubs to blotchy irises.
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It was the coming of the new Millennium that set him to thinking about writing a book.
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There can be no better time to have a wildly optimistic outlook than at the birth of a new millennium.
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York's year of Millennium celebrations are to be captured on videotape for posterity for present and future generations.
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Consequently, in a new millennium that has been dominated by Hollywood blockbusters and British rom-coms, many film buffs have been looking abroad for their cinematic kicks.
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Late in the 3rd millennium BC, a round barrow was raised over a Beaker grave at Hemp Knoll in the chalk downland of southern England, three miles south-west of Avebury in Wiltshire.
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The Millennium Bug, you may remember, was first erroneously applied to the Year 2000 bug, which singularly failed to cause any particularly big problems when the year clicked over to the 1st of January 2000.
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Grubby white and blue crystal towers, cliffs and crevasses soar up from the water, dispatching millenniums of compacted snow in the shape of seals, water lilies and bishops' mitres.
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For example, in terms of the talkbacks, the lecture demonstrations that I would hear at Millennium or at the Filmmakers' Cooperative, the artists would very often present the film as part of a theory.
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The basic relevant facts are that carbon emissions are not the principal, nor even a measurable, factor in global warming, and despite dire forecasts and ever-increasing carbon emissions in the world - especially as the economies of China and India, representing 40 percent of the world's population, expand by 6 to 10 percent each year - the world has not grown a millidegree warmer since the start of this millennium.
National Review Online
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There's a swoopy, somewhat incongruous Frank Gehry building in Millennium Park in Chicago," says a famous architecture critic who wishes to remain nameless for fear of being perceived as a revolting, disgusting philistine who ought to be hanged, drawn, quartered and then shot, but only after being blinded and flayed alive.
An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure
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Over a dinner of something called herbed millennium tofu spread, goat-cheese mousse, free-range organic chicken and a phyllo purse stuffed with quinoa, their conversation turned to the much-maligned auctioning of Asher Durand’s Kindred Spirits by the New York Public Library back in May.
The Transom
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Ready or not, the Millennium Year is on us, barraging us with a dizzying array of high-flying hype about the wonders of the New Age.
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Born in the last year of the Victorian era, she lived to see in the new millennium after a century of turbulence and profound social change.
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As the new millennium dawned and state-wide demand for power surged, the crisis broke.
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Such testosterone-laden yarns do not wear well a millennium on.
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My beliefs are that God may have designed the universe, but did it over more than a week maybe we got our units of time mixed up; a day should be what we call a millennium?
Dreams of Japan Part I: train station ballrooms, sword dances and a female shrine
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Suppose this point then settled, for anything would be remarkable and highly rememberable which comes near to a common familiar fraction of so vast a period in human affairs as a millennium [a term consecrated to our Christian ears, (1) by its use in the Apocalypse; (2) by its symbolic use in representing the long Sabbath of rest from sin and misery, and finally (3) even to the profane ear by the fact of its being the largest period which we employ in our historical estimates].
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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On the other hand, it is also rather weak on the later centuries of the first millennium of the Christian era.
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At the end of the first millennium, he says, the smart money would have bet that Europe would become Muslim or Nordic or Slavic pagan, or maybe Byzantine Christian.
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Many chiliasts believed that in the millennium all manner of physical craving would be satiated, that men would find all women beautiful, and willing to partake in carnal delights.
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All reliable information points to the fact that the Y2K Virus ( Millennium Bug ) will create havoc with computer systems worldwide at the turn of the century .
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Residents along the route are asked in this Millennium Year to decorate their households by flying flags, bunting, etc.
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So it came as something of a surprise that the dawn of the new Millennium brought nothing but catastrophe and confusion to the aerospace giant.
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Start with a coffee in the Winter Garden (90 Surrey St, sheffield.gov.uk), a vast modern glasshouse, before tackling local urban artist Kid Acne's Kill Your Darlings exhibition, on at the neighbouring Millennium Gallery (Arundel Gate, museums-sheffield.org.uk, until 23 October).
Five great British city breaks
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It is often said, for example, that Evans was interpreting Minoan civilization and the basis of its power in the early second millennium BC according to the model of the British Empire: the Minoan control of the sea ( "thalassocracy") was a reflection of the power of the British navy.
Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery
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By the 2nd millennium BC, Mesopotamian script changed from pictographic to cuneiform writing (wedge shaped signs representing sounds instead of objects), and by around 2000BC the first true alphabetic system (where a phoneme is represented by a letter) appeared.
The History Of Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
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The chocoholics among us won't be surprised to learn that people were sipping decoctions of cacao a millennium earlier than archaeologists had previously thought.
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But, thanks to Heaney's artistic taxidermy, the story and all it symbolizes will endure well into the new millennium.
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Well, hate to burst your History Channel bubble, but we lasted hundreds of years before we "crumbled" and even then, part of us continued for a whole millennium.
John Marshall: An Open Letter From Ancient Rome
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Yesterday while I was driving in my car, a heard a radio journalist on Safm describe the Millennium Bug - which is commonly referred to as Y2K as "the most dangerous formula ever since the creation of the formula for the nuclear bomb".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The simple thesis of postmillennialism is that Jesus will literally return to the earth after the Millennium begins.
Think Progress » Tony Blair agrees that Iraq has
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Now 30, he's recently been awarded the accolade of Renaissance Man For The Millennium, though he doesn't seem too chuffed about it.
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Amongst the earliest structures revealed during the survey were trackways from the 4th millennium BC, visible only very rarely at extreme low water.
