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China's balanced development is helping it achieve the goals it set at the beginning of the millennium, said a representative of the United Nations.
:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-07/19/content_10121471.htmChina's balanced development is helping it achieve the goals it set at the... more
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The first decade of the 21st Century is drawing to a close. 10 years ago the world waited with anticipation for the year 2000. Some with hope, some with dread. Many thought the world would end either by God’s doing or by faulty computers. Remember Y2K? Anyway 2000 came and went as did 2001 for those crusty pedantic people who maintain 2001 was the real first year of the millennium – though all the big soiree were scheduled on New Year’s Eve 1999 (as Prince would have wanted it).
Where were you when the new Millennium dawned? Were you partying it up like there would be no tomorrow as some prophesied or were you at home cleaning the guns waiting for the Apocalypse of civilization?
I was at a New Age Concert thrown at the Pyramids of Giza. http://samuraidave.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/the-millennium-new-years-at-the-great-pyramids/
For the 2001 New Years, I was working at a country&western club in Austin, Texas getting my lip chewed on by some tasty fillies.
Post your comments or video responses on your memories of what you were doing when the Millennium(s) dawned.The first decade of the 21st Century is drawing to a close. 10 years ago the world... more
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"In the final months of the second Christian millennium there was a belief in parts of south-eastern Europe that an apocalyptic war was about to break out. It was especially strong among devout Orthodox Christians in Greece. Apart from the onset of the year 2000, the mood was stimulated by real political events and it had real consequences.
As NATO dropped its bombs over Serbia, there was a genuine risk that conflict might engulf the Balkans and possibly Russia. Meanwhile Turkey’s security chiefs were muttering darkly about punishing Greece for abetting Kurdish terrorists. In this anxious climate, many Greeks warmed to the fiery rhetoric of an Archbishop of Athens who denounced his country’s government for (very cautiously) curbing the power of the Church. The rise of religious-nationalist sentiment in Greece and elsewhere exacerbated an already high level of regional tension and created a danger that apocalyptic talk could become self-fulfilling.
Something similar happened all over Europe and the Middle East around the turn of the first Christian millennium. That is the central theme of an enjoyable and exuberantly argued book by a British historian, Tom Holland, who combines sound scholarly credentials with a gift for storytelling on a magisterial scale. To cut a long and complex tale short, he suggests that the 1,000-year landmark in the Christian calendar (whose effect was felt throughout the following century) helped to stimulate a mood of impending apocalypse, and a tendency to interpret troubling geopolitical events, such as victories by the Berbers in Spain or the Turks in Anatolia, in apocalyptic terms.
This mood created a favourable background for zealous forms of religion—the sort of religion that thrives when people see little virtue in marrying, breeding or building up private property. That in turn made it easier for clerical power to trump the worldly kind. Having extended their influence at the expense of purely earthly powers, the theocrats had an interest in keeping geopolitical tension on the boil.""In the final months of the second Christian millennium there was a belief in... more
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Baby boomers, generation Xers, and now the Millennials. Just what does our future generations have in store for us? In our rapidly changing world how is our culture evolving?
This video explores our young and the ideals brought into the workplace. Watch as the baby boomers freak out at the new view brought to work ...
Baby boomers, generation Xers, and now the Millennials. Just what does our future... more
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The bridge lowers one February 2006 evening. Captured from the art gallery across The bridge.The bridge lowers one February 2006 evening. Captured from the art gallery across The... more
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Celebrating the Millennium in 2007? Ethiopians celebrate the Millennium 7 years after most of the rest of us, but that doesn't mean the parties are any smaller!Celebrating the Millennium in 2007? Ethiopians celebrate the Millennium 7 years after... more
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