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Re: Millennium, what Millenium????
GOOD point. I'm glad someone reminded us all that it's only a Western,
Christian millenium--although now the global business mode as well, I
suppose.
Sylvia Bugbee
Assistant Archivist
University of Vermont
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Wright, Craig wrote:
> Of course it is not a millenium at all if you use a non Gregorian
> calendar
>
> 5760 in the Hebraic calendar
> 2544 in the Buddhist calendar
> 2000 in the Gregorian calendar
> 1716 in the Copt calendar
> 1420 in the Islamic calendar
> 1378 in the Persian calendar
> Dragon year in the Chinese calendar
>
>
> > The world is a clock and this clock needs a watchmaker
> - Voltaire
>
> A nice humorous piece about this millenium silliness:
> http://www.rawilson.com/thought.html
>
>
> Craig G. Wright
> Associate Curator of Manuscript Acquisitions
> Minnesota Historical Society
> 651.296.7989 craig.wright@mnhs.org
>
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