Hi;
I'm getting sick and tired of hearing about this "millenium" thingy.
Enough already! If the millenium is to be discussed, start a separate
mailing list.
Keeping this in mind, here's my 2 cents; <BG>
Millennium Facts (courtesy of uselessknowlege.com):
- According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the first populated land
where the Sun will rise in the new millennium (and at the beginning of
any other year) is at Kahuitara Point (44� 16' S 176� 9' W) on Pitt
Island in the Chatham Islands, a dependency of New Zealand.
- The U.S. Library of Congress has compiled a 232-source bibliography
on the subject of when, properly speaking, centuries roll over. Almost
all of the sources agree that the twentieth century will not end until
December 31, 2000.
- How many days in a millennium? The calendar system that was in use
during a particular millennium determines the actual number of days that
elapse during that time span.
o The First Millennium (1 - 1000 AD) consisted of 365,250 days.
o Our current millennium (1001 - 2000 AD) will consist of 365,237
days.
o The Third Millennium (2001 - 3000 AD) will consist of 365,242
days.
- Is the year 2000 a leap year? According to the Gregorian calendar,
which is the civil calendar in use today, years evenly divisible by 4
are leap years, with the exception of centurial years that are not
evenly
divisible by 400. Therefore, the years 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not
leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years.
- The Times Square "time ball" is named the "Star of Hope". It was
specially made for this year and contains 504 glass crystals cut into
triangles, 600 light bulbs, 96 big lights, and 92 mirrors.
- While the world was busy welcoming the arrival of the twentieth
century on December 31, 1900, a forceful gale on England's Salisbury
Plain blew over one of the ancient monumental stones at Stonehenge.
- The official time ball for the U.S. is on top of the U.S. naval
Observatory in Washington, D.C. As early as 1845, the U.S. Navy dropped
a time ball every noon from atop a building on a hill overlooking
Washington,
D.C. People from many miles could set their watches at noon. Ships
anchored in the Potomac River could check their chronometers.
- In December 1997, the state of Nevada (USA) became the first state to
pass legislation categorizing Y2K data disasters as "acts of God"--
protecting the state from lawsuits that may potentially be brought
against
it by residents in the year 2000.
- The difference between a "millennium" and a "chiliad"? None. Both
words mean "a period of one thousand years" -- the former from Latin,
the later from Greek.
- If we were to up-turn the Millennium Dome at Greenwich, London, it
would take 3.8 billion half-liters of beer to fill it up. For more on
the Dome, go to:
http://www.univ-pau.fr/ser/UFR_LE/ANGLAIS/Voyage98/CRDome.html
Joe Caverly
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