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Sherlock Holmes is a new millennium sex symbol with books, movies, and TV episodes introducing him to a new generation of fans. The escalatory ladder is far more terrifying than it was on the eve of the millennium. The first World Series of the new millennium was an all-New York affair. Nor does he glow with exalted hopes of a millennium of bliss, or of the beatitudes of a future state. So far as I know, he never wrote a line that had not to do with "The Millennium.
In the millennium an educational genius will write a book to be given to every young man on the date of his disillusion. He was not satisfied with the Whigs, who believed that the Reform Bill would usher in a political millennium. Bands of Hungarian privates proved their belief in this millennium by sacking the warehouses in the docks under cover of night. A period of a thousand years foretold in the Book of Revelation. The first years end with the year , and the next thousand start with , the first year of the third millennium.
Imagine a vast army of soldiers, with 1, men in each row. In the first row are soldiers 1 to 1,, in the second, 1, to 2,, and in the third, 2, to 3, The third row starts with soldier 2, Or suppose you work 1, hours a year.
The first year, you work hours 1 to 1,, the second year hours 1, to 2,, and the third year begins with your 2,st hour of work. So we should definitely celebrate the official calendar millennium on January 1, But there is another millennium to celebrate: the millennium of the s, the years that begin with a 2. This change will affect every check we write, every letter we date. It is exciting to see all the digits roll over for the first time since the year advanced from to , when Ethelred II was king of England; as exciting as seeing the odometer in my Ferrari roll over from 99, to , or seeing the whole Senate roll over to new Senators which probably never will happen, but then again, I don't really have a Ferrari either.
Of course, this change in date is what causes the Y2K problems with computers, which will interpret '00 as instead of So maybe it's safer to wait until the official to celebrate. Another question remains: Where on Earth should the celebration begin? You may have seen on TV on New Year's Eve the earlier celebration of the new year in other time zones. The most common answer is Greenwich, England, on the prime meridian, the starting place of all time zones. The year , heralding the third millennium, will arrive earlier in England than in America, but it will arrive still earlier farther east in Moscow, still earlier in Japan that is why it is called the "Land of the Rising Sun" and so on until you hit the International Date Line and drop back to the previous day.
In fact, Fiji is right up against the degree meridian of longitude.
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