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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Event celebrated at midnight on 1 January 2000 by the majority of the world's population. Although the official start of the new millennium, according to the Greenwich Observatory and the US Naval Observatory, is 1 January 2001, ‘millennium fever’ hit many Western countries in 1999, especially in the UK where a series of millennium grants, funded by National Lottery money and administered by the Millennium Commission , were awarded to people to help them celebrate the occasion. It is arguable that Britain feels a particular affinity with the celebration because the UK is the home of the Greenwich Observatory, London, where the Greenwich meridian is measured from. Events occurring in the UK in 1999 included the building of the controversial government-sponsored Millennium Dome , as well as privately funded events such as the construction of the London Eye, sponsored by British Airways, in Jubilee Gardens, Westminster, London. Other countries also planned events for the celebration – …
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From Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained
The thousand-year period of peace foretold in certain biblical passages that it is believed will ensue after Christ has returned to earth. For many Christians, the millennium is a literal period of a thousand years immediately following the return of Christ to earth; it will be an era of peace, when…
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
The arrival of the year 2000 (strictly speaking a bimillennium) fired the imagination of many countries, and special ceremonies were devised to mark the event. In Britain the focus was on the Millennium Experience exhibition by the Thames in London, where the two talking points were the Millennium…
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From The Macquarie Dictionary
millennia /m7'l8ni7/, /muh'leneeuh/, millenniums a period of a thousand years. millenniums, millennia noun /m7'l8ni7m/ /muh'leneeuhm/ millennia /m7'l8ni7/, /muh'leneeuh/, millenniums one of the successive periods of 1000 years reckoned forwards or backwards from ... …
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
A thousand years (Latin mille , ‘thousand’, and annus , ‘year’). In Revelation 20:2 it is said that an angel bound Satan for a thousand years, and verse 4 tells of certain martyrs who will come to life again who ‘lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years’. ‘This’, says St john , ‘is the first…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Event celebrated at midnight on 1 January 2000 by the majority of the world's population. Although the official start of the new millennium, according to the Greenwich Observatory and the US Naval Observatory, is 1 January 2001, ‘millennium fever’ hit many Western countries in 1999, especially in…
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From Good Word Guide
This word and its plural form millennia are often misspelt, the most frequent error being the omission of the second n : • Over the millenia, as earth movements cause new formations ( Reader's Digest advertisement for Marvels and Mysteries of the World Around Us ). Spelling mistakes may be avoided…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
The ‘Millennium’ (from the Latin for ‘1,000 years’) is a term in Christian eschatology derived from Revelation 20. The seer here relates a vision of the end times: after the Devil has been bound for 1,000 years (v. 3), ‘those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God…
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From Essential Bible Dictionary
A term meaning “one thousand years.” The phrase the millennium is used to identify the period described in Rev. 20:1 – 6. The view known as premillennialism teaches that Jesus returns before the millennium to establish a literal one-thousand-year reign on earth. OVERVIEW OF MICAH AUTHOR: The prophet…
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Full text Article Millennium Bridge

From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
A name bestowed in honour of the millennium (strictly speaking a bimillennium) on three bridges intended to be opened in the year 2000 (providing yet another opportunity for pedants to point out that the millennium was in 2001). In London, it denotes a footbridge over the River THAMES 1 , linking…
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Full text Article Millennium Dome

From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
A circular structure with a shallow domed roof, designed by Richard Rogers and built, at a cost of over £800 million, on a tract of previously derelict land on the GREENWICH Peninsula (SE10) as the central venue for London's official millennium celebrations on 31 December 1999 and to house the…
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