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Daisy wrote:Thanks for correcting it Maria Esther. I guessed the first typo but "Is Bush" really had me puzzling!
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:lol: :lol: Idiot.

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IceMaiden wrote: Here's something I heard and thought it a neat little fact:
At midnight last night every single adult on the planet will have been born in the last millenium and every child born in this one.
That's confused me! I thought this millennium runs from 2001 to 3100...

Happy New Year, y'all. :D
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Moonraker wrote:That's confused me! I thought this millenium runs from 2001 to 3100...
Now I'm confused! How does 3100 come into it?! :? Mind you, I never understood the idea that the new millennium started in 2001. For me it definitely started in 2000. ;-)
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Rob Houghton wrote: Mind you, I never understood the idea that the new millennium started in 2001. For me it definitely started in 2000. ;-)
No it didn't — because the "AD" calendar started with the year 1, not the year 0. So as the year 2 started, there had been one year of that century, and so on. So it wasn't until the year 2000 finished — i.e. as we changed to 2001 — that there had actually been 2000 years, supposedly, since the birth of Jesus.

(I say "supposedly" because scholars figured out a long time ago that the Christian calendar is out by several years — as far as I remember, it's because Herod the Great, who plays a (nasty) role in the Christmas story, died in what we now call the year 4 BC, so Jesus must have been born before that. But never mind. :wink: )
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Rob Houghton wrote:
Moonraker wrote: That's confused me! I thought this millenium runs from 2001 to 3100...
:D
Now I'm confused! How does 3100 come into it?!
My mistake! It ends in 3000, Rob. :roll:

I still don't understand IceMaiden's comment...
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Ah! Now I'm less confused! :wink:

I do understand the fact that there was no 'year zero'...but surely there was, if we are calculating it (supposedly) from the birth of Christ...as everyone has a 'year zero' before they become one...so he was actually born in 'year zero' by my reckoning! :wink:

Anyway...practically the whole world celebrated the new millennium at midnight 1999/2000, whether its right or wrong! I know there were a lot of arguments against it at the time though. :-D
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Rob Houghton wrote:
I do understand the fact that there was no 'year zero'...but surely there was, if we are calculating it (supposedly) from the birth of Christ...as everyone has a 'year zero' before they become one...so he was actually born in 'year zero' by my reckoning! :wink:
No. Christ was (allegedly, and certainly as a starter for our yearly system) born in 1AD - anno Domini translates as "in the year of our Lord", not one year later! The year before his birth was 1BC.
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Ah...okay...the light is slowly dawning! ;-)
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Moonraker wrote:
Rob Houghton wrote:
Moonraker wrote: That's confused me! I thought this millenium runs from 2001 to 3100...
:D
Now I'm confused! How does 3100 come into it?!
My mistake! It ends in 3000, Rob. :roll:

I still don't understand IceMaiden's comment...
If I've got it right, it's because everybody 18 or over born on or before 11:59pm on Dec 13 1999 is an adult. Anybody born after 12:00am on Jan 1 2000 is going to be a child. Even if they turned 18 at midnight Sunday they would still have been born within the new millenium. That's how it was explained to me anyway :P .
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IceMaiden wrote: If I've got it right, it's because everybody 18 or over born on or before 11:59pm on Dec 13 1999 is an adult. Anybody born after 12:00am on Jan 1 2000 is going to be a child. Even if they turned 18 at midnight Sunday they would still have been born within the new millenium. That's how it was explained to me anyway :P .
Except that won't be true until 1 Jan 2019, when it actually IS 18 years after the start of the new millennium. :twisted: :wink:
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Rob Houghton wrote:Ah...okay...the light is slowly dawning! ;-)
The Romans didn't know the number zero, it was introduced by arabs after they had aquired it from the Indians (if I remember correctly) in Europe.
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Does it really matter whether the new millennium started in 2000 or 2001? You all just ruined the effect of Ice Maiden's Grand Realization. :( :lol:
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Darrell71 wrote:Does it really matter whether the new millenium started in 2000 or 2001? You all just ruined the effect of Ice Maiden's Grand Realization. :( :lol:
It only matters if getting things correct matter to you. Incidentally, millennium contains a double-n. (Thanks to Rob for being gracious enough not to point out my initial mistake - now corrected! :oops: ) :lol:

Thanks for the explanation, IceMaiden, the light is slowly dawning for me, too! . I would never have worked that out - even if I left it year!
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Moonraker wrote: Incidentally, millennium contains a double-n. (Thanks to Rob for being gracious enough not to point out my initial mistake - now corrected! :oops: ) :lol:
I only spelled it correctly because with one 'm' the word was underlined in red when I typed it, so I right-clicked on it and up popped the correct spelling! ;-)

I'm not one of the best spellers, and rely on spell-check way too often! :oops:
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