There will be three more total solar eclipses before the end of the millennium, but none in East Asia.
Ironically, stockpiling virtually guarantees there will be commercial disruptions around the end of the millennium, even if technical fallout is no more than a hiccup.
By the end of that millennium, however, Butrint was in the hands of the Romans who smartened up the theatre and installed (predictably) a new bath house by the ancient city wall.
The pre-historic site of Choirokoitia, which was built at the end of the 7th millennium BC, during the Aceramic Neolithic Era, is now situated in Larnaca district.
The world didn't end at the turn of the Millennium, but the black cloud of doom hasn't appeared to have lifted over the Vetch.
So by the end of the first decade in the new millennium, Air Force fortunes were at a low ebb.
The timing, which combines a local recession and hints of the end of the dot.com bubble with worries about the millennium bug, is scarcely propitious.
It is also likely that companies everywhere will stockpile raw materials and finished goods ahead of the end of this year, for fear that the millennium bug might strike computers and disrupt their supply chain.
At the turn of this millennium, world leaders met at the United Nations and made an historic pledge to end poverty, to treat curable diseases, to give all children the schooling, food and future they deserve, to empower women and to protect the planet, our only home.
That is probably a reference to fears of a liquidity crunch at the end of the year as financial institutions hold back to avoid millennium-bug accidents indeed, such fears may make the Fed delay raising rates until next year.
This "biographical meditation" by noted novelist Gordon examines the life of an individual who still astonishes, fascinates and inspires us half a millennium after her fiery end.
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