millennium

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He added: "We should be proud to sit here as embodiments of the hereditary principle dating back a millennium."

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

Though “The Rules of Attraction” failed to have a broader cultural impact, it became a minor commercial success and a brief staple of early millennium gay culture, achieving the cult status it was destined for.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

These accounts describe a world where traveling through Samaria was a part of daily life, proving that a millennium after the kings of Israel, the world still used these names.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Then something pretty extraordinary happened: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sent a letter to Ronald Reagan proposing they “enter the third millennium without nuclear weapons.”

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

They apparently did not arrive until the first millennium A.D., long after their domestication in Asia, because they had to wait for large-scale boat traffic across the Indian Ocean.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond