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Article #432Re: The New Century & Millenium Does Not Start On January 1, 2000
From: Mark Rogaski
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 00:00
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An entity claiming to be Ed Jackson wrote: : [Snip] : : The overwhelming consenus of popular opinion seems to be that Dec. 31, : 1999 will be the last day of the 20th century. Just check with travel : agents on the availability of hotel rooms in or near Greenwich, England : (site of the prime meridian) on Dec. 31, 1999 compared with Dec. 31, 2000. : : Ed Jackson AN excellent discussion of the issue is _Questioning The Millenium_ by Stephen Jay Gould (of _Eight Little Piggies_ and _The Panda's Thumb_ fame). Mark -- [] Mark Rogaski "That which does not kill me [] wendigoNO@SPAMpobox.com only makes me stranger." [] finger wendigoNO@SPAMdeathstar.jabberwock.org for PGP key [] remove NO & SPAM to reply or finger [] anti spambot: postmaster@localhost abuse@localhost uce@ftc.gov
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6cc7,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6cc7,public X-Google-Thread: 10a12a,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a12a,public X-Google-Thread: fa15f,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa15f,public X-Google-Thread: 10374a,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gid10374a,public X-Google-Thread: fa37c,3bac5a05095fea77 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa37c,public From: wendigo@deathstar.jabberwock.org (Mark Rogaski) Subject: Re: The New Century & Millenium Does Not Start On January 1, 2000 Date: 1998/08/03 Message-ID: <slrn6sb033.o0k.wendigo@deathstar.jabberwock.org> X-Deja-AN: 377432213 References: <6ptd1j$c2b$1@news7.ispnews.com> <35c26a7a.167433871@news.surfshop.net> <jackson-3107982343180001@di07-011.cviog.uga.edu> Reply-To: wendigoNO@SPAMpobox.com Newsgroups: nj.general,ny.general,pa.general,ga.general,nc.general