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Old 11-15-2009, 11:14 AM   #15
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Bah, humbug!
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A lot of people believe that the "new millennium" started in 2000. If that were the case (which of course it isn't), the "first decade" would end in dec 31st 2009.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote an excellent and extremely readable book on the subject: Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown. I haven't read the Revised Edition of that yet, but the original was great.
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