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David Crumm

During the year 2000 , the British government is hoping that twelve million people will visit the Millennium Dome in London's Greenwich. In Rome, the Vatican is preparing for thirty million pilgrims. But in many countries around the globe, what is considered the upcoming millennium is irrelevant.

China, for example, uses the Roman calendar for official purposes and for business, but marriages, births, and deaths are recorded according to the Chinese calendar. Thailand celebrated its second millennium about forty-two years ago.

In Egypt, the year 2000 is just another number—one that coincides more or less with the Islamic year 1420. For the Jewish calendar, the year 2000 is the fifty-eighth century.

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