Century's End: An Orientation Manual Toward the Year 2000A Future Shock for the turn of the century, Century's End contains a rich trove of facts that will delight readers whose job it is to know what moods will befall us, what fears we need to assuage, and what ideas will claim our attention and our dollars as we near the beginning of the new millennium. |
Contents
The Legend of the Year 1000 I | 1 |
The Centuries Laid End to End 999 to 1901 | 13 |
The Legend of the Year 2000 | 199 |
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Common terms and phrases
20th century American Anno Domini Antichrist apocalypse appear astrological astronomical Augustan avant-garde become began beginning black hole Boniface born calendar Calvino celebration century's end century's turn chaos Christ Christian Church City civilization clocks consciousness Crusade cultural cycle dark death decade double dream earth ends of centuries English epoch Etruscan Europe European faith fear fin de siècle France French future global golden Harmonic Convergence heaven historian Holy human hundred images imam Islamic janiform January Janus Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Joachim Joachim of Fiore John Jubilee King language legend live Mars Martian messianic millenarian millennial millennium modern multiple personality Nostradamus nuclear numbers ourselves past peace planet Pole political Pope prophecies prophetic pyramid reform Revolution ritual Roman Rome saeculum Seleucid Era Shi'ite social society spirit stars suicide terror things third age thousand tion trans universal vision Western wrote Year's