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Significant persons Thomas Aquinas , Italian theologianGenghis Khan , Mongolian conquerorDante Alighieri , Italian poetChristopher Columbus , Spanish explorerMartin Luther , German religious reformerRené Descartes , French philosopher and mathematicianNicholas Copernicus , French astronomer and mathematicianMiguel de Cervantes , Spanish playwright and novelistGalileo Galilei , Italian scientistWilliam Shakespeare , British playwright and poetIsaac Newton , British scientistCharles Darwin , British natural scientistBenjamin Franklin , American founding father and scientistThomas Jefferson , American founding father and presidentNapoleon Bonaparte , French conqueror and emperorAbraham Lincoln , American presidentOtto von Bismarck , German chancellorFriedrich Nietzsche , German philosopherKarl Marx , German political philosopherSigmund Freud , Austrian psychoanalystVladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin , Soviet leadersFranklin D. Roosevelt , American presidentAdolf Hitler , German dictatorWinston Churchill , British prime ministerAlbert Einstein , German physicistWilliam Gates , Computer engineer
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The difference between the Millennium and year 2000 (378 words)
The reason why the 3rd Millennium / 21st Century starts in 2001 is because there was no year 0 (or AD 0, 0 BC). The next (2nd ) Millennium starts 1000 years after the first, that is in year 1+1000 = 1001. The 21st Century and the 3rd Millennium by the U.S. Naval Observatory
NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 3rd millennium AD (398 words)
NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 3rd millennium AD The United States, India and China account for a third of all arable and permanent cropland in the world. The third millennium AD is a period of time which began on January 1, 2001 and will end on December 31, 3000. There was also a third millennium BC, which began (by the modern calendar) on January 1, 3000 BC and ended on December 31, 2001 BC.
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