Word: millennium
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...authentic Norwegian Royal House had been extinct for some 27 generations, for more than half a millennium. The Norwegian people had learned to speak Danish under Danish kings for several hundred years before their "union" with Sweden. In 1905, although they might not exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted...
...dear dead days before the present millennium had set in, diplomacy was secret, diplomats secretive and suave. The late Sir Arthur Nicolson (1849-1928), onetime English Ambassador to the Sublime Porte (Constantinople), to Madrid, to St. Petersburg, onetime Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, is the subject of his son Harold Nicolson's excellent biography. Son Harold, approving the manners but not the machinations of pre-War diplomats, considers his father "an admirable example for the study of the old diplomacy at its best. . . . Arthur Nicolson was neither imaginative nor intellectual: he was merely intelligent, honest, sensible, high-minded...
...half a millennium the Kings of Sweden have been loyally served by the House of Brahe. Per Brahe, third of the Swedish Brahes, married a sister of King Gustaf Vasa, "father of modern Sweden,'' in the early 16th century. His grandson, Per Brahe the Younger was Governor General of Finland. In 1632 Nils Brahe, of the "Blue Brigade," died with King Gustavus Adolphus in the Battle of Lützen...
Seventh-Day Adventists believe, apart from their celebration of Saturday as the Sabbath,* that "between the end of the Christian or Gospel age and the beginning of the New Earth state, there will be a thousand-year period called the millennium; that the Second Coming of Christ, the first resurrection (the resurrection of the righteous dead), the binding of Satan, and the translation of the righteous to heaven, will mark the beginning of this period; that during this time, the wicked will be dead on this earth, Satan and his angels will be confined here in solitude, and the righteous...
...gates but without and we do not feel the time has come for us to scrap our ships and render ourselves defenseless. . . . Until satisfactory conclusions are reached (at the London Naval Conference) we had rather go forward with equipment to meet any emergency than take a chance that the millennium is close at hand...