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Millennium Minutes

Millennium Minute

"Millennium Minute" on CBS Radio networked across the USA. Every day from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 1999. You can hear it across the Net if you have Real Player (formerly Real Audio) installed.

For today's Millennium Minute click through to this page and press the "Real Audio - Listen Here" on the top right-hand side.

This month's Millennium Minutes are here.

A complete archive since January 1997 is available (big file - takes time to download).

LIFE Magazine - Millennium Special Edition

LIFE Magazine has developed a special Millennium Edition which covers the "Top 100 events of the past 1,000 years".

It lists "Fixing the Calendar" in position 100 and "Tick Tock" the invention of the chronometer by John Harrison at Greenwich in position 52 (one ahead of the invention of the refrigerator?!)

 

Greenwich England is where East meets West at the Greenwich Meridian (0° Longitude); World Time is set Greenwich Mean Time. Remember the new millennium started in 2001.

Greenwich lies on the River Thames, a few minutes by rail or tube, or a short river cruise from central London.  If you want to visit Greenwich and information on visiting London, England then see Greenwich Info.  There is the famous Cutty Sark to visit and the Royal Naval College.  Just down river is the Thames Barrier which is close to London City Airport

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich is in Greenwich Park along with the National Maritime Museum and the Queens House (on which the White House in Washington DC, USA is based).  For information on astronomy visit Greenwich Star

The London Marathon starts in Greenwich Park every Spring.

Greenwich has a long heritage; it was the birth place of King Henry VIII and his daughters Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) and Queen Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen).  All the English monarchs can be found at Royal History.

It has seen many famous visitors from Peter the Great through Charles Dickens to Bob Hope.  This and a lot more in Greenwich Past.

For information on all the other places in the world called Greenwich including Greenwich Village, New York City, USA then visit Greenwich Town.

Visit the Greenwich Book Shelf where you can buy titles old and new.

 

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