Millennium Millennia, Millennials, Millipede

The millennials are the brainiest, best-educated generation ever. Yet their elders often stop them from reaching their full potential, argues Robert Guest.” –The Economist

Millennium refers to a period of time: 1000 years. The plural of millennium is millenniums, or millennia. Millennium is also a theological word referring to a period of peace, prosperity and happiness; thousand years; and to a long interval of time.

It comes from the Latin words ‘mille’ means thousand and ‘annual’ means year (pre-millennialism, pre-tribulation pre-millennialism, post-millennialism, a millennialism). According to one interpretation of Christianity, a millennium is an interval of time when Christ rules, and it will be a golden era and a time of universal peace.

The milestones of the second millennium are: 1787 – US Constitution signed; 1950 – Indian Constitution came into effect.

“The next millennium will see humans scattered over solar system and a few between the stars, although I doubt extra-solar colonies.” –Jack Cohen

The 21st century is the first century of the third millennium which has started off with increased usage of Internet.
The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000-3000 is the title of the book written by Brian Stableford and David Langford which is a fictional work that talks about the future of humanity in the backdrop of technological and sociological developments.

In India, the first sunrays or millennium sunrays fell on the Katchal Island in Andaman & Nicobar groups of Islands in the Bay of Bengal: 1 January AD 2000.Millennials are those persons who were born between 1980s and late 1990s.
Millennials would have invariably grownup with the Internet.

Famous millennials are Mark Zuckerberg (14 May, 1984), Priyanka Chopra (18 July, 1982), Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (5 May, 1988), Lionel Messi (24 June, 1987), Justin Drew Bieber (1 March, 1994), Malala Yousafzai (12 July, 1997)…
Millennials are most educated, trying to maintain work-life balance, endeavouring to be entrepreneurs, they have the opportunities to work from home, more aware of environmental and ecological issues; positive in outlook.

The millennial generation is also termed as Generation Y. Note that millesimal is an adjective meaning thousandth, of or belonging to thousandth, of or dealing with thousandths. As a noun, millesimal refers to a thousandth part. Millesimal comes from the Latin word ‘millesimus’.

Startups reward their thousandth customer! Millesimal is the quotient of a unit divided by 1000, or one of 1000 equal parts. Millipede or millipede is an arthropod having a long segmented body with two pairs of legs in each segment. Millipedes survived in the second millennium, will they in the current one?