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I checked out the site that Stan recommended regarding the millenium:

http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/new_mill.html 

The following caught my eye and I couldn't resist:

3.1 The Origin of the Christian Era.
Early in the 6th century AD, Dionysius Exiguus (Denys the Little), a monk and
astronomer from Scythia now SW Russia, compiled a table of dates for Easter in
terms of the Diocletion calendar.
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Scythia, the probable homeland of the Centaurs and the Amazons, is in Ukraine.  NOT SW Russia.

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