1.   For the next dozen millennia, winters will grow colder, summers more torrid.

2.   Last month, when Pope John Paul II asked for forgiveness of sins committed by Catholics across the last two millennia, he included Jews and Muslims.

3.   Over the last two millennia, various faith groups have attempted to take a break from fighting, and it has almost always failed.

4.   The disciplines are arguably the most important human inventions of the last two millenniums.

5.   The last century and a half, Stine found, has been the third wettest period in the last three millenniums.