Millennium, greetings and Israeli comics

[Vidar Svendsen]

Anders Christian Sivebaek:
>But we have two milleniums then. the one that went from 1000 to 1999,
>and the one that goes from 1001 to 2000. The wizard in that ball story
>is talking about the first one. Christians, if any, are suppsoed to
>believe in the latter (even though the pope doesn't). because a monk in
>600 made out way to calculate time, he says one year after year 0 and
>one year before. but he only calculates one day for year 0, the day
>jesus was born.
>And some say that was 4 years after and in the summer... 

Jesus was born no later than 4 BCE. That's the year Herod the Great
(asshole) died...

Huub van Helvoort:
>Hereby from Huub van Helvoort to all of you (pick your own language ;-)
>
> Hebrew -------- Mo'adim Lesimkha. Shana Tova

I've just spent christmas in Israel (returned today), and the people in the
church in Tel Aviv I visited wished me (and eachother) Chag sameach (happy
festival) and not mo'adim lesimcha.

I bought two comics published by Egmont at Ben Gurion airport, BTW:
Olamo shel disni (Land of Disney) comtaining stories with Donald Dak, Ziko
Haze'ev (Zeke the Wolf) and other familiar characters. 
Foo Hadov (Phoo the bear) containing illustrated stories for children (the
text has vowels...)
I'll be back with more info on these comics when I return from a two-week
trip to Oslo.

PS! Yes, Harry... I'll index the comics some time in the next millennium
(or this millennium depending on how good you are at counting from year 1)
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