One thousand years before the Y2K hysteria the approaching end of the First Millenium C.E. was also greeted with a panic that the end of the world was at hand. Officially, the church pointed out that people were “irrational, shit-brained assholes” (I’m paraphrasing) for believing that Christ would return on New Year’s Day of the year 1,000.
Regardless of that word from Rome, thousands of knights, serfs and children began traveling toward Jerusalem, convinced that Continue reading
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