Even his chosen name — he's the first Pope to name himself Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi, and the first Pope in more than a millennium to choose a name that had not been chosen before — hinted at a radical simplicity.
Calling himself Francis was an act of humble audacity, or audacious humility: he is the first Pope in more than a millennium to pick a name that doesn't require a Roman numeral, because none of his predecessors used it.
He did not have to say so, but the implication was that maybe a century, maybe a millennium from now, the names of new planets, stars and galaxies might be Chinese.
Emerging at the start of the new millennium, she made a name for herself through her electro-rap mash up that delivered a gender-spinning manifesto ("Shake Yer Dix") and sexual explicitness ("Lovertits").
Over a millennium ago, a Japanese woman by the name of Sei Shonagon – a member of the empress's court, and a mother herself – wrote what's become known as The Pillow Book.
He points out that "shire"–which has been used for a millennium in England forms part of the name of dozens of towns and counties.
Campaigners marched on Saturday from Millennium Place to a rally in Broadgate.
It was a millennium prophecy close to a miracle.
In "Millennium Blues," a woman named Cassie who is suffering from tinnitus, which causes her ears to ring with a sound "like the sharpening of angels' knives, stainless, at high speed," begins having dark premonitions of disaster after her husband leaves on a hastily arranged business trip.
Will an employee really work harder to get a Millennium Stone?
Even for this stage of Dravidian, possibly a millennium younger than Proto-Dravidian, it is difficult to reconstruct the names of specific cereals.
