After all, it is only the mass commercialisation of Halloween that is both new and American: it is more than a millennium since the Catholic church, attempting to convert the pagan Celts in Britain and Ireland, created All Saints or All Hallows Day to coincide with the Celtic festival honouring the dead.

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Air power enthusiasts had been making that claim continuously since the Wright Brothers proved the feasibility of heavier-than-air flight in 1903, so by the time the new millennium rolled around there were plenty of people in the Air Force ready to believe it.

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But the Tate Modern should soon be linked to the other side of the Thames and to St Paul's cathedral by the Millennium Bridge for pedestrians the first new Thames crossing constructed since 1894.

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England's new breed arrives in Cardiff hoping for their first win at the Millennium Stadium since 2003.

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