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 | | When he announced that according to his Biblical interpretation the world would end in 1843, he unintentionally started a religion.By 1842 there were tens of thousands of Millerites, and by 1843 he was touring the country, preaching to thousands of devout followers. |
 | | There are other interpretations of the pyramid timeline, as she points out, interpretations that yield end dates of Aug. 20, 2011, March of 2029, and, as we have seen, May 5, 2000. |
 | | The Maya shared a belief with hundreds of other world cultures that theirs was not the only age of humanity; that successive ages come and go, each brought to its end by some sort of monstrous global cataclysm. |
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