From Old Collections, Few Snippets

My father has some collections, mostly books. Not much but very readable stuff, such as those old Tell Me Why, Monster Book of Questions And Answers, on the language of English, some fictions and finally few newspaper snippets. Yes, snippets. He had the habit of cutting out news snips of interesting info. Mostly from the old Indian Express dating back to 1999. Some are on English words, others relate to some interesting random queries about the end and dawn of millennia.

The snip talks about the meaning of the word Sang-froid. It means 'calmness in an emergency situation.'

The gentleman replies to an apparent earlier letter, stating or proving on 1/1/2000, the Gregorian calendar completes two millennia. 

The above one is the most interesting, I wonder why didn't it stir up much controversy! Well, 90's, the 24X7 news culture is yet to prop up.

Please read out yourself, if interested. Something about the Julian and Gregorian calendar technicalities.