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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 24, 27 August 1920, Page 6

A way of realising the meaning of a million is to think of what it means in time. Few people reaiise that there are less than a million days in the whole Christian Era; in fact, if we count back a million days from 1920, we come to a date well before the fonnding of Rome, while a million hours would talce us back almost to the Battle of Trafalgar, and a million minutes have not yet elapsed since the armistice was signed.