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The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000-3000

As this book was written in the 1980s, some predictions for the near future were off - for example, the Soviet Union was predicted to exist as late as the year 2800.

L5 (Lagrange Point) space colonies such as those proposed by Scientist Gerard K. O'Neill.


1970 in archaeology

P. V. Glob - Hojfolket: Bronzealderens mennesker bevaret i 3000 år (The Mound People: Danish bronze-age man preserved).

2003 London blackout

The power transmission company National Grid plc responded that, as they had invested £3000 million in the last 10 years, the system certainly could not be described as old and decrepit.

2012 African Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase

The women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2012 African Championships in Athletics was held at the Stade Charles de Gaulle on 1 July.

Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home

In August 1513 Home led 3000 Borders Horse on a raid into England, en route back to Scotland laden with booty, his force was ambushed by William Bulmer of Brancepeth Castle at Milfield, and was routed losing 1000 men and his standard.

Alstom Metropolis

The trains are in service in 22 major cities around the world, representing more than 3000 cars, including Singapore, Shanghai, Budapest, Warsaw, Nanjing, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Istanbul and Santo Domingo.

Aluizio Coelho

Em seguida, provou o carro F-3000 em Donington Park e se preparou para o grande dia de sua vida: em 12 de Novembro de 1998, no circuito de Silverstone, Aluizio teve a oportunidade de testar o carro da Williams, então atual campeã mundial.

Antimony

An artifact, said to be part of a vase, made of antimony dating to about 3000 BC was found at Telloh, Chaldea (part of present-day Iraq), and a copper object plated with antimony dating between 2500 BC and 2200 BC has been found in Egypt.

Austin-Healey 3000

Austin Healey 3000's have a long competition history, and raced at most major racing circuits around the world, including Sebring (USA), Le Mans (France), and Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst (Australia).

Best Brains

On November 5, 2007, Jim Mallon and Paul Chaplin of Best Brains revived the MST3K brand by launching a new series of Flash-based animated shorts featuring the robots of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the official website.

Billy Don't Be a Hero

Mystery Science Theater 3000 often riffs on movies by saying "Billy, don't be a hero!", including the episode "The Creeping Terror".

Charade Circuit

In 1966, John Frankenheimer made the film Grand Prix in front of 3000 locals who posed as race spectators watching actors like Yves Montand and Françoise Hardy.

Check Point Integrity

Integrity was integrated with network gateways (the Cisco VPN 3000 series) to ensure that a PC met security requirements before it was granted access to the network.

Cliff Josephy

At the 2013 World Series of Poker Josephy won the $3000 No limit Hold'em Shootout to win his second bracelet.

Coldwaltham

A yew tree near the north west corner is among the oldest in England, believed to be over 3000 years old.

Daewoo

She invited 3000 guests to the opening, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Eilenriede

In Germany, the Eilenriede park is part of a group of inner-city or city near forest areas, like the Rostock Heath (6000 ha), the Dresden Heath (5900 ha), the Frankfurter Stadtwald (4800 ha) or the Berliner Grunewald (3000 ha).

Felice Pazner Malkin

Pazner Malkin conceived, researched, and designed the documentary exhibition "Jewish Figurative Art: The First 3000 Years", which went on display in 1996 at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in Detroit, Michigan.

Fukuoka Subway 3000 series

Unlike the 1000 series and 2000 series trains operated on the Kūkō Line and Hakozaki Line, the 3000 series trains are standard gauge (1,435 mm) and use linear motor propulsion.

Gare of Lille-Saint-Sauveur

Lille-Saint-Sauveur is a former goods station of Lille with some of the buildings has been converted into recreational areas and exhibition on the occasion of the events of Lille 3000 in 2009.

Hartmut Esslinger

For his first client, German avant-garde consumer electronics company Wega, he created the first "full plastics" color TV and HiFi series "Wega system 3000".

Hedera nepalensis

Hedera nepalensis (Himalayan ivy, Himalaya-Efeu, chang chun teng) is a species of perennial Ivy (genus Hedera) native to Nepal and Bhutan, as well as Afghanistan, India, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, at altitudes of about 1000–3000 m.

Hobsonville Point Secondary School

The school is being constructed as part of the Hobsonville Point housing development to serve the 3000 new homes being built on the former RNZAF Hobsonville Airbase and the wider Hobsonville/West Harbour area, easing roll capacity on existing nearby secondary schools.

Karl Fleschen

Karl Fleschen (born 28 June 1955 in Daun, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a retired West German runner who specialized in the 3000, 5000 and 10,000 metres.

Landmark College

All students are required to purchase a Landmark-supported laptop, text-reader (Kurzweill 3000), speech-to-text (Dragon NaturallySpeaking), and other software is mandatory for all incoming students, regardless of psycho-educational evaluations and recommendations.

Lawrence A. Hoffman

The meeting, co-organized by Hoffman's Synagogue 3000 colleague Shawn Landres and Emergent church leader Tony Jones, led to the launch of Synagogue 3000's Jewish Emergent Initiative.

Lugbara people

Famous and well known Lugbara include Dorcus Inzikuru, the 3000-metre steeple chase world champion in Helsinki 2005 and Jackson Asiku, the previous Commonwealth boxing light-weight champion.

Lycée Franco-Mexicain

It is one of the largest French Lycées in the world with over 3000 students in two campuses, Polanco in northern Mexico City and Coyoacán in the South, there is also another dependency located in the city of Cuernavaca, capital of the state of Morelos, called École Molière de Cuernavaca.

Malkoçoğlu family

He was in command of the Sivas fort during the Timurid invasion of Anatolia and defended it with 3000 soldiers against Timur's 200,000 men for 18 days.

Mercury Islands

The smaller islands in the group have been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because they provide nesting sites for up to 3000 breeding pairs of Pycroft's Petrels.

Miyanomori Art Museum

The museum collection also includes about 3000 photographs from the artist Daidō Moriyama, which were taken since the 1950s, as well as works by such artists as Lucio Fontana, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Yoshishige Saito, Lee Ufan, Guillaume Bottazzi, Sadamasa Motonaga, Takeo Yamaguchi, and Kumi Sugai.

Niceforo's Pintail

The former range of included subtropical and temperate zones of north-central Colombia, 1000-3000 m above sea level in the upper Cauca Valley, the central part of the Cordillera Oriental, the Bogota Savannah and Cundinamarca.

Norbert Daum

As a freelancer, Daum wrote more than 3000 orchestrations and worked with numerous artists in all genres, varying from crossover and outright classical music to German folk music and with artists such as Vicky Leandros, Karel Gott, Demis Roussos, and Die Jungen Tenöre.

NPSS

IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, a transnational group of about 3000 professional engineers and scientists

Olympic truce

On the 22nd April 2011 a Member of the House of Lords - Michael Bates, Baron Bates - began walking over 3000 miles from Olympia to London to highlight the opportunity to bring the Olympic Truce into reality during the 2012 London Summer Games.

Operation Meridian

Forty-three Avenger bombers, 12 Firefly fighter-bombers with rockets and fifty Hellcat, Corsair and Seafire fighters were launched, approaching with the sun behind them and diving from 9000 feet to 3000 feet to release their bombs.

Pacaraos Quechua

Pacaraos Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken until the middle of the 20th century in the community of Pacaraos (Pacaraos District) in the Peruvian Lima Region in the Chancay valley up to 3000 m above sea level.

Paddy Keenan

The 2008 documentary Dambé: The Mali Project tells the story of his 3000 mile cross-cultural musical adventure with Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers) and friends, and features performances from the Festival au Désert.

Pekka Vasala

With a medal in every track event from 1500 to 10,000 meters, three gold and one bronze (Tapio Kantanen in the 3000 meter steeplechase) Finnish athletes achieved a level of success not seen since the era of the "Flying Finns" (1912-1936).

Robert Frimtzis

In June 1941, at the age of eleven his peaceful town was destroyed by the Nazi Luftwaffe and he survived the ravages of World War II by running for 3000 miles across Ukraine, Russia and Uzbekistan to Tajikistan.

Rye House power station

Rye House has three single-shaft Siemens V94.2 gas turbines (generating 150MW each) rotating at 3000rpm and three Babcock Energy steam generators (receiving exhaust gas at 540C) connected to one 250MW steam turbine.

Side-striped chameleon

They live in the Hagenia and Hypericum scrub in the timberline forest between 3000 and 4000 m.

Siege of Waterford

However, Waterford still had access to reinforcements from the west and up to 3000 Irish soldiers (from the Confederate's Ulster Army) under Richard Farrell were fed into the city in the course of a week.

Spacebus

The Spacebus 3000 was introduced around the time the Ariane 5 entered service.

Tennis Shoes Adventure Series

Books 8 and 10 involve fourth-century Nephite settings, and book 9 (Tower of Thunder), the early-Biblical time of Abraham and Noah (close to 3000 B.C.)

Timex FDD3000

The Timex FDD 3000 was nearly a complete computer by Timex of Portugal.

Tunnel finisher

Those hangers are sent via automated transport through the tunnel with a speed up to 3000 garments per hour.

VinylDisc

Examples of singles already released in the hybrid format are Paramore's "Misery Business", The Mars Volta's cover of "Candy and a Currant Bun", and Fightstar's "Deathcar" which reportedly had a limited run of 3000 copies.

Vollmarshausen

Vollmarshausen is a village of 3000 inhabitants incorporated into the municipality of Lohfelden in Hesse, Germany.


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