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unusual facts about New Millennium



Illinois Tractor Pulling Association

With that vision in mind, the ITPA is ready to take the sport of truck and tractor pulling into the new millennium, and their 5th Decade of organizing events.


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Andrew Logan

In the new millennium, Andrew Logan created jewelled sculptures for The Magic Flute opera in San Diego.

Ann Lewis

She was a member of the U.S. delegations to the Vital Voices "Dawn of a New Millennium" Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland and to the European Preparatory session for the Beijing Plus Five Session in Geneva; led workshops in South Africa in preparation for the first-ever democratic elections in that country, and has participated in training seminars for political leaders in Eastern Europe.

Arnald Gabriel

Gabriel’s professional honors include the very first Citation of Excellence awarded by the National Band Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia’s New Millennium Lifetime Achievement Award.

Arturo Warman

Los indios mexicanos en el umbral del milenio ("Mexican Indians on the threshold of the new millennium" (2003) Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Económica.

B. H. Carroll Theological Institute

The Institute's founding chancellor is Russell H. Dilday, a former president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, who wrote of a 'lively renaissance of Baptist theological education at the edge of a new millennium' prior to the launch of the Institute.

Bartonville Agreement

In his opening comments the host, Abbot Alberto Morales, encouraged those present "to let the Holy Spirit guide us and show us the way that we should go...that as we face the new millennium we may present to the world a portion of the Anglican Communion reconciled and united, which in turn, may be an example to imitate for all good and faithful Anglicans and for the Church in general." The result of the meeting was the signing of a "Call to prayer" for unity and a determination to meet again.

Carlo Scognamiglio

Keynes and the New Millennium Crisis, Treves Editore, Roma 2009.

Crystal Gayle

In the early years of the new millennium, Gayle co-wrote and recorded "Midnight in the Desert", a haunting Southwestern song for late-night radio host Art Bell.

Daphne Maxwell Reid

With her husband, actor Tim Reid, she owns and operates New Millennium Studios in Petersburg, Virginia.

Henry L. Marsh

In addition, he established the New Millennium Leadership Institute, founded the Unity Day Celebration Committee, and hosts Richmond's Annual Juneteenth Celebration.

History of Reading, Berkshire

As one of the largest urban areas in the United Kingdom to be without city status, Reading has bid for city status on three recent occasions – in 2000 to celebrate the new millennium; in 2002 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II; and 2012 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.

I'll Bury You Tomorrow

I'll Bury You Tomorrow is a 2002 low-budget independent thriller written and directed by Alan Rowe Kelly produced by New Millennium Pictures, starring Zoë Daelman Chlanda, Bill Corry, and Katherine O'Sullivan.

Minal Hajratwala

For World AIDS Day in 1999, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco commissioned her one-woman show, “Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium.”

New Houghton

New Houghton has a public open space-a Millennium Green, created to celebrate the new millennium of 2000 on a what used to be a rather overgrown, ugly site.

Samuel Curtis Johnson

Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr., (1922–2004), new millennium richest man in Wisconsin

Simulation

This event transformed the film industry; in 1995, the film Toy Story was the first film to use only computer-generated images and by the new millennium computer generated graphics were the leading choice for special effects in films.

Songways

The JazzTimes review by Thomas Conrad said "Songways is one of the prettiest piano trio albums of the new millennium... In jazz, “pretty” is often an adjective that damns with faint praise. Battaglia’s music is pretty but neither shallow nor soft".