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2 unusual facts about The Millennium


The Goldebriars

They recorded two obscure albums for Epic Records in 1964 before adding drummer Ron Edgar to their lineup, who would later be a part of the groups The Music Machine and The Millennium.

The Music Machine

Rhodes and Edgar subsequently teamed with Curt Boettcher and others to record as part of The Ballroom and The Millennium.



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2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 55 kg

The women's freestyle 55 kg is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on September 28.

2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 59 kg

The women's freestyle 59 kg is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on September 27.

2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 67 kg

The women's freestyle 67 kg is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on September 27.

2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg

The women's freestyle 72 kg is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on September 28.

20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bell Biv DeVoe

20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bell Biv DeVoe is a compilation album by Bell Biv DeVoe released on May 21, 2002 by MCA Records/Geffen Records.

20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Whitesnake

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Whitesnake is a compilation of Whitesnake's biggest hits from the 1980s.

Abderrahmane Sissako

1998 : La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) (35mm, 67 minutes), set on the last day of the millennium (commissioned for the 2000 Seen By... series featuring other directors such as Tsai Ming-liang and Laurent Cantet) and filmed in Sokolo, Mali, Sissako's father's village.

Alistair Graham

He was knighted (Knight Bachelor) in the Millennium Honours List for services to the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland.

Astropy

Around the turn of the millennium the Space Telescope Science Institute started development of Python-based utilities to extend or substitute existing astronomical data analysis tools on a modern, object-oriented platform.

Brian Tobin

It was also during this time in the lead-up to the millennium that Newfoundland undertook an aggressive tourism marketing campaign which focused on important anniversaries such as the 500th year since John Cabot's voyage of discovery (1997), as well as the 1000th year since Vikings, such as Leif Ericson, made landfall on the province's shores (2000).

Cilcain

The Millennium Woods were planted in 2000 through the 'Woods on your doorstep' scheme of the Woodland Trust.

David E. Potter

He has written and lectured widely on technology and the new economy, including the Stockton Lecture at London Business School in 1998, one of the Millennium Lectures at 10 Downing Street in 1999, and the Tacitus Lecture, 2000 at the Guildhall.

El Faraón

Barajas is best known under the ring name, El Faraón (Spanish for "the Pharaoh"), a ring name and persona he used throughout his career from his debut in 1973 until retiring around the turn of the millennium.

Elsa Lin

Performing in a pop trio comprising Singapore's Fann Wong, Tanya Chua and herself, the millennium song was released as a CD in Singapore.

Elsinore Theatre

It continued to raise money for its operational costs through fundraising in the community and was graced by appearances from many stars at the turn of the millennium, most notably by actors James Earl Jones and Gregory Peck.

Esther Cardoso

To commemorate Gaia's opening, on the eve of the millennium, she co-directed A Millennium Night's Dream, a fourteen hour spectacle involving 84 actors, inspired by the mythical conflict between Dionysus (god of pleasure) and Pentheus (lord of reason) involving promenade performances, fire-eating, acrobatics, dance, poetry, and Cuban story-telling.

Europa XS

In 1997 UK Prime Minister Tony Blair launched the Millennium Products competition to promote British industry in the 21st Century.

Fiddler's Green

From November 12 to 14, 2004, a comic book convention promoted as "Fiddler's Green, A Sandman Convention" was held at the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care

This partnership is working together to create solutions to and meet the Millennium Development Goals developed by the WHO—which include reducing maternal and child mortality rates, as well as reducing HIV rates—“through improvement in the quality and safety of clinical procedures (essential surgical and anaesthesia care)” ("Global Initiative").

Graham Fink

He also directed a short film ( Z ) for the Millennium, commissioned by David Puttnam which was shortlisted at BAFTA.

Hastings, New Zealand

Hastings' specialist attractions include: Hawke's Bay's largest amusement park, a water park called 'Splash Planet', which replaced 'Fantasyland' near the turn of the millennium, Cape Kidnappers (the world's largest mainland gannet colony), Te Mata Peak, and access to an abundance of nature reserves and mountain treks.

History of the SkyTrain

The owner appealed to city hall and the Millennium Line Rapid Transit Project Office for compensation, and complained to then-Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and deputy premier Joy MacPhail.

Honor Oak

It was subsequently used for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her silver and golden jubilees and also at the Millennium.

Irén Lovász

Her first solo CD, Világfa (1995, and 1999. Fonó Records), appeared at the request of the Hungarian National Museum to be used as background music for the exclusive archeological exhibition of the Millennium of the Hungarian conquest.

Kiryū, Gunma

Kiryu is also the nickname of Mechagodzilla in the Millennium series of the Godzilla franchise.

Kokoda Track

John Landy, the long-distance runner, set a record of four days for the crossing using carriers and guides during the 1950s, and in 1964 Angus Henry, the art teacher at Sogeri High School with two of his students, John Kadiba and Misty Baloiloi, set a new record which was to stand until after the millennium by completing the journey in three and a quarter days without guides, carriers or any signposts or bridges.

Mariah Carey albums discography

At the 2000 World Music Awards, Carey was presented with the Millennium Award for becoming the best-selling female artist of the millennium.

Marian Bronisław Tomaszewski

Marian Bronislaw is head of the Tomaszewski family which acquired the Palace of Pławowice at the turn of the millennium.

Melankomas

Melankomas was mentioned in a second-season episode of Sports Night as a contender for "Athlete of the Millennium."

Millennium Communities Programme

The Millennium Communities Programme (or Millennium Villages initiative), is an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for the creation of new communities' in England.

Millennium Development Goals

Attempts to increase U.S. political attention to the Millennium Development Goals include The Borgen Project which worked with then Senator Barack Obama on the Global Poverty Act, a bill requiring the White House to develop a strategy for achieving the goals.

New Towns Act 1946

Holbeck Urban Village in Leeds is a similar redevelopment scheme to the Greenwich Millennium Village, although is not officially part of the Millennium Communities Programme.

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad, billed asThe Fight Of The Millennium, was a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF's world Welterweight championships.

Ozyory, Moscow Oblast

The town was profiled at the turn of the millennium by author Jeffrey Tayler as the subject of a travel narrative piece for The Atlantic (then still known as The Atlantic Monthly).

Peter van Uhm

At the turn of the millennium van Uhm, then a brigadier general, was assigned to headquarters of the Stabilisation Force SFOR in Sarajevo as Assistant Chief of Staff for Joint Military Affairs.

Prelude to the Millennium

Prelude to the Millennium: Essentials of Symphony is a compilation album by progressive metal band Symphony X, released in 1999.

Pyramidology

Pyramid energy was popularized in the early 1970s, particularly by New Age authors such as Patrick Flanagan (Pyramid Power: The Millennium Science, 1973), Max Toth and Greg Nielsen (Pyramid Power, 1974) and Warren Smith (Secret Forces of the Pyramids, 1975).

Rickard Ericsson

After managing several BBSs for seven years, in 1996 he created a web community named StajlPlejsm, renamed LunarStorm at the millennium shift.

Sans Filtre

Sans Filtre is a Japanese band, formed in the millennium featuring three former members of The Spiders, Masaaki Sakai, Takayuki Inoue, and Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu.

SC Herford

They returned to the Oberliga Westfalen (IV) for a couple of seasons at the turn of the millennium, but fell back to Verbandsliga, and in 2005 descended to play in the Landesliga Westfalen Ost (VI).

Shiplake Railway Bridge

In the late 1990s the bridge was the focus of controversy spanning several years after local politicians sought funding from the Millennium Commission to transform it into the 'Millennium Bridge'.

Stefan Hakenberg

His work is an ongoing reflection on musical styles of today that he finds along an international career path that has taken him from Cologne in the 80s to Boston in the 90s to Seoul at the turn of the millennium.

Tapio Alvesalo

Before joining the Millennium Prize Foundation he held the position of Vice President, Corporate Technology at Fortum Corporation until his retirement from that position in 2004.

The Alligators

The millennium ended with The Alligators returning to Greenland for a new year's evening concert and celebration at Kangerlussuaq, the former American air base.

Tony Kettle

Completed ahead of schedule in 2002 and opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ, the Falkirk Wheel honours the bold vision and imagination behind the Millennium Link itself.

United Kingdom Singapore Students' Council

The founding of the Overseas Singaporean Unit coincided with several high-profile visits to the London by top Government officials and civil servants, including Chiang Chie Foo, the Permanent Secretary for the Prime Minister's Office, and Wong Kan Seng, the Deputy Prime Minister, who hosted a dinner reception for more than 300 Singaporeans at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in Knightsbridge.