In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

The position of the Arctic Circle is not fixed, but directly depends on the Earth's axial tilt, which fluctuates within a margin of 2 ° over a 40, 000 year period, notably due to tidal forces resulting from the orbit of the Moon.

Urban civilization may have begun in the area as early as 3, 000 to 2, 000 BC.

Another popular method of exploiting this bug was to simply use thrust to keep the ship in motion with 1 or 2 asteroids in the play field, allowing the player to pick off as many 1, 000 point UFOs as possible.

The order Asterales currently includes eleven families, the largest of which are the Asteraceae, with about 25, 000 species, and the Campanulaceae (" Bellflowers "), with about 2, 000 species.

* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

: 2. 38 migrant ( s )/ 1, 000 population ( 2009 est.

According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).

Using the Greek stadium of 185 to 190 meters, the former translation comes to a far too low 755, 000 km whereas the second translation comes to 148. 7 to 152. 8 million km ( accurate within 2 %).

Ahab's contribution was reckoned at 2, 000 chariots and 10, 000 men.

The battle had begun when a force of between 2, 000 and 3, 000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

Then, in 396 BC, Agesilaus crossed into Asia with a force of 2, 000 neodamodes ( freed helots ) and 6, 000 allies ( including 30 spartiates ) to liberate Greek cities from Persian dominion.

Flood levels, that had been stable from about 3, 000 to 2, 600 BC, had started falling, and by the Akkadian period were a half-meter to a meter lower than recorded previously.

In the aftermath, more than 2, 000 people were confirmed dead and more than 4, 000 children were orphaned or had lost one parent.

In the late 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world, with a capacity to produce approximately 2, 000 tons of pig metal per day.

On March 2, the circular formally filing the organization and capitalization ( at $ 1, 400, 000, 000 — 4 % of U. S. national wealth at the time ) of the United States Steel Corporation actually completed the contract.

* Palestine ( horse ), racehorse who won the 2, 000 Guineas in 1950

* April 18 – The 2, 000 Guineas Stakes horse race is first run in England.

In 1900, Persimmon's brother, Diamond Jubilee, won five races ( Derby, St. Leger, 2, 000 Guineas Stakes, Newmarket Stakes and Eclipse Stakes ) and another of Edward's horses, Ambush II, won the Grand National.

Berger owned thoroughbred horses, achieving notable success with the colt Nonoalco who won four Group One races including the 1974 British Classic, the 2, 000 Guineas.

The race serves as the middle leg of the Triple Crown, preceded by the 2, 000 Guineas and followed by the St Leger, although the feat of winning all three is now rarely attempted.

Examples of a stakes / conditions race are the Breeders ' Cup races, the Dubai World Cup, the 2, 000 Guineas Stakes, the 1, 000 Guineas Stakes, the Epsom Derby, the Epsom Oaks, the St. Leger Stakes, the Kentucky Derby, the Kentucky Oaks, the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes, the Travers Stakes, and the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe.

* Shadeed-won 1985 2, 000 Guineas, sired Alydeed

Engraving of the 1874 2, 000 Guineas, from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, May 1874

The 2, 000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

The 2, 000 Guineas was first run on 18 April 1809, and it preceded the introduction of a version for fillies only, the 1, 000 Guineas, by five years.

By the mid-1860s, the 2, 000 Guineas was regarded as one of Britain's most prestigious races for three-year-olds.

European variations of the 2, 000 Guineas include the Irish 2, 000 Guineas, the Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen, the Poule d ' Essai des Poulains and the Premio Parioli.

The 2, 000 Guineas is served by trial races such as the Craven Stakes and the Greenham Stakes, but for some horses it is the first race of the season.

The 2, 000 Guineas itself can act as a trial for the Derby, and the last horse to win both was Camelot in 2012.

Since 2001, the 2, 000 Guineas and the 1, 000 Guineas have offered equal prize money.

The St. Leger is the final leg of the English Triple Crown, which begins with the 2, 000 Guineas and continues with the Derby.

* 2, 000 Guineas Stakes

This includes four of the five ' Classics ' of Flat racing: The Oaks and The Derby at Epsom Downs and the 2, 000 Guineas and the 1, 000 Guineas, and major National Hunt meetings include the Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National at Aintree

Former Maryland Governor Oden Bowie named the then mile and one-half ( 2. 41 km ) race in honor of the colt Preakness from Milton Holbrook Sanford's Preakness Stables in Preakness, Wayne Township, New Jersey, who won the Dinner Party Stakes on the day Pimlico opened ( October 25, 1870 ).

On June 9, 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by thirty-one lengths, in a record time of 2: 24, becoming a Triple Crown champion that year.

Secretariat ( March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989 ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, that in 1973 became the first U. S. Triple Crown champion in 25 years, setting race records in all three events in the Series — the Kentucky Derby ( 1: 59. 4 ), the Preakness Stakes ( 1: 53 ) and the Belmont Stakes ( 2: 24 )-records that still stand today.

He also sired General Assembly, which won the 1979 Travers Stakes at Saratoga while setting a still-standing race record of 2: 00 flat.

* Hilton International Stakes, a Group 2 Australian thoroughbred horse race

Local celebrity jockey Frankie Dettori in the parade ring at Newmarket after riding in the 2005 2, 000 Guineas Stakes | 2, 000 Guineas.

* 2, 000 Guineas Stakes – Rock Sand

*# 2, 000 Guineas Stakes – Known Fact

*# 2, 000 Guineas Stakes – Tap On Wood