According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

* Markus Weimer, The Peace Dividend: Analysis of a Decade of Angolan Indicators, 2002 – 2012

** Atlas V ( 2002 – Present )

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

* Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ).

* " The Nobels in Baku " in Azerbaijan International, Vol 10. 2 ( Summer 2002 ), 56 – 59.

* 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.

* 1910 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyricist ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón

* 1926 – Pat Coombs, English actress ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer ) ( d. 2002 )

* 1952 – Herb Ritts, American photographer ( d. 2002 )

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

* 2002 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper ( b. 1905 )

* 2002 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( b. 1947 )

" History and Theory 41, Theme Issue 41 ( December 2002 ), 90 – 103

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist ( d. 2002 )

Dale Earnhardt Jr. made two special appearances in 2002 in a No. 3 Busch Series car: these appearances were at the track where his father died ( Daytona ) and the track where his father made his first Winston Cup start ( Charlotte ).

They have three daughters: Georgia Tatom ( born April 17, 1995 ), Sarah Kate ( September 12, 1997 ), and Charlotte ( born June 26, 2002 ).

In 2002, pundit Charlotte Hays wrote " that the anti-male philosophy of radical feminism has filtered into the culture at large is incontestable ; indeed, this attitude has become so pervasive that we hardly notice it any longer ".

" Good Charlotte, from Maryland, had three successive top ten albums beginning with The Young and the Hopeless in 2002.

" Innovations in the seminar-workshops included a new " neuro-relaxation " component, led by dancer and Institute editorial secretary Charlotte Schuchardt ( 1909 – 2002 ).

* General Semantics in Psychotherapy: Selected Writings on Methods Aiding Therapy, edited by Isabel Caro and Charlotte Schuchardt Read, Institute of General Semantics, 2002.

The WFL also arguably had an impact on locations of other professional football teams: from the NFL, Hawaii hosted the Pro Bowl from 1980 through 2009, Jacksonville got the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995, Charlotte received the Carolina Panthers in the same year, and Houston's expansion franchise, the Texans, revived the name of the WFL team in 2002.

There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).

They won the title in 2001 and 2002, beating Charlotte and New York, respectively, but fell short to Detroit in 2003.

In 2002, Norfolk presented a proposal to bring the Charlotte Hornets basketball team to southeastern Virginia, but New Orleans won the bid for the team, renaming it the New Orleans Hornets.

Justincase is an American alternative-pop band from Charlotte, North Carolina, best known for their 2002 single " Don't Cry for Us ", which was co-written by Michelle Branch, who was one of the band's early champions.

She has three daughters with Connick: Georgia Tatom ( born April 17, 1996 ), Sarah Kate ( September 12, 1997 ), and Charlotte ( born June 26, 2002 ).

The Sting was originally the sister organization of the Charlotte Hornets, until that NBA team relocated to New Orleans in 2002.

After the 2001 / 2002 NBA season, the Charlotte Hornets relocated to New Orleans for a number of reasons.

When the Charlotte Hornets relocated to New Orleans in 2002, the NBA promised Charlotte leaders that the city would be granted an NBA expansion team for the 2004 – 05 season.

* Charlotte Hornets, a professional basketball team in the NBA that is today known as the New Orleans Hornets, but was based in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1988 – 2002, before relocating to New Orleans.

In 2002, Charlotte Smith joined the North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach.

* 2: Charleston Battery ( 1996, 2010 ); Charlotte Eagles ( 2000, 2005 ); Long Island Rough Riders ( 1995, 2002 ); Utah Blitzz ( 2001, 2004 ); Richmond Kickers ( 2006, 2009 )

In the late part of her career, Scotto took on the roles of Fedora ( Barcelona, 1988 ), Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier ( Charleston Spoleto Festival, 1995 and Catania ), Kundry in Parsifal ( Schwerin, 1995 ), Elle in La Voix Humaine ( Florence, 1993 ; Amsterdam and Barcelona, 1996 ; Torino, 1999 ), Marie in The Medium ( Torino, 1999 ) and Klytemnestra in Elektra ( Baltimore, 2000 and Sevilla, 2002 ).

A new bowl game based at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina was established in 2002 ; its owner is Raycom Sports.

* 2002 Boston Renegades ( 2 ) 3-0 Charlotte Lady Eagles

It is best known as the home of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets from 1988 – 2002, and the Charlotte Bobcats from 2004 – 2005.