In central and western Anatolia another Indo European people, the Luwians came to the fore, circa 2000 BC.

With the chance of a quick profit removed, the wave of demutualisations came to an end in 2000.

Although in 2001 GDP grew by 10. 2 percent, this increase came on the heels of 2000, when, as a consequence of war with Ethiopia, GDP contracted by a staggering 13. 2 percent.

Shelby's first victory came on their maiden race with the Ford program, with Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby taking a Shelby American-entered GT40 to victory in the Daytona 2000 in February 1965.

International donors came forward to assist in rebuilding infrastructure, donating US $ 1400 million in 2000.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

In the year 2000 only 10 million visitors came to countries in the region of the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ).

Using the overall SADC figures as a comparative benchmark, an even smaller number came to Malawi – 219, 000 in 1998, 254, 000 in 1999 and 222, 526 in 2000.

In the previous decade the Mets made one playoff appearance after the 2000 season ; it was in 2006 when they came within one game of the World Series, losing to the eventual World Champion St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 of the 2006 National League Championship Series.

At the museum's PDP-1 restoration celebration in May 2006, Alan Kotok said his Macintosh PowerBook G4 laptop was 10, 000 times faster, came with 100, 000 times the RAM and 500, 000 times the storage, was 1 / 2000 the size, and cost 1 / 100 as much.

He came to international attention for his role as the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and ten further nominations for best actor.

Its domination of political life came to an end in March 2000, when Abdoulaye Wade, the leader of the Senegalese Democratic Party ( PDS ) and leader of the opposition for more than 25 years, won the presidency.

The top court's decision was controversial as the Senegalese constitutional amendment, which places a two-term limit on the presidential office, was established about a year after Wade came into power in 2000.

Windows 2000 introduced many of the new features of Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE into the NT line, such as the Windows Desktop Update, Internet Explorer 5 ( Internet Explorer 6, which came in 2001, is also available for Windows 2000 ), Outlook Express, NetMeeting, FAT32 support, Windows Driver Model, Internet Connection Sharing, Windows Media Player, WebDAV support etc.

* The Eritrean – Ethiopian War came to a close in 2000.

In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which coincidentally had begun as a spin-off of CBS in 1971.

After the publication of the Méry video-tape by Le Monde on 22 September 2000, in which Jean-Claude Méry, in charge of the RPR's financing, directly accused Chirac of organizing the network, and of having been physically present on 5 October 1986, when Méry gave in cash 5 millions Francs, which came from companies who had benefited from state deals, to Michel Roussin, personal secretary ( directeur de cabinet ) of Chirac, Chirac refused to follow up his summons by judge Eric Halphen, and the highest echelons of the French justice declared that he could not been inculpated while in functions.

In November 2000, he claimed that he would move to Paris if George W. Bush were elected, but joked that he had meant Paris, Texas when it came to pass.

The Republicans came out of the 2000 elections with a further reduced majority, but made small gains in 2002 and 2004.

In the summer of 2000, a Helwan University geological team, prospecting for petroleum in Egypt's Western Desert, came across well-preserved fragments of textiles, bits of metal resembling weapons, and human remains that they believed to be traces of the Lost Army of Cambyses.

In Ontario, Canada, one attempt to define the boom came from David Foot, author of Boom, Bust and Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st century, published in 1997 and 2000.

Although its botanical name Prunus persica refers to Persia ( present Iran ) from where it came to Europe, genetic studies suggest peaches originated in China, where they have been cultivated since the early days of Chinese culture, circa 2000 BC.

Hello Kitty's Paradise came out in 2000 and was 16 episodes.

After 2000, Cooper retired from the league and the Comets dynasty came to an end.

As part of the introduction of mobile phone competition in Australia, the Australian government mandated GSM as the new standard for mobile networks, and required that Telstra close the AMPS network by 2000.

When they are both large, for instance more than 2000 bits long, randomly chosen, and about the same size ( but not too close, e. g. to avoid efficient factorization by Fermat's factorization method ), even the fastest prime factorization algorithms on the fastest computers can take enough time to make the search impractical ; that is, as the number of digits of the primes being factored increases, the number of operations required to perform the factorization on any computer increases drastically.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo de Manseriche in the little steamer " Napo ," in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 600 m ( 2000 ft ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 30 m ( 100 ft ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

BI has roughly 1500 students in China through its close relationship with Fudan University in Shanghai, and is also the majority shareholder of the ISM University of Management and Economics ( previously known as International School of Management ) with around 2000 students located in Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania.

Thus in four close U. S. elections ( 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000 ), the candidate with the most popular votes still lost the election.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo in the little steamer Napo, in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 2000 ft ( 600 m ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 100 ft ( 30 m ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

" It was not ; in reality he and the Prince were very close friends, and Milligan was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) ( honorary because of his Irish citizenship ) in 2000.

At the height of the dot-com bubble, on 13 June 2000, close to one third of Telia's shares were introduced on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, bringing solid cash to the Swedish state.

Increasing numbers of migrants from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia as well as nations such as Nepal, India, along with those from the West and Japan have pushed the number of non-nationals residing in Thailand to close to 2 million in 2008, up from about 1. 3 million in the year 2000.

In GDW's own gaming magazine Challenge, they close the gaps between the setting of Merc 2000 and their future role-playing game Dark Conspiracy.

* October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics close in Sydney, Australia.

It is believed that Mycenae was settled close to 2000 BC by Indo-Europeans who practiced farming and herding.

The year 2000 brought additional hardship for the laboratory in the form of the Cerro Grande Fire, a severe forest fire that destroyed several buildings ( and employees ' homes ) and forced the laboratory to close for two weeks.

Harthacnut presumably consumed large quanties of alcohol, as he was drinking to the health of the bride — he " died as he stood at his drink, and he suddenly fell to the earth with an awful convulsion ; and those who were close by took hold of him, and he spoke no word afterwards …" The likely cause of death was a stroke, " brought about by an excessive intake of alcohol " In The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England ( 2000 ), Clifford Brewer suggested a cardiac arrest as the immediate cause of death.

Knight Rider 2000, a 1991 sequel movie featuring Michael Knight and Devon Miles, with KITT being given a new sporty red body ( a close copy of the Pontiac Banshee IV concept car, was actually a Dodge Stealth with custom body work ) as the Knight 4000, and serving as a Television pilot for a would-be new series starring Susan Norman as Shawn McCormick, but it did not sell.

Given that Toutatis makes many close approaches the Earth, such as in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012, it is listed as a potentially hazardous object.

The album was dedicated to close friend and roadie Barry Cawley, who was killed in a road accident on his bicycle in Betws-y-Coed, North Wales in July 2000.

The flightless boreid ( snow scorpionfly ) with its rudimentary wings seems to be close to the common ancestor of the 2000 or so known varieties of flea.

The highest rainfall is found instead in upland places on the border with Lazio, are especially vulnerable to disturbances Atlantic, and are around 1500 – 2000 mm ( Pescara in 2010 showed a value close to 2800 mm ).

2000, Tourist getting close to whales, is it what whale watching is all about?

Adair built up a close relationship with these far right activists, even wearing an England shirt during UEFA Euro 2000 that one of the members had given him.

Of the 2, 616 people residing outside households ( i. e. in group quarters ), the vast majority were inmates at Lorton Reformatory, which was located within the CDP's bounds and would close the year following the 2000 census.

In summer 2000, he was found dead in a hotel room in New York, where he had traveled to close an UpsideToday business deal.

In a subsequent best-selling book, The True Character of Kim Jong-il, Shigemura cited apparently unnamed people close to Kim's family along with Japanese and South Korean intelligence sources, claiming they confirmed Kim's diabetes took a turn for the worse early in 2000 and from then until his supposed death three and a half years later he was using a wheelchair.