The state economy in the 21st century is dependent on management, finance, manufacturing, aerospace, mineral extraction, healthcare, education, retail, and technology.

After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a prominent Nigerian author of the 21st century.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Architect and buildings in 21st century ( 1910 card )

In the early 21st century, Johnson is among those commonly mentioned as the worst presidents in U. S. history.

This document was based on several years of consultation aimed to lay out the government's priorities for museums in the 21st century.

This trend might have stopped since the turn of the 21st century.

The first commercial equipment for HR-CS AAS was introduced by Analytik Jena ( Jena, Germany ) at the beginning of the 21st century, based on the design proposed by Becker-Ross and Florek.

Berlin Mitte skyline in the 21st century.

Their high cost meant that few were built and the 1950s-designed B-52s continued in use into the 21st century.

The Mach 2 Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' was built only in tiny numbers, leaving the 1950s Tupolev Tu-16 and Tu-95 ' Bear ' heavy bombers to continue being used into the 21st century.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

By the turn of the 21st century, Battery Park City was mostly completed, with the exception of some ongoing construction on West Street.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

* Shock and Awe, the 21st century American military doctrine

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, a great share of prior understanding related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, has been revolutionized.

As of the early 21st century, Christianity has approximately 2. 2 billion adherents.

First attested in depictions on a cylinder-seal from around the 21st century BC, it was explicitly recorded in the Babylonian star catalogues as " The Goat-Fish " before 1000 BC.

Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as easements for the installation of fibre optic telecommunications network cabling, avoiding having them buried in roadways while facilitating access and reducing the hazard of being damaged from digging equipment.

Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these were published in newspapers, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections.

It is a system of moral, social, political, and religious thought that has had tremendous influence on Chinese history, thought, and culture down to the 21st century.

This conference approached Gaia Theory as both science and metaphor as a means of understanding how we might begin addressing 21st century issues such as climate change and ongoing environmental destruction.

In November, as the Australians approached the Japanese positions around Shaggy Ridge, the 25th Brigade took over from the 21st as the division's main effort.

Late in the war, during the Allied advance through western Europe following the Normandy landings, Butlin was approached by General Bernard Montgomery, who asked him to help set up leave centres for the 21st Army Group.

By the 21st century, the Jewish population of Germany approached 200, 000, and Germany had the only growing Jewish community in Europe.

Most Team members eventually migrated away from OS / 2, but for many that had to wait until the early 21st century, when Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP approached the power and stability which they had come to expect from OS / 2.

The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men ; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century.

Also in the mid-first decade of the 21st century, automakers began to use MPV-style designs on supermini-based chassis.

Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001 ) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.

Until recently electrical energy has not been converted and stored on a major scale, however new efforts to that effect began in the 21st century.

Industrial sewing technology has become more precise and flexible, and quilting using exotic fabrics and embroidery began to appear in home furnishings in the early 21st century.

He began his NASCAR career on July 19, 1958, 16 days after his 21st birthday.

* Early in the 21st century the number of wire lines in use stopped growing and in some markets began to decline.

Denmark began producing whisky early in the 21st century.

It was the first decade of both the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, both of which began on January 1, 2001.

However, in the first part of the 21st century many of these same legacy system vendors, particularly IBM and Hewlett-Packard, began to adopt Linux as part of their overall sales strategy, with " open source " marketed as trumping " open system ".

Revitalization and gentrification of neighborhoods began in the late 1970s and continues into the 21st century, with much of the development in the Center City and University City areas of the city.

However, at about the time of Napoleonic Wars " military " began to be applied to armed forces as a whole and in the 21st century expressions like " military service ", " military intelligence " and " military history " encompass naval, marine and air force aspects.

However, by the beginning of the 21st century, Bethnal Green and much of the old East End began to undergo a process of gentrification.

Although the use of coal waned in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as the 21st Century rolled around, the coal-mining industry in Muhlenberg and surrounding counties began to expand again and has once again provided a significant number of jobs in the region.

During the 21st century, the newspaper began using the name News-Times, and calls itself " Blackford County ’ s only daily newspaper ".

As the 21st century began, this area became the de facto commercial center of the city providing great economic benefits.

Interest began to be revived in the indie electronic and electroclash movements in the late 1990s and, in the first decade of the 21st century, it enjoyed a widespread revival with commercial success for acts including La Roux, Kesha and Owl City.

In 2003, the City began a multi-year renovation of the entire building, bringing it into the 21st Century.

Finally, as the Interstate Commerce Commission began to realize that railroads needed to be able to compete successfully with trucking and other modes of transportation more than primarily each other, in 1959, the Norfolk and Western succeeded in reaching a merge with the VGN and gaining regulatory approvals, marking what became called the " modern merger era " in North American railroading which eventually resulted in Princeton's current service by Norfolk Southern Railway, one of only 6 large class 1 railroads operating in the United States in the 21st century.

" Its 21st season began on September 27, 2009, breaking the 20-season record it once shared with Gunsmoke.

Fighting on the following day, the 21st, was again hard and after several hours of setbacks, renewed French attacks began to gain momentum.

Preliminary operations for the Leyte invasion began at dawn on 17 October with minesweeping operations and the movement of the 6th Rangers accompanied by one company from the 21st Infantry Regiment toward three small islands in Leyte Gulf.

The economy began to recover in the early years of the 21st century, when Podgorica began to emerge as a modern, pro-western city.