For long periods of the last millennium Britain had the largest merchant fleet in the world, but it has slipped down the rankings as Flag of convenience has grown.

< imagemap > File: 2nd millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: In 1492, Christopher Columbus ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The Atomic Bomb from World War II ; An alternate source of light, the Light Bulb ; For the first time, a human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon mission ; Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies ; Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of expansionism and modernization ; Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; In 1348, the Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of Europe, in two years.

For nearly a millennium, the Taos Indians have lived there.

For a millennium, both realms enjoy relative freedom and prosperity.

For the city applications in 2000, held to celebrate the millennium, the following towns and boroughs requested city status:

For many this was seen as an affront to the principles of the paper and sales reached a low point at the turn of the millennium.

For example, watchtower elements are found at Mogador from the first millennium BC, derived from Phoenician or Carthaginian origins.

For over a millennium, its unique kaolin has enabled Jingdezhen to make high-quality porcelain.

" For the 2000 millennium celebrations, Europe was asked to do a concert in Stockholm on New Year's Eve 1999.

For example, Chumash peoples in central California were known to have been harvesting black abalone approximately a millennium earlier in the Morro Bay area.

For unknown reasons the epipaleolithic lunate tool type disappeared and did not reappear until around the end of the 4th millennium B. C.

For the year, see 6th millennium.

For the regiment, activities in the new millennium began similarly to the 1990s.

For an example in the new millennium, the Internet is a medium containing traces of various mediums which came before it -- the printing press, radio and the moving image.

For the year 7745, see 8th millennium.

For the new millennium, Blood-Horse magazine compiled a Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U. S. Racehorses of the 20th Century which was published in book form.

For most of the first millennium AD, the Axumite Kingdom in Ethiopia and Eritrea had a powerful navy and trading links reaching as far as the Byzantine Empire and India.

For the first time, after a millennium of peace had existed, a man is found murdered, and exploration into the outside world begins.

For the first half of the 3rd millennium, only very rough chronological matching of archaeological dates with written records is possible.

Each episode began with the following narration: " For a millennium the space for the hotel room existed – undefined.

For current use " 20XX " has replaced 19XX in the new millennium.

For the first millennium AD, the Chamic languages were a dialect chain along the Vietnam coast.

For centuries, maybe for most of the first millennium, Uppåkra was a place of religious and political power ; remains of a pre-Christian temple found in 2000 – 2004 demonstrated that it was also an important cult place.

There was another difference with back covers too, as the " Welcome to the new millennium of fear " and the " Reader Beware, You're In For A Scare!

For much of its existence, Garo was the premiere showcase for " art " manga in Japan.

For the most part, commercial manga translators have passed over the offbeat works showcased in Garo in favor of more mainstream, action / adventure and romance stories from the major publishers.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

For every rude word of Mr. Banks's the family had five in apology.

For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.

For example, child welfare experience abounds with cases in which the parental request for substitute care is precipitated by a crisis event which is meaningfully linked with a fundamental unresolved problem of family relationships.

For most Brooklyn College students, college is at once a perpetuation of their ethnic attachments and a breaking away from the cage of neighborhood and family.

For many of these unwed mothers, the data on their family life and early childhood experiences revealed several indications and sources of their basic mistrust of their parents in particular and of the world in general.

For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, many linguists who studied Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic regarded them as members of a common Ural – Altaic family, together with Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic, based on such shared features as vowel harmony and agglutination.

For a time he took into his family the young student Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam ( 1813 – 1853 ), one of the founders of the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

" For their protection as well, his family were forced to leave Greeneville ; they would not return home for eight years.

For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

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For example, Spanish moss ( Tillandsia usneoides ) is actually in the Bromeliaceae ( pineapple ) family.

For example, the nature of the business entity may be one that is traded on a public market ( public company ), not traded on a public market ( a private, limited or closely held company ), owned by family members ( a family business ), or exempt from income taxes ( a non-profit, not for profit, or tax-exempt entity ).

For a few years, this group of animals was regarded as a subfamily, called the Callitrichinae, of the family Cebidae.

For example, the bacteriophage PRD1, Paramecium bursaria Chlorella algal virus, and mammalian adenovirus have been placed in the same family.

For many years, cardinal Giovanni di San Paolo ( elevated in 1193 ) was identified as member of the Colonna family and therefore its first representative in the College of Cardinals, but modern scholars have established that this was based on the false information from the beginning of 16th century.

For example, it has been suggested that, in the early 20th century Shanghai, “ Western food, and in particular identifiably nourishing items like milk, became a symbol of a neo-traditional Chinese notion of family .”

For example, in one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, The Dream of the Red Chamber ( believed to be a semi-autobiographical account of author Cao Xueqin's own family life ), three generations of the Jia family are supported by one favorite concubine of the Emperor.

For example, beetles in the family Coccinellidae (" ladybirds " or " ladybugs ") consume aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops.

For example, Spanish and French both come from Latin and therefore belong to the same family, the Romance languages.

For example, the Italian and French words for various foods, some family relationships, and body parts are very similar to each other, yet most of those words are completely different in Spanish.

For many years the Dodo and the Rodrigues Solitaire were placed in a family of their own, the Raphidae ( formerly Dididae ), because their exact relationships with other pigeons were unresolved.

For example, familio " family " is, with the stress on the second i, but when the word is used without the final o ( famili ’), the stress remains on the second i:.