( 1987 ) Uranometria 2000. 0, Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, U. S. A., 3 volumes, hardcover.

As part of a Winston No Bull 5 fan contest, Earnhardt drives a Bomb Lift Truck and attempts to load an AIM-120 AMRAAM | AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile ( AMRAAM ) missile as he competes in a load crew competition at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, September 2000.

He held a professorship with the University of Virginia from 1971 until 1994, and with George Mason University until 2000.

When he retired from Virginia in 1994, he became Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University until 2000.

* Gutzman, Kevin., " The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered: ' An Appeal to the _Real Laws_ of Our Country ,'" Journal of Southern History 66 ( 2000 ), 473 – 96.

Herndon, Virginia: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Tania Szabo attended the museum's opening in 2000, as did Virginia McKenna, Leo Marks and members of SOE.

The largest single-dish radio telescope in Europe is the 100-meter diameter antenna in Effelsberg, Germany, which also was the world's largest fully steerable telescope for 30 years until the slightly larger Green Bank Telescope was opened in West Virginia, United States, in 2000.

Hymes later joined the Departments of Anthropology and English at the University of Virginia, where he became the Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology and English, and from which he retired in 2000, continuing as emeritus professor until his death from complications of Alzheimer's disease on November 13, 2009.

When English colonists first arrived in the area in the early 1600s, the Virginia Eastern Shore region was governed by Debedeavon ( aka " The Laughing King "), paramount chief of the Accawmacke clans who numbered around 2000 at the time.

* Allgor, Catherine, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

In 2000, Virginia Gardens had the nineteenth highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, with 26. 11 % of the populace.

Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books, 2000.

On February 9, 2000, West Virginia ’ s Interscholastic High School Boys Basketball scoring record was broken by Paw Paw ’ s Josh Delawder who scored 32 points in a 69-55 win against Mount Savage, Md.

* Tara Wilson, Miss West Virginia USA 2000

According to the school's web site, it was recognized as a West Virginia School of Excellence in 1998, a West Virginia Blue Ribbon School in 1999, a United States Department of Education Blue Ribbon School of Excellence in 1999-2000, and a West Virginia Exemplary School in 2000, 2004, and 2006.

Smith married former Miss Virginia USA beauty queen Patricia Southall on April 22, 2000.

This ruling was upheld by the appeals court in Richmond, Virginia in 2000 and after the final appeal was declined to be heard by the U. S. Supreme Court, federal order of busing was ended in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and it was left in the hands of the city school board to decide how to redo the assignment policy for school attendance.

* Mona Hymel, Consumerism, Advertising, and the Role of Tax Policy, 20 Virginia Tax Review 347 ( 2000 ).

In 2000, the CCA moved from its long-standing headquarters in Chesapeake, Virginia, to a large office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C .. Roberta Combs, the current president and CEO, is a founding state director and has been the only woman on the board of directors for the CCA in the history of the organization.

In the second season ( 2000 – 2001 ), Wesley embarks on a romantic relationship with a woman named Virginia Bryce after helping to prevent her father from sacrificing her to a demon.

The Gospel Working up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth Century Virginia Oxford UP, 2000

These include: Oleta Adams " Circle of One " album ( reaching No. 1 in the UK charts 1991 ); Marc Almond " Tenement Symphony " album which included the epic tracks " Jacky " and " The Days of Pearly Spencer "; The Associates " Wild and Lonely " album ; Rick Astley " Free " album ; B * Witched " Awake and Breathe " album ; Chris Botti " Slowing Down the World " album ; Boyzone " A Different Beat " album ; Cher " It's a Man's World " album ; Petula Clark " La Vie en Rose " track ; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions " Rattlesnakes " album ; Andrea Corr " Ten Feet High " album ; Cathy Dennis " Move to This " and " Into the Skyline " albums ; Electronic " Getting Away with It " single ( reaching No. 12 in the UK charts 1990 ); Frankie Goes to Hollywood " Welcome to the Pleasuredome " album which included their 2nd and 3rd No. 1s " Two Tribes " and " The Power of Love "; Elton John " The Big Picture " album ; Martyn Joseph " Being There " album ; Kingmaker " Sleepwalking " album ; Annie Lennox " Medusa " album ( No. 1 in the UK charts 1995 ); Let Loose " Best In Me " single ; Virginia MacNaughton " The Music " album ; Paul McCartney " Press to Play " album ; Malcolm McLaren " Duck Rock " album ; The Men They Couldn't Hang " A Map Of Morocco " single ; George Michael " Careless Whisper " single ( reaching No. 1 in 25 countries ); Liza Minnelli " Results " album ( reaching No. 6 in the UK charts 1989 ); The Moody Blues " Greatest Hits " album ; Moist " Gasoline " single ; Jimmy Nail " Crocodile Shoes " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1994 ); The Painted Word " Lovelife " album ; Pet Shop Boys " Very " album ; Pulp " Different Class " and " This Is Hardcore " albums ( both reaching No. 1 ); Rialto " Monday Morning 5: 19 " single ; Frances Ruffelle " Stranger To The Rain " single ; S Club " 7 album " ( No. 1 in the UK charts 2000 ); Scarlet " Naked " album ; Seal first 3 albums " Seal " " Seal II " " Human Being "; Siphiwo " Hope " album ( featuring Nelson Mandela on the title track ); Wendy Stark " Stark " album ; Rod Stewart " A Spanner in the Works " album and " If We Fall in Love Tonight " album and the single " Downtown Train "; Suggs " The Lone Ranger " album ; Travis " More Than Us " EP featuring Anne on the title track ; Tina Turner " Wildest Dreams " album ; Wet Wet Wet " Holding Back the River " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1989 ); Wham!

* 1934 – Mel Carnahan, American politician and 51st Governor of Missouri ( d. 2000 )

Bush became the First Lady of Texas when her husband was elected as the Governor of Texas and served as first lady of that state from January 17, 1995, to December 21, 2000.

In December 2000, her husband resigned as Governor of Texas to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States in January 2001.

* 2000 – Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish statesman, 25th Governor of Hong Kong ( b. 1917 )

* 1899 – Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana ( d. 2000 )

Governor General Adrienne Clarkson ( right ) meets with President of Russia | Russian president Vladimir Putin ( left ) in the governor general's study in Rideau Hall, 18 December 2000

The female Governor of Osaka from 2000 – 2008, Fusae Ohta, when called upon to present the Governor's Prize to the champion of the annual Osaka tournament, was required to do so on the walkway beside the ring or send a male representative in her place.

* The Blind Assassin ( 2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.

The Governor General's Awards in Visual Arts and Media Arts were first presented in 2000.

Although he has had limited success at the voting booth regarding his candidacy for the colonial post of Governor of Puerto Rico in 1976, 1980, 1988, 2000 and 2004-losing every time to either the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) or the New Progressive Party ( PNP ) candidate-he nevertheless has enjoyed great electoral success regarding his candidacy to the Senate, receiving more votes than any other candidates in the Puerto Rican senatorial elections of 1972, 1984, 1992 and 1996.

Conversely, even though nearly 60 percent of voters selected the Democratic Governor Gary Locke in 2000, in 2004 the Democratic gubernatorial nominee Christine Gregoire received only 41 percent of the vote.

Governor Mel Carnahan was killed near Goldman, Missouri in a plane crash on October 16, 2000.

It also hosted the first presidential debate between then Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore in 2000.

However, since at least 2000, The Washington Post has occasionally endorsed Republican politicians, such as Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich.

However, using the Public Act 72 of 1990, Governor John Engler appointed a emergency financial manager to take over the financial operations of the city in December 2000, effectively relegating the mayor, city council, and other elected public officers to advisory roles.

* Melvin Eugene Carnahan ( 1934 – 2000 ), Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000

* Mel Carnahan, Governor of Missouri ( 1993 – 2000 ), the only person to be posthumously elected to the U. S. Senate was born in Birch Tree.

On August 16, 2000, Ohio ’ s Governor Bob Taft declared and formally recognized Hamilton as “ the City of Sculpture ”.

Floresville was the birthplace of former Texas Governor, United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Republican presidential contender John Bowden Connally, Jr. ( 1917 – 1993 ), and his seven siblings, including actor Merrill Connally ( 1921 – 2001 ) and Wayne Connally ( 1923 – 2000 ), a former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature.

* Perng Fai-nan 彭淮南 ( 1939 -; born in Taiwan ), Governor, Central Bank of Taiwan, 1988 -; Best Central Banker in the world, 2000, 2005.

She ran for office in Massachusetts for U. S. Senate ( 2000 ), Governor ( 2002 ), and State Auditor ( 1998 ) on the Libertarian Party ticket.

In January 2000, Governor Pedro Rosselló granted Echevarría a pardon, which was largely criticized by the people.