Although Crete had contacts with Mari from 2000 BC, there is no evidence that the ecstatic prophetic art existed during the Minoan and Mycenean ages.

* 2000 – The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

A handful of games were released during this time, including Battlezone 2000.

After two previous failures, voters in the city passed a ballot measure in 2000 authorizing a bond measure for construction of a new library to replace the city's Carnegie library, damaged during the Loma Prieta earthquake.

The Congressional Budget Office reported budget surpluses of $ 69 billion in 1998, $ 126 billion in 1999, and $ 236 billion in 2000, during the last three years of Clinton's presidency.

In 2000, an excavation focusing on ancient ruins on Nelson's Island under Italian archaeologist Paolo Gallo uncovered a number of graves that date from the battle, as well as others buried there during the 1801 invasion.

A honey bee queen may lay 2000 eggs per day during spring buildup, but she also must lay 1000 to 1500 eggs per day during the foraging season, mostly to replace daily casualties, most of which are workers dying of old age.

On February 2, 2000, George W. Bush, as candidate for President, spoke during school's chapel hour.

" Also during the 2000 Republican primary campaign in South Carolina, Richard Hand, a BJU professor, spread a false e-mail rumor that John McCain had fathered an illegitimate child.

Cameroon's Marine Nationale République modernised and increased its capabilities during 2000 with the acquisition of a number of small Rodman patrol craft and the retirement of some small older craft.

Economic difficulties caused by the looting and destruction during the 1996 and 1997 mutinies, energy crises, and government mismanagement continued to trouble Patassé's government through 2000.

Economic growth reached 3. 1 % during 2000 and inflation was 9. 0 % although unemployment has yet to significantly improve.

One of these systems, which is operated by Cornell University and began operation in 2000, was controversial during the planning and building states for potential negative environmental impact.

The market order has been invoked during six crop years: 1962 ( 12 %), 1963 ( 5 %), 1970 ( 10 %), 1971 ( 12 %), 2000 ( 15 %), and 2001 ( 35 %).

The USS Abraham Lincoln battle group during the 2000 RIMPAC exercises

The DFLP has been largely unable to make its presence felt during the al-Aqsa Intifada, which began in 2000.

* 2000 – The " Texas 7 " escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.

The dot-com bubble ( also referred to as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble ) was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 – 2000 ( with a climax on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132. 52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62 ) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields.

Its capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001, and by author James Bamford in his books on the National Security Agency of the United States.

On January 21, 2000, during demonstrations in Quito by indigenous groups, the military and police refused to enforce public order, beginning what became known as the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état.

Furthermore, Eritrea's diplomatic relations with Djibouti were briefly severed during the border war with Ethiopia in 1998 due to a dispute over Djibouti's intimate relation with Ethiopia during the war but were restored and normalized in 2000.

* Much of the material in this article comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the 2003 U. S. Department of State website.

* Much of the material in these articles comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the 2003 U. S. Department of State website.

Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, observers expected him to avoid any changes to DADT, since his nominee for Secretary of State Colin Powell had participated in its creation.

* 2000 – Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.

State College, PA: Penn State Press, 2000.

He worked as a researcher at ATR ( Advanced Telecommunications Research institute international, 国際電気通信基礎技術研究所 ), Japan from 1994 – 2000, a researcher at Starlab, Brussels from 2000 – 2001, and associate professor of computer science at Utah State University from 2001 – 2006.

The majority of his works are held by the German State Library, and about 25 % of those are in advanced stages of decay ( American Libraries 2000 ).

In June 2000, she played in the GM Tournament Mérida, State of Yucatán, finishing in second place a half point behind Alexei Shirov.

* Weir, Robert E. Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in Gilded Age Social Movement ( Wayne State University Press, 2000 )

Between 1986 and 2000, it was combined with Dance St. Louis to form the State Ballet of Missouri, although it remained located in Kansas City.

* State of the Onion keynotes: 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

In September 2000, the Louvre Museum dedicated the Gilbert Chagoury and Rose-Marie Chagoury Gallery to display tapestries donated by the Chagourys, including a 16th-century six-part tapestry suite, sewn with gold and silver threads representing sea divinities, which was commissioned in Paris for Colbert de Seignelay, Secretary of State for the Navy.

In December 2000, Sultan Qaboos appointed the 48-member Majlis Al Dowla, or State Council, including five women, which acts as the upper chamber in Oman's bicameral representative body.

After he was sentenced on June 4, 1998 to life without parole, the State of Oklahoma in 2000 sought a death-penalty conviction on 161 counts of first-degree murder ( 160 non-federal agent victims and one fetus ).

* Rudgers, David F. Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943 – 1947 ( Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2000 )

In 2000, after Yasser Arafat rejected the offer made to him by Ehud Barak based on the two-state solution and declined to negotiate for a more favorable offer, it became clear that Arafat would not make a deal with Israel unless it included the full Palestinian right of return, which would demographically destroy the Jewish character of the State of Israel.

* Rhea, Gordon C. To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13 – 25, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8071-2535-0.

The term is used most by the United States, though the US State Department officially quit using the term in 2000.

In the last six months of the Clinton administration, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that the term " rogue state " would be abolished in June 2000, in favour of " states of concern ," as three of the rogue states ( Libya, Iran and North Korea ) no longer met the four transgressions which defined a rogue state.

The Association of State Green Parties ( ASGP ), a forerunner organization, first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's United States presidential campaigns in 1996 and 2000.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.

* State of the World 2000 ISBN 0-393-31998-9

Hamilton had over 2000 Treasury jobs to dispense, while Jefferson had one part-time job in the State Department, which he gave to journalist Philip Freneau to attack the federalists.