** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

For example, the creation of argon fluorohydride ( HArF ), a marginally stable compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen, was reported by researchers at the University of Helsinki in 2000.

The national currency, the Azerbaijani manat, was stable in 2000, depreciating 3. 8 % against the dollar.

Public demonstrations usually take place without government interference, though one rally in November 2000 by an opposition party was followed by the arrest and imprisonment for a month of its organizer.

It was proclaimed in 2000.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

It was rebuilt again by 1783 and this is the building that can be seen today, unchanged except for renovations done to it in 2000.

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

In 1966 the number of " pure " Ainu was about 300 ( Honna, Tajima, and Minamoto, 2000 ).

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

The following year the Amiga product line was expanded with the introduction of two new models: the Amiga 2000 for high-end graphics and business use, and the Amiga 500 for home use.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

During the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit in Kuala Lumpur, American authorities claim that immigration records show that a person named Abdulaziz al-Omari was visiting the country, although they say they are not sure that this was the same person.

From 1994 until 2007, Aston Martin was part of the Ford Motor Company, becoming part of the company's Premier Automotive Group in 2000.

After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

In 2000, a French court ruled that a government minister's description of anthroposophy as a cult was defamatory.

The album was certified Gold in 2000.

The first president of ARIN was Kim Hubbard, from 1997 until 2000.

Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

In April 2000, Dewar was admitted to hospital for tests on his heart, following a previous test where a minor irregularity was discovered.

In 2000 Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut discovered a 6 million years old bipedal hominin in the Tugen Hills of Kenya, which they named Orrorin tugenensis.

The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team directed by French archaeologist Jean-François Jarrige, and was excavated continuously between 1974 and 1986, and again from 1997 to 2000.

As instruments improved, the rate of discovery grew rapidly: by January 2000, a total of 257 had been discovered ; by May 2003, the number had grown to 1, 600. there are 3, 404 known Trojan asteroids at and 1, 759 at,

Quark-gluon plasma was discovered at CERN in 2000.

One example of perchlorate related problems was found at the Olin Flare Facility, Morgan Hill, California-Perchlorate contamination beneath a former flare manufacturing plant in California was first discovered in 2000, several years after the plant had closed.

In April 2000, a rare orange Prehnite was discovered at the famous Kalahari Manganese Fields in South Africa.

As late as 2000, some coral reefs were discovered along the bottoms of the Norwegian fjords.

The documents were discovered in the FBI files after a Freedom of Information Act search by Professor Jon Wiener, published in Weiner's book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files ( 2000 ), and are discussed in the documentary film The U. S. vs. John Lennon ( 2006 ).

" The mosaics were originally discovered in the year 2000 but were kept secret in order to avoid looting.

According to an article in Nature by Philip Ball, while there are various evidences for silk production in China back to around 2570 BC, newly discovered silk objects from the Indus valley in eastern Pakistan are believed to date from between 2450 BC and 2000 BC, " making them similarly ancient ".

" Forty-seven complete or partial skulls were discovered in just that area during the decade 2000 – 2010.

The park is home to a rich diversity of threatened plants and animals including ; The Nightcap Oak Eidothea hardeniana ( discovered in 2000 ), the Peach Myrtle Uromyrtus australis and The Minyon Quandong Elaeocarpus sedentarius.

In 2000, woolly mammoth remains were discovered by a construction crew while digging home foundations.

Original estimates had the orbit lasting for 2000 years, but it was discovered that solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag during high levels of solar activity produced significant perturbations in the perigee height of the satellite, which caused a significant decrease in its expected lifetime to only about 240 years.

During restoration of the church in 2000, his skull was discovered in a lead casket, having previously been accidentally disinterred during the 1870s.

There was an attempt on 7 November 2000 to steal the collection ( see Millennium Dome raid ), but the Metropolitan Police discovered the plot and arrested the robbers before their escape.

Three additional songs were discovered in manuscript posthumously ; two of them were published in the year 2000, and one remains unpublished.

The World Heritage Ban Chiang archeological site, discovered in 1966, yielded evidence of bronze making beginning circa 2000 BC, which lacks evidence of weaponry so often associated with the Bronze Age in Europe and the rest of the world.

Eight irregular satellites were discovered since 2000 following similar orbits.

They were discovered in the United States in 1987, in New Zealand in 2000, and in Devon, United Kingdom in 1992.

The Real IRA also acquired Frangex ; in December 2000, 80 sticks were discovered near Waterford on a farm in Kilmacow.

Once case study by Pillai & Kraya discovered a man that was prescribed dexaphetamine for adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and he later developed morbid jealousy ( 2000 ).

In 2000, Dev P. Arya, currently Director of the Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry at Clemson University, and his coworkers discovered that neomycin induces enormous thermal stabilization of triplex DNA while having little or almost no effect on the B-DNA duplex stabilization.