Throughout the 19th century and early 20th century, the area adjoining today's Battery Park City was known as the Greek quarter ; a long-standing reminder of the ethnic past was the former St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The Colombian Government and ELN in early 2001 continued discussions aimed at opening a formal peace process.

The linguist Jorma Koivulehto wrote ( 2001 ) of the annual Finnish Kekri celebration having borrowed the word from early Indo-Aryan.

Furthermore, there is evidence that the Kuiper belt has an ' edge ', in that an apparent lack of low-inclination objects beyond 47-49 AU was suspected as early as 1998 and shown with more data in 2001.

Earnhardt drove the No. 3 car for most of his career, spanning the early 1980s until his death in 2001.

Eritrea's President Isaias visited Djibouti in early 2001 and President Ismail Omar Guelleh made a reciprocal visit to Asmara in the early summer of 2001.

From the early 1990s through 2001, her concert appearances were primarily limited to one weekend a year at Dollywood to benefit her Dollywood Foundation.

In late March 2011, Toy, Bowie's previously unreleased album from 2001, was leaked onto the internet, containing material used for Heathen and most of its single B-sides, as well as unheard new versions of his early back catalogue.

Darcsyde's projects include Trauma ( out of print since early 2000s ), a Corum supplement ( published 2001 ) for the fifth edition of the Chaosium Stormbringer ( aka Elric!

Reconstruction from Mitch was still underway when, in early 2001, the country experienced a series of devastating earthquakes that left nearly 2, 000 people dead or missing, 8, 000 injured, and caused severe dislocations across all sectors of Salvadoran society.

Initial popularity of the network was spurred on by Napster's threatened legal demise in early 2001.

In early 2001, variations on the protocol ( first implemented in proprietary and closed source clients ) allowed an improvement in scalability.

As a result, public support for the government sank to nearly record lows by early 2001.

Although Greenpeace had stated that efficiency was its primary concern, as early as 2001, statements from March and April 2005 also continued to express concern over human health and environmental safety Greenpeace has opposed releasing golden rice to fields as opposed to farming in greenhouses, which according to golden rice developer Ingo Potrykus, limits the amount of material needed for human safety testing.

Honduras and Nicaragua had tense relations throughout 2000 and early 2001 due to a boundary dispute off the Atlantic coast.

" In early 2001 Massoud employed a new strategy of local military pressure and global political appeals.

In early 2001 Massoud addressed the European Parliament in Brussels asking the international community to provide humanitarian help to the people of Afghanistan.

* Vanderkam, James, " An introduction to early Judaism " ( Eerdmans, 2001 )

After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the second wave of Progressive House ( 1999 – 2001 ).

After a turbulent year in office in which he saw his approval ratings plummet to the single digits, Prime Minister Mori agreed to hold early elections for the LDP presidency in order to improve his party's chances in crucial July 2001 Upper House elections.

In 2001, when Joey Ramone died, the Ramones were named as inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, prior to the actual ceremony held early the following year.

In late February and early March 2001, Polgár played in the elite Linares double round-robin invitational of six of the world's strongest players.

Across the county line in Bourbon County, an early distiller named Jacob Spears is credited with being the first to label his product " Bourbon whiskey ".

Also, the idea of Scrappy actually may not have been all that new to the series, as he "... bore a resemblance to Spears ’ and Ruby ’ s initial idea for a feisty little dog ", which was one of the early ideas for the Scooby Doo character himself along with the " big cowardly dog " ultimately chosen.

" In early 2007, Timbaland mentioned he wanted to work with female artist Britney Spears on her album Blackout.

1990s and early 2000s teen pop artists entered hiatuses and semi-retirements (* NSYNC, Dream, Destiny's Child ) or changed their musical style, including the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore, 3LW, Aaron Carter and Hanson.

* The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico ( Spanish title: Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista ), León-Portilla's edited version of the early Aztec documents

In interviews, Liefeld has compared himself to other popular artists who experience meteoric success and acclaim early in their careers but near-pariah status afterwards, notably Britney Spears, who " became vapid pop music, and perhaps I was nothing more than a vapid comic book artist.

In early 2008, Britney Spears made a one day trip to Rosarito in an attempt to avoid the paparazzi ; she failed.

The Matrix gained fame in the early 2000s after writing and producing a series of hits for artists including Christina Aguilera, Liz Phair, Busted, Hilary Duff, Avril Lavigne, McFly, Jason Mraz, Ashley Tisdale, Shakira, Britney Spears, Skye Sweetnam, and Miranda Cosgrove.

Flynn's character develops a crush on the lead character ( Spears ) early on in the show.

Bemis commented, however, that Spears ' already had " a history of questionable decisions ", and cited her Rolling Stone photoshoot done in early 1999, which was condemned by the American Family Association, as an example.

In early 2001, Spears her team started to develop a script for a movie where the singer could be the main role.

Lower-back tattoos were popularized in the early 2000s, in part owing to the influence of female celebrities, including Britney Spears, Christina Ricci, and Pamela Anderson.

General Charles Lanrezac, Commander of Fifth French Army – Spears ’ first liaison job was an attachment to this officer early in the war Sent first to the Ardennes on 14 August 1914, his job was to liaise between Field Marshal Sir John French and General Charles Lanrezac, commander of the French Fifth Army.

Erlewine also compared Spears ' vocals with that of Madonna's during her early days and Aguilera's with that of Cher's.

`` Boy, you're stirrin early '', a sleepy voice said.

but Cousin Simmons said he had watched them marching west early in the morning, and moving at a much brisker pace it had still taken half an hour for their column to pass, what with the narrowness of the road and their baggage and ammunition carts.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

If the city council fails to consider appointment of a full-time CD director, Mr. Hawksley said, then he plans to call a meeting early in September so that a civil defense organization will be developed locally.

The Princess said it was too early to say what would be decided if no agreement was reached after three days.

Grandma said it was just like the early mining camp days, and it was the way people ought to live, only she was getting too old to take the pleasure from it that she used to.

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and some theorize that he had some connection with northern Italy because his early works seem to show the influence of Stradella and Legrenzi.

According to Montgomery and Hammer Daniel's use of the word ' Chaldean ' to refer to astrologers in general is an anachronism, as during the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian periods ( when Daniel is said to have lived ), it referred only to an ethnicity.

It was indeed the site of an early Christian community, traditionally said to be founded by Peter.

Vocalist Gaahl said that during its early years, " black metal was never meant to reach an audience, it was purely for our own satisfaction ".

States often said to exhibit crony capitalism include the People's Republic of China ; India, especially up to the early 1990s when manufacturing was strictly controlled by the government ( the " Licence Raj "); Indonesia ; Argentina ; Brazil ; United Kingdom ; Malaysia ; Israel ; Russia ; the United States ; Tasmania ; and most other ex-Eastern Bloc states.

The very early universe is said to have been ' radiation dominated ' and as such radiation controlled the deceleration of expansion.

Clipperton's name comes from John Clipperton, an English pirate and privateer who fought the Spanish during the early 18th century, and who is said to have passed by the island.

In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.

In an interview given in the early 1980s Frances said:

Censuses in Egypt are said to have been taken during the early Pharaonic period in 3340 BCE and in 3056 BCE.

He said that Dianetics " forms a bridge between " cybernetics and General Semantics ( a set of ideas about education originated by Alfred Korzybski, which received much attention in the science fiction world in the 1940s ) — a claim denied by scholars of General Semantics, including S. I. Hayakawa, who expressed strong criticism of Dianetics as early as 1951.

Mayr said of his own involvement with the local birdwatchers: " In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Morris would later recall an early conversation with Julia: " I was talking to a mass murderer but I was thinking of you ," he said, and instantly regretted it, afraid that it might not have sounded as affectionate as he had wished.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

" Bernadette Peters quoted Sondheim on the character of " Sally ": " He said early on that is off balance, to put it mildly.

As of early 2010, AI said that at least two senior military officers named by the United Nations as potentially having individual criminal responsibility for events constituting crimes against humanity, remain in positions of influence in the Guinean Presidential Cabinet, despite the formation of a new transitional government.