The state economy in the 21st century is dependent on management, finance, manufacturing, aerospace, mineral extraction, healthcare, education, retail, and technology.

After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a prominent Nigerian author of the 21st century.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Architect and buildings in 21st century ( 1910 card )

In the early 21st century, Johnson is among those commonly mentioned as the worst presidents in U. S. history.

This document was based on several years of consultation aimed to lay out the government's priorities for museums in the 21st century.

This trend might have stopped since the turn of the 21st century.

The first commercial equipment for HR-CS AAS was introduced by Analytik Jena ( Jena, Germany ) at the beginning of the 21st century, based on the design proposed by Becker-Ross and Florek.

Berlin Mitte skyline in the 21st century.

Their high cost meant that few were built and the 1950s-designed B-52s continued in use into the 21st century.

The Mach 2 Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' was built only in tiny numbers, leaving the 1950s Tupolev Tu-16 and Tu-95 ' Bear ' heavy bombers to continue being used into the 21st century.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

By the turn of the 21st century, Battery Park City was mostly completed, with the exception of some ongoing construction on West Street.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

* Shock and Awe, the 21st century American military doctrine

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, a great share of prior understanding related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, has been revolutionized.

As of the early 21st century, Christianity has approximately 2. 2 billion adherents.

First attested in depictions on a cylinder-seal from around the 21st century BC, it was explicitly recorded in the Babylonian star catalogues as " The Goat-Fish " before 1000 BC.

Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as easements for the installation of fibre optic telecommunications network cabling, avoiding having them buried in roadways while facilitating access and reducing the hazard of being damaged from digging equipment.

Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these were published in newspapers, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections.

It is a system of moral, social, political, and religious thought that has had tremendous influence on Chinese history, thought, and culture down to the 21st century.

In the 21st century, European avant garde composers like Richard Barrett, Fausto Romitelli, Peter Ablinger, Bernhard Lang, Claude Ledoux and Karlheinz Essl have used the electric guitar ( together with extended playing techniques ) in solo pieces or ensemble works.

* 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.

* Richard Hoare becomes a partner in the London goldsmith's business which, as private banking house C. Hoare & Co., will survive through to the 21st century.

The county is currently located in New York's 24th congressional district, represented by Richard L. Hanna ; future redistricting will place the county in the future 21st district ( along with most of the territory of the current 23rd district, represented by Bill Owens ).

Artists such as Peter Doig, Richard T. Scott and Will Teather have become associated with the term in the early 21st century.

Edward Richard Woodham of the 11th Hussars became Chairman of the organising committee for the 21st Anniversary dinner held at Alexandra Palace on 25 October 1875 by the survivors of the Charge.

In particular, the charge of the 21st Lancers held special appeal and several artists portrayed the scene including Stanley Berkeley, Robert Alexander Hillingford, Richard Caton Woodville, William Barnes Wollen, Gilbert S. Wright, Edward Mathew Hale, Captain Adrian Jones, Major John C. Mathews, and Allan Stewart.

* Richard Fitzgerald, 21st Knight of Glin ( died 1775 ) " The Duellist "

The project team worked to articulate a framework for evangelical civic and political engagement for the 21st century under the direction of Richard Cizik, then-Vice President of Governmental Affairs.

A host of successes followed including Richard O ' Brien's The Rocky Horror Show ( celebrating its 21st Birthday ) and the hugely successful Royal Court Classics Season in 1995.

She served as the apartment house manager from the late 1940s until 1956, when she moved in with her brother Richard on 21st Place in Santa Monica.

As eminent referees Richard Steele and Mills Lane retired at the dawn of the 21st century, Cortez became one of Nevada and New York's preferred boxing referees for world title fights.

The 21st WACL Conference was held in Geneva, 27 – 29 August 1988, and was addressed by U. S. Congressmen Richard Armey, former president of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu, George Wortley, and Major-General Singlaub.

* Richard Friend interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 21st May 2008 ( film ) ( QuickTime required-YouTube version here )

* Dan Richards, Kenneth Alibek, Michael G Katze, Mark A Wainberg, Richard J Webby " Controversies in 21st century virology " Future Virology, May 2006, Vol.

After the release of yet another hybridized album-1996's Tones For The 21st Century-Haynes discovered drum ' n ' bass and began working with some of the genres finest DJs and producers in London and the U. S. This manifested in the release of 2000s BPM, a fusion of drum n ' bass beats with the classical music of Richard Wagner.

Her story was the inspiration for the novel Beloved ( 1987 ) by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison ( that later was adapted into a film of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey ), as well as for her libretto for the early 21st century opera Margaret Garner ( 2005 ), composed by Richard Danielpour.

* Richard Weitz ( 21st century ), Associate Director of the Hudson Institute ’ s Center for Future Security Strategies

Despite its age, it has remained the standard work on the identification of British beetles into the 21st century, although the British Entomological and Natural History Society produced a companion volume, New British Beetles-species not in Joy's practical handbook by Peter J. Hodge and Richard A. Jones in 1995.