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.

This proved highly successful, even without training, and the concept was widely used in the 21st Army Group.

The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.

Since the turn of the 21st century, many aspects of animal communication, animal emotions, animal culture, learning, and even sexual conduct that experts long thought they understood, have been reexamined, and new conclusions reached.

The 21st century ushered in the acceptance and encouragement of internet research conducted on college and university campuses, in homes, and even in gathering areas of shopping centers.

20th and 21st century scholarship by and large retains the view that Palestrina was a strong and refined composer whose music represents a summit of technical perfection, while emphasizing that some of his contemporaries possessed equally individual voices even within the confines of " smooth polyphony.

For example, the role of viruses in marine ecosystems is barely being explored even in the beginning of the 21st century.

Numerical analysis naturally finds applications in all fields of engineering and the physical sciences, but in the 21st century, the life sciences and even the arts have adopted elements of scientific computations.

The Statute was an influence on copyright law in several other nations, including the United States, and even in the 21st century is " frequently invoked by modern judges and academics as embodying the utilitarian underpinnings of copyright law ".

The Chernobyl disaster had significant impact on public opinion at the end of the 1980s, and the fallout was still causing cancer deaths well into the 1990s and possibly even into the 21st century.

By the early 21st century computer-generated imagery, advanced film scanning, digital intermediate methods and film stocks with higher resolutions optimized for special effects work had together rendered VistaVision mostly obsolete even for special effects work.

Dramatic improvements in single-shot cameras and raw image file processing at the beginning of the 21st century made single shot, CCD-based cameras almost completely dominant, even in high-end commercial photography.

The first large project Wren designed, the Chelsea Hospital ( 1682 – 92 ), does not entirely satisfy the eye in this respect, but met its brief with distinction and such success that even in the 21st century it fulfills its original function.

Some consider it likely the lake will shrink further and perhaps even disappear in the course of the 21st century.

At the beginning of the 21st century, some Buddhist women in Thailand have started to introduce the bhikkhuni sangha in their country as well, even if public acceptance is still lacking.

The term fundamentalist is controversial in the 21st century and is often used to attack or ridicule an adherent ( labelled " fundy " or " fundie "), even though it was coined by movement leaders.

There are still several old houses and buildings in Addington and, even though there has been some fairly modern building, the village atmosphere is intact in the 21st century, despite its being in Greater London.

The claims have been exposed by modern scholarship, even 21st century apocryphal supplements.

Migrations to the West have been quite steady even in the late 1990s and early 21st century, as people continue moving to countries like the US, Canada and Australia.

The United States military's intelligence capabilities in the 21st century have allowed for monitoring even further than two echelons down the chain of command.

This practice has become less common in the developed world with the advent of genetic testing, but even in the 21st century remains which are unidentifiable by current methods may be buried in a mass grave.

This tradition has influenced Korean churches even into the 21st century.

The simultaneous increase in power and affordability of computer-generated imagery in the 21st century, and the ability for CGI specialists to duplicate even hand-held camera motion ( see Match moving ), initially made the use of motion control photography less common.

Some choose to hold the rite on the 21st of June, even when this is not the longest day of the year, and some celebrate June 24, the day of the solstice in Roman times.