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Millennium and Stadium
In a break with tradition, a " home " fixture against Argentina took place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 23 May 2005, before the Lions went to New Zealand.
Early finals were played in other locations and, due to extensive redevelopment of Wembley, finals between 2001 and 2006 were played at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
Venues used since 1990 include Manchester City's now demolished Maine Road stadium, Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium, Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium, Arsenal's former home, Highbury ( since redeveloped as housing ), London's Wembley Stadium, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and Aston Villa's Villa Park in Birmingham.
In 2005, both were held at the Millennium Stadium.
The National Stadium, which was used by Wales national rugby union team, was officially opened on 7 April 1984, however in 1997 it was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium in 1999, which hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and became the national stadium of Wales.
The West Stand of the Millennium Stadium
In 1997, just thirteen years after the National Stadium had opened, it was considered too small and did not have the facilities required of the time and it was demolished and a new stadium, the Millennium Stadium, was built in its place ( completed to a north-south alignment and opened in June 1999 ).
Although the Millennium Stadium is on roughly two thirds of the National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park site, it is currently no longer using the Arms Park name.
The official website confuses the issue as well, one part states that " The Millennium Stadium is located on Westgate Street in Cardiff ; next to the Cardiff Arms Park ".
whereas another section specifically refers to the stadium as " The Millennium Stadium, on the Cardiff Arms Park "
< center > Glanmor's Gap, previously the 1970 North Stand of the National Stadium, now part of the Millennium Stadium </ center >
Now the same structure of the South Stand of the rugby ground is also physically attached to the North Stand of the Millennium Stadium.
This came about because the WRU were unable to secure enough funding to include the North Stand in the Millennium Stadium, and the National Lottery Commission would not provide any additional funds to be used for the construction of a new ground for Cardiff RFC.
The Millennium Stadium was therefore built with the old reinforced concrete structure of the National Stadium ( North Stand ) and the new steel Millennium Stadium structure built around it.

Millennium and Cardiff
Cardiff RFC Ltd, the company that runs Cardiff Blues and Cardiff RFC, still has a 15-year lease on the Arms Park, but talks are underway to release the rugby club from the terms of the lease, to enable the Millennium Stadium to be redeveloped with a new North Stand and adjoining convention centre.
They won the 2003 – 04 FA Cup, beating Millwall 3 – 0 in the final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
On 27 June 2009, a statue of Novello was unveiled outside the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay.
* Friday 14 March 2008-Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Wales played their Five Nations and autumn international home matches at Wembley ( as Twickenham Stadium would not accommodate them ) while Cardiff Arms Park was being rebuilt as the Millennium Stadium in the late 1990s ( despite being in England ).
From 2001 to 2007 when the 1923 built Wembley was being rebuilt, the Football League Trophy finals were played at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.
Since 1967, the final has been played as a single match at Wembley Stadium, although the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was used between 2001 and 2007, following the demolition of the old Wembley.
A month later, further UK dates were added, including Hampden Park in Glasgow on June 5, Rose Bowl, Southampton on June 17, and the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on June 19.
On 31 December 1999 they played at the Leaving the 20th Century concert in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the first and biggest ever concert to be held there with 80, 000 people attending.
The Welsh National Opera is based at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, while the National Youth Orchestra of Wales was the first of its type in the world.
* May 15 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff – 2004 Challenge Cup tournament won by St. Helens with a 32-16 win over Wigan Warriors in the final before 73, 734.
Galloper horses near the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
Cardiff City were defeated in the semi-final before a 2 – 0 win against Brentford at the Millennium Stadium secured promotion.
The tournament began with the opening ceremony in the newly-built Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, with Wales beating Argentina 23 – 18, and Colin Charvis scoring the first try of the tournament.

Millennium and home
Abuja is home to several parks and green areas with the largest one being Millennium Park.
They did even better in 2002 – 03, finished eighth in the Premiership and coming runners-up in the FA Cup to Arsenal ( after losing 1 – 0 at the Millennium Stadium ), thanks in no small part to the metamorphosis of James Beattie, who fired home 24 goals, 23 in the league.
In the same year, UMG was accused of using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to indiscriminately remove content related to the artist Prince, most notably a twenty-nine second home video in which children danced to one of Prince's songs.
James Pond, also known as James Pond: Underwater Agent, is a platform video game that was developed by British video game developers Vectordean Ltd and Millennium Interactive, and published by Millennium Interactive and Electronic Arts for numerous home computers and consoles in 1990.
Rhodes sits on a peninsula between Bray Bay and Homebush Bay, on the southern bank of the Parramatta River and is located about 3 kilometres from ANZ Stadium, Olympic Park ( home of the 2000 Summer Olympics ), Sydney International Aquatic Centre, Bicentennial Park and Millennium Parklands.
Wales Millennium Centre, home of Welsh National Opera in Cardiff
In 2004, WNO acquired its first permanent home in Cardiff in the Wales Millennium Centre, a performing arts centre in Cardiff Bay.
the Millennium Dome, pensions, Football hooliganism, defence procurement, the economy, education, broadcasting regulation, Religious schools, chocolate production, home safety, female prisoners, the National Lottery, licencing laws, tree management by Network Rail, school closures in Leavesden, asylum seekers, Normandy Landings, and fox hunting.
Lower Sunbury is the home of the Sunbury Millennium Embroidery which was conceived and designed in the 1990s and completed in 2000.
Since July 2006 its permanent home is the purpose-built Sunbury Millennium Embroidery Gallery, in the well-tended, free-to-visit Walled Garden adjoining Sunbury Park.
The town is also home to the Millennium Embroidery, a large commissioned artwork that commemorates Sunbury's ascension to the new millennium.
As the home of the Chicago Water Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, Millennium Park, and the high-end shopping on the Magnificent Mile, it is a street well known to Chicago natives as well as tourists to the city.
During the period 2000 – 2010, Wales played most of their home matches at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.
He addressed 1, 200 spiritual leaders gathered for the UN Millennium Peace Summit, with the message, “ For peace in the world, stop the war in the home .”
It is home to one of the Millennium Sykehouse signs and an original red telephone box.
WCW even released a home video highlighting Sid's return to WCW called Sid Vicious: Millennium Man.
These include: Cloth Hall Court, in the legal district of the city ; Old Broadcasting House, the former home of the BBC in Leeds ; Electric Press, a building on Millennium Square ; and Old School Board, the birthplace of school education in Leeds.
The Wales Millennium Centre is home to nine arts organisations:
It was announced on this occasion that the new home of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff would include a specially built 350-seat concert hall, named BBC Hoddinott Hall ().
Closer to home, Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, concluded his 2004 review of Millennium Park with the following: "... a park provides a respite from the city, yet it also reflects the city.

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