Starting with the arrival of humans around 2000 years ago, nearly all of the island's megafauna became extinct, including:

Starting during the 1940s, the non-electrified railways in most countries had their steam locomotives replaced by diesel-electric locomotives, with the process being almost complete by 2000.

Starting with the world situation in 2000 following the Twilight War, players controlled one or more countries and guided them through 300 years of development, including the discovery of faster-than-light space travel, colonization of other Earthlike planets, and contact with a variety of sentient aliens.

Starting in mid-1999, Plant performed until the end of 2000 at several small venues with his folk-rock band, named Priory of Brion.

Starting with 800 in 1956, the Census Bureau reported populations of 3, 381 in 1960, 8, 281 in 1970, 14, 519 in 1980, and 21, 961 in 2000.

Starting with Windows 2000, shortcuts for common tasks like new, open and save were added, as well as a status-bar with a line counter ( available only when word-wrap is disabled ).

Starting after year 2000, XJRs were equipped with Jaguar's CATS ( Computer Active Technology Suspension ), which helped firm up the ride in sporty driving without compromising comfort during day-to-day use.

Starting around 2000, demand for ever-greater quantities of flash have driven manufacturers to use only the latest fabrication systems in order to increase density as much as possible.

Starting in the year 2000 the Teenage Cancer Trust has held annual charity concerts ( with the exception of 2001 ).

Starting on January 1, 2000, in honor of the millennium, MTV2 attempted to play every music video in the MTV library in alphabetical order.

Starting with Windows 2000, Windows NT-based operating systems also use the Windows Driver Model, while Windows NT 4 and earlier versions must use drivers written specifically for them.

Starting with the 2000 Gold Cup, the tournament field was increased to twelve teams.

Starting in 2000, MSP switched to lettered concourses, which has become standard practice at airports around the world.

Starting in the late 1980s, the Port of Seattle and a council representing local county governments considered the future of air traffic in the region and predicted that airport could reach capacity by 2000.

Starting in 2000, Lobo served as national spokesperson and backer for Body1. com, a consumer-targeted network of sites providing interactive content-rich information on medical technologies that treat ailments and diseases specific to body parts.

Starting with the Sega NetLink in 1996, Game. com in 1997 and Dreamcast in 2000, game consoles have also begun to support network gaming, over both the internet and LANs.

* Jacob Aagaard, Starting Out: The Grunfeld ( Everyman Chess, 2000 )

This evolved into Operation Starting Line in 2000 as other ministries joined Prison Fellowship in ministering to prisoners.

Starting in 2000, Dark Horse Comics began to release the full series in 28 smaller-sized trade paperback volumes, completing the series with the 28th volume in 2002.

Starting from 2000, members of the group took some of foreign citizens hostage in Cabinda.

Starting out in 2000, Shock has been performed annually ever since.

Starting in 2000, Majerus conducted a detailed seven year study of moths, experimenting to assess the various criticisms.

Starting around the year 2000, Beretta began replacing some parts with polymer and polymer coated metal.

Starting in 2000, there have been five collections of previously unreleased studio and live material, four of which were two-CD sets.

Starting with GCC 3. 4, on major platforms the official GCC release is able to pass 100 % of the ACATS Ada tests included in the GCC testsuite.

He eventually cleared, uncovering more buildings and proposed that it be called “ The Archeological City of El Tajín .” Starting from 1938, excavation and reconstruction work was sponsored by INAH and headed by Jose Garcia Payon, uncovering platforms, ballcourts and part of Tajín Chico with its palaces.

Starting from version 0. 997, the default driver is on all platforms.

Starting in the 1980s, an expanding community of neuroscientists and psychologists have associated themselves with a field called Consciousness Studies, giving rise to a stream of experimental work published in books, journals such as Consciousness and Cognition, and methodological work published in journals such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, along with regular conferences organized by groups such as the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Starting in 2007 with an economy surpassed by the economic crisis, Ecuador was subject to a number of economic policy reforms by Government that have helped steer the Ecuadorian economy to a sustained, substantial, and focused to achieve financial stability and social policy.

Starting with Moritz Pasch in 1882, many improved axiomatic systems for geometry have been proposed, the best known being those of Hilbert, George Birkhoff, and Tarski.

Starting in the 20th century, people have attempted to argue that small improvements in education can have large returns in such areas as health, wealth and well-being.

Starting with Explorer 6, it has been a NASA program, and they have worked with a variety of other institutions and business, including many international collaborations.

Starting in 2006, flight tests have been undertaken for testing the innovative balloon system in low-gravity environment.

Starting in 2004, object databases have seen a second growth period when open source object databases emerged that were widely affordable and easy to use, because they are entirely written in OOP languages like Smalltalk, Java or C #, such as Versant's db4o ( db4objects ), DTS / S1 from Obsidian Dynamics and Perst ( McObject ), available under dual open source and commercial licensing.

Starting from arbitrary, subjective probabilities for a group of agents, some Bayesians claim that all agents will eventually have sufficiently similar assessments of probabilities, given enough evidence.

Starting in the second half of the 20th century modern democracies have introduced rules for the flow of funds through party coffers, e. g. the Canada Election Act 1976, the PPRA in the U. K. or the FECA in the U. S ..

Starting in 2012, MIT has announced it will post those decisions ( privately ) online on Pi Day at exactly 6: 28pm, which they have called " Tau Time ", to honor the rival numbers Pi and Tau equally.

Starting in the mid-20th century, psychedelic drugs have been the object of extensive attention in the Western world.

A bunch of other Italian soaps have been produced as well such as Ricominciare ( Starting over ), Cuori rubati ( Stolen hearts ), Vivere ( Living ), Sottocasa ( Downstairs ) and Agrodolce ( Bittersweet ).

Starting in 1996 the Padres became the first national sports team to have an annual military appreciation event.

Starting with Paul Langevin in 1911, there have been numerous explanations of this paradox, many based upon there being no contradiction because there is no symmetry — only one twin has undergone acceleration and deceleration, thus differentiating the two cases.

Starting around 2009, there have been increased concerns about the safety of wireless communications, despite little evidence of health risks so far.

Starting with work in the Neo-Piagetian tradition, theorists have argued that the growth of working-memory capacity is a major driving force of cognitive development.

Starting in the 1990s, many of the central urban areas in North America have been experiencing a reversal of the urban decay, with rising real estate values, smarter development, demolition of obsolete social housing and a wider variety of housing choices.

Starting with 2-dimensional details of fractals, such as the Mandelbrot Set, fractals have found artistic application in fields as varied as texture generation, plant growth simulation and landscape generation.

Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years ; a complete history of each award category was published in 2005.

Starting in the 1960s, some musicians in the West either have collaborated with traditional throat singers or ventured into the realm of throat singing and overtone singing, or both.

Starting in 2008, DVD collections of the episodes have been released via Shout!

Starting in May, there is low precipitation because of dry winds, and most days have clear skies.

Starting from the production rules of a language, at first the item sets for this language have to be determined.

Starting in the 1980s, as their contribution to ozone depletion became known, their use was increasingly restricted, and they have now largely been replaced by HFCs.