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The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.
It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Courtthe largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000.
With the bookstacks in the central courtyard of the museum empty, the process of demolition for Lord Foster's glass-roofed Great Court could begin.
The British Museum, Great Court
The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners.
The Great Court opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe.
At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.
File: British Museum 2010-06-04 B. jpg | Ceiling of the Great Court and the black siltstone obelisks of Nectanebo II, c. 350 BC
File: Flickr-Nic's events-British Museum with Cory and Mary, 6 Sep 2007-183. jpg | Detail of a Ionic capital of a pilaster in the Great Court
He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12.
Common positions relate to defining a European foreign policy towards a particular third-country such as the promotion of human rights and democracy in Burma, a region such as the stabilisation efforts in the African Great Lakes, or a certain issue such as support for the International Criminal Court.
He later travelled to the Court of Session to be sworn in by the Lord President and receive the Great Seal of Scotland.
The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.
The National Lottery also released a flood of funds for major enhancements to existing attractions, for example the roofing of the Great Court at the British Museum.
In 1949, the former lawyer of many Supreme Court cases, St-Laurent ended the practice of appealing Canadian legal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, making the Supreme Court of Canada the highest avenue of legal appeal available to Canadians.
In the center is the Great Dome overlooking Killian Court with Kendall Square in the background.
MIT's Building 10 and Great Dome overlooking Killian Court
The Great Dome overlooks Killian Court, where commencement is held each year.
Moses appears eight times in carvings that ring the Supreme Court Great Hall ceiling.
In August 1831 Van Buren was appointed Minister to the Court of St. James's ( ambassador to Great Britain ), and he arrived in London in September.

Great and opened
The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world ; the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825.
Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.
In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.
By 1825 the Erie Canal, long with 82 locks, opened up a connection from the populated Northeast to the Great Lakes.
There is also some co-operation between the Central ( Amended ) and Unamended Fellowships in North America – most recently in the Great Lakes region, where numerous Amended & Unamended ecclesias have opened fellowship to one another despite the failure of wider attempts at re-union under the North American Statement of Understanding ( NASU ) in recent years.
The Great Belt Fixed Link connecting the islands of Zealand ( Denmark ) | Zealand and Funen across the Great Belt was opened in 1997
The Great Belt Fixed Link ( opened in 1997 ) connecting the islands of Zealand and Funen and the New Little Belt Bridge ( opened in 1970 ) connecting Funen and Jutland have improved the traffic flow across the country on both motorways and rail.
In 1994, the Channel Tunnel opened, connecting France and Great Britain by rail under the English Channel.
The British agreed to depart from their forts around the Great Lakes, subsequently the United States-Canadian boundary had to be re-adjusted, numerous pre-Revolutionary debts were liquidated, and the British opened their West Indies colonies to American trade.
Joyce Tyldesley states that the Great Pyramid itself " is known to have been opened and emptied by the Middle Kingdom ", before the Arab caliph Abdullah al-Mamun entered the pyramid around AD 820.
When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s there were no easily available jobs in the US and Canada and emigration fell to less than 50, 000 a year, bringing to an end the period of mass migrations that had opened in the mid-18th century.
The Great Eastern Hotel was closed in 1923 by the newly formed LNER, the hotel having suffered a decline resulting from the opening of the new passenger port up-river at Parkeston Quay where a new hotel with the same name had been opened by the Great Eastern Railway.
Recent large infrastructure projects were the construction of the Great Seto Bridge and the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line ( opened 1997 ).
Astor took advantage of the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States in 1794, which opened new markets in Canada and the Great Lakes region.
Another was Perang Besar ( Great War ) Estate, opened by some British ex-servicemen led by Colonel Henry Gough, who was the pioneer of bud-grafting of rubber trees in the country.
* 1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
* 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
In 1957, Rodney Young and a team from the University of Pennsylvania opened a chamber tomb at the heart of the Great Tumulus ( in Greek, Μεγάλη Τούμπα )— 53 metres in height, about 300 metres in diameter — on the site of ancient Gordion ( modern Yassihöyük, Turkey ), where there are more than 100 tumuli of different sizes and from different periods.

Great and 2000
Cannibalism was practiced as recently as 2000 years ago in Great Britain.
Pleger ( 2000 ) The Old Copper Complex of the Western Great Lakes
* The Great Possum-Squashing and Beer Storm of 1962: Reflections on the Remains of My Country ( 2000 )
A rare cloudless satellite view of the entire Great Lakes region, April 24, 2000, with the names of the lakes added
A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.
* Part One of Booknotes interview with Thomas Keneally on The Great Shame and the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World, January 2, 2000.
** Part Two of Booknotes interview with Keneally on The Great Shame, January 9, 2000.
* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.
* On May 23, 2000 as part of the Bicentennial Local Legacies project, Renee Moore, founder of Solomon Northup Day, was honored along with other Americans at a reception in the Library of Congress's ( LOC ) Great Hall in Washington DC.
Amos has also released more than 30 singles and 60 B-sides, and has contributed original material to nine film soundtracks, including Higher Learning ( 1995 ), Twister ( 1996 ), Great Expectations ( 1998 ) and Mission: Impossible II ( 2000 ).
* Great Jubilee in the year 2000
Alexander the Great is reputed to have crucified 2000 survivors from his siege of the Phoenician city of Tyre, as well as the doctor who unsuccessfully treated Alexander's friend Hephaestion.
He was honored by the United States Postal Service with a 52 ¢ Great Americans series ( 1980 – 2000 ) postage stamp.
In 2000, Roger Ebert included it among his list of Great Movies.
The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression ( 2000 )
* Jeffrey W. Helsing Johnson's War / Johnson's Great Society: the guns and butter trap Praeger Greenwood 2000 ISBN 0-275-96449-3
Bridges also narrated the documentaries National Geographic's Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West ( 2002, IMAX ), Discovery Channel's Raising the Mammoth ( 2000 ), and ABC's Heroes of Rock and Roll ( 1979 ).
* Keay J ( 2000 ), The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named, Harper Collins, 182pp, ISBN 0-00-653123-7.
Great favourite was American Lance Armstrong, winner in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
The Lie Became Great: the forgery of Ancient Near Eastern cultures, 2000
* Sandra Gulland, The Last Great Dance on Earth — 2000
It employs approximately 2000 people, and fishing in the Great Barrier Reef is pursued commercially, for recreation, and as a traditional means for feeding one's family.

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