Blackadder: Back & Forth was originally shown in the Millennium Dome in 2000, followed by a screening on Sky One in the same year ( and later on BBC1 ).

Millennium Dome from Greenwich

At the turn of the 21st century, London hosted the much derided Millennium Dome at Greenwich, to mark the new century.

** In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal the Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.

* December 31 – The Millennium Dome closes its doors one year to the day of its opening.

The critic Jonathan Meades has scathingly referred to the Millennium Dome as a " Museum of Toxic Waste ", and apart from the dome itself, the project included the reclamation of the entire Greenwich Peninsula.

However, before its opening, The Dome was excoriated in Iain Sinclair's diatribe, Sorry Meniscus-Excursions to the Millennium Dome ( Profile Books: London 1999, ISBN 1-86197-179-6 ), which accurately forecast the hype, the political posturing and the eventual disillusion.

The Millennium Dome Show

The Millennium Dome at night, September 2000

After a private opening on the evening of 31 December 1999 the Millennium Experience at the Dome was open to the public for the whole of 2000, and contained a large number of attractions and exhibits.

With music composed by Peter Gabriel and an acrobatic cast of 160, the Millennium Dome Show was performed 999 times over the course of the year.

Inside the Dome there was a play area named Timekeepers of the Millennium ( featuring the characters Coggsley and Sprinx ), The Millennium Coin Minting Press in association with the Royal Mint, the 1951 Festival of Britain Bus, and the Millennium Star Jewels ( focus of the failed Millennium Diamond heist.

) Outside was the Millennium Map ( thirteen metres high ), the Childhood Cube, Looking Around ( a hidden installation ), Greenwich Pavilion, the Hanging Gardens at the front of the Dome, as well as a number of other installations and sculpture.

According to the UK National Audit Office, the total cost of The Dome at the liquidation of the New Millennium Experience Company in 2002 was £ 789 million, of which £ 628 million was covered by National Lottery grants and £ 189 million through sales of tickets etc.

The business park was actually the original 1996 proposal for the site of the peninsula before the plans for the Millennium Dome were proposed.

* 19 June 1997: New Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Greenwich to announce that the Millennium Dome has been saved-on his personal say-so.

For this reason, it has been disparagingly referred to as the Millennium Tent.

According to the UN State of the World Population 2007 report, sometime in the middle of 2007, the majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, for the first time in history ; this is referred to as the arrival of the " Urban Millennium " or the ' tipping point '.

Because most 32-bit Unix-like systems store and manipulate time in this format, it is usually called Unix time, and so the year 2038 problem is often referred to as the Unix Millennium Bug.

The Millennium Line opened on January 2, 2002, with trains initially operating between Waterfront Station on the Expo Line and Braid Station in eastern New Westminster-this was referred to as Phase I.

These 115 donors are referred to as the founders of Millennium Park in official park brochures published by the City of Chicago and distributed at the visitor's centers as well as in other press accounts.

The years immediately after the Millennium saw the public realm of Hope Street renovated and the Hope Street area has sometimes been referred to as the Hope Street Quarter.

This was because the development team had spent several months working on a " Millennium Falcon " game that ended up being cancelled when it was recognized that the team simply didn't have the resources in time and personnel to meet the exceptionally high expectations such a title was sure to generate.

In Japan, the game had been named Phantasy Star: At the End of the Millennium, but in the American and European releases, the box read simply Phantasy Star IV.

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, felt that the character was " used so perfunctorily since her introduction " that her appearances added little to the episodes she featured in, describing her as a " bad parody " of the earlier characters Deep Throat and X. Debra Warlick, writing for Cinefantastique, felt that Holden's acting in " One Son " was " heart breaking ", but found that she had " unfortunately " been used simply to convey a plot point to other characters.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, Hell, the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, a rapture, a tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth, and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Most importantly, the editor has completely rewritten John's theology of the Millennium which is " emptied of all significance.

On July 4, 2005, Cape Verde became the third country to sign a compact with the U. S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ); the five-year assistance package is worth over $ 110 million in addressing rural economic expansion, infrastructure development, and development of the credit sector.

Proponents of this position believe that the presence of believers during the tribulation is necessary for a final evangelistic effort during a time when external conditions will combine with the Gospel message to bring great numbers of converts into the Church in time for the beginning of the Millennium.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

In Millennium Park, there is the reflective Cloud Gate sculpture.

While the institute is best known for its Millennium Prize Problems, it carries out a wide range of activities, including a postdoctoral program ( ten Clay Research Fellows are supported each year ) and an annual summer school, the proceedings of which are published jointly with the American Mathematical Society.

The institute is best known for establishing the Millennium Prize Problems on May 24, 2000.

Of the initial twenty-three Hilbert problems, most of which have been solved, only the Riemann hypothesis ( formulated in 1859 ) is included in the seven Millennium Prize Problems.

Deep Space 1 ( DS1 ) is a spacecraft of the NASA New Millennium Program dedicated to testing a payload of advanced, high risk technologies.

Universal Primary Education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and great improvements have been achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal remains to be done.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, hell, the return of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, for several evangelical denominations, a rapture, a great tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth ( the World to Come ), and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

The Special Programme for Food Security is FAO's flagship initiative for reaching the goal of halving the number of hungry in the world by 2015 ( currently estimated at close to 1 billion people ), as part of its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.

* 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.

On April 20, 2012, Torvalds was declared one of two winners of that year's Millennium Technology Prize, together with Shinya Yamanaka for what is widely described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the technology field.

Construction is underway on an east-west road ( the so-called Millennium Road ) that incorporates the already existing road from Ulaanbaatar to Arvaikheer, and on the extension of the Darkhan-Bulgan road beyond Bulgan.

As the figures now stand, Mozambique is one of the few countries on track to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal ( MDG ) of reducing the maternal death rate by 75 percent by 2015.

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 ".

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 is contained in title 17, section 1201 ( k ) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

As a point of reference, the Millennium Development Goal for least developed countries by 2015 is 8. 16 Internet users per 100 population.