Millennium of Russia | A monument celebrating the millennium of Rurik's arrival to Novgorod.

Gediminas on the Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod.

Vladimir the Great on the Millennium of Russia monument in Novgorod

During the millennium celebrations, one of the largest mosque in Russia, Qolsharif, was dedicated in the Kazan Kremlin, the holiest copy of Our Lady of Kazan was returned to the city, the " Millennium Bridge " was inaugurated that year, and the Kazan Metro began operation.

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** Millennium Bridge ( Kazan ), in Kazan, Russia

Vytautas beside his uncle Algirdas on the Millennium of Russia in Veliky Novgorod.

Saints Cyril and Methodius on the Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod

Vladimir the Great on the Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod.

* Stikhira for the Millennium of Christianisation of Russia for symphony orchestra ( 1988 ).

Yermak on the Millennium of Russia monument in Novgorod

Keistut on the Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod.

Algirdas on the Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod.

The tongue-in-cheek video for " Millennium " features Williams parodying James Bond, complete with references to Bond films like Thunderball and From Russia with Love.

Millennium of Russia and the St. Sofia ’ s Cathedral on a Russian ruble | 5-ruble bill

Detail from the Millennium of Russia Monument: Mstislav Mstislavich, left, and Daniel of Galicia, his son-in-law

Hermogenes at the Millennium of Russia | Millennium Monument in Novgorod

Boyar Rtishchev on the Millennium of Russia monument ( in the background, between two clerics )

The Anna Livia monument was installed on the site for the 1988 Dublin Millennium celebrations.

Millennium monument

A monument, known as the " Spirit of Clevedon ", was erected near the seafront to mark the Millennium.

On June 5, 1988 as the official celebrations of the Millennium are held in Moscow, the Ukrainian Culturological Club hosts its own observances in Kyiv at the monument to St. Volodymyr the Great, the grand prince of Kyivan Rus '.

Designed by the sculptor Éamonn O ' Doherty, the monument was commissioned by businessman Michael Smurfit, in memory of his father, for the Dublin Millennium celebrations in 1988.

The concert cost approximately $ 9, 500, 000 and it originated when Jean-Michel Jarre was contacted by the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak with a special project to celebrate the dawn of the new Millennium at the foot of the only remaining monument of the original 7 Wonders of the World-the Great Pyramids.

Sandys also worked with the Missouri University of Science and Technology, located in Rolla, Missouri, to use a new way to make deep cuts in granite to create the Millennium Arch sculpture which stands across the campus from their Stonehenge monument.

The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavours for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

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.

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 ).

A proposed Millennium project to create a new shared pedestrian and cycle bridge was unsuccessful.

One was the largest observation wheel in the world, the " Millennium Wheel ", or the London Eye, which was erected as a temporary structure, but soon became a fixture, and draws four million visitors a year.

In 1807, celibacy was advocated as the preferred custom of the community in an attempt to purify themselves for the coming Millennium.

He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland " in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel ".

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.

Nakamura was awarded the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize for his invention.

The US government agency responsible, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, suspended aid because it was ' deeply upset ' by the deaths of the 19 people during the July protests.

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.

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 ).

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.

The result was 640 half-hour radio documentaries, broadcast in the final weeks of the millennium, and one of the largest single oral history collections in Europe, the Millennium Memory Bank ( MMB ).

Perelman was awarded the Millennium Prize on March 18, 2010.

The program was designed to achieve the first objective of the United Nations ' Millennium Development Goals, " to eradicate extreme poverty and reduce hunger to zero.

A two-part comics story, " The Birds of Prey Affair ," was put out by Millennium Publications in 1993, which showcased the return of a smaller, much more streamlined version of THRUSH, controlled by Dr. Egret, who had melded with the Ultimate Computer.