Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

Millennialism ( from millennium, Latin for " thousand years "), or chiliasm in Greek, is a belief held by some Christian denominations that there will be a Golden Age or Paradise on Earth in which " Christ will reign " for 1000 years prior to the final judgment and future eternal state ( the " World to Come " of the New Heavens and New Earth ).

World population, which had tripled over the preceding millennium, grew more slowly during the first millennium and may have diminished.

< imagemap > File: 2nd millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: In 1492, Christopher Columbus ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The Atomic Bomb from World War II ; An alternate source of light, the Light Bulb ; For the first time, a human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon mission ; Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies ; Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of expansionism and modernization ; Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; In 1348, the Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of Europe, in two years.

World population greatly increases in the course of the millennium, reaching some 170 to 400 million people at its close depending on the estimates used.

World population is estimated to have doubled in the course of the millennium, to some 30 million people.

World population in the course of the millennium doubled, approximately from 7 to 14 million people in the area surrounding them.

World population grew slightly throughout the millennium, maybe from 5 to 7 million people.

Cotton was first cultivated in the Old World 7, 000 years ago ( 5th millennium BC ), by the inhabitants of Indus Valley civilisation currently situated in Western Pakistan, for example as the site of Mehrgarh where early cotton thread has been preserved in copper beads.

Before World War II, archaeologists sometimes applied the term " Minyans " differently, to indicate the very first wave of Proto-Greek speakers in the 2nd millennium BCE, among the early Bronze Age cultures sometimes identified with the beginning of Middle Helladic culture.

His form fell away gradually in the new millennium, partly due to marriage problems, and his ranking slumped to 82nd in the world, but he came back strongly in 2005, winning a record eighth European Tour Order of Merit and returning to the top ten in the World Rankings.

The Polish government preferred to use the phrase Recovered Territories, asserting a sort of continuity because these territories had once been ruled by ethnic Poles half a millennium before World War II and had been " recovered " from Nazi Germany after 1945.

Parts of the region around Hallstatt were listed as a World Heritage Site in 1997, with the description: " Human activity in the magnificent natural landscape of the Salzkammergut began in prehistoric times, with the salt deposits being exploited as early as the 2nd millennium B. C.

Late 1990s bands drew on the work of Fugazi, SDRE, Jawbreaker and Weezer, including The Promise Ring, Get Up Kids, Braid, Texas Is the Reason, Joan of Arc, Jets to Brazil and most successfully Jimmy Eat World, and by the end of the millennium it was one of the more popular indie styles in the US.

The event was introduced at international level at the world junior championships around the turn of the millennium, and to the World Cup in 2003, but it was not considered an official ISU event until around 2004, and eventually introduced at the Olympics in 2006.

Andrey Korotayev goes even further than Frank and dates the beginning of the World System formation to the 10th millennium BCE, connecting it with the start of the Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East.

Alfred Dobalo ( born October 15, 1955 ), best known by his ring name Al Green is a professional wrestler who has performed in North America, Europe and Japan under a variety of gimmicks including Rage ( One half of the team The Wrecking Crew with Fury ), Blade one half of the Master Blasters with Steel ( Kevin Nash ) and the Dog in World Championship Wrestling at the turn of the millennium .< ref name = oww >

However, since the beginning of the new millennium, France have become a mid-tier national team and one of the most consistent in Europe having qualified for their first-ever FIFA Women's World Cup in 2003 and reaching the quarter-finals in two of the three European Championships held since 2000.

However, since the beginning of the new millennium, France have become a mid-tier national team and one of the most consistent in Europe having qualified for their first-ever FIFA Women's World Cup in 2003 and reaching the quarter-finals in two of the three European Championships held since 2000.

The greatest successes for German team in the new millennium have been their second place finish to Brazil at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, followed by a third place at the 2006 World Cup in Germany and in addition another third place at World Cup 2010.

At the 2000 World Music Awards, Carey was presented with the Millennium Award for becoming the best-selling female artist of the millennium.

Prior to the new millennium, Oman generally struggled in the Gulf Cup of Nations, usually finishing in 6th or 7th place, even when the cup was held in Oman.

Halmstads BK started the new millennium with taking their fourth Allsvenskan title, they also reached second round in the UEFA Cup after defeating S. L.

NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series has not raced at the track since 1971 ; however, NASCAR's BUSCH Series ( now Nationwide Series ) raced here into the new millennium.

A series of sketches, interspersed with dialogue between the two, the show ran for at least six series between 1985 and 1992 with associated Christmas specials, along with a World Cup special in 1990 and a Millennium special broadcast in 1996 (" We reckon that by the time the year 2000 arrives the mere mention of the word ' millennium ' will be enough to send people into life-threatening comas ").

The proximity of the Meuse River and the abundance of local resources attracted settlers in this area since the fifth millennium BC.

Indian discussion of reincarnation enters the historical record from about the 6th century BCE, with the development of the Advaita Vedanta tradition in the early Upanishads ( around the middle of the first millennium BCE ), Gautama Buddha ( 623-543 BCE ) as well as Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.

Although the ancient Sumerians were the first to record the names of constellations on clay tablets, the earliest known star catalogues were compiled by the ancient Babylonians of Mesopotamia in the late 2nd millennium BC, during the Kassite Period ( ca.

Through the work of classical writers such as Plutarch, knowledge of the Osiris myth was preserved even after the middle of the first millennium AD, when Egyptian religion ceased to exist and knowledge of the writing systems that were originally used to record the myth were lost.

A record in worldwide shipping of Champagne ( including domestic French consumption ) of 327 million bottles was set in 1999 in anticipation of end of millennium celebrations, and a new record was set in 2007 at 338. 7 million bottles.

* 2nd millennium BC – Chinese astronomers record a solar eclipse

From the third millennium BC, when Bastet begins to appear in our record, she is depicted as either a fierce lioness or a woman with the head of a lion.

However, despite problems with the archaeological record, some maximalists place Joshua in the mid second millennium, at about the time the Egyptian Empire came to rule over Canaan, and not the 13th century as Finkelstein or Kitchen claim, and view the destruction layers of the period as corroboration of the biblical account.

They continued to tour heavily throughout Asia and in select venues in the U. S. as well as record into the new millennium, releasing the more adult contemporary-titled The Book of Love ( 1997 ), Yours Truly ( 2001 ), and Across the Concrete Sky ( 2003 ).

Many Sumerian ( late 6th millennium BC-early 2nd millennium BC ) cuneiform clay tablets record prescriptions for medicine.

Reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere temperatures for the 2nd millennium according to various older articles ( bluish lines ), newer articles ( reddish lines ), and instrumental record ( black line )

The temperature record of the 2nd millennium describes the reconstruction of temperatures since 1000 CE on the Northern Hemisphere, later extended back to 1 CE and also to cover the southern hemisphere.

Since the turn of the millennium, however, sales worldwide have soared to record highs, fuelled by radically new techniques for working with fur, and a sharp rise in disposable income in China and Russia.

John Landy, the long-distance runner, set a record of four days for the crossing using carriers and guides during the 1950s, and in 1964 Angus Henry, the art teacher at Sogeri High School with two of his students, John Kadiba and Misty Baloiloi, set a new record which was to stand until after the millennium by completing the journey in three and a quarter days without guides, carriers or any signposts or bridges.

The high of the first year of the new millennium was followed by a disappointing low in 2001 as the Rough Riders slumped to their first losing record in years-8-16-4-and finished sixth in the Northern Conference, a full 42 points behind divisional champions Hershey Wildcats, and out of the playoffs.

The duo released 5 albums from 1995 – 1999 and have continued to record after the great DHR implosion of the millennium, and still collaborate often, although Patric and Gina are no longer signed to Digital Hardcore Recordings.

The Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( Enuma Anu Enlil Tablet 63 ) refers to the record of astronomical observations of Venus, as preserved in numerous cuneiform tablets dating from the first millennium BCE.

) The record stayed at # 1 for 7 weeks, and became the UK's best-selling record of the millennium to that time.

The first record of long distance trading routes is in the third millennium BC.

In the last few years of the new millennium Buttigieg has written songs for other artists in the genres of popular music / pop song, gothic format and has gone aggressively into everything electronic whether it is electronica, ambient, new age or electronic producing and collaborating with bands like FTSG, Dyr3, System 6, Desire becomes Being and Circa 2000 AD for Cykxincorp and Standing Stone Recording Company record labels part of Cykxincorp Group of Companies.