Table of Contents
891 relations: Aaliyah, Aérospatiale, Absolutely Fabulous, Academy Awards, According to Jim, Acela, ACF Fiorentina, AEC Routemaster, Afghanistan, Agricultural subsidy, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmed Yassin, Air show, Airbus A380, Al-Qaeda, Alan Greenspan, Alberto Fujimori, Alex Rodriguez, Alexa Internet, Algeria, Alicia Keys, Alternative rock, Amazon (company), Amazon rainforest, Amélie, American Airlines Flight 587, American Broadcasting Company, American Idol, Amnesiac (album), Amsterdam, Ancient Greece, Andean Community, Angela Merkel, Anime, Ann Coulter, Antidepressant, Antimicrobial resistance, AOL, Apache HTTP Server, Apeldoorn, Apple Inc., Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Ardipithecus, Ariel Sharon, Arizona Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Arsenal F.C., Arson, ... Expand index (841 more) »
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Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), known as Aaliyah, was an American singer and actress.
Aérospatiale
Aérospatiale was a major French state-owned aerospace corporation that developed and manufactured both civilian and military aircraft as well as rockets, missiles and satellites.
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous (often shortened to Ab Fab) is a British television sitcom based on the French and Saunders sketch "Modern Mother and Daughter", created by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
See 2000s and Absolutely Fabulous
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
According to Jim
According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children (and then five children, starting with the seventh season finale).
See 2000s and According to Jim
Acela
The Acela (originally the Acela Express until September 2019) is Amtrak's flagship passenger train service along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the Northeastern United States between Washington, D.C., and Boston via 13 intermediate stops, including Baltimore, New York City and Philadelphia.
See 2000s and Acela
ACF Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina, is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany.
AEC Routemaster
The AEC Routemaster is a front-engined double-decker bus that was designed by London Transport and built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and Park Royal Vehicles.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Agricultural subsidy
An agricultural subsidy (also called an agricultural incentive) is a government incentive paid to agribusinesses, agricultural organizations and farms to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and influence the cost and supply of such commodities.
See 2000s and Agricultural subsidy
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari:,; September 2, 1953September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.
See 2000s and Ahmad Shah Massoud
Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين; June 1936 – 22 March 2004) was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, a Palestinian militant Islamist and nationalist organization in the Gaza Strip, in 1987.
Air show
An air show (or airshow, air fair, air tattoo) is a public event where aircraft are exhibited.
Airbus A380
The Airbus A380 is a very large wide-body airliner that was developed and produced by Airbus.
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.
Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto (藤森 謙也, Hepburn:,; born 28 July 1938) is a Peruvian former politician, professor, and engineer who served as President of Peru from 1990 to 2000.
See 2000s and Alberto Fujimori
Alex Rodriguez
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975), nicknamed "A-Rod", is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman, businessman and philanthropist.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. was an American web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco.
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer and songwriter.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.
See 2000s and Alternative rock
Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
See 2000s and Amazon (company)
Amazon rainforest
The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.
See 2000s and Amazon rainforest
Amélie
Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
See 2000s and Amélie
American Airlines Flight 587
American Airlines Flight 587 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City to Las Américas International Airport, Santo Domingo.
See 2000s and American Airlines Flight 587
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
See 2000s and American Broadcasting Company
American Idol
American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by Fremantle North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by Fremantle North America.
Amnesiac (album)
Amnesiac is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 30 May 2001 by EMI.
See 2000s and Amnesiac (album)
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Andean Community
The Andean Community (Comunidad Andina, CAN) is a free trade area with the objective of creating a customs union comprising the South American countries (Andean states) of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
See 2000s and Andean Community
Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel (born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 and was the first woman to hold that office.
Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
See 2000s and Anime
Ann Coulter
Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative media pundit, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer.
Antidepressant
Antidepressants are a class of medications used to treat major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, chronic pain, and addiction.
Antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from the effects of antimicrobials (drugs used to treat infections).
See 2000s and Antimicrobial resistance
AOL
AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.
See 2000s and AOL
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0.
See 2000s and Apache HTTP Server
Apeldoorn
Apeldoorn (Dutch Low Saxon: Apeldoorne) is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands.
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (also known as Aqua, with various alternative titles), sometimes abbreviated as ATHF or Aqua Teen, is an American adult animated television series created by Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro for Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim.
See 2000s and Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Ardipithecus
Ardipithecus is a genus of an extinct hominine that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene epochs in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia.
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon (אֲרִיאֵל שָׁרוֹן; also known by his diminutive Arik, אָרִיק; 26 February 192811 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006.
Arizona Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
See 2000s and Arizona Cardinals
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks (colloquially the D-backs) are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona.
See 2000s and Arizona Diamondbacks
Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces armées de la république démocratique du Congo) is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
See 2000s and Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
The Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from Groupe Islamique Armé; al-Jamāʿa al-ʾIslāmiyya al-Musallaḥa) was one of the two main Islamist insurgent groups that fought the Algerian government and army in the Algerian Civil War.
See 2000s and Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
Arsenal F.C.
The Arsenal Football Club, commonly known as simply Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Holloway, North London, England.
Arson
Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.
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Artificial heart
An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart.
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Artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.
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Asda
Asda Stores Limited, trading as Asda and often styled as ASDA, is a British supermarket and petrol station chain.
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Ashdod
Ashdod (ʾašdōḏ,; ʾasdūd,, or label; Philistine:, romanized: *ʾašdūd) is the sixth-largest city in Israel.
See 2000s and Ashdod
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
Auction
An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder.
Automated teller machine
An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, funds transfers, balance inquiries or account information inquiries, at any time and without the need for direct interaction with bank staff.
See 2000s and Automated teller machine
Álvaro Uribe
Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 4 July 1952) is a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010.
Ba'ath Party
The Arab Socialist Baʿth Party (also anglicized as Ba'ath in loose transcription; البعث العربي الاشتراكي) was a political party founded in Syria by Mishel ʿAflaq, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Bīṭār, and associates of Zakī al-ʾArsūzī.
Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
Barents Sea
The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.
Barry Bonds
Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
Beatrix of the Netherlands
Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard,; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013.
See 2000s and Beatrix of the Netherlands
Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
See 2000s and Beirut
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.
Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.
Bicol Region
The Bicol Region, commonly shortened to Bicol and designated as Region V, is an administrative region of the Philippines.
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host.
See 2000s and Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
Biofuel
Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels such as oil.
Bissau
Bissau is the capital and largest city of Guinea-Bissau.
See 2000s and Bissau
Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas (also known as The Black Eyed Peas) is an American musical group consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo.
Black people
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.
BlackBerry
BlackBerry is a discontinued brand of smartphones and other related mobile services and devices.
Blue Peter
Blue Peter is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs).
Bobby Charlton
Sir Robert Charlton (11 October 1937 – 21 October 2023) was an English professional footballer who played as an attacking-midfielder, left-winger or centre-forward.
Boeing 757
The Boeing 757 is an American narrow-body airliner designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
See 2000s and Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston.
Botulinum toxin
Botulinum toxin, or botulinum neurotoxin (commonly called botox), is a highly potent neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Bright Eyes (band)
Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band founded by singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst.
See 2000s and Bright Eyes (band)
British National Party
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, British fascist political party in the United Kingdom.
See 2000s and British National Party
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer.
Broadband
In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access.
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.
See 2000s and Buffalo, New York
Busta Rhymes
Trevor George Smith Jr. (born May 20, 1972), known professionally as Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper and actor.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Cam'ron
Cam'ron Giles (born February 4, 1976), better known by his stage name Cam'ron, is an American rapper.
Camera
A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
See 2000s and Camera
Camera obscura
A camera obscura is a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side through which an image is projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.
See 2000s and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Cannes
Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.
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Capital (economics)
In economics, capital goods or capital are "those durable produced goods that are in turn used as productive inputs for further production" of goods and services.
See 2000s and Capital (economics)
Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest, also known as sudden cardiac arrest, is when the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating.
Cardigan (sweater)
A cardigan is a type of knitted sweater that has an open front, and is worn like a jacket.
See 2000s and Cardigan (sweater)
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright.
Casablanca
Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.
Cassette tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
Cassini–Huygens
Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
Casualties of the Iraq War
Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms, and those estimates of different types of Iraq War casualties vary greatly.
See 2000s and Casualties of the Iraq War
Cathode-ray tube
A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.
See 2000s and Cathode-ray tube
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
See 2000s and CBS
CD player
A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format.
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
See 2000s and Central African Republic
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
See 2000s and CERN
Cervical cancer
Cervical cancer is a cancer arising from the cervix or in the any layer of the wall of the cervix.
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.
See 2000s and Chad
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to Chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Treasury.
See 2000s and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.
Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 22nd president of Liberia from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003 as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War and growing international pressure.
See 2000s and Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)
Chechnya
Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia.
Cheers
Cheers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 30, 1982 to May 20, 1993 for 11 seasons and 275 episodes.
See 2000s and Cheers
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England.
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian (born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the 5th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008.
Chengdu
Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.
Cherie Blair
Cherie, Lady Blair (born 23 September 1954), also known professionally as Cherie Booth, is an English barrister and writer.
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans.
Chicago (2002 film)
Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name which in turn originated in the 1926 play of the same name.
See 2000s and Chicago (2002 film)
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
See 2000s and Chicago Sun-Times
Chicken Run
Chicken Run is a 2000 animated adventure comedy film produced by Pathé and Aardman Animations in partnership with DreamWorks Animation.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
See 2000s and China
Chiptune
Chiptune is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles.
Christie's
Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie.
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.
See 2000s and Christina Aguilera
Clark County, Ohio
Clark County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio.
See 2000s and Clark County, Ohio
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
See 2000s and CNN
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).
See 2000s and Colorectal cancer
Common (rapper)
Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 14, 1972), known professionally as Common (formerly known as Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor from Chicago, Illinois.
Comoros
The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean.
Composite material
A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials.
See 2000s and Composite material
Computer programming
Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks.
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Concorde
Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
See 2000s and Constitutional monarchy
Cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".
Copa América
The CONMEBOL Copa América (Americas Cup; known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship), often simply called the Copa America, is the top men's quadrennial football tournament contested among national teams from South America.
Corazon Aquino
Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the eleventh President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.
Corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural corpora).
See 2000s and Corpus linguistics
Cosmic inflation
In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation, is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the early universe.
See 2000s and Cosmic inflation
Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American animated comedy horror television series created by John R. Dilworth for Cartoon Network.
See 2000s and Courage the Cowardly Dog
Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.
Cross-platform software
In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms.
See 2000s and Cross-platform software
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, also referred to as CSI and CSI: Las Vegas, is an American procedural forensics crime drama television series that originally ran on CBS from October 6, 2000, to September 27, 2015, spanning 15 seasons.
See 2000s and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Cult film
A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American television comedy of manners created by Larry David that aired on HBO from October 15, 2000, to April 7, 2024.
See 2000s and Curb Your Enthusiasm
Currency
A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.
D'Angelo
Michael Eugene Archer (born February 11, 1974), better known by his stage name D'Angelo, is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.
Daft Punk
Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
Dallas (1978 TV series)
Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991.
See 2000s and Dallas (1978 TV series)
Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst (né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector.
Dance Dance Revolution
(DDR) is a music video game series produced by Konami.
See 2000s and Dance Dance Revolution
Dancer in the Dark
Dancer In The Dark is a 2000 musical psychological tragedy film written and directed by Lars von Trier.
See 2000s and Dancer in the Dark
Dark matter
In astronomy, dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that appears not to interact with light or the electromagnetic field.
Data compression
In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.
See 2000s and Data compression
Data processing
Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information.
David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham (born 2 May 1975) is an English former professional footballer, the president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City.
David Hockney
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer.
Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran for six seasons from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003.
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Default (finance)
In finance, default is failure to meet the legal obligations (or conditions) of a loan, for example when a home buyer fails to make a mortgage payment, or when a corporation or government fails to pay a bond which has reached maturity.
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Deftones
Deftones is an American alternative metal band formed in Sacramento, California in 1988.
Dell
Dell Inc. is an American technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services.
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Democratic Progressive Party
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a centre to centre-left Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
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Detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
See 2000s and Developing country
Devolution
Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.
See 2000s and Diana, Princess of Wales
Diarrhea
Diarrhea (American English), also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English), is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements in a day.
Digital camera
A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.
Digital cinema
Digital cinema refers to the adoption of digital technology within the film industry to distribute or project motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of reels of motion picture film, such as 35 mm film.
Digital subscriber line
Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.
See 2000s and Digital subscriber line
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.
Disturbed (band)
Disturbed is an American heavy metal band from Chicago, formed in 1994.
See 2000s and Disturbed (band)
DMX
Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 – April 9, 2021), known professionally as DMX, was an American rapper and actor.
See 2000s and DMX
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films.
Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (also known simply as Dow Jones) is an American publishing firm owned by News Corp and led by CEO Almar Latour.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
See 2000s and Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dreamcast
The is the final home video game console manufactured by Sega.
Drug cartel
A drug cartel is a criminal organization composed of independent drug lords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade.
Drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers.
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor.
DVD player
A DVD player is a device that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards.
Dynasty (1981 TV series)
Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981, to May 11, 1989.
See 2000s and Dynasty (1981 TV series)
E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet.
EBay
eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
See 2000s and EBay
Edge (wrestler)
Adam Joseph Copeland (born October 30, 1973) is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
Eiffel 65
Eiffel 65 is an Italian Eurodance group that was formed in 1997 in the studios of the Turin record company Bliss Corporation, consisting of Jeffrey Jey, Maurizio Lobina, and formerly Gabry Ponte.
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.
Elephant (2003 film)
Elephant is a 2003 American psychological drama film written, directed and edited by Gus Van Sant.
See 2000s and Elephant (2003 film)
Elliott Smith
Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter.
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
See 2000s and Email
EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
See 2000s and EMI
Emo
Emo is a music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics.
See 2000s and Emo
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
England and Wales
England and Wales is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
See 2000s and England and Wales
Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.
Enya
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961) known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish composer and singer-songwriter.
See 2000s and Enya
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning 15 seasons.
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coliWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.
See 2000s and Escherichia coli
ESPN
ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
See 2000s and ESPN
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
See 2000s and Euro
European Central Bank
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central component of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) as well as one of seven institutions of the European Union.
See 2000s and European Central Bank
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
Eurostar
Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Evanescence
Evanescence is an American rock band founded in 1994 by singer and keyboardist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Even Stevens
Even Stevens is an American comedy television series produced by Brookwell McNamara Entertainment that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 17, 2000, to June 2, 2003, airing a total of 65 episodes spanning three seasons.
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom created by Philip Rosenthal that aired on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005, with a total of 210 episodes spanning nine seasons.
See 2000s and Everybody Loves Raymond
Evo Morales
Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born 26 October 1959) is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019.
Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Extreme sport
Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk of injury or death.
Fahd of Saudi Arabia
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (translit; 1920, 1921 or 1923 – 1 August 2005) was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 13 June 1982 until his death in 2005.
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Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university with its main campuses in New Jersey, located in Madison / Florham Park and in Teaneck / Hackensack.
See 2000s and Fairleigh Dickinson University
Family Feud
Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson.
Family Fortunes
Family Fortunes is a British television game show based on the American game show Family Feud.
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
Fatah
Fatah (Fatḥ), formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (label), is a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party.
See 2000s and Fatah
Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.
Fife
Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.
See 2000s and Fife
Figure skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice.
Finance
Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets.
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo is a 2003 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.
First Chechen War
Chechen resistance against Russian imperialism has its origins from 1785 during the time of Sheikh Mansur, the first imam (leader) of the Caucasian peoples.
See 2000s and First Chechen War
Flat-panel display
A flat-panel display (FPD) is an electronic display used to display visual content such as text or images.
See 2000s and Flat-panel display
Floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
Flores
Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.
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Flower Pot Men
Flower Pot Men is a British programme for young children produced by BBC Television.
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.
See 2000s and Food and Agriculture Organization
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
See 2000s and Forbes
Formula One
Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.
Fox hunting
Fox hunting is a traditional activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, normally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds.
Fox News
The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.
François Bozizé
François Bozizé Yangouvonda (born 14 October 1946) is a Central African politician who was President of the Central African Republic from 2003 to 2013.
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker.
Frasier
Frasier is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004.
Fred Rogers
Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003), better known as Mister Rogers, was an American television host, author, producer, and Presbyterian minister.
Free trade
Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports.
Friends
Friends is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons.
Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
See 2000s and Fruit
FUBU
FUBU is an American hip hop apparel company.
See 2000s and FUBU
Futurama
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company and later revived by Comedy Central, and then Hulu.
G8
The Group of Eight (G8) was an inter-governmental political forum from 1997 until 2014.
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Game Boy Advance
The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color.
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Game Developers Choice Awards
The Game Developers Choice Awards are awards annually presented at the Game Developers Conference for outstanding game developers and games.
See 2000s and Game Developers Choice Awards
Game engine
A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games and generally includes relevant libraries and support programs such as a level editor.
Game show
A game show (or gameshow) is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete in a game for rewards.
GameCube
The is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.
Gangsta rap
Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of rap music that conveys the culture and values typical of urban gangs, reality of the world and street hustlers.
Garage rock
Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.
Gary Hume
Gary Stewart Hume (born 9 May 1962) is an English artist.
Gaza City
Gaza, also called Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip.
Genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.
Genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.
See 2000s and Genome
Geocaching
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world.
Geometrization conjecture
In mathematics, Thurston's geometrization conjecture (now a theorem) states that each of certain three-dimensional topological spaces has a unique geometric structure that can be associated with it.
See 2000s and Geometrization conjecture
George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter, record producer and philanthropist.
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
See 2000s and Georgia (country)
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.
See 2000s and Global Positioning System
Globalization
Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5, 1947), often referred to as PGMA or GMA, is a Filipino academic and politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.
See 2000s and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American rock band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995.
Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
See 2000s and Gold
Gonesse
Gonesse is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France.
Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte is an American rock band from Waldorf, Maryland, formed in 1995.
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.
Gorillaz
Gorillaz are an English virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, from London.
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year.
See 2000s and Grand Slam (tennis)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.
See 2000s and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grange Hill
Grange Hill is a British children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical comprehensive school.
Green Day
Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990.
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Grigori Perelman
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (a; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology.
See 2000s and Grigori Perelman
Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
See 2000s and Gross domestic product
Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.
See 2000s and Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau; script; Mandinka: ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫ Gine-Bisawo), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
See 2000s and Guinness World Records
Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
See 2000s and Haiti
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo: Combat Evolved is a 2001 first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox.
See 2000s and Halo: Combat Evolved
Hamas
Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (lit), is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant resistance movement governing parts of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
See 2000s and Hamas
Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
Hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
See 2000s and Heavy metal music
Hezbollah
Hezbollah (Ḥizbu 'llāh) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
High Speed 1
High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a high-speed railway linking London with the Channel Tunnel.
High-speed rail
High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.
HM Treasury
His Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), occasionally referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
Home automation
Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home.
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.
Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the president of China from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012.
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who served as the 47th president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002.
Human papillomavirus infection
Human papillomavirus infection (HPV infection) is caused by a DNA virus from the Papillomaviridae family.
See 2000s and Human papillomavirus infection
Human spaceflight
Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew.
See 2000s and Human spaceflight
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author.
See 2000s and Hunter S. Thompson
Hybrid vehicle
A hybrid vehicle is one that uses two or more distinct types of power, such as submarines that use diesel when surfaced and batteries when submerged.
I-mode
NTT DoCoMo's i-mode is a mobile internet (distinct from wireless internet) service popular in Japan.
See 2000s and I-mode
Ideology
An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones".
IHeartMedia
iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
Ike Turner
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Ilyushin Il-76
The Ilyushin Il-76 (Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12.
IMAX
IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations.
See 2000s and IMAX
Imperialism
Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).
Incubus (band)
Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
See 2000s and India
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
Indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Inflation
In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.
Information system
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information.
See 2000s and Information system
Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)
Inspector Gadget is an animated superhero science fiction comedy series co-created by Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi, and was originally syndicated by DIC Audiovisuel and Lexington Broadcast Services Company.
See 2000s and Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional,, PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary Party (Partido Nacional Revolucionario, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Mexicana, PRM) and finally as the PRI beginning in 1946.
See 2000s and Institutional Revolutionary Party
Interest rate
An interest rate is the amount of interest due per period, as a proportion of the amount lent, deposited, or borrowed (called the principal sum).
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.
See 2000s and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands.
See 2000s and International Criminal Court
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
See 2000s and International Space Station
International trade
International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services.
See 2000s and International trade
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Internet access
Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide Web.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.
See 2000s and Internet Archive
IPod
The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on November 10, 2001, about months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released.
See 2000s and IPod
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
See 2000s and Iran
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs as required by the United Nations Security Council.
See 2000s and Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Islamism
Islamism (also often called political Islam) refers to a broad set of religious and political ideological movements.
Islamophobia
Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general.
Israel Defense Forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.
See 2000s and Israel Defense Forces
Israeli Air Force
The Israeli Air Force (IAF; tl, "Air and Space Arm", commonly known as, Kheil HaAvir, "Air Corps") operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
See 2000s and Israeli Air Force
Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories.
See 2000s and Israeli settlement
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine.
See 2000s and Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
See 2000s and Italy
ITunes
iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.
See 2000s and ITunes
ITV (TV network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.
See 2000s and ITV (TV network)
J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.
J. M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.
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Ja Rule
Jeffrey Bruce Atkins Sr. (born February 29, 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.
Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac (29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007.
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, previously known as the Chapman Brothers.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
Jamaica, Queens
Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician.
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker.
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Trevor Oliver MBE OSI (born 27 May 1975) is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author.
Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai are an English acid jazz and funk band from London.
Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.
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Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.
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Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (January 11, 1934) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (born 20 June 1928), known as Jean-Marie Le Pen, is a French politician who served as president of the far-right National Front from 1972 to 2011 and Honorary President of the same party from 2011 to 2015.
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Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist and former politician.
Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is an English former broadcaster, journalist and author.
Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as president of China from 1993 to 2003.
Jihad
Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim.
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Joey Ramone
Jeffrey Ross Hyman (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), known professionally as Joey Ramone, was an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of the punk rock band Ramones.
John Edwards
Johnny Reid Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1999 to 2005.
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor and television host.
José María Aznar
José María Alfredo Aznar López (born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004.
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Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a full professor at Columbia University.
Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
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Juventus FC
Juventus Football Club (from iuventūs, 'youth'), commonly known as Juventus or colloquially as Juve, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, who compete in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league system.
Kabul
Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.
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Kaprun disaster
On 11 November 2000, a fire in the tunnel of Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 funicular in Kaprun, Austria, killed 155 people.
Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Keynesian economics
Keynesian economics (sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output and inflation.
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Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999 after the disbanding of Overcast and Aftershock.
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Knowledge management
Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization.
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Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryant (August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player.
Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.
Kurdistan
Kurdistan (lit), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based.
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer and actress.
Kyoto Protocol
The was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.
LA Galaxy
The LA Galaxy, originally known as the Los Angeles Galaxy, are an American professional men's soccer club based in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Laptop
A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC).
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Larnaca
Larnaca (pronounced) (Lárnaka; Larnaka) is a city on the south east coast of Cyprus and the capital of the district of the same name.
Laugh track
A laugh track (or laughter track) is an audio recording consisting of laughter (and other audience reactions) usually used as a separate soundtrack for comedy productions.
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Laurent-Désiré Kabila (27 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) usually known as Laurent Kabila (US), was a Congolese rebel and politician who served as the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 until his assassination in 2001.
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Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, launching the ''Law & Order'' franchise.
Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.
Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.
Levi
Levi was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam.
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Lexicon
A lexicon (plural: lexicons, rarely lexica) is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical).
Leyton
Leyton is a town in East London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
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LGBT
is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".
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Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC; region, PLC) is a federal political party in Canada.
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; translit, translit; also known as the Tamil Tigers) was a Tamil militant organization that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper.
Lilo & Stitch
Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is an American nu metal band from Jacksonville, Florida.
Linate Airport
Milan Linate Airport is a city airport located in Milan, the second-largest city and largest urban area of Italy.
Linate Airport disaster
The Linate Airport disaster occurred in Italy at Linate Airport in Milan on the morning of Monday, 8 October 2001.
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Linkin Park
Linkin Park is an American rock band formed in Agoura Hills, California, in 1996.
Lisa Lopes
Lisa Nicole Lopes (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002), better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper and singer.
List of climate change controversies
The list of climate change controversies (or list of global warming controversies) concerns past or present public debates over certain aspects of climate change: whether it is occurring (climate change deniers dispute this), how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether action should be taken to curb it now or later, and so forth.
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List of decades, centuries, and millennia
The list below includes links to articles with further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 15,000BC to AD3000.
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List of designated terrorist groups
Several national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist.
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List of highest-grossing films
Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights, and merchandising.
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List of most expensive paintings
This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings.
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Live Aid
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.
Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
Lizzie McGuire
Lizzie McGuire is an American comedy television series created by Terri Minsky that premiered on Disney Channel on January 12, 2001.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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London congestion charge
The London congestion charge is a fee charged on most cars and motor vehicles being driven within the Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ) in Central London between 7:00 am and 6:00 pm Monday to Friday, and between 12:00 noon and 6:00 pm Saturday and Sunday.
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London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00.
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Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.
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Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
Ludacris
Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), known professionally as Ludacris (spoken as 'ludicrous' in American English), is an American rapper and actor.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), also known as Lula da Silva or simply Lula, is a Brazilian politician who is the 39th and current president of Brazil since 2023.
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Lycos
Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS), is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University.
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Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Mahathir Mohamad
Mahathir bin Mohamad (italic;; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author, and doctor who served as the fourth and seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia.
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Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas (Maḥmūd ʿAbbās; born 15 November 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (أَبُو مَازِن), is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.
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Mainland China
Mainland China is the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War.
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States.
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Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for Fox.
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Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is located in the centre of Manchester, England.
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Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.
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Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation.
Marathon, Greece
Marathon (Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas; Attic/Katharevousa: Μαραθών, Marathṓn) is a town in Greece and the site of the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians.
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Marion Jones
Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track-and-field athlete and former professional basketball player.
Mark McGwire
Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963), nicknamed "Big Mac", is an American former professional baseball first baseman who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2001 for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Mark Spitz
Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion.
Market trend
A market trend is a perceived tendency of the financial markets to move in a particular direction over time.
Marks & Spencer
Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks or Marks & Sparks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home products and food products.
Mars Exploration Rover
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars.
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Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.
Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.
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Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Maurice Gibb
Maurice Ernest Gibb (22 December 1949 – 12 January 2003) was a British musician and songwriter.
Maxis
Maxis is an American video game developer and a division of Electronic Arts (EA).
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Mayon
Mayon (Bulkan Mayon; Bulkang Mayon), also known as Mount Mayon and Mayon Volcano (Monte Mayón, Volcán Mayón), is an active stratovolcano in the province of Albay in Bicol, Philippines.
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Mayor of London
The mayor of London is the chief executive of the Greater London Authority.
McCreary County, Kentucky
McCreary County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
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Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor and film director.
Member states of the United Nations
The member states of the United Nations comprise sovereign states.
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Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a group of gram-positive bacteria that are genetically distinct from other strains of Staphylococcus aureus.
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Metro Manila
Metropolitan Manila (Kalakhang Maynila), commonly shortened to Metro Manila and formally the National Capital Region (NCR; Pambansang Punong Rehiyon), is the capital region and largest metropolitan area of the Philippines.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman and former professional basketball player.
Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher (born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes.
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Michelle Kwan
Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired competitive figure skater and diplomat serving as United States Ambassador to Belize.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
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Militia
A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.
Millennials
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996. 2000s and Millennials are 20th century.
Millennium Bridge, London
The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge, is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the River Thames in London, England, linking Bankside with the City of London.
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Missy Elliott
Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), also known as Misdemeanor, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (sometimes shortened to Mister Rogers) is an American half-hour educational children's television series that ran from 1968 to 2001.
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Mockumentary
A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a documentary which in itself is a subset of a faux-documentary style of film-making.
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, and currently based in Portland, Oregon.
Mogadishu
Mogadishu (also; Muqdisho, Wadaad: or Xamar, Wadaad:; مقديشو, Italian: Mogadiscio), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia.
Monrovia
Monrovia is the capital and largest city of Liberia.
Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc. (also known as Monsters, Incorporated) is a 2001 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
Montenegro
Montenegro is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Moscow theater hostage crisis
The Moscow theater hostage crisis (also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege) was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater in Moscow by Chechen terrorists on 23 October 2002, resulting in the taking of 912 hostages.
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Motion of no confidence
A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion of confidence and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office.
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Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.
MSN
MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.
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Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).
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Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism.
Naruto
Naruto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto.
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Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known professionally as Nas, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.
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National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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National Rally
The National Rally (Rassemblement National,, RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (Front National,, FN), is a French far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and nationalist.
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
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Natural disaster
A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event.
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Néstor Kirchner
Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić (25 February 195027 October 2010) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
Nelly
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.
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Neo Geo (system)
The, stylized as NEO•GEO and also written as NEOGEO, is a ROM cartridge-based arcade system board and fourth-generation home video game console released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game company SNK Corporation.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s.
News Corporation
The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited) was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.
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Newsnight
Newsnight is the BBC's news and current affairs programme, providing in-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the day's headlines.
Nickelback
Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta.
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (occasionally shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through Paramount Media Networks' subdivision, Nickelodeon Group.
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
Nigerian Armed Forces
The Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) are the military forces of Nigeria.
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Nigger
In the English language, nigger is a racial slur directed at black people.
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Nintendo
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.
Northampton
Northampton is a town and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England.
Nu metal
Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, funk, industrial, and grunge.
Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004), better known by his stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard (often abbreviated as ODB), was an American rapper.
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
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Opeth
Opeth are a Swedish progressive metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1989.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.
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Original equipment manufacturer
An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.
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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.
Outsourcing
Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally, or in-house.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
Pakistan Armed Forces
The Pakistan Armed Forces are the military forces of Pakistan.
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Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority, officially known as the Palestinian National Authority or the State of Palestine, is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords.
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Palestinian territories
The Palestinian territories, also known as the Occupied Palestinian Territory, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Patrick Caulfield
Patrick Joseph Caulfield, (29 January 1936 – 29 September 2005), was an English painter and printmaker known for his bold canvases, which often incorporated elements of photorealism within a pared-down scene.
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Patriot Act
The USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the Patriot Act) was a landmark Act of the United States Congress, signed into law by President George W. Bush.
Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin (born August 28, 1938), also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 21st prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2003 to 2006.
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.
Personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager.
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Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.
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Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
Phantasy Star Online
Phantasy Star Online is an online role-playing game (RPG) developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega in 2000 for the Dreamcast.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.
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Physical cosmology
Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models.
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Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh.
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Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, known simply as Pixar, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films.
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Plain old telephone service
Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), or Plain Ordinary Telephone System, is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service employing analog signal transmission over copper loops.
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Plastic surgery
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body.
PlayStation 3
The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.
Pluto
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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Poincaré conjecture
In the mathematical field of geometric topology, the Poincaré conjecture is a theorem about the characterization of the 3-sphere, which is the hypersphere that bounds the unit ball in four-dimensional space.
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Police Service of Northern Ireland
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI; Seirbhís Póilíneachta Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Polis Service o Norlin Airlan), is the police service responsible for law enforcement and the prevention of crime within Northern Ireland.
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Polydor Records
Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.
Pop-punk
Pop-punk (also punk-pop, alternatively spelled without the hyphen) is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with power pop or pop.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope BenedictXVI (Benedictus PP.; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Poverty
Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.
President of Argentina
The president of Argentina (Presidente de Argentina; officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation Presidente de la Nación Argentina.) is both head of state and head of government of Argentina.
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President of Brazil
The president of Brazil (presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil (presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the President of the Republic, is the head of state and head of government of Brazil.
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President of Liberia
The president of the Republic of Liberia is the head of state and government of Liberia.
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President of Russia
The president of the Russian Federation (Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the executive head of state of Russia.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (premier ministre du Canada) is the head of government of Canada.
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Prime Minister of Italy
The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers (Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.
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Pulaski County, Kentucky
Pulaski County is a county in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage of an artery in the lungs by a substance that has moved from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream (embolism).
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Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Qassam rocket
The Qassam rocket (صاروخ القسام; also Kassam) is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas.
Quarterback
The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football.
Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.
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Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age (commonly abbreviated as QOTSA) is an American rock band formed in 1996 in Seattle, Washington. The band was founded by vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme, who has been the only constant member throughout multiple lineup changes.
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R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), known as R. Kelly, is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Racism
Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985.
Radiology
Radiology is the medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) was an American rock band formed in 1991 in Los Angeles, California.
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Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors.
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Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy series created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, consisting of a sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.
Refugee
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of their country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.
Rehavam Ze'evi
Rehavam Ze'evi (רחבעם זאבי; 20 June 1926 – 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general and politician who founded the far-right nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating for cleansing of the complete Palestinian population through population transfer.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Renewable energy
Renewable energy (or green energy) is energy from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Reserve currency
A reserve currency is a foreign currency that is held in significant quantities by central banks or other monetary authorities as part of their foreign exchange reserves.
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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de ColombiaEjército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC) is a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict starting in 1964.
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Revolutionary United Front
The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was a rebel group that fought a failed eleven-year war in Sierra Leone, beginning in 1991 and ending in 2002.
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Rez (video game)
Rez is a musical rail shooter game developed by United Game Artists and published by Sega for the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
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Ricci flow
In the mathematical fields of differential geometry and geometric analysis, the Ricci flow, sometimes also referred to as Hamilton's Ricci flow, is a certain partial differential equation for a Riemannian metric.
Riemannian geometry
Riemannian geometry is the branch of differential geometry that studies Riemannian manifolds, defined as smooth manifolds with a Riemannian metric (an inner product on the tangent space at each point that varies smoothly from point to point).
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River Thames
The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.
Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter.
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.
Roger Federer
Roger Federer (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player.
Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris (30 March 1930 – 10 May 2023) was an Australian musician, television personality, painter, and actor.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Romano Prodi
Romano Prodi (born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and twice as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1996 to 1998, and again 2006 to 2008.
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Rugby football
Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league.
Rugby World Cup
The Men's Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams, the winners of which are recognised as the World champions of the sport.
RuneScape
RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Jagex, released in January 2001.
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Russian submarine Kursk (K-141)
K-141 Kursk (Атомная Подводная Лодка «Курск» (АПЛ «Курск»)., transl., meaning "Atomic-powered submarine Kursk") was an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.
Sainsbury's
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom.
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.
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Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Netherlands since 1 April 2001.
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Same-sex marriage in the United States
The availability of legally recognized same-sex marriage in the United States expanded from one state (Massachusetts) in 2004 to all fifty states in 2015 through various court rulings, state legislation, and direct popular votes.
See 2000s and Same-sex marriage in the United States
Sammy Sosa
Samuel Peralta Sosa (born November 12, 1968) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball right fielder.
SARS
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1, the first identified strain of the SARS-related coronavirus.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).
Satellite radio
Satellite radio is defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s ITU Radio Regulations (RR) as a broadcasting-satellite service.
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
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Scaled Composites
Scaled Composites (often called simply Scaled) is an American aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs (stylized as) is an American medical sitcom created by Bill Lawrence that aired from October 2, 2001, to March 17, 2010, on NBC and later ABC.
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Seafood
Seafood is the culinary name for food that comes from any form of sea life, prominently including fish and shellfish.
Sealab 2021
Sealab 2021 is an American adult animated television series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim.
Sean Connery
Sir Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor.
Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War is also known as the Second Chechen Campaign (Втора́я чече́нская кампа́ния) or the Second Russian Invasion of Chechnya from the Chechen insurgents' point of view.
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Second Intifada
The Second Intifada (lit; האינתיפאדה השנייה), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against the Israeli occupation, characterized by a period of heightened violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel between 2000 and 2005.
Self-governance
Self-governance, self-government, self-sovereignty, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority.
Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
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Serbia and Montenegro
The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (Državna zajednica Srbija i Crna Gora) or simply Serbia and Montenegro (Srbija i Crna Gora), known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Savezna Republika Jugoslavija), FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija), was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia).
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Serie A
The Serie A, officially known as Serie A enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system.
Service (economics)
A service is an act or use for which a consumer, company, or government is willing to pay.
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Sex and the City
Sex and the City is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO.
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Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Shanksville is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972), known commonly as Shaq, is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA.
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Shawn Michaels
Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American retired professional wrestler.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi (29 September 1936 – 12 June 2023) was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel.
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (also known as simply Sinbad) is a 2003 American animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures.
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Six Feet Under (TV series)
Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball that premiered on the premium television network HBO on June 3, 2001, and ended on August 21, 2005, after five seasons consisting of 63 episodes.
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Sknyliv air show disaster
The Sknyliv air show disaster occurred on Saturday, 27 July 2002, when a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27UB piloted by Volodymyr Toponar (of the Ukrainian Falcons) and co-piloted by Yuriy Yegorov crashed during an aerobatics presentation at Sknyliv airfield near Lviv, Ukraine.
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Slipknot (band)
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, former vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray.
Smartphone
A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.
SNK
is a Japanese video game hardware and software company.
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Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.
Soap opera
A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.
Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
Sonic Heroes
is a 2003 platform game developed by Sonic Team USA and published by Sega as part of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
Soul music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
South Park
South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central.
Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.
Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA.
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board.
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Space Shuttle program
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
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Space station
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time.
Space tourism
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes.
Spaceflight
Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board.
Spin City
Spin City is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 17, 1996, to April 30, 2002, on ABC.
Spirited Away
is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Sri Lankan Civil War
The Sri Lankan Civil War (śrī laṁkāvē sivil yuddhaya; Ilaṅkai uḷnāṭṭup pōr) was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009.
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SS Lazio
(Lazio Sport Club) is an Italian professional sports club based in Rome, most known for its football activity.
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales.
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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 American epic space opera film that is the sequel to The Phantom Menace (1999) and Attack of the Clones (2002).
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State of emergency
A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens.
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State of Palestine
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia, encompassing the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, within the larger historic Palestine region.
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City.
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Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015.
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.
Steroid
A steroid is an organic compound with four fused rings (designated A, B, C, and D) arranged in a specific molecular configuration.
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.
Stop motion
Stop motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
Streaming media
Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.
STS-107
STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle ''Columbia''.
Studio Ghibli
is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Sudanese Armed Forces
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha as-Sudaniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of the Sudan.
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Sukhoi Su-27
The Sukhoi Su-27 (Сухой Су-27; NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a Soviet-origin twin-engine supersonic supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi.
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.
Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Super Bowl XXXVI
Super Bowl XXXVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion St. Louis Rams and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2001 season.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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SUV
A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a car classification that combines elements of road-going passenger cars with features from off-road vehicles, such as raised ground clearance and four-wheel drive.
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System of a Down
System of a Down is an Armenian-American heavy metal band formed in Glendale, California, in 1994.
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Taipei 101
Taipei 101 (stylized in all caps), formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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Taiwan High Speed Rail
Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) is the high-speed railway of Taiwan consisting of one line that runs approximately along the west coast, from the capital Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung.
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Taiwan Strait
The Taiwan Strait is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is wide. The Taiwan Strait is itself a subject of an international dispute over its political status.
Takeover
In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer or bidder).
Taliban
The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.
Talk show
A talk show (sometimes chat show in British English) is a television programming, radio programming or Podcast genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.
Telerobotics
Telerobotics is the area of robotics concerned with the control of semi-autonomous robots from a distance, chiefly using television, wireless networks (like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the Deep Space Network) or tethered connections.
Television broadcaster
A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors.
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Television in the United Kingdom
Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later.
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Tenacious D
Tenacious D is an American comedy rock duo formed in Los Angeles in 1994 by the actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass.
Terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.
Tesco
Tesco plc is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England.
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Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible computer.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
That '70s Show
That '70s Show is an American television teen sitcom that aired on Fox from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006.
The Age
The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The Daily Show
The Daily Show (TDS is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program.
The Fairly OddParents
The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon.
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The Football Association
The Football Association or the FA is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
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The Gambia
The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa.
The Gherkin
The Gherkin, formally 30 St Mary Axe and previously known as the Swiss Re Building, is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London.
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.
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The King of Queens
The King of Queens is an American television sitcom that ran on CBS from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007, a total of nine seasons and 207 episodes.
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Jackson, based on 1954's The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Jackson.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Jackson, based on 1954's The Two Towers, the second volume of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science-fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.
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The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The O.C.
The O.C. is an American teen drama television series created by Josh Schwartz that originally aired on the Fox network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, with a total of four seasons consisting of 92 episodes.
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
The Offspring
The Offspring is an American punk rock band from Garden Grove, California, formed in 1984.
The Passion of the Christ
The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mel Gibson.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
The Sims (video game)
The Sims is a social simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts in 2000.
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The Sopranos
The Sopranos is an American crime drama television series created by David Chase.
The Strokes
The Strokes are an American rock band formed in New York City in 1998.
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Washington Times
The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It covers general interest topics with an emphasis on national politics.
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The West Wing
The West Wing is an American political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006.
The White Stripes
The White Stripes were an American rock duo formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1997.
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The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.
Tigris
The Tigris (see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
Time Person of the Year
Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse...
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Titan (moon)
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System.
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron.
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TiVo
TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed and marketed by Xperi (previously by TiVo Corporation and TiVo Inc.) and introduced in 1999.
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TiVo Corporation
TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California.
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TLC (group)
TLC is an American girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia.
TNT
Trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as TNT (and more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene), and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.
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Tony Hawk
Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968), nicknamed Birdman, is an American professional skateboarder, entrepreneur and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse.
Tool (band)
Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles.
Toothpaste
Toothpaste is a paste or gel dentifrice used with a toothbrush to clean and maintain the aesthetics and health of teeth.
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.
Topology
Topology (from the Greek words, and) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself.
Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France.
Toy
A toy or plaything is an object that is used primarily to provide entertainment.
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Toy Story
Toy Story is a 1995 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
Tracey Emin
Dame Tracey Karima Emin (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork.
Track and field
Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.
Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, established in the early 19th century around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.
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Transmitter
In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna with the purpose of signal transmission up to a radio receiver.
Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE; commonly referred to as the European Constitution or as the Constitutional Treaty) was an unratified international treaty intended to create a consolidated constitution for the European Union (EU).
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Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty intended to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament.
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Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969), better known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive, actor, and retired professional wrestler.
Tsunami
A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
Tupolev Tu-154
The Tupolev Tu-154 (Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev.
UEFA European Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro or Euros, is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
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UK Independence Party
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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UNITA
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the UN process for negotiating an agreement to limit dangerous climate change.
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United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
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United Nations University
The (UNU) is the think tank and academic arm of the United Nations.
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United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
The United Self-Defenders of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or AUC, in Spanish) was a Colombian far-right paramilitary and drug trafficking group which was an active belligerent in the Colombian armed conflict during the period from 1997 to 2006.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Navy SEALs
The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command.
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Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents.
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Unmanned aerial vehicle
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.
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User interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.
Usher (musician)
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), known mononymously as Usher, is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.
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Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.
Vampire literature
Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada (born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006.
Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
Video game console
A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.
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Video on demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.
Videotape
Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition.
Virtual private network
Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).
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Visayas
The Visayas, or the Visayan Islands (Visayan: Kabisay-an,; Filipino: Kabisayaan), are one of the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Luzon and Mindanao.
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for voice calls for the delivery of voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
Volkert van der Graaf
Volkert van der Graaf (born 9 July 1969) is a Dutch convicted murderer who assassinated politician Pim Fortuyn, the leader of the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) party, on 6 May 2002.
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Waking Life
Waking Life is a 2001 American animated film written and directed by Richard Linklater.
War
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
WarnerMedia
Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.
Washington Wizards
The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
Web portal
A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way.
Wen Jiabao
Wen Jiabao (p; born 15 September 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the premier of China from 2003 to 2013.
West Bank
The West Bank (aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).
West Coast of the United States
The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.
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Westminster
Westminster is the main settlement of the City of Westminster in London, England.
White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
Whitley City, Kentucky
Whitley City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States.
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Wiki
A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser.
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Wilco
Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago.
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Will & Grace
Will & Grace is an American television sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan.
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Willem-Alexander (Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands.
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William, Prince of Wales
William, Prince of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982), is the heir apparent to the British throne.
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Windows 2000
Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses.
Windows Me
Windows Me (Millennium Edition) is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Windows XP
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.
Wireless
Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (telecommunication) between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer.
World economy
The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics.
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade.
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WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion.
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XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.
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Yasiin Bey
Yasiin Bey (born Dante Terrell Smith, December 11, 1973), formerly known as Mos Def, is an American rapper and actor.
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader.
Young British Artists
The Young British Artists, or YBAs—also referred to as Brit artists and Britart—is a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London in 1988.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.
Zack de la Rocha
Zacharias Manuel de la Rocha (born January 12, 1970) is an American musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, and political activist.
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Zhu Rongji
Zhu Rongji (IPA:; born 23 October 1928) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the premier of China from 1998 to 2003 and member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1992 to 2002 along with CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin.
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (Zineddin Lyazid Zidan; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder.
Zoran Đinđić
Zoran Đinđić (Зоран Ђинђић,; 1 August 1952 – 12 March 2003) was a Serbian politician and philosopher who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003.
1964 Alaska earthquake
The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964.
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1970s
The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies"; commonly shortened to the "Seventies" or the "70s") was a decade that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. 2000s and 1970s are 20th century and contemporary history.
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1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad and officially branded as Munich 1972 (München 1972), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.
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1980s
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989. 2000s and 1980s are 20th century and contemporary history.
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1990s
The 1990s (often referred to as the "'90s" or "Nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. 2000s and 1990s are 20th century and contemporary history.
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2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematical Year.
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2000 Camp David Summit
The 2000 Camp David Summit was a summit meeting at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat.
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2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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2000 Taiwanese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 18 March 2000 to elect the president and vice president.
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2000 United States presidential election
The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000.
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2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.
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2001 World Series
The 2001 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2001 season.
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2002
After the September 11 attacks of the previous year, foreign policy and international relations were generally united in combating al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
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2002 Bali bombings
A series of bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali.
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2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea/Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA.
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2002 French presidential election
Presidential elections were held in France on 21 April 2002, with a runoff election between the top two candidates, incumbent Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front, on 5 May.
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2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: Tit'-so-pi 2002; Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: Soónkahni 2002), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from February 8 to 24, 2002, in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
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2002–2004 SARS outbreak
The 2002–2004 outbreak of SARS, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), infected over 8,000 people from 30 countries and territories, and resulted in at least 774 deaths worldwide.
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2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
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2003 European heatwave
The 2003 European heat wave saw the hottest summer recorded in Europe since at least 1540.
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2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.
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2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
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2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 2004), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (label) and officially branded as Athens 2004 (Αθήνα 2004), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
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2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit.
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2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
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2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament.
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2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics (2006 Olimpiadi invernali), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games (XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy.
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2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
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2008
2008 was designated as.
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.
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2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.
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2010s
The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand tens"), variously nicknamed "the '10s" ("the Tens"), "the Tenties", or more rarely "the Teens", was a decade that began on January 1, 2010, and ended on December 31, 2019. 2000s and 2010s are contemporary history.
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24 (TV series)
24 is an American action drama television series created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for Fox.
3D film
3D films are motion pictures made to give an illusion of three-dimensional solidity, usually with the help of special glasses worn by viewers.
3G
3G is the third generation of wireless mobile telecommunications technology.
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3rd Rock from the Sun
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American television sitcom created by Bonnie and Terry Turner, which originally aired from January 9, 1996, to May 22, 2001, on NBC.
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50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, television producer, and businessman.
See also
2000s decade overviews
- 2000s
- 2000s in anthropology
- 2000s in economics
- 2000s in fashion
- 2000s in science and technology
- 2000s in sociology
- 2000s in sports
- 2000s in the music industry
Contemporary history
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- 2020s in history
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- Aftermath of World War II
- Black genocide in the United States
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- Contemporary history
- Contemporary history of Spain
- Contemporary philosophy
- Current events
- Imagination age
- Information Age
- La contemporaine
- List of current heads of state and government
- Neopagan witchcraft
- Persecution of Christians in the post–Cold War era
- Post–Cold War era
- Post–civil rights era in African-American history
- Postmodernism
- Timeline of artificial intelligence
References
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