February 2000

The Alef programming language was designed by Phil Winterbottom of Bell Labs as part of the Plan 9 operating system. In a February 2000 slideshow, Rob Pike noted: "…although Alef was a fruitful language, it proved too difficult to maintain a variant language across multiple architectures, so we took what we learned from it and built the thread library for C." ...

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Aqua was a Scandinavian pop group, best-known for their 1997 breakthrough single "Barbie Girl". The group formed in 1994, and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Although often criticised by the media, the group managed to top the United Kingdom singles chart with their first three singles, a feat few artists have achieved. The group released two albums, Aquarium in 1997 and Aquarius in 2000, before finally splitting up in July 2001. The grou ...

Including:

• Aqua band - Formation and debut as Joyspeed
• Aqua band - The birth of Aqua
• Aqua band - International breakthrough and debut album
• Aqua band - The Aquarium Age
• Aqua band - The release of the second album
• Aqua band - Plans for third album and sudden split
• Aqua band - Following the split
• Aqua band - Music videos
• Aqua band - Trivia
• Aqua band - Discography
• Aqua band - Albums
• Aqua band - Singles
• Aqua band - Other

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The 2000 Mozambique flood was a natural disaster that occurred in February 2000. The catastrophic flood was caused by heavy rainfall that led to the overflowing of rivers. The situation was intensified when Cyclone Eline hit the same area on 22 February, 2000. Floodwaters peaked on 1 March at 8 metres (26 feet). The United Nations listed in 2004 that the great flood killed 800 people and affected 1,500,000 (about 12% of the nation's people). The death toll was increased by survivors who were left to suffer lack of food, clean w ...

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List of Dragonlance novels - Heroes II. Although some versions refer to these three books as the Heroes II trilogy, others refer them to belonging to the original Heroes trilogy, continuing from volume VI. Kaz the Minotaur (July 1990) The Gates of Thorbardin (July 1990) Galen Beknighted (December 1990) ...

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List of Dragonlance novels, List of Dragonlance novels - The Age of Mortals, List of Dragonlance novels - The Barbarians, List of Dragonlance novels - Bertrem's Guides, List of Dragonlance novels - Bridges of Time Series, List of Dragonlance novels - The Chaos War Series, List of Dragonlance novels - Classics Series, List of Dragonlance novels - Crossroads, List of Dragonlance novels - Chronicles Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - The Dark Chronicles, List of Dragonlance novels - The Dark Disciple Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - Defenders of Magic Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - The Dhamon Saga, List of Dragonlance novels - The Dragon Anthologies, List of Dragonlance novels - Dragons of a New Age, List of Dragonlance novels - Dwarven Nations Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - Elven Exiles Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - The Elven Nations Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - The Ergoth Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - Heroes, List of Dragonlance novels - Heroes II, List of Dragonlance novels - Icewall Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - Kang's Regiment, List of Dragonlance novels - Kingpriest Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - Legends Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - The Linsha Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - Lost Histories, List of Dragonlance novels - Lost Legends, List of Dragonlance novels - The Meetings Sextet, List of Dragonlance novels - The Minotaur Wars, List of Dragonlance novels - Preludes, List of Dragonlance novels - Preludes II, List of Dragonlance novels - The Raistlin Chronicles, List of Dragonlance novels - The Rise of Solamnia Trilogy, List of Dragonlance novels - The Taladas Chronicles, List of Dragonlance novels - Tales, List of Dragonlance novels - Tales II, List of Dragonlance novels - Tales of the Fifth Age, List of Dragonlance novels - Villains Series, List of Dragonlance novels - The War of Souls, List of Dragonlance novels - The Warriors, List of Dragonlance novels - Various Anthologies

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Onoo was a qualified martial artist, competing in international kickboxing and martial arts tournaments between 1975 and 1987. The Professional Karate Association named him the best bantamweight in the world, and he won numerous accolades. While touring as a martial artist, Onoo befriended Eric Bischoff in the 1970s. In 1994, Bischoff, by now the president of WCW, hired Onoo as an off-camera international consultant. Onoo was the liaison between WCW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, and negotiated the talent exchange programs that saw numerous ...

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Kazuo Onoo, Kazuo Onoo - Career, Kazuo Onoo - Profile, Kazuo Onoo - Wrestlers managed by Kazuo Oono

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Darren Matthews - Early career. Matthews, who is left handed, made his ring debut wresting in carnivals on the piers of Blackpool at the age of fifteen. He also wrestled professionally in the United Kingdom, where he regularly teamed with Robbie Brookside, before going to the United States in 1992. Darren Matthews - World Championship Wrestling. Matthews started in WCW as Steve Regal, beginning as a face. He was turned into the heel Lord Steven Regal in 1993. He w ...

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Darren Matthews, Darren Matthews - Wrestling career, Darren Matthews - Early career, Darren Matthews - World Championship Wrestling, Darren Matthews - World Wrestling Federation, Darren Matthews - World Wrestling Entertainment, Darren Matthews - Wrestling facts, Darren Matthews - Finishing and signature moves, Darren Matthews - Managers, Darren Matthews - Championships and accomplishments, Darren Matthews - Championship succession, Darren Matthews - Personal life, Darren Matthews - Books

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South Africa has rich mineral resources. It is the world's largest producer and exporter of gold and platinum and also exports a significant amount of coal. During 2000, platinum overtook gold as South Africa's largest foreign exchange earner. The value-added processing of minerals to produce ferroalloys, stainless steels, and similar products is a major industry and an important growth area. The country's diverse manufacturing industry is a world leader in several specialised sectors, including railway rol ...

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Economy of South Africa, Economy of South Africa - Brief history of the South African economy, Economy of South Africa - GEAR Economic Policy, Economy of South Africa - Inflation Targetting and GDP growth, Economy of South Africa - Trade and investment, Economy of South Africa - Financial policy, Economy of South Africa - Effect of HIV/AIDS, Economy of South Africa - Telecommunications Sector, Economy of South Africa - Environment, Economy of South Africa - Social services, Economy of South Africa - Statistics

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There were many specific problems with the purge list regarding the verification of felons, including over 4,000 blank conviction dates, and over 325 conviction dates dating in the future. There were also nearly 3,000 out-of-state ex-felons with voting rights restored, as well as voters linked to felonies in states which do not remove felons from voting rolls or that automatically restore voting rights (who, according to a 1998 ruling by the 2nd Distri ...

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Florida Central Voter File, Florida Central Voter File - Private involvement, Florida Central Voter File - Problems in the cleansing process, Florida Central Voter File - James Lee's testimony, Florida Central Voter File - Errors in the list, Florida Central Voter File - Demographics of the purge list, Florida Central Voter File - Pre-election cleansing, Florida Central Voter File - Details about the errors, Florida Central Voter File - Analysis, Florida Central Voter File - Appeals, Florida Central Voter File - Election law violations allegations lawsuits, Florida Central Voter File - Resources, Florida Central Voter File - Major sources, Florida Central Voter File - Minor sources

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Horizontal gene transfer is a potential confounding factor in inferring phylogenetic trees based on the sequence of one gene. For example, given two distantly related bacteria that have exchanged a gene, a phylogenetic tree including those species will show them to be closely related because that gene is the same, even though most other genes have substantially diverged. For this reason, it is often ideal to use other information to infer robust phylogenies, such as the presence or absence of genes, or, more commonly, to include ...

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Horizontal gene transfer, Horizontal gene transfer - Prokaryotes, Horizontal gene transfer - Eukaryotes, Horizontal gene transfer - Evolutionary theory

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Ganji was on a hunger strike for more than 80 days from May 19, 2005 until early August, 2005 [1] except for a 12-day period of leave he was granted on May 30, 2005 ahead of the ninth presidential elections on June 17, 2005. His hunger strike was ended under unknown conditions and heavy security and infrmation quatantine in Milad hospital in Tehran while many feared his death. He is represented by a group of lawyers, including the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Shirin Ebadi. While on hunger strike Ganji wrote two ...

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Akbar Ganji, Akbar Ganji - Hunger strike, Akbar Ganji - Writings, Akbar Ganji - Awards and honors

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Since early 1982 the inhabitants of the area had been facing increasing pressure from the authorities. Many of the local men had refused to participate in the self-defence patrols and, as a result, the military kept a strong presence in the area. Many men fled their homes for the mountains, leaving the womenfolk and children behind. Other had already, prior to the massacre, filed formal complaints — reporting the armed forces' constant threatening behaviour and harassment — with the justice of the peace in Rabinal, but these allegations were never investi ...

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Plan de Sánchez massacre, Plan de Sánchez massacre - National context, Plan de Sánchez massacre - Local context, Plan de Sánchez massacre - The events of July 1982, Plan de Sánchez massacre - Witness testimony, Plan de Sánchez massacre - Aftermath, Plan de Sánchez massacre - Witness testimony, Plan de Sánchez massacre - Death toll, Plan de Sánchez massacre - Domestic legal proceedings, Plan de Sánchez massacre - Supranational legal proceedings

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Second Chechen War - War crimes. Russian officials and Chechen rebels have regularly and repeatedly accused the opposing side of committing various war crimes including murder, rape, and assorted other breaches of the laws of war. International and humanitarian organizations (including the Council of Europe and Amnesty International) have criticized both sides of the conflict for blatant and sustained violations of humanitarian law. One of the earliest war crimes trials to be held was that of Salman Raduyev, a field commander for the rebel Chechen forces. He was co ...

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Second Chechen War, Second Chechen War - Historical basis for conflict, Second Chechen War - Immediate causes, Second Chechen War - Terrorist activity in 1996-1999, Second Chechen War - Conflict in Dagestan, Second Chechen War - Bombings in Russia, Second Chechen War - War, Second Chechen War - Grozny, Second Chechen War - Guerilla war, Second Chechen War - Restoration of government, Second Chechen War - Direct rule, Second Chechen War - Constitution, Second Chechen War - 2003 Elections, Second Chechen War - 2005 Elections, Second Chechen War - Continuing tension, Second Chechen War - War crimes, Second Chechen War - Assassinations, Second Chechen War - Hostage takings, Second Chechen War - Ceasefire?, Second Chechen War - Influence on Russian politics, Second Chechen War - Early conflict, Second Chechen War - Election of Putin, Second Chechen War - Hearts and minds

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Greed, produced by Dick Clark and hosted by Chuck Woolery, debuted on November 4, 1999. It was widely considered as Fox's answer to ABC's prime-time hit Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? After initially planning to renew the series for a second season, Fox abruptly canceled Greed on July 14, 2000, after 44 episodes. In a July 2005 interview with Steve Beverly, who runs the game show website tvgameshows.net, Woolery shared fond memories of his nine-month job hosting the show, which he believes would still be on the air had Fox not pulled the plug. Repeats of Greed have aired on ...

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Greed game show, Greed game show - Broadcast history, Greed game show - Rules of the game, Greed game show - Qualifying round, Greed game show - The first four questions, Greed game show - The Terminator, Greed game show - Higher-level questions, Greed game show - The $2 million question, Greed game show - Rule changes

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Scott D'Amore began training with the late "Canadian Destroyer" Doug Chevalier in 1991 at the age of sixteen. He debuted a week before his senior prom on June 14, 1992, defeating Otis Apollo in Amherstburg, Ontario, then postponed his career for six months to play football in his final year of high school. In 1993 he underwent further training under "Irish" Mickey Doyle, Denny Cass and Al Snow. He went on to work for World Championship Wrestling as an enhancement talent from June 1993 to early 1996, but was forced to leave the company due to visa issues. While working for WCW, he fr ...

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Scott D'Amore, Scott D'Amore - Career, Scott D'Amore - Border City Wrestling, Scott D'Amore - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Scott D'Amore - In wrestling, Scott D'Amore - Signature moves / illegal objects, Scott D'Amore - Wrestlers managed by Scott D'Amore, Scott D'Amore - Wrestlers trained by Scott D'Amore, Scott D'Amore - Personal Life, Scott D'Amore - Championships/Accomplishments

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Although Aqua formed as a group called Joyspeed in 1994, their history together dates back to 1989, and the recording of the soundtrack for a little-known Danish film called Frække Frida. At the time René was working in Norway as a club DJ, and Søren and Claus were both starting out as producers. The three were brought in to make part of the soundtrack for the film, and after getting along well, decided ...

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Aqua band, Aqua band - Formation and debut as Joyspeed, Aqua band - The birth of Aqua, Aqua band - International breakthrough and debut album, Aqua band - The Aquarium Age, Aqua band - The release of the second album, Aqua band - Plans for third album and sudden split, Aqua band - Following the split, Aqua band - Music videos, Aqua band - Trivia, Aqua band - Discography, Aqua band - Albums, Aqua band - Singles, Aqua band - Other

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Second Chechen War - Direct rule. Russian President Vladimir Putin reestablished formal, direct Russian rule of Chechnya in May 2000. The following month, Putin appointed Akhmat Kadyrov interim head of the local government. Second Chechen War - Constitution. On March 23, 2003, a new Chechen constitution was passed in a referendum. The 2003 Constitution granted the Chechen Republic a significant degree of autonomy, but still tied it firmly to the Russian Federation and Moscow's ...

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Second Chechen War, Second Chechen War - Historical basis for conflict, Second Chechen War - Immediate causes, Second Chechen War - Terrorist activity in 1996-1999, Second Chechen War - Conflict in Dagestan, Second Chechen War - Bombings in Russia, Second Chechen War - War, Second Chechen War - Grozny, Second Chechen War - Guerilla war, Second Chechen War - Restoration of government, Second Chechen War - Direct rule, Second Chechen War - Constitution, Second Chechen War - 2003 Elections, Second Chechen War - 2005 Elections, Second Chechen War - Continuing tension, Second Chechen War - War crimes, Second Chechen War - Assassinations, Second Chechen War - Hostage takings, Second Chechen War - Ceasefire?, Second Chechen War - Influence on Russian politics, Second Chechen War - Early conflict, Second Chechen War - Election of Putin, Second Chechen War - Hearts and minds

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Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state (Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées of Governor Jeb Bush) distributed the scrub lists produced by the cleansing process to counties, and ordered the 57,700 people identified as "ex-felons" to be removed from voter rolls. Together the lists comprised nearly 1 % of Florida's electorate and nearly 3 % of its African-American voters. At the time of the election, the purge list contained an inordinate number of false po ...

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Florida Central Voter File, Florida Central Voter File - Private involvement, Florida Central Voter File - Problems in the cleansing process, Florida Central Voter File - James Lee's testimony, Florida Central Voter File - Errors in the list, Florida Central Voter File - Demographics of the purge list, Florida Central Voter File - Pre-election cleansing, Florida Central Voter File - Details about the errors, Florida Central Voter File - Analysis, Florida Central Voter File - Appeals, Florida Central Voter File - Election law violations allegations lawsuits, Florida Central Voter File - Resources, Florida Central Voter File - Major sources, Florida Central Voter File - Minor sources

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At first, Florida specified only exact matches on names, birthdates and genders to identify voters as felons. However, state records reveal a memo dated March 1999 from Emmett "Bucky" Mitchell, a lawyer for the state elections office who was supervising the felon purge, asking DBT to loosen its criteria for acceptable matches. When DBT representatives warned Mitchell that this would yield a large proportion of false positives (mismatches), Mitchell's reply was t ...

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Florida Central Voter File, Florida Central Voter File - Private involvement, Florida Central Voter File - Problems in the cleansing process, Florida Central Voter File - James Lee's testimony, Florida Central Voter File - Errors in the list, Florida Central Voter File - Demographics of the purge list, Florida Central Voter File - Pre-election cleansing, Florida Central Voter File - Details about the errors, Florida Central Voter File - Analysis, Florida Central Voter File - Appeals, Florida Central Voter File - Election law violations allegations lawsuits, Florida Central Voter File - Resources, Florida Central Voter File - Major sources, Florida Central Voter File - Minor sources

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In late September of 1999, the Russian military began bombing targets within Chechnya. Ground troops followed soon after. In response, martial law was declared and all eligible men were conscripted. President Maskhadov declared a gazawat (holy war) to face the approaching Russians. Second Chechen War - Grozny. Hoping to avoid the significant casualties which plagued the First Chechnen War, the Russians advanced slowly and in force. The Russian military made extensive use of artillery and bombs in an ...

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Second Chechen War, Second Chechen War - Historical basis for conflict, Second Chechen War - Immediate causes, Second Chechen War - Terrorist activity in 1996-1999, Second Chechen War - Conflict in Dagestan, Second Chechen War - Bombings in Russia, Second Chechen War - War, Second Chechen War - Grozny, Second Chechen War - Guerilla war, Second Chechen War - Restoration of government, Second Chechen War - Direct rule, Second Chechen War - Constitution, Second Chechen War - 2003 Elections, Second Chechen War - 2005 Elections, Second Chechen War - Continuing tension, Second Chechen War - War crimes, Second Chechen War - Assassinations, Second Chechen War - Hostage takings, Second Chechen War - Ceasefire?, Second Chechen War - Influence on Russian politics, Second Chechen War - Early conflict, Second Chechen War - Election of Putin, Second Chechen War - Hearts and minds

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What makes the Central Voter File remarkable is that Florida is the only state that pays a private company to "cleanse" voter rolls. In 1998, the first firm hired for this program was Professional Service Inc., which charged $5,700 for the job. There was an open bid for the job, which was assigned to DBT Online's, despite the fact that its bid was the highest-priced (several thousand percent over competitors). The state gave the job to DBT for a first year fee of $2,317,800. In the files about the DBT bid there appears a handwritten note which reads "don't need" next to the listing of v ...

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Florida Central Voter File, Florida Central Voter File - Private involvement, Florida Central Voter File - Problems in the cleansing process, Florida Central Voter File - James Lee's testimony, Florida Central Voter File - Errors in the list, Florida Central Voter File - Demographics of the purge list, Florida Central Voter File - Pre-election cleansing, Florida Central Voter File - Details about the errors, Florida Central Voter File - Analysis, Florida Central Voter File - Appeals, Florida Central Voter File - Election law violations allegations lawsuits, Florida Central Voter File - Resources, Florida Central Voter File - Major sources, Florida Central Voter File - Minor sources

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