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Millennium Dome

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Purpose-built structure in London, England, designed as the centrepiece for UK celebrations of the year 2000. Located on a 73-ha/181-acre site in the borough of Greenwich, the Dome is 320 m/1,050 ft in diameter, 1 km/0.6 mi in circumference, 50 m/164 ft in height, and covers an area of 80,425 sq m/865,687 sq ft. It can hold 37,000 people, and was the central venue on 31 December 1999 for London's official millennium celebrations, and remained open to the public throughout 2000. Costing over £700 million to build, the increasing use of public money to bail out the project made it controversial. Expected to attract 12 million paying visitors during the year, the Dome attracted only around 4 million, and when it closed on 1 January 2001, it was technically insolvent. Designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, the Dome is twice as big as the world's former largest dome, the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. The dome canopy is made of panels of teflon-coated glass fibre, supported by 12…
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Full text Article Millennium Dome

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A circular structure with a shallow domed roof, designed by Richard Rogers and built, at a cost of over £800 million, on a tract of previously derelict land on the GREENWICH Peninsula (SE10) as the central venue for London's official millennium celebrations on 31 December 1999 and to house the…
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Full text Article Millennium Dome

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The showpiece and centrepiece of the Millennium Experience exhibition in London marking the new Millennium . It was erected on a tract of previously derelict land on the Greenwich peninsula as the largest structure of its kind ever built and was divided into 14 exhibition zones, each sponsored by a…
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The Millennium Dome
Architects: Richard Rogers Partnership Completed: 1998 (begun 1996) Location: Greenwich, London, England Style/Period: High Tech A structure ill-served by its contents, the Millennium Dome was deserving of far better press than the muddled “Millennium Experience” it sheltered within, since its…
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Full text Article Millennium Dome

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Purpose-built structure in London, England, designed as the centrepiece for UK celebrations of the year 2000. Located on a 73-ha/181-acre site in the borough of Greenwich, the Dome is 320 m/1,050 ft in diameter, 1 km/0.6 mi in circumference, 50 m/164 ft in height, and covers an area of 80,425 sq…
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Full text Article How can tourism benefit an area of interest?

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Background Tourism is a tertiary industry – an industry that provides a service. A tourist is someone who travels to a place of interest or takes a holiday for pleasure rather than for business purposes. The tourist industry caters for the needs of tourists, ensuring that they have the most…
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Full text Article Millennium

From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
A thousand years (Latin mille , ‘thousand’, and annus , ‘year’). In Revelation 20:2 it is said that an angel bound Satan for a thousand years, and verse 4 tells of certain martyrs who will come to life again who ‘lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years’. ‘This’, says St john , ‘is the first…
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Full text Article millennium

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Event celebrated at midnight on 1 January 2000 by the majority of the world's population. Although the official start of the new millennium, according to the Greenwich Observatory and the US Naval Observatory, is 1 January 2001, ‘millennium fever’ hit many Western countries in 1999, especially in…
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Full text Article Mandy

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
A nickname of Peter Mandelson (b.1953), widely regarded as the éminence grise and presentational enforcer of Tony Blair's Labour government, whose election he did much to ensure in 1997. The nickname Mandy (usually a girl's name) alludes to Mandelson's homosexuality, which was revealed to the world…
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Full text Article Greenwich

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Outer London borough of southeast Greater London, to the south of the River Thames, including the districts of Woolwich and Eltham; population (2001) 214,400. The main industry is tourism, with major attractions being the Royal Greenwich Observatory , the clipper ship Cutty Sark , fine 17th-century…
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Full text Article Gabriel, Peter

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English rock and pop singer and songwriter who was a member of the group Genesis 1966–75. His first solo album Peter Gabriel was released in 1977. He became a champion of world music with songs such as the anti-apartheid anthem ‘Biko’. He rose to international stardom in 1986 with the hit single…
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