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He only acts like a plumber in the games, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and the original Mario Bros., but pipes are always one way to get around.
Mario was seen plumbing during the animated series.
He knows a lot about tools and fixing pipes in the movie.
In the first Donkey Kong games when Mario was called Jumpman, he was a carpenter.
In the Dr. Mario games first seen in 1990, Mario is a doctor.
In 2001, Mario appeared in Dr. Mario 64, an updated version of the original puzzle game.
Dr. Mario appeared as an secret character in the Nintendo GameCube game Super Smash Bros. Melee, and in another newer version, Dr. Mario Virus Buster, for WiiWare.
In the Game Boy game Mario's Picross, Mario is an archaeologist.
Mario usually saves Princess Peach (AKA Princess Toadstool), Princess Daisy and Pauline.
And he usually has to defeat villains, like Bowser(AKA King Koopa in Japan) Most characters in the games know who he is because he acts like a hero, as shown in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, where they are called "superstars", or celebrities.
In Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis, it is said that Mario has a toy-making company that earns him money.
Since his first game, Mario has to save the "damsel in distress" of the game.
Originally, he had to rescue his girlfriend Pauline in Donkey Kong.
Pauline was soon replaced by a new damsel-in-distress, Princess Peach, in Super Mario Bros. (she was first named "Princess Toadstool" or simply "the Princess" in English-speaking places until 1993, when Yoshi's Safari was sold, even though the name was not widely used until Super Mario 64 was sold three years later).
Pauline returned in the Game Boy remake of Donkey Kong in 1994, and later Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis in 2006, although the character is now said to be "Mario's friend".
Mario has rescued Princess Peach lots of times since Super Mario Bros.. In a role reversal, Peach rescues Mario in Super Princess Peach.
Some people say the two could be a couple.
Luigi is Mario's younger brother.
He is usually a companion on many of Mario's adventures and the character whom players play as in two-player sessions of many of the video games.
He sometimes acts like a "scaredy cat" who sets off to help Mario but instead needs help himself, though he has also had to rescue Mario occasionally as displayed in Mario is Missing!
and Luigi's Mansion.
Yoshi is another one of Mario's friends.
Mario rescued Princess Daisy in Super Mario Land for the Game Boy.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the text explaining Princess Daisy's trophy states that "after her appearance in Mario Golf, some gossips portrayed her as Luigi's answer to Mario's Peach", although Luigi and Daisy were previously paired as a romantic couple in the live-action Super Mario Bros movie.
Wario, Mario's evil counterpart was first seen in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.
Though there is no clear relationship between the two, Wario was once referred to as Mario's cousin in Nintendo Power.
Wario is designed to act, in a way, as an anti-Mario.
Baby Mario
Baby Mario is Mario when he was a child.
He first appeared in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and has appeared in several titles since.
Baby Mario has often appeared in Nintendo-sports titles, such as Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Superstar Baseball, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!,
Mario Super Sluggers, and Mario Kart Wii.
These games imply Mario and Baby Mario are separate characters, but those games are considered to be outside the continuity of the main Mario series.
More recently, he has appeared in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, in which Baby Mario appeared via time travel along with Baby Luigi, Baby Peach, and Baby Bowser, which could explain the separation of the two characters.
Like the older Mario, Baby Mario is voiced by Charles Martinet.
During the development of Donkey Kong, Mario was known as "Jumpman".
Jumping—both to access places and as an offensive move—is a common gameplay element in Mario games, especially the Super Mario Bros. series.
Mario's most commonly portrayed form of attack is jumping to stomp on the heads of enemies, first used in Mario Bros.. This jump-stomp move may entirely crush smaller enemies on the stage, and usually deals damage to larger ones, sometimes also causing secondary effects.
This attack often enables Mario to knock the turtle-like Koopa Troopas into their shells, which can slide into and damage other enemies or Mario.
Subsequent games have elaborated on Mario's jumping-related abilities.
Super Mario World added the ability to spin-jump, which allows Mario to break blocks under him.
Later, the Game Boy version of Donkey Kong allows Mario to jump higher with many jumps, and perform a back-flip.
In Super Mario 64, Mario has several jumping abilities, such as a sideways somersault, a "ground pound", which makes Mario hit the ground under him hard, and the "Wall Kick", which propels him upwards by kicking off walls.
Mario uses many items, which give him various powers.
The one that shows up the most often is the "Super Mushroom", which allows Mario to grow to twice his size, becoming "Super Mario" (after the name of the series), and can take a hit before shrinking back down to "regular" Mario.
If "Super Mario" collects a "Fire Flower", he will transform into "Fire Mario", who can throw fireballs at enemies.
Picking up a "Star" makes it so nothing can hurt Mario for several seconds.
A common theme in the Mario series' power-ups is the fact that many items give Mario a semi-animal appearance, sometimes related to the item itself, for example Super Mario Bros. 3s Frog Suit, which turns Mario into a frog, and Super Mario Land 2s Power Carrot, which turns Mario into a rabbit.
Other times the item may not be related to the power; for example, the Raccoon Leaf gives him raccoon ears, a tail, and the power of flight.
Other power-ups are overall more useful; in Super Mario World, the Cape allows Mario to fly and glide, and a balloon in a later game in the series allows similar effects.
New Super Mario Bros. introduced other types of Mushroom power-ups, such as the "Mega Mushroom", which causes Mario to grow to a screen-filling size and the "Mini Mushroom" that makes him shrink to a very small size.
In Super Mario 64, Mario takes extra damage without when he is not wearing his hat.
Different types of caps found in the game also give him powers of flight, invincibility, and invisibility.
Along with these basic features, caps gave more practical abilities as well.
For example, the Metal Cap allows Mario to sink to sea floors and the Invisibility cap allows him to walk through thin surfaces such as iron grates.
Super Mario Sunshine has several few power-ups with a water theme.
He is granted a F.L.U.D.D. (Flash Liquidizing Ultra Dousing Device) pack that performs his main attack and squirts paint and enemies with water, named the Squirt Nozzle.
He has three other expansion packs including the Hover Nozzle, which allows him to hover for short distances, the Turbo Nozzle, which allows him to move a lot faster and break through some barriers, and the Rocket Nozzle, which charges water up, then blasts Mario high into the air.
Super Mario Galaxy introduced several new power-ups along with a few older items re-done.
These include the Bee Shroom, which allows him to float short distances and stick to certain surfaces; the Boo Shroom, which makes him capable of floating as well as traveling through walls; the Life Shroom, which gives him three more life wedges; the Rainbow Star, granting him brief invincibility; the Fire Flower, which appeared for the first time in a 3D game; and the Ice Flower, which allows him to turn water into solid ice so he can go to otherwise unreachable or deadly places.
A hidden power-up is the Flight Star, which allows Mario to fly for a while.
Mario uses hammers in numerous games, such as Super Mario Bros. 3, the original Donkey Kong, and Super Mario RPG.
Hammers are used to attack and for other things, like flicking switches and solving puzzles.
He often picks up and throws various projectiles around him, however, starting in Super Mario Bros. 2.
He tosses items such as vegetables, giant blocks and Bob-ombs.
In the Mario Kart series, there are a number of items to use.
For example, a mushroom makes the characters go faster, and a Koopa shell knocks into other players to slow them down.
Reception and legacy
As Nintendo's mascot, many people think that Mario is the most famous video game character of all time.
The Mario series of video games has sold more than 200 million copies, making it the best selling game series of all time.
Mario was the first video game character to get a wax figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum in 2003.
In 1990, a national survey showed that more kids knew Mario than Mickey Mouse.
Since he was created, Mario has become a very famous person having been in many television shows, comic books, and in a movie.
He has been on lunch boxes, T-shirts, magazines, commercials, in candy form, on Shampoo bottles, cereal, badges, and as a stuffed toy.
Nintendo of Japan made a 60-minute anime (Japanese cartoon) movie starring Mario and his friends in 1986, but this movie has never been shown or sold on DVD outside of Japan.
The animated series The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
had a live-action series of episodes starring former WWF manager "Captain" Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells as Luigi.
There was even a book series, the Nintendo Adventure Books.
In 2005, Jonathan Mann even wrote an opera based on the character, and performed The Mario Opera at the California Institute of the Arts.
Mario's legacy is recognized by Guinness World Records, who awarded the Nintendo Mascot and his games seven records in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008.
These records include, "Best Selling Video Game Series of All Time", "First Movie Based on an Existing Video Game", and "Most Prolific Video Game Character", with Mario appearing in 116 distinct titles (not including remakes or re-releases).
In popular culture
Former NHL hockey player, Mario Lemieux was given the nickname "Super Mario" by the media during his career.
Mario Williams, the #1 draft pick in the 2006 NFL Draft, was also given the nickname "Super Mario", as was pro-cyclist, Mario Cipollini.
German international footballer Mario Basler was affectionately referred to as "Super Mario" by fans and the media.
Another sportsman who received this nickname was the Brazilian soccer player Mário Jardel, famous for his jumps and headers.
The official home of Mario (Nintendo of America official site.)
Super Mario Bros. Hub (Nintendo UK official site)
Fictional characters introduced in 1981
Fictional Italian people
American culture
Video games usually come on CDs, DVDs or digital download.
Many games used to come on cartridges.
A specialized device used to play a video game at home is called a console.
There have been many types of consoles and home computers used to play video games.
Some of the first were the Atari 2600, the Sega Master System and Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1980s.
Newer video game consoles are the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch.
The best selling video game console of all time is the PlayStation 2, made by Sony.
People can also use computers to play games, which are sometimes called PC games.
The older consoles do not have new games developed for them often, although console games are emulated for PCs (see emulator).
This means that new computers can play many old console games along with games made just for new computers.
Older games are often more popular emulated than when they were first on sale, because of the ease of download.
People can play portable video games anywhere.
Mobile devices (running operating systems such as iOS or Android) also can download games, making them portable game machines.
Mobile phones have many games, some of them using a mobile emulator for games from consoles.
Not all PC or console Games are on mobile or iPad/ iPod/Tablet.
Current generation consoles
The current Xbox models are the Xbox Series X and Series S, which came out in November 2020.
The console before it, the Xbox One came out in November 2013 followed by the Xbox One S in November 2016, and then by the Xbox One X, originally named, in November 2017.The Xbox series is made by the American company Microsoft.
It replaced the Xbox 360 and offers a similar online experience and controller, but with improved graphics.
Like the original and 360 versions, it also allows people to put music from an MP3 player or other sources onto the system.
It was the last of the 8th generation consoles to come out.
The PlayStation 5, which came out in November 2020, is currently the newest console from the PlayStation series of game consoles from Sony Computer Entertainment, a division of the Japanese company Sony.
It has two versions, one that can play discs and one that cannot.
It can play many of the games from the console that came before it, the PlayStation 4.
Nintendo, another Japanese company, has made many video game consoles over the years.
The most recent is the Nintendo Switch, which came out in March 2017.
The standard version of the console can be used as both a handheld console or can be connected to a television and used like a standard console.
It is currently the only console from the eighth generation of video games.
It is a lot more successful than Nintendo's earlier console, the Wii U, which it has no backward compatibility with.
Current handheld consoles
The only handheld console that is supported today is the Nintendo Switch, which looks like a tablet computer but can also be plugged into a TV.
It is the first example of a "hybrid console" that can be used as both as a TV-based model and a handheld device.
It was released in March 2017.
Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) came out in 2004.
A new version, the PlayStation Vita, first came out in 2012.
Also in 2004, Nintendo released the DS(Dual Screen), which has two separate screens, one of which is a touchscreen.
New versions came out in later years, such as the Nintendo DSi in 2008 and the Nintendo DSi XL.
The Nintendo 3DS, the first handheld console with 3D graphics, came out in 2011.
The 2DS followed in 2013.
The New 3DS XL, which is similar to the 3DS but with updated graphical capabilities, was released in 2015.
The latest entry into the DS lineup is the "New 2DS XL", released on the 28th of July 2017.
The first video game ever is often said to be Tennis for Two, a rudimentary tennis game to be played with two people developed in 1958.
Another early example is Spacewar!,
developed in 1962.
In the 1950s, when the first computers began to be made, three people had some ideas to create the basis of actual video games.
In 1951, Ralph Baer, an American engineer of Loral Electronics, tried to create "the best television", proposing to add a gaming module, but his employer did not like his idea.
Even if his idea was never realized, he is the first man to have thought of the idea of video games, later creating the first video game console, the Odyssey.
Later, in 1952, A.S Douglas, of the Cambridge University in the UK, made a video game on a computer in order to illustrate one of his speeches.
The game, called OXO, was a tic-tac-toe game, with two players (the person itself and the opponent, the computer) .In 1953, Willy Higinbotham made a game called Tennis For Two, similar to the later Pong, to entertain visitors to Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Another early video game is a version of checkers, but this is largely overlooked.
One of the most famous and one of the earliest video games ever is called Space Invaders.
Space Invaders was made in 1978 as a coin operated arcade game but a version has been made for almost every game console and home computer ever available.
2D game is a game made by using two-dimentional computer graphic.
The first platformers were Space Panic (1980) and Donkey Kong (1981).
The first scrolling platformers were Jump Bug (1981), Jungle King (1982) and Jungle Hunt (1982).
Namco took the scrolling platformer a step further with the 1984 release Pac-Land.
An oboe is a woodwind instrument with a double reed.
It looks very similar to the clarinet, and may be confused with it.
While the clarinet's shape remains cylindrical, the oboe's body is conical.
The sounds produced by clarinets and oboes are very different.
An oboe's sound is produced by blowing air through the double reed at the upper end of the instrument which forces the two reeds to vibrate together which produces the sound.
The oboe has four parts: the bell, lower joint, upper joint, and the reed.
A person that plays the oboe is called an oboist.
A typical orchestra may have two oboes but sometimes three.
Sometimes there is also a cor anglais which sounds a fifth lower than the oboe.
Very occasionally there is also a bass oboe, which sounds an octave below the oboe.
Gustav Holst used one in his Suite "The Planets".
The oboe came from the shawm which was a medieval and Renaissance instrument.
It became popular in the Baroque period.
Bach and Handel both used it in most of their orchestral music.
Many Italian composers such as Antonio Vivaldi wrote concertos for the instrument, and it is used in a lot of chamber music.
At this time it hardly had any keys, but over time more keys were added which made it easier to play the sharps and flats.
The name oboe comes from French language hautbois, meaning "high wood", a high-pitched woodwind instrument.
Double reed instruments
The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a role-playing game system created by Steve Jackson Games.
It emphasizes a set of rules that can be used in any time or world.
Characters are created using a point-based system.
There have been four releases of the GURPS core rules and dozens of game supplements that extend the core rules with genre or setting-specific information.
Role-playing games
Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, composer, musician, singer-songwriter and writer.
He is one of the members of Monty Python.
Monty Python is a British comedy team.
Eric Idle was born on 29 March 1943 in South Shields, County Durham, England.
He studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Eric is known for his songwriting and singing skills.
His songs were important parts of the Monty Python television programme and movies.
He wrote the song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".
This song was written as the closing song of the 1979 movie Life of Brian.
Eric lives in Studio City, California.
1943 births
Actors from County Durham
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
English comedians
English movie actors
English television actors
English voice actors
An enemy is a person or group of people who is against another person or group.
In war, the enemy is anyone fighting for the other side of the war.
The year 2000 (MM) was .
January 1 - To most people, it was the first day of the 21st century and 3rd millennium.
However, there are some people who argue that both distinctions happened a year later, on January 1, 2001.
January 3–10 – Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks.
January 4 – Alan Greenspan is nominated for a fourth term as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman.
January 5–8 – The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including 2 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
January 6 – The last natural pyrenean ibex is found dead apparently killed by a falling tree.
January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
January 11 – The armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria
January 11 – The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.
January 12 – 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta and Ziad Jarrah read their wills in the Martyrdom Video.
January 14 – A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.
January 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
January 16 – In Sacramento, California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.
January 18 – The Tagish Lake meteorite hits the Earth.
January 24 – God's Army, a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.
January 26 – The rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
January 30 – Super Bowl XXXIV: The St. Louis Rams win the NFL Championship for the first time since 1951, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23–16.
January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
January 31 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
January 31 – Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998.
He is sentenced to life imprisonment.
February 4 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
February 6 – Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of Finland.
February 7 – Stipe Mesic is elected president of Croatia.
February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and kills 800 people.
February 11 – A blast from an improvised explosive device in front of a Barclay's Bank, across from the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, wounds dozens but kills none.
February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day.
March 1 – The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
March 2 – Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
March 7 – George W. Bush and Al Gore emerge victorious in the Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries of the United States presidential election.
March 8 – Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of 2 Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people.
March 9 – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
March 9 – Nupedia, predecessor to Wikipedia, is created.
March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048.
March 12 – Pope John Paul II apologises for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.
March 18 – Republic of China presidential election, 2000: Chen Shui-bian is elected President of the Republic of China (Taiwan); the Democratic Progressive Party ends Kuomintang rule for the first time.
March 20 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), a former Black Panther, is captured after a gun battle in Atlanta, Georgia that leaves a sheriff's deputy dead.
March 21 – Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel.
March 21 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Bill Clinton administration's main anti-smoking initiative.
March 26 – Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
March 27 – The Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injured 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
March 31 – Myra Hindley loses a High Court appeal against her life imprisonment sentence.
April 3 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
April 16 – Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor, dies after a reign of 55 years.
He was the longest-reigning monarch in the world since the death of Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein.
April 17 – Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
April 22 – Brazil officially celebrates its 500th anniversary, with protests, especially from native and black populations.
April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC, ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history.
April 25 – The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.
April 28 – Richard Baumhammers begins a 2-hour racially motivated shooting spree in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leaving 5 dead and 1 paralyzed.
May 3 – A rare conjunction of 7 celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs on the New Moon.
May 3 – In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
May 4 – After originating in The Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
May 11 – The billionth living person in India is born.
May 11 – Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty – The Nisga'a Final Agreement
May 12 – The Tate Modern Gallery opens in London.
May 13 – A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede Netherlands, kills 23.
May 16 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the tenth President of Turkey.
May 17 – A bomb in Glorietta Mall in Makati City, Philippines injures 13.
May 20 – Chinese (ROC) president Chen Shui-bian makes the Four Noes and One Without pledge to Taiwan.
May 25 – Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 years.
May 28 - American actor Cameron Boyce is born
June 5 – 405 The Movie, the first short movie widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
June 13 – South Korean President Kim Dae Jung visits North Korea to participate in the first North–South presidential summit.
June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5 on Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day.
June 21 – Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament.
June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished.
June 28 – Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, ending a protracted custody battle.
June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs.
July 2 – France beats Italy 2–1 to win Euro 2000 with a golden goal.
July 2 – Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party), ending 71 years of PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) rule.
July 10 – In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
July 10 – Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.
July 11–25 – Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement.
July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
July 18 – Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party.
July 18 – Sussex police launch a murder investigation after the body of a girl found near Pulborough is confirmed to be that of Sarah Payne, who was reported missing on July 1.
July 21–23 – 26th G8 summit; issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015.
July 22 – News of the World urges its readers to sign a petition for Sarah's Law, new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area.
July 25 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.
July 30 – Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez is reelected with 59% of the vote.
July 31 – August 3 – The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U.S. president and Dick Cheney for vice president.
August 3 – Rioting erupts on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, after more than 100 people besiege the home of a block of flats allegedly housing a convicted paedophile.
This is the latest vigilante violence against suspected sex offenders since the beginning of the "naming and shaming" anti-paedophile campaign by the tabloid newspaper News of the World.
August 8 – The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
August 12 – The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
August 14 – Tsar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
August 14–17 – The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U.S. Vice President Al Gore for president and Senator Joe Lieberman for vice president.
August 23 – John Anthony Kaiser a Roman Catholic priest was murdered in Morendat, Kenya.
August 27 – The Ostankino Tower fire in Moscow kills 3.
September 5 – Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
September 5 – The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
September 6 – In Paragould, Arkansas, Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart is stillborn to Scott Stewart and Lisa Bartlett.
Breanna Lynn's stillbirth is notable for being the first stillbirth to be resolved by means of the Kleihauer-Betke test.
September 6 – The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense.
September 6–8 – World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at UN Headquarters.
September 7–14 – The UK fuel protests take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.
September 8 – Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization.
September 14 – Microsoft releases Windows Me.
September 15 – October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia.
September 16 – Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
September 16 – Peru's president Alberto Fujimori calls for new elections in which he will not run.
September 26 – The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of more than 500 passengers die in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.
September 26 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
September 28 – Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount, protected by a several-hundred-strong Israeli police force.
Palestinian riots erupt, leading to a full-fledged armed uprising (called the Al-Aqsa Intifada by sympathizers and the Oslo War by opponents).
September 29 – The Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland is closed.
October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics close in Sydney, Australia.
October 5 – President Slobodan Milošević leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout Serbia.
October 6 – The last Mini is produced in Longbridge.
October 11 – 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill).
October 12 – In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
October 21 – Fifteen Arab leaders convene in Cairo, Egypt, for their first summit in 4 years; the Libyan delegation walks out, angry over signs the summit will stop short of calling for breaking ties with Israel.
October 22 – The Mainichi Shinbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
October 23 – Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.
October 26 – Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a Persian princess in the province of Balochistan.
Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a forgery on April 17, 2001.
October 27 – Pacific Islands Forum (PIF).
October 30 – This is the final date during which there is no human presence in space; on October 31, Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station.
The ISS has been continuously crewed since.
October 31 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, resulting in 83 deaths.
November – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq rejects new U.N. Security Council weapons inspections proposals.
November 2 – The first resident crew enters the International Space Station.
November 3 – Widespread flooding occurs throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain.
November 7 – United States presidential election, 2000: Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
November 7 – In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal The Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
November 7 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
November 11 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A cable car fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.
November 15 – A new Indian state called Jharkhand is formed, carving out the South Chhota Nagpur area from Bihar in India.
November 16 – Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Vietnam.
November 17 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage.
It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
November 17 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
November 25 – The Rugby League World Cup in England is ended, with Australia winning 40–12 over the New Zealand Kiwis.
November 27 – Jean Chrétien is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada, as the Liberal Party increases its majority in the House of Commons.
November 28 – Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz touches off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
December 1 – Vicente Fox takes office as President of Mexico.
December 13 – Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.
December 13 – The Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas, and start a crime spree.
December 15 – The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely.
December 24 – The Texas 7 rob a sports store in Irving, Texas; police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot dead.
December 24 – Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings: 18 people are killed in multiple Islamist bomb attacks on churches across Indonesia.
December 25 – A shopping center fire at Luoyang, Henan, China kills 309.
December 28 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
December 30 – Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines, within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about 100.
December 31 – The Millennium Dome closes its doors one year to the day of its opening.
December 31 – Strictly speaking, it was the last day of the 2nd millennium and 20th century in the Gregorian calendar, but according to Popular Culture, the last day of these two distinctions was December 31, 1999.
January 8 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer
January 30 - Benee, New Zealand singer
June 1 – Willow Shields, American actress and dancer
November 10 – Mackenzie Foy, American model and actress
November 20 – Connie Talbot, British singer
January 2 – Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914)
January 7 – Makhmud Esambayev, Chechen dancer (b. 1924)
January 15 – Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
January 18 – Frances Drake, American actress (b. 1912)
January 19 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
January 19 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913)
January 26 – Don Budge, American tennis champion (b. 1915)
January 26 – Don Ralke, American music arranger (b. 1920)
February 5 – Claude Autant-Lara, French movie director (b. 1901)
February 5 – Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924)
February 7 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
February 7 – Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971)
February 9 – Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921)
February 10 – Jim Varney, American actor noted for his character, Ernest P. Worrell. (
b. 1949)
February 12 – Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (b. 1922)
February 13 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
February 19 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist (b. 1928)
February 23 – Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
February 23 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
March 3 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
March 7 – Charles Gray, English actor (b. 1928)
March 11 – Alfred Schwarzmann, German Olympic gymnast (b. 1912)
March 27 – Ian Dury, English singer, songwriter (b. 1942)
March 28 – Anthony Powell, British writer (b. 1905)
April 3 – Terence McKenna, Writer, Philosopher, Ethnobotanist and Shaman (b. 1946)
April 4 – Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (b. 1914)
April 5 – Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
April 6 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
April 11 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
April 14 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
April 15 – Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1925)
April 25 – David Merrick, American stage producer (b. 1911)
April 29 – Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)
May 1 – Steve Reeves, American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
May 3 – John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
May 7 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
May 10 – Craig Stevens, American actor (b. 1918)
May 11 – René Muñoz, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico (b. 1938)
May 13 – Tomomi Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler, better known as Jumbo Tsuruta (b. 1951)
May 14 – Keizō Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
May 20 – Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905)
May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (b. 1901)
May 21 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
May 25 – Francis Lederer, American actor (b. 1899)
May 27 – Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
May 27 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
May 30 – Doris Hare, English actress, well known for her role in the 1970s comedy, On the Buses (b. 1905)
May 31 – Tito Puente, American jazz musician (b. 1923)
June 10 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
June 10 – Frank Patterson, Irish tenor (b. 1938)
June 14 – Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b. 1906)
June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
June 17 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (b. 1931)
June 21 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
June 24 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
June 29 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
July 1 – Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
July 7 – James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921)
July 8 – FM-2030, Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930)
July 10 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
July 10 – Denis O'Conor Don, hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept of Ireland (b. 1912)
July 11 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
July 12 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (b. 1908)
July 28 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (b. 1918)
July 29 – René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b. 1923)
August 5 – Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (b. 1914)
August 5 – Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
August 6 – Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (b. 1923)
August 9 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
August 12 – Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
August 12 – Dave Edwards, American musician (b. 1941)
August 19 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946)
August 21 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (b. 1930)
August 25 – Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
August 26 – Bunny Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906)
September 2 – Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905)
September 2 – Curt Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1902)
September 14 – Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
September 16 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
September 19 – Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b 1917)
September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
September 26 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
September 27 – Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (b. 1916)
September 28 – Peter Gennaro, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
September 28 – Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
October 4 – Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
October 6 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
October 8 – Sheila Holland (Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf, Laura Hardy), English writer (b. 1937)
October 9 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
October 13 – Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
October 13 – Tony Roper, NASCAR driver (b. 1964)
October 15 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
October 18 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
October 21 – Reginald Kray, leading figure in organised crime in London, UK (b. 1933)
October 23 – Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as Yokozuna (b. 1966)
October 27 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
October 29 – Andújar Cedeño, Dominican Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
October 30 – Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and writer (b. 1921)
October 31 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1915)
November 5 – David Brower, American environmental activist (b. 1912)
November 5 – Roger Peyrefitte, French writer and diplomat (b. 1907)
November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
November 7 – C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
November 7 – Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1910)
November 11 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
November 22 – Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b. 1907)
November 22 – Christian Marquand, French actor and director (b. 1927)
December 2 – Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, African American writer (b. 1917)
December 10 – Paul Avery, American journalist (b. 1934)
December 10 – Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
December 12 – Gangodawila Soma Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk (b. 1948)
December 19 – Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch of The Staple Singers (b. 1914)
December 23 – Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
December 23 – Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
December 26 – Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
December 30 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
Chemistry – Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
Economics – James Heckman, Daniel McFadden
Literature – Gao Xingjian
Peace – Kim Dae Jung
Physics – Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack Kilby
Physiology or Medicine – Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel
Adelaide is a city in Australia.
It is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and it has an approximate population of 1.2 million people.
It is the fifth biggest city in Australia, behind Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.
Adelaide was founded in 1836 by Colonel William Light, who named it after Queen Adelaide.
Adelaide is near the Southern Ocean and is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula.
It has a river going through it called the River Torrens.
Many festivals are held there.
Adelaide has a hot-summer and cool-wet-winter Mediterranean climate.
Grapes for wine production are grown in the Barossa Valley about 50 kilometres (30 miles) northeast of Adelaide, in the McLaren Vale about 30 kilometres south of Adelaide and parts of the Mt Lofty Ranges to the east.
Adelaide Airport
1836 establishments
1830s establishments in Australia
Yoshi is a fictional dinosaur who appears in the Mario series of video games made by Nintendo.
The character was created by Shigeru Miyamoto.
Yoshi's best-known ability is his ability to eat enemies.
He has a long tongue which he uses to grab enemies and eat them.
In some games, after Yoshi eats enemies, they turn into eggs, which can be thrown.
One of Yoshi's best friends is Mario who helps Yoshi throughout the dangerous situations.
Sometimes, Mario can ride Yoshi.
Yoshi also can jump very high, and can also float in the air a little bit by kicking his legs.
He can also ground pound enemies by quickly jumping on them.
Yoshis are usually green, but can come in many other colors.
These other colors include green, red, cyan, blue, pink, yellow, brown, black, or white.
Blue Yoshi is especially in Super Mario World.
In Super Mario 64 DS,  Rec Room there's a light blue color in one of Yoshi's minigames Tox Box.
In Vs Mode.
Multiplayer, it has a dark blue color and the third player can play him.
Yoshi first appeared in the game Super Mario World (SNES), which was released in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in the United States.
Main playable appearances
Mario Kart 64 (N64)
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA)
Mario Kart DS (DS)
Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Mario Party series (N64, GCN, DS, and Wii)
Super Mario 64 DS (DS) (Vs Mode multiplayer only, the one with the game card is Green Yoshi, others are Red, Blue, and Yellow Yoshi.
Super Mario Kart (SNES)
Super Mario Sunshine (GCN)
Super Smash Bros. (N64)
Super Smash Bros. Melee (GCN)
GCN)
Mario Power Tennis (GCN)
Super Mario Strikers (Wii)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Yoshi's Island (SNES), (GBA)
Yoshi's Island DS (DS)
Yoshi Touch & Go (DS)
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy (GBA)
Yoshi's Story (N64)
Mario Strikers Charged Football (Wii)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U)
Yoshi is a very well-known character in the Mario series.
Yoshi is also seen a lot in Mario toys, games, and shirts.
Yoshi was in two of the Mcdonald's Happy Meal Mario toy promotions, which only starred Mario, Donkey Kong and Yoshi himself.
In a 2008 poll, Yoshi was voted as the third favorite video game character in Japan.
Cloud Strife and Mario were second and first place, in that order.
Fictional animals
Fictional characters introduced in 1990
Mario series characters
Fictional dinosaurs
A lake (from Latin lacus) is a large body of water (larger and deeper than a pond) within a body of land.
As a lake is separated from the ocean, it is not a sea.
Some lakes are very big, and people in the past sometimes called them seas.
Lakes do not flow like rivers, but many have rivers flowing into and out of them.
Most lakes on the surface of the Earth are fresh water and most are in the Northern Hemisphere.
More than 60% of the lakes of the world are in Canada.
Finland is known as The Land of the Thousand Lakes (there are 187,888 lakes in Finland, of which 60,000 are large).
If there are not rivers flowing out of the lake (see Endorheic basin), or they are few and small, the lake loses water only by evaporation or because the water flows through the soil pores.
Where the water evaporates rapidly and the soil around the lake has a high salt level, as in very dry places, the water of the lake has a high concentration of salt and the lake is called a salt lake.
Examples of salt lakes are the Great Salt Lake, the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and the Dead Sea.
Largest lakes by continent
Africa - Lake Victoria, also the second largest freshwater lake on Earth.
It is one of the Great Lakes of Africa.
Antarctica - Lake Vostok.