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Magna - Housed within a former steelworks, includes the UK's first science adventure centre, and an education and exhibition centre. Situated in Templebrough, near Rotherham in South Yorkshire.
Earth Centre, Conisbrough - Museum that aims to make sustainable development tangible, by providing an accessible opportunity to see sustainable development principles in action. Includes information about the museum, opening times, how to get there, prices and information about sustainable development. Requires Javascript and Flash.
The Millennium Commission - The Millennium Commission assists communities in marking the close of the second millennium and celebrating the start of the third. The Commission uses money raised by the national lottery to encourage projects throughout the nation.
Millennium Awards - Allows individuals to apply for grants for projects. Details existing projects and how to apply for funding.
Sustrans - Promotes sustainable transport and funds expansion of the National Cycle Network. Details of campaigns, online shop, membership and support and maps of the cycle networks.
National Space Science Centre - Space museum and discovery centre in Leicester. Ticket and booking details. Site map and attraction information.
Our Dynamic Earth - Interactive exhibits about planet earth, situated in Edinburgh. Utilises the QuickTime, Shockwave and Acrobat Reader plug-ins.
Royal Botanic Gardens: Millennium Seed Bank Project - Project to safegard over 24,000 endangered species of plants, based at Kew Gardens in London. Information about the project and its supporters, news, and how the public can help.
Millennium Volunteers - Organisation encouraging young people to take part in volunteer projects in their local area. Information about the scheme, news, information about getting involved and case studies.
British Airways London Eye - Large ferris wheel on the bank of the River Thames giving views across London. Visitor information, online ticket booking, webcam and information for schools and corporate parties.
Gateshead Millennium Bridge - Footbridge linking Newcastle with Gateshead over the River Tyne. Photos and information about the project.
The Eden Project - Ecological project, growing tropical and temperate plants in giant biomes. Information for visitors and schools, online shop and scientific information. Situated in Cornwall.
The Deep - Futuristic aquarium in Kingston-upon-Hull in Yorkshire. Information for visitors, schools and corporate clients, and details of environmental research and the project as a whole.
Carlisle City Council Millennium Project - Irish Gate Bridge - Footbridge linking Carlisle Castle and the ancient city walls. Information about the project and a history of the site, with photos.
The Great Court at The British Museum - A large glass-covered court at the British Museum. Information about the project, and the exhibits and facilities contained in it.
The Lowry - Large art gallery built for the millennium at Salford Keys in Manchester. Guide to current and future events and facilities, and information for visitors, schools and corporate users.
Odyssey - Imax cinema, ice rink, and arena for sports events and concerts. Information on what's on in each venue, competitions and directions to the stadium. Located in Belfast.
Millennium Point - Includes Thinktank museum of science and discovery, University of First Age, Technology Innovation Centre and a cinema. Situated in Birmingham. Information for businesses and visitors, guide to facilities and an events guide.
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff - National stadium for Wales. Includes details of upcoming events and news.
Hampden - The Scottish national stadium in Glasgow. Information about the project, upcoming events and visiting information.
The Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Project - Information about the building of a new library and civic area in the centre of Norwich. News of the project, photos, webcam, press releases and information about an archaeological dig on the site.
Portsmouth Harbour Millennium Scheme and Related Projects - Details of 22 projects in Portsmouth Harbour. Includes a map.
Images of England - English Heritage and the Royal Photographic Society have volunteer photographers from across England photographing their local buildings in this national survey of England's listed heritage.
Ravenstonedale Community Web Site - Sponsored by residents and friends of Ravenstonedale. It is a light hearted chronical of village life at the time of the millennium.
Tate Modern - Collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present day, housed in the former Bankside Power Station in North Southwark.
International Centre For Life - Conference centre in Newcastle City Centre largely funded by the Millennium Commission. Includes a children's interactive centre and education facilities. News, location, information on hiring and prices as well as details of events.
The Millennium Memory Bank - An archive, held at the British Library, of programs transmitted by the BBC's 40 local radio stations at the end of 1999 and containing the personal testimonies of local people. Information on the archive, which is not online, and contact details. Part of the main BL site.
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust - A charity, based in the Yorkshire Dales, working with local communities to carry out a number of different conservation projects. Information about the projects, contact information and photographs.
Millennium Mathematics Project - A national initiative, based in Cambridge, which aims to help people share in the excitement of mathematics and understand its applications. Events, news, programs and contact details.
Urbis - Museum of urban life in central Manchester. Includes information for visitors, teachers and corporate entities, and details of current exhibitions.
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Millennium Projects Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Millennium Projects In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Millennium Projects A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Millennium Projects As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Millennium Projects Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Millennium Projects "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Millennium Projects A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Millennium Projects Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Millennium Projects "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Millennium Projects Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Millennium Projects Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait Millennium Projects "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Millennium Projects No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Millennium Projects "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Millennium Projects The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Millennium Projects Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Millennium Projects By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Millennium Projects Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Millennium Projects Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar Millennium Projects "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Millennium Projects "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Millennium Projects
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