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**Clockwise from top-left:**
The Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty on the left during the **terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001**;
The **euro** enters into European currency in 2002;
A statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the **Iraq War** in 2003, and in 2006, Saddam would be executed for crimes against humanity;
U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter in **Afghanistan** as part of the war on terror;
**Social media platforms** and the internet become widely popular;
A Chinese soldier gazes at the **2008 Summer Olympics** commencing in Beijing;
The **2008 financial crisis**, the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression;
**A tsunami from the Indian Ocean earthquake** kills over 230,000 in 2004, and becomes the strongest earthquake since the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands") was a decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on December 31, 2009.

The early part of the decade saw the long predicted breakthrough of economic giants in Asia, like India and China, which had double-digit growth during nearly the whole decade. It is also benefited from an economic boom, which saw the two most populous countries becoming an increasingly dominant economic force. The rapid catching-up of emerging economies with developed countries sparked some protectionist tensions during the period and was partly responsible for an increase in energy and food prices at the end of the decade. The economic developments in the latter third of the decade were dominated by a worldwide economic downturn, which started with the crisis in housing and credit in the United States in late 2007 and led to the bankruptcy of major banks and other financial institutions. The outbreak of this global financial crisis sparked a global recession, beginning in the United States and affecting most of the industrialized world.

The decade saw the rise of the Internet, which grew from covering 6.7% to 25.7% of the world population. This contributed to globalization during the decade, which allowed faster communication among people around the world;^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

The war on terror and War in Afghanistan began after the September 11 attacks in 2001. The International Criminal Court was formed in 2002. In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, and the Iraq War led to the end of Saddam Hussein's rule as Iraqi President and the Ba'ath Party in Iraq. Al-Qaeda and affiliated Islamist militant groups performed terrorist acts throughout the decade. The Second Congo War, the deadliest conflict since World War II, ended in July 2003. Further wars that ended included the Algerian Civil War, the Angolan Civil War, the Sierra Leone Civil War, the Second Liberian Civil War, the Nepalese Civil War, and the Sri Lankan Civil War. Wars that began included the conflict in the Niger Delta, the Houthi insurgency in Yemen, and the Mexican drug war.

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Total Drama (often shortened as TD) is a Canadian animated television comedy series created by Jennifer Pertsch and Tom McGillis that premiered on Teletoon (now the Canadian version of Cartoon Network) in Canada on July 8, 2007, and on Cartoon Network in the U.S. on June 5, 2008. Also, in March 21, 2009, the United Kingdom premiered Total Drama on Jetix. The series is both a homage and satire of common conventions from reality television competition shows like Survivor.

Each season revolves around a group of teens competing in an elimination-style competition, in that the contestants compete in challenges both as teams and individually for rewards and immunity from elimination. The teams merge roughly halfway through the competition into individuals. As the contestants develop relationships with each other, they are progressively eliminated from the game. When there are only two or three contestants remaining, they compete in a final challenge where the winner is awarded a cash prize: C$100,000 (US$73,129.00) in the first season, or C$1,000,000 (US$731,485.00) from the second season onward. The series currently consists of six seasons: Island (2007), Action, World Tour, Revenge of the Island, the two-part All-Stars and Pahkitew Island, and the two-part Island (2023–2024). (Full article...)

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... that the exterior of the De Lamar Mansion was cleaned using toothbrushes during the 2000s?

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William Harrison Frist (born February 22, 1952) is an American physician, businessman, and politician who served as a United States senator for Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Frist studied government and health care policy at Princeton University and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School. He trained as a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine, and later founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. In the 1994 United States Senate election in Tennessee, he defeated incumbent Democratic senator Jim Sasser.

After serving as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Frist succeeded Tom Daschle as the Senate Majority Leader. Frist helped pass several parts of President George W. Bush's domestic agenda, including the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 and the Medicare Modernization Act. Frist left the Senate in 2007, honoring his pledge to serve no more than two terms. (Full article...)

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Image 1T-Pain was initially criticized for popularizing autotune, which is now considered an iconic trend of the decade. (from 2000s in music)
Image 2Winklepicker boots fashionable in England, Italy and Mexico from 2005 onwards. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 3Young women in Portugal with straightened hair and thick makeup in 2007 (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 4Young woman wearing sundress and Christian Louboutin shoes, 2009. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 5PlayStation Portable (2004) (from 2000s in video games)
Image 6Three of System of a Down's albums debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. (from 2000s in music)
Image 7Young American woman in 2007 during the mid-2000s wearing a white miniskirt, a blue bikini top, and sunglasses a brief example how mid-2000s fashion still remained fashionable until 2008 (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 8Indie rock singer Damian Kulash wearing psychedelic 1960s-inspired clothing, 2006 (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 9Beyoncé was one of the best selling female performers of the 2000s.
Image 10Leeann Tweeden, 2003, wearing an off-the-shoulder top and cargo pants. She also sports highlights on her hair. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 11Guitar Hero controller (2005) (from 2000s in video games)
Image 12The flared jeans of the late 1990s remained fashionable throughout the early and mid-2000s. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 13Scene kids, 2008 (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 14Snake II on a Nokia 3310 (2000) (from 2000s in video games)
Image 15Model wearing low-rise jeans, a newsboy cap, and a belly shirt. (2005) (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 16Following her 1990's success, Namie Amuro remained popular during this era. (from 2000s in music)
Image 17British "Chav" wearing tracksuit and baseball cap. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 18Indian couple wearing a mixture of traditional dress and Western clothing (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 19Black Muntu is an urban rap group with a massive following across Zambia. (from 2000s in music)
Image 20Robyn on tour in 2003. (from 2000s in music)
Image 21Shakira was the best selling Latin female artist, also one of the best selling women of the decade. (from 2000s in music)
Image 22Young woman in 2003 wearing a horizontal striped shirt and boot-cut jeans. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 23Ramallah Underground have been considered the founders of Palestinian hip-hop. (from 2000s in music)
Image 24Swedish teenagers wearing typical late 2000s male hairstyles, 2008 (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 25Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Julia Roberts, and Steven Soderbergh wearing brown leather jackets in December 2001 (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 26Justin Timberlake was one of the best-selling male artists of the decade. (from 2000s in music)
Image 27Tasha Baxter's breakthrough in the international music charts started with "In the Beginning" in 2002. (from 2000s in music)
Image 28Singer Mary J. Blige topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001 with her smash single, "Family Affair", taken from hit album No More Drama. (from 2000s in music)
Image 29O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei" topped charts in France, Germany, and Austria for over three months, reached number 3 in the United Kingdom and number 72 on the US Pop 100. (from 2000s in music)
Image 30Swedish Raggare, 2005. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 31PSP Go (2009) (from 2000s in video games)
Image 32Jay Chou was a dominant force in Asian music for almost all of the 2000s and the first half of the next decade. (from 2000s in music)
Image 33Sean Paul's third album The Trinity debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200, breaking records with its first-week sales for a reggae/dancehall artist, and eventually going Platinum in the United States. (from 2000s in music)
Image 34On September 23, 2004, the RIAA certified Up! at 11× Platinum, giving Shania Twain the distinction of being the only female artist to have three consecutive diamond albums released in the United States. (from 2000s in music)
Image 35Aria Wallace and Victoria Justice playing Guitar Hero (from 2000s in video games)
Image 36Xbox (2001) (from 2000s in video games)
Image 37Jared Leto wearing slim-fit formal wear; Popular 2008–onwards. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 38The Black Eyed Peas began utilizing Auto-Tune and electropop–dance in their most successful album to date, The E.N.D., which spawned five top ten hit singles.
Image 39Swedish actors in 2002 sporting various early 2000s fashions and hairstyles. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 40Girl with curly brown hair sporting an off-the-shoulder top, a carry over from the early 2000s. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 41Jennifer Lopez was the first actress and singer in history to have both a film and an album at No. 1 in the same week. (from 2000s in music)
Image 42Luis Fonsi's "Nada Es Para Siempre" received a nomination for Latin Pop Airplay Song of the Year at the 2006 Latin Billboard Music Awards. (from 2000s in music)
Image 43Coldplay is considered to be the most successful British rock act of the decade. (from 2000s in music)
Image 44Nas is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. (from 2000s in music)
Image 45Fergie's The Dutchess sold over 6 million copies worldwide becoming one of the most successful albums of the era. (from 2000s in music)
Image 46Ecuadorian emo kids from the late 2000s. (from 2000s in fashion)
Image 47Nintendo DSi XL (2009) (from 2000s in video games)
Image 48Alicia Keys was the best selling female R&B performer of the 2000s. (from 2000s in music)
Image 49An orchestra performing a Video Games Live event (from 2000s in video games)
Image 50Amaral - the best- selling Spanish alternantive rock duo of the decade. (from 2000s in music)

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↑ Ludden D (1998). The newness of globalization: A schematic view of the historical zones of territoriality University of Pennsylvania. Unfinished draft. Retrieved December 30, 2009. Archived March 31, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
↑ Gordon PH; Meunier S (2001). The French challenge: Adapting to globalization. Washington, D.C.: Brookings.
↑ Heizo T; Ryokichi C (1998). "Japan". Domestic Adjustments to Globalization (CE Morrison & H Soesastro, Eds.). Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, pp. 76–102. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
↑ Fry EH (2003). Local governments adapting to globalization. National League of Cities. Retrieved December 30, 2009. Archived January 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
↑ Haarstad, Håvard; Fløysand, Arnt (March 2007). "Globalization and the power of rescaled narratives: A case of opposition to mining in Tambogrande, Peru". Political Geography. 26 (3): 289–308. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.10.014.

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[1] Ludden D (1998). The newness of globalization: A schematic view of the historical zones of territoriality University of Pennsylvania. Unfinished draft. Retrieved December 30, 2009. Archived March 31, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[2] Gordon PH; Meunier S (2001). The French challenge: Adapting to globalization. Washington, D.C.: Brookings.

[3] Heizo T; Ryokichi C (1998). "Japan". Domestic Adjustments to Globalization (CE Morrison & H Soesastro, Eds.). Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, pp. 76–102. Retrieved December 30, 2009.

[4] Fry EH (2003). Local governments adapting to globalization. National League of Cities. Retrieved December 30, 2009. Archived January 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[5] Haarstad, Håvard; Fløysand, Arnt (March 2007). "Globalization and the power of rescaled narratives: A case of opposition to mining in Tambogrande, Peru". Political Geography. 26 (3): 289–308. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.10.014.

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