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Millau Viaduct
The Millau Viaduct is a multi-span cable-stayed road bridge carrying the A75 motorway across the Tarn valley near Millau, France, built between 2001 and 2004.
Mille Lacs (lake, Canada)
Lac des Mille Lacs, "Lake of a Thousand Lakes," is a 245.2 km² lake with 574 islands in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada, headwater reservoir of the Seine River, distinct from Minnesota's Mille Lacs Lake.
Mille Miglia
Mille Miglia (1000 Miglia), Italian road race first run 26 March 1927 from Brescia to Rome and back, about 1,600 km; 24 speed editions to 1957, ended after fatal 1957 crashes, now a regularity rally for pre-1958 historic cars.
Mille-feuille
Mille-feuille (millefeuille), the French "thousand leaves" pastry also called Napoleon or vanilla slice: layered puff pastry and pastry cream with fondant glaze; six turns give 729 layers; first sold as such in Paris in 1867.
Milledgeville, Georgia
Milledgeville, GA, is a city in central Georgia and the seat of Baldwin County; it served as Georgia's fourth capital from 1804 to 1868, including the Civil War years.
Millefleur tapestry
A millefleur tapestry is a woven wall hanging covered with a dense scatter of small flowering plants, popular in Franco-Flemish workshops from about 1450 to the early 1500s.
Millenarianism
Millenarianism, also known as millenarism or chiliasm, is the belief, drawn from Revelation 20, that Christ will establish a thousand-year kingdom on earth before the last judgment.
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment
Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma (Pannonhalmi Bencés Főapátság): Benedictine archabbey in western Hungary founded in 996 by Prince Géza, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996, criteria (iv) and (vi), 47.4 ha, with Hungary's oldest library and first Hungarian-language document.
Millendo Therapeutics
Millendo Therapeutics was a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, developing drugs for rare endocrine diseases; founded in 2012 as Atterocor, it merged into Tempest Therapeutics in 2021.
Millenic Alli
Millenic Alli (Millenic Oluwole Sulaiman Alli, born 2000, Dublin) is an Irish winger who rose via Halifax and Exeter to Luton Town, Portsmouth, and Charlton Athletic, debuting for Ireland in May 2026.
Millennial grey
Millennial grey, the gray-heavy interior design style of the 2010s using cool gray walls, flooring, and furniture, which arose as a reaction against warm Tuscan beige and became a Gen Z TikTok criticism before declining for sage green and warm neutrals.
Millennialism
Millennialism, also called chiliasm, is the belief that Christ will establish a thousand-year kingdom on earth, based on Revelation 20, or broadly, any belief in an imminent collective salvation.
Millennials
Millennials, or Generation Y, are the cohort born roughly 1981-1996 (Pew definition), named by Strauss and Howe in 1991. America's largest generation since 2019; best educated, most diverse, with lower wealth and delayed marriage than predecessors.
Millennium
A millennium is a period of 1,000 years, from Latin mille and annus; the 3rd millennium of the Christian era began on 1 January 2001, without a year zero.
Millennium (1989 film)
Millennium is a 1989 science fiction film directed by Michael Anderson, starring Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd, adapted by John Varley from his short story Air Raid and 1983 novel, about time travelers rescuing doomed airline passengers.
Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)
Millennium is the Backstreet Boys' 1999 album (May 18, 1999; 12 tracks, 46 minutes, Zomba/RCA), which sold over 24 million copies, earned five Grammy nominations, and was reissued in 2025 as Millennium 2.0.
Millennium (novel series)
Millennium (Millenniumserien, Millennium Trilogy): Swedish crime series by Stieg Larsson, published posthumously 2005-2007, featuring Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander; over 100 million copies sold and continued by David Lagercrantz and Karin Smirnoff.
Millennium (TV series)
Millennium (Fox, 1996–1999) is Chris Carter's apocalyptic crime drama, three seasons and 67 episodes starring Lance Henriksen as profiler Frank Black of the Millennium Group, closed by an X-Files crossover and absent from streaming.
Millennium Actress
Millennium Actress (Sennen Joyū, 千年女優) is Satoshi Kon's 2001 Madhouse anime about retired star Chiyoko Fujiwara; 87 minutes, Murai screenplay, Hirasawa music, Media Arts Festival Grand Prize, DreamWorks worldwide release.
Millennium Bridge, London
The Millennium Bridge, officially the London Millennium Footbridge, is a pedestrian suspension bridge across the Thames in London, nicknamed the "wobbly bridge" after opening in 2000.
Millennium celebrations of 2000
The millennium celebrations of 2000 marked the arrival of the year 2000 worldwide on 31 December 1999, with a broadcast reaching an estimated 800 million viewers.
Millennium Challenge 2002
Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02), a $250 million U.S. Joint Forces Command war game, July 24-August 15, 2002, testing Rapid Decisive Operations; Red Force commander Paul Van Riper sank the US fleet, the game was restarted with him constrained, and he charged it was scripted.
Millennium Cohort Study
The Millennium Cohort Study, known to participants as Child of the New Century, is a UK study following about 19,000 people born between 2000 and 2002.
Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): eight UN anti-poverty targets adopted by 189 member states in the 2000 Millennium Declaration, due 2015, with 18 targets; succeeded in 2015 by the 17-goal, 169-target Sustainable Development Goals.
Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome, also called the Greenwich Dome, is a large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in London built for the year 2000 exhibition.
Millennium Drought
The Millennium Drought, also called the Big Dry, was a prolonged 2001–2009 drought in southeast Australia, the region's lowest rainfall since 1900, which reshaped Australian water policy.
Millennium Falcon
The Millennium Falcon is a fictional starship in the Star Wars franchise, a modified YT-1300 Corellian light freighter flown by smuggler Han Solo and Chewbacca, introduced in 1977.
Millennium Force
Millennium Force is a 310-foot steel roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, built by Intamin and opened in 2000 as the world's first giga coaster.
Millennium Mambo
Millennium Mambo (千禧曼波, Qianxi Manbo) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2001 Taiwan-France drama starring Shu Qi as Vicky, a Taipei bar hostess narrating her 2001 life from 2011; it won Cannes' Technical Grand Prize and received a 4K restoration.
Millennium Management
Millennium Management, also known as Millennium Partners, is a New York multi-strategy hedge fund founded by Israel "Izzy" Englander in 1989, managing roughly $97 billion across hundreds of investment pods.