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On 14 December 1999, WBEN, a radio station in Buffalo, New York buried a time capsule named the Millennium Time Capsule on Niagara Square that's to be opened on 1 January 2100. It uses a tombstone located on the McKinley Memorial as a marker. It is located at N 42° 53.181 W 078° 52.716. 2000
1939 Time Capsule sketch. The Westinghouse Time Capsules are two time capsules prepared by the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (later Westinghouse Electric Corporation ). One was made in 1939 and the other in 1965. They are filled with contemporary articles used in the twentieth century way of life in the United States.
A time capsule is a historic cache of goods or information, usually intended as a deliberate method of communication with future people, and to help future archaeologists, anthropologists, or historians. [ 1] The preservation of holy relics dates back for millennia, but the practice of preparing and preserving a collection of everyday artifacts ...
The Crypt of Civilization is an impenetrable, airtight, room-sized time capsule, built between 1937 and 1940, at Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, Georgia. The 2,000-cubic-foot (57 m 3) repository is meant not to be opened before 8113 AD. It contains numerous artifacts and sound recordings that illustrate civilization and human development ...
The council was headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and during a two-year period it engaged in numerous activities surrounding the millennium; for example, a time capsule was created, which included various recordings, a state flag, a photo of Rosa Parks, a piece of the Berlin Wall, a film of Neil Armstrong's walk on the Moon and other items.
London Eye. / 51.5033; -0.1194. The London Eye, or the Millennium Wheel, is a cantilevered observation wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. It is Europe's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, [ 14] and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over three million visitors annually. [ 15]
Within the foundations of the Dome in 1998, a time capsule was buried by Katy Hill and Richard Bacon, two of the then-current presenters of the long running BBC children's programme Blue Peter. The capsule was due to be opened in 2050, but was accidentally unearthed and damaged in 2017 during construction work.
28th century. 29th century. 30th century. In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the Anno Domini or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 ( MMI) and will end on 31 December 3000 ( MMM ), spanning the 21st to 30th centuries.