Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

* 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Lord Thomson.

* The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion ( 2002 ) by Stephan P. Clarke ISBN 0-89296-850-8 published by The Dorothy L. Sayers Society.

* 1917 – Walter Lord, American author ( d. 2002 )

* Oscar winners: Gladiator ( 2000 ), A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ), Crash ( 2005 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ), Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), The Hurt Locker ( 2009 )

MMORPGs, originating in the mid-to-late 1990s, become a popular PC trend and virtual online worlds become a reality as games such as RuneScape ( 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Eve Online ( 2003 ), Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided ( 2003 ), World of Warcraft ( 2004 ), and Everquest II ( 2004 ), The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar ( 2007 ) and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( 2008 ) are released.

In December 2002, the British Lord Chancellor's office published a Government Policy Concerning Transsexual People document that categorically states " What transsexualism is not ... It is not a mental illness.

Carlisle unsuccessfully applied to become a Lord Mayoralty in 2002.

In the Peter Jackson movies The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Sam was played by Sean Astin.

Medway Council apparently only became aware of this when, in 2002, they discovered that Rochester was not on the Lord Chancellor's Office's list of cities.

* Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge ( 24 February 2002 ) brought " a dark new world based on new characters from Todd McFarlane " to Ultima Online with improved game artificial intelligence, in-game help, and improved character creation.

February 2002 marked Lord Blackthorn's Revenge.

After Lord died in 2002, he bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich his huge collection of manuscripts, original letters and Titanic memorabilia, which he had gathered during his life and used to write A Night to Remember.

In the early 2000s, Astin experienced a career breakthrough with his role as Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, released in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

As of 2011, Blanchett has been featured in seven films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Elizabeth ( 1998 ), The Lord of the Rings trilogy ( 2001, 2002 and 2003 ), The Aviator ( 2004 ), Babel ( 2006 ), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ( 2008 ).

In 2002, Lord delivered what the media and others hailed as an electrifying speech at the national Progressive Conservative Party of Canada convention in Edmonton, Alberta, which started speculation that he might run for a job in federal politics, specifically, replacing Joe Clark as federal PC leader.

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, 2002

Several one-off recordings followed, including a 2002 duet with opera singer Filippa Giordano of the " Barcarolle " from Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d ' Hoffman as well as the song " The Sun Will Shine Again ", written especially for Lyngstad by former Deep Purple member Jon Lord, and recorded in 2004.

Guilford Courthouse 1781: Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory Osprey Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-411-6.

To date, Weta Digital has won five Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), King Kong ( 2005 ), and Avatar ( 2009 ).

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 )

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 )

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( Grammy Winner ) ( 2002 )

He was director of photography on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and received an Oscar for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2002.

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 )

Her breakthrough role came in 2002, when she portrayed Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Otto's character was introduced in the trilogy's second film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002 and appeared in the third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the following year.

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002, screenplay, producer, composer for " Gollum's Song ")

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 ) ( producer )

In 2002, Fleming provided the vocals for Howard Shore's soundtrack for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King soundtrack.

Jennings and Simson's The Lords of the Rings in many ways predicted the scandals that were to emerge around the staging of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City ; Jennings would follow-up with two further books on the Olympics and one on FIFA, the world football body.

* 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers-2nd Unit Director

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

* 2002 – Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.

Two books have been published with write-ups on some of the winners: The Ig Nobel Prize ( 2002, US paperback ISBN 0-452-28573-9, UK paperback ISBN 0-7528-4261-7 ) and The Ig Nobel Prize 2 ( 2005, US hardcover ISBN 0-525-94912-7, UK hardcover ISBN 0-7528-6461-0 ), which was later retitled The Man Who Tried to Clone Himself ( ISBN 0-452-28772-3 ).

* 2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.

The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work and travel on London Underground.

Two animated Pokey adventures ( which originally appeared in 2002 ) have been released into the " Hall of Whimsy ", which also suggests forthcoming availability of Pokey shirts and a book.

* Two Weeks Notice ( 2002 )

In 2002, she starred opposite Hugh Grant in Two Weeks Notice and in the film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Two restaurants specialising in Thai cuisine have received Michelin stars: " Nahm " in London, run by David Thompson received its star in 2002, and " Kiin Kiin " in Copenhagen, run by chef Henrik Yde-Andersen and Lertchai Treetawatchaiwong, received its in 2009.

* 2002, U. S., Starscape Books ( ISBN 0-7653-4184-0 ), Pub date January ?, 2002, paperback ( pub as " From the Two Rivers Pt. 1 ")

Two other books, How the Mind Works ( 1997 ) and The Blank Slate ( 2002 ), broadly surveyed the mind and defended the idea of a complex human nature which comprises many mental faculties that are adaptive ( and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many disputes surrounding adaptationism ).

A retail park was opened in 2002 called Two Rivers which is bisected by the confluence of the rivers Wraysbury and Colne.

In the 1980s, Seymour began a career as a writer of self-help and inspirational books, including Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living ( 1986 ), Two at a Time: Having Twins ( 2002 ), Remarkable Changes ( 2003 ), and Among Angels ( 2010 ).

Two additional Protocols amended the Convention, which entered into force on 1 March 2002.

* BBC One / BBC Two ( 2002 – 2004 )

** Dark Angel ( 2000 – 2002 ), second half of Season One and first half of Season Two

“ A Tale of Two Tituses: Julie Taymor's Vision on Stage and Screen ”, Shakespeare Quarterly, 53: 4 ( Winter, 2002 ), 487 – 511

Two other similar games based on the original, EV Override and EV Nova, followed in 1998 and 2002 respectively, the latter of which is also available on Microsoft Windows.

In The Two Towers ( 2002 ), Boromir appears in the theatrical version only briefly during the beginning flashback sequence of Gandalf's fight with the Balrog in Moria, and he appears twice in the Extended Edition, both times as flashbacks that were not shown previously in the films.

In the United States, Sam was portrayed by Blake Bowden in the Cincinnati productions of The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), The Two Towers ( 2002 ), and The Return of the King ( 2003 ) for Clear Stage Cincinnati.

* 2002: Two further communications cables laid.

Two retrospective specials were produced by CBS: Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show ( 1991 ) and The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion ( 2002 ).

* Emma: A Play in Two Acts About Emma Goldman, American Anarchist ( 2002 ) ISBN 0-89608-664-X.