However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Benny Bailey, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer ( Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band ) ( d. 2005 )

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador ( b 1925 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.

* Richard J. Novic, Alice in genderland: a crossdresser comes of age, iUniverse, 2005, ISBN 0-595-31562-3

* 1940 – Richard Pryor, American comic and actor ( d. 2005 )

By 2005, Richard Glass considered the differences to be a " serious fracture " but " vitally important to those on both sides of the fracture " and " of little importance to anyone else studying the movement from a software engineering perspective " since they have had " little effect on the field ".

Richard Griffiths argued in 2005 that " fascism " is the " most misused, and over-used word, of our times ".

* Evans, Richard J, The Third Reich in Power: 1933 – 1939, The Penguin Press HC, 2005

Father Christmas appears in many English-language works of fiction, including Robin Jones Gunn's Father Christmas Series ( 2007 ), Catherine Spencer's A Christmas to Remember ( 2007 ), Debbie Macomber's There's Something About Christmas ( 2005 ), Richard Paul Evans's The Gift ( 2007 ), C. S.

TIME magazine critics, Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, included the novel on their list of the 100 best English-Language novels from 1923 to the present ( 2005 ).

An article by Dina Cappiello in the Houston Chronicle published 18 December 2005 presented Richard Prum's position as follows:

* 1971 – Richard Burns, English rally driver ( d. 2005 )

His well-known operas include Nixon in China ( 1987 ), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic ( 2005 ), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.

In the 2005 season, Spacey made his UK Shakespearean debut, to good notices, in the title role of Richard II directed by Trevor Nunn.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Several researchers, including Nobel Prize winner Dr. Richard Smalley ( 1943 – 2005 ), attacked the notion of universal assemblers, leading to a rebuttal from Drexler and colleagues, and eventually to an exchange of letters.

Her film credits also include Robert Altman's Kansas City ( 1996 ), Robert Duvall's The Apostle ( 1997 ) and Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah ( 2005 ).

In 2005, Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock shared the Nobel Prize for metal-catalyzed olefin metathesis.

* 2005 Nobel prize Yves Chauvin, Robert Grubbs, and Richard Schrock on metal-catalyzed alkene metathesis

* Turner, Richard N. Renaissance Florence ( 2005 ) excerpt and text search

In 1997, the Edythe Bates Old Grand Organ and Recital Hall and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, renamed in 2005 for the late Nobel Prize winner and Rice professor Richard E. Smalley, were dedicated at Rice.

Richard Errett Smalley ( June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005 ) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas.

* 2005: Spurts, The Richard Hell Story

* Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, and Robert G. Byrnes, SSH: The Secure Shell ( The Definitive Guide ), O ' Reilly 2005 ( 2nd edition ).

The Secretary was J. Richard Greenwell ( died 2005 ), of the University of Arizona.

* Sir Richard Mottram, 2005 – 2007 ( as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience )