In 2005, Burkina Faso and the Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ) signed a $ 12 million Threshold Country Program to build schools and increase girls ' enrollment rates.

The July 2005 edition of GQ Magazine named Columbus one of the " 62 Reasons to Love Your Country.

The Library of Congress Country Profile of January 2005 stated that '.. he military is underpaid, poorly equipped, and in need of rationalization.

In 2005, Finer released the album Bum Steer with DB Bob ( as DM Bob and Country Jem ).

* 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 )

Thanks to its clear air and lovely golden sand, this romantic stretch of sand was voted the best place in the UK to watch the sun set ( Country Living magazine 2005 ) and one the top romantic spots in the country ( The Guardian 2007 ).

Kurt Vonnegut in A Man Without a Country ( 2005 ) stated: " Here is a lesson in creative writing.

: Examples include Hud starring Paul Newman ( 1963 ); Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway ( 1972 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ); Simon Wincer's Quigley Down Under ; Robert Rodríguez's El Mariachi ( 1992 ); John Sayles ' Lone Star ( 1996 ); Tommy Lee Jones ' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ( 2005 ); Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ); Wim Wenders ' Don't Come Knocking ( 2005 ); and the Coen brothers Academy Award – winning No Country For Old Men ( 2007 ).

In 2006, the Manual Girls ' Cross Country team finally won the school's first team title after placing second in 2004 and 2005.

The Garden also hosted the 2005 Country Music Association Awards ( normally held in Nashville ).

As of February 2005, there are 20 recognized neighborhood associations: Blue Heron ¤, Bryant ¤, Country Club-North Shore ¤, Evergreen ¤, First Addition, Forest Highlands, Glenmorrie, Hallinan Heights, Holly Orchard, Lake Forest, Lake Grove, Lakewood ¤, McVey-South Shore ¤, Oak Creek, Old Town, Palisades ¤, Rosewood, Uplands, Waluga, and Westridge.

Alabama was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

Adjacent to the Malibu Country Mart was a vacant, plot of land owned by billionaire Jerry Perenchio and sold to the City of Malibu in 2005 with strict deed restrictions prohibiting any further commercial use.

Between 2005 and 2009 the Nationwide Tour, a second tier tour in the United States, visited Bogart at Jennings Mill Country Club.

Community Trust also sponsored the Louisiana Peach Festival in Ruston until 2005, whence sponsorship was taken up by Squire Creek Country Club.

* Randy W. Rudder-Author / Screenwriter / Producer " Chicken Soup for the Soul: Country Music ", " Music City Reader 2005 "

George Jones performing at the Country Fever Festival in 2005

Artists who appeared at the 2005 Porterfield Country Music Festival included:

Poison were largely inactive in 2005 which is when Bret Michael's released his third solo album, the country-rock-influenced Freedom Of Sound, which included the single " All I Ever Needed " featuring Jessica Andrews, which also featured a music video and appeared on Billboard's " Hot Country Songs " chart, with its best position being number 45.

In 2005, Shooter Jennings mentioned him in the title track of his album Put the " O " Back in Country and later mentioned him in 2007 in his song " Concrete Cowboys.

They branched into country music with a version of their 2005 song " Who Says You Can't Go Home ", which reached number one on the Hot Country Singles chart in 2006 and the rock / country album Lost Highway which reached number one in 2007.

The Mesabi Range was brought to public attention by the 2005 film North Country, which depicts a fictionalized version of the events surrounding Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co., a sexual harassment, class-action lawsuit that female miners brought against a Mesabi Range mining company.

In early 2005, Whitman released a book entitled It's My Party, Too: Taking Back the Republican Party ... And Bringing the Country Together Again in which she criticizes the policies of the George W. Bush administration and its electoral strategy, which she views as divisive.

* Germany: International Grand Prize 2005 ( Frankfurt Book Fair ).

In July 2005, Polanski successfully sued Vanity Fair magazine for libel after it stated that he had tried to seduce a woman on his way to Tate's funeral.

In 2005 the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) provisionally found that the school exchanged detailed information about prospective fee increases with approximately 50 other prominent UK independent schools, including Eton and Sevenoaks.

In 2005, the Office of Fair Trading found fifty independent schools, including Eton, to have breached the Competition Act by " regularly and systematically " exchanging information about planned increases in school fees, which was collated and distributed among the schools by the bursar at Sevenoaks School.

* As of 2005, less than 1 % of the chocolate market was Fair Trade .< ref >“ The News on Chocolate is Bittersweet: No Progress on Child Labor, but Fair Trade Chocolate is on the Rise .” Global Exchange June 2005 ( 8 pages ).

* 2005 Kendall County celebrates its 100th anniversary of the Kendall County Fair.

* Illustrated Review of Biggin Hill International Air Fair 2005

It is extant ( 2005 ) as a " strip mall ," while Fairmount Fair, immediately beyond Westvale to the west, came later.

Cashwell Farms is a two-time ( 2005 & 2006 ) North Carolina State Fair Winner in both Jams and Chicken categories.

Sherman then wrote his own song parodies of My Fair Lady, which appeared as a bootleg recording in 1964, and were only officially released in 2005 on My Son, the Box.

He has also won numerous awards, including the " Best Director " award at the recent 2006 Tokyo International Anime Fair ( for the 2005 film Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Heirs To The Stars ).

Due to the economic success of the Cologne Trade Fair, the city arranged a large extension to the fair site in 2005.

* Gage, Nicholas: " The Last Onassis ," Vanity Fair, May 2005

William Joseph " Billy " Baldwin ( born February 21, 1963 ) is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners ( 1990 ), Backdraft ( 1991 ), Sliver ( 1993 ), Fair Game ( 1995 ), Virus ( 1999 ), Double Bang ( 2001 ), as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom ( 2004 – 2007 ), Art Heist ( 2004 ), The Squid and the Whale ( 2005 ), as himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as Senator Patrick Darling in the TV drama Dirty Sexy Money ( 2007 – 2009 ) on ABC, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths ( 2010 ), and now Baldwin is currently a regular guest on Gossip Girl as William van der Woodsen and Parenthood as Gordon Flint.

Cambridge Midsummer Fair on Midsummer Common, 2005.

Saint was awarded a lifetime achievement award at Torino Sex 2005, Turin's second annual Delta of Venus Fair.

In 2005, script writer Brian Gallagher wrote a book about the show, entitled Inside Fair City.

Later London credits include My Fair Lady, South Pacific ( at the Royal National Theatre ), The Woman In White, Othello and Acorn Antiques The Musical ( 2005 ), The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rock ' n ' Roll and Porgy and Bess in 2006 at the Savoy Theatre ( an abridged version with dialogue instead of recitatives, unlike Nunn's first production of the opera ).

For over 30 years, only Woodward, Bernstein, and a handful of others knew the informant's identity until it was claimed by his family to Vanity Fair magazine to be former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director W. Mark Felt in May 2005.

Community Village, 2005 Fair

The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Band lead a parade at the 2005 Fair