Red Rum's trainer Ginger McCain returned to the Grand National in 2004, 31 years after Red Rum's epic run-in defeat of Crisp to secure his first of three wins.

Uruk was prominent in the national struggles of the Sumerians against the Elamites up to 2004 BC, in which it suffered severely ; recollections of some of these conflicts are embodied in the Gilgamesh epic, in the literary and courtly form that has come down to us.

Recent years have been notable for the number of wins by previously obscure golfers, including Paul Lawrie's playoff win after the epic 72nd-hole collapse of Jean van de Velde in 1999, Ben Curtis in 2003 and Todd Hamilton in 2004.

* Troy ( film ), a 2004 epic movie based on Homer's Iliad, starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Diane Kruger, and Orlando Bloom, directed by Wolfgang Petersen

In 2004, Shore again collaborated with Martin Scorsese, scoring his epic film The Aviator.

Troy is a 2004 epic war film written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen and loosely based on Homer's Iliad.

* Anna had a quick cameo in Green Days 9 minute epic Homecoming that was released in the 2004 hit album American Idiot.

He co-starred opposite Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie in Oliver Stone's epic Alexander ( 2004 ).

In 2004, Byrne starred as Briseis in Wolfgang Petersen's epic Troy.

In Game 5 in the 2004 American Conference Finals, the Everblades faced the Reading Royals the final game of an epic series.

Alexander is a 2004 epic film based on the life of Alexander the Great.

One of her films, Taj Mahal, a historical epic, was shown at the Cannes film festival in 2004.

He gets right away from the ' downtrodden youth becoming king ' aspect of epic fantasy in his very impressive first novel-The Darkness That Comes Before, which will be published in the UK in April 2004.

By Volume Three: Love and War, featuring comics dated from November 2004 to January 2006, the comic had come to focus more emphatically on longer story arcs which tie together to form an ongoing plot, culminating in the epic Empire, the comic's longest story to date.

Puteri Gunung Ledang is a 2004 Malaysian epic fantasy period film directed by Saw Teong Hin and based on the Legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang, a Malay legend about a Princess who lived on top of Gunung Ledang and a Malaccan Sultan's effort to court her.

Benioff drafted a screenplay of the mythological epic Troy ( 2004 ) for which Warner Bros pictures paid him $ 2. 5 million.

This theme also appears in books such as Marion Zimmer-Bradley's epic The Mists of Avalon and Rosalind Miles ' Guenivere trilogy, as well as in the 2004 movie " King Arthur ".

In addition to special effects direction, Higuchi provided the CG animation for the first Hamtaro movie, and storyboarded the fight scenes for the CG tokusatsu superhero epic, Casshern ( 2004 ), based on Tatsuo Yoshida's 1973 anime series.

Becker also starred in the historical Kazakhstani epic Nomad filmed in 2004.

Cooke's next project was the ambitious DC: The New Frontier ( 2004 ), a six issue miniseries which sought to tell an epic storyline bridging the gap between the end of the golden and the start of the silver age of comic books in the DC Universe.

In 2004, after four years of silence, the band recorded the album " Eclipse ", which is described, on the Autumn Tears Official Homepage, as " the most epic, conceptual, and fullest neoclassical piece of music they have ever offered.

As Neely ( 2004 ) concludes, there was no effort to engage in " total war " against civilians, as in World War II.

Its 2002 / 2003 / 2004 funding includes around $ 10 million for economic development, up to $ 5 million for the development of democratic institutions, about $ 5 million for the return of population affected by war and between 2 and 3 million dollars for the " mitigation of adverse social conditions and trends ".

The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

In 2004 producer Guy Perrotta presented the film Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War ( 2004 ), a television documentary on the first major war between colonists and Native peoples in the Americas.

AFP, reporting on a news story in the Sunday, 3 April 2004, issue of The New Yorker, wrote that retired Army Colonel Hy Rothstein, " who served in the Army Special Forces for more than 20 years, ... commissioned by The Pentagon to examine the war in Afghanistan concluded the conflict created conditions that have given ' warlordism, banditry and opium production a new lease on life ' ...."

Similar to the Vietnam War, filmmakers expressed their view of the attacks and feelings about the war through films, most notably, Fahrenheit 9 / 11 ( 2004 ).

According to an international commission report released by the Romanian government in 2004, Antonescu's dictatorial government of Romania is responsible for the murder in various forms ( including deportations to concentration camps and executions by the Romanian Army and Gendarmerie and the German Einsatzgruppen ), between 280, 000 to 380, 000 Jews in Romania and in the war zone of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria.

* Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul is a trilogy written by Sherman and Shwartz between 2004 and 2007 ; set in the aftermath of the Dominion War, it focuses on members of Kirk's original crew becoming involved in a war between the Romulans and a fellow Vulcan off-shoot, the Watraii.

Also in 2004, a UN-backed war crimes court began holding trials of senior leaders from both sides of the war.

Since becoming independent from Britain in February 1948, the economy of the country has been affected by natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and a number of insurrections, such as the 1971, the 1987-89 and the 1983-2009 civil war.

The documentary In the Shadow of the Blade ( released 2004 ) reunited Vietnam veterans and families of war dead with a restored UH-1 " Huey " helicopter in a cross-country journey to tell the stories of Americans affected by the war.

* Sa ' dah insurgency ( 2004 – present ) – a civil war in the Sa ' dah Governorate of Yemen.

** Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 2004 )

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* On June 20, 2004, both India and Pakistan agreed to extend a nuclear testing ban and to set up a hotline between their foreign secretaries aimed at preventing misunderstandings that might lead to nuclear war.

In 2004, in a TV show, Fortuyn was chosen as De Grootste Nederlander (" Greatest Dutchman of all-time "), followed closely by William of Orange, the leader of the independence war that established the precursor to the present-day Netherlands.

* 2004: David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer, The Dallas Morning News, " for their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war in Iraq.

Recent operations have included patrolling the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia ( since 2009 ), the war in Afghanistan ( since 2005 ), intervention in East-Timor ( 1999 – 2004 ), in Guinea-Bissau ( 1990, 1998 and 1999 ), Angola ( 1992 ) and ongoing peacekeeping responsibilities in the Balkans and Lebanon.

* Brzezinski on repercussions for diplomacy and the war on terror, The NewsHour, Public Broadcasting Service, March 19, 2004.

It has been debated that, “ when declared support for the U. S .- led war on Iraq in March 2003, and when he sent Japanese forces to aid the occupation in January 2004, it was not Iraq that was in the Japanese sights so much as North Korea .” Japan ’ s unstable relations with North Korea, as well as other neighboring Asian countries has forced Japan to batter and bend Article 9 to “ permit an increasingly expansive interpretation ” of the constitution in the hopes of guaranteeing U. S. support in these relations.

* Perry, Roland, < cite > Monash: The outsider who won a war </ cite >, Random House, Sydney, 2004