The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

In December 2003 Aston Martin announced it would return to motor racing in 2005.

Since 31 December 2003, the system has been closed to new users, at that time, it covered 100 % of the Spanish population, but now some antennas have been given to GSM operators.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

As a direct result of this, a brand new style across all presentation for the channel launched on 8 December 2003 at 09: 00.

In Shanghai, where bicycles were once the dominant mode of transport, bicycle travel on a few city roads was banned temporarily in December 2003.

October 2003: January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December

By December 2001, it was ratified by the ECMA, with ISO standardization following in April 2003.

Another popular early project was Jonathon Fowler's JFDuke3D, which in December 2003 received backing from the original author of Build, programmer Ken Silverman.

Following the completion of a one-year stand-by program with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in December 2001, Ecuador successfully negotiated a new $ 205 million stand-by agreement with the IMF in March 2003.

* Lords of EverQuest ( PC, December 2003 )

The first building, the Life Sciences Laboratory, was dedicated and opened with 104 employees on the campus in December 2003.

Further to the north, Saint-Barthélemy and the northern French part of Saint Martin once came under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe but on 7 December 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity, a decision which took effect on 22 February 2007.

On December 7, 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity.

# Here is a version invented by Frank Rubin on December 4, 2003: Give me three English words, commonly spoken, ending in g-r-y.

In December 2003, Maple Leaf Heritage Investments, a Nova Scotia-based company created to acquire shares of Hudson's Bay Company, announced that it was considering making an offer to acquire all or some of the common shares of Hudson's Bay Company.

December 2005, Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 R2, which is actually Windows Server 2003 with SP1 ( Service Pack 1 ) plus an add-on package.

Windows Server 2003 R2, an update of Windows Server 2003, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005.

All stations commenced digital broadcasting during 2003, and in December 2003, a fifth station, TDT, began broadcasting.

In December 2003, Marvel Entertainment acquired Cover Concepts from Hearst Communications, Inc.

Saddam Hussein, who vanished in April, was captured on December 13, 2003.

The lead editorial in the December 1983 issue of Compute!

Following the December 29, 1890, massacre, Baum wrote a second editorial, published on January 3, 1891:

In December 1975, The Times ran an editorial titled ' Is Mr Foot a Fascist?

Trudeau paraphrased the term from Martin O ' Malley's editorial piece in the The Globe and Mail on December 12, 1967.

Thomas Nast ( September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902 ) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the " Father of the American Cartoon ".

In December 1997, Ignacio Ramonet wrote in Le Monde diplomatique an editorial in which he advocated the establishment of the Tobin tax and the creation of an organisation to pressure governments around the world to introduce the tax.

On December 7, 1975, Kirkpatrick announced in a column on the editorial page that Rick Soll, a " young and talented columnist " for the paper whose work had " won a following among many Tribune readers over the last two years " resigned from the paper after acknowledging that a column he wrote that appeared on November 23, 1975, contained verbatim passages that another columnist wrote in 1967 and later published in a collection.

* In December 2005, the Tribune eliminated 28 editorial positions through a combination of buyouts and layoffs, including what were believed to be the first layoffs in the paper's history.

A December 21, 2008 Wall St. Journal editorial stated, " The new laws and regulations have neither prevented frauds nor instituted fairness.

A December 7, 2011 editorial in Investors Business Daily, one of the media outlets the covered up on these stories, blasted the media, the Catholic Church, and politicians for covering up such scandals:

Pohl, who had been intermittently helping Gold with editorial duties for some time prior to the car accident, is first listed as editor of If on the masthead of the November 1961 issue, and as editor of Galaxy for the December 1961 issue, but he had been acting as editor of both magazines for at least six months before the end of the year.

After having published a famous editorial in January 1995 where Ramonet coined the term " pensée unique " (" single thought ") to describe the supremacy of the neoliberal ideology, the newspaper supported the November – December 1995 general strike in France against Prime minister Alain Juppé's ( RPR ) plan to cut pensions.

* Bracken, Patrick, and Thomas, Philip ( December 21, 2002 ) " Time to move beyond the mind – body split ", editorial, British Medical Journal 325, pp. 1433 – 1434.

With Luce's blessing, Chambers received a promotion to senior editor in September 1943 and was made a member of Times " Senior Group ", which determined editorial policy, in December.

In a December 21, 1986 editorial in the New York Times, Moynihan predicted the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union.

Following the Hollywood Ten's defiance of the committee, Hellman wrote an editorial in the December issue of Screen Writer, the publication of the Screen Writers Guild.

* Bracken, Patrick, Thomas, Philip, " Time to move beyond the mind-body split ", editorial, British Medical Journal 2002 ; 325: 1433-1434 ( 21 December )

He also joined a five-person editorial committee to run The Watch Tower from the December 15, 1916 issue.

Former Mayor McCabe's lack of action regarding the 2011 Chief Devlin scandal was roundly criticized in a December 2011 Times-Journal editorial.

" The Louisville Defender, that city's African American newspaper, expressed similar sentiments in a December 1939 editorial: " hether Gaines has been bribed, intimidated or worse, should certainly have little permanent effect on the struggle for equal rights and social justice in connection with Negro education in the South ... Negroes are already hammering upon the doors of graduate schools hitherto closed to them, with increasing persistence.

In an editorial published around December 27, 1971, praising U Thant, The New York Times stated that " the wise counsel of this dedicated man of peace will still be needed after his retirement ".

Published in December 2008, the editorial argued that these changes had weakened academics and were hindering King ’ s in its goal of becoming a nationally prominent and intellectually rigorous Christian liberal arts college.

Since July 1956 he had been publishing his articles in Stolica weekly ( since January 1957 he had been a member of an editorial section and from summer of 1958 to December 1960 he was holding the position of the secretary of the editorial section ).

In a December 7, 1934 editorial in the New York Post, Stone denounced Stalin's execution of Soviet citizens as similar to those executions occurring in Nazi Germany.