OSCE experts estimate that between 116, 000 and 147, 000 people left Armenia for economic reasons between 2002 and 2004, with two-thirds of them returning home by February 2005.

He made his first appearance in an Indians uniform since he left Cleveland after the 2002 season.

* 30 Jason Mayélé, left / right winger, 2001 – 2002 ( posthumous )

Bowie ( left ) on-stage with Sterling Campbell during the Heathen Tour in 2002.

Many of the original EverQuest team, including Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover and Geoffrey Zatkin had left SOE by 2002.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

At the end of 2002, Uncle Kracker left the band to pursue a solo career, and Detroit underground rapper Paradime replaced him.

After the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon on April 25, 1974, with the advent of independence and the start of the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), most of the white Portuguese Luandans left as refugees, principally for Portugal, with many travelling overland to South Africa.

Between 20, 000 and 30, 000 ex-poppyfarmers left the Kokang region as a result of the ban in 2002.

The Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, which ( as the Milestone Motor Hotel ) was the first to use the " motel " name, sits incomplete with what is still standing left boarded up and fenced off at the side of U. S. Route 101 ; a 2002 restoration proposal never came to fruition.

After the death of Ray Wallace in 2002, following a request by Loren Coleman to Seattle Times reporter Bob Young to investigate, the family of Wallace went public with claims that he had started the Bigfoot phenomenon with fake footprints ( made from a wooden foot-shaped cutout ) left in Californian sites in 1958.

In December 2002, he left HavenCo following a dispute with other company directors and the Sealand " Royal Family ".

In 2002, the other creator of Sonic, Hirokazu Yasuhara, left Sonic Team when he moved to Naughty Dog.

Military ties remain fraught with tension, however, and in 2002 a brief naval skirmish left four South Korean sailors dead, leaving the future of the Sunshine policy uncertain.

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James W. Ziglar, former head of INS who left the agency early in 2002, said his objections to the program were proven correct: " The people who could be identified as terrorists weren't going to show up.

Having left Virgin, relations between XTC and their former label improved and Andy Partridge released a series of albums of demos of his songs ( mainly from the Virgin years ) under the title of Fuzzy Warbles beginning in 2002, on a new label imprint APE.

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The Socialist Party ( PS ), joined by other parties on the left, soundly defeated Chirac's conservative allies, forcing Chirac into a new period of cohabitation with Jospin as prime minister ( 1997 – 2002 ), which lasted five years.

In 2002, Kohl left the Bundestag and officially retired from politics.

On January 28, 2002 the new government was formed from a coalition of the centre-right Estonian Reform Party and the more left wing Centre Party, with Siim Kallas from the Reform Party of Estonia as Prime Minister.

In May 2002, Coxon left Blur during the recording of their seventh album Think Tank ( 2003 ).

Howe has stated publicly that he was unhappy with the mix of his guitars on the album, though a version of " Fist of Fire " with more of Howe's guitars left intact appeared on the In a Word box set in 2002.

Composite images of Earth generated by NASA in 2001 ( left ) and 2002 ( right ).

Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than the main left candidate, Lionel Jospin.

She has shown her work regularly at the Meulensteen Gallery ( formerly the Max Protetch Gallery ) in New York since 2002, and at the Nordenhake Gallery in Berlin and Stockholm since 2003, and has also had solo exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York ( 2001 ), the List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( 2004 ), the Portikus in Frankfurt am Main ( 2006 ), and the Curve at the Barbican Art Gallery in London ( 2007 ), among others.

Galileo Galilei is an opera based on excerpts from the life of Galileo Galilei which premiered in 2002 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, as well as subsequent presentations at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's New Wave Music Festival and London's Barbican Theatre.

In 2002 he produced a multimedia performance event at the Barbican to mark the release of Iain Sinclair's book London Orbital.

He has had record breaking solo museum exhibitions at the Barbican Museum, London ( 2002 ), Palazzo Reale, Milan ( 2007 ), Museo del Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City ( 2009 ), the Musee de La Monnaie, Paris ( 2009 ), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.

In 2002 he wrote the meditative piece Visconti, commissioned by Barbican Centre Elektronika festival for the London Sinfonietta.

He also appeared in the title role of a stage adaptation of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany by Simon Bent at London's Royal National Theatre in 2002, along with the role of Joseph Surface in Deborah Warner's 2011 The School for Scandal at the Barbican Centre.

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From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

It became effective as a federal government standard on May 26, 2002 after approval by the Secretary of Commerce.

* 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.

AMI continued to expand after it bought Joe Weider's Weider Publications in 2002.

The U. S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV / AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.

The 2002 All-Star Game, played in Selig's hometown of Milwaukee, was tied 7-7 after 9 innings, and remained tied after the bottom of the 11th inning.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

Interestingly, even after Southern Cameroons voted in 1961 to leave Nigeria and became a part of Cameroon, Bakassi remained under Calabar administration in Nigeria until ICJ judgement of 2002.

Déby won a flawed 63 % first-round victory in May 2001 presidential elections after legislative elections were postponed until spring 2002.

In 2002, Baldursdottir and his coworkers found that in the hospital, more comatose patients survived after induced hypothermia than patients that remained at normal body temperature.

Soon after that, in May 2002, the former liberal politician of conservative leanings Álvaro Uribe, whose father had been killed by left-wing guerrillas, was sworn in as Colombian president.

There have been several coup attempts since, but he gained firm control of the country after stepping down temporarily and winning a presidential election in 2002.

In 2002, Fox's defense-first philosophy worked well as the Panthers improved to 7 – 9 ( a six-game improvement over the previous year ) and posted the second-best overall defense in the league after having the second-worst the previous season.

It was closed on Sunday, January 20, 2002, a day after the Bears lost in the playoffs.

Hampton, after a strong first half in 2001, completely fell apart in 2002, going 7 – 15 with a 6. 15 ERA and demanding a trade following the season.

In 2002, Kieran Roberts was appointed as producer and aimed to re-introduce " gentle storylines and humour ", after deciding that the Street should not try to compete with other soaps.

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 ).

The Moravians had been partners in mission and dialogue since 2002, but joined as a member communion after the October 2006 consultation on Episkope.

In 2002, Barrymore began dating The Strokes ' drummer Fabrizio Moretti, soon after they met at a concert.

The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the ' 80s and ' 90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game ( having gone 3 – 0 in them during the regular season, during CBS ' pregame show, Jimmy " The Greek " Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game ), have since 2002 occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but will still wear white against the Cowboys.

On January 8, 2002, Thomas died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a decade-long battle with Neuroendocrine cancer / Carcinoid cancer that had spread to his liver.

Football legend, former FC Bayern President and DFB Vice-President, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

He died in Nuenen on August 6, 2002 after a long struggle with cancer.