The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

A smaller-scale cavalry charge can be seen in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ); although the finished scene has substantial computer-generated imagery, raw footage and reactions of the riders are shown in the Extended Version DVD Appendices.

* 1934 – Earl King, American musician ( d. 2003 )

King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab leader to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, a landmark step towards reducing Baghdad's isolation among its Sunni Arab neighbours.

* King ( 2003 TV series ), a Canadian children's show

* Mars is the scene of the last of three recent space operas by John Barnes: In the Hall of the Martian King ( 2003 ).

It was originally published in three volumes of two or three books each – Quicksilver ( 2003 ), The Confusion ( 2004 ) and The System of the World ( 2004 ) – but was subsequently republished as eight separate books: Quicksilver, King of the Vagabonds, Odalisque, Bonanza, Juncto, Solomon's Gold, Currency, and System of the World.

In August 2003 King began writing a column on pop culture appearing in Entertainment Weekly, usually every third week.

In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.

* 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 )

* February 7 – Earl King, American musician ( d. 2003 )

* Michael King ( 2003 ) The Penguin History of New Zealand.

* Dimebag Darrell – lead guitar on " King Size " and " Riding Shotgun " from Stomp 442 ( 1995 ); " Inside Out " and " Born Again Idiot " from Volume 8: The Threat Is Real ( 1998 ); and " Strap It On " and " Cadillac Rock Box " from We've Come for You All ( 2003 )

* Transcript of interview with Larry King 7 November 2003

King of the Hill began in 1997 ; Family Guy and Futurama began in 1999 and were canceled in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

* Marian Moffett, Michael Fazio, Lawrence Wodehouse, ‘’ A World History of Architecture ’’, Lawrence King Publishing, ( 2003 ), ISBN 1-85669-353-8.

In 2003, the tomb of either King Narmer or King Hor-Aha ( two of the first Egyptian pharaohs ) was excavated and the skeletons of ten donkeys were found buried in a manner usually used with high ranking humans.

In Peter Jackson's films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ) Bilbo is played by Ian Holm, who had played Frodo in the BBC radio series 20 years earlier.

Sunrise is especially known for their mecha anime series ( including Gundam ) such as Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 ( 1978 ), Fang of the Sun Dougram ( 1981 ), the Armored Trooper Votoms and Aura Battler Dunbine series ( 1983 ), Blue Comet SPT Layzner ( 1985 ), Patlabor ( 1989 ), The Vision of Escaflowne ( 1996 ), The Big O ( 1999 / 2003 ), Overman King Gainer ( 2002 ), Zegapain ( 2007 ), and Code Geass ( 2006 / 2008 ).

In The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Boromir also appears in the theatrical version during a brief flashback as Pippin remembers his heroic self-sacrifice.

* " Pigmalion ," a 2003 episode of the animated series King of the Hill

In 1959, Wyler directed Ben-Hur, which won 11 Oscars ( a feat equalled only by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003 ).

In the Peter Jackson movies The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Sam was played by Sean Astin.

He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.

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.

The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.

* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003

In 2003, the An Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages was published by Starostin, Dybo, and Mudrak.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

Kocharyan's re-election as president in 2003 was followed by widespread allegations of ballot-rigging.

"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.

A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.

A record cold temperature of 450 ± 80 pK in a Bose – Einstein condensate ( BEC ) of sodium atoms was achieved in 2003 by researchers at MIT.

* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.

In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

Seeing Calgary and Edmonton are part of a single economic region as the TD study did in 2003 was novel.

The necessity to promote a healthier ecosystem for the people through the rehabilitation and regreening of the environment was stressed in Proclamation No. 643 that amended Proclamation No. 396 of June 2, 2003.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.

In 2003, author Graham Phillips hypothetically concluded that the Ark was taken to Mount Sinai in the Valley of Edom by the Maccabees.

He was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 27 February 2003.

Also introduced in 2003 was the DB9 coupé, which replaced the ten-year-old DB7.

In 2003, a method was developed for predicting subcellular location of apoptosis proteins

Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).

Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and with the release of the latter the domain controller role was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.