* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan in 2003, Aston Martin introduced the AMV8 Vantage concept car.

The Ravens have experienced great success in their brief history, making the playoffs eight times since 2000, and winning the AFC North three times ( 2003, 2006, and 2011 ).

* Boyd, D ( 2003 ) Conservation of North American Bison: Status and Recommendations.

( 2003 ) Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland, Stroud: Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-1932-3

* Bonnie Ethel Cone ( 1907 – 2003 ), an American educator best known as the founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Under the doctrine introduced by the 2003 Defense Policy Guidelines, Germany continues to give priority to the transatlantic partnership with the United States through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Karaoke Revolution, created for the PlayStation 2 by Harmonix and released by Konami in North America in 2003, is a console game in which a single player sings along with on-screen guidance and receives a score based on pitch, timing, and rhythm.

* The Letterboxer's Companion by Randy Hall was published in 2003 and focuses on letterboxing in North America ; ISBN 0-7627-2794-2.

The lack of access to the foreign media and the tradition of secrecy in North Korea means that there is little news about political conditions, but Amnesty International's 2003 report on North Korea says that " there were reports of severe repression of people involved in public and private religious activities, including imprisonment, torture and executions.

In November 2002, mobile phones were introduced to North Korea and by November 2003, 20, 000 North Koreans had bought mobile phones.

In 2003 a joint venture called KCC Europe between businessman Jan Holterman in Berlin and the North Korean government brought the commercial Internet to North Korea.

Afterwards, North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on January 10, 2003.

The RV Celtic Explorer surveyed the Rockall Bank and North West of Donegal in 2003.

Following the announcement of the merger between Square and former competitor Enix in 2003, Square purchased back Electronic Arts ' stake in Square EA, and folded it back into Square Soft, Inc., its North American subsidiary, which was subsequently renamed Square Enix U. S. A., Inc. ( now Square Enix, Inc .) and continues to publish Square Enix's titles in North America.

University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

In 2003, Dean was named Woman of the year by the Zonta Club of Berkeley / North Bay.

A number of other films have been made on or about Shetland including A Crofter's Life in Shetland ( 1932 ) A Shetland Lyric ( 1934 ), Devil's Gate ( 2003 ) and It's Nice Up North ( 2006 ), a comedy documentary by Graham Fellows.

( 2003 ) Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland, Stroud.

Although Carolina first played Tampa Bay in 1995, their rivalry did not start until 2003, when DT Brentson Buckner claimed fellow DT Kris Jenkins was the best defensive tackle in football, angering Tampa Bay DT Warren Sapp.

Notably, Carolina DE Kavika Pittman essentially had his career ended after getting leveled by a block from Buccaneers T Kenyatta Walker in 2003.

Former Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme was a backup in New Orleans before signing with Carolina in 2003.

It is most known perhaps, for the 2003 Divisional Playoff matchup between the two teams, which Carolina won 29-23 in double overtime.

" The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Emergence of South Carolina's State Park System, 1933-1942 ," South Carolina Historical Magazine Volume: 104 # 2 2003, pp 101 +.

After losing the conference championship in 2001 to the St. Louis Rams, in 2002 to the eventual Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in 2003 to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles advanced to Super Bowl XXXIX at the end of the 2004 season, where they lost to the New England Patriots, 24 – 21.

Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003.

North Carolina: McFarland, 2003.

Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican.

Thurmond died in his sleep on June 26, 2003, at 9: 45 p. m. of heart failure at a hospital in Edgefield, South Carolina.

* Eight-term senator from South Carolina ( December 1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – January 2003 )

* Ol ' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond by Jack Bass, Marilyn Walser Thompson: University of South Carolina Press ( January 1, 2003 ).

* The Papers of John C. Calhoun Edited by Clyde N. Wilson ; 28 volumes, University of South Carolina Press, 1959 – 2003.

* Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina ( assumed office in 2003 )

Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora, U. of South Carolina Press, 2003.

The Big South Conference began sponsoring football in 2002, with Charleston Southern University, Gardner – Webb University, and Liberty University fielding teams ; Coastal Carolina University and Virginia Military Institute joined the conference as football-playing members in 2003.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2003.

In October – November 2003, she starred as the title character in North Carolina Theatre production of Mame in Raleigh, North Carolina.

* Strom Thurmond ( 1902 – 2003 ), Governor and United States Senator from South Carolina

The road led from Quanassee west to present-day Murphy, North Carolina, then over the Unicoi Range at Unicoi Gap and down to the Cherokee town of Great Tellico ( today Tellico Plains, Tennessee ) ( Duncan 2003: 245 ).

University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill ( 2003 ).