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.

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.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

In 2003, another British publisher, Wandering Star, made an effort both to restore Howard's original manuscripts and to provide a more scholarly and historical view of the Conan stories.

The Commodore brand name resurfaced in late 2003 on an inexpensive portable MP3 player made in the People's Republic of China by Tai Guen Enterprise, sold mostly in Europe.

The argument that school vouchers increases quality and efficiencies in schools forced to compete is supported by studies such as " When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement " ( Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's, 2003 ), which concluded that public schools located near private schools that were eligible to accept voucher students made significantly more improvements than did similar schools not located near eligible private schools.

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind was made by most of the same people behind This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and was also done as a documentary of three 1960s folk bands doing a reunion concert.

Coleman also made video game appearances in The Curse of Monkey Island ( 1997 ) and Postal 2 ( 2003 ).

In the middle of 2003 Harthouse planned to re-release a set of old classic singles, but after some first test vinyls were made, UCMG was closed.

In 2003, DALnet put up their first anycast servers under the name " The IX Concept ", and made irc. dal. net resolve to the anycast IP.

* 1981 – Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister ; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.

He was made a Knight Commander ( KBE ) of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

A film version was made in 2003, which emphasised the work's somber, chilling mood.

Dalglish's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2003, but she made a good recovery from the disease.

Bernard Zuel made the following comments while discussing the remastered edition of " Forever Changes " in a 2003 story in the Sydney Morning Herald ( Australia ).

In essence, Puerto Rican rap became the voice of Puerto Rican youth like dancehall and rap music are methods of expression for their Jamaican and lower-class U. S. youth counterparts as they made it in France too since 2003 " 1492 Army ".

In light of the progress made, President Bryant requested an end to the UN embargo on Liberian diamonds ( since March 2001 ) and timber ( since May 2003 ), but the Security Council postponed such a move until the peace was more secure.

Since 2003 the country has made efforts to normalize its ties with the European Union and the United States and has even coined the catchphrase, ' The Libya Model ', an example intended to show the world what can be achieved through negotiation, rather than force, when there is goodwill on both sides.

The Five Obstructions ( 2003 ), made by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth, is a documentary, but also incorporates lengthy sections of experimental films.

Leszek Miller ’ s government, together with President Kwaśniewski, made a decision ( March 2003 ) to join the international coalition and deploy Polish troops to Iraq, targeting at overthrowing Saddam Hussein ’ s government.

He made cameo appearances as a security guard in both the 2003 film Hulk and the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk, in which he also voiced the Hulk.

Since the APG II system was published in 2003, minor changes to the circumscription of the order have been made.

Until the release of The Corporation ( 2003 ), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful feature documentary in Canadian history, played theatrically in over 300 cities around the world ; won 22 awards ; appeared in more than 50 international film festivals ; and was broadcast in over 30 markets.

On June 8, 2003 a failed coup attempt was made against President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya by forces unhappy with his imprisonment of Islamic leaders in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq and his establishment of full diplomatic relations with Israel.

On 30 June 2003, Caron traveled to San Francisco to appear as the special guest star in The Songs of Alan Jay Lerner: I Remember It Well, a retrospective concert staged by San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon Company.

* Jerry Speiser guest appeared on the Frost track, " You and Me " receiving hi-rotation on Melbourne's Nova 100 in 2003 and SBS Television.

In recent years she has appeared at the Blue Note in New York as a guest performer for Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer, and as part of a trio with Anthony Jackson on bass and Cliff Almond on drums in concerts at the Blue Note Tokyo since 2003.

He filled in for an ill David Letterman on his show February 26, 2003, when he was supposed to be a guest.

In 2003, he appeared as a guest on John Kricfalusi's Ren & Stimpy " Adult Party Cartoon ".

McKean had a regular role as the brassy, heavily made-up bandleader Adrian Van Horhees in Martin Short's Comedy Central series, Primetime Glick, and in 2003, he guest starred on Smallville, the Superman prequel in which his wife stars as Martha Kent.

In the summer of 2003, Letterman had guest hosts for a month.

Many conductors have made their debut with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, and several have gone on to become the artistic director, or primary summertime guest conductor at Ravinia, including Seiji Ozawa ( 1964 – 1968 ), James Levine ( 1973 – 1993 ), and Christoph Eschenbach ( 1995 – 2003 ).

In April 2003, Nerf Herder appeared as the musical guest in the final-season Buffy episode " Empty Places " – the very last band to play at The Bronze.

Beginning in 2003, for over one week at the end of December, guest editors have been invited to commission items for one edition of the programme.

In 2003 Hawke made a television appearance, guest starring in the second season of the television series Alias, where he portrayed a mysterious Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) agent.

Burke was a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday January 20, 2003.

Bonanza Gold ( 2003 – 2009 ), a quarterly magazine, featured detailed information about the show, including interviews with guest actors and other production personnel, articles about historical events and people depicted in the series, fan club information, and fan fiction.

In 2003, Buscemi made a brief celebrity guest appearance as himself on the long-running Fox animated television show The Simpsons in the episode " Brake My Wife, Please ".

Following a guest professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Hamburg from 1998 to 1999 and his Honorary Fellowship at the Arts University College at Bournemouth in 2001, Tillmans has been a professor for Interdisciplinary Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main since 2003.

( Ironically, he and actor John Ritter, who guest starred on the same episode, died within four days of each other in September of 2003.

The show also featured guest announcers, until comedian Andy Milonakis took over as the show's announcer from late 2003 to 2004.

The 13 June 2003 edition of the BBC One satirical news quiz, Have I Got News for You, featured a set of the playing cards in one round, spoofing guest host Bruce Forsyth's 1980s game show Play Your Cards Right.

During a 2003 Pearl Jam show at the Santa Barbara Bowl, Cornell appeared as a surprise guest.

In 2003, they released Outpost Transmission which featured guest collaborations from the Alabama 3 and Guy Garvey from Elbow.

In June 2003, Jefferies was the guest of honor at the presentation of a documentary about him prepared for the special edition of the Star Trek Generations DVD.

On television, Douglas appeared briefly as Garry Shandling's love interest on The Larry Sanders Show, starred in the series Action ( 1999 ) with Jay Mohr, guest starred on Seinfeld, Frasier and The Drew Carey Show, and has played a public defender on several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2002 and 2003.

* On May 12, 2003, Leno and Katie Couric swapped places as a publicity stunt, with Leno anchoring The Today Show and Couric guest hosting The Tonight Show.

Other small screen credits include a guest appearance in the first season of NewsRadio, a small role on The Adventures of Pete and Pete ( episode: " The Call "), Deadline ( 2000 ), Hack ( 2003 ), Law & Order: Trial by Jury (( 2005 ), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1999 as a modeling agent / suspect ; 2005 as A. D. A Tracey Kibre ), and the miniseries Wild Palms and the fourth season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, First Contact, as Lanel.