Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

Charles presented the virtual reality game show Cyberzone ( 1993 ) on BBC2 ; the late-night entertainment show Funky Bunker ( 1997 ) on ITV ; the reality television show Jailbreak ( 2000 ) on Channel 5 ; and the late-night chat show Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 2004 ) on ITV.

Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

He was with the station at its launch, and while it was being tested during the previous year, under the name Network Y. Charles has also hosted the stations Breakfast Show ( 2004 ) and has sat in for Andrew Collins, Phil Wilding, Phill Jupitus and Radcliffe & Maconie.

On January 6, 2004, Prime Minister Pierre Charles, who had been suffering from heart problems since 2003, died.

* 1919 – Charles Sweeney, American general ( d. 2004 )

Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.

* Sue Brown, " Fresh Light on the Friendship of Charles Brown and Joseph Severn ," Keats-Shelley Review 18 ( 2004 ): 138-148.

Alexander also appeared with Kelsey Grammer in the 2004 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.

More recent buildings like Frank Gehry's Stata Center ( 2004 ), Steven Holl's Simmons Hall ( 2002 ), Charles Correa's Building 46 ( 2005 ), Fumihiko Maki's Media Lab Extension ( 2009 ) stand out among the Boston area's classical architecture and serve as examples of contemporary campus " starchitecture ".

The oldest known polar bear fossil is a 130, 000 to 110, 000-year-old jaw bone, found on Prince Charles Foreland in 2004.

* Edmund Gosse, Father and Son ( New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907 ); Oxford World Classics edition, 2004.

The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies ( 1959, 2004 ).

* Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, ( Dallas, Texas, 2004 – 2009 )

American examples are Saigon Station ( 2003 ) by Charles Gillen, The Dream Merchant of Lisbon ( 2004 ) and No Game For Amateurs ( 2009 ) by Gene Coyle, Edge of Allegiance ( 2005 ) by Thomas F. Murphy, A Train to Potevka ( 2005 ) by Mike Ramsdell, Voices Under Berlin ( 2008 ), by T. H. E.

* 1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor ( d. 2004 )

Lampson, Kay, Bob Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker received the National Academy of Engineering's prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2004 for their work on the Alto.

** Ray Charles, American singer, musician, and actor ( d. 2004 )

* Charles D. Gunnoe, ( 2004 ) " Palatinate " in Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World

Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J. M. Barrie historical fantasia Finding Neverland ( 2004 ), costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

* Cowdery, Charles K. Bourbon, Straight: The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey ( Chicago: Made and Bottled in Kentucky ), 2004.

" Bernard Grun delivers this assessment in his " Timetables of History ", reissued in 2004: " In 732 Charles Martel's victory over the Arabs at the Battle of Tours stems the tide of their westward advance.

Bickley's Grocery, owned and operated by Cecil Alonzo Bickley ( 1912 – 2004 ) and his wife, Peggy Patterson Bickley ( 1913 – 2007 ), was a popular business in Denver City from 1939 until the couple retired in 1974.

* Paul Smith, ‘ Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne -, third marquess of Salisbury ( 1830 – 1903 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2009, accessed 8 May 2010.

* George Cecil Brooke Weld-Forester, 8th Baron Forester ( 1938 – 2004 )

Cecil Donald " Don " Briscoe ( born March 20, 1940, Yalobusha County, Mississippi — died October 31, 2004, Memphis, Tennessee ) was an American soap opera actor, most notable for playing Tony Meritt (# 2 ) on Days of Our Lives, and, from 1968 – 1970, for playing Chris Jennings, Tom Jennings, Timothy Shaw, and Chris Collins on Dark Shadows.

Cecil Murray, stepped down in 2004.

In May 2004 Cecil announced that Revolution would go “ back to basics ,” which meant that Revolution, that had set itself up as both designer and producer of video games, would focus more closely on design.

* Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic ( 2004 )

The company moved to Morgantown, West Virginia in 1965, and in 1976 it relocated its corporate headquarters to Pittsburgh suburb Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and finally in 2004 it moved to a new office center in nearby Southpointe, a suburban business park located in Cecil Township, where it is still located.

In a 2004 retrospective, Armando Iannucci commented that Fowlds had a difficult task because he had to " spend most of his time saying nothing but looking interested in everyone else's total and utter guff " but " his one line frequently had to be the funniest of the lot.

" Funk, jazz, and Brazilian music were inspirations, and the sounds of minimalist composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich can be found on 1999's Cobra and Phases Group .... Several critics have commented that the band's later work, like Instant 0 in the Universe ( 2003 ) and Margerine Eclipse ( 2004 ), sound similar to their guitar-driven earlier style.

The director of rail safety at the UK HM Railway Inspectorate commented in 2004 that " the use of level crossings contributes the greatest potential for catastrophic risk on the railways.

In 2004, Lightning Bolt played on the doorstep of radio DJ John Peel's chalet at noon during the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, about which neighbor Steve Albini of Shellac and Big Black commented " Best alarm clock I've ever had.

David Doak commented in 2004, " Looking back, there are things I'd be wary of attempting now, but as none of the people working on the code, graphics, and game design had worked on a game before, there was this joyful naïveté.

Broderick commented on the effects of that review in a 2004 60 Minutes II interview:

" The stable cultivation in 2004 throws into doubt US officials ’ predictions of a major impact on US drug prices and purity ," commented John Walsh, WOLA Senior Associate for Drug Policy.

Orchard himself had commented as early as September that the party's preparations for a widely expected 2004 federal election were in disarray.

" In response, J. Manthorpe commented, " As the FEER has been in a vegetative state since at least 2004 when it was made a monthly instead of weekly magazine and its staff was cut from 80 to five, only two of whom are journalists, it is hard to imagine the proceeds of closure catapulting anything anywhere.

When Tenet resigned in July 2004, Shelby commented " This is not a surprise to me at all.

On 2 March 2004 the Director of Public Prosecutions commented on a rumoured renaming of the service to the ' Public Prosecution Service ':

After allegations that he hid evidence associated with the death of Wilkie, and an investigation by South Wales Police, Howells in 2004 commented in a BBC Wales documentary that when he heard the news, he thought " hang on, we've got all those records we've kept over in the NUM offices, there's all those maps on the wall, we're gonna get implicated in this ".

In 2004, Tony Martin and Shaun Micallef began work on a TV sketch comedy series for the ABC with the working title Mouse-Patrol but after they wrote enough material for the first three episodes, the project was cancelled by management, much to Martin's disappointment who commented in an interview in 2009 that the un-filmed scripts contained the best sketch stuff he had written for TV.

Although then Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda commented on December 24, 2004, that " unless honest measures are taken swiftly, we cannot help but impose strict measures ," hinting at possible sanctions, such moves have not yet been taken by the Japanese government.

In an interview with National Public Radio in February 2004, Kerry endorsed equal rights for same-sex couples, but commented that " the word marriage kind of gets in the way of the whole debate ," because of the religious origin of marriage as being limited to male-female unions.

Putin commented that Kasyanov's ousting was not related to the results of the government's activities, which he characterized as positive, but rather was caused by a necessity to once again confirm his position, which would guide the development of the country after 14 March 2004.

Though he is often content with his drumming remaining behind the music, “ his drumming is always part of the music's internal construction .” Modern Drummer magazine, in a 2004 interview, called DeJohnette ’ s drumming “ beyond technique .” While most of his drumming is considered free and flowing, he commented that he has to play with a lot of restraint when playing with Keith Jarrett and his trio, saying that he ’ s challenged when playing in that group “ to play with the subtlety that the music requires .” His work on the cymbals especially has been described as “ loose ,” creating an almost free tempo, and he calls himself an “ abstract thinker ” when it comes to soloing, saying that he puts “ more weight on the abstract than, ‘ What were you thinking in bar 33 ?’ I don ’ t like to think that way.

Noteworthy events included a June 2004 event CNI co-sponsored with the Council on American-Islamic Relations a presentation on “ The Muslim Vote in 2004 " where independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader complained that “ Muslim Americans are only the latest religious and ethnic group to feel the brunt of political hysteria and abuse ” and commented about Israeli leaders " The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced.

On May 4, 2004 Eugene Bird appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (" CBC ") National News and commented "" We know that the Israeli intelligence was operating in Baghdad after the war was over ... The question should be: Were there any foreign interrogators among those that were recommending very, very bad treatment for the prisoners?

He commented that this release was better than 90 % of the video games of the 2004 Holiday season, praising Nintendo for the visual improvements over the Super Mario All-Stars release.

During the 2004 London mayoral election, he commented that he would not campaign in Camden because there were " too many gays ".

In AES 4 Conference, Bonn 2004, one of the inventors of Rijndael, Vincent Rijmen, commented, " The XSL attack is not an attack.

In a May 2004 column Steyn commented that editors were encouraging anti-Bush sentiments after The Daily Mirror and the Boston Globe had published faked pictures, originating from American and Hungarian pornographic websites,