HDMS Absalon ( L16 ) and Esbern Snare ( L17 ) were launched and commissioned by Denmark in 2004 and 2005.

Ohloh, a web service founded in 2004 and launched in 2006, monitors the development activity in the free software community, providing detailed metrics and quantitative analyses on the growth and popularity of projects and programming languages.

New York City impresario Steve Sylvester and producer Sal Abbetiello launched Stevie Sly's Freestyle Party show at the Manhattan live music venue Coda on April 1, 2004.

From 2004 onward, various efforts were launched to port the Hurd to more modern microkernels.

A mildly facelifted VZ model launched in 2004, introducing the High Feature engine.

The following year, Harry was in Lesotho to visit again Mants ' ase Children's Home near Mohale's Hoek, which he first toured in 2004 and, along with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, launched Sentebale: The Princes ' Fund for Lesotho, a charity to aid children orphaned by HIV / AIDS.

* Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, an initiative launched during NATO's 2004 Istanbul Summit

In Mid 2004, XPress Telecom was launched as the country's digital radio trunking operator.

In June 2004, Lynch launched his campaign for Governor of New Hampshire.

Test production of the Lada 1118 sedan started in November 2004 and full-scale assembly was launched in May 2005.

Norway ( ratified the convention in 1996 ), Russia ( ratified in 1997 ), Canada ( ratified in 2003 ) and Denmark ( ratified in 2004 ) have all launched projects to base claims that certain areas of Arctic continental shelves should be subject to their sole sovereign exploitation.

In 2004, Subaru launched an STI variant of the Forester, the Forester STI for the Japanese Market.

A New Yorker look-alike, Novy Ochevidets ( The New Eyewitness ), was launched in Russia in 2004.

AT & T Wireless launched UMTS services in the United States by the end of 2004 strictly using the existing 1900 MHz spectrum allocated for 2G PCS services.

Cingular acquired AT & T Wireless in 2004 and has since then launched UMTS in select US cities.

Attempts by the UK-based Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society to obtain a public inquiry into the possible dangers of the Royal Navy's equivalent ( the " 2087 " sonar launched in December 2004 ) failed as of 2008.

However, surging copper prices from 2004 to the present day rapidly rekindled international interest in Zambia's copper sector with a new buyer found for KCCM and massive investments in expanding capacity launched.

In 2004 Alessi launched the ' Tea & Coffee Towers ', with a new generation of architects such as Wiel Arets, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Tom Kovac, Greg Lynn, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, and UN Studio.

NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission | Swift Spacecraft launched in November 2004

One of the most successful space missions to date, Swift, was launched in 2004 and as of 2012 is still operational.

In 2004 WFTO launched the FTO Mark which identifies registered fair trade organizations ( as opposed to the FLO system, which labels products ).

In 2004 the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, begun in 1930, was ended and a new series, Girl Detective, was launched, in which the title character drives a hybrid electric vehicle and uses a cell phone.

In 2004 alone, 1, 649 artificially-sweetened products were launched.

On 14 December 2004, Associated Newspapers launched a freesheet edition of the Evening Standard called Standard Lite to help boost circulation.

In October 2004, PETA launched a boycott against the Australian wool industry, leading some clothing retailers to ban products using Australian wool from their stores.

It was not released on a Cure album until 2004 on Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978 – 2001 ( The Fiction Years ).

In 2004, they released a new four-disc boxed set on Fiction Records titled Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001 ( The Fiction Years ).

In recognition of this development, NovaMute released a remix series with three 12-inch singles between 2001 and 2004 —“ Shame ”/“ Join in the Chant ,” “ Control, I'm Here ”/“ Let Your Body Learn ,” and “ Murderous ”/ Control, I'm Here .” The remix of “ Let Your Body Learn ” was particularly fruitful as it was given a radical overhaul by French techno producer Terence Fixmer, which led first to a friendship and then developed into a recording project between Fixmer and Douglas McCarthy, called simply Fixmer / McCarthy.

Join the Dots: B-sides & Rarities is a box set of The Cure, released on January 27, 2004 by their former record label Fiction.

Stewart also performed the song Everybody, All Over The World ( Join The Celebration ) for the 2004 remake of the film Around the World in 80 Days.

All the b-sides on the cassette edition were also later released on the first disc of the Join the Dots compilation in 2004.

In addition to its release on Razorblade Romance and in the film The Thirteenth Floor ( though not on its soundtrack ), " Join Me " was included on the Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack in 2004.

Years later, the 2004 launch of PC New Wave Cola featured blue and white packaging, along with a " Join the New Wave Generation " ad campaign " calling all Pepsi Cola Fans " to switch brands.

* Remixed the single " Just Say Yes " for the Cure in 2001, which was released officially in 2004 on the boxset Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001 ( The Fiction Years )

The English rock band The Cure has recorded a song entitled " Adonais " based on the Shelley elegy as a B-side single and on the collection Join The Dots: B Sides and Rarities, 1978 – 2001 ( 2004 ).

* The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, but Join Much Less with Noah Meltz, Rafael Gomez, and Ivan Katchanovski ( 2004 ), ISBN 0-8014-4200-1.

The song appears on disc three of their 2004 rarities box set Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978 – 2001 ( The Fiction Years ) as well as on the film's soundtrack album.

All of the b sides, except the remixes, would go on to appear in the 2004 box set Join the Dots.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee ( as Grub Street Productions ) in association with Grammnet ( 2004 ) and Paramount Network Television.

For live shows in 2002 and 2004, Lee and his keyboard technician used the playback capabilities of the XV-5080 to generate virtually all of Rush's keyboard sounds to date, as well as additional complex sound passages that previously required several machines at once to produce.

* 1913 – Anna Lee, English actress ( d. 2004 )

Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee Louisiana State University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8071-2929-1.

* Cooke, John E., " A Life of General Robert E. Lee " Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

Choudrie, Jyoti and Heejin Lee, Broadband Development in South Korea: Institutional and Cultural Factors, European Journal of Information Systems v. 13, pp. 103 – 14 ( 2004 ).

A severe diplomatic row broke out between the PRC and Singapore when Lee Hsien Loong visited Taiwan a month before being sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Singapore on 12 August 2004.

* January 2 – Anna Lee, English actress ( d. 2004 )

* Harris, Lee, Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History, New York, The Free Press, 2004 ISBN 0-7432-5749-9

In 2004, the Bruce Lee Foundation decided to use the name Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do () to refer to the martial arts system that Lee founded.

The main new works staged by the company have been The Little Mermaid by Anne Boyd ( 1985 ); Metamorphosis by Brian Howard ( 1985 ); Voss by Richard Meale ( 1986 ); Whitsunday by Howard ( 1988 ); Mer de glace by Richard Meale ( 1992 ); The Golem by Larry Sitsky ( 1993 ); The Eighth Wonder by Alan John ( 1995 ); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Richard Mills ( 1999 ); Batavia by Richard Mills ( 2001 ); Love in the Age of Therapy by Paul Grabowsky ( OzOpera 2002 ); Lindy by Moya Henderson ( 2003 ); Madeline Lee by John Haddock ( 2004 ); Bliss ( 2010 ) by Brett Dean.

* 2004: Jenni Lee, runners up Jewell Marceau, Emily Marilyn AKA: Molly Matthews

* Lee Halgren ( interim ) ( 2002 – 2004 )

As recently as 2004, discussion had taken place surrounding the possibility of the city of Cape Coral becoming its own county, citing in particular a perceived lack of infrastructure support from the Lee County government.

** Lee " Apollo " Adama, a character in the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica

von K. Lee Lerner und Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, 3 Bände, Detroit: Gale, 2004

At the 2004 Queensland election, One Nation polled less than 5 % of the vote and its sole elected representative, Rosa Lee Long, acted as an independent.

* " Loco " ( David Lee Murphy song ), a 2004 song by country music artist David Lee Murphy

As of 2004 the Giddings State School, a Texas Youth Commission facility, was Lee County's largest employer.

The earnings were donated to the International Myeloma Foundation in honor of McKean's friend Lee Grayson, who died of myeloma in 2004.

On June 4, 2004, nearly a year after the death of Cuban-American salsa singer Celia Cruz ( who lived in nearby Fort Lee ), Union City heralded its annual Cuban Day Parade by dedicating its new Celia Cruz Park ( also known as Celia Cruz Plaza ) at 31st Street and Bergenline Avenue, with Cruz's widower, Pedro Knight, present.

However, with the KMT allied with the People First Party for the 2004 presidential election, the KMT aided Soong in his defense, providing documents signed by Lee.