MicMac Records, who as one of the pioneer record labels in freestyle brought artists such as Johnny O, Cynthia, Nyasia, Tiana, Soave and Clear Touch to the scene, relaunched in 2004 and released new freestyle music on the successful Then and Now CDs.

The economy of Grenada was brought to a near standstill in September 2004 by Hurricane Ivan, which damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the country's buildings, including some tourist facilities.

In recent years, Hurricane Ivan ( 2004 ) swept past the island causing heavy damage and a number of deaths ; in 2005, Hurricanes Dennis and Emily brought heavy rains to the island.

Her films My Best Friend's Wedding ( 1997 ), Mystic Pizza ( 1988 ), Notting Hill ( 1999 ), Runaway Bride ( 1999 ), Valentine's Day ( 2010 ), The Pelican Brief ( 1993 ), Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ), and Ocean's Twelve ( 2004 ) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $ 2. 4 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.

On 18 May 2004, he was brought to a hospital in the United Arab Emirates because of nose bleeding caused by heat.

In September 2004, the remnants of Hurricane Ivan brought gusty winds and dropped nearly of rain in 12 hours.

In 2004 Barone brought the event to a sold-out Hollywood Bowl, and then to Chicago's Ravinia Festival, with expanded casts including Maureen McGovern, Jack Jones and Bea Arthur.

The elections of 2004, however, brought the Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio-Nueva Mayoría, a coalition of socialists, former Tupamaros, communists, social democrats, and Christian Democrats among others to power with majorities in both houses of parliament.

However, cassette Walkman innovation would come to an end as during its 25th Anniversary, Sony chose to not introduce another limited run cassette model but instead, brought out the hard disk based NW-HD1 in 2004 to officially augur the death of the compact cassette.

* A tortoise called Timothy is brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England, where she lives until her death in 2004.

In late 2001, as a decisive reaction to the September 11 attacks and the various corporate scandals which undermined the economy, the Greenspan-led Federal Reserve initiated a series of interest rate cuts that brought the Federal Funds rate down to 1 % in 2004.

Mono Lake has experienced meromictic periods in the past ; this most recent episode of meromixis, brought on by the end of the water diversions, commenced in 1994 and had ended by 2004.

The Alameda County district attorney later dropped the case for lack of evidence, and in 2004 the FBI and the City of Oakland agreed to a $ 4 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by Bari's estate, and her friend, over their false arrest.

Graeme Souness was brought in to manage by the start of the 2004 – 05 season.

Dominated by fundamentalist religious figures, it has tried to ban a candidate in the 2004 presidential election for questioning polygamy laws, and limited the rights of women, as well as overstepped its constitutional authority by issuing rulings on subjects not yet brought before the court.

Morgan Stanley settled a sex discrimination suit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for $ 54 million on July 12, 2004 ..

The early 21st century brought many trials for the county including two major hurricanes in 2004 and an economic and housing slump starting in 2008.

* Ultima Online: Samurai Empire ( 2 November 2004 ) brought ancient Japanese mythology and folklore to the game, two new classes ( Ninja and Samurai ) and a new area to explore, the Tokuno Islands.

On February 4, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel rejected the appeal brought by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Umatilla, Colville, Yakama, Nez Perce and other tribes on the grounds that they were unable to show any evidence of kinship.

As in other southern states, recent decades have brought a realignment in politics in Presidential elections, with the conservative white majority of the parish voting for Republican U. S. President George W. Bush in his 2004 reelection.

On May 29, 2004, the Church paid an undisclosed amount to settle a wrongful death suit brought on behalf of McPherson's estate.

In a 2004 interview with Animation Magazine, Mirkin stated that he felt that he " brought show back to a more story-oriented " approach and increased the focus on characters and their emotions, although " at the same time still keeping it surreal and weird ".

In late 2004, a hotel was rented to Decameron and has since brought more tourism to the area.

The Art Studio, originally opened in Monroe in 1999, brought an art workshop for children to Highland Mills in 2004.

2004 — Prime Minister Robert Woonton visits China ; Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao grants $ 16 million in development aid.

* 2004 – Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England.

Arguments over this issue seemed to be responsible for a series of Mainland Chinese newspapers commentaries in February 2004 which stated that power over Hong Kong was only fit for " patriots.

Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science by A. C. Graham, ( 1978, reprinted 2004 ) The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong.

In 2004 and again in 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao made state visits to Nigeria and addressed a joint session of the National Assembly of Nigeria.

In 2004, over 80 percent of Chinese crude oil imports transited the Straits of Malacca, with less than 2 percent transiting the Straits of Lombok.

Since 2006, Warner Bros operated a joint venture with China Film Group Corporation and HG to form Warner China Film HG to produce films in Hong Kong and China, including Connected, which is a remake of the 2004 thriller film Cellular, they have co-produced many other Chinese films as well.

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* Deborah Cao, Chinese Law: A Language Perspective ( Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2004 ).

As of 2004, only 7 % of all government servants are ethnic Chinese, a drop from 30 % in 1960.

An eleven-year NBA veteran and former NBA All-Star ( 2004 ), Martin joined the Clippers after signing with the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association the previous summer.

In 2004 a Chinese adaptation of the novella was made.

On September 21, 2004, the film was released in Region 1-together with Shadows, Faces, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night-as part of the eight-disc box set John Cassavetes-Five Films by The Criterion Collection.

Although Jiang has been seldom seen in public since giving up his last official title in 2004, he was with Hu Jintao on stage at a ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, and toured the Military Museum of the Chinese Peoples Revolution with Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, and other former senior officials.

Nüshu Garden school, July 2005Yang Huanyi ( traditional Chinese: 陽煥宜 ; simplified Chinese: 阳焕宜 ), an inhabitant of Jiangyong county, Hunan province and the last person proficient in this writing system, died on September 20, 2004, age 98.

* 2004 Inge Morath: Chinese Encounters, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China.

The ROC and People's Republic of China ( PRC ) did not repeat the charter flights during the 2004 Chinese New Year, in part because the two sides could not agree on the terms for meetings to discuss how PRC carriers might also participate.

In November 2004, martial law was declared in Zhongmou County, Henan, to quell deadly ethnic clashes between Han Chinese and the Muslim Hui Chinese.

* Jin, " Learn Chinese " ( 2004 )

There were reunions and subsequent tours from Van Halen ( with Hagar in 2004 and then Roth in 2007 ), The long awaited Guns N ' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum in the U. S., produced no hit singles, and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material.

* Feng Shui ( film ) is a 2004 Filipino horror movie about a curse old bagua mirror haunted by a malevolent soul of a foot-bound Chinese woman.

* A Chinese TV series called Assassinator Jing Ke ( 荆轲传奇 ) was produced in 2004, depicting a fictionalized biography of Jing Ke, starring Liu Ye, Wang Yanan, and Peter Ho.