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

There are also live polar bears at the Polar Bear Conservation and Educational Habitat and Heritage Village which opened in the summer of 2004.

* 20 April 2004: Launch of GP-B from Vandenberg AFB and successful insertion into polar orbit.

The second polar spacecraft ( TC-2 ) was launched July 25, 2004 at 07: 05 UT, also by Long March 2C.

It was successfully launched into polar orbit aboard NASA's third earth Observing Systems spacecraft ( EOS-Aura ) at 10: 02 UTC on July 15, 2004.

* The Home Teachers ( 2004 ) – Slapstick comedy about polar opposite home teachers that " fulfill " their responsibility on the last day of the month.

The 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow depicted three extremely strong polar vortices developing over and devastating the northern half of the globe.

Fiona Thornewill ( born July 10, 1966 ) is an English explorer who reached the South Pole solo and unaided in a record 42 days in 2004, walking and skiing over 700 miles in the process.

The MegaFlyover project was a seven month aerial survey from June 2004 to January 2005 by explorer / ecologist J. Michael Fay and pilot Peter Ragg sponsored by the National Geographic Society and others.

A statue to Sir George Rooke was erected in 2004 as part of the tercentenery celebrations.

* Martin Postle, ‘ Reynolds, Sir Joshua ( 1723 – 1792 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2009.

Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, ( October 31, 1925 – March 15, 2004 ) was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ( 1969 – 72 ), on 27 August 2004.

", written by Jim Poyser and broadcast in June 2004 had aimless aristocrat Viscount Belport ( Paul Rider ) and his servant Ned ( Jason Done ) joining the police force under Sir Robert Peel and encountering demon barber Sweeney Todd ( Jonathan Keeble ) on their first case.

* May 6 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji ( d. 2004 )

* ( 2004 ) In Neal Stephenson's The System Of The World, a fictionalized Sir Isaac Newton dies of " gaol fever " before being resurrected by Daniel Waterhouse.

The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy, who died in 2004, was the husband of Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy and a first-cousin-in law of The Queen.

However since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identified as Sir Edward Borough.

( 2004 ) The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327 – 1330.

In the early 17th century the Gospels were owned by Sir Robert Cotton ( 1571 – 1631 ) and in 1753 became part of the founding collections of the British Museum in 1753 ( Chilvers 2004 ).

* Complete variation performed by the LSO conducted by Sir Colin Davis in 2004

In his review of Sir Graham Bower's account, Alan Cousins ( 2004 ) notes that, " A number of major themes and concerns emerge " from Bower's history, "... perhaps the most poignant being Bower ’ s accounts of his being made a scapegoat in the aftermath of the raid: ' since a scapegoat was wanted I was willing to serve my country in that capacity '.

Billy Barry, the fictional hero in Horace Porter's Young Aeroplane Scouts novel series of 1916 – 19, is also from Bangor, as is Edward Wozny, the protagonist in Lew Grossman's 2004 novel Codex, and Sir Kevin Dean de Courtney MacNair in Hayford Peirce's time-travel novel Napoleon Disentimed.

The present library building ( by Sir Denys Lasdun ) was added in 1973, the Brunei Gallery in 1995, and an extension to the library building opened in 2004 ( the second phase of this expansion was completed in 2006 ).

In 2004, he toured Australia with the Carl Rosa Opera Company as Director of the production of HMS Pinafore, also singing the role of Sir Joseph Porter.

On 6 May 2004 it was announced that Sir Richard Dearlove was to be replaced as head of the SIS by John Scarlett, former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

* 1999 – 2004: Sir Richard Dearlove, KCMG, OBE

* 2004 – 2009: Sir John Scarlett, KCMG, OBE

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE ( or ; 16 April 192128 March 2004 ) was an English actor, writer and dramatist.

Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes ( 1933 – 2004 ), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 – 1994 ), and Jennifer Lash ( 1938 – 1993 ), a writer of English and Irish descent.

A new station was officially opened by Lt .- General Sir John Foley, the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, on 20 October 2004.

The Leatherhead Drama Festival began in 2004 and is the UK's largest drama festival of its type, in which schools and drama groups from around Surrey and beyond compete each year for the Sir Michael Caine Drama Awards, the Richard Houghton Awards and New Writing Awards.

* The Merchant of Venice ( 2004 )-directed by Michael Radford and starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes

Fiennes stood for the Countryside Party in the 2004 European elections in the South West England region – fourth on their list of six.

Old Court House in Fiennes Street, now used as Shire of Toodyay offices ( 2004 )

Although originally considered a subspecies of A. ramidus, in 2004 anthropologists Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gen Suwa, and Tim D. White published an article elevating A. kadabba to species level on the basis of newly-discovered teeth from Ethiopia.

Studies published in 2004 and 2007 show the combined frequency of M7a and N9b to be at least 28 % in Okinawans ( 7 / 50 M7a1, 6 / 50 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 50 N9b ), 17. 6 % in Ainus ( 8 / 51 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 51 N9b ), and 10 % ( 97 / 1312 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 1312 M7a1, 28 / 1312 N9b ) to 17 % ( 15 / 100 M7a1, 2 / 100 M7a ( xM7a1 )) in mainstream Japanese.

In 2004, Ross Cornwell published Think and Grow Rich!

During that period he also released his work on Bertini type theorems contained in EGA 5, published by the Grothendieck Circle in 2004.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

In 2004, Chaosium published the Basic Roleplaying monographs ( the hyphen was dropped in the later products ).

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

In 1994, the prayers announced " allowed " by the 1982 Bishops Council of the Anglican Church of Korea was published in a second version of the Book of Common Prayers In 2004, the National Anglican Council published the third and the current Book of Common Prayers known as " seoung-gong-hwe gi-do-seo " or the " Anglican Prayers ", including the Daily Masses, Special Masses, Baptism, Confirmation, Funeral Mass, Wedding Mass, Rite of Ordination Mass, and all of the other events the Anglican Church of Korea celebrates.

He later edited Global Crises, Global Solutions, which presented the first conclusions of the Copenhagen Consensus, published in 2004 by the Cambridge University Press.

The hearings were concluded in November 2004, and the report was published 15 June 2010.

In 2004 a new report published in the Lancet medical journal showed that vCJD can be transmitted by blood transfusions.

* In 2004, Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle published the first comprehensive review of the field of self-replication, in their book Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, which includes 3000 + literature references.

A second edition, retitled The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, was published in 2004.

This was followed by Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Two ( 1934 ) ( 2004 ; published in the US as The Bloody Crown of Conan ) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three ( 1935 – 1936 ) ( 2005 ; published in the US as The Conquering Sword of Conan ).

" In 2004, the Manchester Evening News published a contradictory story that a young musician from Wilmslow called David Browning played the trumpet on both the original recording of the theme in 1960 and a re-recording in 1964, for a one-off payment of £ 36.

Since 2004, a partial census has been carried out every year, and the results published as averages over 5 years.

The proof of the theorem consists of tens of thousands of pages in several hundred journal articles written by about 100 authors, published mostly between 1955 and 2004.

In 2004, Botanical Society of America's Plant Science Bulletin disputed Dr. Temple's research as flawed which published evidence as to why the dodo's extinction did not directly cause the increasing disappearance of young trees including suggestion that tortoises would have been more likely to disperse the seeds than dodo hence discrediting Temple's view as to the dodo and the tree's sole survival relationship.

Abridged 14 was published in 2004, Abridged 15 is due early 2012.

DOM Level 3, the current release of the DOM specification, published in April 2004, added support for XPath and keyboard event handling, as well as an interface for serializing documents as XML.

In 2004 the Dylan Thomas Prize was created in his honour, awarded to the best published writer in English under the age of 30.

A history of the sports was published in 2004.

The first clinical trial of 1-Octanol in essential tremor was first conducted by Bushara etal and published in 2002, 2004.