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In 2005 William Hill bought 624 betting offices in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and Jersey from Stanley Leisure for £ 504 million: the acquisition briefly took the company past Ladbrokes into first position in the UK betting market in terms of shops but not revenue.
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Bug, a film directed by William Friedkin, is a psychological thriller filmed in 2005, starring Connick, Ashley Judd, and Michael Shannon.
With the 2005 Emmy Win, Spader became one of the few actors ( along with co-star William Shatner as Denny Crane ) to win an Emmy award while playing the same character in two different series.
* Souder, William ( 2005 ) Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America.
* William Chittick, The Sufi Doctrine of Rumi: Illustrated Edition, Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2005.
In November 2005, he was invited to the Welsh Assembly as a guest speaker by Tory Welsh assembly member William Graham.
* Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10571-1 ).
* Cronin Mars trilogy: As It Is On Mars ( 2001 ), Give Us This Mars ( 2003 ), and Glory Be To Mars ( 2005 ) by William Thomas Cronin
Three researchers at NIST have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work in Physics: William D. Phillips in 1997, Eric A. Cornell in 2001, John L. Hall in 2005, which is the largest number for any US government laboratory.
* The 2005 Star Trek: Titan novel The Red King opens with the disappearance of a Romulan fleet and features Donatra, the Romulan commander featured in Star Trek: Nemesis, working alongside William Riker and his crew.
Additionally, the William J. Rutter Center, designed along with the adjacent 600-space parking structure by Ricardo Legorreta, opened in October 2005 and contains a fitness and recreation center, swimming pools, student services, and conference facilities.
* Alston, William P., Beyond " Justification ": Dimensions Of Epistemic Evaluation, Ithaca, N. Y .: Cornell University Press, 2005
William Erwin " Will " Eisner ( March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005 ) was an American comic writer, artist and entrepreneur.
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The 2005 video game adaptation features levels called Pelham, Tremont, and " Gunhill " ( a play off the name Gun Hill Road ).
The Courthouse Hill Historic District, established in April 2005, lies adjacent to the city's commercial center.
These include Gérard Pirès ( Riders, 2002 ), Pitof ( Catwoman, 2004 ), Jean-François Richet ( Assault on Precinct 13, 2005 ), Florent Emilio Siri ( Hostage, 2005 ), Christophe Gans ( Silent Hill, 2006 ), Mathieu Kassovitz ( Babylon A. D., 2008 ), Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter, 2002 ; Transporter 2, 2005 ; Olivier Megaton directed Transporter 3, 2008 ), Alexandre Aja ( Mirrors, 2008 ), and Pierre Morel ( Taken, 2009 ).
In late September 2006, a team of ornithologists from Auburn University and the University of Windsor published reports of their own sightings of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers along the Choctawhatchee River in northwest Florida, beginning in 2005 ( Hill et al., 2006 ).
* Alec Finlay has published two booklets on circle poem letterboxing: Isles, Arcs & Ways ( Isle of Thanet, England, 2005 ), ISBN 19044770404 ; and Hill of Streams ( Cairnhead, Scotland, 2008 ).
Constance Baker Motley ( 1921 – 2005 ), who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King, Jr., has Nevisian heritage and owned a home in Brown Hill, Nevis, near her ancestral home.
Joseph Hillstrom King, who writes under the professional name Joe Hill, published a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, in 2005.
The original line up of Skyhooks including Hill reformed in 2005 at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney for a one-off gig, a benefit for Hill, who had been diagnosed with liver cancer.
* Harris, Shon, All-in-one CISSP Exam Guide, Third Edition, McGraw Hill Osborne, Emeryville, California, 2005.
Since privatisation extensions have been made to the tram system, with the $ 28 million extension of the 109 to Box Hill opening on 2 May 2003, a $ 7. 5 million extension along Docklands Drive in Docklands opened on 4 January 2005, and a $ 42. 6 million extension of the 75 to Vermont South opening on 23 July 2005.
Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England to Alec George Troughton, a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord, who married in 1914 in Edmonton, and had an elder brother, Alec Robert ( 1915 – 1994 ), and a younger sister, Mary Edith ( 1923 – 2005 ).
* The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White, promotion website for a book ( ISBN 0972182225 ) published in 2005 by Sand Hill Publishing
Tainted Love ( 2005 ) by Stewart Home contains a lengthy ' factional ' meditation on Trocchi's post-literary career period in Notting Hill.
Some of these successes have been collaborative efforts, including two City on a Hill albums and the inspired collaboration for the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
By contrast, in 2005, the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation of Lantern Hill, North Stonington, Connecticut, lost their bid for federal recognition through BIA, following a challenge by the State of Connecticut.
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