In a break with tradition, a " home " fixture against Argentina took place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 23 May 2005, before the Lions went to New Zealand.

Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005.

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

She has given live performances on various television shows, events and ceremonies ( her most recent appearance was in Gaoth Dobhair in the summer of 2005, which coincided with a tribute event to the Brennan family that took place in Letterkenny ), but she has yet to do a concert.

The release of version 2. x in 2005 changed the game significantly, new tweaked rules favoured large cities with full trade routes as well as wars with more advanced technologies, necessitating a distinct phase of rapturing which required relatively peaceful conditions ; so games were almost always played in teams and typically took longer to finish compared to 1. x games.

The government of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior was elected in March 2004 in a free and fair election round, but was replaced by the government of Prime Minister Aristides Gomes which took office already in November 2005.

Brooks took a brief break from retirement early in 2005 to perform for several charity causes.

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

The second major reforms took place in December 2005, when the States of Jersey Law 2005 came into force.

On November 9, 2004, following George W. Bush's re-election, Ashcroft announced his resignation, which took effect on February 3, 2005 when the Senate confirmed White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney general.

The second round of elections took place on November 8, 2005.

Although Weah was still threatening to take his claims to the Supreme Court if no evidence of fraud was found, Johnson-Sirleaf was declared winner on November 23, 2005, and took office on January 16, 2006.

Elections to select a government to replace the transitional government took place in October and November 2005.

A preliminary planning phase of cleaning and surveying took place in 2004 and 2005, and was followed by a five-year excavation program beginning in June 2006.

Strickland and Hardy in 2005 took this argument further, suggesting that the shortbow was a myth and all early English bows were a form of longbow.

The rivalry took a one-year hiatus in 2005 but resumed in 2006.

Using The Movies, Alex Chan, a French resident with no previous filmmaking experience, took four days to create The French Democracy, a short political film about the 2005 civil unrest in France.

His mother took her three children: Jocelyn ( 1919 – 2005 ), Frances ( 1922 – 1994 ) and Marlon, to live with her mother in Santa Ana, California.

Relations between the UK and Nepal have historically been friendly and there have been close links between the Royal Families, although relations deteriorated when the King took power in 2005.

After the Spurs took home the Larry O ' Brien Championship Trophy in 2005, the 2006 Finals featured two franchises making their inaugural Finals appearances.

The team took a step back in 2005 with a 6-10 record.

Charlie Manuel took over the reins of the club from Bowa after the 2004 season, and general manager Ed Wade was replaced by Pat Gillick in November 2005.

In late 2005, Porsche took an 18. 65 % stake in the Volkswagen Group, further cementing their relationship, and preventing a takeover of Volkswagen Group, which was rumoured at the time.

In September 2005, Kid Rock filled in for Johnny Van Zant, the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd on the band's hit " Sweet Home Alabama " at the Hurricane Katrina benefit concert.

* Kenny Olson – lead guitar ( 1994 – 2005 )

* Kenny Tudrick – lead guitar ( 2005 – 2006 )

In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise and started calling their games in the 2005 – 2006 basketball season on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran, Mark Jackson.

* 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.

However, because of her relative small size and an inability to be trained to lead the team out of a tunnel, Faith was replaced by a augur hawk named Taima before the start of the 2005 season.

Their original lead singer, Steve Hill, died in October 2005, aged 52, of liver cancer.

* Steve Hill – lead vocals ( 1973 – 1974, died in 2005 )

* Michael Steele – lead, backing and harmony vocals, bass guitar ( 1983 – 1989, 1999 – 2005 )

At the end of 2004, May and Taylor announced that they would reunite and return to touring in 2005 with Paul Rodgers ( founder and former lead singer of Free and Bad Company ).

* Joey Belladonna – lead vocals ( 1984 – 1992, 2005 – 2007, 2010 – present )

* Rob Caggiano – lead guitars ( 2001 – 2005, 2007 – present )

* Dan Spitz – lead guitars, backing vocals ( 1983 – 1995, 2005 – 2007 )

* John Bush – lead vocals ( 1992 – 2005, 2009 – 2010 )

This would eventually lead to another court case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which went to trial on September 26, 2005 and was decided in U. S. District Court on December 20, 2005 in favor of the plaintiffs, who charged that a mandate that intelligent design be taught was an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

Jansen ’ s ( 2005 ) experiment can lead counselors and other therapists to build a program in order to help eating disorder patients to feel better about their bodies by creating a positive bias.

Despite being hampered by injuries prior to and during 2005 – 06, the Flyers lived up to those expectations in the first half of the season, reaching the top of the league standings in January while simultaneously holding a ten-point lead in the Atlantic Division.

In the lead up to the January 2005 Iraqi election INC joined the United Iraqi Alliance coalition of mainly Shi ' ite groups as Chalabi reinvented himself as a sharp critic of the occupation, aligning himself with Muqtada al-Sadr.

After the series was resumed in 2005, the Time Lords were presented as no longer existing, having been destroyed by the Doctor at some intervening point during the Last Great Time War in which they became corrupted, lead by a tyrannical Lord President Rassilon willing to sacrifice the entirety of time and space for survival.

In May 2005, lead singer and founder member, Dave Floyd planned to move to America so the band had to call it a day.

In 2005, it was announced by Russell W. Bessette, Executive Director New York State Office of Science Technology & Academic Research ( NYSTAR ), that RIT will lead the University at Buffalo and Alfred University in an initiative to create key technologies in microsystems, photonics, nanomaterials, and remote sensing systems and to integrate next generation IT systems.

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

She played the lead role in a pantomime production of Snow White in December 2005 at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham.