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 2005, Armenia's industrial output ( including electricity ) made up about 30 percent of GDP.

During the first 11 months of 2006, net imports grew by 21 percent to $ 1. 95 billion, while exports stood at $ 895 million, up 0. 3 percent from the same period in 2005.

In France, Santo Daime won a court case allowing them to use the tea in early 2005 ; however, they were not allowed an exception for religious purposes, but rather for the simple reason that they did not perform chemical extractions to end up with pure DMT and harmala and the plants used were not scheduled.

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

Previous BBC News programming includes Head 2 Head, Your News, STORYFix and News 24 Tonight a regular weekday evening programme providing a round up of the day's news which ran from 2005 to 2008.

Its trade deficit has been increasing at a large rate since 1997 ( See chart ) and increased by 49. 8 billion dollars between 2005 and 2006, setting a record high of 817. 3 billion dollars, up from 767. 5 billion dollars the previous year.

In 2005, the transportation sector made up 4. 2 % of Canada's GDP, compared to 3. 7 % for Canada's mining and oil and gas extraction industries.

Total foreign direct investment ( FDI ) was only $ 3. 4 billion in 2006, up 52 % from a poor performance in 2005.

This dispute flared up again in July 2005 following the visit of a Canadian minister to the disputed island.

Exports from the United States, including those from Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands, to the Dominican Republic in 2005 totaled $ 5. 3 billion, up 11 % from the previous year.

In 2005 a performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel stirred up the local press since the performance contained suggestions of pedophilia and incest.

By 2005, Greenland was beginning to lose more ice volume than anyone expected – an annual loss of up to per year, according to more recent satellite gravity measurements released by JPL.

With just 1, 032 babies born in 2009 to every 1000 fertile women, it is estimated that 26. 8 % of the population will be aged 65 or more in 2033, up from 12. 1 % in 2005.

Quake IV ( 2005 ) picks up where Quake II left off — finishing the war between the humans and Strogg.

Hsieh resigned from the office of mayor to take up the office of Premier of the Republic of China in 2005.

In three subsequent elections to the Sejm, he ran all the time from Łódź, each time gaining more and more votes ( from 50 thousand in 1991 up to 146 thousand in 2001 ); he held a seat in Parliament till 2005.

He gave up virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

* In the 2005 Playstation 2 video game, Haunting Ground, there is a garden in the mansion filled with these plants that let out a piercing scream when they are dug up.

* 2005 – Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower.

For eight years up to late 2005 the president of the movement was Rabbi Ehud Bandel.

The University of Waterloo and University of Colorado conducted simulations in 2005 that indicated that the early atmosphere of Earth could have contained up to 40 percent hydrogen — implying a much more hospitable environment for the formation of prebiotic organic molecules.

The UN-OHCHR, in response to events in Nepal, set up a monitoring program in 2005 to assess and observe the human rights situation there

Nicaraguan exports to the United States, which account for 59 % of Nicaragua ’ s total exports, were $ 1. 7 billion in 2008, up 45 % from 2005.

U. S. exports to Nicaragua, meanwhile, were $ 1. 1 billion in 2008, up 23 % from 2005.