According to Strmiska and Sigurvinsson ( 2005 ), American Asatruar tend to prefer a more devotional form of worship and a more emotional conception of the Nordic gods than Scandinavian practitioner, reflecting the parallel tendency of highly emotional forms of Christianity prevalent in the United States.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In 2005, Clinton criticized the Bush administration for its handling of emissions control, while speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal.

* United Kingdom: The UK introduced universal BCG immunization in 1953, and until 2005, the UK policy was to immunize all school children at the age of 13, and all neonates born into high-risk groups.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

Chilean exports to the United States totaled US $ 9. 3 billion, representing a 37. 7 % increase compared to 2005 ( US $ 6. 7 billion ).

Until at least September 2005, the United States funded efforts to help protect a major pipeline, the 769-kilometer-long Caño Limón – Puerto Coveñas pipeline, which carries about 20 percent of Colombia's oil production to Puerto Coveñas from the guerrilla-infested Arauca region in the eastern Andean foothills and Amazonian jungle.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, passed by the United States Congress, found:

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.

A 2005 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) estimates that although the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about 13 million hectares per year, the global rate of deforestation has recently been slowing.

* 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.

* 2005 – Freeman V. Horner, United States Army officer ( b. 1922 )

In the United States, these chemicals were detected in almost all human blood samples tested by the Centers for Disease Control in 2005, though their levels have sharply declined since most uses were banned in the US.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission in 2005 changed channelization and licensing costs in a nearby band ( 1920 MHz – 1930 MHz, or 1. 9 GHz ), known as Unlicensed Personal Communications Services ( UPCS ), allowing DECT devices to be sold in the U. S. with only minimal changes.

* Humane Society of the United States – 28 % for 2005 – 2006

* 2005 UNMIS United Nations Mission in Sudan.

In 2005, the population of the United States spent $ 496 billion for out-of-home dining.

As of 2005, Fiji has become embroiled in a number of disagreements with other countries, including Australia, China, New Zealand, the United States, and Vanuatu.

The United States Census Bureau estimates that in 2005 the population of the City of Fort Collins was 128, 026, the population of the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area was 271, 927 ( 163rd most populous MSA ), and the population of the Front Range Urban Corridor was 4, 013, 055.

A " Roaring Forties " replica of a 1965 Ford GT40 in Shelby livery on display at the 2005 United States Grand Prix

In 2005 Guatemala ratified its signature to the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement ( DR-CAFTA ) between the United States of America and several other Central American countries.

In 2005, Lineker was sued for defamation by Australian footballer Harry Kewell over comments Lineker had made writing in his column in the Sunday Telegraph about Kewell's transfer from Leeds United to Liverpool.

According to the U. S. National Transportation Safety Board, in 2005 general aviation in the United States ( excluding charter ) suffered 1. 31 fatal accidents for every 100, 000 hours of flying in that country, compared to 0. 016 for scheduled airline flights.

In September 2007, Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) intervened to attempt to resolve the dispute over two villages along the Benin-Burkina Faso border that remain from a 2005 ICJ decision.

Demographics of the Federated States of Micronesia, Data of FAO, year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

The resulting " Helium Privatization Act of 1996 " ( Public Law 104 – 273 ) directed the United States Department of the Interior to start emptying the reserve by 2005.

In 2005 Haiti's total external debt reached an estimated US $ 1. 3 billion, which corresponds to debt per capita of US $ 169, in contrast to the debt per capita of the United States which is US $ 40, 000.

Haunted attractions in the United States bring in an estimate $ 300 – 500 million each year, and draw some 400, 000 customers, although press sources writing in 2005 speculated that the industry had reached its peak at that time.

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( 2005 ) verified gravity darkening using the measurements made by the Palomar and Navy interferometers, together with new measurements made by the VINCI instrument at the VLTI.

* U. S. Navy Historical C / The Bermuda Triangle: Startling New Secrets, Sci Fi Channel documentary ( November 2005 )

Today, a 300-man strong Navy Unit RFMF, which on 25 July 2005 celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of its founding.

Two of the wind turbines installed by the Navy in 2005

In 2005, the Navy completed a $ 12 million wind project erecting four wind turbines capable of supplying about a quarter of the base's peak power needs, reducing diesel fuel usage and pollution from the existing diesel generators, while saving $ 1. 2 million in annual energy costs.

Satanism is now allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite much opposition from Christians, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States debated over protecting the religious rights of prison inmates after a lawsuit challenging the issue was filed to them.

S-353 TCG Preveze, a Type 209 submarine | Type 209 / 1400 submarine of the Turkish Navy, during the Sorbet Royal 2005 NATO exercise near the Gulf of Taranto, June 24, 2005.

* December 23 – James Stockdale, U. S. Navy admiral and vice presidential candidate ( d. 2005 )

In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified ; it concluded that the Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese Navy on August 2, but that there were no North Vietnamese Naval vessels present during the incident of August 4.

" In 2005, Michael A. Smith, a U. S. Navy veteran, was arrested for disorderly conduct in Kansas City after he spit chewing tobacco in Fonda's face during a book signing event for her autobiography My Life So Far.

* 2005: June 24 – 26 at Navy Pier, Chicago

In 2005, Arlington National Cemetery acquired of additional land from the National Park Service, along with from the Department of Defense that was part of Fort Myer and that is the site of the Navy Annex .< ref >

A cornucopia made of bread, prepared for a Thanksgiving meal in 2005 for U. S. Navy personnel

* Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a U. S. Navy SEAL and North Patchogue native ( 1976 ), posthumously received the Medal of Honor in 2007 for bravery in action against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2005.

U. S. Navy Captain Richard A. Stratton in 2005 recalled that the phrase was the punchline of a dirty joke he had heard while attending flight school in Pensacola, Florida in 1955.

* David Brown ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1927 – 2005 ), British admiral

Documents filed with Wade's plea say that he took Harris to dinner in March 2005, a year after the illegal contributions, where they discussed the possibility of another fundraiser and the possibility of getting funding for a Navy counterintelligence program placed in Harris's district.

Harris subsequently sent a letter on April 26, 2005 to defense appropriations subcommittee Chairman C. W. Bill Young, in which Harris sought $ 10 million for a Navy project backed by Wade.

The Royal Australian Navy has also assumed command of coalition forces in the Persian Gulf on two occasions ; Combined Task Force 58 in 2005 and Combined Task Force 158 in 2006.

RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 launched from USS Lake Erie ( CG-70 ) | USS Lake Erie, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga class cruiser, 2005, which destroyed USA 193.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale ( December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005 ) was one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the United States Navy.