The 2005 CPL World Tour focused on the one-on-one deathmatch game Painkiller and had a total prize purse of $ 1, 000, 000.

Starting in 2005 the Kentucky Derby included the fifth-place finisher in its purse distribution ; prior to that year only the first four finishers in the Derby received purse money.

Jerry Moss and his wife, Ann, are also longtime horse breeders and owners who received the largest ever first-place purse from the Kentucky Derby in 2005 after the victory of the first horse he had ever entered in that race, Giacomo.

The WBC had ordered Taylor and Wright to begin negotiating on the fight on December 12, 2005 and if the two sides could not agree, a purse bid would be ordered.

In 2005 it won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the literary prize with the world's largest purse.

On 7 April 2005 Mandrakesoft announced the decision to change the name of the parent company to Mandriva and their distribution name to Mandriva Linux, although the Brazilian operation would not change its name from Conectiva immediately.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.

The World Bank records that electricity distribution losses for 2005 totaled about 38. 2 %, a rate of losses exceeded in only three other countries.

* Humanoids Publishing ( distribution rights for English-language reproductions in America 2004 to 2005 )

* 2005: Yuval Tal founds Payoneer-a secure online payment distribution solution

Digital feature film distribution began in 2005, along with the arrival of the world's first online film festival, the GreenCine Online Film Festival, sponsored by DivX.

As of 2005, this trend is expected to continue with moves towards ( currently experimental ) digital distribution and projection as mainstream technologies.

A 2005 study presented data supporting the nutrition hypothesis, which predicts that gains will occur predominantly at the low end of the IQ distribution, where nutritional deprivation is probably most severe.

A Freebox in Berlin, Germany 2005, serving as a distribution center for free donated materials

In late 2004 and early 2005, regular sabotage of plants and pipelines reduced export and domestic distribution of oil, particularly to Baghdad.

In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking ( Brazil ) and Spanish-speaking Latin America.

On 3 August 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced the creation of Mozilla Corporation, described as " a taxable subsidiary that serves the non-profit, public benefit goals of its parent, the Mozilla Foundation, and that will be responsible for product development, marketing and distribution of Mozilla products.

As a result of Paramount's 2005 acquisition of DreamWorks, Paramount has gained North America distribution rights as well ( though still through the DreamWorks division ).

According to the CIA the gini index which measures income inequality ( the higher the less equal the income distribution ) was clocked at 45. 0 in 2005, compared to 32. 0 in the European Union and 28. 3 in Germany.

Similarly, a generally 1 / f distribution pattern has been observed in film shot length by researcher James E. Cutting of Cornell University, in the study of 150 popular movies released from 1935 to 2005.

In 2005, Bungie authorized the release of the full original Mac OS trilogy for free distribution online, which combined with Aleph One and the efforts of the fan community now allows the entire trilogy to be played for free on any of Aleph One's supported platforms ( Mac OS, Linux and Windows ).

Based on the proportion of Cecropia species producing Mullerian bodies in at least some parts of their distribution, myrmecophytes comprise the vast majority ( 80 %) of species in the genus ; most nonmyrmecophytes occur at higher elevations and on islands, where their ants are missing .” ( Berg, Rosselli and Davidson, 2005: page 214 )

In the article written by Davidson, 2005 on page 221, Table 1contains known obligate Cecropia-ants listed by species and geographic distribution.

A map of the distribution of Cecropia can be found in the article written by Berg and Rosselli, 2005.

2005 distribution of ACT scores

Sysco foods opened their distribution plant during 2005.

A Freebox in Berlin, Germany 2005, serving as a distribution center for free donated materials

: Geographic distribution: One of the few features, if not the only one, restricted near-exclusively to southwestern Pennsylvania in North America, although it can be found in other accents of the world such as Cockney and South African English ( Labov, Ash, and Boberg 2005 ; Johnstone, Andrus, and Danielson 2006 ).

: Geographic distribution: The merger is found in southwestern Pennsylvania ( Layton 1999 ; Wisnosky 2003 ; Johnstone, Andrus, and Danielson 2006 ) as well as parts of the southern United States, including Alabama, Texas and the west ( McElhinny 1999 ; Labov, Ash, and Boberg 2005 ).

In 2005, the International Committee for Weights and Measures ( CIPM ) agreed to study the proposed change.

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

OSCE experts estimate that between 116, 000 and 147, 000 people left Armenia for economic reasons between 2002 and 2004, with two-thirds of them returning home by February 2005.

* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

; Assault on an officer of Revenue and Customs: This offence is created by section 32 ( 1 ) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005.

This offence was abolished and replaced by the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005.

* 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).

Atari has had significant financial issues for several years now, posting losses in the tens of millions since 2005.

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 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.

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

In 2005, a California federal court ruled that a group alleging that anthroposophy is a religion for Establishment Clause purposes did not provide any legally admissible evidence in support of this view ; the case is under appeal.

* Cheng, Eva ; " Vietnam's Agent Orange victims call for solidarity ", Green Left Weekly, September 28, 2005

In 2005 construction plans for a lot on the hill offered the opportunity to the Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventatives ( Inrap ) to excavate.

Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble ( in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone ), its sucuk ( spiced sausages ), its kaymak ( meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight ) and various handmade weavings.

She was honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2005 for her contributions to the entertainment industry.

* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

-the case for, Australian Prescriber 2005 ( note: pharmaceutical company conflict of interest statement at the end )

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

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

In March 2005, he underwent surgery for a partially collapsed lung.

Today the harmonized ISO / IEC 80000-13: 2008 – Quantities and units — Part 13: Information science and technology standard cancels and replaces subclauses 3. 8 and 3. 9 of IEC 60027-2: 2005, namely those related to Information theory and Prefixes for binary multiples.

On the same day of contract signature for the P-3BR work, 29 April 2005, EADS CASA was also awarded a contract to supply 12 C-295M medium transport aircraft.