The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

In December 2003 Aston Martin announced it would return to motor racing in 2005.

Since 31 December 2003, the system has been closed to new users, at that time, it covered 100 % of the Spanish population, but now some antennas have been given to GSM operators.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

As a direct result of this, a brand new style across all presentation for the channel launched on 8 December 2003 at 09: 00.

In Shanghai, where bicycles were once the dominant mode of transport, bicycle travel on a few city roads was banned temporarily in December 2003.

October 2003: January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December

By December 2001, it was ratified by the ECMA, with ISO standardization following in April 2003.

Another popular early project was Jonathon Fowler's JFDuke3D, which in December 2003 received backing from the original author of Build, programmer Ken Silverman.

Following the completion of a one-year stand-by program with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in December 2001, Ecuador successfully negotiated a new $ 205 million stand-by agreement with the IMF in March 2003.

* Lords of EverQuest ( PC, December 2003 )

The first building, the Life Sciences Laboratory, was dedicated and opened with 104 employees on the campus in December 2003.

Further to the north, Saint-Barthélemy and the northern French part of Saint Martin once came under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe but on 7 December 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity, a decision which took effect on 22 February 2007.

On December 7, 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity.

# Here is a version invented by Frank Rubin on December 4, 2003: Give me three English words, commonly spoken, ending in g-r-y.

In December 2003, Maple Leaf Heritage Investments, a Nova Scotia-based company created to acquire shares of Hudson's Bay Company, announced that it was considering making an offer to acquire all or some of the common shares of Hudson's Bay Company.

December 2005, Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 R2, which is actually Windows Server 2003 with SP1 ( Service Pack 1 ) plus an add-on package.

Windows Server 2003 R2, an update of Windows Server 2003, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005.

All stations commenced digital broadcasting during 2003, and in December 2003, a fifth station, TDT, began broadcasting.

In December 2003, Marvel Entertainment acquired Cover Concepts from Hearst Communications, Inc.

Saddam Hussein, who vanished in April, was captured on December 13, 2003.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

It is named after the city of Berkeley, California, the location of the University of California Radiation Laboratory where it was discovered in December 1949.

On December 2, 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted the world's first controlled nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.

The Dominican Republic's small Catalina Island has been studied since 13 December 2007, by a team of underwater archaeologists from Indiana University, after an Italian tourist announced the discovery of an old wreck at just under the clear blue waters, at a distance of no more than offshore.

The first public version of Doom was uploaded to Software Creations BBS and an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin – Madison on December 10, 1993.

Daniel Jones ( 12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967 ) was a London-born British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne ( University of Paris ).

The last successful drop kick extra point in the NCAA was by Jason Millgan of the Hartwick College on December 11, 1998, against St. Lawrence University.

Einsteinium was first identified in December 1952 by Albert Ghiorso and co-workers at the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with the Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories, in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test.

* John Searle, " The Storm Over the University ", The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1990

However, some such as Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, have pointed out that prices have increased irrespective of supply and demand issues: Ghosh points to world wheat prices, which doubled in the period from June to December 2010, despite there being no fall in global supply.

In December 2009, after the release of thousands of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit — a controversy that came to be known as " Climategate "— Singer wrote an opinion piece for Reuters in which he said the scientists had misused peer review, pressured editors to prevent publication of alternative views, and smeared opponents.

In December of the same year, he received an invitation to fill the position of extraordinary professor of philosophy at the University of Jena.

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Yale University Press, 24 December 2007.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

Jean Philippe Rushton ( born December 3, 1943 ) is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r / K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1995 ).

After Indian Independence in 1947, the West Bengal State Legislature, with the concurrence of the Government of India, enacted the Jadavpur University Act, 1955 to convert the institute into Jadavpur University with full autonomy on ( December 24, 1955 ).

In a survey conducted by Monash University in December 2009, flybuys was ranked as " most worthwhile joining " among major Australian loyalty programs.

* Benson, Donald C., The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies, Oxford University Press, USA ; New Ed edition ( December 14, 2000 ).

The first Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University was Alexander George Mitchell, who held the position until December 1975, when he was replaced by Edwin Webb, who served until 1986.

Because of on-going repairs to the roof of the Metrodome, the Vikings played their December 20 game versus the Chicago Bears at TCF Bank Stadium ( the home of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers ).

The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking In Israel, University of Wisconsin Press ( December 8, 1995 ).

Enrico Fermi created the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, called Chicago Pile-1 ( CP-1 ), in a racquets court below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942.