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.

The editor, sports editor, and student business manager are chosen in December, the new staff assuming responsibility for the paper at the beginning of the second semester.

Transmission, Gregory Chaitin also presents this theorem in J. ACM – Chaitin's paper was submitted October 1966 and revised in December 1968, and cites both Solomonoff's and Kolmogorov's papers.

The January 2003 CIA paper Iraqi Support for Terrorism states that al-Libi told a foreign intelligence service that " Iraq — acting on the request of al-Qa ' ida militant Abu Abdullah, who was Muhammad Atif's emissary — agreed to provide unspecified chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qa ' ida associates beginning in December 2000.

" In December, the paper announced that Beria and the six accomplices mentioned, " in the pay of foreign intelligence agencies ," had been " conspiring for many years to seize power in the Soviet Union and restore capitalism.

The parliament approved the government's economic growth and strategy paper in December 2004, but international financial institutions and Western investors will not be satisfied until the government begins to address fiscal adjustment, wage restraint, and payment of debt arrears.

K. A. Wilde submitted a paper to Science on December 15, 1952, before Miller submitted his paper to the same journal on February 14, 1953.

In December 1939, the German Army issued its own study paper ( designated Nordwest ) and solicited opinions and input from both the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe ( German Air Force ).

Rømer presented his results to the French Academy of Sciences, and it was summarised soon after by an anonymous reporter in a short paper,, published 7 December 1676 in the Journal des sçavans.

The relative severity of various British profanities, as perceived by the public, was studied on behalf of the British Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission, BBC and Advertising Standards Authority ; the results of this jointly commissioned research were published in December 2000 in a paper called " Delete expletives ?".

Since a paper describing the algorithm had been published in August 1977, prior to the December 1977 filing date of the patent application, regulations in much of the rest of the world precluded patents elsewhere and only the US patent was granted.

In the December 1997 issue of Dragon Magazine, in an article on Garfield's trading card game patent application, it was reported that Garfield is the great-great-grandson of U. S. President James A. Garfield ( 1831 – 81 ), and that his great-uncle invented the paper clip.

The paper is now known for printing the first English version of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in its December 30, 1871 edition, and the paper " argued the cause of labor with eloquence and skill.

Lewiston's main industries are agriculture, paper and timber products production at the mill owned and operated by the Clearwater Paper Corporation ( until December 2008, a part of the Potlatch Corporation ) and light manufacturing.

* December 10 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

* John C. Shedd and Mayo D. Hershey ," The History of Ohm's Law ", Popular Science, December 1913, pages 599-614, Bonnier Corporation ISSN 0161-7370, gives the history of Ohm's investigations, prior work, Ohm's false equation in the first paper, illustration of Ohm's experimental apparatus.

The executive order did allow for legitimate settlers ( non-speculators ) to use paper until December.

On December 7, 1975, Kirkpatrick announced in a column on the editorial page that Rick Soll, a " young and talented columnist " for the paper whose work had " won a following among many Tribune readers over the last two years " resigned from the paper after acknowledging that a column he wrote that appeared on November 23, 1975, contained verbatim passages that another columnist wrote in 1967 and later published in a collection.

The Spectator ’ s founding editor, the Dundonian reformer Robert Stephen Rintoul launched the paper on 5th December 1828.

Corrugated ( also called pleated ) paper was patented in England in 1856, and used as a liner for tall hats, but corrugated boxboard was not patented and used as a shipping material until December 20, 1871.

On December 6, 2006, the law committee accepted a paper by Rabbis Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins and Avram Reisner on same-sex marriage and ordination of homosexual rabbis, while it upheld the biblical prohibition on male intercourse.

In the following years the ownership of the paper changed five times and it was briefly renamed Kansas State Register between August 24 and December 10, 1870.

In December 2010 Navasota residents and the town paper reported the appearance of wild hogs in downtown Navasota.