The alternate jersey has been worn twice a season beginning in 2003.

EDGE was deployed on GSM networks beginning in 2003 – initially by Cingular ( now AT & T ) in the United States.

Iraq was occupied by foreign troops beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with military forces coming primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom.

The Colts would lose to the New England Patriots and Tom Brady in the 2003 AFC Championship Game and the 2004 divisional playoffs beginning a rivalry between the two team, and more importantly between Manning and Brady.

The Patriots owned the beginning of the series, defeating the Colts in six consecutive contests including the 2003 AFC Championship game and a 2004 AFC Divisional game.

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.

* 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

A few recent microcontrollers beginning in 2003 have " self-programmable " flash memory.

* 2006 – A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.

Based on that data, the law mandated law enforcement agencies to submit a report to the law enforcement agencies ' governing body beginning March 1, 2003 and each year thereafter no later than March 1.

In December, 2003, Cumberland Games began to support the free game with commercial supplements, beginning with the Risus Companion and the founding of the International Order of Risus.

Enterprise was the first to be produced in high-definition ; the first to be broadcast in HDTV, beginning on October 15, 2003, midway into the third season ; the first to be filmed on digital video ( season 4 ); and the first science fiction television or movie production in history to use video footage taken on another planet ( the Sojourner rover approaching the Yogi Rock, taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and used in the opening credits ).

The Presidents Cup and Solheim Cup, staged in off-years of the Ryder Cup, were moved from even-numbered to odd-numbered years beginning in 2003.

The program was phased out beginning in May 2003.

However, a continuous clock was used on November 8, 2003 beginning in the 3rd quarter when the Oklahoma Sooners opened up with a 49-0 halftime lead against the Texas A & M Aggies.

The Iraqi government and military collapsed within three weeks of the beginning of the U. S .- led 2003 invasion of Iraq on 20 March.

In 2002 and the beginning of 2003 the government arrested fewer suspected Islamic fundamentalists than in the past.

A website entitled The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator, launched on July 1, 2003, contained a Java applet that simulates a large population of monkeys typing randomly, with the stated intention of seeing how long it takes the virtual monkeys to produce a complete Shakespearean play from beginning to end.

However, beginning in 2003 Dmitri Vasilyev of Astrakhan State University led a series of excavations at the Samosdelskoye site near the village of Samosdelka ( Russian: Самосделка ) in the Volga Delta.

The application of " Project Blueprint "-introduced at the beginning of the 2003 season ( where both makes of car were examined to ensure parity ), has ensured that the racing between Holden and Ford has become closer than ever ( reducing the risk of a series dominated by a single make ).

Also in 2003, José Lima pitched for the Bears at the beginning of the season ; after the Kansas City Royals signed him away from Newark, Lima won his first seven decisions for the Royals.

The growth of the mobile telephone market since the beginning of the economic recovery in 2003 has been impressive, with new customers now preferring a comparatively cheap cellular phone to land line household service.

As these target dates were missed, the Phase I process was later commenced on 1 November 2002, with Phase II and III beginning on 16 November 2003 and 21 February 2004 respectively.

In the beginning of 2003 Quark released a server version of QuarkXPress, called QuarkDDS.

" Bill Walton said at the time that Nets-Celtics was the " beginning of the next great NBA rivalry " during the Eastern Conference Finals in 2002 with the Nets advancing to the NBA Finals, though New Jersey would go on to sweep Boston in the 2003 playoffs.

In the beginning of 2003 United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or MONUC, observer teams present in that country since 1999 monitored serious combats and human rights violations in Ituri province.

In 1907, beginning with a simple thought experiment involving an observer in free fall, he embarked on what would be an eight-year search for a relativistic theory of gravity.

One of the questions raised by the author concerns the objectivity of the sociologist: how may one study an object that, from the very beginning, conditions and relates to the observer?

In the view of Dio Cassius, a contemporary observer, his accession marked the descent " from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron "— a famous comment which has led some historians, notably Edward Gibbon, to take Commodus ' reign as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire.

Since the movement's international expansion beginning in the 1960s and extension of social and cultural activities beginning in the 1970s, Ikeda expanded his predecessor's ideas of " human revolution " and " engaging with the world, rather than liberation from it ", emphasizing, in the words of one observer, a " humanistic activism " as both the religious and social aims of Nichiren Buddhism.

From the beginning Whately was a keen-sighted observer of the condition of Ireland question, and gave offence by supporting state endowment of the Catholic clergy.

" Hamid Reza Assefi, the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said " We hadn't permitted an observer from the beginning.

In this method the observer himself controls the magnitude of the variable stimulus beginning with a variable that is distinctly greater or lesser than a standard one and he varies it until he is satisfied by the subjectivity of two.

There are early representations and reports of ice hockey-type games being played on ice in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially organized by students at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 who, by two years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first teams.

This was done because the Colts, like many other football teams, were beginning to manufacture the jerseys to be tighter to reduce holding calls and reduce the size of the sleeves.

However, leg spin has again become popular with cricket fans and a successful part of cricket teams, driven largely by the success of Shane Warne, beginning with his spectacular Ball of the Century to Mike Gatting in 1993.

The game was highly anticipated, with verbal exchanges between the teams during the week, and it marked the beginning of a difficult stretch for the team.

In the beginning of the 1960s, the first oil company teams carried out preliminary surveys and the first cargo of crude was exported from Abu Dhabi in 1962.

Several days before the beginning of the invasion of Iraq two SDV teams were launched from Mark V Special Operations Craft in the Persian Gulf.

The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed " Negro Major Leagues ".

For instance, the National Indoor Football League, a rival indoor league, saw large numbers of expansion teams after beginning play in 2001 but many struggled financially.

The first season took place in 1996 beginning with ten teams.

Finally, it was decided that the NBA would expand by 4 teams, with the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat debuting for the 1988 – 89 season and the Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic beginning for the 1989 – 90 season.

All teams played a shortened 50-game regular season schedule beginning on February 9 with very limited days off.

MLB also had only two wildcards teams from its first year of having wildcards in 1995 until expanding to a four wildcard format beginning with the 2012 season.

When the league expanded to 10 teams beginning in 2009 – 10, the finals expanded to six teams.

1915. Stengel was an outfielder on several teams in the National League beginning on September 17, 1912: the Brooklyn Dodgers from-17 ; the Pittsburgh Pirates in and ; the Philadelphia Phillies in and part of ; the New York Giants from 1921 to ; and the Boston Braves in and.

With new NCAA legislation, beginning in 1996, women's teams also competed in Division I.

* Enschede ( Old Church to University ) is the final stage of the Batavierenrace, a footrace relay beginning in Nijmegen, contested mostly by university student teams and claimed to be the largest relay races in the world, with 8000 participants.

He played shortstop for six different teams in his twelve-year career in Major League Baseball, beginning his rookie year on May 11, 1929 with the New York Yankees.

Radical changes were made to the two British teams, spelling the beginning of the end for one.

The Playoff beard is a tradition common with teams in the National Hockey League and now in other leagues where players allow their beards to grow from the beginning of the playoff season until the playoffs are over for their team.

Founded in the beginning of the 20th century as a single-sport institution, Fluminense is today an umbrella organization for several teams in more than 16 different sport activities.

At the beginning of a dodgeball game, the balls are lined up on the central dividing line ( in some versions of the game, the balls are thrown in the air for the players to catch or divided evenly to both the teams pre-match ).

While the Evansville Crimson Giants were the only league team to go under between the end of the 1922 season and the beginning of the 1923 season, few teams other than the Bears saw profits from football.

He covered four Major League Baseball teams, beginning with a long tenure calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals, then the Oakland Athletics ( for one year ) and the Chicago White Sox ( for eleven years ), before ending his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.

It raises its own teams, some of which are rated first-class depending on the status of the opposition: for example, to mark the beginning of each English season ( in April ), MCC traditionally plays the reigning County Champions at Lord's.