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It was commissioned in 2003, and is operated by a consortium including the countries of Brazil and Chile, Michigan State University, the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ( CTIO ) ( part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, NOAO ), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.
There were nine qualified scouts sitting around collecting base pay the day Helva was commissioned.
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.
He graduated in 1842, 24th in a class of 56 cadets, and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd U. S. Artillery.
William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.
Cover art was commissioned and pre-orders were taken, but it never arrived.
Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!
de Pompadour's favorite artist and was commissioned by her for numerous paintings and decorations.
He had an office in the Library of Alexandria, and was commissioned by Ptolemy to make a collection of all the tragedies and satyric dramas that were extant.
Alypius was afterwards commissioned to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem as part of Julian's systematic attempt to reverse the Christianization of the Roman Empire by restoring pagan and, in this case, Jewish practices.
He was also interested in history and culture, and commissioned Saxo Grammaticus to write Gesta Danorum, a comprehensive chronicle of the history of the Danes.
In 1815 he was commissioned by the Pope to superintend the transmission from Paris of those works of art which had formerly been conveyed thither under the direction of Napoleon.
Canova's marble statue George Washington was commissioned by the State of North Carolina after the war of 1812 to be displayed in its Capitol Building.
The bell was commissioned from the London firm of Lester and Pack in 1752, and was cast with the lettering ( part of Leviticus 25: 10 ) " Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.
An early by-product, however, was the Mahagonny-Songspiel, sometimes known as Das kleine Mahagonny, a concert work for voices and small orchestra commissioned by the Deutsche Kammermusik Festival in Baden-Baden and premiered there on 18 July 1927.
When the Mexican-American War started, Pike joined the cavalry and was commissioned as a troop commander, serving in the Battle of Buena Vista.
Pike was commissioned as a brigadier general on November 22, 1861, and given a command in the Indian Territory.
The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Dürer and his assistants c. 1500.
An orchestration was therefore commissioned in secret from Friedrich Cerha and premièred in Paris ( under Pierre Boulez ) only in 1979, soon after Helene Berg's own death.
His rather atypical Battle of Issus ( or of Alexander ) of 1529 was commissioned by William IV, Duke of Bavaria as part of a series of eight historical battle scenes destined to hang in the Residenz in Munich.
It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes.
The San Agustin was commissioned into the Portuguese Navy as the Santo Agostinho, and command of her was given to Phillip.
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He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.
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.
The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.
* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003
In 2003, the An Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages was published by Starostin, Dybo, and Mudrak.
The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.
In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.
Kocharyan's re-election as president in 2003 was followed by widespread allegations of ballot-rigging.
"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.
A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.
A record cold temperature of 450 ± 80 pK in a Bose – Einstein condensate ( BEC ) of sodium atoms was achieved in 2003 by researchers at MIT.
* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.
In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.
Seeing Calgary and Edmonton are part of a single economic region as the TD study did in 2003 was novel.
The necessity to promote a healthier ecosystem for the people through the rehabilitation and regreening of the environment was stressed in Proclamation No. 643 that amended Proclamation No. 396 of June 2, 2003.
Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.
AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.
In 2003, author Graham Phillips hypothetically concluded that the Ark was taken to Mount Sinai in the Valley of Edom by the Maccabees.
He was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 27 February 2003.
Also introduced in 2003 was the DB9 coupé, which replaced the ten-year-old DB7.
In 2003, a method was developed for predicting subcellular location of apoptosis proteins
Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.
The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.
Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).
Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and with the release of the latter the domain controller role was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.
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