Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

Charles presented the virtual reality game show Cyberzone ( 1993 ) on BBC2 ; the late-night entertainment show Funky Bunker ( 1997 ) on ITV ; the reality television show Jailbreak ( 2000 ) on Channel 5 ; and the late-night chat show Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 2004 ) on ITV.

Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

He was with the station at its launch, and while it was being tested during the previous year, under the name Network Y. Charles has also hosted the stations Breakfast Show ( 2004 ) and has sat in for Andrew Collins, Phil Wilding, Phill Jupitus and Radcliffe & Maconie.

On January 6, 2004, Prime Minister Pierre Charles, who had been suffering from heart problems since 2003, died.

* 1919 – Charles Sweeney, American general ( d. 2004 )

Caribbean governments have been coming under increased pressure from their electorates to devise ways to override previous rulings by the JCPC such as: Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan v The Attorney General for Jamaica ( 1993 ) Jeffrey Joseph v The Queen for Barbados ( 2002 ), and Charles Matthews v The State of Trinidad & Tobago ( 2004 ), all of which are Privy Council judgments concerning the death penalty in the Caribbean region.

* Sue Brown, " Fresh Light on the Friendship of Charles Brown and Joseph Severn ," Keats-Shelley Review 18 ( 2004 ): 138-148.

Alexander also appeared with Kelsey Grammer in the 2004 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.

More recent buildings like Frank Gehry's Stata Center ( 2004 ), Steven Holl's Simmons Hall ( 2002 ), Charles Correa's Building 46 ( 2005 ), Fumihiko Maki's Media Lab Extension ( 2009 ) stand out among the Boston area's classical architecture and serve as examples of contemporary campus " starchitecture ".

The oldest known polar bear fossil is a 130, 000 to 110, 000-year-old jaw bone, found on Prince Charles Foreland in 2004.

* Edmund Gosse, Father and Son ( New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907 ); Oxford World Classics edition, 2004.

The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies ( 1959, 2004 ).

* Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, ( Dallas, Texas, 2004 – 2009 )

American examples are Saigon Station ( 2003 ) by Charles Gillen, The Dream Merchant of Lisbon ( 2004 ) and No Game For Amateurs ( 2009 ) by Gene Coyle, Edge of Allegiance ( 2005 ) by Thomas F. Murphy, A Train to Potevka ( 2005 ) by Mike Ramsdell, Voices Under Berlin ( 2008 ), by T. H. E.

* 1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor ( d. 2004 )

Lampson, Kay, Bob Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker received the National Academy of Engineering's prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2004 for their work on the Alto.

** Ray Charles, American singer, musician, and actor ( d. 2004 )

* Charles D. Gunnoe, ( 2004 ) " Palatinate " in Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World

Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J. M. Barrie historical fantasia Finding Neverland ( 2004 ), costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

* Cowdery, Charles K. Bourbon, Straight: The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey ( Chicago: Made and Bottled in Kentucky ), 2004.

" Bernard Grun delivers this assessment in his " Timetables of History ", reissued in 2004: " In 732 Charles Martel's victory over the Arabs at the Battle of Tours stems the tide of their westward advance.

* David Stark Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Co. 1854 to 2004 ( 2004 ) ISBN 1-84033-323-5

In 2004, the band went on a short U. S. tour in support of their triple-live album Stark Raving Jams ( a collection of various live instrumental and improvisational material from throughout their career ).

* Stark Raving Jams 2004

* Ray Stark ( 1915 – 2004 ), film producer

He is a recipient of the 1997 National Medal of Technology, the 2001 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award, and the 2004 A. M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

Clark's replacement Billy Stark oversaw this relegation, and left the club in 2004 after two seasons of varying success.

Billy Stark was quickly instated as his replacement in August 2004 and the season ended with Queen's in 4th place.

* P. H. Hansen, ' Stark, Dame Freya Madeline ( 1893 – 1993 )', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( 2004.

Ray Stark ( October 3, 1915 – January 17, 2004 ) was an American film producer and powerbroker known for his Machiavellian ways.

On his death in 2004, Ray Stark was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

* Rebecca Whisnant, Christine Stark, " Not for sale: feminists resisting prostitution and pornography ", Spinifex Press, 2004, ISBN 1-876756-49-7, pp. 287 – 288

* TCM Remembers 2004: Irene Manning, Uta Hagen, Carl Anderson, Carrie Snodgress, Ray Charles, Paul Winfield, Alan King, Jan Sterling, Ron O ' Neal, Bernard Punsly, Isabel Sanford, Ingrid Thulin, John Drew Barrymore, Virginia Grey, director Russ Meyer, producer Ray Stark, Peter Ustinov, Anna Lee, John Randolph, Frances Dee, Spalding Gray, Noble Willingham, Rodney Dangerfield, composers David Raksin, Jerry Goldsmith & Elmer Bernstein, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Fay Wray, Tony Randall, Christopher Reeve, Ronald Reagan, Janet Leigh and Marlon Brando.

* Stark, Christine and Rebecca Whisnant ; Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution And Pornography, Spinifex Press, 2004, ISBN 1-876756-49-7

30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons is a 2004 publisher's retrospective written by Harold Johnson, Steve Winter, Peter Adkison, Ed Stark, and Peter Archer.

* Draper, incorporated in 1978 and annexed land in Utah County in 2004

In 2004, Draper citizens voted for a tax increase that would pay for the purchase of key pieces of property in the Corner Canyon area.

In 2004, due to the cancellation of the NHL season, Hatcher, along with fellow Detroit Red Wings teammates Chris Chelios and Kris Draper, decided to play minor league hockey with the Motor City Mechanics based out of Fraser, Michigan.

Stuart Draper adapted the play into a gay version called Two Gentlemen of Verona which played at the Greenwich Playhouse in New York City from 20 April to 18 May 2004.

Draper went on to win the former Labour seat of Makin over four consecutive elections from 1996, to 1998, 2001 and the 2004 Federal Election holding her 1 % margin in the 1998 GST election.

In 2004, because of the cancellation of the NHL season, Chelios, along with fellow Red Wing teammates Derian Hatcher and Kris Draper, decided to play hockey for the Motor City Mechanics, a UHL team based out of Fraser, Michigan.

In May 2004, DivX raised an additional round of $ 7 million, investors included Draper-affiliate Zone Ventures, WI Harper Group, Draper Atlantic, Wasatch Venture Fund, Springboard-Harper, Tim Draper, Cardinal Venture Capital, ALi Corporation, and Cyberlink International Technology Corp.

The tracks intended for the album were then released in September 2004, along with the non-album singles and a selection of B-sides ( compiled by Draper from a top 20 voted for by fans on the band's official website ) and rarities in a 3 CD box set entitled Kleptomania.

Neither Chad nor King have been involved in the music industry since the split, though in 2004 in a press release for Kleptomania, Draper claimed that he had started writing with Chad again, but later admitted that he was only helping him build up backing tracks and had stopped turning up to the sessions.

* 2004: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson