A few areas of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area have had some severe outbreaks of tornadoes at different points in the past, including the Ruskin Heights tornado in 1957, and the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence.

* 1997 – 2003, Metropolitan Building in Warsaw, Poland

* A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America by Elinor Langer ( Metropolitan Books, 2003, ISBN 0-8050-5098-1 )

Armstrong County was added to the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2003.

Erie County was designated a Metropolitan Statistical Area with Sandusky as its principal city in 2003.

In 2003, Carter County was added to the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) area and is somewhat of an exurb county for those cities.

Calhoun County was added to the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2003, along with Bond and Macoupin counties in Illinois, and Washington County, Missouri.

In 2003 Scott County, Indiana was removed from the Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area and became the Scottsburg, IN Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Prior to 2003, the area was officially known as the Clarksville-Hopkinsville Metropolitan Statistical Area and included only Montgomery and Christian counties.

For example, an October 2003 directive by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government required teachers to stand during the national anthem at graduation ceremonies.

Karak City's Metropolitan population is estimated to be 68, 800 ( 2003 estimate ).

Despite these issues, Gheorghiu and Alagna returned to the Metropolitan Opera for five performances of L ' elisir d ' amore in 1999 and for four performances of Faust in 2003.

It underwent extensive refurbishment and updating prior to its occupation by the Metropolitan Police around 2003.

The first performance of the work at the Metropolitan Opera took place on December 4, 2003, with James Levine conducting and stage direction from Andrei Şerban, and Marcello Giordani singing the role of Cellini.

To mark the bicentenary of Berlioz's birth in 2003, Les Troyens was revived in productions at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris ( conducted by John Eliot Gardiner ), Amsterdam ( conducted by Edo de Waart ), and at the Metropolitan Opera ( with the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as Dido, conducted by James Levine ).

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003

* Honorary Doctorates of Law: University of Strathclyde 1992, University of Teeside 1993, Keele University 1994, Lancaster University 1994, Leeds Metropolitan University 1995, University of Bristol 1997, University of Wolverhampton 1997, The Open University 1997, University of Abertay Dundee 1997, Tavistock Centre under the auspices of the University of East London 1997, University of Derby 1998, University of Leicester 1998, University of York 1999, National University of Ireland 2000, University of Aberdeen 2000, Oxford Brookes University 2001, Caledonian University 2001, Robert Gordon University 2002, Judicial Academy of Russia 2002, Polytechnic University of Tomsk 2002, Middlesex University 2003, De Montfort University 2004, University of Sheffield 2005, University of Staffordshire 2005, University of Paisley 2005, University of Edinburgh 2005

* Metropolitan Antony ( Bloom ) of Sourozh ( 1914 – 2003 ), Russian Orthodox bishop

It was first published in the United States in November 2003 by the company Metropolitan Books, and later republished in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books.

In 2003, Fleming sang Imogene in at the Met, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Rusalka at Covent Garden, and Violetta in La traviata with both Houston Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.

An Air Defense Identification Zone ( ADIZ ) has existed since February 10, 2003, around the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area to restrict air traffic near Washington, D. C.

In approximately 2000, a TAFE Centre was built in Commerce Avenue as part of the South-East Metropolitan College of TAFE ; it became a fully functioning campus in 2003 when SEMC merged into Swan TAFE, and is now a campus of Polytechnic West.

Modern revivals have been staged at the Vienna State Opera ( 1999 ), The Metropolitan Opera ( 2003 ), the Teatro La Fenice in Venice ( 2005 ), the Paris Opera ( 2007 ), the Zurich Opera House ( 2007 ), the Staatstheater Stuttgart ( 2008 ) and De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam ( 2009 ) and the Tel Aviv ( Israel ) Opera.

In 2003, the Metropolitan Transit Authority restored the classic lines of the bridge by removing the stiffening trusses and installing fiberglass fairing along both sides of the road deck.

In 2003, at a gathering for the Agency of Cultural Affairs, twelve policies were proposed in a written report to allow public-made films to be promoted and shown at the Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art.

Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.

In being awarded the 2003 Henry C. Turner Prize by the National Building Museum, then-museum board chair Carolyn Brody praised his impact on construction innovation: " His magnificent designs have challenged engineers to devise innovative structural solutions, and his exacting expectations for construction quality have encouraged contractors to achieve high standards.

* Seattle Art Museum, Jacob Lawrence retrospective exhibition, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, February 6 – May 4, 2003.

* Drutt, Matthew ; Malevich, Kazimir, Kazimir Malevich: suprematism, Guggenheim Museum, 2003, ISBN 0-89207-265-2

* Article on Minimalist Art at the Dia Beacon Museum " Dia Beacon ", Tiziano Thomas Dossena, Bridge Apulia USA N. 9, 2003

* Seoul National University Museum of Art ( Seoul, 2003 – 2005 )

* Chinese National Museum of Peking, 2003

Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, touring exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin ( 2001 ), Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao ( 2002 ), Haunch of Venison, London ( 2003 ); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ( 2003 ); City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand ; Millennium

* In December 2003, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum opened the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles.

* 2003 Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, USA

In November 2003, the Natural History Museum in London held an exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of its exposure.

* Kofron, Christopher P. ( 2003 ) " Case histories of attacks by the southern cassowary in Queensland " Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49 ( 1 ) 335-338

Recent retrospective surveys include " All About Art ," Louisiana Museum, Humelbaek ( 2003, traveled to the Hayward Gallery, London, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through 2005 ); and " Classic of the New ", Kunsthaus Bregenz ( 2005 ), " Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art " Museo Triennale, Milan ( 2010, traveled to the Museum Ludwig, Cologne ).

For example, the Oscar statuette won by the Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions ( 2003 ) was until recently on display at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City.

In San Francisco, Jerry and Estelle Cimino operate their Beat Museum, which began in 2003 in Monterey, California and moved to San Francisco in 2006.

Two other museums are in Kanchanaburi: the Thailand-Burma Railway Museum, opened in March 2003, and the JEATH War Museum.

According to figures from 2003, some popular tourist sites include ( in visitors per year ): Eiffel Tower ( 6. 2 million ), Louvre Museum ( 5. 7 million ), Palace of Versailles ( 2. 8 million ), Musée d ' Orsay ( 2. 1 million ), Arc de Triomphe ( 1. 2 million ), Centre Pompidou ( 1. 2 million ), Mont-Saint-Michel ( 1 million ), Château de Chambord ( 711, 000 ), Sainte-Chapelle ( 683, 000 ), Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg ( 549, 000 ), Puy de Dôme ( 500, 000 ), Musée Picasso ( 441, 000 ), Carcassonne ( 362, 000 ).

A major exhibition, " Turner's Britain ", with material ( including The Fighting Temeraire ) on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery from 7 November 2003 to 8 February 2004.