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23 unusual facts about 2005


Adam Maida

In April 2005, following the Pope's death, he traveled to the Vatican as a cardinal elector to participate in the conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

Akinori Nakagawa 2001–2005

Akinori Nakagawa 2001–2005 is the second album from Akinori Nakagawa.

Ala-Too Square

After several weeks of unrest throughout the country, over 15,000 people gathered early in the afternoon to protest the results of the 2005 parliamentary elections.

Arwa Damon

Civil events she covered include the Iraqi elections of January 2005, the constitutional referendum vote in October 2005, and the Iraqi election of December 2005.

Christian Tumi

He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

Drobytsky Yar

Excursions to the ravine had already been held before, but the official opening was on January 27, the anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp's 1945 liberation (later designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day).

Dry Kids: B-Sides 1997–2005

It features 18 tracks from singles and EPs across their entire career, including a version of "Blind", an early live favourite which was omitted from their debut album The Good Will Out, as was their Otis Redding-influenced "The Way I Do".

Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi

Etsou was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

Freedom of information in the United Kingdom

As a result, a manifesto promise from the 1997 election was finally fulfilled just in time for the 2005 election.

Greg Bearup

He then spent six months in Bamyan, in the remote mountains of Central Afghanistan, working on the Afghan Parliamentary Elections in 2005.

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino

Cardinal Ortega y Alamino was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

James Mawdsley

In the UK 2005 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the Hyndburn constituency for the Conservative Party.

José Freire Falcão

Just six months short of his 80th birthday, Freire Falcão was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

Juan María Atutxa Mendiola

He stayed in office for two terms, but his third run for the head of the legislature after the 2005 election was blocked by the junior coalition partners of his party.

Los de Abajo

They had one candidate to deputy on the 2005 parliamentary election.

Lucy Powell

After Britain in Europe was wound down in June 2005 because of the referendum "No" votes in France and the Netherlands, she worked for the non-departmental public body or quango NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) inititally in a public affairs role and later to establish and manage the Manchester Innovation Fund project.

Martin Hohmann

He kept his seat as an independent member of parliament until the next Bundestag election of 2005.

Mike Rendell

Michael Rendell (born 1944) is a British-born Falkland Islands politician and former Royal Marine who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency from 2005 until 2009.

Peace River Regional District

The municipal representatives, and their alternates, are elected by the municipal councils and the electoral area directors are elected for 3 year terms by their constituents during province-wide local elections.

Psychological pricing

In its 2005 United Kingdom general election manifesto, the Official Monster Raving Loony Party proposed the introduction of a 99-pence coin to "save on change".

Reggiane Re.2005

On 2 July 1943, 362ma was sent to Sicily to face the imminent invasion and were involved in combat with Spitfires, claiming on 11–14 July to shoot down five of them (two were confirmed kills; a reconnaissance Spitfire and another downed in a strafing attack over Comiso).

Sergio Rubin

Along with Italian journalist Frances Amrogetti, he decided to write the biography when Bergoglio got 40 votes at the 2005 Papal conclave, the highest number of votes ever obtained by a Latin American papabile.

Singles and EPs: 2001–2005

Singles and EPs: 2001 - 2005 is a two disc compilation album released by UK band The Music.


2004–05 Swedish Figure Skating Championships

The 2004–2005 season Swedish Championships were held in Nyköping from December 8 through December 12, 2004.

2005–06 Fijian political crisis

Fiji Labour Party President Jokapeci Koroi issued a statement on 14 January 2006 accusing Lesi Korovavala, the Chief Executive Officer of the Home Affairs Ministry, of having conspired with Home Affairs Minister Josefa Vosanibola to arrange a secret meeting between Baledrokadroka and Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, in an attempt to depose Bainimarama.

500th Air Expeditionary Group

Its last known assignment was at Christchurch, New Zealand, where it was activated for the summer 2005-2006 season.

Abe Pollin

Winners of the award have included Georgia M. Dickens, 2002 Executive Director, The S.T.E.P.U.P. Foundation Of Greater Washington, D.C. Inc., Harvey C. Barnum, Jr., 2005 Teacher of the Year, Jason Kamras and 2006 Miss District of Columbia, Kate Michael.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

On 26 October 2005, a US warplane struck a suspected insurgent safehouse near the Syrian border in an attempt to kill al-Baghdadi.

Barry Tourist Railway

Some parts of the line, particularly around the Plymouth Road/Barry Island area, were used for several scenes in the Doctor Who episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" in January 2005.

Bill Scheft

A collection of his columns, The Best of "The Show", was published by Warner Books in 2005.

Collective memory

Jan Assmann: Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies, Stanford UP 2005

Corey Lynch

Lynch played collegiate ball at Appalachian State University from 2003 to 2007, helping his Mountaineers win 3 back-to-back national championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 .

David W. Márquez

On March 31, 2005, Governor Frank Murkowski appointed Márquez as Attorney General for the State of Alaska.

Domenico Lombardi

Dr. Lombardi is a former executive board member of the World Bank Group (2005–2007) and of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2001–2005).

Dusty Saxton

In 2005 Dusty responded to a MySpace ad for a guitarist spot in Dallas, Texas based rock band, Analogue, fronted by eventual Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights bassist, Nick Jay.

Ekdahl

Lennart Ekdahl (1912–2005), Swedish sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics

Elix Skipper

In December 2005, the Diamonds in the Rough exchanged heated words with Major League Baseball catcher A.J. Pierzynski.

Giovanni Lapentti

The only tournament that he participated in and failed to reach the second round during 2005 was the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, where he lost to Kevin Kim.

Hafodunos

A book, entitled Hafodunos: Triumph of the Martyr was published by Mark Baker in 2005, detailing the history of the estate.

Henry Roth

In 2005, ten years after Roth’s death, the first full biography of his life, the prize-winning Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, by literary scholar Steven G. Kellman, was published, followed in 2006 by Henry Roth’s centenary, which was marked by a literary tribute at the New York Public Library, sponsored by CCNY and organized by Lawrence I. Fox, Roth’s literary executor.

Hermanus

Zakes Mda wrote 2005 the novel The Whale Caller (ISBN 0-312-42382-9) in which the Whale Crier of Hermanus is the main character, a man who gets enthralled by a Southern Right whale he names Sharisha.

Hiroomi Takizawa

Takizawa later switched to skicross, and made his World Cup debut in January 2005 with a twelfth place in Pozza di Fassa.

Human rights in Uzbekistan

In 2005 the Uzbek government arrested Sanjar Umarov, an opposition politician, and raided the office of Sunshine Uzbekistan, an opposition political alliance.

James Wani Igga

Following the 2005 signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement establishing the autonomy of Southern Sudan, Igga was in charge transitioning the SPLM from an insurgent strategic leadership to a political party.

James Whitbourn

In 2005, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, under Leonard Slatkin, premiered his largest choral work Annelies, a setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, at London's Cadogan Hall to wide critical acclaim.

Jaye Jacobs

In Autumn 2005, Jacobs appeared in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing, dancing with professional partner Andrew Cuerden.

Jean-François Berdah

He is co-founder and chief-editor of the Revue d'Histoire Nordique since 2005, a bilingual French-English historical review dedicated to the history and civilisation of both Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, and director of the Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet of the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail.

John Atkinson Pendlington

Until recently, the system was believed to have been developed by Bill Ferguson but Pendlington's grandson sent a 1914 newspaper cutting to Richie Benaud in 1994, and Benaud published this in his book My Spin on Cricket (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2005, page 278).

Jori Hulkkonen

His most recent solo full-length Dualizm, released in 2005, featured collaborations with John Foxx, Nick Triani, Tiga, Jerry Valuri, and José González.

Katorz

During the recording of this album, guitarist Denis D'Amour (a.k.a. Piggy) died on August 25, 2005 due to colon cancer.

Kolej DPAH Abdillah, Kuching

As of 2005, the Kolej Abdillah has two taekwondo clubs: the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) and World Taekwondo Federation (WTF).

Marlins Television Network

From 1993 to 2005, the Marlins Television Network aired games to homes not only in South Florida but to other parts of Florida.

Muhammed al-Ahari

During September 2005 he attended the First Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta, Turkey, where he presented a paper on links between Freemasonry and the Bektashi community.

Notoliparis antonbruuni

It was described in 2005 from a single poorly preserved specimen collected in 1966 from the hadal zone off Callao, Peru.

Paul Fentener van Vlissingen

Ranked as the richest man in Scotland in 2005, he contributed to the development of game reserves in Africa and bought Letterewe estate in Scotland, where he pledged the right to roam, years ahead of the rest of the country.

Peace Through Superior Firepower

The DVD contains a full concert filmed on 2 April 2005 at Elysée Montmartre, Paris.

Phil Morrison

Philip Morrison (1915–2005), American physicist involved with the Manhattan Project, who later became a faculty member at MIT

Röyksopp's Night Out

It contains live recordings from a concert in Norway, Rockefeller (Oslo) in November 2005.

Scott Cam

In between, he appeared on the successful Renovation Rescue (2004–present) before appearing in his own live lifestyle program Our Place, however this was cancelled after just five episodes in 2005.

Self Destruction Blues

"Dead By X-Mas" has been covered by the Japanese hardcore band The Piass in 1994, the US punk band The Hillstreet Stranglers in 2005, the British electro group Sohodolls in 2007 and the Finnish rockabilly band Big Daddy & Rockin’ Combo in 2008.

Steve Nardelli

The line-up changed, re-uniting Nardelli with Chris Squire, and together they wrote Syndestructible (2005) with Gerard Johnson and Paul Stacey.

Stewart Tele Enterprises

They were Pyramid and was hosted by Donny Osmond in 2002 for syndication and Chain Reaction in 2005 produced by British television producer Michael Davies' production company Embassy Row in association with and distributed by Sony Pictures Television aired on GSN and was hosted by Dylan Lane.

Symphonic Anime Orchestra

Founded in 2005, the orchestra has performed at the Nan Desu Kan anime convention 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The Dot and the Line

In 2005, Robert Xavier Rodriguez made a musical setting of the book for narrator and chamber ensemble with projected images, and in 2011 he made a version for full orchestra.

The Jackie Robinson Story

On April 19, 2005, 20th Century Fox and Legend Films released a colorized version of the film, donating a portion of the proceeds to the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a charity that benefits education for gifted students.

The Monterays

Ron Lauback joined the band in 2002 first as a replacement for Jack Abert, then switching to lead guitar in 2005 with the departure of Dave Moziak.

Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine

Published by conservative publisher World Ahead Publishing on May 31, 2005, it recounts the stories of seven women who crossed paths with Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Elizabeth Gracen, Juanita Broaddrick, and Sally Perdue.

Tom French Cup

Carl Hayman was awarded the Tom French Cup in both 2004 and 2006, and was instrumental in helping New Zealand Māori defeat the British and Irish Lions for the first time in 2005.

Torie Osborn

From 1997 through 2005, Osborn was the Executive Director of the Liberty Hill Foundation, a Los Angeles based non-profit dedicated to environmental justice.

Tsholotsho District

Tsholotsho is a well known “battle ground” of Zimbabwean politics with the latest event being the so-called Tsholotsho Declaration of 2005 involving leading ZANU-PF members and current Tsholotsho Member of parliament Jonathan Moyo in which they were accused of mooting a boardroom removal of President Mugabe.

Tyrone Crystal

Since 2005, Tyrone Crystal has manufactured the trophy for the Canadian Grand Prix.

Viva Zapatero!

Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3.

Yegor Yakovlev

Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (14 March 1930 - 18 September 2005) was one of the founders of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin's policy of glasnost, and one of the most respected Russian journalists.