The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1932 – Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager ( d. 2008 )

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

* 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

* 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat ( b. 1921 )

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

* 1954 – Anthony Minghella, British film director ( d. 2008 )

* Johnson, Anthony, Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma ( Thames & Hudson, 2008 ) ISBN 978-0-500-05155-9

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

*" Words " ( Anthony David song ), 2008

On March 18, 2008, SAS organized the rally in support of Dick Anthony Heller's right to keep an operable handgun for self-protection in his home subject of the United States Supreme Court hearing of DC v. Heller in Washington, DC.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Hecht, Anthony: " Clair de lune " ( before 1977 ); Nyhart, Nina: " Captive Pierrot " ( 1988 ; after the Paul Klee painting above under # Works on canvas, paper, and board | Works on Canvas, Paper and Board ); Peachum, Jack: " Our Pierrot in Autumn " ( 2008 ).

Essays in Honour of Anthony R. Birley on his Seventieth Birthday, Gdansk 2008, 92-130 ( with a huge bibliography of over 300 titles and discussion of the communis opinio on Hero ).

The house was also used in The Duchess ( 2008 ), featuring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, and The Wolfman ( 2010 ), with Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.

* Master and Commander: Remembering David Lean, by Anthony Lane The New Yorker, 31 March 2008

With the 14th pick of the 2008 NBA draft, the Warriors selected and signed Anthony Randolph out of LSU.

* DeMEGO 006 Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox: End Of Daze CD ( 12. 2008 )

In 2008 Chief Red Blood Anthony Morales received the prestigious “ Heritage Award ” from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.

Bombay Beach was also the location and the topic segment of the U. S. Southwest episode of the Travel Channel series Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations aired in 2008.

On June 1, 2008, Silvergate Distributors, Inc. was formed as a new company by LGB of America president Anthony Castellano.

* Samuel Anthony Silva " In Her Own Voice: Exploring the Role of the Piano in the Deuxieme Sonate pour Violine et Piano by Germaine Taillferre ", Doctoral Dissertation, 2008 University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music

Christie appeared in a segment of the 2008 anthology film New York, I Love You, written by Anthony Minghella, directed by Shekhar Kapur and co-starring Shia LaBeouf.

* In the 2008 videogame Fallout 3, the character known as Betty, encountered within the Tranquility Lane computer simulation, was partially based upon Anthony Fremont.

* Anthony J. Bertino " Forensic Science: Fundamentals and Investigations " South-Western Cengage Learning, 2008, ISBN 978-0-538-44586-3

Sir Anthony O ’ Reilly was honoured with the Media Person of the Year Award at the 55th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in May 2008.

* Milo Tindle in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth with Simon MacCorkindale, tour of Britain ( 2008 )

* Venables, Anthony, 2008.

On 6 July 2008, Gates starred in the line-up for " A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe ", a charity fundraiser to celebrate 25 years of musical theatre composers George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.