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 )

Noted Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene penned a 2008 book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, detailing his occasional appearances with Jan & Dean's touring band throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

In February 2008, foreign affairs minister Dr. Kieren Keke stated: " We have got a major unemployment crisis in front of us.

Simmons joined Kid Rock's 2008 Rock N Roll Revival Tour, performing " It's Like That ", " It's Tricky ", " You Be Illin '", " Run's House ", " Here We Go ", " King of Rock " and " Walk This Way " with Kid Rock.

Crow has also recorded a studio version of " So Glad We Made It " for the " Team USA Olympic Soundtrack " in conjunction with the 2008 US Olympic team sponsors AT & T.

"' We Shall Rebuild Anew a Powerful Nation ': UNRRA, Internationalism and National Reconstruction in Poland ," Journal of Contemporary History, July 2008, Vol.

Notable story arcs of this decade are " Revolution " ( 2000 ), " Eve of Destruction ," " E Is For Extinction " ( 2001 ), " Planet X ," " Here Comes Tomorrow ," " Gifted ," ( 2004 ) X-Men: Phoenix-Endsong, " House of M ," " Decimation " ( 2005 ), Deadly Genesis ( 2005 – 2006 ), " Endangered Species " ( 2007 ), " Messiah Complex " ( 2007 – 2008 ), " Divided We Stand " ( 2008 ), " Manifest Destiny " ( 2008 – 2009 ), X-Infernus, " Messiah War ," " Utopia ," " Nation X " and " Necrosha " ( 2009 ).

NASA footage including Grissom's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions was released in high definition on the Discovery Channel in June 2008 in the television series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions.

* Dan Koeppel, The New York Times article of June 18, 2008, " Yes, We Will Have No Bananas "

*" Telluride ", a song from Josh Gracin's second studio album, We Weren't Crazy ( 2008 ); a cover of the Tim McGraw song of the same name

The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It ( 2008 ) excerpt and text search

Everybody Talks about the Weather ... We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2008 ( ISBN 978-1583228319 ).

( 2008 ) We, The Northern Cheyenne People.

* We Meet, 2008

A three-quarter reunion took place on August 23, 2008 when Stolt and Portnoy joined Morse at the Three Rivers Prog Fest in Pittsburgh for " We All Need Some Light " and " Stranger In Your Soul ".

We were running out of steam around 2008 so it was crucial to take a break and recharge batteries.

* 2008: We Create a Mental Atmosphere with Tragida-My Pinky Lady ( D-Mark Remix )

We Are Soldiers Still ; A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam was highly anticipated and published in 2008.

" In May 2008, Pegg said, " We have never categorically ruled out the possibility of more.

In early 2008, she performed on the song " Yes We Can ", a will. i. am project supporting Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

On October 28, 2008, she released her first compilation album, Since We Met: The Best of 1996-2006.

In December 2008, IGN listed it as 8th out of 10 in a list of " Franchises We Want Resurrected " and praised the game as having " some of the best writing and characterization seen in gaming ".

In 2008 Burke discussed his reasons for leaving Atlantic Records forty years earlier: " We left Atlantic because we weren ’ t being treated properly and so many things had been done that, as I said before, have still not been overturned to this day.