An expedition in May 2008 by 19 scientists studied the geology and biology of eight Macquarie Ridge sea mounts, as well as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to investigate the effects of climate change of the southern Ocean.

His later attempt to paddle a kayak to the North Pole in late 2008, following the erroneous prediction of clear water to the Pole, was stymied when his expedition found itself stuck in thick ice after only three days.

This suggestion was further supported when a marine archaeology expedition funded by NOAA in November 2008 confirmed that the wreck comprises artifacts of which the style and date of manufacture support the association of this wreck with that of the Trouvadore.

An expedition to capture photographs of the falls was undertaken by Dr. David Rawlinson, Adam Ferguson, Matthew Farrell, Nicholas Wright, Tadhgh Knaggs, and Travis Hogg between 16 and 20 October 2008.

Newnes was sufficiently impressed by Borchgrevink to offer the full costs of his proposed expedition — around £ 40, 000, ( at least £ 3 million in 2008 values ).

In September 2008 Hitchcock joined the Disko Bay Cape Farewell expedition to the West Coast of Greenland.

An expedition in August 2008 revealed that its lowest point had not yet been reached.

* Article about the 2008 expedition from D2 / Dagens Næringsliv ( Norwegian )

Cleve Hicks is interviewed on Dutch TV about his latest expedition ( 2007 – 2008 ) to the Congo.

In 2008 Plake, accompanied by climbing partner Remy Lecluse, had a successful expedition in the Villaconota range in Southern Peru.

* Forscher filmen lebende Fische in Rekordtiefe ( In German ) from Spiegel 10 / 09 / 2008 about an expedition filming fish at a depth of more than 7, 000 m

There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

Retrieved September 30, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 243212 / Great-Drought

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

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

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

In 2008, Penny Sartori, an intensive care nurse from Swansea, published a book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.

In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.

* 2008 – Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

On April 26, Matt Ryan ( quarterback from Boston College ) was drafted third overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Falcons.

The Atlanta Falcons hold the record among all major American sports leagues for the longest streak of seasons without consecutive winning seasons, a streak that lasted from 1966 – 2008.

Most recently the 2008 movie Iron Man used the Larghetto movement from Salieri's Piano Concerto in C major.

Ajax's shirts have been sponsored by TDK, and by ABN AMRO from 1991 to 2008.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

The ANC and its members were officially removed from the United States terrorism watch list in 2008.

Following Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and Mbeki's resignation as president in 2008, the Mbeki faction of former ministers led by Mosiuoa Lekota split away from the ANC to form the Congress of the People.

Hesser applied for a buyout from the Times in late March 2008 and is no longer with the newspaper.

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

The third London revival ran at the Menier Chocolate Factory from November 22, 2008 until March 8, 2009.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

Minnesota State University, ( 10 July 2008 ).

Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-84299-0.

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008.

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

Final Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1972 – 2008 ( University of Nebraska Press, 2010 ) 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-8032-5965-2

In the Beano's home city of Dundee, a special exhibition was held at the University of Dundee featuring original artwork and other memorabilia loaned from D. C. Thomson-it ran until 20 September 2008.

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

* Lucy Chesser, Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008.

On October 22, 2008, the soccer team snapped a 201-game losing streak with a last-second goal against Cal Lutheran University, 1 – 0.

* Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Mauricio Antón, Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ; ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3

Thompson also blamed Counter-Strike for the February 14, 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting perpetrated by Steven Kazmierczak on the day after the shooting.

The Book of Peace by Christine de Pizan. University Park: Penn State Press, 2008.

President James Wright announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician Jim Yong Kim on July 1, 2009.

A 2008 University of Pennsylvania study of 6, 000 dog owners who were interviewed indicated that dogs of smaller breeds were more likely to be " genetically predisposed towards aggressive behaviour ".

* Peter Brass, Advanced Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

The first video images of an electron's energy distribution were captured by a team at Lund University in Sweden, February 2008.

* E. Rubiola, Phase Noise and Frequency Stability in Oscillators Cambridge University Press, 2008.

* 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities ( including gunman ) and 18 injuries.