Air Greenland and Continental Airlines formerly ran direct flights from the US East Coast from 2007 to 2008, but these were discontinued.

However, following the November 2008 referendum on increased autonomy, which attracted significant popular support ( 72 % turnout, 75 % vote in favor ) the governments of Greenland and Denmark have agreed to a 30-point package that will begin to reverse these particulars.

In April 2009 Greenland landed its first bowhead whale in nearly forty years after being given a quota by the IWC in 2008 for two whales a year until 2012.

* Rothman, Kenneth, Sander Greenland and Timothy Lash ( 2008 ).

From 1979 to 1988, in 1997 and from 2003 to 2008, he was Chairman of the Greenland Landsting.

* Jens Rosing ( 1925 – 2008 ), a Greenlandic artist notable for designing the coat of arms of Greenland, numerous Greenlandic postage stamps, as well as illustrated children's books and water colours − was born in Ilulissat.

The most northerly black smokers are a cluster of five named Loki's Castle, discovered in 2008 by scientists from the University of Bergen at 73 degrees north, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway.

Bhatia, 2008, Fracture propagation to the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet during supraglacial lake drainage, Science, 320, pp. 778.

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

2008 During a 3 week field campaign, Jason Box, Ian Howat, Slawek Tulaczyk, and Yushin Ahn conduct measurements of Store Glacier, west Greenland.

Since 1996 the library has engaged in several large digitisation projects providing open access to antique maps of Iceland ( 1998 ), Timarit. is — journals and newspapers ( 2002 in collaboration with the National Library of the Faroe Islands and the National Library of Greenland ), Handrit. is-a catalog and digital library of manuscripts ( in collaboration with the Árni Magnússon Institute and the Arnamagnæan Collection ) and the online Icelandic National Bibliography ( 2008 ) among others.

In 2008, Peralta directed a series of television commercials for Burger King in which the Inuit people of Greenland, Transylvanians of Romania and Hmong of Thailand, known as " Whopper virgins " in the ads, were offered their first taste of a fast food hamburger and asked to compare the Whopper to McDonald's Big Mac.

In the mid-1990s, the Atlantic Salmon Federation in cooperation with partners developed sonic tracking technology, and by 2008, the salmon had been tracked from rivers such as the Restigouche and the Miramichi as far along their migration routes as the Strait of Belle Isle, between Labrador and Newfoundland, and halfway to feeding grounds off Greenland.

* " Greenland Shark " on " As It Happens " May 6, 2008 ; CBC Radio 1 ( WMV file )

Category: 2008 disestablishments in Greenland

* On 7 June 2008, an Eurocopter AS350 of Air Greenland crashed on the runway at Nuuk Airport.

Ivittuut, ( old spelling Ivigtût ) was a municipality ( from 1951 until 2008 ), located on the coast of Arsuk fjord in southern Greenland.

This thought had originated due to the idea that sign language hinders the development of an oral language in deaf children ( Mayberry, 2008 ).

* 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.

The Falcons had the NFL's second best winning percentage at home during the period of 2008 to 2010 with a. 833 percentage.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

The development of the chemistry of alkaloids was accelerated by the emergence of spectroscopic and chromatographic methods in the 20th century, so that by 2008 more than 12, 000 alkaloids had been identified.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

Both Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility had announced that they would observe the same shutdown guidelines as in the United States, and decommissioned their AMPS networks in 2008.

It had been hoped that patient adherence to antipsychotics would be higher with the atypicals, but a 2008 review found that the data have failed to substantiate the notion that novel antipsychotic drug use leads to improved medication compliance and favorable clinical outcomes.

By expanding the conditions for which they were indicated, Astrazeneca's Seroquel and Eli Lilly's Zyprexa had become the biggest selling antipsychotics in 2008 with global sales of $ 5. 5 billion and $ 5. 4 billion respectively.

" He had the touch ," Frazetta said of Capp in 2008.

In Flanders, VRT channels Een, Ketnet / Canvas ) had a combined market share of 40. 0 % in 2008, VMMa channels ( VTM, 2BE and JIM ) 27. 27 %, SBS Belgium channels ( VT4 and Vijf TV ) 10. 91 % and Media ad Infinitum ( Vitaya and Vitaliteit ) 3, 64 %.

In 2008 Bulgaria had 204 airports, 127 of which had paved runways.

On July 9, 2008, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton posted a video to YouTube claiming that they had discovered the body of a dead Sasquatch in a forest in northern Georgia.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

The fourth revamp, which happened with the issue dated 18 October 2008 had been the most major revamp to date.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

As of 2008, the country had an estimated 987 km of gauge track.

In total, there were 34 airports in 2008, only 10 of which had paved runways.

As of September 2008, only one law remained to be approved, but was delayed because it had a faulty procedure for approval.

By 2008, numerous service areas and petrol stations had been constructed along all Croatian motorways.

On May 7, 2008, Borland announced the sale of CodeGear division to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $ 23 million price and $ 7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland.

This reaction was studied for the first time in 2008 by the team at RIKEN, Japan, in order to study the decay properties of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh, which is a decay product in their claimed decay chains of ununtrium .< ref > The decay of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh by the emission of 9. 05-9. 23 MeV alpha particles was further confirmed in 2010.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

*' Old Rivalries stall Côte d ' Ivoire army merger ,' Jane's Defence Weekly, 12 November 2008, p. 23

* Darío Castrillón Hoyos ( 23 February 2007 – 1 March 2008 )

In 2008 Dallas wore the throwback uniform on November 23, 2008 against the San Francisco 49ers.

It fell on 23 March in 2008, but will not do so again until 2160.

" Elizabeth I ( 1533 – 1603 )" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( 2008 ) accessed 23 Aug 2011

Lansana Conté died on December 23, 2008, leading to a coup d ' état by the military.

In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.

Goodness reunited for shows at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard on November 22, 2008 and May 23, 2009.

This prime was discovered on 23 August 2008 by Edson Smith at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA )' s Mathematics Department.

From 2008 to 2012, the company was run through a holding company of NRDC, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, which was dissolved on 23 January 2012.

Random House, Inc. 23 Sep 2008.

* MacRobert, A. E. " The Myths about the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion ," Historian 2008, Issue 99, pp 16 – 23

On 23 October 2008 ABC Television broadcast the one-hour docu-drama The Prime Minister is Missing, starring 1960s pop idol Normie Rowe as Holt.

* IOI 2008 was held in Cairo, Egypt, August 16 – 23, 2008 ( results )

The 2008 season saw the two teams meet twice again ; on November 23 the two teams battled to a 20-20 tie until Vinatieri booted a 51-yard field goal on the final play and a 23-20 Colts win ; the Colts surged to 12-4 but lost the AFC South title to the Titans ; they thus had to travel to meet the 8-8 Chargers on January 3.

In spring 2008, 23 wolves and approximately 650 moose were counted

The prime was found on a Dell OptiPlex 745 on August 23, 2008.

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