the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

On December 10, 2007, Vick received a 23-month prison sentence and was officially cut from the Atlanta roster.

Eric Wodening founded Englatheod in July 2007, while Sweartfenn Theod was founded, by Jeffrey Runokivi, in December 2007.

The most popular player in franchise history, " Gonzo " signed a one-year contract worth just under $ 7 million on December 7 to play for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2007 season.

On December 3, 2007 the Diamondbacks traded Carlos Quentin, who had failed to perform to expectation, to the Chicago White Sox for first base prospect Chris Carter.

AZ were undefeated in all 32 of their home matches in European competitions, a sequence which ran from 1977 until 20 December 2007, when they finally lost to Everton of England by a score of 3 – 2.

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

The NASA Constellation Program announced Altair as the name of the Lunar Surface Access Module ( LSAM ) on December 13, 2007.

Mainly due to reunification-related expenditures, Berlin as a German state has accumulated more debt than any other city in Germany, with the most current estimate being € 60 ($ 84 ) bn in December 2007.

Digicel was finally granted a licence on 17 December 2007 and plans to start operations in the BVI sometime in 2008.

The project concluded on December 31, 2007, when the partnership between the program manager and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ended.

The project was not completed, however, until December 2007, at a cost of over $ 14. 6 billion ($ 8. 08 billion in 1982 dollars ).

On December 24, 2007, the Del Valle family announced they had reached a settlement with Power Fasteners that would pay the family $ 6 million.

On December 13, 2007, former U. S. Senator George J. Mitchell released his report on the use of performance-enhancing substances by MLB players.

Congressman Cliff Stearns said in December 2007 that Selig should resign because of use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball during his tenure.

Since December 2007, the main regular presenters on the channel have been Simon McCoy, Carrie Gracie, Matthew Amroliwala, Jane Hill, Jon Sopel, Emily Maitlis, Louise Minchin, Huw Edwards, Ben Brown, Joanna Gosling and Chris Eakin.

* 2007 John Duncan Edwards ( Final president of Gate as an all-male house, evicted on December 18 by the Dean of Students )

On December 31, 2007, the NES version of Bubble Bobble was released on Nintendo's Virtual Console service for the Wii.

* E & E. tv: Skeptical enviro Bjorn Lomborg discusses post-Kyoto roadmap, calls Kyoto " feel good strategy " ( OnPoint, 12 December 2007 )

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

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 )

$ 13. 67 billion ( 31 December 2007 est.

The Tribune company, in financial distress, was acquired by real-estate mogul Sam Zell in December 2007.

In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur ( 14 February 148326 December 1530 ; sometimes also spelt Baber or Babar ) was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian Subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor.

The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

Robert X. Cringely did an hour long interview with Engelbart on December 9, 2005 in his NerdTV video podcast series.

The series first appeared in December 1969, when it was published simultaneously in six different magazines.

) is a television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969.

It was shown on NBC-TV in December 1976 as part of The Hallmark Hall Of Fame series.

* In December 1996, the PBS series, American Masters, aired a special on the life of Danny Kaye.

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

On December 1, 2006, these groups began the 2006 – 2008 Lebanese political protests, a series of protests and sit-ins in opposition to the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

Following the tentacle scene in Guyver: Out of Control in December 1986, the Urotsukidoji anime series by Toshio Maeda was released on OVA beginning in 1987 and released in America in 1992 by Anime 18.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

In July 1939, Ribbentrop's claims about Bonnet's alleged statement of December 1938 were to lead to a lengthy war of words via a series of letters to the French newspapers between Bonnet and Ribbentrop over just what precisely Bonnet had said to Ribbentrop.

Jule Styne ( December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994 ) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.

The first entry in Nintendo's Kid Icarus series, it was published in Japan in December 1986, and in Europe and North America in February and July 1987, respectively.

* Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone ( 7 December 1997 ) ( TV series ) ... Khamis Bin Abdullah

It aired as part of PBS ' Great Performances series on 6 October 2010 and on BBC Four on 12 December 2010.

It was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman and first performed in the eighth episode of the show's first series, " Full Frontal Nudity " ( 7 December 1969 ).

However, the series finale was shown as part of Toonami's " New Year's Eve-il " special on December 31, 2001.

However, in 2007 the original series was released on DVD in Japan, which sold over 100, 000 copies within a month's time from December 21, 2007 to January 21, 2008.