At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

At the end of the 2008 / 09 season, Chievo had an average crowd attendance of 13, 352.

At 84 years old, Daihachi Oguchi died on June 27, 2008, after being hit by a car across from his home in Nagano, Japan.

* At the end of 2008: 5, 304, 840

At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Entre les murs ( The Class ) won the Palme d ' Or, the first French victory at the festival in 21 years.

At the July 2008 election the NDC won a comfortable 7 seat majority over the government of former Prime Minister Keith Mitchell.

At the Professional Developers Conference ( PDC ) 2008, Microsoft also announced Windows Server 2008 R2, as the server variant of Windows 7.

At the end, rival Lebanese leaders reached consensus over Doha Agreement on May 21, 2008, to end the 18-month political feud that exploded into fighting and nearly drove the country to a new civil war.

At the end of the conflicts, National unity government was formed by Fouad Siniora on July 11, 2008 and Hezbollah has one minister and controls eleven of thirty seats in the cabinet.

At the 2008 Olympics, Vijender Singh Beniwal won a middleweight ( 75 kg ) bronze medal and Vikas Krishan Yadav boxer from Bhiwani district won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category.

At the beginning of July 2008, a network upgrade forced users to stop using ICQ 5. 1-applications that identified themselves as ICQ 5, such as Pidgin, were forced to identify themselves as ICQ 6.

At 8. 00am on 2 January 2008 completion of the takeover of ICI plc by Akzo Nobel NV was announced.

At the end of 2008, deposits in Jersey banks totalled £ 206 billion, down £ 6. 2 billion from £ 212. 3 billion at the start of the year.

At an event on June 27, 2008 in Unity, New Hampshire, Lynch formally endorsed Barack Obama for President ,.

" At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle ", The Boston GLobe, Boston, December 28, 2008.

At the April 2008 " Toward a Science of Consciousness " Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, Marcel Kuijsten ( Executive Director and Founder of the Julian Jaynes Society ) and Brian J. McVeigh ( University of Arizona ) hosted a workshop devoted to Jaynesian psychology.

At the 2008 Download Festival Kid Rock was meant to appear between Seether and Disturbed on the Main Stage but pulled out at the last minute.

At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

At the 2008 ASEAN Regional forum summit in Singapore, Bangladesh and Burma have pledged to solve their maritime boundary disputes as quickly as possible especially that a UN deadline in claiming maritime territories will expire in three years time.

Following the death of Arthur C. Clarke, BBC Sky At Night magazine released a copy of the 1977 archive programme on the cover of their May 2008 edition.

At a press conference in November 2008, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos Lopez said, " Certainly, we think that the decision recognize independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia was fair and appropriate.

At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman Lectisternium.

At Plataea there was a festival, the Daedala, in which a temporary wooden altar was fashioned, and an effigy was made from an oak-tree and dressed in bridal attire.

At the 1998 Aspen Comedy Arts festival, the urn was " accidentally " knocked over by Terry Gilliam, spilling the " ashes " on-stage.

At an Ohio history festival, 19th century style brig warship USS Niagara passes the Lorain, Ohio | Lorain lighthouse.

At the dissolution festival at the end of the year in the Athenian calendar, the Skira, the priests of Athena and the priest of Poseidon would process under canopies to Eleusis.

At this festival people sing as accompaniment to the dance: “ Depart!

This is evident from the biblical name " The Feast of Ingathering ," from the ceremonies accompanying it, from the season – " The festival of the seventh month " – and occasion of its celebration: " At the end of the year when you gather in your labors out of the field " ( Ex.

At the nearby town of Torre del Lago, there is a Puccini opera festival every year in July / August.

At Samhain, candle lanterns carved from turnips — samhnag — were part of the traditional Celtic festival.

At this festival, priests would kill, or sacrifice, an animal, usually an ox, in order to make the gods happy.

At the Babylonian New Year's festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker and a goldsmith two images one of which " shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right to the god Nabu ".

At the suggestion of his grandfather Numitor, Romulus holds a solemn festival in honor of Neptune ( according to another tradition the festival was held in honor of the God Consus ) and invites the neighboring Sabines and Latins to attend ; they arrive en masse, along with their daughters.

At the same location, the Haarlemmerhoutfestival is also held every year, which is a music and theatre festival.

At the festival before each screening Roger Ebert will make a few introductory remarks.

At the 2009 Perth leg of the festival tour, more than 70 arrests were charged with drug-related offences.

At the 2009 Big Day Out festival in Perth, 17-year-old Gemma Thoms collapsed after allegedly taking three ecstasy tablets.

At the Oxford Literary festival in 2006, Fraser estimated that it took him roughly three to five months to research and write a Flashman novel.

At the state-sponsored facility, which was named Jamestown Festival Park, later renamed Jamestown Settlement, full-sized replicas of the three ships that brought the colonists, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery were constructed at a shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and docked at Jamestown, where became a permanent attraction to be both toured, and seen by water from the nearby Jamestown Ferry system operated by VDOT, and relocated for the festival to nearby Glass House Point.

At Thebes and Orchomenos, a festival called Homolôïa, which was celebrated in honour of Zeus, Demeter, Athena and Enyo, was said to have received the surname of Homoloïus from Homoloïs, a priestess of Enyo.

At Athens and some other places the festival was of three days, from the 11th to the 13th of Pyanepsion.

At this age he also composed an original piano piece, " Fantasy ", which won him a prize at an arts festival.

* At the instigation of Alexander's brother-in-law, Ptolemy of Aloros, Alexander II of Macedon is assassinated during a festival.