Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

To try to answer this question more definitely, a randomized double-blind study was started in September 2008 and was completed in March 2010.

For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.

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, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.

On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

Its main building was named Albertus Magnus Hall in 2008.

In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.

In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

PETA was further criticized in 2005 by United States Senator Jim Inhofe for having given grants several years earlier to Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ) and Earth Liberation Front ( ELF ) activists, two groups that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified as agents of domestic terrorism.

A settlement was reached, and PETA agreed to stop the boycott, while the wool industry agreed to seek alternatives to mulesing.

Patricia de Leon worked with PETA in 2011 to reduce support for bullfighting among Hispanic people, and was photographed by Kike San Martín for an anti-bullfighting campaign.

When the mayor of New York, Rudolf Giuliani, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, PETA ran a photograph of him with a white mustache and the words " Got prostate cancer?

In August 2011, it was announced that PETA will be launching a soft pornography website in the. xxx domain.

This was widely criticized as " absurd and unresearched " by the gaming community, prompting PETA to claim that it was a tongue-in-cheek effort to draw attention to the real-life issue of tanuki being skinned alive.

After a fisherman in Florida was bitten by a shark in 2011, PETA proposed an advertisement showing a shark biting a human, with the caption " Payback Is Hell, Go Vegan ".

After PETA sent the video and a 253-page complaint to the United States Department of Agriculture, Covance was fined $ 8, 720 for 16 citations, three of which involved lab monkeys ; the other citations involved administrative issues and equipment.

American writer Don Liddick writes that PETA gave $ 1, 500 to the Earth Liberation Front in 2001 — Newkirk said the donation was a mistake, and that the money had been intended for public education about destruction of habitat, but Liddick writes that it went to the legal defense of Craig Rosebraugh, an ELF spokesman.

The first package was picked up by a PETA employee, Maria Blanton, and the second intercepted by the authorities, who identified the handwriting as Coronado's.

PETA Asia-Pacific was founded by Ingrid Newkirk in Hong Kong in 2005 to support animal rights programs and campaigns in Asia.

Jason Baker, a former staff member of PETA who was involved in setting up PETA India and PETA Australia, is PETA Asia Pacific's first director.

PETA offered to donate $ 20, 000 worth of veggie burgers to local schools if the name was changed.

The town name was the subject of controversy in 2004 when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) asked Slaughterville to rename the town.

Phoenix's first release was " Across the Way ", co-written with band mate Josh McKay, which was released in 1989 on a benefit album for PETA titled Tame Yourself.

When the San Diego Padres announced that PETCO ( which is based in San Diego ) had obtained naming rights to PETCO Park, PETA was unable to persuade them to terminate the agreement.

He also was involved with the formation of Pembela Tanah Air ( PETA ) and Heiho ( Indonesian volunteer army troops ) via speeches broadcast on the Japanese radio and loud speaker networks across Java and Sumatera.

Additionally, the military was torn with hostilities between officers originating from the colonial-era KNIL, who wished for a small and elite professional military, and the overwhelming majority of soldiers who started their careers in the Japanese-formed PETA, who were afraid of being discharged and were more known for nationalist-zeal over professionalism.

On the basis of his PETA experience, he was appointed deputy commander, and subsequently a battalion commander when the republican forces were formally organised in October 1945.

In 2011, Colgate-Palmolive was one of the first companies recognized by PETA ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ) under the new " working for regulatory change " category for companies that test on animals only when mandated by government regulations and are actively seeking alternatives to animal testing.