This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

His criticisms of the scientific community, and especially of several mathematics circles, are also contained in a letter, written in 1988, in which he states the reasons for his refusal of the Crafoord Prize.

A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, and negotiations over the next several years led to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou strip, effectively ending Libyan occupation.

By 1988, several people demanded reform within the Communist Party itself.

In 1988, Jones contributed to the creation of London's Museum of the Moving Image by spending several days working high on scaffolding creating a chase sequence directly onto the high walls of the museum.

The DECT standard was developed by ETSI in several phases, the first of which took place between 1988 and 1992 when the first round of standards were published.

" The election was followed several months later by the Haitian presidential election, 1988, which was boycotted by almost all the previous candidates, and saw turnout of just 4 %.

In addition, as of early 1988 the government had lost control of several mountainous districts in Kurdistan where, since 1983, dissident Kurds have cooperated militarily with Iran.

Lennon has appeared in several other films including The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus ( 1996, but shot in 1968 ), Cannes Man ( 1996 ), Imagine: John Lennon ( 1988 ), Chuck Berry: Hail!

On June 16, 1988, Milford died of heart failure following open heart surgery several weeks earlier.

A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, followed by unsuccessful negotiations over the next several years, leading finally to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou Strip, which ended Libyan occupation.

While, in 1988, Windows / 386 2. 1 could run several cooperatively multitasked DOS applications, including expanded memory ( EMS ) emulation, OS / 2 1. 3, released in 1991, was still limited to one " DOS box ".

Sandler O ’ Neill + Partners, L. P. was founded in 1988 by Herman S. Sandler and Thomas F. O ' Neill along with several other executives from Wall Street firms.

Over the next few years, House recorded several studio albums and went on various tours until his death in 1988.

But in the late 1980s, the team suffered several losing seasons, including a 3-13 regular season record in 1988.

He suppressed several movements, particularly Shi ' a and Kurdish movements seeking to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively, and maintained power during the Iran – Iraq War of 1980 through 1988.

Despite several calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.

Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil ( 1985 ), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ), The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ).

They have three children, Amy ( b. 1978 ), Holly ( b. 1980 ), and Harry ( b. 1988 ), who have also appeared in several of Gilliam's films.

Since 1988, table tennis has been an Olympic sport, with several event categories.

Following several phases of writing and recording, during which Amos has since asserted that the band lost their musical edge and direction due to interference from record executives, in July 1988, the Y Kant Tori Read's self-titled debut album was released.

In 1988, more than 70 Vietnamese troops were killed during a confrontation with Chinese forces, when China occupied several islands under Vietnamese control in the Spratly Islands.

A controversial activist, she is popular among her supporters, who refer to her as the ' Mother of the Nation ', yet reviled by others, mostly due to her alleged involvement in several human rights abuses, including the 1988 kidnapping of 14-year old ANC activist Stompie Moeketsi, who was later murdered.

The MIT X Consortium produced several significant revisions to X11, the first ( Release 2 – X11R2 ) in February 1988.

Many of its architectural treasures still remain, adding value to the city as a tourist destination, while several early Christian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1988.

Theatrical animated shorts went dormant until 1988 when new shorts were made to introduce Looney Tunes to a new generation of audiences.

Also in 1988, Nickelodeon aired all the unaired cartoons in a show called Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon until 1999.

The first was released in 1983, Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island ; the second came in 1988, Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, which is considered one of the Looney Tunes best compilation films and featured another new theatrical short, " The Night of the Living Duck ".

Live-action and animation were later combined to successful effect in features such as The Three Caballeros ( 1944 ), Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ), Song of the South ( 1946 ), Mary Poppins ( 1964 ), Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( 1971 ), Heavy Traffic ( 1973 ), Coonskin ( 1975 ) Pete's Dragon ( 1977 ), Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), Rock-a-Doodle ( 1992 ), Cool World ( 1992 ), The Pagemaster ( 1994 ) Space Jam ( 1996 ), and Looney Tunes: Back In Action ( 2003 ).

The studio continued production on special projects starring the Looney Tunes characters, sporadically producing new Looney Tunes shorts for theaters such as The Duxorcist ( 1987 ), Night of the Living Duck ( 1988 ), Box-Office Bunny ( 1990 ), and Carrotblanca ( 1995 ).

* Looney Runes, 1988

On the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, the opening to the Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show ( with the announcer calling it the Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Hour ) and two openings to the Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show ( the 1988 opening and the 1992 opening ) were released as special features.

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters is a 1988 Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and animated bridging sequences, starring Daffy Duck.

Joe Don Looney ( October 10, 1942 – September 24, 1988 ) was an American football running back in the National Football League for the New York Giants, Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions, Washington Redskins, and the New Orleans Saints.

*" Tunes and Tales of Ireland "-Folk Era Records ( 1988 )

* Holland, Jerry ( 1988, several revised editions ), Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes

S. Rakitić wrote and had the following books of poetry published: Lights of Writings ( 1967 ), Raska Tunes ( 1968 ), The world is not our home ( 1970 ), Earth on the Tongue ( 1973 ), Poems of Tree and Fruit ( 1978 ), Craving for the South ( 1981 ), A Descendant ( 1982 ), Basic Land ( 1988 ), Deeds on Fire ( 1990 ), A Soul and a Sandbar ( 1994 ); his published books and essays are: From Ithaca to Illusion ( 1985 ), Forms and Meanings ( 1994 ); an anthology: Yugoslav Peoples ' Poetry of Romanticism ( 1978 ); Selected Works in five volumes, Selected and New Poems ( 1998 ), Letters Made of Water ( 2000 ).

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Notably, from 1985 to 1988, author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before 1985, when events on screen took place.

This led to a new incarnation of the series for television syndication by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1988 that included new characters, such as Gumby's little sister Minga and a mastodon named Denali.

For the spring part of the 2007 – 08 season, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Michelle Kelly joined Spacey as the three characters in David Mamet's 1988 play Speed-the-Plow.

Unicode aims in the first instance at the characters published in modern text ( e. g. in the union of all newspapers and magazines printed in the world in 1988 ), whose number is undoubtedly far below 2 < sup > 14 </ sup > = 16, 384.

The hippopotamus characters " Happy Hippos " were created in 1988 by the French designer Andre Roche based in Munich, to be hidden in the " Kinder Surprise egg " of the Italian chocolate company Ferrero SpA.

As a foil to Loadsamoney Enfield and Whitehouse created the Geordie " Bugger-All-Money " and in 1988 Enfield appeared as both characters during the Nelson Mandela Birthday Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium.

Charles Samuel " Chaz " Addams ( January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988 ) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1988

* The lead characters in Mike Leigh's film High Hopes ( 1988 ) visit Highgate Cemetery to pay homage to Karl Marx.

The duo would use characters similar to Richie and Eddie in The Young Ones ( Rick and Vyvyan, 1982 – 1984 ); The Dangerous Brothers ( Richard Dangerous and Sir Adrian Dangerous, 1985 ); Filthy, Rich and Catflap ( Richie Rich and Eddie Catflap, 1987 ); Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door ( names not mentioned, 1988 ); and finally in their adaptation of Waiting for Godot ( 1991 ).

As with most Disney characters, she was given small cameos in the featurettes Mickey's Christmas Carol ( 1983 ) and The Prince and the Pauper ( 1990 ), and the 1988 feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

This led to several other games that combine role-playing and real-time strategy elements, such as the 1988 Kure Software Koubou computer strategy RPGs, First Queen and Silver Ghost, which featured an early example of a point-and-click interface, to control characters using a cursor.

As with most Disney characters, she was given small cameos in " Mickey's Christmas Carol " ( 1983 ) and " Who Framed Roger Rabbit " ( 1988 ).

As with most Disney characters, he was given small cameos in Mickey's Christmas Carol ( 1983 ) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ).

Gaiman had considered including characters from the " Dream Stream " ( including the Kirby Sandman, Brute, Glob, and the brothers Cain and Abel ) in a scene for the first issue of his 1988 miniseries Black Orchid.

* In 1988, author Christoph Ransmayr reworked a great number of characters from the Metamorphoses in his The Last World.

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1988

Throughout the 1980s, Huppert continued to explore enigmatic and emotionally distant characters, most notably in Maurice Pialat's Loulou ( 1980 ), Godard's Sauve qui peut ( la vie ) ( 1980 ), Diane Kurys ' Coup de foudre ( 1983 ), and Claude Chabrol's Une Affaire de Femmes ( 1988 ).

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is a 1988 animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera starring Martin Short's Ed Grimley as well as other characters and actors from Second City's SCTV.

On stage, Nixon portrayed Juliet in a 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet and acted in the workshop production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, playing several characters after it came to Broadway in 1989.

In 1992, Computer Gaming World wrote that this " classic mix of combat and problem-solving " was the favorite of the magazine's readers in 1988, adding, " the way in which Wastelands NPCs related to the player characters, the questions of dealing with moral dillemas, and the treatment of skills set this game apart.

The 1988 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game module Ruins of Adventure was produced using the same adventure scenario as Pool of Radiance, using the same plot, background, setting, and many of the same characters as the computer game.

* 1988: Integrating 2D animated characters with live-action footage in Who Framed Roger Rabbit