* 1988 Encyclopædia Britannica.

* The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 1988, Volume 10, Micropædia, pg.

Eric Halfpenny, writing in the 1988 Encyclopædia Britannica, says " bowing can be traced as far back as the Islamic civilization of the 10th century ... it seems likely that the principle of bowing originated among the nomadic horse riding cultures of Central Asia, whence it spread quickly through Islam and the East, so that by 1000 it had almost simultaneously reached China, Java, North Africa, the Near East and Balkans, and Europe.

* The New Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 10, Micropædia, 1988, pg. 11

This figure, set up on April 27, 1988, was commissioned by the Basque Government to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica.

* was a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1985 and known for shooting down an Iranian airliner in 1988.

Between 1988 and 1990 DB commissioned 20 class 610 units for fast regional traffic.

The post office's most interesting feature is a mural installed in 1938 by the noted artist Jared Blanford French ( 1905 – 1988 ) entitled " Mealtime, The Early Coal Miners ," one of more than 1, 200 works of art commissioned by the U. S. Treasury between the years 1934 and 1943 through a program intended to embellish Federal buildings and encourage the arts during the Great Depression.

" In addition to large scale orchestral works like Symbolon ( 1988 ), Symphony no. 2 ( Cello Symphony ) ( 1985 ), and Symphony no. 3 ( 1992 ), all of which were commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, she has written a number of notable, smaller-scale concertos for relatively uncommon instruments.

In 1988, Starck was commissioned by famed nightclub impresario Ian Schrager, former co-owner of Studio 54, to refit the Royalton Hotel on New York's West 44th Street.

Fast Forward was commissioned by Seven Network in late 1988 to take advantage of the ratings success of the Australian sketch comedy demonstrated by the high rating Australian sketch comedy show The Comedy Company, broadcast on Channel 10 in 1988.

* The second was a harbor tug, commissioned into the United States Coast Guard in 1939, transferred to the Navy in 1941, transferred back to the Coast Guard in 1946, and decommissioned in 1988

In 1988, the, commissioned two years earlier at Bath, survived a mine explosion that tore a hole in its engine room and flooded two compartments.

The work was commissioned to mark the Australian bicentenary in 1988.

Construction of this facility began in 1980 for the then South of Scotland Electricity Board ( SSEB ) and it was commissioned in 1988.

Torness was the last of the United Kingdom ’ s second generation nuclear power plants to be commissioned ( 25 May 1988 ).

In 1988, Saab commissioned 288 special convertibles, one for each of its United States dealers, as part of the 1988 Dealer Meeting in Sweden.

1988 saw the premier of Mulligan's Octet for Sea Cliff a chamber work commissioned by the Sea Cliff Chamber Players.

In June 1988, Mulligan was invited to be the first-ever Composer-in-Residence at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival and was commissioned to write a work, which he titled The Flying Scotsman.

Riviere-class frigate ( commissioned 1988, decommissioned 2005 ).

* The former ROU Artigas ( DE-2 ), a converted American ( commissioned 1952, decommissioned 1988 ).

CBS also commissioned three more prime-time specials, A Claymation Christmas Celebration ( 1988, an Emmy winner ), The Claymation Comedy of Horrors a 1991 Halloween special, and A Claymation Easter ( 1992 ) All were later released to video and DVD.

In 1988 Jim Ridlon was commissioned to design and sculpt the Outland Trophy, which has become one of college football's most prestigious awards.

* May 1988: The Ian Hay Davison Report, commissioned to investigate practices on the exchange in the lead-up to its closure, is released, resulting in significant market reforms-although many took years to finally implement

The Dallas Opera commissioned Dominick Argento ’ s The Aspern Papers and gave its world premiere, which was nationally broadcast to four million viewers on PBS's “ Great Performances ” series in 1988.

In 1988, larger and more modern accommodation for the paper's printing presses was commissioned in Osborne Park.

Readers never truly bonded with Todd and, in 1988, DC made the controversial decision to poll readers using a 1-900 number as to whether or not Todd should be killed.

His story The Time-Lapsed Man won the Interzone readers ' poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an Eastercon short text award in 1995.

Beginning on July 4, 1988, the winning contestant had to correctly predict one final audience poll question.

Future party leader Gary Doer has claimed that an internal party poll put the NDP at only 6 % popular support in early 1988.

On the backbenches Biffen voted against the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which introduced the Community Charge ( the poll tax ).

Tor has won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher every year since 1988.

At the height of the controversy in June 1988, a poll showed a gap of 34 percentage points between blacks ( 51 %) and whites ( 85 %) on the question of whether she was lying.

His 1988 team was ranked 9th nationally in the Collegiate Baseball poll.

The disc was a critical favorite, coming in at No. 27 on the Village Voice's 1988 Pazz & Jop critics ' poll, beating out such noteworthy competition as R. E. M.

A poll from January 1988 showed that 78. 6 percent of the population of Bømlo wanted the Triangle Link, while 8. 6 percent wanted the pontoon bridge.

He was voted " Best new drummer of 1988 " by Modern Drummer Magazine's readers poll, then again as " Number one progressive drummer " three times ( 1989, 1991 & 1992 ).

From 1973 through 1988 the magazine chose not only NFL MVPs but the top player at each position in the NFL, which was an editorial choice that was ahead of its time and involved a poll of the players.

Several celebrities, including U2's frontmen the Edge and Bono, cited it as one of their favorite albums of 1988 ( Rolling Stone magazine celebrity poll ).

In 1988 he was voted the Israeli athlete who most influenced Israeli sports, in a poll by the Israeli newspaper Ma ' ariv.

In 1987 he opposed the introduction of the community charge ( or ' poll tax ') and in 1988 he was one of 20 Conservative rebels to vote against the freezing of child benefits.