Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

* Richard P. Gabriel: Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-512123-6, PDF

* Abanes, Richard, Cults, New Religious Movements, and Your Family, Crossway Books, Wheaton, 1998.

( Richard Bak, A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium, 1998, pp. 58 – 59 )

( Richard Bak, A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium, 1998, pp. 73 – 74 ) After entering the ninth inning behind 13 – 4, the team staged a dramatic comeback to win 14 – 13.

* 1927 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor ( d. 1998 )

* 1909 – Richard McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur ( d. 1998 )

* Davenport-Hines, Richard ( 1998 ) Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin.

UNSCOM chief weapons inspector Richard Butler withdrew his team from Iraq in November 1998 because of Iraq's lack of cooperation.

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* 1998 – Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's ( b. 1909 )

" Richard Holmes, in 1998, declared the importance of the poem's Preface while describing the reception of the 1816 volume of poems: " However, no contemporary critic saw the larger possible significance of Coleridge's Preface to ' Kubla Khan ', though it eventually became one of the most celebrated, and disputed, accounts of poetic composition ever written.

* 1998 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1918 )

Its founder and president is Richard Heidmann, a space propulsion engineer, who participated in the founding convention of the Mars Society in August 1998 and is a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee.

" Historian Richard Ellis ( 1998 ) says that the SDS's search for their own identity " increasingly meant rejecting, even demonizing, liberalism.

* Royal Blood: Richard III and the mystery of the princes by Bertram Fields ( HarperCollins, 1998 ) ( ISBN 0-06-039269-X )

* Richard Doyle ( politician ) ( 1923 – 2003 ), Canadian senator, 1985 – 1998, journalist and author

* Sherman, Robert B. and Sherman, Richard M. ( 1998 ) " Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond " ISBN 0-9646059-3-7

* September 8 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1998 )

* June 6 – Richard Paul, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* Richard Jenkyns, Virgil's Experience, Oxford, 1998.

After his death, Powell's friend Richard Ritchie recorded in 1998 that " during one of the habitual coal crises of recent years he told me that he had no objection to supporting the coal industry, either through the restriction of cheap coal imports or subsidy, if it were the country's wish to preserve local coal communities ".

* Within the foundations of the Dome in 1998, a time capsule was buried by Katy Hill and Richard Bacon, two of the then current presenters of the long running BBC children's programme Blue Peter.

* The Century of Progress is depicted in the films Massacre starring Richard Dix, and in Buddy ( 1998 ) starring Rene Russo.

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

The first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to comedian Richard Pryor on October 20, 1998.

* 1998 – Richard Pryor

He also led bands for The Muddy Waters Tribute, and the 1998 and 1999 Mark Twain Awards honoring Richard Pryor and Jonathan Winters which aired on PBS, and Comedy Central.

Pryor was elected in 1998 and reelected in 2002.

* Interview with Geoff Pryor, cartoonist ( sound recording ) interviewed by Ann Turner, 1998

Lonow's behind-the-scenes career took off with her creation, co-production and writing of Rude Awakening, a television series which aired on Showtime from 1998 – 2001 and starred actresses Sherilyn Fenn and Rain Pryor.

The editor and co-publisher of The Riverdale Press, Bernard Stein, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for his editorials about Bronx and New York City issues in 1998.

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

Since October 1998, Chadian Movement for Justice and Democracy ( MDJT ) rebels, led by Youssuf Togoimi until his death in September 2002, have skirmished with government troops in the Tibesti region, resulting in hundreds of civilian, government, and rebel casualties, but little ground won or lost.

In the February 1998 national election, PUSC candidate Miguel Ángel Rodríguez won the presidency over PLN nominee Jose Miguel Corrales.

That mark set an American League record for wins which stood for 44 years until the Yankees won 114 games in 1998 ( a 162-game regular season ).

Considered one of the best NASCAR drivers of all time, Earnhardt won a total of 76 races over the course of his career, including one Daytona 500 victory in 1998.

* Earnhardt Jr. later went on to win the 2004 Daytona 500, three years after his father's death and six years to the day after his father won the 1998 Daytona 500.

Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998.

In 1998, he won an open primary with 54 % of the vote.

It won the Spiel des Jahres award in 1998 and won the third place Deutscher Spiele Preis award in 1998.

Another exploit was in 1998 when Roberto Benigni won three oscars for his movie Life Is Beautiful ( La vita è bella ) ( Best Actor, Best Foreign Film, Best Music ).

* Derrek Lee ( 1998 – 2003 ) — Lee won a Gold Glove in the 2003 championship season.

After 16 years of the Christian-Liberal coalition, led by Helmut Kohl, the Social Democrats together with the Greens won the elections of 1998.

Ialá returned as the candidate for the PRS, claiming to be the legitimate president of the country, but the election was won by former president João Bernardo Vieira, deposed in the 1998 coup.

The SPD in coalition with the Greens won the elections of 1998.

* What Dreams May Come, a 1998 movie that won an Academy Award for its depiction of heaven and hell as the subjective creations of the individual, was an essentially mystical interpretation of heaven, hell and reincarnation.

After finishing second in their division in 1994 ( in a strike year ), 1995, and 1996, the Astros won consecutive division titles in 1997, 1998, and 1999.

Irina Krush ( born December 24, 1983 ) is an American chess player who has won the U. S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.

At age 14 Krush won the 1998 U. S. Women's Chess Championship to become the youngest U. S. Women's Champion ever.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

In October 1998, Polgár won the VAM four-grandmaster tournament in Hoogeveen, Netherlands by 1½ points over Jan Timman.