After the initial discovery in 1998, these observations were corroborated by several independent sources: the cosmic microwave background radiation and large scale structure, apparent size of baryon acoustic oscillations, age of the universe, as well as improved measurements of supernovae and X-ray properties of galaxy clusters.

The Rivan Codex ( 1998 ) features annotated background material.

The statue of Robert Blake at Cornhill, Bridgwater, with Church of St Mary, Bridgwater | St Mary's Church in the background ( 1998 ).

In May 1998, before the release of Is This Desire ?, she was featured on Tricky's Angels with Dirty Faces, performing lead vocals on " Broken Homes " and also contributed to Sparklehorse's 2001 album It's a Wonderful Life performing guitar, piano, and background vocals on two songs, " Eyepennies " and " Piano Fire.

While the bill eventually did pass in both chambers of the United States Congress, the NRA was able to win an important concession: the final version of the legislation provided that, in 1998, the five-day waiting period for handgun sales would be replaced by an instant computerized background check that involved no waiting periods.

He appeared as a background character in a street scene in 1998, and was performed by Steve Whitmire.

The Channel 3 look was dropped in 1998, following Granada's acquisition of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television, with the look returning to a spinning chevron against a misty blue background, light blue during the day and dark blue in the evenings.

The " TTTV " logo returned to television screens in a new form, " three-dimensional gold metallic lettering on a blue background ", on 9 March 1998.

The train scene was also parodied in Khan's Duplicate ( 1998 ), where Kajol makes a special appearance, looking for Raj, while " Tujhe Dekha To " is playing in the background.

With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song Das Feuer der Sehnsucht.

Walthamstow Village, 1998, looking towards the timber-framed house with St. Mary's Church in the background

* April 1998 Blumenthal v. AOL ( part of the case against Drudge and AOL ) held that the CDA protects AOL for Drudge's writing that Blumenthal, an assistant to the US President, had a spousal abuse background ( retracted in two days ) even though it paid Drudge US $ 3, 000 a month for his columns, had editorial control and might well have been liable if it was not an online publication.

" Hod kroz godinu: mitska pozadina hrvatskih narodnih običaja i vjerovanja " through year, mythical background of Croatian folk beliefs and customs, Golden Marketing, Zagreb 1998.

# More Than Honor ( January 1998 ) ISBN 0-671-87857-3 — three stories by David Weber, David Drake, and S. M. Stirling plus a Honorverse background history, and including the story in which treecats and some of their characteristics first come to human knowledge.

This ident was replaced in autumn 1998 by one with a yellow background and featuring the ITV logo underneath the Meridian name.

In a 1998 interview, Mikuriya ( whose father was a Japanese Civil Engineer and a converted Christian and whose mother was born in Germany and was a practicing Bahá ' í ), made a connection between his family background and his views.

In that period Tiersen provided a new arrangement and played strings, vibraphone, bell, mandolin, electric guitar, and bass guitar for the song " À ton étoile " by French rock band Noir Désir on their 1998 remix album One Trip / One Noise, recorded background music for the award-winning and multi-nominated film The Dreamlife of Angels (), for André Téchiné's Alice et Martin, released in 1998, and Christine Carrière's Qui plume la lune ?, released in 1999, and also recorded Bästard ~ Yann Tiersen, a 3-track extended play released in 1998 in collaboration with French electronic rock band Bästard, and his first live album, Black Session: Yann Tiersen.

The LambdaCDM model then became the standard following the observations of accelerating expansion in 1998, and was quickly supported by other observations: in 2000, the BOOMERanG microwave background experiment measured the total ( matter + energy ) density to be close to 100 % of critical, while in 2001 the 2dfGRS galaxy survey measured the matter density to be near 25 %; the large difference between these supports a positive Λ or dark energy.

Thus Prussian merchants, along with those from Ditmarsh, were the only beneficiaries of a quasi membership within the Hanse, although lacking the background of citizenship in a fully autonomous or free city .< ref name =" Dollinger 1998 124 "> Philippe Dollinger, Die Hanse Hanse ( XII < sup > e </ sup >- XVII < sup > e </ sup > siècles ); German, see references for bibliographical details, p. 124.

Between 1998 and 2001, a new MELP-based vocoder was created at half the rate ( i. e. 1200 bit / s ) and substantial enhancements were added to the MIL-STD-3005 by SignalCom ( later acquired by Microsoft ), AT & T and Compandent, which included ( a ) additional new vocoder at half the rate ( i. e. 1200 bit / s ), ( b ) substantially improved encoding ( analysis ), ( c ) substantially improved decoding ( synthesis ), ( d ) Noise-Preprocessing for removing background noise, ( e ) transcoding between the 2400 bit / s and 1200 bit / s bitstreams, and ( f ) new postfilter.

1-published 1998 ( adds new rules for beam batteries, vector movement, new fleet designs, and additional background information to the FT storyline ).

For the first time in state history, tax rebate checks were sent to taxpayers in 1998 and again in 1999.

It was widely reported in 1998 and still believed that Travis Meeks fired his fellow musicians, aided largely by his personal comments ; however, he has since said that this is not true and that they left out of jealousy due to the fact that he wrote virtually all of the songs and received all royalty checks.

Best vacated its corporate headquarters in Richmond in January 1998 and mailed out final checks to unsecured creditors the following December ( paying 96 cents per dollar owed ).

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed seven subfamilies for the families recognized in the very first APG classification of 1998.

* The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed October 4, 1991 and entered into force January 14, 1998 ; this agreement prevents development and provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas.

Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

The park contains a bench for each of the victims, arranged according to their year of birth, ranging from 1930 ( age 71 ) to 1998 ( age 3 ).

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

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.

On March 9, 1995, Colangelo's group was awarded a franchise to begin play for the 1998 season.

Major Steven E. Walburn argues in a 1998 article in The Air Force Law Review that this form of guilty plea should be adopted for usage by the United States military.

The AFL turned its focus for representation to an annual International Rules Series against Ireland in 1998 before abolishing State of Origin in 1999.

* Morin, Jack Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide for Men and Women, Down There Press, 1998.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

In the autumn of 1998 large defaults on Russian debt created significant losses for the hedge fund and LTCM had to unwind several positions.

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.

4655 into law on October 31, 1998, which instituted a policy of " regime change " against Iraq, though it explicitly stated it did not provide for direct intervention on the part of American military forces.

Offered the song by Dylan, Sheryl Crow later recorded an up-tempo cover of " Mississippi " for her The Globe Sessions, released in 1998, before Dylan revisited it for Love and Theft.

Minsk has a digital metropolitan network ; waiting lists for telephones are long ; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be undeserved ; intercity-Belarus has developed fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities ( 1998 ); Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries ' systems ; an inadequate analogue system remains operational.