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under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things,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

He resigned following investigations into his financial activities and his successor, Glenn Hoddle, similarly left the job for non-footballing reasons after just one international tournament — the 1998 World Cup — in which England were eliminated in the second round again by Argentina and again on penalties ( after a 2 – 2 draw ).

Following the 1988, 1998 and 2000 problems, International Gymnastics Federation ( FIG ) re-evaluated and changed the apparatus, citing both safety reasons and the desire to facilitate more impressive acrobatics.

However, High Shoals Elementary was closed in 1998 for financial reasons and consolidated with Costner Elementary School near Dallas, North Carolina.

He was released for medical reasons in 1998 and was arranged to live in obscurity back in Shanghai.

In 1998, Colonel William Molett, an experienced navigator published “ Due north ?” Molett maintained that Rawlins had put too much significance in erased navigational calculations which can be explained by any number of other reasons, including favorable windspeeds as well as simple human error due to lack of sleep and stress.

Even though Perry had left 90210 in 1995, he returned in 1998 due to financial reasons.

Now it is recognised as a separate species under the name Phylloscopus brehmii ( Clement & Helbig, 1998 ; Sangster et al., 2002 ) for the following reasons ( compared to the Common Chiffchaff ) ( Helbig et al., 1996 ):

In his 1998 fatwa where he declared the killing of " Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it ," bin Laden listed three reasons for the fatwa: the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, the increase in infant mortality in Iraq following US-supported sanctions there, and US aid to Israel.

Sauber offered Berger a drive for 1998, but the Austrian turned down the offer for a number of reasons, not least because of the new regulations for grooved tyres which the Austrian did not find inspiring.

In 1998, he became the chairman of the Agriculture Select Committee, and after the 2001 general election, its successor the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee until 2003 when he promoted again to the Shadow Cabinet by Michael Howard as the Shadow Local and Devolved Government Secretary until he resigned again, this time citing ' family reasons ' in 2004, he was replaced by Caroline Spelman.

From 1998 to 2000, 9. 5 % of applicants who filed for an exemption from service for conscientious reasons were granted it.

In the four seasons between 1998 and 2001, they lost 81 times in 99 matches, avoiding relegation for a variety of reasons.

For unknown reasons, at the start of the 1998 – 99 season, manager George Mulhall chose to retire and Kieran O ' Regan was promoted from assistant to manager.

Coles was arrested in 1998 for simple battery, suspended for the Seminoles ' 1999 season opener versus Louisiana Tech for academic reasons, and was discovered to have accepted a plane ticket from a sports agent's representative in 1999.

On 8 April 1998, stevedoring company Patrick Corporation sought to restructure its operations for productivity reasons.

After initially joining with architect Peter Eisenmann to submit a design for Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Serra abruptly pulled out of the project for " personal and professional reasons " in 1998.

In 1998 he brought and lost a libel action against the BBC show Have I Got News For You, suing over comments made in a book based on the show published in 1996, which read: "... given Mr Allason's fondness for pursuing libel actions, there are also excellent legal reasons for not referring to him as a conniving little shit ".

Wilson filmed back-to-back romantic films in 1998, opposite Drew Barrymore, Best Men, about a group of friends who pull off a heist on their way to a wedding, and Home Fries, about two brothers interested in the same woman for different reasons.

McWilliams spoke before the Libertarian Party National Convention in 1998 where he came out as a gay man who was diagnosed with both cancer and AIDS and thus had a personal stake in the California law legalizing marijuana for medical reasons.

Ritchie retired in December 1998, citing One Life to Live destruction of his character during the 1992 Viki-Clint-Sloan Carpenter love triangle story as one of the major reasons.

The British Ice Hockey Superleague ( BISL, also known as the Sekonda Ice Hockey Superleague from 1998 – 99 for sponsorship reasons ) was a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2003.

In 1998, he quit Wellwater Conspiracy for unknown reasons.

For similar reasons, Peel is one of the few novelists to have used the Daleks in full-length original Doctor Who novels, writing War of the Daleks and Legacy of the Daleks in the Eighth Doctor Adventures range for BBC Books in 1997 and 1998 respectively.

Kearns subsequently left due to personal reasons in 1998.