the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

* 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

In April 2007, it was reported that imaging analysis had discovered an early commentary on Aristotle's Categories in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and Robert Sharples suggested Alexander as the most likely author.

The most popular player in franchise history, " Gonzo " signed a one-year contract worth just under $ 7 million on December 7 to play for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2007 season.

In 2007, Clarence Thomas published his autobiography, My Grandfather's Son, in which he revisited the controversy, calling Hill his " most traitorous adversary " and saying that pro-choice liberals who feared that he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if he were seated on the Supreme Court used the scandal against him.

In recent years, the Port Authority has established it as one of the most important ports in Spain for cruises, with 72 calls to port made by cruise ships in 2007 bringing some 80, 000 passengers and 30, 000 crew to the city each year.

Mainly due to reunification-related expenditures, Berlin as a German state has accumulated more debt than any other city in Germany, with the most current estimate being € 60 ($ 84 ) bn in December 2007.

In 2007, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said that photos the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization claimed showed a juvenile Bigfoot were most likely of a bear with mange.

As of 2007, about 10, 000 people live in Battery Park City, most of whom are upper middle class and upper class ( 54. 0 % of households have incomes over $ 100, 000 ).

Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called " The Bestiary " ( Dial, 2007 ) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.

According to Grayson Lee, who created the snow penis sculpture in 2007, most of its residents were " heartbroken " to leave.

With a $ 1. 92-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1. 9 million foreign visitors in 2007, thus reaching a rate of foreign tourists per capita of 0. 46, one of the highest in the Caribbean Basin, and above other popular destinations such as Mexico ( 0. 21 ), Dominican Republic ( 0. 38 ), and Brazil ( 0. 03 ).

The 2006 – 2007 season is the most successful season in the history of the program.

Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen ' 99 and Mason A. Porter ' 98 and published in May 2007.

The Food and Drug Administration regulations in are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0. 5 milliroentgens per hour ( mR / h ) ( 0. 13 µC /( kg · h ) or 36 pA / kg ) at a distance of from any external surface ; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit.

Falaises près de Dieppe ( Cliffs near Dieppe ) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 ( in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices ) and most recently in August 2007.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

They won their last 14 of 15 games, including 11 in a row, the most of any team in the 2007 season and an all-time franchise record.

LiveScience. com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority ( 67 ) occurring in cheerleading.

Sarah-Louise, who was involved in some of the decade's most controversial stories, left in December 2007.

In one paper presented at an ABA conference on class actions in 2007, authors commented that " competing cases can also provide opportunities for collusive settlement discussions and reverse auctions by defendants anxious to resolve their new exposure at the most economic cost.

He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

The January 2007 estimated population of the island was 281, 000, while the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies – though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article – were performed, was about 261, 000 ( see under Corsica ).

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as " the most important director of this era ".

In 2007, the AFL pushed for the Kangaroos to move to the Gold Coast as part of another attempted push for national expansion following the inclusion of Port Adelaide and Fremantle into the league in the late 1990s, as well as attempting to increase North's memberships ( which were amongst the lowest in the league ).

On the 2007 deluxe edition release, it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix, and various radio spots, all of which were included as bonus material.

Additionally, the Sun Devils were Pac-10 Champions in 1986, 1996, and 2007.

For the 2007 season, the Falcons were forced to start Joey Harrington at quarterback.

Details were supposed to be kept from the public until after the 2006 postseason as per MLB rules, but the Diamondback page from the 2007 MLB Official Style Guide was somehow leaked around September 25, and local media broadcast printed the new design for all to see.

The terms of the Artistic License 1. 0 were at issue in a 2007 federal district court decision in the US which was criticized by some for suggesting that FOSS-like licenses could only be enforced through contract law rather than through copyright law, in contexts where contract damages would be difficult to establish.

AZ were undefeated in all 32 of their home matches in European competitions, a sequence which ran from 1977 until 20 December 2007, when they finally lost to Everton of England by a score of 3 – 2.

By 2007, national branches of the Anthroposophical Society had been established in fifty countries, and about 10, 000 institutions around the world were working on the basis of anthroposophy.

Rogers Wireless has dismantled their AMPS ( along with IS-136 ) network ; the networks were shut down May 31, 2007.

For example, the 2007 SIGGRAPH conference attracted about 30000 visitors, and CIKM only accepted 15 % of the long papers that were submitted in 2005.

In 2007, there were almost 12, 000, 000 known amicable pairs.

In 2007, total SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions were 8. 9 million tons, achieving the program's long term goal ahead of the 2010 statutory deadline.

There were 4. 668 million land telephone lines in use in Belgium in 2007, a slight decrease on the 4. 769 million in use in 1997.

There were 61 ( 2003 ) internet service providers in Belgium, serving 5. 22 million internet users in 2007.

The first three C-295s, designated C-105A Amazonas in Brazilian service, were commissioned into service in a formal ceremony at Base Aérea de Manaus on March 31, 2007.

About 556, 000 tonnes were produced in 2007, an amount similar to the far more abundant element magnesium.

Details of the photodiodes were also published in the February 14, 2008 issue of the journal Electronics Letters and the November 2007 issue of the journal IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

The presenters often have expertise in the story they are sent to cover, for example, former Paris correspondent Jon Sopel presented coverage of the 2007 French presidential elections, while channel presenters and former reporters Ben Brown and Clive Myrie were dispatched to Cairo and Tripoli during the Middle East uprisings.

In 2008, the graphics were again relaunched, using the style introduced in 2007 and a new colour scheme.

These were replaced by BeanoMAX in early 2007.

Until June 2007, plague was one of the three epidemic diseases specifically reportable to the World Health Organization ( the two other ones were cholera and yellow fever ).

In 2007 President Paul W. Gooch wrote that Gate House undertook an " escalating series of actions " that were " defiant " and " disparaging of women ", in response to Gate members constructing a 2. 5-metre snow penis and placing a cooked pig's head in an Annesley bathroom.