Billy returned to the comic shortly after in issue 3554 ( dated 18 October 2008 ), as a single-page strip illustrated by Barrie Appleby.

2 August 2008 Barrie Appleby draws a new Billy Whizz strip in the 70th birthday edition of the Beano, the first new strip in the comic for over a year.

Appleby also stands as his party's candidate in the electorate, coming fifth in the 2008 election.

In 2008, an Appleby student came second in the World Debating Championship ( Sulaiman Hakemy ' 08, now at London School of Economics ).

Appleby maintained # 440 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps for 93 years, until 2008, and it was open to both boys and girls.

In 2008, Appleby got a recurring role on the 15th and final season of ER, being her second time on the show, playing an intern named Daria Wade.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on March 5, 2008 called the announced movement of Colombian forces in Ecuador a " war crime ," and joined Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack.

In 2008, he joined the second season of the reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.

On 1 May 2004 Malta joined the EU and on 1 January 2008, the Eurozone with the euro as the national currency.

In 2008, NCS joined over 60 other art licensing businesses ( including the Artists Rights Society, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Stock Artists Alliance, Illustrator's Partnership of America and the Advertising Photographers of America ) in opposing both The Orphan Works Act of 2008 and The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008.

In February 2008, Keating joined former prime ministers Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke in Parliament House, Canberra, to witness the parliamentary apology to the Stolen Generations.

Simmons joined Kid Rock's 2008 Rock N Roll Revival Tour, performing " It's Like That ", " It's Tricky ", " You Be Illin '", " Run's House ", " Here We Go ", " King of Rock " and " Walk This Way " with Kid Rock.

He joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York City in 2008, teaching bass in the school's Jazz Studies program.

They were joined by South Africa in April 2008.

Twain joined Canadian singer Anne Murray on the song " You Needed Me " on Murray's Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends album released November 13, 2007 in Canada, and on January 15, 2008 in the U. S.

In 2008, Turner explained he not only regretted these statements but said he had made peace with organized religion and had joined with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the United Methodist Church to fight malaria.

The Faculty of Pharmacy officially joined the Bannatyne campus with the opening of the Apotex Centre on October 16, 2008.

Due to the advance, two lobes of the glacier joined together in late May 2008 and thus the glacier completely surrounds the lava domes.

In the context of EU membership, Malta joined the eurozone on 1 January 2008 ; the 2008 election confirmed Gonzi in the premiership, while in 2009 George Abela became President of Malta.

On November 8, 2008 former Yankees Scott Brosius, Paul O ' Neill, David Cone and Jeff Nelson, all members of the 1998 World Series championship team, joined 60 children from two Bronx based youth groups Youth Force 2020 and the ACE Mentor Program in ceremoniously digging up home plate, the pitcher's mound pitching plate ( rubber ) and the surrounding dirt of both areas and transporting them to comparable areas of new Yankee Stadium.

In 2008, she joined the cast of the USA Network television series Psych as Shawn Spencer's mother, Madeleine Spencer.

In 2008, New York guitarist, Marc Ribot joined Akiko for sold-out shows at the Blue Note Tokyo.

Although Ms. May was the first elected Member of Parliament, the first seat was gained in the Canadian House of Commons on August 30, 2008 when sitting Independent MP Blair Wilson joined the party.

In 2008, Lakoff joined Fenton Communications, the nation's largest public interest communications firm, as a Senior Consultant.

She also joined the choir in the finale of " O Holy Night ". Joan Baez concert in Dresden, Germany, July 2008

He joined Paraguayan club Cerro Porteño in May 2008 but was sacked in August of the same year after a string of poor results and was replaced by Pedro Troglio.

To incorporate nanowire technology into industrial applications, researchers in 2008 developed a method of welding nanowires together: a sacrificial metal nanowire is placed adjacent to the ends of the pieces to be joined ( using the manipulators of a scanning electron microscope ); then an electric current is applied, which fuses the wire ends.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

The original film was redone in 2008, updating the computer graphics and re-recording the sound in 6. 1 surround sound, though some members of the cast had to be changed.

In 2008 Richardson was cast in a leading role in original AMC pilot, Rubicon.

On December 2, 2008, Thiessen was cast in White Collar, a USA Network television series.

Star Heath Ledger's death in January 2008 cast doubt on the film's future, but the production was salvaged with the addition of new actors playing his character in scenes he did not complete.

Herzog also lent his voice to the animated television program The Boondocks in the third season premiere episode It's a Black President, Huey Freeman in which he played himself filming a documentary about the series ' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

In November 2008, NBC announced that the series had been picked up for a complete 22-episode season but that several cast members would be leaving and the story lines revamped after the original 13-episode order.

In April 2008, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated Paul Simon's works, and dedicated a week to Songs From the Capeman with a good portion of the show's songs performed by a cast of singers and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

Voting was restricted to the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more – the equivalent of about £ 80 as of 2008 – and votes could only be cast at the county town of Lancaster, by a public spoken declaration at the hustings.

The 2008 London cast included Amanda Lawrence and Tamzin Griffin, with Tristan Sturrock and Naomi Frederick in the lead roles.

According to the Supervisor of Elections website, for the 2008 general election there were 536, 584 registered voters in Duval County, of which 417, 599 cast ballots for a voter turnout of 77. 83 %.

In 2008, the BBC announced that Russ Abbot would join the cast as a relatively more youthful actor in series 30.

On May 19, 2008, the surviving cast members of The Mary Tyler Moore Show reunited on The Oprah Winfrey Show to reminisce about the series.

In 2008, Keitel was cast in the role of Detective Gene Hunt in ABC's short-lived US cover version of the successful English time-travel police drama series Life on Mars.

She has appeared in six James Bond films, including Die Another Day ( 2002 ), Casino Royale ( 2006 ) and its direct sequel Quantum of Solace ( 2008 ), making her the longest-running current cast member of the series.

In 2008, the film Tropic Thunder had Robert Downey Jr. in an Oscar nominated performance where he plays an Caucasian Australian actor who is so committed to method acting an African American character that he has his skin surgically darkened, much to the annoyed bemusement of his actual African American co-players in the cast.

Nearly 57, 000 registered voters in Webb County did not cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election.

During the 2008 Presidential primary in Texas, 19 voters from Glasscock County cast ballots in the Democratic race, while over 400 cast ballots in the Republican race.

The county has the distinction of having the highest percentage of Democratic votes for President in the 2004 election of any county in the US ( 85 %) and in 2008 with 88. 69 % of votes cast for Barack Obama.

In the seventh season ( 2007 – 2008 ) of the CW's hit show Smallville, Kara is introduced into the cast and was portrayed by Laura Vandervoort.

In the 2008 election Lafayette Parish cast the majority of its votes for Republican John McCain.