They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

# 2008 Barcelona: Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith, Ramon Ferrer i Cancho " The Evolution of Language ( EVOLANG 7 )", World Scientific, ISBN 981-277-611-7.

" The Doors incorporated " Asturias " into their song " Spanish Caravan "; also, Iron Maiden's To Tame a Land uses the introduction of the piece for the song bridge ; and more recently, a guitar version of Granada functions as something of a love theme in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

In 2003, high-speed service was inaugurated on a new line from Madrid to Lleida and extended to Barcelona in 2008.

Under Josep Guardiola's Dream Team, powered by La Masia talents such as Lionel Messi, Xavi, and Andrés Iniesta, Barcelona added three straight Liga titles ( 2008 – 09, 2009 – 10, and 2010 – 11 ).

* 2008: More than 6, 600 leaders from government, the public sector, non-governmental organizations, business, UN agencies and social organizations attended IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Several football teams have also trained at Bisham Abbey, most recently Barcelona and Portsmouth before their 2008 FA Cup victory.

The choir goes on annual tours, recent tours include Dublin in 2008, where they sang concerts and a Sung Eucharist in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Rome in Summer 2009, Paris in 2010 and Barcelona in 2011.

The Barcelona – Madrid air shuttle service, known as the " Puente Aéreo " ( in Spanish ), or " Pont Aeri " ( in Catalan ) literally " Air Bridge ", was the world's busiest route until 2008, with the highest number of flight operations ( 971 per week ) in 2007.

The schedule has been reduced since February 2008, when a Madrid – Barcelona high-speed rail line was opened, covering the distance in 2 hours 30 minutes, and quickly became popular.

* 2008: First transplant of a Vertebrate trachea | human windpipe using a patient ’ s own stem cells, by Paolo Macchiarini ( Barcelona, Spain )

What later would become known as tiki-taka developed and evolved from the football style propagated by Johan Cruyff during his tenure as manager of Barcelona from 1988 to 1995, This developed and upgraded system has more recently been employed by the Euro 2008, 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012-winning Spanish teams of Luis Aragonés and Vicente del Bosque, as well as by FC Barcelona under then manager Pep Guardiola.

The second high-speed rail line ( Madrid to Barcelona ) was completed in 2007 with the inaugural service commencing at 6 am February 20, 2008.

Anne Talvaz, a French writer and translator, and Bulgarian translator Stefka Hrusanova have broadened the scope of the workshop and organized in 2008 and 2010 its presentations in Spain ( Barcelona ) and Italy ( Milan ).

In the Summer of 2008 before Jiménez's first season as first-team manager, Dani Alves and Seydou Keita were sold to Barcelona and Christian Poulsen to Juventus.

Examples include Postcards from Vienna, Postcards from Barcelona, Postcards from Paris ( 2008 ), and Postcards from Brussels ( 2009 ).

With growing demand, the capacity of the Class 490 was no longer sufficient, and from February 2008, the trains were transferred to the Mediterráneo line between Valencia and Barcelona.

Ralf made 2 point-scoring appearances in the 2008 DTM season, highlighting a 7th place in Barcelona and 8th place at the Nurburgring.

* Vicky Cristina Barcelona ( Woody Allen, 2008 ): depicts a dysfunctional, sometimes violent relationship between two Spanish artists that is finally brought in to balance with the addition of Cristina.

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Central Saint Martins was the first college to launch Dual City Summer Session courses in 2008 which start in London and then continue on to either Milan, Barcelona or Paris with other reputable art and design colleges.

Gyllenhaal attending an event in Barcelona, Spain, in 2008

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

In recent years, Craven Cottage has hosted several International Friendly matches, including the Republic of Ireland national football team who played Colombia and Nigeria there in May 2008 and May 2009 respectively and Oman in 2012.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

View from the Stamford Bridge ( stadium )# West_Stand | West Stand of Stamford Bridge ( stadium ) | Stamford Bridge during a UEFA Champions League | Champions League game, 2008 In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union match between the All Blacks and Middlesex, and in 1914 hosted a baseball match between the touring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox.

The Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival is held regularly ; in 2008 it was hosted by China.

It also hosted the ACC Championship Game from 2005 – 2007 and the River City Showdown from 2007 – 2008.

At the April 2008 " Toward a Science of Consciousness " Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, Marcel Kuijsten ( Executive Director and Founder of the Julian Jaynes Society ) and Brian J. McVeigh ( University of Arizona ) hosted a workshop devoted to Jaynesian psychology.

Nancy Reagan hosted two 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Debates at the Reagan Presidential Library, the first in May 2007 and the second in January 2008.

However, following the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict, Qatar hosted an emergency conference of Arab states and Iran to discuss the conflict.

In April 2008, Bucharest hosted the NATO summit.

In 2008, Sealand hosted a skateboarding event with Church and East Ltd sponsored by Red Bull.

The Spoonman was a program hosted by Brian Carlton on the triple m network in the late 1990s and returned in 2005 for 3 and a half years, the show wrapping up in 2008.

* 2008 — Worldwatch hosted the 20th Anniversary of the James E. Hansen hearings.

In 2008, it aired a spin-off show Domestic Blitz hosted by Shelley Craft and Scott Cam

A syndicated version entitled Trivial Pursuit: America Plays aired from 2008 to 2009 and was hosted by Christopher Knight.

The 2008 racing calendar consisted of 18 rounds in 16 different countries ( Spain which hosted 3 rounds, Qatar, Turkey, China, France, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, San Marino, Portugal, Japan, Australia and Malaysia ).

In 2008 a MotoGP event was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time on a newly prepared track, and observers noted that the Speedway had hosted motorcycle racing before cars raced there.

On June 21, 2008, Andrew Daly hosted a pilot episode with Sarah Silverman and Norm Macdonald among the panelists, using the Gameshow Marathon episode's set.

In 2008, the SMU School of Engineering, with the DeGolyer Library and the Library of Congress, hosted a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the digital age with Jack Kilby ’ s Nobel Prize-winning invention of the integrated circuit.

On April 8, 2008, she hosted the annual gala of the Trickle Up Program, a non-profit organization focusing on those in extreme poverty, mainly women and the disabled, in the Rainbow Room.

In July 2005 and July 2008, Monza hosted the " International Gran Galà Marching Show Bands " at Stadio Brianteo ( with the USA band Blue Devils, 11 times WMSB Champion of the World ).

On January 27, 2008, the Thrashers hosted the NHL All-Star Game at Philips Arena, matching the Eastern Conference All-Stars vs. the Western Conference All-Stars.