* 1914 – Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter ( d. 2008 )

* Finkel, Irving and Seymour, Michael ( 2008 ) Babylon, Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN 0-19-538540-3.

The Dallas Cowboys played at the now-demolished Texas Stadium in Irving from 1971 to 2008.

Former Irving City Council member Mayor Herbert Gears was elected to a three-year term in June, 2005 and re-elected in May, 2008 defeating Roland Jeter and Rigo Reza.

Prior to the November 2008 elections, Irving banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in stores, making it the largest in population dry suburb in North Texas.

In an effort to test markets as potential expansion / relocation candidates, the Philadelphia Barrage franchise played all of its 2008 " home " matches in other cities ; Cary, North Carolina, Hillsboro, Oregon, Irving, Texas, St. Louis and Virginia Beach.

The partnership expanded in 2008, as Irving leased its remaining Bluecanoe and Mainway convenience stores to Couche-Tard, expanding the latter chain's reach into Atlantic Canada and New England under the Circle K brand.

In July 2008, the Blues Magoos with original members Ralph Scala, Castro and Geoff Daking reunited for the first time in years for two concerts, including one with The Zombies at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza in New York City.

The Circle K brand re-entered the Canadian market in 2008, in connection with Couche-Tard's acquisition of Irving Oil's convenience store network, as discussed below.

Another oil company, Canada-based Irving Oil, leased out its convenience stores operating under the Bluecanoe and Mainway banners in the United States and Atlantic Canada to Couche-Tard, which rebranded the locations to Circle K in July 2008, while still selling Irving-branded fuel.

Major citations have included the APA Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge Award ( Norman Frederiksen, 1984 ), the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award ( Frederic Lord, 1988 ); the AERA E. F. Lindquist Award ( William Turnbull, 1981 ; Frederic Lord, 1988 ; Samuel Messick, 1994 ; Paul Holland, 2000 ; Wendy Yen, 2008 ); the NCME Career Contributions to Educational Measurement Award ( Frederic Lord, 1990 ; Paul Holland, 2004 ; Neil Dorans, 2010 ); and the Jean Piaget Society's Lifetime Achievement Award ( Irving Sigel, 2002 ); among many other awards.

* Irving Saladino, athlete, long jump, 2007 World Champion and 2008 Olympic gold medalist, First Gold medalist of the nation

Noted faculty poets include George Starbuck ( 1983 Lenore Marshall Prize ), Charles Olson, Robert Creeley ( Bollingen Prize 1999 ), John Logan, ( Lenore Marshall Prize 1982 ), Irving Feldman ( MacArthur Foundation Fellow 1992 ), Carl Dennis ( 2000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize ; 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ), Robert Hass ( Poet Laureate of the United States 1995-97, 2007 National Book Award, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ), Charles Bernstein ( co-founder of the University's notable Poetics Program ), Steve McCaffery, and Susan Howe ( Bollingen Prize 2011 ).

* A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families, Chatto & Windus, 2008

The Westminster men's lacrosse won the 2008 Division II MCLA National Championship held in Irving, Texas at Texas Stadium with a 17-10 win over Grand Valley State.

He has received many prizes, among which the APS Irving Langmuir Prize for Chemical Physics ( 2003 ), the AVS Medard W. Welch Award for Surface Science ( 1997 ), the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics ( 2008 ) and the Richard Feynman Prize ( 1999 ).

In 2008, it had its New York premiere as part of the New York International Fringe Festival ; the cast included Ryan Foy ( a great-great grandson of Eddie Foy Sr. and grandson of Irving Foy ), who works as an actor today.

* The Dullahan-The Irish Headless Horseman October 2008 Emerald Reflections Connection to Washington Irving

On June 7, 2009, Phillips won the long jump at the Prefontaine Classic with a personal-best third jump of 8. 74 m, defeating 2008 Olympic gold medalist Irving Saladino.

* TCM Remembers 2008: Richard Widmark, Edie Adams, Guillaume Depardieu, Robert DoQui, Charlton Heston, Cyd Charisse, George Carlin, Paul Scofield, Dick Martin, Sydney Pollack, special effects visual Stan Winston, Eva Dahlbeck, Michael Kidd, June Travis, producer Charles H. Joffe, Ken Ogata, screenwriter Irving Brecher, Roy Scheider, Brad Renfro, Paul Benedict, screenwriter John Michael Hayes, John Phillip Law, Michael Pate, Roberta Collins ( later removed and replaced with Van Johnson ), Isaac Hayes, director Joseph Pevney, screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke, Fred Crane, animator Ollie Johnson, director Michael Crichton, Evelyn Keyes, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Mel Ferrer, Jerry Reed, Heath Ledger, Robert J. Anderson, Suzanne Pleshette, director Anthony Minghella, Ben Chapman, Vampira, Hazel Court, Perry Lopez, Delmar Watson, Robert Arthur, director Kon Ichikawa, Joy Page, Bernie Mac, Forrest J Ackerman, Nina Foch, director Dino Risi, Dody Goodman, director Jules Dassin, screenwriter Abby Mann, Harvey Korman, Lois Nettleton, Estelle Reiner, Julie Ege, composer Leonard Rosenman, Don LaFontaine, screenwriter Malvin Wald, director Jean Delannoy, Anita Page and Paul Newman.

On 11 April 2008, a black-and-white photo of Bündchen, shot by Irving Penn, was auctioned for US $ 193, 000 (£ 96, 000 ).

In June 2008, it was announced BSMB would spin out of J. P. Morgan and in November 2008, the firm relaunched as Irving Place Capital.

On May 8, 2008, Irving announced that they would lease its remaining retail sites in Canada and New England to Alimentation Couche-Tard, which is now the process of rebranding all of the stores as Circle K. Irving will continue to own the stations and supply their fuel, and the gasoline brand at these stations will remain " Irving ".

The former judge and recipient of the Order of Canada alleged that he was defamed in Vander Zalm's 2008 self-published autobiography For The People.

* Ikaruga ( 斑鳩 ) ( 2001, self-published, Arcade *; 2002, ESP, Dreamcast *; 2003, Atari, Nintendo GameCube ; 2008, Xbox Live Arcade ; developed in collaboration with G. rev )

* Hullo Russia, Goodbye England ( 2008 ), self-published and available from his website.

He released self-published dōjinshi on digital support bypassing the traditional print publishers with Pochiyama at the Pharmacy in 2008 aimed at iPhone and iPod Touch and I am an Alien, I have a Question in 2010 for Kindle.

* 2008 Laura Park, Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream ( self-published )

* 2008 The Thing About Madeleine, Lilli Carré ( self-published )

In 2008, documentary filmmaker, Joanne Caputo, winner of the PBS Independent Lens Audience Award for her 2005 “ On A Roll: Family, Disability and the American Dream ,” self-published “ Margaret Garner: Diversity and Depth of Love .” The non-fiction two-book manuscript includes a memoir, in which Caputo describes her paranormal experiences with Margaret Garner and a claim of being Garner ’ s reincarnated murdered daughter.

* I Left my Arse in San Francisco ( 2008, self-published )

He self-published a book of poetry in 2008, titled B. A. D.

In 2008, Griggs self-published a memoir, Diary of a Musician ( Fenman Paperback ) based on the diaries he kept from 1960.

In 2008, a limited edition printed volume hardcover of Spacegirl was self-published by Charest and Big Wow Art, collecting the first 56 strips of the series.

* Banged Up ( 2008 )

* Davis, Miriam ( 2008 ), Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land, Walnut Creek ( CA ), Left Coast Press, 304 pp.

She also has helped with breast cancer awareness ; in September 2008 she participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, to help raise funds to accelerate cancer research.

" On February 1, 2008, 107. 7-The End ( a Seattle radio station ) played the first single from the Presidents ' new album, title " Mixed Up S. O. B.

In January 2008, Up!

In 2008, Tesco changed supermarket checkout signs reading " Ten items or less " after complaints that it was bad grammar ; it switched to " Up to ten items " rather than " Ten items or fewer " at the suggestion of the Plain English Campaign.

William Shatner, in his 2008 book Up Till Now: The Autobiography, speaks about how later in their lives Nimoy tried to help Shatner's alcoholic wife.

Animated films can be nominated for other categories but have rarely been so: Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ), Up ( 2009 ) and Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) are the only animated films ever to be nominated for Best Picture, while Waltz with Bashir ( 2008 ) is the only animated picture ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film ( though it failed to earn a nomination in the Best Animated Feature category ).

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.

* The Jonas Brothers: This band gave three consecutive shows at Madison Square Garden as part of their Burnin ' Up Tour in August 2008, selling out the three days.

In 2008, yellow and orange hourglass marshmallows were introduced ( along with a new contemporary for Lucky named the Emerald Elder ) with the marketing tagline of " The Hourglass Charm has the power to Stop Time * Speed Up Time * Reverse Time ".

Up until the 2008 election, Stewart County was the sole county in Tennessee that had never voted for a Republican presidential candidate over the last 100 years.

( 2008 ) Growing Up In Wartime Uxbridge.

* Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, "" Shutting Up " the Enemy: Literary Gleanings from Sargon's Eighth Campaign ," in Mordechai Cogan and Dan ' el Kahn ( eds ), Treasures on Camels ' Humps: Historical and Literary Studies from the Ancient Near East Presented to Israel Eph ' al ( Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2008 ),

:: The Starting Line Up in 2008

The Pretenders ' album Break Up the Concrete was released through Shangri-La Music on 7 October 2008.

* 2008: Break Up the Concrete

* McWilliams, James E., "‘ The Horizon Opened Up Very Greatly ’: Leland O. Howard and the Transition to Chemical Insecticides in the United States, 1894 – 1927 ," Agricultural History, 82 ( Fall 2008 ), 468 – 95.

Her son is Novel, who released his first studio album " The Audiobiography " in October 2008, and wrote movie soundtracks for Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Step Up, and 21.

In 2008 he published the book Surround Sound: Up and Running.

A resurgence of dream pop in the independent music scene occurred in 2008, with the relatively successful indie acts of Silversun Pickups, Beach House, Au Revoir Simone, Tame Impala, Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Bat for Lashes, The Radio Dept., High Places, Lykke Li, Chairlift, Anomie Belle, Grimes, School of Seven Bells, Foxes in Fiction, Rem's Floating Chandelier The xx, Ellie Goulding, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Marissa Nadler, Holly Miranda, iamamiwhoami, Wild Beasts, and An Horse.

" In February 2008, an exhibition, " Up to Mischief with Horrid Henry ", opened at the Seven Stories Centre for Children's Books in Newcastle, England.

Nickelodeon approved of its ratings and popularity so much ( about 70 % of viewers with cable tuned in ), they eventually commissioned a full series, All Grown Up, which ran from 2003 to 2008.

; The Archies Christmas Album ( 2008 ): Here Comes Santa Claus / Up on the Housetop / Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree / Holly Jolly Christmas / Jingle Bell Rock / I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Run Rudolph Run / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Archies Christmas Party / Christmas in Riverdale