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 Lake Kivu earthquake

One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.

* 2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.

The Fells, a local nonprofit organization that has maintained and managed the John Hay Estate on Lake Sunapee for over a decade, acquired the northern half of the property from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on March 25, 2008.

By 2008 there were at least six institutions monitoring lake water health: 1 ) In 2002 the Conservation Law Foundation appointed a " lakekeeper " who criticizes the state's pollution controls, 2 ) Friends of Missisquoi Bay was formed in 2003, 3 ) the Lake Champlain Committee, 4 ) Vermont Water Resources Board

One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.

In 2008 and 2009, wolverines were sighted as far south as the Sierra Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, for the first time since 1922.

The work received its initial readings from the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2006, and was presented in workshop form in the inaugural season of the Fordham University Lincoln Center Alumni Company in 2008.

She was featured in a UFO documentary that Williams did for BBC Radio 4 in April and took part in a field investigation he did in Trout Lake, Washington in August 2008.

In recent years, Seymour returned to film work, appeared in the Hallmark Channel film Dear Prudence ( 2008 ) with Jamey Sheridan and Ryan Cartwright, the romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Marriage ( 2011 ) with Mandy Moore, and the Hallmark Movie Channel film Lake Effects ( 2012 ) with Scottie Thompson and Madeline Zima.

A " Friday the 13th " storm in November 1981 brought winds up to, with other storms including the inauguration day storm of January 20, 1993, the Guadalupe Day storm of December 12, 1995 ( with winds up to at Washougal, Washington ) and small tornado on January 10, 2008, which destroyed a boathouse at Vancouver Lake and caused damage to buildings in Hazel Dell before dissolving near Hockinson.

The Salt Lake City-Ogden-Clearfield combined statistical area, together with the Provo-Orem metropolitan area, which lies to the south, have a combined population of 2, 094, 035 as of July 1, 2008.

A 2008 study by Men's Health and Women's Health magazines found Salt Lake City to be the healthiest city for women by looking at 38 different factors, including cancer rates, air quality and the number of gym memberships.

* June 2008 Uganda to buy a new train ferry for Lake Victoria for about $ 9m.

In 1994, the Lake Chad Basin Commission ( LCBC ) proposed a similar project, and at a March 2008 summit, the heads of state of the LCBC member countries committed to the diversion project.

* In March 2008, officials of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced a rare adult American chestnut tree had been discovered in a marsh near Lake Erie.

In the spring of 2008, Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell proclaimed in Duck Lake, that " the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples ' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today.

The Legacy Parkway opened on September 13, 2008, running from the US-89 / I-15 interchange in Farmington southward to connect with I-215 near the border with Salt Lake County.

On April 28, 2008, the Utah Transit Authority opened the FrontRunner commuter rail line from Salt Lake City north to Ogden, serving the length of Davis County with stations in Woods Cross, Farmington, Layton, and Clearfield.

Lake Oswego railroad bridge across the Willamette River, Lake Oswego, Oregon, April 2008

Although the county's 2008 population is only 31, 000, it is one of the fastest-growing in Virginia, as people have moved near Lake Anna.

In the 2008 presidential election, 71. 53 % of Lake County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 25. 95 % voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 1. 53 % of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

The original 1952 recording of A Child's Christmas in Wales was a 2008 selection for the United States National Recording Registry, stating that it is " credited with launching the audiobook industry in the United States ".

Six episodes from series one were a core text in the Year 12 English Advanced syllabus for the Higher School Certificate in New South Wales ( 2000 – 2008 ) for Module C: Representation and Text: Elective 1: Telling the Truth.

The new Royal Badge of Wales adopted in 2008 features this motto.

In 2008, he began participating in royal visits to schools and organisations in Wales.

* In 2008, IKEA sent an email to their British customers advising that " IKEA Shop Online is open everywhere ", even though this only applied to England and Wales.

From 2008 to 2009, the bodyline controversy was a topic in the New South Wales Higher School Certificate as part of the preliminary ( Year 11 ) Modern History syllabus.

On 18 February 2008, Fayed accused The Duke of Edinburgh and The Prince of Wales of killing Diana and Dodi because the Prince was furious that Diana was dating Dodi.

Unlike its New South Wales and Queensland counterparts, the WA party had decided to oppose Liberal candidates in the 2008 election.

In 2008, Glyndŵr University was established in Wrexham, Wales.

* in England and Wales ( as of October 2008 ; Companies Act 2006 ) and in Scotland ( Age of Legal Capacity ( Scotland ) Act 1991 ), the male / female is under 16 years old.

These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( 1974 ), The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), Pale Rider ( 1985 ), Heartbreak Ridge ( 1986 ), In the Line of Fire ( 1993 ), The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995 ), and Gran Torino ( 2008 ), have all received commercial success and critical acclaim.

He has a badge of three ostrich feathers ( which can be seen on the reverse of the previous design for decimal British two pence coins dated up to 2008 ); it dates back to the Black Prince and is his as the English heir even before he is made Prince of Wales.

The 2008 radio play The People's Princess, with Alex Jennings as George IV and Rebecca Saire as Caroline, drew parallels with the marriage and divorce of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales.

In 2008, Newton-John took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about her Welsh family history.

In September 2008, a senior assembly member spelled out her party's continuing support for an independent Wales.

Licences in England and Wales were held by the individual regional ITV plc owned companies prior to November 2008.

In June 2008 Charles, Prince of Wales paid off the 357 year old debt.

The Green Party of England and Wales had one member of the ( unelected ) House of Lords, the Upper Chamber of Parliament, Lord Beaumont of Whitley, who died in 2008.

Caroline Lucas speaking as the first Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales at its autumn conference in 2008.

Between 1824 and 1826 he lived and worked in Scarborough, and was responsible for the building of the Rotunda, a geological museum devoted to the Yorkshire coast. The Rotunda was re-opened as ' Rotunda – The William Smith Museum of Geology ', on 9 May 2008 by Lord Oxburgh, however, the Prince of Wales visited the Rotunda as early as 14 September 2007 to view the progress of the refurbishment of this listed building.

In 2008, it was announced that the Government of New South Wales would provide funding for Mardi Gras as it had become part of the state's Master Events Calendar.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Wales spent 1. 28 % ($ 45, 480 ) of its budget on its public library — some $ 24 per person.