Fearing for his reputation after losing a fight to Wendy Testaburger in the season 12 ( 2008 ) episode " Breast Cancer Show Ever ", Cartman receives several assurances from numerous classmates that their opinion of him is already at the point where it cannot get any lower.

The ICO had given permission for the launch of the service in July 2008 based partly on Google's assurances that it would blur faces and vehicle licence plates to protect privacy.

The track closed in August 2008, despite assurances from the owners in December 2007 that no deal had been made to sell the track and that racing would continue for years.

There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

Retrieved September 30, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 243212 / Great-Drought

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

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

In 2008, Penny Sartori, an intensive care nurse from Swansea, published a book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.

In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.

* 2008 – Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

On April 26, Matt Ryan ( quarterback from Boston College ) was drafted third overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Falcons.

The Atlanta Falcons hold the record among all major American sports leagues for the longest streak of seasons without consecutive winning seasons, a streak that lasted from 1966 – 2008.

Most recently the 2008 movie Iron Man used the Larghetto movement from Salieri's Piano Concerto in C major.

Ajax's shirts have been sponsored by TDK, and by ABN AMRO from 1991 to 2008.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

The ANC and its members were officially removed from the United States terrorism watch list in 2008.

Following Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and Mbeki's resignation as president in 2008, the Mbeki faction of former ministers led by Mosiuoa Lekota split away from the ANC to form the Congress of the People.

Hesser applied for a buyout from the Times in late March 2008 and is no longer with the newspaper.

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

The third London revival ran at the Menier Chocolate Factory from November 22, 2008 until March 8, 2009.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

In 2008, Kosovo's declaration of independence saw a marked deterioration in Russia's relationship with the West.

Under Russia's 1993 constitution, there are 450 deputies of the State Duma ( Article 95 ), each elected to a term of four years ( Article 96 ); this was changed to a five-year term in late 2008.

In August 2008, he urged the UN Security Council to " take urgent action " and " condemn Russia's military assault on the sovereign state of Georgia ," in addition to stating that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had told Secretary of State Rice that Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili " must go.

In 2008, The Times reported that Abramovich admitted that he paid billions of dollars for political favours and protection fees to obtain a big share of Russia's oil and aluminium assets as was shown by court papers The Times obtained.

In 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lamented the fact that 77 % of Russia's 142 million people live " cooped up " in apartment buildings.

On August 29, 2008, in response to Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze announced that Georgia had broken diplomatic relations with Russia.

On 28 November 2008, in an interview with Russia's Vesti news channel, Russia's NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin accused the United States of planning to replace Mikheil Saakashvili with Burjanadze as president of Georgia.

In 2008, the American Carnegie Endowment's Foreign Policy magazine named Russia as " the worst place to be a terrorist " and highlighted especially Russia's willingness to prioritize national security over civil rights.

On 28 June 2008, he was reported by Mail Online to have received a warning from Downing Street after MI5 discovered that he was holding meetings with a suspected Russian spy Alexander Polyakov, officially a counsellor at the Russian Embassy in London ; it was also claimed that MacKinlay had been targeted by aides of Russia's richest man, Oleg Deripaska, as a ' stooge ' for use in a High Court battle.

Sychev was called up to Russia's squad for Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.

Angel of Vengeance: The " Girl Assassin ," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World, St. Martin's Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-36399-4, 370p.

The company's current ( as of July 2008 ) license portfolio covers a territory where 97 % of Russia's population resides, as well as 100 % of the territory of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Armenia.

Since July 2008, according to the financial news agency Bloomberg L. P., Russia's wealthiest 25 individuals have collectively lost US $ 230 billion (£ 146 billion ).

One of the first to get hit by the global downturn was Oleg Deripaska, Russia's richest man at the time whose net worth was US $ 28 billion in March 2008.

Titov, who was just several years ago was considered one of Russia's key players stopped playing for the team when he refused to be called up for a Euro 2008 qualifying match against Estonia, saying the reason was because his wife was pregnant and he wants to spend more time with her.

However, in the early 21st Century, local conflicts in the Caucasus region ( particularly the 2008 South Ossetia war ) saw Moscow employ elements of the Black Sea Fleet off the coast of Georgia, and the development of oil transit in the region has strengthen Russia's support of the fleet.

His achievements include winning the European treble ( Eredivisie, Dutch Cup and European Cup ) with PSV Eindhoven ; managing the Netherlands and taking them to the semi-finals of the 1998 FIFA World Cup ; leading South Korea to a fourth place finish in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the first and only Asian team to reach the semi-final stages ; leading Australia to their best ever finish in the 2006 FIFA World Cup ; leading Russia to the semi-finals of Euro 2008, Russia's best performance since the breakup of the Soviet Union ; and leading Chelsea to an FA Cup win against Everton in 2009.

Well known figures who have been rehabilitated include Deng Xiaoping who fell into disgrace during the Cultural Revolution for being a " third roader " but was rehabilitated subsequently and became paramount leader of the People's Republic of China ; and Russia's last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, who were all shot dead by Bolshevik revolutionaries in July, 1918, but were rehabilitated by Russia's Supreme court on 1 October 2008.

In January, 2008, he became Russia's ambassador to NATO, until December 2011.

The statement was made in reaction to the Russia's actions in the 2008 South Ossetia war.

Italy won the RLEF European Shield in 2008 and 2009, and as such were drafted into the 2009 European Cup following Russia's withdrawal from the tournament.

In 2008 and 2009, Trutnev was officially Russia's best earning government member.