* ANGOLA LIVRO BRANCO SOBRE AS ELEIÇÕES DE 2008. http :// www. kas. de / proj / home / pub / 8 / 2 / year-2009 / dokument_id-17396 / index. html

In 2008 the Brazilian minister of defense has formulated the " Estratégia Nacional de Defesa " ( National Defense Strategy ), that claims to build a strong national industry and make strategic partnerships with allied nations to develop technology together.

Between 1992 and 2008, the 1st, 2nd and 16th Jungle Infantry Brigades, the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the 19th Logistics Battalion, and the 22nd Army Police Platoon were transferred by the Army from the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul to the Amazon region in accordance with the friendship policy with Argentina.

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

In July 2008, the French Constitution was amended adding article 75-1, stating les langues régionales appartiennent au patrimoine de la France ( the regional languages belong to the heritage of France ).

Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41. 4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008.

* Dulac, Liliane, Anne Paupert, Christine Reno, and Bernard Ribémont, eds., Desireuse de plus avant enquerre ... Actes du VIe colloque international sur Christine de Pizan ( Paris juillet 2006 ): Volume en hommage à James Laidlaw ( Paris, Éditions Champion, 2008 ) ( Etudes Christinienne ).

The Book of Peace by Christine de Pizan. University Park: Penn State Press, 2008.

Detail of Persian Ceiling installation by Dale Chihuly at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum | De Young Museum in San Francisco, 2008.

* Jean-Philippe de Lespinay, Admiroutes, December 2008: Reasoning AI

* 1917 – Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada ( d. 2008 )

* Vancea, S. The Cahiers de Doleances of 1789, Clio History Journal, 2008.

In October 2008 de Klerk spoke at Brigham Young University concerning the global politics and role of the United States as the world's last remaining superpower.

The Swiss theatre company, Compagnie Pied de Biche revisits the Grand Guignol genre in contemporary contexts since 2008.

La scrittura e la notazione, lo strumento e il repertorio dal ' 500 alla contemporaneità, preface by Luis de Pablo, Suvini Zerboni, Milano, 2008.

The fired rockfall event is mentioned only by Livy ; Polybius is mute on the subject and there is no evidence of carbonized rock at the only two-tier rockfall in the Western Alps, located below the Col de la Traversette ( Mahaney, 2008 ).

* Michael de Vaan, < u > Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages </ u >, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Series, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008, 826pp.

Translated in French by Thierry Le Breton, Au coeur de l ' action clandestine des commandos au MI6, L ’ Esprit du Livre Editions, France, 2008 ( ISBN 978-2-915960-27-3 ).

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

Lithuanian Special Operations Force ( SOF ) of Lithuanian Armed Forces has been in operation de facto since 2002 and it was established de jure on April 3, 2008, when amendments of National Defence System organisation and military service law came into force.

* B. et G. Delluc, 2008: Dictionnaire de Lascaux, Sud Ouest, Bordeaux.

As of June 2008, service commanders were Colonel Boubacar Togola ( Armée de Terre ), Colonel Waly Sissoko ( Armée de l ’ Air ), Lieutenant-Colonel Daouda Sogoba ( Garde Nationale ) et du Colonel Adama Dembélé ( Gendarmerie Nationale ).

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.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

Edinson Volquez received three second-place votes in 2008 balloting despite no longer being a rookie under the award's definition.

Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

Caltech received $ 144 million in federal funding for the physical sciences, $ 40. 8 million for the life sciences, $ 33. 5 million for engineering, $ 14. 4 million for environmental sciences, $ 7. 16 million for computer sciences, and $ 1. 97 million for mathematical sciences in 2008.

More recently, on 10 October 2008 Charlton received an indicative offer for the club from a Dubai-based diversified investment company.

It received its world premiere in New York City in June 2008.

* In 2008, Trudeau received the Mental Health Research Advocacy Award from the Yale School of Medicine for his depiction of the mental-health issues facing soldiers upon returning home from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Day received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement in Music in 2008, albeit again in absentia.

* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ( 2008 ) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is written as a series of letters and telegraphs sent and received by the protagonist.

In December 2008, the IFF and the sport of floorball received recognition from the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

The FDA's federal budget request for fiscal year ( FY ) 2008 ( October 2007 through September 2008 ) totaled $ 2. 1 billion, a $ 105. 8 million increase from what it received for fiscal year 2007.

ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said he is not on the payroll of the energy industry, but he acknowledged that SEPP had received one unsolicited charitable donation of $ 10, 000 from ExxonMobil, and that it was one percent of all donations received.

In 2008, most of the € 202. 5 million received by the organization was donated by about 2. 6 million regular supporters, mainly from Europe.

While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.

In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received two treatments at Ullevål, paid for by Norwegian public expenditures.

A third album in the Connick on Piano series, Chanson du Vieux Carré was released in 2007, and Connick received two Grammy nominations for the track " Ash Wednesday ", for the Grammy awards in 2008.

He has received several Primetime Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominations and in 2008 it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.

In 2008, the Authority received two new applications for authorization to explore for polymetallic nodules, coming for the first time from private firms in developing island nations of the Pacific.

As an example, Mexico started to export irradiated guava to the U. S. in 2008 and mango, sweet lime, manzano pepper in 2009 ; and has received approval for citrus and star fruit with exports to initiate in 2012.

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.