The economic downturn of 2008 saw the advent of the online pawnbrokers such as Borro, who offered customers the chance to gain finance against their assets without ever entering a pawn shop.

UEA book shop at the 2008 World Congress of Esperanto

In Malmesbury, his name lives on into the 20th and 21st centuries, with everything from a bus company and a second-hand shop to several roads and streets, as well as the Care Home opened in 2008, named after him.

In 2008, a pub opened in the building used as the pub in the film ( it had actually been a shop at the time when the movie was shot ); the pub hosts daily re-runs of the film on DVD.

It is a small village, consisting of a main road ( Rushmore Hill ) on which is situated a school, a village shop ( the post office was closed as part of the widespread branch closures of June 2008 ) and the Bulls Head pub, two small churches and a few side roads.

In October 2008 a fire in the Woolwich Triangle area left the upper storeys of an empty Victorian shop building severely damaged, contributing to the decline of the area.

There was a gift shop that opened in 2008 and closed in 2009.

In 2008, NHL. com's official online shop came under criticism after they placed a T-shirt advertising Alexander Ovechkin as the Hart winner on sale a week before the winner was revealed.

Despite the economic recession in 2008, the barber shop industry has seen continued positive growth.

The museum was further extended in 2008 following the purchase of the adjoining former fish and chip shop.

On 2 October 2008, M & S opened its first mainland China shop in Shanghai.

In 2008, the runway was extended to ( LDA ) and ( TORA ), along with other improvements, including an upgrade of the terminal with a new arrival and baggage claim area and a new duty-free shop.

A major revamp of the Museum foyer was unveiled in February 2010 including a brand new Games Lounge, a new temporary gallery drawing on the National Videogame Archive established in 2008 in partnership with Nottingham Trent University ; a new box office ; a relocated and redesigned shop and new signage throughout the Museum.

The shop was to be auctioned in Leeds on 24 November 2008, and was expected to fetch between £ 120, 000 and £ 130, 000, however, it failed to meet its reserve price.

On September 14, 2008, a fire destroyed several buildings in downtown Milo, including a flower shop, an arcade, and a True Value hardware store.

On April 18, 2008, a downtown meat shop exploded, destroying three buildings as well as damaging several more.

Image: Seattle-Barney's Loans sign 01. jpg | Barney's Loans continues as a pawn shop as of 2008

* A late-night coffee shop / diner called Nova Express Cafe existed at 426 N. Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles in the early 2000s, until closing in March 2008.

From 2003 to 2008, several eco-tourism companies have set up shop in the Alberni Valley, taking advantage of the city's location on the fringe of wilderness yet proximate location to Vancouver and Victoria.

Its past two summer seasons have been marred by rain, and in the 18 months leading up to the end of 2008, the resort had suffered the destruction by fire of three of its most popular attractions-The Dunes pub at Winthorpe, the Parade Complex which housed a nightclub, bar and amusement arcade, and most recently a seafront building housing two bars and a fish-and-chip shop.

The Post Office that was housed in the village shop closed down in 2008 which precipitated the closure of the shop itself.

Emmaus Sheffield opened its shop in August 2007, and welcomed its first residents in January 2008.

The attractions to see at Gilwell Park include the Gilwell Museum and souvenir shop, a fully operational all-volunteer hospital, gardens, gates, statues, smaller buildings, and four houses of worship: Buddhist, Catholic, Jewish, interdenominational, with the construction of an Islamic mosque due to begin towards the end of 2008.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

To try to answer this question more definitely, a randomized double-blind study was started in September 2008 and was completed in March 2010.

For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 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 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.

On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

Its main building was named Albertus Magnus Hall in 2008.

In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.

In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).