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As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

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

On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

Combined Insurance was sold to ACE Limited in April 2008.

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Such a tax was in effect for some period of time, raising at least $ AU 290 million after April 2008.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

Burkina Faso recognized Kosovo on 24 April 2008.

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

On 21 April 2008, BBC News 24 was renamed BBC News on the channel itself – but is referred to as the BBC News Channel on other BBC services.

Since 21 April 2008, the overnight bulletins, while produced by the BBC News Channel, have usually been broadcast from the studios of BBC World News.

In April 2008 Stephen Jones told a reporter, " I don't think I have a political bone in my body.

Prior to that Bernd Kellner computed B < sub > n </ sub > to full precision for n = 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > in December 2002 and Oleksandr Pavlyk for n = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup > with ' Mathematica ' in April 2008.

A Special Committee Of The State Assembly was appointed " To Investigate The Causes Of The Strike Of The Surface Railroads In The City Of Brooklyn ", April, 1895 pp 3 – 6.

On April 30, 2012, the New Jersey Nets officially changed their name to the Brooklyn Nets.

It is believed to have been filmed in April 1893 and was shown publicly ( in a Kinetoscope viewer ) at the Brooklyn Institute on May 9, 1893.

Jackie Robinson's first season in the Major Leagues came in 1947, and Campanella began his Major League career with the Brooklyn Dodgers the following season, playing his first game on April 20, 1948.

The mayor of Brooklyn Park is Jeff Lunde, who won a special election in April 2011.

Hopatcong was originally established as the Town of Brooklyn on April 2, 1898 from portions of Byram Township.

In April 1903, the ex-Conklin estate and historic Conklin family cemetery was sold to Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, who resumed the bottling of spring water from the Colonial Spring.

On April 13, 1986, a car bomb meant for Gotti exploded outside a Bensonhurst, Brooklyn social club.

Anastasia, the Brooklyn waterfront boss, had taken over the second largest family in the US after the disappearance of boss Vincent Mangano and the murder of brother Philip Mangano on April 14, 1951.

Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York-Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay ( October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982 ) and Manford ( Emanuel ) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee ( January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971 )-to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction.

While visiting relatives in Brooklyn, New York City, he spent a month in the studio of John Quincy Adams Ward, then began to work on commissions, and at the age of 23 received from the town of Concord an order for his well-known statue The Minute Man, which was unveiled April 19, 1875, on the centenary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

The event, produced by show business veteran Hal Willner, was held at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn on April 26, 1991.

Patricia Reilly Giff was born on April 26, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York.

In April 1892 he delivered at Baltimore his eleventh annual address as president of the National Civil Service Reform League, and in May he appeared for the last time in public, to repeat in New York an address on James Russell Lowell, which he had first delivered in Brooklyn on the 22nd of the preceding February, the anniversary of Lowell's birth.

Trippe died on April 3, 1981, in New York, New York, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Irene Maxine Pepperberg ( born April 1, 1949, Brooklyn, New York ) is a scientist noted for her studies in animal cognition, particularly in relation to parrots.

Robert Melancton " Bob " Metcalfe ( born April 7, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York ) is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law.

The original impetus to build Prospect Park stemmed from an April 18, 1859 act of the New York State Legislature, empowering a twelve-member commission to recommend sites for parks in the City of Brooklyn.

He continued to lead his dance company until his death, and presented a new work, Nearly Ninety, in April 2009, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, to mark his 90th birthday.

Leon Albert Henkin ( 19 April 1921, Brooklyn – 1 November 2006, Oakland, California ) was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley.

On April 27, 1940, Adonis was indicted in Brooklyn on charges of kidnapping, extortion, and assault in the 1932 Juffe / Wapinsky case.

On April 15 of the next year, the Clark Street Tunnel, connecting the line to Brooklyn, opened as well.

Subsequent live score performances took place May 2004 at the Red Tail Loft in Boston, April 2008 at Monkeytown in Brooklyn, and November 2010 at the Lyndsay Chapel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

After the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, in one night, April 9, 1776, Continental Army General Israel Putnam fortified the island with earthworks and 40 cannon in anticipation of the Battle of Long Island ( also known as the Battle of Brooklyn ), to be the largest battle of the entire war.