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In December 2008, a delegation of Lakota Sioux, including Talon Becenti, delivered to the U. S. State Department a declaration of separation from the United States Citing many broken treaties by the U. S. government in the past, and the loss of vast amounts of territory originally awarded in those treaties, the group announced its intentions to form a separate nation within the U. S. known as the Republic of Lakotah.
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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.
In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.
On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.
On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.
In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.
AOL released an all-new AIM for the Macintosh on September 29, 2008 and the final build on December 15, 2008.
The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.
2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.
Digicel was finally granted a licence on 17 December 2007 and plans to start operations in the BVI sometime in 2008.
Construction of the second line started in December 2008, which is due to be opened according to initial forecasts by the end of 2012.
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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 December 2008, Power Fasteners agreed to pay $ 16 million to the state to settle manslaughter charges.
Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.
The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.
With Switzerland joining the Schengen Area on December 12, 2008, immigration checks were no longer carried out at the crossings.
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.
Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.
$ 7. 401 billion ( December 2008 )
Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )
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$ 21. 58 billion ( 31 December 2008 )
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December and delegation
As a result, Svinhufvud and his senate delegation won Lenin's concession of sovereignty on 31 December 1917.
A delegation sent by a postwar Albanian National Assembly that met at Durrës in December 1918 defended Albanian interests at the Paris Peace Conference, but the conference denied Albania official representation.
General Liu Jingsong, commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, led China's first military delegation to Kenya in December 1996 ; Major General Nick Leshan, commander of the Kenyan air force, paid a return visit in 1997.
Trotsky led the Soviet delegation during the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk from 22 December 1917 to 10 February 1918.
A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George and representatives of the Convention ( Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Cole, David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo ) presented the declaration to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday 12 December 2001.
After a week of negotiations from December 22 through December 28, 1917, the delegation from the Central Powers withdrew from the conference to consider the Bolshevik peace proposals.
The Irish Treaty delegation set up Headquarters in Hans Place, Knightsbridge and on 5 December 1921 at 11: 15 am it was decided by the delegation during private discussions at 22 Hans Place to recommend the Treaty to the Dáil Éireann ; negotiations continued until 2: 30 am on 6 December 1921 after which the Treaty was signed by the parties.
In December 1621 he left with another delegation, this time with the aim of requesting support for the United Provinces, returning after a year and two months in February 1623.
On 10 December, a Tyrolean delegation arrived in Graz to demand the release of Sigismund and the return of the county's treasures, taken by Friedrich in 1440.
A USAF-led delegation to Avro in December 1953 gave Avro the opportunity to discuss their projects, but Y-1 was not deemed worthy of financing.
The delegates agreed to meet again later that year to form a constitution, which was rejected when presented to the general delegation in December.
On 17 December 1936, the CPC delegation was sent to Xi ' an and met with Zhang and Yang to find a peaceful resolution.
The letter only arrived in London on 16 November and by then messengers had already been despatched from Natal to the Zulu king to request the presence of a delegation at the Lower Tugela on 11 December for the purpose of receiving the Boundary Commission ’ s findings.
* December 4: A Belgian delegation is received at the National Convention to claim independence from Belgium.
but was a member of the Oxford University Labour Club delegation to the December 1975 NOLS Conference when the entryist Trotskyist Militant tendency lost control of NOLS.
Ironically, given the attacks he had sustained as Premier from Alexander Grant MacKay, he was part of the federal delegation that finally negotiated the transfer of resource control from the federal to the Alberta provincial government in December 1929.
Bronfman led a delegation of Jewish leaders for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in June 2005, and his successor Ronald S. Lauder was received by Benedict XVI in October 2007, December 2010 and May 2012.
His diplomatic career started in December 1918, when he was part of the delegation to Sweden as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, asking for support in the War of Independence.
The pro-Western parliamentary majority on December 29, 2009 blocked Voronin's election to Moldova's permanent delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
From 1969 to December, 1971, he led Ghana's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) Ministerial Meetings in Addis Ababa, and the Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Lusaka.
Kirilenko led the Soviet delegation to the December 1977 MPLA Party Congress.
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