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.

An expedition in May 2008 by 19 scientists studied the geology and biology of eight Macquarie Ridge sea mounts, as well as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to investigate the effects of climate change of the southern Ocean.

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

* Barlett, Donald P. and Steele, James B .; " Monsanto's Harvest of Fear ", Vanity Fair May 2008

The public opening was May 21, 2008.

In May 2008, the Navy announced new plans to reposition its forces throughout Brazil.

On May 7, 2008, Borland announced the sale of CodeGear division to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $ 23 million price and $ 7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland.

Charlton held the record for most appearances for Manchester United ( 758 ), but this was surpassed by Ryan Giggs on 21 May 2008 ( the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final ).

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.

The following is the show routine used on 17 May 2008:

On May 11, 2008 Sudan announced it was cutting diplomatic relations with Chad, claiming that it was helping rebels in Darfur to attack the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

From the UK, direct routes by Astraeus from London Gatwick and Manchester Airport to Sal ceased in April 2008, their website has not been taking reservations since May 2008.

TACV Cabo Verde Airlines opened a route from London Stansted in October 2008 though it was rumoured that flights were being cancelled due to minimum take up though with effect from May 2008, TACV now fly direct from London Gatwick every Thursday to Sal and Praia.

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.

In recent years, Craven Cottage has hosted several International Friendly matches, including the Republic of Ireland national football team who played Colombia and Nigeria there in May 2008 and May 2009 respectively and Oman in 2012.

In May 2008, the NLCC and The JAM Brands announced a partnership to produce The U. S. Finals-Final Destination.

In May 2008, Gail finally met Ted Page, the father she'd never known and in 2009, Gail's boyfriend, Joe McIntyre became addicted to pain killers, which came to a head when he broke into the medical centre.

After a major rehabilitation program, the company restarted copper production in December 2007 and cobalt production in May 2008.

Dated 31 May 2008 ABC News

On May 7, 2008, following speculation by John Carmack at QuakeCon on August 3, 2007, Doom 4 was announced as in production.

Dismissed by the district court, the case was heard on appeal and the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling on May 21, 2008.

In May 2008, it was announced that Howard Goodall, the composer and television presenter, was to join Classic FM as the station's latest composer in residence.

Michael Goodall Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie, known as Mike Watson, ( born 1 May 1949 ) is a former British Labour Party politician.

One of the first to be arrested, in the early morning of 23 May, was Sir Oswald Mosley, whilst others arrested later included Admiral Sir Barry Domvile and Sir Reginald Goodall.

( Goodall was briefly ranked ahead of Chris Bailey, Nick Brown, Andrew Castle, Nick Fulwood, Mark Petchey, and James Turner, in May, 1989 ).

Sir Reginald Goodall ( 13 July 1901, Lincoln – 5 May 1990 ) was an English conductor, noted for his performances of the operas of Richard Wagner and conducting the premieres of several operas by Benjamin Britten.

This caused it to approach the government for funding, which it then controversially used to pay a £ 137m dividend to its shareholders in May 2001.

As Reagan visited Germany as part of the G6 conference in Bonn, the pair visited Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 5 May, and more controversially the German military cemetery in Bitburg, discovered to hold 49 members of the Waffen-SS buried there.

In May 2002, an FA commission controversially allowed the owners of the club to relocate 70 miles north to the town of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, despite vehement fan protests.

A new ( 2006 ) housing development known as Murton Gardens was built by Wimpey Homes on the link road, on the site of a farm building and surrounding fields ; and ( more controversially ) a development known as Derwenthorpe was granted planning permission on 10 May 2007 for the green-belt land north of the village.

As President of the French Republic, the Duke controversially dismissed the republican Prime Minister Jules Simon, replacing him with the Orleanist Duc de Broglie, before dissolving the French National Assembly on 16 May 1877 in an effort to halt the rise of Republicanism and boost the prospects of a restoration of the monarchy under the Comte de Chambord.

During her speech at the 2002 Conservative Party Conference while making a point about why her party must change, May controversially stated that the Conservatives were currently perceived as the " Nasty Party ".

Since May 2006, when the Enismore Gardens Cathedral has been controversially taken over by the pro-Russian traditionalist faction, and a number of priests and members of the congregation were forced to leave, various new parishes and communities have been opened.

Bhoja Air have indefinitely suspended operations since 29 May on orders by CAA for not meeting criteria of minimum three operational aircraft in their fleet, at the time Bhoja were only operating one Boeing 737-200 with a 737-400 stored at Karachi airport, this aircraft has since been controversially transferred to Shaheen Air and repainted in their livery.

In early July 2005, Weinstein became one of the first members of Adam Curry's PodShow and was featured heavily in the program, which aired on Sirius Satellite Radio from 6-10 p. m. EST on weekdays before the company's ties with the radio network were controversially severed on May 1, 2007.

On 12 May 2010, Cambiasso was controversially left out of the 30-man provisional 2010 World Cup squad for Argentina.

Although the ILP contingent did not play a major part in the military side of the Spanish Civil War it was famously and controversially involved in the events surrounding the battles between rival anti-fascist groups in Barcelona, known as the Barcelona May Days.

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

Abby May described her idea: " I thought it would afford a daily opportunity for the children, indeed all of us, to interchange thought and sentiment ".

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

In May 1968 he completed an essay, " Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ", where the anti-ballistic missile defense is described as a major threat of world nuclear war.

May be described as the worst headache of the patient's life.

Faras sketched and described the constellation ( calling it " Las Guardas ") in a letter written on the beaches of Brazil on May 1, 1500, to the Portuguese monarch.

In May 2010, a team of scientists led by Venter became the first to successfully create what was described as " synthetic life ".

By May 1949, the initial orders provided a primitive relocating assembler taking advantage of the mnemonic design described above, all in 31 words.

In May 1884 Koechlin, working at his home, made an outline drawing of their scheme, described by him as " a great pylon, consisting of four lattice girders standing apart at the base and coming together at the top, joined together by metal trusses at regular intervals ".

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

The historic supernova SN 1006 is described by various sources as appearing on April 30 to May 1, 1006, in the constellation of Lupus.

The memex ( a portmanteau of " memory " and " index ") is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article " As We May Think " ( AWMT ).

In The Fuller Memorandum, the publication of As We May Think is fictionally described as a " leak ":

On 20 May 1932 Baba arrived in New York and provided the press with a 1, 000-word written statement, which was described by devotee Quentin Tod as his Message to America.

As early as 1576, Edward de Vere was writing about this subject in his poem Loss of Good Name, which Professor Steven W. May described as " a defiant lyric without precedent in English Renaissance verse.

Dave Marsh was the first music critic to employ the term punk rock: In the May 1971 issue of Creem, he described?

Scopes, who had substituted for the regular biology teacher, was charged on May 5, 1925, with teaching evolution from a chapter in Civic Biology, a textbook by George William Hunter, that described the theory of evolution.

The rationale for the name is described in the following extract from the company's Technical Memoranda ( May 28, 1948 ) calling for votes:

According to a May 15, 2009 blog posting by Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, Vice President Joe Biden revealed the existence of what Clift described as a bunker-like room in the residence.

The impressions from the journey were described in a three volume publication Ansichten vom Niederrhein, von Brabant, Flandern, Holland, England und Frankreich im April, Mai und Juni 1790 ( Views of the Lower Rhine, from Brabant, Flanders, Holland, England, and France in April, May and June 1790 ), published 1791 – 1794.

On September 19, near present day National Canyon, they came upon what May Humphreys Stacey described in his journal as "... a wonderful canyon four thousand feet deep.

Boston alone saw at least a dozen productions, including a juvenile version described by Louisa May Alcott in her 1879 story, " Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore ".

* May – Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus, king of the Bosporus, in the Battle of Zela ( this is the war that Caesar tersely described veni, vidi, vici ).