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

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For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.

On September 11, 2008, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles at Pegasus Field.

On September 25, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 ( ADAAA ).

Polish Constitutional Court however, in September 2008, decided that the regulations were unconstitutional and dismissed them.

In September 2008, Acadia moved to a student-owned notebook computer version of the Acadia Advantage, now named Acadia Advantage 2. 0.

On 26 September 2008, the university announced its intention to return swimming to a varsity status in September 2009.

On 1 September 2008, Aston Martin announced the revival of the Lagonda marque.

The company has posted a three phase turn down schedule, which was completed in September 2008.

All Alltel AMPS and D-AMPS service was discontinued in September 2008

AOL released an all-new AIM for the Macintosh on September 29, 2008 and the final build on December 15, 2008.

The system was formally launched on 1 September 2005, and in 2008 the Bundestag moved to a new system based on its evaluation.

On 7 September 2008 he took part in Soccer Aid 2008, and on 6 June 2010 in Soccer Aid 2010, playing for the Rest of the World vs a team of England celebrities and ex pros.

In the Beano's home city of Dundee, a special exhibition was held at the University of Dundee featuring original artwork and other memorabilia loaned from D. C. Thomson-it ran until 20 September 2008.

The protest ended in September 2008 after a lengthy court process.

As of September 2008, only one law remained to be approved, but was delayed because it had a faulty procedure for approval.

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 )

On 28 September 2008, the CSU failed to gain an absolute majority, attaining 43 %, of the vote in the Bavaria state election for the first time since 1966 on a percentage basis and was forced into a coalition with the FDP.

In September 2008, Reality Deviant Publications published Shadows of Cthulhu, a supplement that brings Lovecraftian gaming to Green Ronin's True20 system.

The sellout streak set a Major League Baseball record ; this was broken by the Boston Red Sox on September 8, 2008, though Boston's Fenway Park is considerably smaller than Progressive Field.

The Pope transferred the Council from Basel to Ferrara on 18 September 1437.

The Concordat of Worms, sometimes called the Pactum Calixtinum by papal historians, was an agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V on September 23, 1122 near the city of Worms.

* Regimini militantis Ecclesiae was the papal bull promulgated by Pope Paul III on September 27, 1540, which gave a first approval to the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members to sixty.

Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by Pope Benedict XVI in September 2006.

He died on September 16, 1450, and was beatified by Pope Clement VII in 1527.

On 20 September 1870 the capture of Rome, during the reign of Pope Pius IX, and France's defeat at Sedan, completed Italian unification, and Lazio was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy.

Pope Gregory the Great's homily on Luke's gospel dated 14 September 591 first suggested that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute: " She whom Luke calls the sinful woman, whom John calls Mary, we believe to be the Mary from whom seven devils were ejected according to Mark.

French scholar Victor Saxer dates the identification of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute, and as Mary of Bethany, to a sermon by Pope Gregory the Great on September 21, 591 A. D., where he seemed to combine the actions of three women mentioned in the New Testament and also identified an unnamed woman as Mary Magdalene.

Later, Pope Pius XI on 2 June 1927 decreed the Comma Johanneum was open to dispute and Pope Pius XII on 3 September 1943 decreed the Divino Afflante Spiritu which allowed translations based on other versions than just the Latin Vulgate, notably in English the New American Bible.

On 7 September 1159, he was chosen the successor of Pope Adrian IV.

On 23 September 1962, Pope John XXIII was first diagnosed with stomach cancer.

On 3 September 2000, John was declared " Blessed " by Pope John Paul II, the penultimate step on the road to sainthood.

Pope Benedict XVI held on 19 September 2008 a reception for the conference participants, where he praised Pius XII as a pope who made every effort to save Jews during the war.

When the council ended in September 681 the decrees were sent to the Pope, but Agatho had died in January.

Pope Adrian IV ( c. 1100 – 1 September 1159 ), born Nicholas Breakspear or Breakspeare, was Pope from 1154 to 1159.

After the death of Pope Adrian V on 18 August 1276, Pedro Hispano was elected Pope on 13 September.

Pope Adrian VI (, ), born Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens ( 2 March 1459 – 14 September 1523 ), served as the 218th Pope of the Catholic Church from 9 January 1522 until his death on 14 September 1523, 1 year and 248 days later.

After the long deadlocked vacancy in the papal see after the death of Clement IV, a vacant seat of three years, he was one of the six cardinals who finally elected Pope Gregory X by compromise on 1 September 1271 in a conclave held at Viterbo because conditions in Rome were too turbulent.

Pope Benedict III was Pope from 29 September 855 to 17 April 858.

Between Leo IV and Benedict III, where Martinus Polonus places her, she cannot be inserted, because Leo IV died 17 July 855, and immediately after his death Benedict III was elected by the clergy and people of Rome ; but, owing to the setting up of an Antipope, in the person of the deposed Cardinal Anastasius, he was not consecrated until 29 September.

Coins exist which bear both the image of Benedict III and of Emperor Lothair, who died 28 September, 855 ; therefore Benedict must have been recognized as pope before the last-mentioned date.

In either September or October 983, current Pope Benedict VII died, which required the presence of Otto II in Rome.

The antipope Clement VII died at Avignon on 16 September 1394, but the French cardinals quickly elected a successor on 28 September: Cardinal Pedro de Luna, who took the name Benedict XIII.

When Pope Benedict IX was driven from Rome in September 1044, John, bishop of Sabina, was elected after fierce and protracted infighting.

Ruth Benedict ( born Ruth Fulton, June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948 ) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.

* September 29 – Pope Benedict III succeeds Pope Leo IV as the 104th pope.

* September 21 – Benedict Arnold gives detailed plans of West Point to Major John André.

* September 25 – Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York.

* September 28 – Pope Benedict XIII succeeds Pope Clement VII.

In a lecture delivered on 12 September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from a dialogue believed to have occurred in 1391 between Manuel II and a Persian scholar and recorded in a book by Manuel II ( Dialogue 7 of Twenty-six Dialogues with a Persian ) in which the Emperor stated: " Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

New London was raided & nearly burned to the ground on September 6, 1781 Battle of Groton Heights, by Norwich Native Benedict Arnold in the attempts to destroy the colonial privateer fleet and storage of goods and naval stores within the city.

Butler was the location of a health resort run by Benedict Lust called " Yungborn " that opened on September 15, 1896.

On September 23, 1780, Major John André stopped here on his way to New York to ask directions after meeting with Benedict Arnold.

Thus on 3 September 1914 Della Chiesa, despite having been a cardinal only three months, was elected Pope, taking the name of Benedict XV.

Benedict XV was crowned at the Sistine Chapel on 6 September 1914, and, also as a form of protest due to the Roman Question, there was no ceremony for the formal possession of the Cathedral of St. John Lateran.

His Apostolic Exhortations include Ubi Primum ( 8 September 1914 ), Allorché fummo chiamati ( 28 July 1915 ) and Dès le début ( 1 August 1917 ) The Papal bulls of Benedict XV include Incruentum Altaris ( 10 August 1915 ), Providentissima Mater ( 27 May 1917 ) Sedis huius ( 14 May 1919 ), and Divina disponente ( 16 May 1920 ).

Benedict XV issued nine Breves during his pontificate: Divinum Praeceptum ( December 1915 ), Romanorum Pontificum ( February 1916 ), Cum Catholicae Ecclesiae ( April 1916 ), Cum Biblia Sacra ( August 1916 ), Cum Centesimus ( October 1916 ), Centesimo Hodie ( October 1916 ), Quod Ioannes ( April 1917 ), In Africam quisnam ( June 1920 ) and Quod nobis in condendo ( September 1920 ).