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.

Their story was later recounted in the books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and Miracle in the Andes as well as the film Alive, by Frank Marshall, and the documentaries Alive: 20 Years Later ( 1993 ) and Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains ( 2008 ).

* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

* The 2008 documentary film called Frederick Douglass and the White Negro tells the story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland and the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War.

This has been restarted from 2008 onward with Matthew J. Costello's ( a story consultant for Doom 3 and now Rage ) new Doom 3 novels: Worlds on Fire and Maelstrom.

" At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle ", The Boston GLobe, Boston, December 28, 2008.

A story in The Sunday Telegraph ( London ) from 2008 listed the " 120 essential pop albums " in history, a list that included " Forever Changes.

A 2008 draft mathematics standard proposed that Kindergartners multiply to 30 by skip counting ( also known as counting by twos: 2, 4, 6, 8 ...), and that second graders solve simple algebra story problems.

" In 2008, Cruz appeared in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the Philip Roth story The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo.

Gellar graced the cover of Gotham and featured as their main story in the March 2008 issue, in which she spoke about how passing 30 has evolved her style.

* In an untitled story by Gary Russell featured in the first issue of IDW Publishing's Doctor Who comic book ( published February 2008 ), the Tenth Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to destroy a sword and later sacrifices it in order to defeat a Sycorax hunter.

In an August 2008 Observer interview, Gorillaz band members Albarn and Hewlett revealed the nature and title of the project, Journey to the West, a movie adaptation of the opera of the same name based on a 16th-century Chinese adventure story also known as Monkey.

* Tristan da Cunha: The story of Asthma Island, part 1 & part 2, BBC Four ( 2008 )

* Wilma Rudolph's story on the website of the 2008 Summer Olympics

Notable story arcs of this decade are " Revolution " ( 2000 ), " Eve of Destruction ," " E Is For Extinction " ( 2001 ), " Planet X ," " Here Comes Tomorrow ," " Gifted ," ( 2004 ) X-Men: Phoenix-Endsong, " House of M ," " Decimation " ( 2005 ), Deadly Genesis ( 2005 – 2006 ), " Endangered Species " ( 2007 ), " Messiah Complex " ( 2007 – 2008 ), " Divided We Stand " ( 2008 ), " Manifest Destiny " ( 2008 – 2009 ), X-Infernus, " Messiah War ," " Utopia ," " Nation X " and " Necrosha " ( 2009 ).

* Cloverfield ( 2008 ): On 22 May, the events of the story take place.

( Note that the earliest episodes took place in 2099, though most following stories have taken place in the 22nd century, usually 122 years after real-world publication ( so a story published in the comic in 2008 would take place in 2130 ).

In November 2008, NBC announced that the series had been picked up for a complete 22-episode season but that several cast members would be leaving and the story lines revamped after the original 13-episode order.

Eastwood next directed Changeling ( 2008 ), based on a true story set in the late 1920s.

David Foster Wallace ( February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008 ) was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

* The story of the Battle of Carrhae is the centrepiece of Ben Kane's novel The Forgotten Legion ( 2008 ).

* 2008: Staff of The Washington Post, " for its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, telling the developing story in print and online.

There are large gaps in the fossil record but the discovery of a proto-frog from the Early Permian in Texas in 2008 provided a missing link with many of the characteristics of modern frogs.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

Retrieved September 30, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 243212 / Great-Drought

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

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, Penny Sartori, an intensive care nurse from Swansea, published a book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.

In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.

* 2008 – Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

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

The Atlanta Falcons hold the record among all major American sports leagues for the longest streak of seasons without consecutive winning seasons, a streak that lasted from 1966 – 2008.

Most recently the 2008 movie Iron Man used the Larghetto movement from Salieri's Piano Concerto in C major.

Ajax's shirts have been sponsored by TDK, and by ABN AMRO from 1991 to 2008.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

The ANC and its members were officially removed from the United States terrorism watch list in 2008.

Following Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and Mbeki's resignation as president in 2008, the Mbeki faction of former ministers led by Mosiuoa Lekota split away from the ANC to form the Congress of the People.

Hesser applied for a buyout from the Times in late March 2008 and is no longer with the newspaper.

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

The third London revival ran at the Menier Chocolate Factory from November 22, 2008 until March 8, 2009.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.