[permalink] [id link]
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.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
August and 2008
From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.
Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).
On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.
On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.
On 17 August 2008 club chairman and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ; his place at the chairmanship of the club was successively taken by his daughter Rosella.
Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".
In August 2008, two traffic lanes from 42nd to 35th Streets were taken out of service and converted to public plazas.
As a celebration, in partnership with the CLIC Sargent charity, 2 August 2008 was Gnashional Menace Day, where children were sponsored to behave like Dennis.
The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.
* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.
* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.
At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.
The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.
August and Observer
In August 1956 he was sent to Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for The Observer and The Economist.
* August 21 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.
On August 21, 1993, at 01: 00 UTC, three days prior to the scheduled Mars orbital insertion, there was an " inexplicable " loss of contact with Mars Observer.
In August 1996, a major British newspaper, The Observer, published an article describing the Penet remailer as a major hub of child pornography, quoting a United States FBI investigator named Toby Tyler as saying that Penet was responsible for between 75 % and 90 % of the child pornography being distributed on the Internet.
In April 2005, however, the publishers announced that the editorial offices would be moved from its long-time home at 77 North Washington Street in Boston to join the company's advertising and circulation divisions in Washington, D. C. Later in August, Bradley told the New York Observer, cost cutting from the move would amount to a minor $ 200, 000 –$ 300, 000 and those savings would be swallowed by severance-related spending.
On August 15, 2010 The Observer reported that the gap between the A Level achievement at private schools and that at state schools in the UK was set to widen, with three times as many privately educated students achieving the new grade A *.
Invited by the Patriotic Union Society, formed by the Manchester Observer, to be one of the scheduled speakers at a rally in Manchester on 16 August 1819, it became the Peterloo Massacre.
The " fighting paper of the National Socialist movement of Greater Germany " ( Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands ) had its origin in the Münchner Beobachter (" Munich Observer "), which in 1918 was acquired by the Thule Society and in August 1919 was renamed Völkischer Beobachter.
In August 2005, McRae visited the country of Niger in Africa at the request of The Observer and wrote an article about the famine titled, " This is not just another act of God-this is ingrained poverty ".
He also led the New Zealand Election Observer Team in the August 2010 General Election in Solomon Islands.
By August 1999, A & L Daily was attracting 250, 000 monthly readers and praise from USA Today, Wired, and The Observer ; the latter called it the world's top website, ahead of The New York Times and Amazon. com.
Rear Admiral Ghormley was Director of the War Plans Division and Assistant Chief of Naval Operations until August 1940, when he went to the United Kingdom as a Special Naval Observer.
Goias and The Bench were featured on the cover of the Arts and Culture section of The New York Observer on August 7, 2007.
0.321 seconds.