Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

After the victory of the PdL in the 2008 general election, AN was merged into the PdL in early 2009.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests that the sport may have been imported to England from Flanders .< ref >

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.

In early 2009 the company attracted further criticism for continuing plans to build the 162 in China while laying off large numbers of workers in the USA.

The Columbus program was finally cancelled in early July 2009.

In early June 2009 Cessna announced that it would lay-off an additional 700 salaried employees, bringing the total number of lay-offs to 7600 or more than half the company's workers.

Prospects for the 2009 season dimmed early when the Indians ended May with a record of 22-30.

The novel, which won the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and will be published in English under the title Azazeel, is set in 5th-century Egypt and Syria and deals with the early history of Christianity.

As of early 2009, the " HP ProBook " filled out HP's low end business lineup.

As of 2009, the project is in its early phases of planning, with developer and financier selection to be completed by year's end.

In early 2009 they toured with Vital Remains and Order of Ennead.

Companies that produced network equipment like Nortel Networks were irrevocably damaged by such over-extension ; Nortel declared bankruptcy in early 2009.

Devo announced in early 2009 that they would be performing at SXSW on March 20th, with a warmup show in Dallas on March 18th.

In the early 2009, Radio Masr was launched, broadcasting popular Egyptian songs, news & other programs.

until in early March 2009 congressional Democrats were moving to close down the program and remove children from their voucher-funded school places at the end of the 09 / 10 school year under the $ 410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 which, as of March 7 had passed the House and was pending in the Senate.

The master plan and its implementation strategy for 2025 were endorsed by the Afghan Cabinet in early 2009.

The third iteration in the series, with the working title EverQuest Next, is currently in the early stages of development as first reported in the 2009 10th Anniversary EverQuest Book.

From June 2007 on, data indicated a moderate La Niña event, which strengthened in early 2008 and weakened before the start of 2009 ; the 2007 – 2008 La Niña event was the strongest since the 1988 – 1989 event.

A tribute band called the Brood Roosters (" bread toasters ") was active in the Netherlands until they split up in early 2009.

Stone tools discovered at Lézignan-la-Cèbe in 2009 indicate that early man was present in France at least 2 years ago.

* Russell, Stephen C., " Images of Egypt in early biblical literature " ( Walter de Gruyter, 2009 )

An amelioration of the economic and political conditions in the early years of the 21st century made Albania became a full member of NATO in 2009.

* Downloadable article: " Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age " Li et al.

" Yang secured Mao employment at the university library, where he became assistant to the librarian Li Dazhao ( 1888 – 1927 ), an early Chinese communist.

* July 2 – In the early morning, Li Shimin, the future Emperor Tang Taizong of China, eliminates two of his brothers, Li Yuanji and the crown prince Li Jiancheng, in a coup d ' état at the Xuanwu Gate in Chang ' an.

Although retired and in his early eighties, Li retains some influence in the PSC.

In early 1930, Zhou began to disagree with the timing of Li Lisan's strategy of favoring rich peasants and concentrating military forces for attacks on urban centers.

In early 1933, Bo Gu arrived with the German Comintern adviser Otto Braun ( Li De ) and took control of party affairs.

In early 1933, Bo Gu arrived in Jiangxi with the German Comintern adviser Otto Braun ( Li De ) and took control of Party affairs.

Chop suey is widely believed to have been invented in America by Chinese immigrants, but in fact comes from Taishan ( Toisan ), a district of Guangdong Province ( Canton ), which was the home of many of the early Chinese immigrants to the U. S. The Hong Kong doctor Li Shu-fan reported that he knew it in Taishan in the 1890s.

While the late 60's to 70's productions of the Shaw Studio headlined male martial arts actors, the 50's to early 60's productions of the studio were dominated by actresses like Li Lihua, Ivy Ling Po, Linda Lin Dai, Betty Loh Ti in dramatic and romantic features.

The early thought behind Legalism was first formed by Shang Yang in the book of Lord Shang and was further developed by Li Si as a realist reform oriented philosophy meant to strengthen government and reinforce adherence to the law.

In early May 1999, following the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade Yougoslavia, Kovic met with China's ambassador to the United States Li Zhaoxing at the Chinese embassy in Washington D. C. to express his most sincere condolences and present the ambassador and his staff with two dozen red roses.

Li Houzhu devoted much of his time to pleasure-making and literature, and this is reflected in his early poems.

Li Hongzhang in early life.

McGoon became increasingly prominent in the Li ' l Abner Cream of Wheat print ads of the 1940s, and later, with the early television exposure of gimmicky wrestlers such as Gorgeous George.

Similarities between Li ' l Abner and the early Mad include the incongruous use of mock-Yiddish slang terms, the nose-thumbing disdain for pop culture icons, the rampant black humor, the dearth of sentiment and the broad visual styling.

In early 1952, Zhou Enlai led a team to draft the first Five-Year Plan which included Chen, Bo Yibo, Li Fuchun and General Nie Rongzhen.

Li Ruihuan (, born September 1934 ) was a politician active late 20th century and early 21st century in the People's Republic of China.

His ostensibly early retirement led many to conclude that Jiang's Shanghai faction, and its representative figures such as Zeng Qinghong and Wu Bangguo, might have outmaneuvered Li and his supporters at the 16th party congress.

In 20th century China, the anti-Confucian and radical inclinations of the Communist Party of China viewed Li favourably, portraying him as an early revolutionary against feudalism.

In The Deer and the Cauldron, set in the Qing Dynasty during the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor, Li is revealed to have survived and fathered a daughter, A ' ke, with Chen Yuanyuan.

* Downloadable article: " Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age " Li et al.