A Country on its Way to One-Party-Democracy, KAS Auslandsinformationen 10 / 2008.

On October 7, 2008, Armenia withdrew its contingent of 46 peacekeepers.

In the 2008 book The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon, Smithsonian experts point out that accounts of the event appealed to Americans eager for stories about the revolution and its heroes and heroines.

On October 11, 2008, Infogrames completed its acquisition of Atari Inc., making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

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

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.

In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.

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

In 2008 Atari was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for pioneering the development of handheld games with its Lynx game unit.

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

Hydropower exports to India have boosted Bhutan's overall growth, even though GDP fell in 2008 as a result of a slowdown in India, its predominant export market.

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

As its member, Bulgaria sent a total of 485 soldiers to Iraq ( 2003 – 2008 ) as a participant in the Iraq War, and currently maintains a 608-strong force in Afghanistan as part of ISAF.

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

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

In 2008, the university estimated the number of its graduates at 35, 000.

On 30 October 2008 a spokesman for the team announced that the team would complete its last three performances of the year with five jets instead of six.

As of 2008, Baphuon is under restoration and cannot currently be appreciated in its full magnificence.

On Jan. 1 2008 Costa Rica started its third year term on the Security council.

On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

In an interview with the magazine N ' Digo published in late June 2008, he spoke of today's mainstream urban music seemingly relishing the addictive euphoria of materialism and sexism, perhaps being the primary cause of many people harboring resentment towards the genre and its future.

* 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.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

At the 2006 census, its population was 52, 042, in 14, 184 families.

Ajmer has a population of around 551, 360 in its urban agglomeration and 542, 580 for the city ( 2011 census ), and is located west of Jaipur, the state capital, 274 km from Udaipur, 439 km from Jaisalmer, and 391 km from Delhi.

According to the 2010 census, its population was 5, 145, a decrease of 17. 8 % from 6, 260 in 2000.

As of the 2010 census, its population was 42, 695.

Costa Rica carried out its tenth population census in 2011.

But due to some internal problems, the census was delayed till start of 2011 and its first phase was started in April allover the country.

The General Register Office for Scotland ( GROS ) conducts its own census, while the census in Northern Ireland is carried out by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ).

Bureaucratic affairs were completed during Diocletian's stay: a census took place, and Alexandria, in punishment for its rebellion, lost the ability to mint independently.

The census in Ecuador is conducted every 10 years, and its objective is to obtain the number of people residing within its borders.

The 2010 census was conducted in November and December, and its results were published January 27, 2011.

In 1801 its population was a mere 3, 175 ; by 1831 it had reached over ten thousand ; by 1891 it was almost sixty thousand, and the 2001 census reported over 85, 000 inhabitants.

Under Mongol occupation, Russia also developed its postal road network, census, fiscal system, and military organization.

A national census was conducted in 1999, but its final results were never released.

In autumn 1992 Latvia reimplemented significant portions of its 1922 constitution and in spring 1993 the government took a census to determine eligibility for citizenship.

U. S. official use of the term " Hispanic " has its origins in the 1970 census.

* Estonia: Defined as a nation state in its 1992 constitution, up until the period of Soviet colonialisation, Estonia was historically a very homogenous state with 88. 2 % of residents being Estonians, 8. 2 % Russians, 1, 5 % Germans and 0. 4 % Jews according to the 1934 census.

While the term propaganda has justifiably acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples ( e. g. Nazi Propaganda used to justify the Holocaust ), propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others.

China conducted its sixth national population census on 1 November 2010.

When China took its first post-1949 census in 1953, the population stood at 583 million ; by the fifth census in 2000, the population had more than doubled, reaching 1. 2 billion.