Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the " Miracle Braves " after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series.

Several researchers include the island of Cyprus in Levantine studies, including the Council for British Research in the Levant, the UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department, and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, the last of which has dated the connection between Cyprus and mainland Levant to the early Iron Age.

Research in the 20th century has focused on dating the manuscripts ( 19th-century scholars tended to date them older ); locating where the manuscripts were created — there were seven major scriptoria from which they originate: Winchester, Exeter, Worcester, Abingdon, Durham, and two Canterbury houses, Christ Church and St. Augustine's Abbey ; and identifying the regional dialects used: Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish, West Saxon ( the last being the main dialect ).

Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

During the last quarter of the 20th century UMIST established a reputation as a major research-based university, performing well in the government's Research Assessment Exercise in 2001, and was well placed in various league tables.

A recent survey conducted by the Foreign Policy Research Institute ’ s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program underscores the significance of this effort and documents the fact that most of the think tanks in these regions have been established in the last 10 years.

Today Sardinia is a phasing-in EU region, featured by a diversified economy, mainly focused on tourism and the tertiary, the economic efforts of last twenty years have reduced the handicap of insularity, for example with low cost air companies and information and informatic technologies, thanks to the CRS4 ( Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia ), which developed the first Italian website, and invented the webmail, in 1995, that brought to the birth of several telecommunication companies and internet service providers based on the island, as Video On Line, in 1993, Tiscali, in 1998 and Andala UMTS, in 1999.

Research activity in the area of radio-frequency ( RF ) circuit design has surged in the last decade in direct response to the enormous market demand for inexpensive, high-data-rate wireless transceivers.

In the UK, Master's degrees may be taught or by research: taught Master's include the MSc and MA degrees which last 1 year and are worth 180 CATS credits ( equivalent to 90 ECTS European credits ), whereas the Master's by research degrees include the MRes ( Master of Research ) which also lasts 1 year and worths 180 CATS or 90 ECTS credits ( the difference compared to the MA / MSc being that the research is much more extensive ), and the MPhil ( Master of Philosophy ) degree which lasts 2 years.

In the last Research Assessment Exercise in 2008, York was also named as the 8th best research institution in the United Kingdom.

* Harry Henry, one of Britain's market research pioneers and last survivor of the 23 founders of the Market Research Society ( MRS )

The last PNAD ( National Research for Sample of Domiciles ) census revealed the following numbers: 2, 100, 000 Brown ( Multiracial ) people ( 66. 18 %), 964, 000 White people ( 30. 39 %), 96, 000 Black people ( 3. 02 %), 11, 000 Asian people ( 0. 35 %).

Research has found that only recent events that have occurred within the last 3 months affect happiness levels.

Research over about the last thirty-five years, and particularly experimentation with tunings, have shown it to have been much more versatile and facile than was once assumed, although it definitely was not a prototype of modern orchestral bowed string instruments, which emerged from an altogether different branch of the complex string family tree.

" The last government Research Assessment Exercise ( RAE ) gave the Faculty's research a 4 * rating, indicating world-leading quality.

The last PNAD ( National Research for Sample of Domiciles ) census revealed the following numbers: 9, 149, 000 Brown ( Multiracial ) people ( 62. 83 %), 3, 000, 000 White people ( 20. 60 %), 2, 328, 000 Black people ( 15. 99 %), 42, 000 Amerindian people ( 0. 29 %), 37, 000 Asian people ( 0. 26 %).

Viewership across the three networks that carried coverage of the event – ABC Sports, ESPN and ESPN2 – exceeded last year's household average by 30 % according to Nielsen Media Research.

In a 2012 edition, the Institute for Research on Public Policy's magazine, Policy Options, named Lougheed the best Canadian premier of the last forty years.

The last PNAD ( National Research for Sample of Domiciles ) census produced the following numbers: 7, 641, 000 White ( 72. 68 %), 2, 537, 000 Pardos ( Multiracial ) ( 24. 30 %), 174, 000 Black ( 1. 49 %), 121, 000 Asian ( 1. 12 %), 38, 000 Amerindian ( 0. 36 %).

While the National Assessment of Education Progress ( NAEP ) has served as an educational barometer for some thirty years by administering standardized tests on a regular basis to random schools throughout the United States, efforts over the last decade at the state and federal levels have mandated annual standardized test administration for all public schools across the country.

The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report cited 14 reconstructions, 10 of which covered 1, 000 years or longer, to support its conclusion that " Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1, 300 years ".

In the last national Research Assessment Exercise the University of Essex was ranked ninth overall, with many schools and departments confirmed as amongst the best in the country.

Central Saint Martins remains one of London's most revered arts and design institutions, producing some of the most important artists, designers and performers over the last 150 years and has developed an internationally recognised research profile as rated in the Research Assessment Exercise in 2001.

At the last Research Assessment Exercise in 2008, the GSA had the second largest art and design research community in the UK and with 25 % of research evaluated as world leading and 25 % as internationally excellent.

Prospective pupils for Year 7 undertake an Assessment Day and an Entrance Exam, which consists of Mathematics and English examinations sat during the morning of the last Friday in January.

This version was featured in the IPCC First Assessment Report of 1990, figure 7. 1c on p. 202, as a " Schematic diagram of global temperature variations for the last thousand years.

The last administration of the ECFMG Clinical Skills Assessment ( CSA ) took place on April 16, 2004.

* Exercise Tiger formed the basis of the last episode of the sixth ( 2008 ) series of the ITV drama Foyle's War.

Three major trips are undertaken each year, one of which is compulsory ; the others are during holiday time though we always take the majority of pupils: each year Exercise First Field takes place during the first weekend of the Easter holidays at the military training area in Thetford Forest in Norfolk and all of S9 and S10 travel to the Peak District during the last week of the Trinity Term for a 2 night Adventure Training trip.

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 ).

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.

Even in the last pre-crisis year, 2008, the Bulgarian economy was growing rapidly at 6. 0 %, despite significantly slowing down in the last quarter.

The global financial crisis started to apply downward pressure on growth and employment in the last quarter of 2008.

Cooperative drills with the United States are very common, the last series of them conducted in 2008.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

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.

* Mobile Edition of the CIA World Factbook, last updated 10 June 2008

A 2008 expedition from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography collected sediment cores from the lagoon to study climate change over the last millennium.

For that reason, the 2008 season may be regarded as the last hurrah of the Tribune years.

The last such director, Ben Hayes, was elected in 2006 to serve until 2008, when the role was discontinued as a result of legal issues.

The Citizen Corps CERT curriculum ( including the Train-the-Trainer course ) was updated during the last half of 2008 to reflect feedback from instructors across the nation.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

Inflation rate up to January 2008 was located about 1. 14 %, the highest recorded in the last year, according to Government.

In October 2008 de Klerk spoke at Brigham Young University concerning the global politics and role of the United States as the world's last remaining superpower.

His health, however, had been failing, and he last logged in to his Myspace page on March 19, 2008.

On 24 January 2008, Greece's premier Costas Karamanlis visited Turkey a full 48 years after the last Greek premier and uncle of his Constantine Karamanlis had visited the neighboring country.

In spite of the amount spent on health care in the U. S., according to a 2008 Commonwealth Fund report, the United States ranks last in the quality of health care among developed countries.

The last Prime Minister, Jacques-Édouard Alexis, entered office in 2006 and was removed in April 2008.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

According to a Cornell University press release from January 2009, the 2008 – 09 season will be the last Cornell-sponsored search, absent confirmation of the bird:

The current list of Emerging Groups after the last meeting of the Executive Committee ( London, 22 – 25 November 2008 ) is as follows:

In November 2008, Polgár had a terrible result in The World Chess Blitz Championship in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, finished last of the 16 players with only 2½ points.

In 2008, Alexander guest-starred on the CBS show Criminal Minds in the season four episode " Masterpiece " as Prof. Rothschild, a well-educated serial killer obsessed with the Fibonacci sequence who sends the team into a race against time to save his last victims.