* Memphis Minnie's recording career begins

Paul and Beth Garon's 1992 biography on Memphis Minnie, Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, makes no mention of a marriage to Weldon, but only says that she recorded two sides with him, in November 1935, for Bluebird Records.

Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie's " When the Levee Breaks " was reworked by Led Zeppelin, and became one of that group's most famous songs.

* Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, with Beth Garon

Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant took his and Memphis Minnie's recording of " When the Levee Breaks ," which was in his personal collection, and presented it to guitarist Jimmy Page, who revamped it and slightly altered it lyrically, and help record it on Led Zeppelin's 1971 album, Led Zeppelin IV.

The song borrows from American blues tradition liberally: the recurring riff resembles that of Memphis Minnie's " Me and My Chauffer Blues ", Chuck Berry's " I Want to Be Your Driver " and the standard " Good Morning Little Schoolgirl ".

Memphis Slim grave

Rufus Thomas ' grave, at the New Park Cemetery in Memphis

* Memphis, Tennessee at the grave of Elvis Presley at his home " Graceland "

According to the 2006 – 2008 American Community Survey, the racial composition of Memphis was:

The city is home to Memphis International Airport, the world's second busiest cargo airport ( following Hong Kong ), which serves as the primary hub for FedEx Express shipping and was a secondary hub for Delta Air Lines after it merged with Northwest Airlines in 2008.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis ( 2008 )

In 2008, the City of Memphis began leasing The Pyramid to Bass Pro Shops ; the facility is to become Bass Pro's largest superstore in the country with a projected grand opening by August 2013.

* Behind the Scenes in Memphis ( Orpheum Theater – June 16, 2001 ) Retrieved May 25, 2008

The Trail Blazers are also currently the only NBA team based in the binational Pacific Northwest, after the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis and became the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001, and the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.

The section of Interstate 40 which runs between Memphis and Nashville is often referred to as the Music Highway During reconstruction, a long section of I-40 through downtown Knoxville near the central Malfunction Junction was completely closed to traffic from May 1, 2008 and not reopened until June 12, 2009 with all traffic redirected via Interstate 640, the northern bypass route.

* Samuel Anthony Silva " In Her Own Voice: Exploring the Role of the Piano in the Deuxieme Sonate pour Violine et Piano by Germaine Taillferre ", Doctoral Dissertation, 2008 University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music

On April 22, 2008, the BBC Radio 1 Rockshow broadcast a new session of Down recordings featuring alternate versions of " NOD ", " Beneath the Tides ", and " Jail ", along with a cover of " When The Levee Breaks " ( written by Kansas Joe McCoy and his wife Memphis Minnie, and famously covered by Led Zeppelin ).

Their most recent championship came on April 7, 2008 when they defeated Memphis 75-68 in overtime to win the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

In a 2008 conversation with BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker, Cropper revealed that the record became an instant success when DJ Reuben Washington, at Memphis radio station WLOK, played the song four times in succession, this even before the tune or the band had an agreed-upon name.

After a lengthy hiatus, Finch re-entered the music industry in 2006, producing numerous Indie artists out of his " Production Kitchen " studios in Ohio, including 2008 " Top 35 " contestants from America's Got Talent, The Memphis Rascals who, in addition to original songs, rerecorded the Casey / Finch hit, Boogie Shoes-and Hawthorn, NV band " Nevada "-who, along with Finch were included on the first round submission ballot for the 2010 Grammy Awards.

The team retained its state title the following four years, traveling to national competitions in San Antonio, TX in 2006, Honolulu, HI in 2007, Anaheim, CA in 2008, and Memphis, TN in 2009.

In 2008, Delta Air Lines bought Northwest and rebranded the Memphis operation under the Delta name.

* 2007 Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church ( Memphis: Tennessee, 2008 ).

The Memphis Album was recorded with members of the MGs including Steve Cropper, who were his band on his 2008 Australian tour.

Has happened only once, in 2008, when Kansas, North Carolina, UCLA, and Memphis all won their regionals.

* 2008 Kansas defeated Memphis

However, his previous trips to the tournament's last weekend, with Memphis ( 2008 ) and UMass ( 1996 ), have been vacated by the NCAA.

* Kansas 75, Memphis 68 / OT ( 2008 )

They were replaced by bassist Rick Allen ( born January 28, 1946, Little Rock, Arkansas ) ( from The Gentrys ) and drummer Thomas Boggs ( born July 16, 1947, Wynne, Arkansas, died May 5, 2008, Memphis, Tennessee ) ( from the Board of Directors ).

Her character had died by 2008, when returning former character Jed Stone ( played by Kenneth Cope ) was seen visiting Minnie's grave.

The Colombian director of national police claimed three captured computers from the deceased FARC rebel leader Raúl Reyes document " tremendously revealing " and " very grave " links between Ecuador and Colombian rebels. March 2, 2008.

After 178 corpses had been found in a mass grave in 1996 and another 123 in 2005, in October 2008 a grave containing the remains of 2, 116 people, which sparked numerous media reports and attention as well as speculations After forensic scientists have completed their study, the mortal remains were buried at the German War Cemetery of Stare Czarnowo.

Originally buried in an unmarked plot in Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens, New York, her grave received a headstone on May 4, 2008, after a fundraiser was held by local historians.

In 2008, PHR, working with the UN, documented that the grave had been tampered with.

In June 2008, a Triballian ( Thracian ) grave was found with ceramics ( urns ).

CKX, INC, which now owns Elvis Presley's estate, has full control including the grave of Elvis Presley and his family members along with his home Graceland in early 2008.

His grave in Stanton Road Cemetery was restored by the Cemetery's Friends in 2008.

* In June 2008, a Triballi grave was found together with ceramics ( urns ) in Požarevac, Central-Eastern Serbia.

However, by the time the bill came to the Senate Health Committee, chaired by Kuehl, all but one of the Democratic Senators on the Committee had grave doubts about the bill and, after an eleven hour hearing on the bill and an intervening week to caucus, on January 28, 2008, one Democrat voted yes, three abstained and three ( including Kuehl ), along with all Republicans, voted no.

In 2008, a concert was held to raise funds for a marker for her grave and January 11 was declared Sister Rosetta Tharpe Day in Pennsylvania.

Marker inscriptions have also been used for political purposes, such as the grave marker installed in January 2008 at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky by Mathew Prescott, an employee of PETA.

Werner Henke's grave at Fort Meade, MD, decorated for Volkstrauertag 2008

Maria and Augustus Callcott's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery, restored by the Chilean government in 2008.

In recognition of her services to Chile, as being one of the first persons to write about the young nation in the English language, the Chilean government paid for the restoration of Maria and Augustus Callcott ’ s joint grave in Kensal Green Cemetery in London in 2008.

St Paul's Anglican Church and grave yard as seen in winter 2008

Trooper James Howell presents the Victoria Cross at the grave of his Great Great Great grandfather, Michael Murphy, on the 150th anniversary-15 April 2008

The 150th anniversary of Murphy's VC occurred on 15 April 2008, and was commemorated at his grave in Darlington by the RLC, with the Mayor of Darlington, numerous family members and the British Legion present.

However the date of death shown on the headstone of 4 February 1920 was incorrect, the error being corrected when the grave was restored in 2008 as part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames ' Adopt a Grave ' scheme.

Cognac and roses found at Poe's present-day ( post-1875 ) grave on January 19, 2008, likely left by an imitator

In the 2008 legislative election it had the following policies in its manifesto: establishing a Zhonghua Minzu Taiwan Grand Republic ( 中華民族台灣大公國 ), being a federation of seven or ten small constituent republics ; developing nuclear weapons ; releasing all prisoners except those convicted of grave offences ; legalization of euthanasia and prostitution.

* I Sell the Dead ( 2008 )-Victorian grave robbers awake the undead.

In June 2008 it was reported in The Times that Pilch's grave at St. Gregory's churchyard in Canterbury was among 200 other graves which were preventing the development of the churchyard into a Canterbury Christ Church University concert hall, as they could not be located for removal.