The heroine of Liar-Soft's 2008 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow, Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie.

Since early 2008, Armenia's entire rail network is managed by the Russian state railway.

As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.

As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

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* 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.

* Obelix is referenced in The King Blues ' 2008 single " My Boulder ".

On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.

* 2010 – California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

* Cox, Paul ; " The Legacy of Agent Orange is a Continuing Focus of VVAW ", The Veteran, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Volume 38, No. 2, Fall 2008.

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

The electronic edition was available without charge, as an open access journal, but since 2008 this is no longer the case.

Hesser applied for a buyout from the Times in late March 2008 and is no longer with the newspaper.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

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 ".

The symbol for bit, as a unit of information, is either simply " bit " ( recommended by the ISO / IEC standard 80000-13 ( 2008 )) or lowercase " b " ( recommended by the IEEE 1541 Standard ( 2002 )).

The only major German-language daily newspaper in 2008 is Grenz Echo ( Groupe Rossel ).

Construction of the second line started in December 2008, which is due to be opened according to initial forecasts by the end of 2012.

This is a slight increase from 162 internet hosts in 2008.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

" From 2008, all Linksys products sold were packaged and branded as " Linksys by Cisco "; some former Linksys products were merged into the " Valet " brand ( albeit with a large Cisco logo and smaller Linksys name still on the product ).

On June 2008, it was announced that IcedTea6 ( as the packaged version of OpenJDK on Fedora 9 ) has passed the Technology Compatibility Kit tests and can claim to be a fully compatible Java 6 implementation.

In 2008, Kabus and Synapse Gaming stopped supporting Torque, began a partnership with Microsoft, and packaged their lighting technology and other new tech into the Sunburn XNA Game Engine.

Even though, in June 2008, an unannounced update of Dashcode that was packaged with the iPhone SDK allowed for the creation of iPhone-oriented web widgets, it is unknown if this most recent version of Dashcode would support the creation of AJAX-driven mobile widgets that could be installed natively on the iOS.

To coincide with Valentine's Day, a triple CD box set was released in early 2008, containing the albums Grade D Beef ( a re-issue of their first album with an altered track presentation ), D Sides, and Totally Magic ( a collaboration with Phiiliip ), packaged in a heart-shaped box with a bonus T-shirt included.

Whereas formerly, the premium edition of SBS was packaged as a superset of the standard edition, in the 2011 wave it will be available as an add-on edition, containing standalone copies of SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and available to add on to either SBS 2011 Essentials or Standard.

He was sold only at Botcon 2008 where he was packaged together with Sideswipe, Whisper and Blurr.

* On December 29, 2008, ICQ press service distributed a statement characterizing alternative clients as dangerous.

* Israeli ( newspaper ), a free Israeli Hebrew newspaper distributed between 2006 and 2008.

CVS replacement projects include CVSNT ( first released 1998 ), Subversion ( initially released in 2004 ), EVS ( first released 2008 ), OpenCVS ( not released as of 3 May 2012 ), and numerous systems that support distributed revision control.

Microsatellites are distributed throughout the genome ( Richard 2008 ).

On March 28, 2008, a similar spin out of Philip Morris International was completed with 100 % of shares being distributed to Altria shareholders.

On March 1, 2011, Miramax renewed its Canadian distribution deal with Alliance Films, which had always been a distributor of Miramax releases in Canada from 1987 to 2008 and will replace Maple Pictures ( which previously distributed Miramax releases from 2008 to 2011 ).

* Cluster Shared Volumes, a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering technology offering distributed access to Hyper-V virtual machines on shared storage

The physical audio and video products of the label have been distributed in South-East Asia by Warner Music since December 2008, while new EMI releases in China and Taiwan, were distributed under Gold Typhoon which was previously known as EMI Music China and EMI Music Taiwan, respectively.

The film is distributed by Koch Entertainment and was broadcast on PBS on July 11, 2007, as part of its American Masters series and was broadcast on October 17, 2008, on BBC Four as part of its Guitar Night.

A review in 2008 indicates that viable populations are distributed throughout its historic range and does not merit listing as a threatened or endangered species.

In 2008, the division Loomis ( cash handling ) was distributed to the group's shareholders and listed at Nasdaq OMX Stockholm.

Farrell was next seen in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, which premiered in 2007 and was distributed in the U. S. in early 2008.

It was republished by the Dorothy Dunnett Society and distributed to its members in 2008 with issue 100 of Whispering Gallery.

It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country.

BBC America is distributed in association with Discovery Networks, the United States division of Discovery Communications and parent company of the Discovery Channel, which also handled affiliate and advertising sales until this moved in-house on April 1, 2008.

A feature film made at the time of the trial, based on the trial transcript and distributed by New Line Cinema, The Great Chicago Conspiracy Circus, by Cannes-winning director Kerry Feltham, was released in January 2008 on DVD.

In late 2008, DreamWorks once again became an independent production company ; its films are distributed by Touchstone Pictures.

As of September 2008, some 11, 856, 000 bottles were used to make more than 152, 000 polyester blankets, many of which have been distributed as part of Tzu Chi's disaster relief programs.

On September 28, 2008, the paper distributed a DVD of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West as an advertising supplement for that day's edition, two weeks after The New York Times, The Charlotte Observer and The Miami Herald had done the same thing.

Delphi Prism was developed by RemObjects Software and distributed by Embarcadero from 2008 to replace Delphi. NET.

HIT appointed Lionsgate as its North American home video partner in 2008, responsible for the distribution, sales and marketing of HIT's extensive portfolio, which had been distributed since 2006 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Several venues use their own ticketing systems ; this is partly due to issues of commissions and how ticket revenue is distributed, and was reinforced by the 2008 failure of the main box office.