Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

To try to answer this question more definitely, a randomized double-blind study was started in September 2008 and was completed in March 2010.

For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

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

It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.

On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

Its main building was named Albertus Magnus Hall in 2008.

In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.

In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

In the obituary of Michael Andreevich Romanoff, the highest-ranking member of the Russian imperial family at the time of his death in 2008, it was noted that his family spent most of WWII at Craigowan Lodge.

The children ’ s author Anne Fine presented an overview of the concerns about Blyton's work and responses to them on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008, in which she noted the “ drip, drip, drip of disapproval ” associated with the books.

In fact, “ Luke perceives himself to be a Jew .” Finally, Rebecca Denova concludes her book with these words: “ Luke-Acts, we may conclude on the basis of a narrative-critical reading, was written by a Jew to persuade other Jews that Jesus of Nazareth was the messiah of Scripture and that the words of the prophets concerning ‘ restoration ’ have been ‘ fulfilled .’” Finally it should be noted that Strelan in 2008 not only concluded that Theophilus was Jewish but also that Luke was a priest.

Reporting on these developments in his annual report to the Authority in April 2008, Secretary-General Nandan referred also to the upward trend in demand and prices for cobalt, copper, nickel and manganese, the main metals that would be derived from seabed mining, and he noted that technologies being developed for offshore extraction could be adapted for deep sea mining.

Two noted examples of attempts to establish a paremiological minimum in America are by Haas ( 2008 ) and Hirsch, Kett, and Trefil ( 1988 ).

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

Dr. McKay's case review in the Annals of Emergency Medicine noted 41 Segway injuries between April 2005 and November 2008 among GWU emergency room patients.

" Anne Roe's papers are in the American Philosophical Society archives in Philadelphia ; those records ( as noted by Stephen Goranson on the American Dialect Society list 12 / 31 / 2008 ) identify the interviewed physicist as Howard Percy " Bob " Robertson ( 1903 – 1961 ).

In 2008 the U. N. Security Council adopted resolution 1820, which noted that “ rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide ”; see also war rape.

In 2008 a MotoGP event was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time on a newly prepared track, and observers noted that the Speedway had hosted motorcycle racing before cars raced there.

The 2008 United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur's Report noted that community representatives and non-governmental organizations devoted to human rights had pointed out that neo-Nazi groups were active in Estonia — particularly in Tartu — and had perpetrated acts of violence against non-European minorities.

Early Human Development 84, 225-9 ( 2008 )).< ref > It should be noted this was a small study ( n = 31 cases and 31 controls ) with serious limitations ( several significant factors were not controlled ), and has been criticised from various perspectives.

* While on the faculty of Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in nearby Solomons, noted theoretical ecologist Dr. Robert Ulanowicz resided near Prince Frederick prior to his retirement in 2008.

A newsletter from the city's mayor in 2009 noted that West Haven was the fastest growing city in Utah in 2008.

IGN's Robert Canning in a 2008 review of the episode noted, " though not the funniest of episodes, it certainly was groundbreaking.

* Irene Lieblich ( 1923 – 2008 )-was a Polish-born artist and Holocaust survivor noted for illustrating the books of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and for her paintings highlighting Jewish life and culture.

It was also noted that Kim Jong-il did not appear in public for the Olympic torch relay in Pyongyang on 28 April 2008.

In an interview published in November 2008, Rossdale noted that the Institute record was, " for all intents and purposes, a solo record.

Clooney is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008.

Zimmer is also noted for his work on the scores of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins ( 2005 ) and The Dark Knight ( 2008 ), on which he collaborated with James Newton Howard.

Alan Greenspan later noted securities firms only took on the “ embrace ” of Federal Reserve Board supervision as bank holding companies ( and financial holding companies ) after the financial crisis climaxed in September 2008.

Fein noted the lack of consolidation activity after 1999 and before September 2008 was “ perhaps because much of the consolidation had occurred prior to the Act .”

In 2008, James was portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the film, Cadillac Records, loosely based on the rise and fall of James ' label of 18 years, Chess Records, and how label founder and producer Leonard Chess helped the career of James and other label mates, though it was noted that James was successful prior to her signing with Chess Records.

At the 2008 Innovations for Poverty Action / Financial Access Initiative Microfinance Research conference, economist Jonathan Morduch of New York University noted there are only one or two methodologically sound studies of microfinance's impact.