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In 2008, he became a patron of Population Matters, ( formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust ), which campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population to a sustainable level.
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The southern areas became part of German offices for the United Nations in 2008.
In 2008, Anheuser-Busch became Kasey Kahne's primary sponsor, and has also sponsored many races, including the Budweiser Shootout, and previously The Bud at the Glen, Budweiser 500, and Budweiser 400.
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).
Jouve and colleagues suggested in 2008 that juvenile marine crocodyliforms lived in freshwater environments like modern marine crocodile juveniles, which would have helped them survive where other marine reptiles became extinct ; freshwater environments were not as strongly affected by the K – Pg extinction event as marine environments.
In May 2008, Gail finally met Ted Page, the father she'd never known and in 2009, Gail's boyfriend, Joe McIntyre became addicted to pain killers, which came to a head when he broke into the medical centre.
* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ) introduces thirteen " extra dimensional beings " with crystal skeletons, who founded a city that became the basis of the El Dorado myth.
In 2008 however Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County / Carson City, defeating John McCain 49 % to 48 %, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1 %.
In 2008 16: 10 became the most common sold aspect ratio for LCD monitors and the same year 16: 10 was the mainstream standard for laptops and notebooks.
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.
There were several piebald dachshunds that became AKC Champions in 2008.
In June 2008, EDuke32 became the only Duke Nukem 3D port to compile and run natively on 64-bit Linux systems without the use of a 32-bit compatibility environment thanks to significant porting contributions from the DOSBox team.
The 2008 team became the only team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.
The strength of the La Niña made the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season one of the most active since 1944 ; there were 16 named storms of at least 39 mph ( 63 km / h ), eight of which became or greater hurricanes.
In 2008 she became the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received two treatments at Ullevål, paid for by Norwegian public expenditures.
In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.
So, all works of Lovecraft published during his lifetime, became public domain in all 27 European Union countries on 1 January 2008.
Matti Vanhanen's two cabinets followed suit until autumn 2008, when the state became a major shareholder in the Finnish telecom company Elisa with the intention to secure the Finnish ownership of a strategically important industry.
On January 31, 2008, the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas became the first zoo in the Americas to document parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons.
By 2008, worldwide sales of televisions with LCD screens exceeded annual sales of CRT units ; the CRT became obsolete for most purposes.
Lausanne became the first city in Switzerland to have a rubber-tyred metro system, with the m2 Line which opened in October 2008.
In October 2008 Moldcell became the first carrier in Moldova to launch a 3G network, currently all carriers provide 3G services throughout the country.
Nancy Reagan's health and well-being became a prominent concern in 2008.
Defying political pundits, who had predicted it to be trounced in the April 2008 elections, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) became the largest party amidst a general atmosphere of fear and intimidation from all sides.
2008 and patron
In his book The Shaolin Monastery ( 2008 ), Tel Aviv University professor Meir Shahar notes that the bodhisattva Vajrapani is the patron saint of Shaolin Monastery.
In February 2008, she was named as the first official patron of the York Youth Mysteries 2008, a project to allow young people to explore the York Mystery Plays through dance, film-making and circus.
West became the patron of Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus in February 2008, having been the narrator for a concert of theirs in February 2002.
The Society's patron is Her Majesty the Queen ; Lord Jordan of Bournville became RoSPA's president in 2008.
Bishop is also a patron of Opera Australia and was 2008 President of the Sydney International Piano Competition Committee.
It was officially switched on by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent | the Duke of Kent, patron of the British Computer Society on 17 July 2008.
Sir Edmund Hillary was the foundation patron of the trust until his death in 2008.
In his book The Shaolin Monastery ( 2008 ), Prof. Meir Shahar notes Vajrapani is the patron saint of the Shaolin Monastery.
In 2008, Tomlinson donated £ 200, 000 as patron of the Human Milk Bank of Cheshire and North Wales.
Aldridge is a patron of AFC Liverpool, a non-league football club set up by Liverpool FC fans in 2008.
In 2008 Matthew Lewis, the Leeds-born actor best known as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films, became its patron.
In 2008, she became the first ever patron of the Active Retirement Ireland organization.
Murdoch is patron of Australia's National Breast Cancer Foundation, and addressed the National Press Club of Australia about the activities of the foundation on 4 October 2006 and again on 24 December 2008.
2008 and Population
Population and housing censuses have been carried out in Algeria in 1967, 1977, 1987, 1998, and 2008.
Pertinent to a non-partisan study on the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research organization based in Washington, D. C., cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965-1982.
Population of Greece from 1961 to 2008.
Population of Uzbekistan ( in millions ): 1950 – 1 January 2008.
WA Population Growth 1829 – 2008.
Population studies have found that in 2004 and 2008, liberal-voting states have lower rates of divorce than conservative-voting states, possibly because people in liberal states tend to wait longer before getting married.
* Water Down Under-The Great Artesian Basin Story, Video production by Anvil Media on behalf of the Great Artesian Basin Coordinating Committee ( GABCC ), 2008, Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
The 2008 Census counted 171, 316 persons of Hmong Alone Population, and 221, 948 persons of Hmong Alone Population or in Any Combination.
According to the OECD / World Bank statistics population growth in Iran from 1990 to 2008 was 17. 6 million and 32 %.< ref name = IEApop2011 > CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion Population 1971-2008 ( pdf pages 83-85 ) IEA ( OECD / World Bank ) )</ ref > The literacy rate was 80 % in 2007.
Population ( 2008 ): 151, 576 within the city limits ; 250, 516 ( 2007 ) for the greater Dijon area.
Population estimate as of 2008 was 1, 599.
Population in July 2008: 928.
Population in 1990 was 8, 381, in 2000, 8, 757, and increased to 10, 308 by 2008.
The City of Zaltbommel, consists of 13 Population Centres and counted 26. 187 inhabitants on 1 January 2008, a decrease of 18 compared to 2007.
Las Cruces and the Las Cruces Metropolitan Statistical Area's July 1, 2008 populations were estimated at 91, 865 and 201, 603 respectively by the United States Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program.
Portland State University Population Research Center estimate from 2008 has the population at 3, 758.
* Population within the DFW Metroplex is approximately 6 million ( 2008 )
Population: 44, 756 ( 2008 ).
: Population figures are as of September 2008, unless noted otherwise.
* Population: 275170 ( 4 / 1 / 2008 )
As of October 1, 2008, the district has an estimated Population of 1, 087 and a Density of 8. 19 persons / km².
* Population is 69, 825 ( ABS estimate, June 2008 ).
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