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unusual facts about September 2008



The Murder House Trilogy

The first book in the trilogy, Deprivation House, was published on May 20, 2008, with books #2 House Arrest and #3 Murder House published on July and September respectively.


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834th Aviation Support Battalion

After moving north into Iraq, the 834th ASB replaced the 412th ASB on 7 September 2008 in Balad, Iraq (LSA Anaconda/Joint Base Balad).

Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College

The school held a Jubilee Anniversary party in September 2008 (50th Anniversary).

Anat Saragusti

Im September 2008 she released her second documentary, The Citizen Aloni, telling the story of Shulamit Aloni one of the most significant and dominant women in Israeli public life throughout recent decades.

Andújar

In September 2008, the Paralympic swimmer Miguel Ángel Martínez Tajuelo was the first native of the city to participate in these games, attending the Paralympic Games in Beijing 2008.

Bambi Harper

In early September 2008, it was reported that administrative charges could be leveled against Harper for having allowed the cutting of 29 trees, including nine mahogany and flame trees at the Plaza de Roma fronting Manila Cathedral.

Ben Tackie

He lost his most recent bout to Matthew Hatton on 22 September 2008 on the undercard to Ricky Hatton's Light Welterweight title defence in Las Vegas.

Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam!

The series debuted in September 2008, and was originally written and drawn by Mike Kunkel.

Bordertown High School

On 26 September 2008, in the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, eight schools participated in the big Rock Eisteddfod Grand Final.

Bradley D. Simon

As of July 2008, Brad Simon is representing Morris Talansky, the New York businessman at the center of the corruption case against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, which led to his expected resignation in September 2008.

British Rail Class 334

In September 2008, the Scottish Government's agency Transport Scotland announced that all ScotRail trains (including from the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport) would be eventually repainted in a new, blue livery with white Saltire markings on the carriage ends.

Cedar Grove OnStage

In September 2008, Cedar Grove OnStage worked in association with East West Players to produce the world premiere of Dan Kwong's Be Like Water, directed by Tashima, presented at the David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center for the Arts, in downtown Los Angeles' Little Tokyo.

Death Bell

Death Bell had looked set to become the second most popular Korean horror film after A Tale of Two Sisters, which attracted more than 3 million viewers in 2003; however, admissions of 1,636,149 (as of 14 September 2008) were less than those recorded by R-Point and Wishing Stairs.

District of Columbia War Memorial

In September 2008, Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, with the support of Frank Buckles, then the last living US veteran of World War I, proposed a bill in Congress stating the memorial should be expanded and designated the national memorial to World War I.

Doris Dungey

One of her final posts to the blog, in September 2008, criticized a proposed aspect of the 2008 bailout plan, which would have had the United States Department of the Treasury purchase bad loans directly from banks.

Edik Baghdasaryan

In September 2008, Baghdasaryan won the 2008 Global Shining Light Award at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference held in Norway for his series of articles "The Minister and the Mining Sector," which revealed how Armenia's former Minister of Nature Protection Vardan Ayvazyan had allocated mines (mostly for gold and poly-metallic) to more than a dozen relatives' names, thus violating several laws.

Eric Paulos

In September 2008, Eric joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute where he founded a new lab, the Living Environments Lab, to explore environmental issues and sustainability scoped within HCI and Ubicomp research.

Graeme Turner

In his speech to the National Press Club (Australia) on 3 September 2008, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (Australia), Senator the Hon Kim Carr announced that Professor Turner, had been appointed to the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC).

Häschenparty

"Häschenparty featuring Michael Wendler" (Bunny party) is the third single released by Schnuffel, on 19 September 2008 by Sony BMG Germany (Sony BMG).

Houndshill Shopping Centre

In September 2008 a new extension was opened, including stores Debenhams, Zavvi, Next, Topman and Topshop, River Island, Jane Norman, Costa Coffee, New Look, Aleef, 3, The Carphone Warehouse, Phones4U, Clarks, O2, La Senza, H&M, Just Desserts, lp4, Qube and BANK.

I'll Follow the Sun

McCartney performed the song live during The 'US' Tour; he did too at the Paris Olympia on 22 October 2007, in Kyev for the Independence Concert on 14 June 2008, in Quebec City for the free outdoor concert on 20 July 2008, that was the 400th anniversary of the city, and at Tel Aviv, Israel, on 25 September 2008.

Independent Energy Partners

On March 1, 2006, IEP concluded negotiations with Battelle Memorial Institute, the operator of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for development of the Geothermic Fuel Cell prototype and in September 2008, they signed agreements for modeling, analysis, design and engineering to commercialize this technology and related applications.

IntelePeer

In September 2008, IntelePeer launched its AppWorx communications-enabling application development environment offering an application programming interface (API) based on Web standards like PHP and REST to help service providers and application developers to voice-enable their applications.

KSLV

KYDN, a radio station (95.3 FM) licensed to Monte Vista, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KSLV-FM from June 1984 to September 2008

Lambton High School

On 29 September 2008, the Federal Cabinet (including Prime Minister Kevin Rudd) attended Lambton High School as part of the Australian Government Community Cabinet Program.

Legal education in Hong Kong

However, in September 2008 it switched from a three to four year LLB, whilst overseas candidates for the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws must now take conversion exams prior to admission to the programme.

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

Architektin, featuring Helen Morse, Ksenja Logos, Craig Behenna, Duncan Graham, Antje Guenther, Michael Habib and Nick Pelomis, produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and directed by Adam Cook, had its Opening Night on 2 September 2008 at the Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, South Australia.

Mark Gasnier

For his début with Stade Français on 26 September 2008, Gasnier played right wing and ran in for a try, finishing off a fine display of passing rugby by the Stade backs, against Bourgoin-Jallieu at the Stade des Alpes in Grenoble before getting injured.

Mats Sundin

In September 2008, Sundin announced an endorsement deal with PokerStars.

Meredith Burgmann

In the September 2008 New South Wales Council elections, she ran for the positions of Lord Mayor and councillor in the City of Sydney Council.

Middle Class Rut

In September 2008, the band came to the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ, Zane Lowe, who then featured their song, "Busy Bein' Born," as his Single of the Week during the week of October 20, 2008.

Moonlite BunnyRanch

In September 2008, a 22-year-old woman calling herself Natalie Dylan announced on The Howard Stern Show that she would auction off her virginity on the BunnyRanch website, and that the act would be consummated at the ranch.

Movement for Italy

In September 2008 Daniela Santanchè, spokeswoman of The Right and candidate for Prime Minister in the 2008 general election, left the party, after having fallen out with secretary Francesco Storace.

Nick Abbot

In late 2007, Abbot took over LBC's Weekday evening show from 7-10pm whilst still continuing with the Planet Rock weekend show, which ended in September 2008.

Nick Whyatt

On 23 September 2008 a move to Belgian Hockey League team Luik Bulldogs was confirmed, although this agreement was short lived and Whyatt moved back to the UK to be with his longtime girlfriend Chloe Jarvis, a drama student at The University of Lincoln and signed with the Coventry Blaze organisation to ice for their ENIHL level team.

No Fire Zone

The documentary covers the period from September 2008 until the end of the war in 2009 in which thousands of Tamil people were killed by shelling and extrajudicial executions by the Sri Lankan Army including Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of the slain Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Chief Velupillai Prabhakaran.

Paul Cleave

In September 2008, Cleave appeared on a crime writing panel at The Press Christchurch Writers Festival alongside fellow New Zealand crime writer Vanda Symon and acclaimed British author Mark Billingham.

Pentax K-mount

Carl Zeiss 21mm f2.8 Distagon T* (September 2008)(Europe Only)

Power Rangers RPM

Australian actor Eka Darville, who previously starred in series three of Blue Water High, was reported to have a role in September 2008 in what was then unknown as RPM or Racing Performance Machines which began production in September 2008 in New Zealand.

Ray Brown, Jr.

In September 2008, Ray Brown Jr. released a duets-style album, Friends and Family, produced by Shelly Liebowitz, on SRI Jazz, a division of SRI Records.

S-Cup Europe 2008

The event was held at the Oosterbliek Sporthal in Gorinchem, Netherlands on Saturday, 20 September 2008.

Simon Schama's Power of Art

It aired in Poland on TVP2 in February and March 2008, on PBS in the US and re -broadcast in September 2008 on TVOntario in Canada, ABC1 in Australia, Australia Network in the Asia-Pacific region, TV ONE in New Zealand and on ET1 in Greece.

South Indian Film Artistes' Association

;Sri Lankan civil-war hunger strike: In September 2008, Sarathkumar organized a one-day hunger strike, protesting the deaths of several Tamils in Sri Lanka and the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War.

Swedish banking rescue

In September 2008, economists Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman have proposed the Swedish experiment as a model for what should be done to solve the economic crisis currently affecting the United States.

Tatiana Navka

In September 2008, Navka, together with professional dancer Alexander Litvinenko, took part in Eurovision Dance Contest 2008.

Teens in the Wild

The first series, broadcast in four parts over four weeks, followed six male teenagers, each with their own individual behavioural difficulties, as they undertook a three-week activity programme at Delphi Adventure in Connemara, County Galway during September 2008.

The Gutter Twins

In September 2008, The Gutter Twins released the Adorata EP through iTunes.

Trevor Greene

In September 2008, Greene moved to Nanaimo, BC, with his wife and daughter, after spending 14 months at the Alberta facility.

United Democratic Movement

It also welcomed over 300 former members of the ANC who had left their former party following the deposition of former president Thabo Mbeki in September 2008.

Virgin Radio

UK: Virgin Radio Xtreme (renamed Absolute Xtreme on Monday 29 September 2008, and later replaced by Absolute 80s on DAB digital radio)

World Socialist Party of the United States

As of September 2008 it has members scattered throughout the United States, including Local Branches in Boston and Portland, as well as a regional Branch in the area encompassing Detroit and Toledo, Ohio.