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“Tropic Thunder” took in an estimated $26 million at the weekend box office, knocking “The Dark Knight” out of the No. 1 spot after an extraordinary monthlong run on top.
“Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea” is part floating artwork, part performance, part mobile utopia and seemingly part summer camp for grown-up artsy kids.
Now that he has passed Mark Spitz, the next challenge for Michael Phelps is making sure people do not forget about swimming.
Celebrating the black writer Dorothy West’s home on Martha’s Vineyard.
Democrats face a number of imperatives at their convention, none trickier than making more voters comfortable with Barack Obama’s background.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 13, 2008, covering August 18, 2008.
Sugarland
Miley Cyrus
Soundtrack
Kid Rock
Lil Wayne
2008The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, resigns under threat of impeachment.[†]
Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani general and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.
2008War of Afghanistan: The Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.[†]
French International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops were ambushed by Afghan Taliban insurgents, with heavy casualties, in the Uzbin Valley outside the village of Spēṟ Kunday in the Surobi District of Kabul province in eastern Afghanistan on 18 August 2008.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]