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“Australia” is a pastiche of genres and references wrapped up into one horse-galloping, cattle-stampeding, camera-swooping, music-swelling, widescreen package.
In this modest but enthusiastic addition to the Pig Lit canon, John Barlow recounts a year spent in Spain trying to eat every possible part of the pig.
Detritus from the era of the Ramones and the Clash hurtled its way into high culture when Christie’s hosted its first auction devoted to punk memorabilia.
“Four Christmases” is refreshingly tart and lean, forgoing the usual schmaltz and syrup of the season.
Local politicians who supported Barack Obama wait eagerly, even hungrily, to find out what his message of change will mean to them.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 2008, covering November 26, 2008.
Taylor Swift
David Archuleta
Various Artists
T-Pain
Soundtrack
2008Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 175 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation.[†]
The 2008 Mumbai attacks, also referred to as 26/11 attacks, were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist organisation, carried out 12 shooting and bombing attacks over four days across Mumbai. A total of 175 people died, including nine of the attackers, with more than 300 injured.
2008The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, now out of service, docks in Dubai.[†]
Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a retired British ocean liner. Built for the Cunard Line, the ship was operated as a transatlantic liner and cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was laid up until converted into a floating hotel, operating since 18 April 2018 in Dubai.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]