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Weather of 2008
The following is a list of weather events that occurred in 2008. The year began with La Niña conditions. There were several natural disasters around the world from various types of weather, including blizzards, cold waves, droughts, heat waves, tornadoes, and tropical cyclones. In early May, powerful Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, killing or leaving missing at least 138,373 people and becoming the deadliest single weather event of the year. There were several other weather events that caused significant death and destruction, such as Typhoon Fengshen, which killed over 1,400 people, and the 2008 Afghanistan blizzard, which killed over 900 people. In the United States, there were a total of twelve billion-dollar disasters which caused between $80 billion and $104.8 billion in damage (adjusted for inflation). A total of 572 deaths were reported due to weather-related phenomena in the United States, and over 2,400 injuries.

Blizzard
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds and low visibility, lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically at least three or four hours. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow that has already fallen is being blown by wind. Blizzards can have an immense size and usually stretch to hundreds or thousands of kilometres.
HMS Blanche (1909)
HMS Blanche was the second of two Blonde-class scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She led the 1st Destroyer Flotilla from completion until 1912 and was then briefly transferred to the 4th Destroyer Flotilla before the ship was assigned to the 3rd Battle Squadron in 1913. During World War I, Blanche was assigned to several different battleship squadrons of the Grand Fleet. She was present at, but did not fight in, the Battle of Jutland in mid-1916. The ship was converted into a minelayer in early 1917 and made 16 sorties to lay mines during the war. Blanche was paid off in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1921.

Minelayer
A minelayer is any warship, submarine, military aircraft or land vehicle deploying explosive mines. Since World War I the term "minelayer" refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines. "Mine planting" was the term for installing controlled mines at predetermined positions in connection with coastal fortifications or harbor approaches that would be detonated by shore control when a ship was fixed as being within the mine's effective range.

An army's special-purpose combat engineering vehicles used to lay landmines are sometimes called "minelayers".
Balandin
Balandin (masculine, Russian: Баландин) or Balandina (feminine, Russian: Баландина) is a Russian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aleksei Balandin (1898–1967), Soviet chemist

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (born 1953), Russian cosmonaut

Aleksandr Balandin (born 1989), Russian Olympic gymnast

Alexander A. Balandin, Russian electrical engineer

Dmitriy Balandin (born 1995), Kazakh Olympic swimmer

Lev Balandin (1934–1980), Russian swimmer

Mikhail Balandin (1980–2011), Russian ice hockey player

Lev Balandin
Lev Nikolayevich Balandin (Russian: Лев Николаевич Баландин; 1934–1980) was a Soviet swimmer who won two medals at the 1954 European Aquatics Championships. He also competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics in three freestyle events, but was eliminated in the preliminaries.

During his career he set four world records and seven European records in relay events. He also won 10 national titles in the 4 × 200 m freestyle (1951–1954), 4 × 100 m medley (1953–1955) and 100 m freestyle (1954–1956).

Balandin was born in Nizhny Novgorod but in the early 1950s moved to Moscow. He was married to Ida Petrovna Balandina (1931–2001) who was also a competitive swimmer.

Balandin died in 1980 in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery.
Main–Spanish Commercial Historic District
Main–Spanish Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located around Main and Spanish Streets in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.  The district encompasses 26 contributing buildings in the central business district of Cape Girardeau.  It developed between about 1880 and 1958, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Colonial Revival, Mission Revival, and Streamline Moderne style architecture.  Located in the district is the separately listed Klostermann Block.  Other notable buildings are F.W. Woolworth Company (1950), J.C. Penney Company (1928), Kraft Bakery (c. 1884), Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) (1941), and Millikan Motor Co. (1941).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Cape Girardeau (/dʒɪˈrɑːrdoʊ/ jirr-AR-doh, French: Cap-Girardeau [kap ʒiʁaʁdo] ⓘ; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 39,540 at the 2020 census, making it the 17th-largest city in the state. It is a principal city of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson metropolitan area with 97,517 residents. Cape Girardeau is the economic center of southeastern Missouri and the home of Southeast Missouri State University. It is located approximately 100 miles (160 km) southeast of St. Louis and 150 miles (240 km) north of Memphis, Tennessee.
Abdel Fattah Yahya Pasha
Abdel Fattah Yahya Pasha (Arabic: يحيى إبراهيم باشا; 1876–1951) was an Egyptian political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 1933 to 1934.

He was Justice Minister in 1921 and 1930, and from 1930 to 1934 was Minister for Foreign Affairs. Though King Fuad I asked him to serve as Prime Minister from 1933 to 1934, he did not prove successful at leading the government in the face of popular opposition to the king. Elected a Senator in 1936, he proved more successful at chairing the Senate. He served on the delegation negotiating the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, and was among Egypt's representatives at the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization.

Fuad I of Egypt
Fuad I (Arabic: فؤاد الأول Fu’ād al-Awwal; 26 March 1868 – 28 April 1936) was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Hussein Kamel. He replaced the title of Sultan with King when the United Kingdom unilaterally declared Egyptian independence in 1922.
Yut Angkinan
Yut Angkinan (also spelled Yuth and Angkinant, Thai: ยุทธ อังกินันทน์; 6 April 1936 – 17 February 2023) was a Thai politician. A member of the Thai Nation Party and later the Chart Pattana Party, he served in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001.

Yut died in Phetchaburi province on 17 February 2023, at the age of 86.

Phetchaburi province
Phetchaburi (Thai: เพชรบุรี, pronounced [pʰét.tɕʰā.bū.rīː]) or Phet Buri (pronounced [pʰét bū.rīː]) is one of the western or central provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Ratchaburi, Samut Songkhram, and Prachuap Khiri Khan. In the west it borders the Tanintharyi Division of Myanmar. Phetchaburi is home to Kaeng Krachan National Park.
2014 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships
The 2014 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships were held at the Thialf ice stadium in Heerenveen from 25 October until 27 October 2013. Although the tournament was held in 2013 it was the 2014 edition as it is part of the 2013/2014 speed skating season.

Thialf
Thialf (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtijɑlf]) is an ice arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands. Thialf is used for long track speed skating, short track speed skating, ice hockey, figure skating, ice speedway, and non-sporting events. The outdoor rink was opened in 1967, and the indoor stadium was opened in 1986. Several world records have been set in the indoor stadium.

Annually, Thialf hosts two Speed Skating World Cup events. Jan de Jong was the ice rink master at Thialf for many years.
You Are Someone Else
You Are Someone Else is the debut studio album by British indie pop collective Fickle Friends. It was released on 16 March 2018 through Polydor Records. The album and single artwork was designed by visual artist Mat Maitland, who worked with the likes of Michael Jackson and Josef Salvat and is the co-creator of the seafox mascot for Galantis.

Galantis
Galantis is a Swedish electronic music act consisting of producer Christian "Bloodshy" Karlsson. Formerly, they were a duo, alongside rising musician Style of Eye, until he decided to part ways with the project shortly after their second album The Aviary in 2017. However, he made appearances in live performances and music videos as part of the project up until 2021.

Galantis had their first international success with "Runaway (U & I)" released in 2014, followed by "Peanut Butter Jelly" and "No Money".
Etlingera
Etlingera is a genus of Indo-Pacific herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, consisting of more than 100 species found in tropical regions of Afro-Eurasia.

Some of the larger species have leafy shoots reaching almost 10 metres high, and the bases of these shoots are so stout as to seem almost woody.  Others of the species grow as clumps of leafy shoots; while others have such long creeping rhizomes that each of their leafy shoots can be more than a metre apart.

Unique and distinctive to all Etlingera is a tube forming above the point where the base of the flowers petals joins onto the plant (i.e. above the  insertion of the  corolla lobes).

Afro-Eurasia
Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) is a supercontinent comprising the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. The terms are compound words of the names of its constituent parts. Afro-Eurasia has also been called the "Old World", in contrast to the "New World" referring to the Americas.

Afro-Eurasia encompasses 85,135,000 km2 (32,871,000 sq mi), 57% of the world's land area, and has a population of approximately 6.7 billion people, roughly 86% of the world population. Together with mainland Australia, they comprise the vast majority of the land in the world's Eastern Hemisphere. The Afro-Eurasian mainland is the largest and most populous contiguous landmass on Earth.
Emilie Barrington
Emilie Isabel Barrington (18 October 1841 – 9 March 1933), was a British biographer, artist, and novelist. She became associated with the Holland Park Circle, was instrumental in establishing Leighton House Museum, and co-founded the Kyrle Society.

Holland Park Circle
The Holland Park Circle was an informal group of 19th-century artists based in the Holland Park district of West London, England, especially in Melbury Road and Holland Park Road. George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton, Valentine Prinsep, Luke Fildes, Hamo Thornycroft and William Burges are considered key members of the group.
Narlıdere İtfaiye
Narlıdere İtfaiye is an underground station on the M1 Line of the İzmir Metro in Narlıdere. Located under Mithatpaşa Avenue, it has one island platform servicing two tracks. The station was opened on 24 February 2024, after almost 6 years of construction.

M1 (İzmir Metro)
The M1, also known as the Narlıdere Kaymakamlık–Evka 3 Line (Turkish: Narlıdere Kaymakamlık–Evka 3 Hattı), is the only active line of the İzmir Metro in İzmir, Turkey. The 27 kilometres (17 mi) line runs from Narlıdere Kaymakamlık station in the west to Evka 3 station in the east, consisting of 24 stations. Construction of the first stage of line began in 1992 and was completed in 2000, consisting of 10 initial stations.

Further extensions of the line since 2005 have been plagued by repeated construction delays and re-awarding of tenders. An eastern extension in 2012 and two western extensions in 2014 and 2024 added another two, five and seven stations to the line respectively. Plans exist for a further extension to Güzelbahçe in future.

All stations on the M1 are handicapped accessible. The line runs almost completely underground with the exception of six stations.
Lusk Creek
Lusk Creek is a creek located in southeastern Illinois. It is a tributary of the Ohio River, which it joins at Golconda.

Lusk Creek flows through the Lusk Creek Canyon, which is perhaps the wildest place in Illinois. Only a single bridge crosses the creek. The watershed is almost entirely within the Shawnee National Forest, and includes the Lusk Creek Wilderness Area. The entire watershed is within Pope County. The creek is about 31.8 miles (51.2 km) in length.

The creek is named for Maj. James Lusk and the Lusk family that operated Lusk's Ferry near where the creek enters the Ohio River.

Golconda, Illinois
Golconda is a city in and the county seat of Pope County, Illinois, United States, located along the Ohio River. The population was 630 at the 2020 census.  Most of the city is part of the Golconda Historic District.
Ostrich oil
Ostrich oil is an oil derived from the fat of ostriches. Ostrich oil is composed of  36.51% of saturated fat, 46.75% of monounsaturated fat, and 18.24% of polyunsaturated fat. Ostrich oil contains fatty acids, such as omega-3, omega-6, and omega-9. It also contains vitamins and minerals like vitamin E and selenium, which serve as natural antioxidants. Emu oil in the USA has a similar composition to ostrich oil, but ostrich oil has a higher omega-3 content, containing 2.1% compared to 0.25% in emu oil.

Ostrich oil has antibacterial properties, and is used for various skincare purposes, such as inflammation reduction. Due to the moisturizing properties, ostrich oil is currently used in cosmetic formulations and food chemistry. Ostrich oil is also used in the food industry as it has fatty acids and tocopherols, and a low cholesterol content.

Monounsaturated fat
In biochemistry and nutrition, a monounsaturated fat is a fat which contains a monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA), a subclass of fatty acid characterized by having a double bond in the fatty acid chain with all of the remaining carbon atoms being single-bonded. By contrast, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have more than one double bond.
Bas Ramselaar
Bas Ramselaar (1961 - 2025) was a Dutch bass singer and conductor.

A graduate of the Utrechts Conservatorium, he has sung with notable ensembles such as the Berliner Symphoniker, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Nederlands Kamerorkest etc. and has performed under conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Harry Christophers, Thierry Fischer, Roy Goodman, Uwe Gronostay, Philippe Herreweghe, Robert King, Reinbert de Leeuw, Paul McCreesh, Jos van Veldhoven, among others. He is noted in particular for singing all of the bass parts in the complete Bach church cantatas cycle for Brilliant Classics, as well as Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion.  Ramselaar also teaches singing at Omroep Jongenskoor and has been conductor of the Amersfoorts Kantate Koor & Orkest since 2011.

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (NKO; Dutch, Nederlands Kamerorkest) is a Dutch chamber orchestra based in Amsterdam.  The NKO is part of the Stichting Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation), along with the Netherlands Philharmonic.  The core of the NKO is a group of at least 20 string instrumentalists.  The orchestra does not have wind, percussion and harp players as permanent orchestra members, but instead utilises such instrumentalists from the Netherlands Philharmonic.  The orchestra is headquartered and rehearses at the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam.
Hypoptopoma machadoi
Hypoptopoma machadoi is a species of catfish of the family Loricariidae.

This catfish reaches a maximum length of 7.0 centimetres (2.8 in) SL. It is demersal, being found in fresh water in the tropics.

Hypoptopoma machadoi is native to South America, and is known to occur in the Rio Orinoco basin in Venezuela, including the Rio Meta drainage in Colombia.

The fish is named in honor of Antonio Machado-Allison (b. 1945) of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, because of his lifelong dedication and contributions to neotropical ichthyology.

Demersal zone
The demersal zone (from Latin demergere, "to sink") is the part of the sea or ocean (or deep lake) consisting of the part of the water column near to (and significantly affected by) the seabed and the benthos. The demersal zone is just above the benthic zone and forms a layer of the larger profundal zone.

Being just above the ocean floor, the demersal zone is variable in depth and can be part of the photic zone where light can penetrate, and photosynthetic organisms grow, or the aphotic zone, which begins between depths of roughly 200 and 1,000 m (700 and 3,300 ft) and extends to the ocean depths, where no light penetrates.
Perama
Perama (Greek: Πέραμα) is a coastal town and a suburb of Piraeus and belongs to the Piraeus regional unit and is the southwestern limit of Athens urban area. It lies on the southwest edge of the Aegaleo mountains, on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is 8 km northwest of Piraeus, and 14 km west of the center of Athens. The municipality has an area of 14.729 km2. It forms the western terminus of the Port of Piraeus, and there is also a passenger port that provides ferry services to Salamis Island.

The name Perama comes from the Greek word "perasma" which means "passage". Perama has a secondary soccer team named Peramaikos. The Battle of Salamis which took place in 480BC was located between the Salamis island and the mainland, part of which included Perama.

Port of Piraeus
The Port of Piraeus (Greek: Λιμάνι του Πειραιά) is the chief sea port of Athens, located on the Saronic Gulf on the western coasts of the Aegean Sea, the largest port in Greece and one of the largest in Europe.

The Chinese state-owned COSCO Shipping operates the port.
Anton Colella
Anton Colella is a Scottish businessman. He has been the chief executive officer of Moore Global since 2018, and was previously the global chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Colella is an advocate for value-driven business practices and accounting ethics.

Accounting ethics
Accounting ethics is primarily a field of applied ethics and is part of business ethics and human ethics, the study of moral values and judgments as they apply to accountancy. It is an example of professional ethics. Accounting was introduced by Luca Pacioli, and later expanded by government groups, professional organizations, and independent companies. Ethics are taught in accounting courses at higher education institutions as well as by companies training accountants and auditors.

Due to the wide range of accounting services and recent corporate collapses, attention has been drawn to ethical standards accepted within the accounting profession. These collapses have resulted in a widespread disregard for the reputation of the accounting profession. To combat the criticism and prevent fraudulent accounting, various accounting organizations and governments have developed regulations and remedies for improved ethics among the accounting profession.
Every Witch Way
Every Witch Way is an American teen drama that aired on Nickelodeon from January 1, 2014, to July 30, 2015. The series is an English-language remake of Nickelodeon Latin America's hit telenovela Grachi. It follows 14-year-old Emma Alonso (Paola Andino), who moves to Miami, Florida, with her father and discovers she is a witch, and her rivalry with Maddie Van Pelt (Paris Smith), also a witch with a love triangle with Daniell Miller (Nick Merico).

Remake
A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same story as the original but uses a different set of casts, and may use actors from the original, alter the theme, or change the flow and setting of the story. In addition, since a remake is released some time after the original work, it may incorporate new technologies, enhancements, and techniques that had not existed or been commonly used when the original work was created. Similar but not synonymous terms are reimagining or reboot, which indicates a greater discrepancy between, for example, a movie and the movie it is based on.
Ballıdut, Pertek
Ballıdut (Kurdish: Koxpinik) is a village in the Pertek District, Tunceli Province, Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Şikakî tribe and had a population of 38 in 2021.

The hamlet of Tarlacık is attached to the village.

Tunceli Province
Tunceli Province (Turkish: Tunceli ili), formerly Dersim Province (Kurdish: Parêzgeha Dêrsim; Zazaki: Dêsim wilayet; Armenian: Տէրսիմի մարզ), is a province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Its central city is Tunceli. The province has a Kurdish majority. Moreover, it is the only province in Turkey with an Alevi majority. The province has eight municipalities, 366 villages and 1,087 hamlets.
Negalasa
Negalasa is a monotypic snout moth genus (family Pyralidae). Its one species, Negalasa fumalis, is found in the US state of Arizona. Both the genus and species were described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1913 in the same paper.

The wingspan is about 19 mm.

James Halliday McDunnough
James Halliday McDunnough (10 May 1877 – 23 February 1962) was a Canadian linguist, musician, and entomologist best known for his work with North American Lepidoptera, but who also made important contributions about North American Ephemeroptera.
In-sook
In-sook, also spelled In-suk or Insook, is a Korean given name. In-sook was the eighth-most popular name for newborn South Korean girls in 1950.

People with this name include:

Royal Noble Consort Wonbin Hong (1766 – 1779), Korean concubine posthumously titled In-suk

Tak In-suk (born 1949), North Korean speed skater

Lee In-sook (born 1950), South Korean volleyball player

Insook Baik (born 1950/1951), South-Korean born American gas station owner

Ahn In-sook (born 1952), South Korean actress

Insook Bhushan (born Na Insook, 1952), South Korean-born American table tennis player

Hwang In-suk (born 1958), South Korean poet

Insook Choi (born 1962), South Korean-born American composer

Kim Insuk (born 1963), South Korean writer

Kwon In-suk (born 1964), South Korean labour organiser

Guk In-suk (born 1965), South Korean rower

Ahn In-sook
Ahn In-sook (Korean: 안인숙; or spelled Ahn In-suk; born October 8, 1952) is a South Korean actress. Ahn was born in Seoul and graduated from Chung-Ang University with a major in film and theater. Ahn was a member of KBS children's choir and debuted as a daughter of actor, Kim Jin-kyu in the 1963 film Bubu joyak directed by Choi Hun.
Trška Gora, Krško
Trška Gora (pronounced [ˈtəɾʃka ˈɡɔːɾa]; German: Stadtberg) is a settlement in the hills above the right bank of the Sava River, opposite Krško in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.

Lower Sava Statistical Region
The Lower Sava Statistical Region (Slovene: posavska statistična regija; until December 31, 2014 spodnjeposavska statistična regija) is a statistical region in Slovenia. It has good traffic accessibility and is located in the Sava and Krka Valleys, with hilly areas with vineyards and an abundance of water. It is the second-smallest statistical region in Slovenia. The only nuclear power plant in the country and Čatež spa are located in the region. The region annually spends EUR 22 million on environmental protection. In 2013, the employment rate in the region was 57.5%. The region was characterized by the largest difference between the employment rate for men and for women (for men it was 12 percentage points higher than for women). In 2013 this region also stood out in number of convicted persons per 1,000 population (8.3).