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Sociology

Peoples of the world can be connected.

Nations including United Kingdom, Italy, South Korea, Burma, Ukraine, South Africa, and Colombia can be connected.

6 Nov 2008 - Lindsay Roy of the Scottish Labour Party won the Glenrothes by-election despite concerns that his party may lose the seat to the Scottish National Party.

10 Nov 2008 - Ryanair Flight 4102 was forced to make an emergency landing at Rome's Ciampino Airport after several birds were sucked into its engines as it prepared to land.

10 Nov 2008 - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi repeated a comment that United States President-elect Barack Obama is "young, handsome and also tanned," refusing to apologize for remarks he insisted are "flattering".

14 Nov 2008 - An Italian court convicted 16 and acquitted 13 police officers of beating protesters at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa.

Western Civilization can be considered.

France6 Nov 2008 - Philosopher and academic Jean-Luc Marion was elected to become a member of the French Academy, replacing the late Jean-Marie Lustiger.

14 Nov 2008 - At a summit in Nice, France, the European Union and Russia agreed to refrain from deploying missiles or missile defense systems at least before mid-2009, when a pan-European security framework is discussed between Russia, the United States and the EU.

Western cities including Los Angeles can be connected.

Among Anglic peoples, the United States has numerous important events.

On Nov. 3, a report issued by independent investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board found that Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin did not violate the law with regards to the so called "Troopergate scandal", in contradiction to an earlier report by the state Legislature. In the general election on Nov 3, Democrat Barak Obama defeated Republican John McCain, becoming the first black man to be elected President of the United States. In the Congressional elections, The Democratic Party picked up at least five seats in the Senate and retained control of the House of Representatives. In California, Proposition 8, a referendum that amended the State Constitution to define marrage as being between a man and a woman, was passed by voters, thus ending same-sex marriage in California. On Nov. 7, it was reported that unemployment in the United States had reached its highest rate in 14 years.

On 10 Nov, reports surfaced that a United States nuclear weapon had been lost somewhere in the ice after the January 21, 1968 crash of a B-52 Stratofortress outside Thule Air Base, Greenland. On Nov 14, General Ann E. Dunwoody becamee the first female four-star general in the history of the United States Army. That same day, it was reported that the Montecito Tea Fire in California had burned 2,500 acres and damaged more than 100 homes and the campus of Westmont College. On Nov 15, the Space Shuttle Endeavor on misson STS - 126 was launched to use the MPLM Leonardo to deliver experiment and storage racks to the International Space Station, which was to increase the crew capacity of the station to 6 members.

On Nov 16, 2008 - Jimmie Chohnson won NASCAR's 2008 Sprint Cup Series championship, becoming the second driver to win three in a row. President-elect Barack Obama resigned his Senate seat. On Nov 17 in the Global financial crisis of 2008: Citigroup announced it would lay off 53,000 workers by early 2009 for a total of approximately 75,000. The Japanese economy posted consecutive second-quarter contraction for the first time since 2001, officially putting the country in a recession. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil futures contracts fell by 3.7% to close at $54.95 per barrel, their lowest level in 22 months. 2008 Russian financial crisis: The Russian Trading System stock exchange was suspended after its nine indexes fell by more than 5%. It could remain closed for rest of the session. On Nov 18, Democrat Mark Begich defeated Republican senior Senator Ted Stevens in Alaska's highly contested Senate race. Begich will be the first Democratic senator representing the state in twenty-eight years. In the global financial crisis of 2008: Central European stocks dropped to a three-week low on expectations of slowing economic growth. Poland forecast economic growth to drop to 2.3% in 2009 from 5.4% in 2008 and the Warsaw Stock Exchange's WIG 20 index fell 3.5% in two hours. Bulgaria's Sofia Stock Exchange was at a 5-year low. Both Bulgaria and Romania may need International Monetary Fund loans to repay $100 billion of external debt. HSBC Holdings announced 500 layoffs in Hong Kong. Pepsi announced 3,000 layoffs in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. On Nov 19, NASA successfully tested the first deep-space communications protocol to pave the way for Interplanetary Internet. On same-sex marriage in California: The state's Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Proposition 8. On Nov 20, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered evidence of enormous underground deposits of water ice on Mars. One such deposit, under Hellas Planitia, is estimated to be the size of Los Angeles. United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech to the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C. - In the global financial crisis of 2008: Executives of the top three U.S. automakers – Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler – testified before Congress for a bailout package. French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën announced plans to cut 2,700 jobs due to falling demand in Europe. The International Monetary Fund approved a $2.1 billion loan to Iceland to help alleviate its financial crisis. The approval marks the first time that a Western European nation has secured an IMF loan since the United Kingdom in 1976. Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark lent Iceland an additional €1.66 billion. Five Guantánamo Bay detainees who successfully argued in the Supreme Court case of Boumediene v. Bush were ordered freed by a federal district court in Washington.

On Nov 21, U.S. Intelligence Agencies predicted a major decline in U.S. economic, military, and political dominance over the next two decades. Confirmation of Neil Barofsky as special inspector general of the Troubled Assets Relief Program was delayed by an unnamed Republican United States Senator. According to unofficial sources, Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of State and Timothy F. Geithner as the next Secretary of the Treasury under the presidency of Barack Obama. 24 Nov 2008 - President-elect Barack Obama announced his Treasury team, which includes Timothy F. Geithner as Secretary, Lawrence Summers as president of the National Economic Council, and Christina Romer as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Obama was also expected to announce Peter R. Orszag as director of the Office of Management and Budget. 24 Nov 2008 - Global financial crisis of 2008: Citigroup receives US$32 billion from the United States Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's annual summit ended in Lima, Peru, amid an ongoing economic crisis with a declaration of commitment with free markets and an openness of the economy, refrainment from raising trade barriers in goods and services over the next 12 months, the regulation and supervision of financial systems, and the ensuring of corporate social responsibility. 25 Nov 2008 - Reports indicated that President elect Barack Obama has decided to keep Robert Gates as the United States Secretary of Defense and Marine General James L. Jones as National Security Adviser. 25 Nov 2008 - The U.S. Federal Reserve announced a new US$800 billion "stimulus" package in which it will buy debt and mortgage-backed securities and make loans to holders of consumer debt 26 Nov 2008 - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced that he would create a new "economic recovery board," headed by Paul Volcker, designed to provide "fresh perspective" on the current economic issues 26 Nov 2008 - Edna Parker, the oldest living person in the world, died at age 115 in her hometown of Shelbyville, Indiana. 27 Nov 2008 - A suicide car bomb exploded near the United States embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, with at least one person dead. 28 Nov 2008 - Black Friday: As the Christmas shopping season began in the United States, two were shot at a Toys R Us store in Palm Desert, California, and a Wal-Mart employee was crushed in a stampede after shoppers broke down a front door in Valley Stream, New York. 29 Nov 2008 - In an interview, U.S. President George W. Bush names No Child Left Behind as one of his most significant achievements and hopes to be remembered for the current situation in Iraq.

Anglic cities including New York City can be connected.

Among Latin peoples

Mexico

4 Nov 2008 - Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño died along with at least 12 others after the airplane he was on crashed into rush-hour Mexico City traffic.

14 Nov 2008 - An investigation concluded that wake turbulence was the most likely cause of the November 4, 2008 airplane crash in Mexico City that killed, among others, Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño and José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos.

30 Nov 2008 - Nine headless bodies were found in Tijuana, Baja California, as the Mexican Drug War continues.

Latin cities including Mexico City and Sao Paulo can be connected.

Among Lusitanic peoples, in Brazil

3 Nov 2008 - Itaú and Unibanco announced they would merge their banking, credit, and insurance operations, creating the largest financial services group in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere.

24 Nov 2008 - Flooding in the Southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina caused at least 45 deaths and forced the evacuation of 20,000 people.

27 Nov 2008 - 2008 Santa Catarina floods: The Brazilian federal government authorized nearly 2 billion reais (881 million U.S. dollars) in emergency relief funds.

27 Nov 2008 - Russia and Brazil call for the first BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) summit of major emerging market countries in Russia to respond to the financial crisis in 2009.

29 Nov 2008 - 2008 Santa Catarina floods: The number of confirmed deaths rise to 105 people.

Northeast European peoples. Russia

5 Nov 2008 - In his State of the Nation address, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced a proposal to extend the presidential term from four years to six.

5 Nov 2008 - President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev announces that his country would place short-range conventional warhead missiles in Kaliningrad in order to counter United States missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, however, he expressed hope that Russia–United States relations would be mended with the presidency of Barack Obama.

6 Nov 2008 - According to officials, an explosion killed at least 11 people aboard a minibus in the North Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz, Russia.

On Nov 9, 2008, An accident aboard K-152 Nerpa, a nuclear-powered Russian Navy submarine doing a test run in the Sea of Japan, killed more than 20 people. On Nov 11, the global financial crisis spread to Russia when Russian regulators halted trading on one of the country's two main stock indexes, the MICEX, after it fell 6.5%, dragged down by commodity and banking shares. On Nov 12 Russia's two main stock exchanges were suspended for one hour after the market opened with a more than 10% decline in response to trends on global markets and falling oil prices. Trade in Russian shares had been shifting to London traded Global Depositary Receipts during frequent suspensions in Moscow, dictated by rules imposed by the regulator to reduce volatility on Moscow's increasingly illiquid stock market. On Nov 13, The MICEX stock exchange fell 5% as trade resumes after a one-day limit-down halt. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin questioned the commitment of the European Union to the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline to establish a natural gas delivery network from his country to Germany. A European Commission spokesman responded, "The EU continues to strongly support the Nord Stream pipeline".

18 Nov 2008 - 2008 Russian financial crisis: Trading remained suspended at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange for another two days or until the Federal Financial Markets Service instructs otherwise.

19 Nov 2008 - Amnesty International's report on the 2008 South Ossetia war highlighted Georgia's role as aggressor and notes evidence of "notoriously inaccurate" Georgian artillery fire resulting in "scores" of civilian deaths in South Ossetia, of aimed artillery fire at Russian peacekeepers base, and of Russian failure to provide defense to civilians during the conflict.

23 Nov 2008 - Human rights activists and opposition politicians in Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia say that the predominantly Muslim region is now in a state of civil war.

21 Nov 2008 - Global and Russian financial crises: Construction of several skyscraper buildings in Russia (Norman Foster's Russia Tower, Gazprom's Okhta Center) was canceled due to lack of credit available during the global financial crisis. The Russian government announced it will review spending on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, saying it had "set a target of saving some money".

23 Nov 2008 - Human rights activists and opposition politicians in Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia said that the predominantly Muslim region is now in a state of civil war.

24 Nov 2008 - Aftermath of the 2008 South Ossetia war: Georgian Interior Ministry claims "shots were fired" at a convoy including Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski on the border of Georgia and South Ossetia. Several witnesses travelling with the convoy say they heard the automatic gunfire, though it was unclear from which direction it came. Polish Parliament spokesman later comments the incident was "not very serious at all", though "unfortunate" as it put the Polish president in an "awkward" situation. Georgian Parliamentary hearing into the 2008 South Ossetia war marred by "angry exchanges" after the comission member, and a supporter of Mikeil Saakashvili, throws a pen at a high-ranking Georgian diplomat, a former close ally of Saakashvili, in response to his testimony that the "Georgian leadership started the military action first" during the conflict.

25 Nov 2008 - Three people were killed in a car bombing near the Udelnaya Metro station in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

26 Nov 2008 - Vitaly Karayev, the mayor of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia-Alania in Russia is assassinated.

27 Nov 2008 - Russia and Brazil call for the first BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) summit of major emerging market countries in Russia to respond to the financial crisis in 2009.

Among Germanic peoples, Germany

11 Nov 2008 - Germany announced new charges against John Demjanjuk in the deaths of 29,000 people at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland during the Holocaust.

Asiatic peoples can be connected.

Thailand19 Nov 2008 - A Thai fishing ship with 16 crew members was hijacked off the coast of the Horn of Africa.

20 Nov 2008 - At least one person was dead and twenty injured after a bomb was thrown into a People's Alliance for Democracy protest compound in Bangkok, Thailand.

Asiatic cities such as Shanghai can be connected.

Among Middle Eastern peoples;

I have no details for Iran.

In Egypt

11 Nov 2008 - Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, announced the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid belonging to Queen Sesheshet, mother of King Teti.

I have no details for Turkey.

Among South Asian peoples,

South Asian cities such as Bombay can be connected.

India with its city of Delhican be examined.

11 Nov 2008 - The Indian Navy foiled an attempt by Somali pirates to hijack a merchant ship in Gulf of Aden.

12 Nov 2008 - India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar exploration mission successfully completed its journey to the Moon, entering its intended operational orbit 100 kilometers (62 mi) above the surface.

13 Nov 2008 - India successfully test fired the first Sagarika submarine-launched ballistic missile from a land-based launcher.

14 Nov 2008 - India's Chandrayaan-1 unmanned lunar exploration mission successfully landed the Moon Impact Probe on the south pole of the Moon.

26 Nov 2008 - At least 80 people were dead and over 250 wounded in coordinated terrorist strikes across Mumbai, India.

28 Nov 2008 - November 2008 Mumbai attacks: Indian security forces attacked a Jewish centre in Mumbai where gunmen are holding an unknown number of hostages.

29 Nov 2008 - November 2008 Mumbai attacks: The death toll from the attacks rose to 160 with a further 327 people missing. The Mumbai terror attacks have finished with all militants at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower shot dead.

30 Nov 2008 - India's home minister Shivraj Patil has submitted his resignation, taking "moral responsibility" for the Mumbai attacks.

Pakistan

1 Nov 2008 - A strong aftershock measuring 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale hit southwestern Pakistan three days after it was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake.

Bangladesh

3 Nov 2008 - The Bangladeshi government scheduled general elections on December 18, 2008, which would end the rule of the one and half year military-backed interim government.

24 Nov 2008 - Bangladesh's Electoral Commission rescheduled the date for the Bangladeshi general election from December 18 to December 29.

24 Nov 2008 - Bangladesh's Electoral Commission reschedules the date for the general election from December 18 to December 29.

Among Oriental peoples

Japan with its city of Tokyo can be connected.

18 Nov 2008 - Takehiko Yamaguchi, a former Japanese Vice Minister for Health, and his wife were found stabbed to death in Saitama near Tokyo.

Oriental cities including Seoul can be connected.

Events of China are significant.

3 Nov 2008 - ARATS president Chen Yunlin, the official delegation of the People's Republic of China, arrived in Taiwan for talks with SEF chairman Chiang Pin-kung.

4 Nov 2008 - The Straits Exchange Foundation and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits signed four agreements for the Three Links across the Taiwan Strait, a major step in normalizing Cross-Strait relations.

9 Nov 2008 - A anti-police riot in Shenzhen, China involving 400 people, took place after a police official threw a walkie-talkie at a motorcyclist causing his death.

10 Nov 2008 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on Richter scale shook western China's Qinghai province.

19 Nov 2008 - A Hong Kong cargo ship carrying 36,000 tons of wheat and 25 crew members was hijacked near Yemen's coast in the Gulf of Aden.

23 Nov 2008 - The Dalai Lama warned that he is losing confidence in Chinese officials and that the Tibetan people are facing "great danger".

Among Southeast Asian peoples,

Southeast Asian cities such as Manila can be connected.

Vietnam1 Nov 2008 - Floods killed 24 people in Vietnam including 11 in the central province of Nghe An.

Indonesia can be connected.

9 Nov 2008 - Huda bin Abdul Haq, Imam Samudra, and Amrozi bin Nurhasyim were executed by firing squad on Kambangan Island in Indonesia for their involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings.

16 Nov 2008 - A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia; a tsunami warning was issued, but later lifted.

Philippines

1 Nov 2008 - Nineteen Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels were killed by Filipino military air strikes in the southern part of the island of Mindanao.

African peoplescan be connected.

Congo (DR)5 Nov 2008 - In a continuation of the Kivu conflict, General Nkunda's forces captured Kiwanja, near Rutshuru in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a two-day battle with the pro-government militias.

7 Nov 2008 - The Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continued while the United Nations met to discuss peace talks.

18 Nov 2008 - War crimes were reported in the Nord-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a ceasefire was broken and fighting resumed, with at least 100 civilians dead.

East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected, although I have no events at present.

West African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected.

29 Nov 2008 - Hundreds of people were reported to have been killed in the central Nigerian town of Jos after Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election.

American Indian peoples such as are found in Mexico are less directly significant. South American Indians found in Brazil are scarcely noted. North American Indians found in the United States are scarcely noted.

Communities including Osaka, Calcutta, Karachi, Canton, Osaka, and Cairo can be connected.

Social structure and change

19 Nov 2008 - Same-sex marriage in California: The state's Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Proposition 8.

19 Nov 2008 - The Supreme Court of Nepal approves foreign same-sex marriage for Nepalese citizens.

Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, class structure, and community and regional structure can be connected. Social types including hinting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societes, and industrial societies can be considered. Social change including factors of social change, processes of social change, and particular changes can be connected.

Institutions

3 Nov 2008 - A report issued by an independent investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board found that Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin did not violate the law with regards to the so called "Troopergate scandal". However, a previous, separate legislative investigation concluded that she did abuse her office.

4 Nov 2008 - United States general elections: Democrat Barack Obama won the 2008 United States presidential election after beating Republican John McCain, becoming the first African American to be elected to the office of President of the United States.

4 Nov 2008 - The Democratic Party picked up at least five seats in the Senate and retained control of the House of Representatives.

3 Nov 2008 - Itaú and Unibanco announced they would merge their banking, credit, and insurance operations, creating the largest financial services group in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere.

5 Nov 2008 - California Proposition 8, a referendum that amended the State Constitution, passed and defined marriage as being between a man and a woman, thus ending same-sex marriage in California.

7 Nov 2008 - Unemployment in the United States reached its highest rate in 14 years.

8 Nov 2008 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with African leaders to discuss resolutions to the ongoing Kivu conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

10 Nov 2008 - Global financial crisis of 2008: The United States government announced a second bailout of American International Group; the total value of the new plan, roughly US$150 billion, represents the largest government support package extended to a private company in US history. American retail chain Circuit City filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority announced that it was revoking the banking licence of the struggling Carnegie Investment Bank. Stocks gained worldwide after China announces a stimulus package involving US$586 billion to finance programs in 10 major domestic areas in the next two years.

10 Nov 2008 - Reports surfaced that a United States nuclear weapon was lost somewhere in the ice after the January 21, 1968 crash of a B-52 Stratofortress outside Thule Air Base, Greenland.

11 Nov 2008 - A Holocaust survivor group announced the abandonment of negotiations with the Mormon church over the latter's continued posthumous baptism of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

14 Nov 2008 - General Ann E. Dunwoody became the first female four-star general in the history of the United States Army.

14 Nov 2008 - The Montecito Tea Fire in California burned 2,500 acres and damaged more than 100 homes and the campus of Westmont College.

14 Nov 2008 On STS-126, the Space Shuttle Endeavour was to use the MPLM Leonardo to deliver experiment and storage racks to the International Space Station. [The launch was delayed for a day]

15 Nov 2008 - Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched in mission STS-126 to increase the crew capacity of the International Space Station to six members. (CNN)

9 Nov 2008 - An accident aboard K-152 Nerpa, a nuclear-powered Russian Navy submarine doing a test run in the Sea of Japan, killed more than 20 people.

11 Nov 2008 - 2008 Russian financial crisis: Russian regulators halted trading on one of the country's two main stock indexes, the MICEX, after it fell 6.5%, dragged down by commodity and banking shares.

12 Nov 2008 - 2008 Russian financial crisis: Russia's two main stock exchanges were suspended for one hour after the market opened with a more than 10% decline in response to trends on global markets and falling oil prices. Trade in Russian shares has been shifting to London traded Global Depositary Receipts during frequent suspensions in Moscow, dictated by rules imposed by the regulator to reduce volatility on Moscow increasingly illiquid stock market.

13 Nov 2008 - 2008 Russian financial crisis: The MICEX stock exchange fell 5% as trade resumes after a one-day limit-down halt.

13 Nov 2008 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin questioned the commitment of the European Union to the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline to establish a natural gas delivery network from his country to Germany. A European Commission spokesman responded, "The EU continues to strongly support the Nord Stream pipeline".

17 Nov 2008 - Global financial crisis of 2008: Citigroup announced it would lay off 53,000 workers by early 2009 for a total of approximately 75,000. The Japanese economy posted consecutive second-quarter contraction for the first time since 2001, officially putting the country in a recession. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil futures contracts fell by 3.7% to close at $54.95 per barrel, their lowest level in 22 months. 2008 Russian financial crisis: The Russian Trading System stock exchange was suspended after its nine indexes fell by more than 5%. It could remain closed for rest of the session.

18 Nov 2008 - Global financial crisis of 2008: Central European stocks dropped to a three-week low on expectations of slowing economic growth. Poland forecast economic growth to drop to 2.3% in 2009 from 5.4% in 2008 and the Warsaw Stock Exchange's WIG 20 index fell 3.5% in two hours. Bulgaria's Sofia Stock Exchange was at a 5-year low. Both Bulgaria and Romania may need International Monetary Fund loans to repay $100 billion of external debt. HSBC Holdings announced 500 layoffs in Hong Kong. Pepsi announced 3,000 layoffs in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe.

19 Nov 2008 - Same-sex marriage in California: The state's Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Proposition 8.

Family including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families can be connected. Education including research and teaching can be connected. Cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, and performance venues can be connected. Educational organization including course material, students, faculty, and administration can be connected. Schools including primary schools, secondary education, and higher education can be connected. Economics can be connected. Economic activities such as production, distribution and exchange, and consumption are connected. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufucturing industry, building, social and medical services, transportation, communication, and commercial and financial services can be connected. Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and economic system behavior can be connected. Government including can be examined. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial structure, legislative structure, executive structure, heads of state, and forms of government can be connected. Government activity including succession, administration, and state relations can be connected. Particular governments including local government, national government, and international government can be connected. Religion including religious beliefs, religious practice, and religious organization can be considered. Religious traditions including Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism can be considered.

Culture

2 Nov 2008 - Lewis Hamilton won the 2008 Formula One Drivers' Championship, beating Felipe Massa by one point to become the youngest and first black Formula One World Champion in history.

2 Nov 2008 - Sébastien Loeb of Citroën became the first World Rally Championship driver to become World Champion for the fifth consecutive time.

5 Nov 2008 - India's Gagan Narang won a gold medal in the men's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2008 ISSF World Cup Final, breaking the world record.

10 Nov 2008 - India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by defeating Australia 2-0 in the five-Test-match cricket series.

11 Nov 2008 - Peter Eastgate of Denmark wins the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, the $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, winning over US$9.1 million.

11 Nov 2008 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 set sail on her final voyage before she is refurbished and turned into a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

16 Nov 2008 - Jimmie Chohnson wins NASCAR's 2008 Sprint Cup Series championship, becoming the second driver to win three in a row.

Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technology, and otehr artifacts can be considered. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy can be connected. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be connected.

Anthropology

6 Nov 2008 - Tropical Storm Paloma, the 16th named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, formed off the coast of Nicaragua with the potential to become a hurricane within 24 hours.

7 Nov 2008 - Hurricane Paloma strengthened to Category 2 strength as it lashed the Cayman Islands.

8 Nov 2008 - Hurricane Paloma reached Category 4 strength near the Cayman Islands, with winds up to 140 mph (225 kph)

22 Nov 2008 - Studies revealed children in the Northern Hemisphere born in the autumn months have the highest rates of asthma, probably caused by winter viruses like RSV.

Social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group types, and social group behavior can be connected. Demography including births, deaths, migration, population size and structure, and population change can be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can be connected. Human ecology including the influence of the environment on people, relations with other life, and the influence of peoples on the environment can be connected. Human geography including European geography, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography can be connected. Particular groups can be connected.

Personal studies

The human body including body systems, body functions, the human life cycle, disease, and form and appearance can be connected. Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology can be connected. Biography can be connected.

Science

Physics and chemistry can be connected. Astronomy including solar system astronomy, stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, and cosmology can be connected. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory can be connected. Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory can be connected.

1 Nov 2008 - India's first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, transmitted two pictures of the Earth while en route to the Moon.

13 Nov 2008 - Three planets orbiting HR 8799 and one planet orbiting Fomalhaut were visually verified by telescopes, the first extrasolar planets whose existence have been confirmed via direct imaging.

16 Nov 2008 - A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia; a tsunami warning was issued, but later lifted.