Wikipedia:List of the month/2008
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LOTMs
The following lists have been chosen as lists of the month. In December there will be monthlong voting among the twelve List of the Month chosen from December to November as LOTM for January through December. The winning list will be named List of the Year. Each recognized ballot will include a first, second and third choice from among the candidates.
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January 2008 | List of countries | KTC | List of countries answers the age old innocent yet dangerously political questions of how many countries there are in the world. It includes territories that are independent states (both those that are internationally recognized and generally unrecognized), inhabited dependent territories, and areas of special sovereignty. (More...) | WP:COUNTRIES WP:ECONOMICS WP:BUSINESS WP:SOCIO WP:ETHNIC WP:VEX WP:PLT |
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February 2008 | List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes | Miss Madeline | This is a list of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes. A Category 5 hurricane, on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, is the most catastrophic hurricane that can form. They are rare in the eastern Pacific Ocean and generally form only once every several years. Fortunately, landfalls by such storms are rare due in the northeastern Pacific to the generally westerly path of tropical cyclones in the northern hemisphere. (More...) | WP:WPTC WP:OCEANS |
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March 2008 | List of longest suspension bridge spans | Orlady (WP:FLC nominator: Sam) |
The list of longest suspension bridge spans ranks the world's suspension bridges by the length of main span. Suspension bridges have the longest spans of any type of bridge. (more...) | WP:BRIDGE WP:CE |
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April 2008 | List of tallest buildings in Dubai | Raime | List of tallest buildings in Dubai ranks skyscrapers in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates by height. The tallest completed building in the city is currently the 355-metre (1,163 ft) Emirates Office Tower. Dubai's Burj Dubai, which began construction in 2004 and is set to rise at least 164 stories and 818 metres (2,684 ft), became the tallest free-standing structure in the world in September 2007 and will likely become the world's tallest building upon completion. (More...) | WP:DUBAI WP:ARAB WP:SKYSCR WP:WPARCH |
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May 2008 | List of members of the Swiss Federal Council | Orlady (WP:FLC nominator: Schutz) |
The seven members of the Swiss Federal Council constitute the federal government of Switzerland and serve as the country's head of state. Each of the seven Councilors heads a department of the Swiss federal administration. The members of the Federal Council are elected for a term of four years by both chambers of the federal parliament sitting together as the Federal Assembly. Once elected, Federal Councillors can neither be impeached nor voted out of office by a motion of no confidence. (Moreā¦) | WP:CH WP:PLT |
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June 2008 | List of countries without armed forces | Gary King | This is a list of countries without armed forces. The term "country" is used in the sense of independent state; thus, it applies only to sovereign states and not dependencies, whose defense is the responsibility of another country or an army alternative. The term "armed forces" refers to any government-sponsored defense used to further the domestic and foreign policies of their respective government. (More...) | WP:COUNTRIES WP:LE WP:MILHIST WP:PLT |