Here are my picks and pans for 2008, sorted in my own unscientific classifications from the year that could go down in history as the year the American auto industry went, uh, down in history: Best Compact/Subcompact (besides the xD): The xB from Scion, which as a car company is on something of a roll.
They even have their own classification "mammoni".
"Eastern Waterfall Guide" (www.aria-database.com/waterfall) has an long list with viewing tips and its own classification system.
The Science team report that their own classification of vertebrate assemblages "exhibits some interesting similarities with Wallace's original classification, as well as some important differences".
Because of this unique feature, the proscenium theatre is often given its own classification.
Russell Luce, who lives a block off Welwyn on Schenck Avenue and owns a Mercury Mountaineer, questioned whether the village has the right to make its own classification of vehicles.
In the UK both Carmageddon and Manhunt 2 were threatened with bans unless graphic scenes were removed, although both were eventually released, while in Germany, the country's own classification system, USK, comes down heavily on violent content.
Alongside Manhattan socialites, Beverly Hills hipsters and rich white women from Greenwich and Bedford, Conn., Short Hills ladies merit their own classification in "Beyond the Blonde" (Warner Books), by Kathleen Flynn-Hui, a Manhattan hair colorist.
Acxiom has its own classification system, PersonicX, which assigns consumers to one of 70 detailed socioeconomic clusters and markets to them accordingly.
Adanson's Familles des plantes (1763) described his classification system for plants, which was much opposed by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist who had proposed his own classification system based on the reproductive organs of plants.
