In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus.

* c. 500 BC: The Buddha games list mentions board games played on 8 or 10 rows.

* 1 BC – 8 AD: Ovid's Ars Amatoria contains earliest known reference to Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum.

* 1 BC – 8 AD: The Roman Game of kings is a game of which little is known, and which is more or less contemporary with the Latrunculi.

* Phillips Brewing Company, Victoria, BC: " Instigator ", a seasonal doppelbock ( 8. 5 % abv )

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

At Damaidi in Ningxia, 3, 172 cliff carvings dating to 6000-5000 BC have been discovered, " featuring 8, 453 individual characters such as the sun, moon, stars, gods and scenes of hunting or grazing.

In his commentary on Daniel 8: 14 published in 1831, he stated that the 2, 300-year period should be calculated from 334 BC, the year Alexander the Great began his conquest of the Persian Empire.

* 65 BC – Horace, Roman poet ( d. 8 BC )

* Xerxes, 486 – 479 BC: Books 7, 8 and 9.

1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.

October 8 BC ) was an ally, friend and political advisor to Octavian ( who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus ) as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets.

Maecenas died in 8 BC, leaving the emperor sole heir to his wealth.

Category: 8 BC deaths

:: B. Princess Drusilla of Mauretania, born 5 AD or 8 BC

Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) mentions two buildings resembling pyramids, one, 19 kilometres ( 12 mi ) southwest of the still standing structure at Hellenikon, a common tomb for soldiers who died in a legendary struggle for the throne of Argos and another which he was told was the tomb of Argives killed in a battle around 669 / 8 BC.

When Rome and Carthage made peace in 241 BC, Rome secured the release of all 8, 000 prisoners of war without ransom and, furthermore, received a considerable amount of silver as a war indemnity.

* Erato, Artaxiad Dynasty Queen of Armenia, 8 – 5 BC, 2 BC – 2 AD, 6 – 11

* Crimthann Nia Náir, Legendary High King of Ireland, r. 8 BC – 9 AD

* June 21, 168 BC: Lunar eclipse recorded in Rome Ab Urbe Condita 44. 37. 8.

Perhaps originating north of the River Main, the Quadi and Marcomanni migrated into what is now Moravia, western Slovakia and Lower Austria where they displaced Celtic cultures and were first noticed by Romans in 8 – 6 BC, briefly documented by Tacitus in his Germania.

Most APCs and IFVs are fully tracked, or are all-wheel drive vehicles ( 6 × 6 or 8 × 8 ), for mobility across rough ground.

It included between 8 and 64 MB of random access memory ( RAM ), a 256 MB magneto-optical ( MO ) drive, a 40 MB ( swap-only ), 330 MB, or 660 MB hard drive, 10Base-2 Ethernet, NuBus and a 17-inch MegaPixel grayscale display measuring 1120 by 832 pixels.

The PDP-11 was booted from a dual-ported RP06 disk drive ( or alternatively from an 8 " floppy disk drive or DECtape ), and then commands could be given to the PDP-11 to start the main processor, which was typically booted from the same RP06 disk drive as the PDP-11.

It featured 40, 000 note capacity, up to 8 songs, 8 phrase tracks, a 3½-inch DS / DD Floppy disk drive, separate rhythm track and temp tracks, 32 channel MIDI and FSK sync.

On their next drive, Dallas drove 89 yards in 8 plays, including an 18-yard scramble by Staubach on 3rd and 11 and a 29-yard run by Dorsett, to score on Staubach's 7-yard touchdown pass to Dupree.

Quarterback Ken Anderson then started the drive off with a completion to wide receiver Isaac Curtis for 8 yards, and followed it up with an 11-yard pass to tight end Dan Ross.

The 49ers only gained 8 yards on their ensuing drive, and Bengals got the ball back after receiving Jim Miller's 44 yard punt at their own 47-yard line.

Although the drive was only 50 yards long, it consisted of 13 plays and took 8: 39 off the clock.

The Cowboys then scored on an 8-play, 64-yard drive in which Smith carried the ball on 7 of the 8 plays, gaining all but 3 of the 64 yards himself, and finished the drive with a 15-yard touchdown run to take a 20-13 lead.

It had a full set of hardware and software components: a disk operating system included in a series of programmable read-only memory chips ( PROMs ); 8 Kilobytes of RAM ; IBM's Basic Assembly Language ( BAL ); a hard drive ; a color display ; a printer output ; a 150 bit / s serial interface for connecting to a mainframe ; and even the world's first microcomputer front panel.

The conveyor is actuated by 3 synchronized drive units for a total power of about 1. 8 MW ( 2 drives at the head end in Bangladesh and 1 drive at the tail end in India ).

The central perforation of 9. 5 mm film cannot be supported in the gate of camera or projector as 8 or 16 mm perforations are, but damage to 9. 5 mm prints is usually caused by cheap toy projectors which lacked customary sprocket drive requiring the claw to do all the work of transporting film.

Windows 8, the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows, is scheduled to have native virtual drive functionality.

An 1: 8 four-wheel drive off-road racing buggy in action

If TBTC fails on an individual train then it would be put into Restricted Manual mode, which means that the train operator can drive the train at 5 – 10 mph ( 8 – 16 km / h ) to the next station, where the train would be taken out of service until the fault is mended by technicians.

It was a large and heavy desktop box, about a 20 " cube ( in the Intel corporate blue colour ) which included a CPU, monitor, and a single 8 inch floppy disk drive.

It is located about 6 minutes ' drive north of Frontenac, and about 8 minutes ' drive east of Girard.

When the Romans finally conquered Pannonia in 8 AD, the Boii seem not to have opposed them.

The Boii people spread across Europe between 400 BC and 8 BC.

The London Universe devoted its centenary issue last December 8 to mapping out various aspects of Catholic progress during the last one hundred years.

The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.

At the command of Moses he stretched out his rod in order to bring on the first of three plagues ( Exodus 7: 19, 8: 1, 12 ).

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For example, if the water is 25 ft ( 8 m ) deep, and the anchor roller is 3 ft ( 1 m ) above the water, the scope is the ratio between the amount of cable let out and 28 ft ( 9 m ).

there were 1, 594 single family homes ( or 18. 4 % of the total ) out of a total of 8, 661 homes and apartments.

The same phenomenon results in extremely fast spin of compact stars ( like white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes ) when they are formed out of much larger and slower rotating stars ( indeed, decreasing the size of object 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > times results in increase of its angular velocity by the factor 10 < sup > 8 </ sup >).

In the city the population was spread out with 27. 8 % under the age of 18, 8. 9 % from 18 to 24, 28. 0 % from 25 to 44, 19. 5 % from 45 to 64, and 15. 9 % who were 65 years of age or older.

In the city the population was spread out with 27. 8 % under the age of 18, 9. 4 % from 18 to 24, 31. 4 % from 25 to 44, 19. 3 % from 45 to 64, and 12. 1 % who were 65 years of age or older.

It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8, 000 copies that sold out within a month ; a second edition of 3, 000 copies followed on 4 January 1880 and a third edition of 2, 500 was issued on 8 March.

Exhaustive searches have been carried out to find all pairs less than a given bound, this bound being extended from 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > in 1970, to 10 < sup > 10 </ sup > in 1986, 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > in 1993, and to a bound well over that today.

The IMF has enabled an initial disbursement of 60. 8 million euro, saying that the rest of the money will be spread out over two years, after successful quarterly reviews.

That same day Marlborough and Eugene carried out their own reconnaissance of the French position from the church spire at Tapfheim, and moved their combined forces to Münster – five miles ( 8 km ) from the French camp.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

The First Balkan War broke out when the League attacked the Ottoman Empire on 8 October 1912 and was ended seven months later by the Treaty of London.

There were 46, 029 households, out of which 8, 467 ( 18. 4 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 13, 569 ( 29. 5 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 3, 855 ( 8. 4 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 1, 368 ( 3. 0 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

there were 5, 747 single family homes ( or 30. 8 % of the total ) out of a total of 18, 631 inhabited buildings.

There were 44, 032 households out of which 16. 9 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 28. 9 % were married couples living together, 8. 4 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 60. 4 % were non-families.

In the city the population was spread out with 13. 3 % under the age of 18, 21. 2 % from 18 to 24, 38. 6 % from 25 to 44, 17. 8 % from 45 to 64, and 9. 2 % who were 65 years of age or older.

) In addition place bets are usually not working, except by agreement, when the shooter is " coming out " i. e. shooting for a point, and Big 6 and 8 bets always work.

He cleared out the kistvaen, reporting that it was 5 foot 6 inches ( 1. 7 m ) long by 2 foot 8 inches ( 86 cm ) wide and that unlike most kistvaens found on the moor, the stones lining it had apparently been shaped by man, which led him to suggest that it was less old than most.

In the city the population was spread out with 20. 7 % under the age of 18, 9. 3 % from 18 to 24, 28. 0 % from 25 to 44, 28. 2 % from 45 to 64, and 13. 8 % who were 65 years of age or older.