* podcasts. ie In this series of podcasts on Mayo's Heritage you can hear an excerpt from John Mc Hugh's Heritage Tour of Achill ( ref Programme 6 & Programme 8 )

In the period between 1989 and the beginning of the 2005 series, the two sides had played 43 times ; Australia winning 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws.

The side lost the test series to South Africa, drawing twice, but with the South Africans winning the decider 8 to nil.

* 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.

Mark Grace was 11 – 17 in the series with 8 RBI.

For about a decade, every student taking the 6. 004 class at MIT was part of a team — each team had one semester to design and build a simple 8 bit CPU out of 7400 series integrated circuits.

Reconstruction from Mitch was still underway when, in early 2001, the country experienced a series of devastating earthquakes that left nearly 2, 000 people dead or missing, 8, 000 injured, and caused severe dislocations across all sectors of Salvadoran society.

After several script rewrites and changes, including a second title change to Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends and premiered on NBC's coveted Thursday 8: 30 pm timeslot.

This release was volume # 8 of the series and came packaged with a collectible magazine that featured stills, behind the scenes photos, interviews, and more.

" During this 8 year span he and his fellow researchers published a series of papers in which they discussed the use of genetic algorithms to evolve neural structures inside 3D cellular automata.

India has a series of ballistic missiles called Agni, of which the latest is Agni-V. On 19 April 2012, India successfully test fired Agni-V, a three stage solid fueled missile, with a strike range of more than 8, 000 km.

In 1977 Baltimore tied for first for the third straight year ( in 1976 they tied with the now-New England Patriots ) with Miami, and this time advanced to the playoffs on even slimmer pretenses, with a conference record of 9 – 3 compared to Miami's 8 – 4, as they had split the season series.

On 8 May 2012, he appeared on the Radio Four series " The Life Scientific ", talking to Jim al-Khalili about the Gaia hypothesis.

Once there, a series of chemical reactions ( the Sabatier reaction coupled with electrolysis ) would be used to combine a small amount of hydrogen ( 8 tons ) carried by the Earth Return Vehicle with the carbon dioxide of the Martian atmosphere to create up to 112 tonnes of methane and oxygen.

On Saturday, June 8, 2002, the series was given another chance by Cartoon Network on their late-night Adult Swim block, but it was again pulled before completing its run because of low ratings.

* The Elegant Universe — a three-hour miniseries with Brian Greene on the series Nova ( original PBS broadcast dates: October 28, 8 – 10 p. m. and November 4, 8 – 9 p. m., 2003 ).

The Giants lead the overall regular season series 8 – 4 and have won the last five meetings.

Heavier members of the series, such as octane, C < SUB > 8 </ SUB > H < SUB > 18 </ SUB >, and mineral oil appear as liquids at room temperature.

Ruby 1. 9 introduces many significant changes over the 1. 8 series.

Airing on NBC, the series premiered on September 8, 1973 and was broadcast until October 12, 1974, although only twenty-two episodes were produced.

They can also be doped between the C < sub > 60 </ sub > molecules in the fullerene solid, rendering it superconductive at temperatures below 8 K. Samarium doping of iron-based superconductors – the most recent class of high-temperature superconductors – allows to enhance their transition temperature to 56 K, which is the highest value achieved so far in this series.

Within eight months of Captain Video's debut, two other landmark series were launched-Tom Corbett, Space Cadet ( 8 / 50-6 / 55 ) and Space Patrol ( 3 / 50-2 / 55 ).

Together the two car-based series ( Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series ) drew 8 million spectators in 1997, compared to 4 million for both American open-wheel series ( CART and IRL ), which merged in 2008 under the IRL banner.

In litters of eight mice from similar parents, the number of mice with straight instead of wavy hair is an integer from 0 to 8.

Airforce personnel total about 8, 000 ; its equipment includes eight Russian-manufactured Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft and transport planes.

Chess is played on a square board of eight rows ( called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 8 ) and eight columns ( called files and denoted with letters a to h ) of squares.

For example, an 8-bit CPU deals with a range of numbers that can be represented by eight binary digits ( each digit having two possible values ), that is, 2 < sup > 8 </ sup > or 256 discrete numbers.

Rolls of 4, 6, 8, and 10 are called " hard " or " easy " ( e. g. " six the hard way ", " easy eight ", " hard ten ") depending on whether they were rolled as a " double " or as any other combination of values, because of their significance in center table bets known as the " hard ways ".

They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.

The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8 × 8 chessboard so that no two queens attack each other.

The problem can be quite computationally expensive as there are 4, 426, 165, 368 ( i. e., 64 choose 8 ) possible arrangements of eight queens on a 8 × 8 board, but only 92 solutions.

Generating the permutations that are solutions of the eight rooks puzzle and then checking for diagonal attacks further reduces the possibilities to just 40, 320 ( that is, 8 !).

N is 8 for eight queens puzzle.

Of the 12 fundamental solutions to the problem with eight queens on an 8x8 board, exactly one is equal to its own 180 degree rotation, and none are equal to their 90 degree rotation, thus the number of distinct solutions is 11 * 8 + 1 * 4 = 92 ( where the 8 is derived from four 90-degree rotational positions and their reflections, and the 4 is derived from two 180-degree rotational positions and their reflections ).

Image: Tutte eight cage. svg | The Tutte – Coxeter graph ( Tutte eight cage ) has a girth of 8

In addition, 2. 8 million Soviet prisoners of war died of starvation, mistreatment, or executions in just eight months of 1941 – 42.

Found in few hymnals today, the hymn has eight stanzas in common meter and is based on Revelation 5: 6, 8, 9, 10, 12.

* 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6. 8 and 6. 6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.

(" 八百万 " literally means eight million, but idiomatically it expresses " uncountably many " and " all around "— like many East Asian cultures, the Japanese often use the number 8, representing the cardinal and ordinal directions, to symbolize ubiquity.

Main armament was eight 21 cm guns, but with six 15 cm and eighteen 8. 8 cm guns for smaller targets.

The Falcons again fell short of achieving back-to-back winning seasons in, going 8 – 8.

Bruce Campbell began acting as a teenager and soon began making short Super 8 movies with friends.

In particular, the five most elementary fractions ( ½, ⅓, ⅔, ¼ and ¾ ) all have a short terminating representation in duodecimal ( 0. 6, 0. 4, 0. 8, 0. 3 and 0. 9, respectively ), and twelve is the smallest radix with this feature ( since it is the least common multiple of 3 and 4 ).

They found that these diets lowered total body mass by 8 % in the short term, over 3 – 12 months.

Universal Time is a time scale based on the Earth's rotation, which is somewhat irregular over short periods ( days up to a century ), thus any time based on it cannot have an accuracy better than 1: 10 < small >< sup > 8 </ sup ></ small >.

Guinea is richly endowed with minerals, possessing an estimated quarter of the world's proven reserves of bauxite, more than 1. 8 billion metric tons ( 2. 0 billion short tons ) of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond and gold deposits, and undetermined quantities of uranium.

Guinea is richly endowed with minerals, possessing an estimated one-third of the world's proven reserves of bauxite, more than 1. 8 billion metric tons ( MT ) ( 2. 0 billion short tons ) of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond and gold deposits, and undetermined quantities of uranium.

Iodine-131, which also emits beta particles that are far more damaging to tissues at short range, has a half-life of approximately 8 days.

After a short period of internment on the Lofoten Islands, Schwitters fled to Scotland with his son on the icebreaker Fridtjof Nansen between 8 and 18 June 1940.

The total biomass of all kinds on earth is estimated to be in excess of 6. 8 x 10 < sup > 13 </ sup > kg ( 75 billion short tons ).

Using 3700 or 3800 stadia ( approximately 420 – 430 miles or 5. 3 °- 5. 4 °) north of Marseilles for a base line obtains a latitude of 64. 8 ° or 64. 9 ° for Thule, well short of the Arctic Circle.

Not drinking a drop of fluid, he ran the old-style " short marathon " of 40. 2 km ( 25 miles ) in 2: 22: 03. 8 — on the pace to finish in about 2: 29: 00, just under Albert Michelsen's marathon world record of 2: 29: 01. 8.

The excavation discovered the following items in the two pits which formed a " T ": (# 1 ) remains of 46 human bones fragments ; (# 2 ) bullet jackets from short barrel guns / pistols ; (# 3 ) wooden boxes which had deteriorated into fragments: (# 4 ) pieces of ceramic which appear to be amphoras which were used as containers for acid ; (# 5 ) iron nails ; (# 6 ) iron angles: (# 7 ) seven fragments of teeth ; (# 8 ) fragment of fabric of a garment.

There he discovered filmmaking as a teenager, directing short Super 8 mm films with equipment borrowed from LSU students.

Due to the short driving distance and direct highway route ( 170 miles, all on Interstate 8 ), Yuma was very popular with Padres fans, and many fans would travel by car from San Diego for Spring Training games.

On the other side of the field, veteran wide receiver James Lofton recorded 57 receptions for 1, 072 yards and 8 touchdowns to earn his 8th Pro Bowl appearance and finish the year just 55 yards short of the all time receiving record held by Steve Largent ( 13, 089 yards ).

With the score 24-14 in the closing minutes of the first half, Aikman threw 3 straight incompletions, and a short punt by the Cowboys set up Young's 28-yard touchdown completion to Rice with 8 seconds remaining in the first half.

As a preteen, Burton would make short films in his backyard on Evergreen Street using crude stop motion animation techniques or shoot them on 8 mm film without sound.

Moreover, when the subsequent V-2 rocket blitz began with only a few minutes from launch to impact, the deception was enhanced by providing locations genuinely damaged by bombing, verifiable by aerial reconnaissance, for impacts in central London, but each time-tagged with the time of an earlier impact that had fallen 5 – 8 miles short of central London.

Some elements, such as iodine-131, have a short half-life ( around 8 days in this case ) and thus they will cease to be a problem much more quickly than other, longer-lived, decay products, but their activity is therefore much greater initially.

Hippos leave the water at dusk and travel inland, sometimes up to 8 kilometers ( 5 mi ), to graze on short grass, their main source of food.

After serving a short spell in 1478 as Archdeacon of Leicester he was appointed Bishop of Ely by King Edward on 8 August 1479 and he was consecrated on 31 January 1479.

All " stable " isotopes ( stable by observation, not theory ) are the ground states of nuclei, with the exception of tantalum-180m, which is a nuclear isomer or excited state ( the ground state of this nucleus is radioactive with a very short half-life of 8 hours ); but the decay of the excited nuclear isomer is extremely strongly forbidden by spin-parity selection rules.