* 1480 – Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.

* 1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1, 800 people within a 20-kilometer range.

* 2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

* 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

In the Levant, artifacts which may be arrow-shaft straighteners are known from the Natufian culture, ( c. 12, 800 – 10, 300 BP ( before present )) onwards.

* 2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US $ 800, 000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as " Maletinazo ".

* Sulayman ( 745 – 800 ) Governor of Toledo.

Telephones – main lines in use: 94, 800 ( 2006 )

Amulet ( 800 BC – 612 BC ) to ward off plague inscribed with a quotation from the Akkadian Erra Epic

The most recent evidence shows that the traps erupted over 800, 000 years spanning the K – T boundary, and therefore may be responsible for the extinction and the delayed biotic recovery thereafter.

With Hugh's coronation, a new era began for France, and his descendants came to be named the Capetians, with the Capetian dynasty ruling France for more than 800 years ( 987 – 1848, with some interruptions ).

* 2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80, 800 km.

* 1964 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents ' decision to forbid protests on UC property.

* 1984 – Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3, 800 people outright and injures 150, 000 – 600, 000 others ( some 6, 000 of whom would later die from their injuries ) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

* 800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.

Very low calorie diets provide 200 – 800 calories per day, maintaining protein intake but limiting calories from both fat and carbohydrates.

The classicist Roger Bagnall estimated that there was one bureaucrat for every 5 – 10, 000 people in Egypt based on 400 or 800 bureaucrats for 4 million inhabitants ( no one knows the population of the province in 300 AD ; Strabo 300 years earlier put it at 7. 5 million, excluding Alexandria ).

* Imperial Princess Kannabi ( 甘南備内親王 ) ( 800 – 817 )

* Imperial Prince Fujii ( 葛井親王 ) ( 800 – 850 )

* 1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

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The Classical era is that most commonly associated with Greek Literature, beginning in 800 BCE and maintaining its influence through to the beginnings of Byzantine period, whereafter the influence of Christianity began to spawn a new development of the Greek written word.

Of the AP classes offered at Harvard-Westlake, the English Language, English Literature, Physics B, and Spanish Literature courses were cited by the College Board as the best in the world among high schools with an enrollment of more than 800 students.

) Other room themes include Erotic Literature ( Room 800. 001 ), Poetry ( Room 800. 003 ), and Music ( Room 700. 005 ).

* 800. 004 Dramatic Literature

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* The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch. 6. 5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907 – 1921.

* 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature " in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings ".

* " Eugenics " – National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature Scope Note 28, features overview of eugenics history and annotated bibliography of historical literature

** Literature –

The Off-Broadway theatre The American Place Theatre presented a one man show adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 as a part of their 2008 – 2009 Literature to Life season.

The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, pp. 376 – 406.

* Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, playwright, essayist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( 1862 – 1949 )

* The Nobel Prize Biography on Shaw, From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901 – 1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, ( 1969 ).

* The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes ( 1907 – 21 ).

* Literature – prose, written or oral, including fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry.

* Classic Literature Library – HTML version of Macbeth.

* Gerald Graff ( 1973 ) The Myth of the Postmodernist Breakthrough, TriQuarterly, 26 ( Winter, 1973 ) 383 – 417 ; rept in The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction Malcolm Bradbury, ed., ( London: Fontana, 1977 ); reprinted in Proza Nowa Amerykanska, ed., Szice Krytyczne ( Warsaw, Poland, 1984 ); reprinted in Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology, Manfred Putz and Peter Freese, eds., ( Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984 ), 58 – 81.

American Fiction, TriQuarterly, No. 33 ( Spring 1975 ), pp. 307 – 37 ; reprinted in Putz and Freese, eds., Postmodernism and American Literature.

), Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890 – 1930 ( Penguin " Penguin Literary Criticism " series, 1978, ISBN 0-14-013832-3 ).

One of the early publications in this new direction is a volume edited by Helmut Kreuzer, Literature Studies-Media Studies ( Literaturwissenschaft – Medienwissenschaft ), which summarizes the presentations given at the " Düsseldorfer Germanistentag " 1976.

* ' Isaiah 6: 1 – 11 ,' Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol.

To the Friends of Literature in the United States, Webster's prospectus ( book ) | prospectus for his first dictionary of the English language, 1807 – 1808

* " Noah Webster " in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes ( 1907 – 21 ).

Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006 ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

* Nephrology Now – Literature Update Service and Meta-Journal

* 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.

He was influenced by the French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.

* A Partial Bibliography of Literature on Quasicrystals ( 1996 – 2008 ).