The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

He promulgated a categorization of mind and matter as composed of eight types of " kalapas " of which the four elements are primary and a secondary group of four are color, smell, taste, and nutriment which are derivative from the four primaries.

The task force consisted of around four to eight persons, though according to Philips, the Compact Disc was " invented collectively by a large group of people working as a team.

" A group of eight young birdwatchers from The Bronx later became the Bronx County Bird Club, led by Ludlow Griscom.

For example, the fundamental group of the figure eight is the free group on two letters.

Banks was not greatly tested, but it was hugely encouraging that he emerged from the group with three clean sheets from three games, a trend that continued when England beat a physical Argentina side 1 – 0 in the last eight, with Geoff Hurst scoring with a header.

England ultimately joined Brazil in the last eight after a win in the final group game against Czechoslovakia.

The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.

The group pledged $ 407, 225, including a $ 100, 000 gift by Milwaukee real estate developer Joseph Zilber, for purchase of Dahmer's estate ; five of the eight families represented by Jacobson agreed to the terms, and Dahmer's possessions were destroyed and buried in an undisclosed Illinois landfill.

They find that those who are assigned to the Washington Post treatment group are eight percentage points more likely to vote for the Democrat in the elections.

On October 1, he found another group of islands where he went ashore for eight days, exchanged gifts with natives and took on water.

But after only eight months on the road with the group, he was burned out and left.

By early 1894 a total of 11 fascicles had been published, or about one per year: four for A – B, five for C, and two for E. Of these, eight were 352 pages long, while the last one in each group was shorter to end at the letter break ( which would eventually become a volume break ).

Its symmetry group, the dihedral group of order 4, has eight elements.

Although a number of the larger members of this group were initially described as planets, in 2006 the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto and its largest neighbours as dwarf planets, leaving only eight planets in the Solar System.

There are two orders and eight families recognised in this group.

The group of thirty-two bars ( four times eight ) is itself repeated three or four times before a second reel is introduced.

Commanded by Emil Maurice, and known as the Stabswache ( Staff Guard ), the original group consisted of eight men and was modeled after the Erhardt Naval Brigade, a violent Freikorps of the time.

Subsequent migrations across the mountainous landscape resulted in the geographical isolation of PSS speakers and the evolution of their languages into the eight families of the South Sulawesi language group.

Although the group purported to represent " the autonomous working class ", when the police arrested nine suspected members of the group, only one, ( Jake Prescott, who was arrested in Notting Hill ) came from the working class ; the other eight, four men and four women ( arrested together in Stoke Newington ) were middle-class student drop-outs from the universities of Cambridge and Essex.

The Marathi language describes a week as Athavada, which means group of eight days and nine nights, though nowadays a seven day week is accepted and used according the Roman calendar.

* October 30 – Greysteel massacre: Three members of the UDA, a loyalist paramilitary group, attacked a crowded bar in Greysteel, Northern Ireland, with firearms, killing eight civilians and wounding thirteen.

The SNP, although being a predominantly social-democratic party, joined the European Progressive Democrats, which was led by the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the SDLP the Socialist Group, VU and FDF the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, which comprised both conservative and left-wing MEPs, and the SVP the European People's Party group.

The three remaining EFA member parties in Parliament ( SNP, VU and Canarian Coalition ) formed a common group with the French Energie Radicale list and the Italian Pannella List.

The SNP is also currently the largest group in Scottish local government and, in coalition, forms 12 out of 32 local administrations.

The group sought to persuade the SNP to take an active left-wing stance, arguing that it would win more support, and were highly critical of the established SNP leaders.

Although it had a tiny membership, the group caused sufficient disquiet that they were expelled from the SNP in 1982, although its members were subsequently readmitted and many attained senior positions in the Scottish Government after 2007 ; First Minister Alex Salmond was a leading member of the group.

Winifred Ewing eventually formed the ' Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland ' as a second internal SNP group to oppose the 79 Group.

Many SNP activists became attracted to the 79 Group, seeing it as a debating forum to discuss the SNP's future, but most left quickly when not attracted by the ideology driving the group.

The Act also provides for the creation of a ' Scottish Executive ' though one of the early actions of the SNP administration that won power in the 2007 elections was to rebrand the Scottish Executive, as the group of Ministers and their civil servants had been known, as the Scottish Government.

The 55 Group were an internal body within the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) formed in 1955 ( hence the name of the group ).

This group was formed mainly of younger SNP members frustrated at the lack of electoral progress of the party in this period.

A group of dissident Labour Party and SNP members formed the Scottish Socialist Movement in 1987, shortly after the general election held that year and in 1988 the SSM became the Scottish Socialist Party.

Stewart became the SNP parliamentary group leader, with William Wolfe as the SNP leader overall.

Llwyd and then Scottish National Party ( SNP ) group leader Alex Salmond co-drafted the motion.

In November 2010 John Finnie, the SNP group leader on Highland Council and a former police officer, wrote to the Lord Advocate urging her to reinvestigate MacRae's death and release any details so far withheld.

Henderson served as the whip and was a leading member of the group of 11 SNP MPs in the House of Commons.

There are variations between human populations, so a SNP allele that is common in one geographical or ethnic group may be much rarer in another.

He was elected at the 1997 general election and served for a time as leader of the SNP group in the House of Commons, but stepped down at the 2001 general election.

He was previously leader of the SNP group on Renfrewshire Council and was re-elected to the council in 2007.

This group was formed mainly of younger SNP members frustrated at the lack of progress of the party.

This group sought to ensure that the primary objective of the SNP was campaigning for independence regardless of any traditional left-right ideology, and if it had been successful would have undone the work of figures such as William Wolfe moving the SNP to become a clearly defined social-democratic party in the 1970s.