By the eighth season of The Simpsons, the writers had begun to explore the secondary characters of the show.

By the eighth edition ( 1853 – 1860 ), the encyclopedia said of the Noah story, " The insuperable difficulties connected with the belief that all other existing species of animals were provided for in the ark are obviated by adopting the suggestion of Bishop Stillingfleet, approved by Matthew Poole ... and others, that the Deluge did not extend beyond the region of the Earth then inhabited ".

By the time the series reached the eighth game, it had become more than a battle for hockey supremacy.

By population, Shelburne ranked eighth out of the 26 towns in Franklin County, and 290th out of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts.

By 1900 there were already six rural schools spread throughout the territory with over 200 students enrolled in grades first through eighth.

with the Edict of Milan, and Christianity was made the official religion of the empire in 380 C. E .. By the eighth century Christianity had attained a clear ascendancy across Europe and neighboring regions, and a period of consolidation began marked by the pursuit of heretics, heathens, Jews, Muslims, and various other religious groups.

By the eighth century it was strong enough to send Perieres and a group with him, who were among the founders of Zancle in Sicily, and another band had returned to found Triteia in Achaea, Pausanias was told.

By March 2009, nearly 1, 500, 000 had been sold in Britain, making it the eighth most popular car ever sold there.

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By the eighth inning, Cobb had had enough.

By the 10th century the armarius had specific liturgical duties as well, including singing the eighth responsory, holding the lantern aloft when the abbot read, and approving all material to be read aloud in church, chapter, and refectory.

By the mid-to late eighth century a new alphabet system was adopted from the Phoenicians by a Greek with first-hand experience of it.

By the eighth round, Tunney had resumed boxing from a distance, and he floored Dempsey with a punch.

By 1933, Germany had made World War I reparations of only one eighth of the sum required under the Treaty of Versailles.

By the end of the 20th century the complexity of Quickstep as done by advanced dancers had increased, due to the extensive use of syncopated steps with eighth note durations.

By the end of the eighth series in December 1983, Hart felt that the format of the show, which essentially continued with much of the format of its predecessor Vision On, had become somewhat outdated and routine.

By August 31, images from the eighth Television Infrared Observation Satellite ( TIROS VIII ) depicted a developing storm with a central dense overcast, banding features and cirrus outflow.

On August 17, 2009, it was announced on the band's official website that Gov't Mule's eighth studio album, entitled By a Thread, was on schedule for release on October 27, 2009.

By its eighth meeting on 26 October 1983, Senate received the first set of the university's congregation representatives on that body.

By the eighth century, Saint Fugillus was Bishop of Clondalkin and noted gospel manuscripts were produced-the most famous of these being the Clondalkin mass book which is on display in Karlsruhe, Germany.

By the eighth round Driscoll was coming into the match, and forced the fighting in the ninth.

By the age of 70, almost 10 percent of males have some degree of BPH and 33 % have it by the eighth decade of life.

By the time the Oakland Raiders were granted the eighth AFL franchise, other AFL teams had signed some of the Minneapolis draftees.

By the eighth century, the preferred form of marriage was one between social equals, under which a woman was technically legally dependent on her husband and had half his honor price, but could exercise considerable authority in regard to the transfer of property.

By the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, the Babylonian mathematics had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system.

By the third millennium BCE, widespread civilizations had developed sophisticated awareness of celestial cycles, and are believed to have consciously oriented their temples to create alignment with the heliacal risings of the stars.

By the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the Zhou Dynasty began to emerge in the Yellow River valley, overrunning the territory of the Shang.

By the new millennium, Nauru was virtually bankrupt.

By the late-3rd millennium BC offshoots of the Proto-Indo-Europeans had reached Anatolia, the Aegean, Western Europe, Central Asia and southern Siberia.

By the middle of the 4th millennium B. C., most Mesopotamian settlements were fortified, signifying that organized warfare was common.

By the beginning of the second millennium CE the Swahili towns conducted a thriving trade that linked Africans in the interior with trade partners throughout the Indian Ocean.

By the turn of the first millennium, Hatha yoga emerged as a prominent tradition of yoga distinct from the Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.

By the early 1st millennium BC, the population of Epirus consisted of three principal clusters of Greek-speaking tribes: the Chaonians in northwestern Epirus, the Molossians in the centre and the Thesprotians in the south.

By the first millennium BC, a few of these groups had settled down into year-round agricultural communities that exploited the native flora, including sunflowers and marsh elder.

By the first millennium CE, sihr became a fully developed system in Islamic society.

By the second millennium BC, two variant forms of the language were in use in Assyria and Babylonia ( known as Assyrian and Babylonian respectively ).

By the late 4th millennium BC, Sumer was divided into about a dozen independent city-states, which were divided by canals and boundary stones.

By the mid-first millennium ( ca 700 ) until about 1500, the inner Vazimbas as much as the coastal Vezos clans welcome new visitors and / or immigrants.

By the time of Strabo's account ( the first decades of the first millennium AD ), the Crimean Scythians had created a new kingdom extending from the lower Dnieper to the Crimea.

By the end of the fourth millennium BC, donkey had spread to Southwest Asia, and the main breeding center had shifted to Mesopotamia by 1800 BC.

By the second millennium BC, the donkey was brought to Europe, possibly at the same time as viticulture was introduced, as the donkey is associated with the Syrian god of wine, Dionysus.

By testing historically verifiable cases where we have knowledge of t through non-linguistic data ( e. g. the approximate distance from Classical Latin to modern Romance languages ), Swadesh arrived at the empirical value of approximately 0. 14 for L ( meaning that the rate of replacement constitutes around 14 words from the 100-wordlist per millennium ).

By the first millennium, then, bȝstt would have been something like ' obest ' or ' ubesti ' in Egyptian speech.

By the turn of the millennium, Gatwick handled more than 30 million passengers annually.

By 2000 Ireland had a substantial budget surplus and the first decade of the new millennium also saw a significant expansion of public spending on infrastructure and social services.

By 1900, a professor of anatomy, Ludwig Stieda, sought to compare this artifact with a Mesopotamian one dated to a millennium earlier.

By the end of the 1st millennium CE, the peninsula was settled only by the Sami people, who did not have their own state, lived in clans ruled by elders, and were engaged mostly in deer herding and fishing.

By the mid 1990 ’ s, Services Marketing was firmly entrenched as a significant sub discipline of marketing with its own empirical research and data and growing significance in the increasingly service sector dominated economies of the new millennium.