The world's largest and most valuable gem opal " Olympic Australis " was found in at the " Eight Mile " opal field in Coober Pedy.

Eight acre DeKalb County park with a softball field, football field, a multi-use field, recreation center and playground.

Recent NESCAC champions include men's ice hockey ( 2011, albeit officially forfeited ), men's tennis ( 2008 ), women's volleyball ( 2011 ) men's cross country ( 2001, 2002 ), women's basketball ( 2001 – 2007, 2009 ), women's ice hockey ( 2002, 2004 ) and women's field hockey ( 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ); recent NCAA tournament appearances include women's basketball ( Elite Eight, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 ; Final Four, 2004 ), women's field hockey ( Final Four, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 ) men's rugby ( sweet 16, 2001 ), women's ice hockey ( Final Four, 2002, 2003 ; Elite Eight, 2004, 2005 ), men's soccer ( Final Four, 2010 ) and women's lacrosse ( Final Four, 2011.

The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage is a book ( published in 1992 and reprinted in 1994 with an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke ) in the field of Exploratory engineering that gives a series of concrete stages the author believes will lead to interstellar colonization.

Eight players in each team are allowed on the field at a time.

I. Vidula Maidan: Basket Ball courts ( two ) one court with flood lights, Tennis courts ( two ) one court with flood lights, Hockey field ( one ), Four Hundred meters cinder track with Eight lanes, Kho-Kho courts ( two ), Kabbadi courts ( two ) Volley Ball Court ( one ) Throw Ball court ( one ) Hand Ball Court ( one ) Facility for field events ( shot ) discus, Javelin, High Jump, Long Jump etc.

The varsity squad typically fields a Varsity Eight ( 8 +), a Second Varsity or Junior Varsity Eight ( 8 +) and a '" Freshman " ( 8 +), but can also field additional Varsity or Frosh boats.

Eight stars of gold on a field of blue —

Eight guns were positioned on the Brierly Farm northwest of the fort, while 12 guns were placed in an orchard southwest of the fort, but by this time the field had quieted.

There are some eight-man leagues that play outdoors, however ; in Texas the American Eightman Football League ( AEFL ) plays on a 100-yard field, and in Illinois and Missouri, the Eight Man Football League ( 8FL ) plays on a 60-yard field.

Troubles continued on the artificial surface, and in 1992, Big Eight Conference coaches issued a statement that read, in part: " Big Eight Conference football coaches wanted to report that the football field at the University of Missouri is a detriment to the home and visiting teams and takes away from the integrity of the game played on such a field.

Eight fields of Belgian sports have benefited from Seeldrayers ' attentions: athletics, soccer, aviation, cricket, field hockey, golf and, in a small measure, tennis and swimming — eight different sports in which he was involved — athletics and soccer being without any doubt his predilection.

SSC also entered the field of automobile production in 1913 with the Standard Eight, which in 1919 had 83 horsepower ( 62 kW ).

Eight watchtowers, equipped with searchlights and machine guns pointed inward at the incarcerees, were positioned around the perimeter of the camp.

Eight of these guns were mounted in double-story casemates at the bow and stern, a reflection of the US prewar preference for heavy end-on fire.

Eight minute-men made it to the basement and survived by pointing their guns up the stairs.

Eight hundred and sixty-five Rebels surrendered within their works and a thousand more were captured or surrendered themselves that night and the next day.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

Eight men were tried together in U.S. District Court in Anniston, Ala., on charges of interfering with interstate transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders.

Eight others were founded in the region during his lifetime, numbering 3, 000 monks.

* 1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.

Eight minutes before departing the lunar surface, capsule communicator ( CAPCOM ) James Irwin notified Young and Duke from mission control that they were go for liftoff.

Eight more VHS compilations were released between 1996 and 1999 in the United States, before the final volume, Butt-O-Ween, was issued in October 1999.

Eight poems by Oxford were published in The Paradise of Dainty Devises ( 1576 ).

The airports were codenamed Bluie West One through to Bluie West Eight on the west of the island and Bluie East One to Bluie East Four on the eastern side.

Eight of the eighteen total were female.

The Byrds ' March 1966 single " Eight Miles High " and its B-side " Why " were also influential in originating the musical subgenre.

Eight other conspirators or suspects were tried and convicted, and four were hanged shortly thereafter.

Eight Bremen class light cruisers were constructed between 1902 and 1907, developed from the earlier Gazelle class.

Eight unmanned flights were made, two of which carried live monkeys.

Eight games were released for the NUON:

Eight of the victims were federal law enforcement agents ; 4 from the United States Secret Service, 2 from the United States Customs Service, 1 from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and 1 from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In 1966, The Byrds moved rapidly away from folk rock with their single " Eight Miles High ", which made use of free jazz and Indian ragas, and the lyrics of which were widely taken to refer to drug use.

Eight finishers were taken away on stretchers.

First, the Eight Banners were under the direct control of the emperor and hereditary Manchu and Mongol princes, leaving the ministry only with authority over the Green Standard Army.

These were known as the Territorial Eight Banner Army ().

Eight of these books were illustrated by Clifford Geary in a distinctive white-on-black scratchboard style.

Eight of the top party leaders, including Tim Buck, were arrested and convicted under Section 98 in 1931.

Eight Israeli soldiers were killed and two were captured.

Eight forts were destroyed, and hundreds of colonists were killed or captured, with many more fleeing the region.

Eight Chinese divisions joined the battle, and captured some of the northernmost cities in Vietnam.

Eight servicemen were captured and later released ( see American POWs in the 2003 invasion of Iraq ).

After he was captured and sentenced to hang, Borya gave his Piece of Eight to Barbossa, thus making him the next Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea.

In 2009, Gonzaga Crew's Senior Eight captured the silver medal at the prestigious Stotesbury Cup Regatta on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.

In his second stint at Kansas State, Gardner's teams won three conference crowns and captured two Big Eight Holiday Tournament championships.

Eight days before Alabama seceded from the Union, Col. John B. Todd took four companies of Alabama volunteers and captured the fort before dawn on 3 January 1861.

Eight days later, on March 24, 16-year-old Hussam Abdo was captured wearing an explosive belt, having allegedly been paid by Fatah's Tanzim branch to blow himself up at the same checkpoint.