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 or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

* 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 years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

Eight years later African-born slaves arrived in the West Indies.

Eight and a half years after Part One had appeared, we get the first hint of a forthcoming Segunda Parte ( Part Two ).

In July 2007 and with six rounds remaining in the home and away season, Essendon was placed just outside the top Eight and on the brink of making the finals once again when it was announced that Kevin Sheedy's contract would not be renewed after 27 years.

Eight and a half years before writing the book, Conrad had been appointed by a Belgian trading company to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

Eight years earlier he was released from a TBS-clinic after being treated for child molestation.

Eight thousand years ago, south of the great mountain ranges in what is now the Sahara Desert, a vast savanna supported Neolithic hunters and herders whose culture flourished until the region began to desiccate as a result of climatic changes after 4000 BC.

Eight hundred years after the last outbreak, the plague returned to Europe.

Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded.

A story arc in Season Eight has Buffy travel 200 years into the future to battle and kill Dark Willow.

Eight years after the release of " Angels ", in February 2005 the British public voted it as the " Best Single of the Past Twenty-Five Years " at the 2005 BRIT Awards.

Eight years before her death, she had reportedly placed two-thirds of her money into trusts, for the benefit of her great-grandchildren.

Eight or nine years after its foundation, Mr. Charles Majoribanks, M. P.

Eight years later, in 1879, it was restored as France's national anthem, and has remained so ever since.

Eight years later, Congress replaced that law with the Atomic Energy Act Amendments of 1954, which for the first time made the development of commercial nuclear power possible, and resolved a number of other outstanding problems in implementing the first Atomic Energy Act.

Eight of the 22 had died before reaching 20 years of age-testifying to the hardness of hunter-gatherer life in the cold north.

Eight years later Wallace apologized for not having understood the true situation at Magadan.

" Eight years later, Abraham Lincoln would express the same sentiment.

Eight years after the events of Prelude, Seldon has worked out the science of psychohistory and has applied it on a galactic scale.

; At The End Of The Day: Eight years later.

Eight years later, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, along with two other awards, were each combined into their own single category recognizing achievement in film.

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.

League with Nagoya Grampus Eight, where he made 23 appearances over two seasons, scoring nine times, before announcing his retirement in the autumn of 1994.

Shortly before accepting the offer from Nagoya Grampus Eight, Tottenham had rejected an offer from ambitious Second Division club Blackburn Rovers, who had recently been taken over by steel baron Jack Walker.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

Texas has an ' Eight Hour Rule ' which states that no competitive part of a marching band can spend more than 8 hours per week, including full band rehearsals, sectionals, and time before competitions, rehearsing.

Eight English counties and three Welsh counties each received an additional representative and Yorkshire, which was represented by four MPs before the Act was given an extra two MPs ( so that each of its three ridings was represented by two MPs ).

Eight days before William's birth, his father died from smallpox ; thus William was the Sovereign Prince of Orange from the moment of his birth.

" Eight Days a Week " is noteworthy as one of the first examples of the in-studio experimentation that the band would use extensively in the future ; in two recording sessions totalling nearly seven hours on 6 October devoted exclusively to this song, Lennon and McCartney tried one technique after another before settling on the eventual arrangement.

Eight years of stability ended in 1991 when Tennessee – Martin and Troy State went Division I, briefly dropping the GSC back to seven members, before the beginning of an expansion resulting in ten new members: Lincoln Memorial ( 1992 – 93 ); Alabama – Huntsville, Henderson State, Central Arkansas, and Mississippi University for Women ( MUW ) ( 1993 – 94 ); West Florida ( 1994 – 95 ); and Arkansas-Monticello, Arkansas Tech, Montevallo, and Southern Arkansas ( 1995 – 96 ).

Eight to ten days before the egg is ready to be laid, the female is afflicted with a condition known as egg lethargy.

Eight weeks before the Armistice was to be signed, 25 Berrien men were among the 200 recently enlisted soldiers who perished at sea off the coast of Scotland when the troop ship Otranto collided with the merchant ship Kashmir in rough weather.

The book Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof and the movie based on the book does record that Cicotte, despite being grossly underpaid for a pitcher of his ability, resisted repeated attempts by Chick Gandil to get him to throw the series until just days before the World Series opened when it became clear that Comiskey would never pay him even part of the promised bonus.

She made her earliest screen appearances in the early 1980s with small roles in episodes of CHiPs, 240-Robert, and Eight Is Enough, before beginning a long-term collaboration with Aaron Spelling.

They also provided a level of cosmopolitan international competition, which tended not to exist in rugby before the first Rugby World Cup in 1987, especially since was not seen as one of the " Big Eight ", and other than some involvement with, the Commonwealth teams tended to be notoriously clannish.

Eight battles had been fought before the insurrection showed signs of weakening, and it continued for six months after Razin had received his quietus.

In literature before the 1970s, they were sometimes translated as the Eight Genies.

Eight teams entered the water polo event, with one withdrawing before competition.

Eight seconds before liftoff, the five F-1 engines ignited, sending tremendous amounts of noise across Kennedy Space Center.

Eight American Construction Management programs require that students take these exams before they may receive their Bachelor of Science in Construction Management degree, and 15 other Universities actively encourage their students to consider the exams.

Eight years before the transcontinental railroad opened, the First Transcontinental Telegraph linked Omaha, Nebraska and San Francisco ( and points in-between ) on October 24, 1861.

The village was previously known as " Eight Mile Tree " and then " Buchanan " before is adopted the current name.