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 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 of the viral families with DNA genomes have circular genomes, while nine have linear genomes.

The idea of the remake caused wrath among fans of the TV series, since Whedon is not involved and the project does not have any connection with the show and will not conform to the continuity maintained with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Season Nine comic book titles.

Eight graduates from Dalhousie have also served as Lieutenant Governors across Canada, including John Crosbie, Myra Freeman, Clarence Gosse, John Keiller MacKay, Henry Poole MacKeen, John Robert Nicholson, Fabian O ' Dea, and Albert Walsh.

According to the Kojiki, this emperor is said to have ruled from the Thirteenth Day of the Eleventh Month of 456 ( Heishin ) until his death on the Seventh Day of the Eight Month of 479 ( Kibi ).

Eight game-theorists have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology.

Eight expansion packs and nine stuff packs have been released for the sequel.

As a further complication, Mary Whitmer, mother to one of the Three Witnesses and four of the Eight Witnesses, said she had a vision of the golden plates, shown to her by an angel whom she always called " Brother Nephi ", who may or may not have been the same angel to which Smith referred.

Eight of the twelve biggest Eastern Orthodox Churches which have adopted the Revised Julian calendar – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Romania, Syria, and Turkey – also celebrate 1 January as the New Year.

Eight states have acceded to the treaty since entry into force: Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

Book Eight of The Wars of Justinian, and the Secret History, suggest that his relationship with Belisarius seems to have cooled thereafter.

that nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or interference which can be traced back to the Atlantic Charter, signed on 14 August 1941, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom pledged The Eight Principal points of the Charter.

Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Hornet, after the stinging insect.

When she realizes her powers have gone at the end of Season Eight, however, Willow ends her relationship with Kennedy, saying that there is someone else Willow is in love with, who she will never see again.

To bypass internet censorship in China, which uniformly considers all the above-mentioned names too ' sensitive ' for search engines and public forums, alternative names have sprung up to describe the events on the internet, such as May 35th, VIIV ( Roman numerals for 6 and 4 ) and " Eight Squared " ( i. e. 8 < sup > 2 </ sup > = 64 ).

* January 8 – Emperor Jin Huidi dies after a 16-year reign in which eight dukes of the imperial family have conducted a civil war ( War of the Eight Princes ) against each other in a struggle for power.

Eight musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama —- roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2000s.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

Eight out of ten beneficiaries ( 82 %) now have access to six or more Private Fee-for-Service plans.

Eight out of nine feature films made by Pixar between 2001 and 2011 have been nominated for the award and only two have lost ( Monsters Inc. lost to Shrek, and Cars lost to Happy Feet ).

Eight people have been nominated for both Best Director and Best Actor for the same film.

Eight former members of the Islanders have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, seven of whom — Al Arbour, Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies, Denis Potvin, Billy Smith, Bill Torrey and Bryan Trottier — were members of all four Cup winning teams.

Eight states and the District of Columbia have joined the compact.