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 separate boxed games were released as tie-in products: Striker, a game of tabletop miniature warfare, added very complex rules for vehicle design & combat, Mayday concentrated on small ship vs ship space combat, Snapshot and Azhanti High Lightning featured small-unit battles on board spacecraft, while Fifth Frontier War, Invasion Earth and Dark Nebula were wargames based on selected interstellar conflicts from the Classic Traveller ( though in the case of the later this was not the case on its publication, but they were used as the basis of parts of the ' imperial ' background ) future history.

* Eight Worlds by John Varley might or might not count as a future history ( see Eight Worlds # Consistency

" 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.

Before his death, he summoned eight of his most prestigious ministers, headed by Sushun, Zaiyuan, and Duanhua, and named them the " Eight Regent Ministers " to direct and support the future Emperor.

" Perhaps the saddest chapter in the annals of professional American sports is recounted in absorbing fashion in Eight Men Out ... The most compelling figures here are pitcher Eddie Cicotte ( David Strathairn ), a man nearing the end of his career who feels the twin needs to ensure a financial future for his family and take revenge on his boss, and Buck Weaver ( John Cusack ), an innocent enthusiast who took no cash for the fix but, like the others, was forever banned from baseball.

Eight students ( Margaret Batten, Louise Davis, Martha Trent Featherston, Isabella Merrick, Sallie Michie, Lelia Scott, Elizabeth Watkins, and Lucy Wright ) formed a special bond while studying for their future teaching careers.

This story appears to be part of a future history of mine, often called the Eight Worlds.

The reason for this is simple: the thought of going back, rereading all those old stories, and putting them in coherent order filled me with ennui ... Steel Beach is not really part of the Eight Worlds future history.

Or the Eight Worlds is not really a future history, since that implies an orderly progression of events.

* A similar exchange portal is used to carry Buffy to Fray's future in " Time of Your Life " in Season Eight.

* Triple Eight Race Engineering – from 2013, Red Bull will sponsor one of the top V8 Supercar teams.

* 2013: Pieces of Eight

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

In the 1980s, Colombia broadened its bilateral and multilateral relations, joining the Contadora Group, the Group of Eight ( now the Rio Group ), and the Non-Aligned Movement, which it chaired from 1994 until September 1998.

Zhejiang cuisine ( Chinese: 浙菜 or 浙江菜, Zhèjiāngcài ), one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of China, derives from the native cooking styles of the Zhejiang region.

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

* The Light of Asia ( Book Eight ), a poem in iambic pentameter by Sir Edwin Arnold

* In 2010, Butler reached their first Final Four as a # 5 seed, beating # 12 seeded UTEP in the first round behind a flurry of 3-pointers, edging out a very good # 13 seed Murray State ( who upset # 4 seed Vanderbilt in the first round ), and then in the Sweet 16, Butler upset # 1 seed Syracuse, and in a thrilling Elite Eight game Butler upset # 2 seed Kansas State.

His debut was in You're in the Navy Now ( 1951 ), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men.

Big Black covered Wire's " Heartbeat " twice, once as a studio version which was released as a single ( also included on The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape compilation ), and also as a live version, featuring Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, that was included on the VHS version of its live album Pigpile.

At least initially, in Season Eight ( a canonical continuation of the series in comic book format ), the Scoobies are scattered across the world.

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

In Season Eight ( 2007 – 11 ), it establishes Buffy is not living with the Immortal in Rome which is simply a cover story to ensure her safety as she is now the leader of a global organization which recruits and trains Slayers to deal with demonic threats worldwide.

In March he released his book The Mess of Eight Purple Years ( De puinhopen van acht jaar paars ), which he used as his political agenda for the upcoming general election.

* 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 ).

"( For commoners ) It is forbidden to wear any cloth with patterns of Qilin, Male Fenghuang ( Chinese phoenix ), White rabbit, Lingzhi, Five-Toe Two-Horn Long, Eight Longs, Nine Longs, ' Ten thousand years ', Fortune-longevity character and Golden Yellow etc.

His unit's output included Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), David Copperfield ( 1935 ), Anna Karenina ( 1935 ) and A Tale of Two Cities ( 1935 ).

Today John Barrymore is known mostly for his portrayal of Hamlet and for his roles in movies like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde ( 1920 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), Twentieth Century ( 1934 ), and Don Juan ( 1926 ), the first ever feature length movie to use a Vitaphone sound-on-film soundtrack.