Rhegium boasted in imperial times, no less than eight thermal baths, one of which is still visible today.

It dehumanized Puerto Ricans completely, boasted of " killing off eight " of them, and " transplanting cancer into several more.

The Irish piper, Owen Cunnigam of Athenry, frequently boasted that he received one hundred pounds a year from the Duke of Northumberland for performing at his castle during the six to eight weeks around Christmas.

The game also boasted two All-Star teams, American League and National League ; the two featured established veterans such as George Brett, Dale Murphy and Andre Dawson — none of whom appeared on the other eight teams — and up-and-coming players like Mark McGwire, Andrés Galarraga, Kevin Seitzer and José Canseco.

One night after having boasted before the French court of the improvisations of his child, then eight years old, the king expressed his desire to hear one of these marvellous inspirations.

By the 1930s, they boasted the largest private railway in the world with eight railway systems and 25 locomotives.

The Japanese Shogun's secretary boasted ( not completely accurately ) to a Spanish visitor in 1609 that Japanese clothing had not changed in over a thousand years.

Nearing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast boasted a population of 145, 593 Armenians ( 76. 4 %), 42, 871 Azerbaijanis ( 22. 4 %), and several thousand Kurds, Russians, Greeks, and Assyrians.

It boasted speeds one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, a leap in computing power that no single machine has since matched.

The island formerly boasted a population of over one thousand in the nineteenth century, and its current winter population is around one hundred.

Emperor Wu was known for his extravagance and sensuality, especially after the unification of China ; legends boasted of his incredible potency among ten thousand concubines.

Martin's triumph was Belshazzar's Feast, of which he boasted beforehand, “ it shall make more noise than any picture ever did before ... only don't tell anyone I said so .” Five thousand people paid to see it.

Soon after, the town briefly boasted a population of several thousand.

" The Attorney General boasted of the manpower they provided: " I have today several hundred thousand private citizens ... assisting the heavily overworked Federal authorities in keeping an eye on disloyal individuals and making reports of disloyal utterances.

At the height of the marketing effort, Team OS / 2 boasted well over ten thousand known members, and IBM acknowledged publicly that without Team OS / 2, there might not have been a 4th generation (" Warp 4 ") of the operating system.

He had done his rustling openly and boasted about it.

Small wonder that Milton later boasted of how well his work had been received there, since he attained a rank in the order of commencing bachelors higher than that of any other inceptor from Christ's of that year.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

But though I boasted and gave off a dapper front, I was beneath it all frightened.

On his first trip to the finished structure he boasted that he had built a temple grander than Solomon's in Jerusalem.

Niobe, the queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two.

The powerful array of bowlers that both countries boasted in the preceding decade moved into retirement, and their replacements were of lesser quality, making it more difficult to force a result.

American politicians, for example, boasted of their agrarian or log-cabin origins, and praised the republicanism of the yeoman farmers.

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

He boasted that even the gods could not kill him and Poseidon, upon hearing this, split the rock with his trident, causing Ajax to eventually drown.

In The Concept of Anxiety Søren Kierkegaard wrote that Albert Magnus, " arrogantly boasted of his speculation before the deity and suddenly became stupid.

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon.

Convicts in Britain had no right to sue, and Sinclair had boasted that he could not be sued by them.

" When his wife reported to him that his interpreter's wife had boasted of her own husband's greatness, R. Abbahu simply said, " What difference does it make which of us is really the greater, so long as through both of us heaven is glorified?

First, Atari had been facing mounting pressure from the ColecoVision, which boasted graphics that more closely mirrored arcade games of the time than Atari ’ s reigning 2600 VCS system.

The growth of the Aloadae never stopped, and they boasted that as soon as they could reach heaven, they would kidnap Artemis and Hera and take them as wives.

Artemis punished Agamemnon after he killed a sacred stag in a sacred grove and boasted that he was a better hunter than the goddess.

A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because while she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven boys and seven girls, Leto had only one of each.

She was beloved by two gods, Hermes and Apollo, and boasted that she was prettier than Artemis because she made two gods fall in love with her at once.

Other sources said he boasted about his hunting ability and provoked the goddess ' anger.

The film boasted a larger budget than Carrie, though the consensus view at the time was that De Palma was repeating himself, with diminishing returns.

He commanded enormous fees playing dances there, and began to make more creative use of electric guitars to replace the big horn sections the Tulsa band had boasted.

By 2003, the Booby colonies on Clipperton boasted 25, 000 Brown Boobies and 112, 000 Masked Boobies, making the atoll the world's second-largest Brown Booby colony, and its largest Masked Booby colony.

Khrushchev increased the perception of a missile gap when he loudly boasted to the world that the USSR was building missiles " like sausages " whose numbers and capabilities actually were nowhere close to his assertion.

One of the earliest rifled cannon was the breech-loading Armstrong Gun — also invented by William George Armstrong — which boasted significantly improved range, accuracy, and power than earlier weapons.

Ballots are manually counted by the five vocales, after the table has closed, at least eight hours after opening, and the counting witnessed by representatives of all the parties who choose to have observers.

In January 2009, the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars project counted eight white dwarfs among the hundred star systems nearest the Sun.

At the beginning of the century Monza counted 41, 200 inhabitants ; in 1911 it was among the eight most industrialized centers of Italy.

An import duty of 33 pieces of eight was charged on each slave, although for purposes of payment slaves were not counted individually, but might only be counted as part slaves according to quality.

In any case the names shew marks of having been derived from a previous system, for the system of Basilides itself gives no account of the numbers seven or eight ; and the number of heavens is not limited to seven, as many as 365 being counted.

According to Sitchin, Nibiru ( called " the twelfth planet " because, Sitchin claimed, the Sumerians ' gods-given conception of the Solar System counted all eight planets, plus Pluto, the Sun and the Moon ) was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth, who Sitchin states are called the Nephilim in Genesis.

He scored the maximum amount of points a driver could earn, since only the best four of eight scores counted towards the world championship.

When John Carradine married Doris ( Erving Rich ) Grimshaw in 1957, she already had a son from a previous marriage, Dale, and a son from a later relationship, Michael, both of whom, along with Sonia Sorel's son, Michael Bowen, are sometimes counted among John Carradine's eight sons.

Taking the unusual accenting into account, it can technically be seen as a measure of 3 / 4 ( counted in eight notes ) starting on " 2 ", then a measure of 6 / 8 followed by the " 1 and " of the 3 / 4.

Even Bruckner ( with whom Mahler had been closely associated ) fails to qualify: Bruckner died before completing the work that is now played as his ( unfinished ) " Ninth Symphony ", with the result that his symphonic total is eight if only the completed canonical works are counted -- and ten if the list includes the early F minor Symphony and the D minor Symphony now known as " No. 0 " -- both of them withdrawn by the composer.

Kiprusoff's play remained strong upon his return as he was counted on to lead the Flames to the playoffs for the first time in eight years.

However, it was all Stewart this time, as he floored Johnson several times in the first few rounds, and while Johnson always regained his feet and was never counted out he did tell his cornermen after eight rounds that ' enough was enough ,' and by doing so became an ex-champ for a third time.

Only eight persons were counted in this portion of Sitka at the 2000 census.

These include responses as varied as a respondent who listed eight different origins and a respondent who answered " French Canadian " ( leading to him / her being counted once for " French " and once for " Canadian ".

You are limited to eight Psychic Creatures per hyperspatial zone and they are counted separately from your main deck of 40 or more cards.

According to the official record of the Tower of London, there were five blows in all, though some onlookers counted seven and others eight.

These eight counted for 60 % of the country's industrial output.

He would go on to win in Adelaide, and score eleven more points in total than Senna, but only the eleven highest scores counted, with Senna's eight wins and three seconds giving him a total of 90 points to Prost's 87.

Only the best four of eight scores counted towards the world championship.

Zeng is also the only woman counted among the fourteen people who have reached verified heights of eight feet or more.

The American participants, who included advisors and aircrews, counted three dead and eight wounded.

In the 2nd round, Zale pounded Hostak to the body, dropping him eight times, before he was finally counted out at 2: 32 of the round.

The < code >< abbr title =" Cylinder "> C </ abbr >< abbr title =" Head "> H </ abbr >< abbr title =" Sector "> S </ abbr ></ code > addressing supported in IBM-PC compatible BIOSes code used eight bits for-theoretically up to 256 heads counted as head 0 up to 255 ( FFh ).

I counted eight cells for black prisoners, with two bunks to each cell.