After this event Aegisthus reigned seven years longer over Mycenae, until in the eighth Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, returned home and avenged the death of his father by putting the adulterer to death.

Ahuizotl (, ) ( meaning roughly " water dog ") was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Hueyi Tlatoani of the city of Tenochtitlan, son of princess Atotoztli II.

Benjamin, their eighth child, was Josiah Franklin's 15th child and tenth and last son.

It is a memorial to one " Dunoatus son of Mecagnus " and has been dated from the sixth to eighth centuries.

An example is that Kamsa ( or Kansa ), the evil uncle of lord Krishna, was informed by an oracle that the eighth son of his sister Devaki would kill him.

Each giant wields a distinctive weapon — an iron club in Ereuthalion ’ s case, a massive bronze spear in Goliath ’ s ; each giant, clad in armor, comes out of the enemy ’ s massed array to challenge all the warriors in the opposing army ; in each case the seasoned warriors are afraid, and the challenge is taken up by a stripling, the youngest in his family ( Nestor is the twelfth son of Neleus, David the seventh or eighth son of Jesse ).

Nurhaci's eighth son and heir, Huáng Tàijí ( 皇太極 ), later changed the name of his people from Jurchen to Manchu in 1635.

Jérôme was born Girolamo Buonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica as the eighth and last surviving child, fifth surviving son, of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino.

Tiglath-Pileser III ( from the Hebraic form of Akkadian: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, " my trust is in the son of Esharra ") was a prominent king of Assyria in the eighth century BC ( ruled 745 – 727 BC )< ref >

Philip was the eighth son of Thomas I of Savoy and Marguerite of Geneva.

The heir presumptive to both earldoms ( but not to the Barony Herbert of Lea, which would become extinct should the Earl die without male issue ) is his eighth cousin George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon ( b. 1956 ), great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the 8th Earl of Pembroke through his fifth son.

He was the successor ( and probably son ) of Capetus, the eighth king of Alba Longa.

The name Asser is likely to have been taken from Aser, or Asher, the eighth son of Jacob in Genesis.

Brock was born at St Peter Port on the Channel Island of Guernsey, the eighth son of John Brock ( 1729-1777 ), a midshipman in the Royal Navy, and Elizabeth de Lisle, daughter of Daniel de Lisle, then Lieutenant-Bailiff of Guernsey.

Kamsa, the brother of Devaki and an evil king, was intent upon killing all the children of his sister because of a prediction that he would die at the hands of her eighth son.

An eighth son of an eighth son is automatically a wizard.

If a wizard happens to have an eighth son, this child will be a " wizard squared " or " Sourcerer ", as he generates his own magic and can therefore do just about anything with no effort.

The wizard who starts the events of Equal Rites by bequeathing his staff just before his death to, as he thinks, the eighth son of an eighth son, the child of the smith of the village of Bad Ass in Lancre.

And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.

) Adobe brickmaking was used in Spain starting by the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the eighth century B. C.

Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.

During the post-Phoenician era of the eighth century a palace was erected and a port was also constructed, which served the trade with the Greeks and the Levantines.

# The head of the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which David divided the priests, and an ancestor of Zecharias the priest, who was the father of John the Baptist.

The southern part, the Oberen Freie Ämter ( upper Freie Ämter ), were ruled by the previous seven cantons but Bern was added to make an eighth.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

STS-51-F ( also known as Spacelab 2 ) was the nineteenth flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.

One of the errors had originally been ruled a hit, but the Cleveland third baseman sent a note to the press box after the eighth inning, saying he had made an error, and the ruling was changed.

Throughout the series, Clark never officially adopted a costume until around the eighth season, but prior to this was seen wearing Superman's traditional colors of red and blue, more often as the series progresses ( more commonly a blue shirt underneath a red jacket, reflecting Superman's uniform and cape colors ).

According to The Hollywood Reporter < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual Star Salary Top 10, she was tied for eighth place on the top ten list of actresses ' salaries, commanding 10 to 12 million dollars per movie for 2006.

In late July in the DieHard 500 at Talladega, he was in the points lead and looking for his eighth title despite the departure of crew chief Andy Petree.

He applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4, 500 words that could be formed from the letters in " Ziegler's Giant Bar "; the judges had only about 2, 500 words on their master list.

At a later period he was one of the leading contributors to the Encyclopædia Britannica ( seventh and eighth editions ) writing, among others, the articles on electricity, hydrodynamics, magnetism, microscope, optics, stereoscope, and voltaic electricity.

Edward Jenner was born on 17 May 1749 ( 6 May Old Style ) in Berkeley, as the eighth of nine children.

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

In Nihon Shoki, a book of Japanese history finished in the eighth century, it is said that the Empire of Japan was founded in 660 BC by Emperor Jimmu.

This office was commonly held by a member of the Nakatomi clan after the eighth century.

* Keiō 4: On the eighth day of the ninth month ( October 23, 1868 ), the nengō was formally changed from Keiō to Meiji and a general amnesty was granted.

It is the eighth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord High Constable and above the Lord High Admiral.

The Earl Marshal is the eighth of the Great Officers of State, with the Lord High Constable above him and only the Lord High Admiral beneath him.

Keith Stewart ( 1814 – 1859 ), younger son of the eighth Earl, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.

Richard Harrison Truly ( born November 12, 1937 ) is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot, former astronaut for both the United States Air Force and NASA, and was the eighth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) from 1989 to 1992.

The eighth book, Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure, finds Norby and Jeff stranded in ancient Africa with Admiral Yobo.

* FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan ( born 1788 ) was the eighth and youngest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, by Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral the Hon.