There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election.

The other eight slave states rejected calls for secession at this point.

These four so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2, 000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today's heartland states of the United States.

Liberals are also in government in eight other EU member states: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

A writer in " Time's Telescope " ( 1822 ) states that in Yorkshire at eight o ' clock on Christmas Eve the bells greet " Old Father Christmas " with a merry peal, the children parade the streets with drums, trumpets, bells, ( or in their absence, with the poker and shovel, taken from their humble cottage fire ), the yule candle is lighted, and ; " High on the cheerful fire.

Chapman states " from about the age of seven or eight I used to be an avid listener of a radio programme called The Goon Show.

India is divided into twenty eight states ( further subdivided into districts ) and seven union territories.

Loki states that this is because " Freyja " had not slept for eight nights in her eagerness.

Missouri borders eight different states, as does its neighbor, Tennessee.

No state in the U. S. touches more than eight states.

Internally, the audio hardware is implemented by four state machines, each having eight different states.

Pasta is also widespread in the Southern Cone, as well most of the rest of Brazil, mostly pervasive in the areas with mild to strong Italian roots, such as Central Argentina, and the eight southernmost Brazilian states ( where noodles are called macarrão, and more general pasta is under the umbrella term massa, literally " dough ", together with some Japanese noodles, such as bifum rice vermicelli and yakisoba, which also entered general taste ).

In the famous 1916 article The Atom and the Molecule by Gilbert N. Lewis, for example, the third of his six postulates of chemical behavior states that the atom tends to hold an even number of electrons in the shell and especially to hold eight electrons which are normally arranged symmetrically at the eight corners of a cube ( see: cubical atom ).

When the U. K. announced a policy in 1968 ( reaffirmed in March 1971 ) of ending the treaty relationships with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Qatar joined the other eight states then under British protection ( the seven trucial sheikdoms — the present United Arab Emirates -- and Bahrain ) in a plan to form a union of Arab emirates.

By 1353, the three original cantons had been joined by the cantons of Glarus and Zug and the city states of Lucerne, Zürich, and Bern, forming the " Old Federation " of eight states that persisted during much of the 15th century.

The traditional listing order of the cantons of Switzerland reflects this state, listing the eight " Old Cantons " first, with the city states preceding the founding cantons, followed by cantons that joined the Confederation after 1481, in historical order.

Also, the People's Party lost eight of their seats in the National Council and two in the Council of states in the elections of 2011.

After some other reworking, by 1878 there were 425 members in 13 temples in eight states, and by 1888, there were 7, 210 members in 48 temples in the United States and Canada.

"(, p. 19 ) These are eight international development goals that 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed ( in 2000 ) to achieve by the year 2015.

The one state, one vote power structure theoretically allows states comprising just eight percent of the world population to pass a resolution by a two-thirds vote.

The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance ( 1955 – 1991 ), more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.

In 2004 the E. U. undertook a major eastward enlargement, admitting 10 new member states ( eight of which were former communist states ).

`` We '' were Bill Garrett of the National Geographic Illustrations Staff, whose three cameras and eight lenses made him look as formidable as any fighting man we met ; ;

Burundi possesses eight airports, of which one has paved runways, whose length exceeds 3, 047m.

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

In Buddhist symbolism, the Noble Eightfold Path is often represented by means of the dharma wheel ( dharmachakra ), whose eight spokes represent the eight elements of the path.

The Dutch team at the 2006 World ChampionshipsTwo teams of eight, whose total mass must not exceed a maximum weight as determined for the class, align themselves at the end of a rope approximately 10 centimetres in circumference.

Young men wishing further education could proceed to one of eight medreses ( colleges ), whose studies included grammar, metaphysics, philosophy, astronomy, and astrology.

* The Greek theatre, whose cavea is one of the largest ever built by the ancient Greeks: it has 67 rows, divided into nine sections with eight aisles.

He showed that the figure eight knot complement could be decomposed as the union of two regular ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra whose hyperbolic structures matched up correctly and gave the hyperbolic structure on the figure eight knot complement.

This makes Darmstadt one of only eight cities with an element named after it ( the other cities being Ytterby in Sweden ( four elements ); Stockholm in Sweden ( Holmium ); Strontian in Scotland ; Copenhagen in Denmark ( whose Latin name gives Hafnium ); Paris ( whose Latin name gives Lutetium ); Berkeley, California ; and Dubna in Russia ).

At the same time, the Court of Policy was enlarged to sixteen members ; eight of these were to be elected members whose power would be balanced by that of eight appointed members.

According to the report, eight officials accepted gifts from energy companies whose value exceeded limits set by ethics rules — including golf, ski, and paintball outings ; meals ; drinks ; and tickets to a Toby Keith concert, a Houston Texans football game, and a Colorado Rockies baseball game.

" It was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans ; the second, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

The wheel, more specifically the chariot wheel with six or eight spokes, was an important symbol in historical Celtic polytheism, apparently associated with a specific god, known as the wheel-god, identified as the sky-sun-or thunder-god, whose name is attested as Taranis by Lucan.

Together with his female counterpart Ḥauḥet, Ḥeḥ represented a member of the Ogdoad of eight primeval deities whose worship was centred at Hermopolis Magna.

On June 24, 1931, representatives of the 269 people living in the village-to-be met in the home of Robert H. Willets, whose family lived in the area for eight generations.

The boys, whose ages range from eight to thirteen, are chosen for their musical ability and attend Christ Church Cathedral School.

Ruskin College is among the eight non-university institutions whose members are eligible for Long-Term Temporary Membership in the Oxford Union.