In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

On the congressional level, Ellensburg is located in Washington's 4th congressional district and is represented by Republican Doc Hastings, but it is expected to be moved into Washington's 8th congressional district for the 2012 general election and beyond.

Muslim rule in the subcontinent began in 8th century CE when the Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Sindh and Multan in southern Punjab in modern day Pakistan, setting the stage for several successive invasions from Central Asia between the 10th and 15th centuries CE, leading to the formation of Muslim empires in the Indian subcontinent such as the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire.

It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo-Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues.

The bloodbath itself was a series of events taking place between November 7 and November 9 in 1520, climaxing on the 8th, when around 80-90 people ( mostly nobility and clergy supporting the Sture party ) were executed, despite a promise by King Christian for general amnesty.

By the time it was attested for in general use in the 8th century BC it was already divided into a western and eastern variety, from which the Etruscan / Latin alphabets and the later Greek alphabet came respectively.

Harris established his grocery and general merchandise store on the banks of the Halifax River on what is now 8th Street and Riverside Drive.

In Congressional redistricting following the 2010 Census, West New York has been reassigned to the 8th congressional district, which was in effect for the June 2012 primary and will be in the November 2012 general election, with the representative elected in November 2012 taking office in the new district representing West New York as of January 2013.

* Henry Conyngham, 8th Marquess Conyngham, owner of the Slane Castle rock venue and candidate for Fine Gael in recent Irish general elections.

* A mansion of a high-ranking general in the mid 8th century that was recorded to have 3, 000 inhabitants of the extended family living on the premises.

The success of the gradual change in battle tactics came at the very end of the 8th century in the 790s under the command of the general Sakanoue no Tamuramaro.

5th to 8th century ), where it is described as " a combination of tones which, with beautiful illuminating graces, pleases the people in general ".

An 8th century Chinese fresco at Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in Gansu portrays Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 – 87 BCE ) worshiping statues of a golden man ; " golden men brought in 121 BCE by a great Han general in his campaigns against the nomads ".

* October 23, 1868 ( Keiō 4, 8th day of the 9th month ): The nengō is formally changed from Keiō to Meiji ; and a general amnesty is granted.

Bakis or Bacis ( Βάκις, i. e. " speaker ," from the Greek βάζω " speak ") is a general name for the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B. C.

He married as his second wife Emily Jane Mercer-Elphinstone-de Flahault, 8th Lady Nairne ( see the Lord Nairne ), eldest daughter of the French general and statesman Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut, and his wife Margaret Nairne, 7th Lady Nairne.

The chalice ranks with the Book of Kells as one of the finest known works of Insular art, indeed of Celtic art in general, and is thought to have been made in the 8th century AD.

* Dong Jin, 8th century general of the Chinese Tang Dynasty

On December 8th 2011, the Gibraltar Liberal Party along with the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party won the 2011 general election ( 10 / 17 seats in the Gibraltar Parliament ) by a narrow margin and together formed the Government of Gibraltar.

Reverses elsewhere along the Front, including the great defeat at Tannenberg, forced 8th Army to retire in conformance with the general Russian withdrawal.

By a quirk of fate, several future White Army commanders held senior posts in 8th Army at this time — Brusilov's Quartermaster general was Anton Denikin, while Alexey Kaledin commanded the 12th Cavalry Division and Lavr Kornilov was in command of 48th Infantry Division.

* Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan, general in the Al-Andalus ( 8th / 9th century )

The commander of Poznań Army, Tadeusz Kutrzeba noticed that the German 8th Army, commanded by general Johannes Blaskowitz, was weakly secured from the north by only the 30th Infantry Division stretched over a 30 kilometre defensive line while the rest of the army was advancing towards Warsaw.

Under the general reformation of names carried out by King Gyeongdeok in the 8th century, the name was changed to " Milseong-gun " ( 密城郡 ).

After the end of the 8th convention ( August 14, 1951 ) FUDOSI dissolved after strong disagreements between Emile Dantinne and Ralph M. Lewis.

The 8th convention ended after Ralph M. Lewis criticized Jean Mallinger ( Sar Elgrim ), a FUDOSI dignitary, for having a " problem " with AMORC for its admission of Afro-American members.

The 8th general convention of Nepal Student Union ( NSU ) decleared Kisor Rathor and Kiran Paudel as president and general secretary.

He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1776 and served first in the North Carolina House of Commons ( 1779 – 1783 ), then in the North Carolina Senate ( 1784 – 1786 ), before being elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 4th and 5th U. S. Congresses ( March 4, 1793-March 3, 1799 ) and later to the 8th United States Congress ( March 4, 1803-January 11, 1805 ).

On February 8th, 2012 Rodd announced that he was not re-offering as leader at the Party's upcoming annual convention effectively resigning the position.

At the Agudath Israel of America convention following the 8th Siyum HaShas in New York, Agudah chairman Rabbi Moshe Sherer announced that he wished to book Madison Square Garden for the next Siyum HaShas, to be held on 26 April 1990.

There was need of holding several extraordinary conventions, so beginning in 1928 ( called the 8th ) it was held biennially with the general convention always falling on the even numbered years.

* 8th general convention, 1928, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Beginning a narrative in medias res ( Latin: " into the middle of things ") began in ancient times as an oral tradition and was established as a convention of epic poetry with Homer's Iliad in the 8th century BC.

In England the abuse was rife in the 8th century, as may be gathered from the acts of the council of Cloveshoe.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.

Founded in 437 BC, the city was finally abandoned in the 8th century AD.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.

The Islamic Golden Age was inaugurated by the middle of the 8th century by the ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate and the transfer of the capital from Damascus to the newly founded city Baghdad.

Ælle was the first king recorded by the 8th century chronicler Bede to have held " imperium ", or overlordship, over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

8th century BC ), which included, besides Aegina, Athens, the Minyan ( Boeotian ) Orchomenus, Troezen, Hermione, Nauplia and Prasiae, and was probably an organization of city-states that were still Mycenaean, for the purpose of suppressing piracy in the Aegean that arose as a result of the decay of the naval supremacy of the Mycenaean princes.

His direct male descendants ended in 1387 in Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny, but a cousin, Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1622 ), was confirmed in the Barony in 1604.

Spanish Adoptionism was a theological position which was articulated in Umayyad and Christian-held regions of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Kiernan's reasoning has in part to do with the much-discussed political context of the poem: it has been held by most scholars, until recently, that the poem was composed in the 8th century on the assumption that a poem eliciting sympathy for the Danes could not have been composed by Anglo-Saxons during the Viking Ages of the 9th and 10th centuries, and that the poem celebrates the namesakes of 8th Century Mercian Kings.

He was promoted to major-general in October 1938 and took command of the 8th Infantry Division in Palestine.

Mercia was arguably the most powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom for much of the late 7th and 8th centuries, though Mercian kings are missed out of the two main ' lists '.

The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion ; the first was by language speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family ; they conquered and colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

After being conquered by the Arabs in the early 8th century, it was reconquered in 801 by Charlemagne's son Louis, who made Barcelona the seat of the Carolingian " Hispanic March " ( Marca Hispanica ), a buffer zone ruled by the Count of Barcelona.

The ILLIAC had up to 128 parallel processors while the B6700 & B7700 only accommodated a total of 7 CPUs and / or IO units ( the 8th unit was the memory tester ).

Established in the middle of the 8th century and thus being one of the earliest urban settlements in Scandinavia, Birka was the Baltic link in the river and portage route through Ladoga ( Aldeigja ) and Novgorod ( Holmsgard ) to the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Califate.

Chinese chronicles proclaim that in the 8th century, Chenla was split into land Chenla and water Chenla.