The typical Menorah consists of eight branches with an additional raised branch.

The Ayurvedic classics mention eight branches of medicine: kāyācikitsā ( internal medicine ), śalyacikitsā ( surgery including anatomy ), śālākyacikitsā ( eye, ear, nose, and throat diseases ), kaumārabhṛtya ( pediatrics ), bhūtavidyā ( spirit medicine ), and agada tantra ( toxicology ), rasāyana

Then the bark was pounded from the branches and soaked in water for eight days.

The Hanukkah menorah therefore has eight main branches, plus a ninth branch set apart as the shamash ( servant ) light which is used to kindle the other lights.

There are also eight regional associations, to which the branches and constituency associations can send delegates.

There are 124 stations on the LIRR, and more than of track on its two lines to the two forks of the island and eight major branches.

Among these institutions there are eight theaters, five concert halls, ninety-seven libraries ( with branches ), seventeen movie theaters ( including five movie theaters for children ), twenty-five institutions of children optional education, eight museums ( sixteen including branches ), and seven parks.

Most local government areas within Sydney have local libraries including the City of Sydney Library with eight local branches, the Bankstown City Library, the Max Webber Library in Blacktown and many others.

A second bill was put before Parliament, and at the same time, the Birmingham Canal presented a scheme for a canal from Riders Green to Broadwaters, near Walsall, with eight branches, and a second canal from Newhall to Fazeley.

The motor branches of the trigeminal nerve control the movement of eight muscles, including the four muscles of mastication.

The length and severity of the winter, along with the sharp fluctuations in the mean summer and winter temperatures, imposed special requirements on many branches of the economy: in regions of permafrost, buildings must be constructed on pilings, and machinery must be made of specially tempered steel ; transportation systems must be engineered to perform reliably in extremely low and high temperatures ; the health care field and the textile industry are greatly affected by the ramifications of six to eight months of winter ; and energy demands are multiplied by extended periods of darkness and cold.

As many Florentine banks were international companies with branches across Europe, the florin quickly became the dominant trade coin of Western Europe for large scale transactions, replacing silver bars in multiples of the mark ( a weight unit equal to eight ounces ).

Rodrigues ( 1984 – 1985 ) proposed eight tentative branches of Tupí – Guaraní:

At the time of the eight party conference only nine local branches were represented ( Riga, Vilnius, Białystok, Lodz, Bobruisk, Pinsk, Warsaw, Grodno and Dvinsk ) with a combined membership of 609 ( out of whom 404 were active ).

CPE members are active in its 26 branches – eight of them are active in Tallinn, 18 in towns and counties.

In eight years, it reported assets of over $ 4 billion with over 150 branches in 46 countries.

: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the gauge of the Pacific railroad and its branches throughout their whole extent, from the Pacific coast to the Missouri river, shall be, and hereby is, established at four feet eight and one-half inches.

It operates on a regional scale, with eight branches in the UK and one in Hong Kong.

The other eight branches in California are located in Los Angeles, Artesia, San Jose, Canoga Park, Fresno, San Diego, Tustin and Bakersfield.

The University has eight branches all over the country ( Georgia )-in Sukhumi, Meskheti, Ozurgeti, Sighnaghi ( kakheti ), Zugdidi, Qvemo Qartli ( Marneuli ), Javakheti and Poti.

' Argent a woolpack encircled by two branches of the cotton tree flowered and conjoint proper ; a bordure sable charged with eight martlets of the field ; and for a crest on a wreath of the colours a mill-rind sable and above a fleece argent banded or.

The star itself stands for the eight branches of the Turkic peoples, and between each point of the star, there is a smaller eight pointed star found.

Somewhat uneven in interest for an average reader, eight or ten of these are among the finest of their kind in literature.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

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

These contemporary structures, beautifully adapted to a school in the country, are home to 60 children, ages eight to fourteen, grades four through eight.

In the last eight years, all Presidential appointments, including those of cabinet rank, have been denied immediate action because of a Senate rule requiring at least a 24 hour delay after they are reported to the floor.

The three -- Miles J. Cooperman, Sheldon Teller, and Richard Austin -- and eight other defendants are charged in six indictments with conspiracy to violate federal narcotic laws.

indeed, there are never fewer than eight of them on stage, and that is only for the more intimate numbers.

For easy viewing, the middle 2 beads on each wire ( the 5th and 6th bead ) usually are of a different colour from the other eight beads.

The first six to eight weeks are spent in the den with the mother.

Some of the thirty-two round towers and eight turrets are still preserved to this day.

In modern times, the largest Andean cities are Bogota, Colombia, with a population of about eight million, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador.

* 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.

However, MUL and DIV are special cases, other arithmetic-logical instructions ( ADD, SUB, CMP, AND, OR, XOR, TEST ) may specify any of the eight registers EAX, ECX, EDX, EBX, ESP, EBP, ESI, EDI as the accumulator ( i. e. left operand and destination ); x86 is thus a fairly general register architecture, despite being based on an accumulator model.

Depending upon the type and concentration of pathogens and the medium they are in, brass kills these microorganisms within a few minutes to eight hours of contact.

There also are eight radio stations.

The advisory House of Chiefs represents the eight principal subgroups of the Batswana people, and four other members are elected by the subchiefs of four of the districts.

To replace the Embraer P-95 Bandeirulha in the maritime patrol duties, 12 Lockheed P-3A Orions have been bought from US Navy surplus and eight ( with an option for a ninth ) of them are being upgraded by EADS CASA in Spain, the remainder are to be used as spare parts source.

Cruciferae, an older name, meaning " cross-bearing ", describes the four petals of mustard flowers, which are reminiscent of a cross ; it is one of eight plant family names without the suffix-aceae that are authorized alternative names ( according to ICBN Art.

Between one and eight French decks of cards are shuffled together.

In terms of the text itself there are at least eight specific instances where authorship is mentioned:

There are eight rules in the official bandy rules.