The largest piece of burr wood was again a dining table for eight.

In 3D, these eight tetracubes ( suppose each piece consists of four cubes, L and J are the same, Z and S are the same ) can fit in a 4 × 4 × 2 or 8 × 2 × 2 box.

In 1583 De Monte sent Byrd his setting of verses 1 – 4 of Psalm 136 ( Super flumina Babylonis ), including the pointed question ’ How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?’ Byrd replied the following year with a setting of the defiant continuation, set, like de Monte's piece, in eight parts and incorporating a three-part canon by inversion.

In New York, the piece played simultaneously in eight theatres within five blocks of each other.

In England, 1 piece of eight was worth 4s 3d while it was worth 8s in New York, 7s 6d in Pennsylvania and 6s 8d in Virginia.

One 18th century English shilling was worth around $ 58 in modern currency so a piece of eight could be worth anywhere from $ 246 to $ 465.

The piece consists mostly of variations on the texture introduced during its first eight bars, where one hand plays a string of eighth notes and the other accompanies by plucking sixteenth notes after each eighth note.

" The columnist had eight years earlier traced the Kennedy / Atreus parallels in more detail, in a piece comparing the then-ascendant " Bush dynasty " with the Kennedy one.

A brute-force approach for the eight queens puzzle would examine all possible arrangements of 8 pieces on the 64-square chessboard, and, for each arrangement, check whether each ( queen ) piece can attack any other.

These positions can often be achieved once a neutral piece is left in one of the eight killer spaces on the perimeter of the board.

After a few weeks, Gershwin finished his composition and passed the score to Whiteman's arranger Ferde Grofé, who orchestrated the piece, finishing it on February 4, only eight days before the premiere.

His compositions include eight symphonies ( one of them choral ), four operas, twelve chamber works and eighteen piano solos ; but today he is almost exclusively remembered for his organ music, and by far the best known piece from his pen is L ' Orgue Mystique.

It was originally known as the " piece of eight " in English, due to the nominal value of 8 reales.

At this time, the piece of eight was produced in Mexico and Peru in a rapid and simplified manner.

This coin was originally known in English as a piece of eight, then as a Spanish dollar, and then as a Mexican dollar.

Because of the importance of the piece of eight in international trade, this new silver coin was intended only for circulation in Spain itself, and the older and heavier eight-real coin continued to be minted.

After 1686, the old piece of eight remained the standard coin in the Spanish colonies.

Because the piece of eight had the same intrinsic value as the thaler ( dollar ) coins familiar to English colonists in North America, it was being called a Spanish dollar by the end of the 17th century and the older term piece of eight gradually fell into disuse.

Children's Album, Book 1, first published in 1947, contains a smooth and melodic Andantino originally composed in 1926 ; this piece is commonly known as Ivan Sings, which stems from eight of ten pieces originally being collected as Adventures of Ivan.

Chicago worked alongside her husband to complete the piece, which took eight years to finish.

Al-Kamil agreed to an eight year peace agreement with Europe and to return a piece of the true cross.

In what became Yugoslavia after the war, the White Hand grew into an essential piece of the state's machinery.

Variety and contrast within a piece became more pronounced than before.

Liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played ( first standing ) with the foot of a percussionist and became the central piece around which every other percussion instruments would later revolve.

In 1674 the French West India Company was dissolved and Grenada became a French Colony rather than a piece of private property in the hands of Companies of Frenchmen.

Hesiod's patrimony there, a small piece of ground at the foot of Mount Helicon, occasioned lawsuits with his brother Perses, who seems at first to have cheated him of his rightful share thanks to corrupt authorities or " kings " but later became impoverished and ended up scrounging on the thrifty poet ( Works l. 35, 396 ).

He became involved with the emerging UK acid house scene, after organizing Madhouse at The Fridge, Brixton in 1988-which was the subject of a piece by Peel in The Observer.

This meant that as soon as photographic materials became sensitive enough ( fast enough ) to take candid or what were called genre pictures, small detective cameras were used, some of them disguised as a tie pin that was really a lens, as a piece of luggage or even a pocket watch ( the Ticka camera ).

From 1987 through 1995, the front spoiler is integrated into the nose and the rear spoiler became a separated wing rather than an integrated piece, and side skirts were added.

Vocal and instrumental “ color ” became more important compared to the Renaissance style of music, and emphasized much of the volume, texture and pace of each piece.

The first Tangerine Dream album, Electronic Meditation, was a tape-collage Krautrock piece, using the technology of the time rather than the synthesized music they later became famous for.

It ’ s as though he thinks I ’ ll break, as though I ’ m a piece of Dresden china and he ’ s gonna hurt me .” During their marriage Gardner became pregnant twice, but she had two abortions.

In 1875, however, producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte reunited Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury, which became a surprise hit.

Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a shocking TV series called Onda Libera, on RAI2, by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted the satirical piece " anthem of the nimble body " ( L ' inno del corpo sciolto, a hymn to defecation ).

is a Winter " a piano piece written by Mark Hessburg, a friend of Darrin's from Kassel became a concert favorite.

Some surviving early medieval pieces depict the piece as a queen, and the word fers became grammatically feminized in several languages, for example alferza in Spanish and fierce or fierge in French, prior to its replacement with names such as reine or dame ( lady ).

She removed a piece of land and transported it to Denmark, and it became the island of Zealand.

The piece, conceived many years earlier, became a waltz with a macabre undertone, famous for its “ fantastic and fatal whirling ”.

Instead, he wrote an orchestral piece based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex, a work that became Egdon Heath and which was first performed a month after Hardy ’ s death, in his memory.

The memoir became cause for controversy, because shortly before Derrida published his piece, it had been discovered by the Belgian literary critic Ortwin de Graef that long before his academic career in the US, de Man had written almost two hundred essays in a pro-Nazi newspaper during the German occupation of Belgium, including several that were explicitly antisemitic.

The town became noticed in American media when CBS 60 minutes made a critical piece on the town being the " safe-haven " for American corporations.

Aaron was rewritten to make him the hero of the piece ( played by Aldridge ), the rape and mutilation of Lavinia were removed, Tamora ( Queen of Scythia ) became chaste and honourable, with Aaron as her friend only, and Chiron and Demetrius act only out of love for their mother.

Durán trained the neophytes in music, organizing both a choir and a 30 piece orchestra that became famous throughout California.

Then the trope became an autonomous piece organized in stanza form.

Twenty-four poems in Carmina Burana were set to music by Carl Orff in 1936 ; Orff's composition quickly became popular and a staple piece of the classical music repertoire.

A small town of Pińczów located some 30 kilometres from Kielce became the capital of the so-called Pinczów Republic, a piece of Polish land controlled by the partisans.