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About 450 million years ago, a meteor struck north-central Oklahoma, creating an impact crater - an astrobleme - more than eight miles wide.
The Welsh League XIII was made up of players from all six teams, but the majority came from Merthyr, who supplied eight of the thirteen players.
Despite this, helmet usage rates in North America are estimated to be between eight and twenty percent.
Of the eight tournaments that have been held, all but one have been won by a national team from the southern hemisphere.
Led by Methusalem Jones, eight Cilgwyn men formed a partnership and took a lease on Gelli Farm where they established their quarry.
The bottom eight teams in League 1 at the end of the regular season compete for the League 1 Shield.
Over the next 150 years, there were 11 more Acts of Parliament and eight commissions of enquiry on the subject.
One of the two Jagdgeschwader fighter wings, JG 2, lost 14 Fw 190s and eight pilots killed.
Seven of the top eight largest countries by area are governed as federations.
The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams.
The size of the Army in Britain was to be reduced from eight divisions to four, freeing about 40,000 men for service in France.
The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the prix Cuvier, and elected him one of its eight foreign members in succession to Michael Faraday.
These nundinals bear a very great resemblance to the dominical letters, which return every eight days, as the nundinals did every nine.
Between August 2008 and his departure from the Premier League, he was booked eight times for simulation.
In Taiwan, the central bank on September 16, 2008, said it would cut its required reserve ratios for the first time in eight years.
He continued to work on the idea for the remaining eight years of his life.
Of all European patent applications in the field of physics and electronics about eight per cent is from North Brabant.
After just eight months, the colony was abandoned in July 1699, except for six men who were too weak to move.
Mary J. Blige got eight Grammy nominations to Justin Timberlake's four and didn't even have to flash any silver-plated nippage.
Previous to the Union of 1707 there were eight total officers of state, four great officers and four lesser officers.
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With a total of eight Brit Awards, including Best British Female Artist six times, Lennox has won more than any other female artist.
At times up to eight or nine lighters would be loading at the jetty with cargo for Melbourne, as well as a steamer.
However, there is a movement on the World Curling Tour to make the games only eight ends.
This resulted in Lloyd George's defeat in Cabinet and the adoption of estimates including provision for eight dreadnoughts.
As part of this interest he bought shares in eight of the mines to help provide capital.
An apparatus was installed in the belfry in 1877 so that all eight bells could be chimed by one person.
In 2003 Ring Magazine named Fitzsimmons number eight of all time among boxing's best punchers.
By the early 1900s Llantrisant had eight chapels, as well as the Llantrisant Parish Church Only two religious buildings remain.
It is pierced by eight light wells just below the lantern, but these are barely visible.
The new Parker Pen Shield saw 32 teams divided into eight groups of four competing for the title.
Today, the Nigerian Methodist Church has a prelate, eight archbishops and 44 bishops.
The Conservative Presbyterian Church was founded in 1940 and has eight presbyteries.
In addition, pupils usually elect to continue with other subjects and many study for eight or nine GCSEs but possibly up to ten or eleven.
The Man with the Golden Gun was published eight months after Fleming's death and had not been through the full editing process by Fleming.
Before the match with Wales, New Zealand were to face eight club teams over six games.
In auto racing, three Brazilian drivers have won the Formula One world championship eight times.
The royal burgh was then absorbed into a new district of Inverness, which was one of eight districts within the Highland region.
The wall was abandoned only eight years after completion, and the garrisons relocated back to Hadrian's Wall.
There were eight principal areas used by Europeans to buy and ship slaves to the Western Hemisphere.
However, the murder victims were primarily female, while the eight surviving figures are male.
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Their final group stage game was against the West Indies, where they lost by eight wickets.
The corporation board consisted of eight members including a chairman and deputy chairman.
On 17 May three battalions of regulars and eight Highland companies reoccupied Fort Augustus.
In 2015 Italian Air Force Typhoons were deployed for about eight months in Siaulai base in northern Lithuania during the Baltic Frontier mission.
Aside from her eight Brit Awards, she has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award.
It reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart and number 19 on the US Top Electronic Albums.
The DUP is the largest party in Northern Ireland, holding eight seats at Westminster and 28 seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
An end is complete when all eight rocks from each team have been delivered, a total of sixteen stones.
It was also initially intended to increase Bridge Street station to eight through lines and to increase Central station to 13 platforms.
The Queen appoints a Lord Lieutenant to represent her in the eight Preserved counties of Wales, which are combinations of council areas.
Sam Dolgoff estimated that about eight million people participated directly or at least indirectly in the Spanish Revolution.
This figure is two and a half times higher than that of platinum, eight times more than mercury, and seventeen times more than gold.
Some scholars recommend voting districts of roughly four to eight seats, which are considered small relative to PR systems in general.
Bangor City have also won the Welsh Cup eight times, most recently in the 2010 competition.
Highlights of eight games of each round were broadcast as catch up on ITV Local.
Coach Duncan Fletcher resigned after eight years in the job as a result and was succeeded by former Sussex coach Peter Moores.
They lost eight seats in Belfast and County Antrim, where the issue of the border had far less resonance.
The genus Oncorhynchus contains eight species which occur naturally only in the North Pacific.
There are eight marginal inscriptions written in Latin and Old Welsh, which are some of the earliest extant written Welsh.
The present choir consist of up to 30 boy choristers, eight probationers and the Vicars Choral, 12 professional singers, historically men.
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Calls for Head Coach Dai Young to be removed intensified between November and January when the team went eight games without recording a victory.
The following year's competition had an increased entry with eight groups of four teams.
It takes six or eight years to get educated in one's art, and another ten to get rid of that education.
In 2009, South Africa cancelled all eight aircraft, citing increasing costs.
Big Oil is a name used to describe the world's seven or eight largest publicly owned oil and gas companies, also known as supermajors.
Traditional grammarians tried to group the various suffixes into eight cases corresponding to the cases used in Sanskrit.
From 1952 to 1954, Hill rowed in twenty finals with London, usually as stroke of the crew, eight of which resulted in wins.
Although both universities were founded more than eight centuries ago, the term Oxbridge is relatively recent.
With his debts and political difficulties, the marriage may have been troubled, but it lasted 50 years and produced eight children.
Taking eight wins and never qualifying off the front row, Hill enjoyed by far his most successful season.
On the first concert in Canada, they performed to an audience of 15,000 people, singing twenty songs and changing a total of eight times.
Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London included six events for women compared with eight for men.
With the permitted circumference between seven and a half and eight inches and weight between two and a half and three ounces.
The municipality of Tijuana is divided into eight administrative boroughs, or Delegaciones.
In the final, Australia dismissed Pakistan for 132 and then reached the target in less than 20 overs and with eight wickets in hand.
The Irish Air Corps is the air component of the Defence Forces and operates sixteen fixed wing aircraft and eight helicopters.
He started sailing at the age of eight and first competed at the age of ten.
The region consisted of eight districts, of which one was called Inverness.
The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship, which they have won twelve times outright and shared eight times.
Norway has been ranked the highest twelve times, Canada eight times, followed by Japan which has been ranked highest three times.
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The team had won the competition eight times, taking the title outright on three occasions.
Esquivel said only eight percent of colleges provide a liberal education to four percent of students in the United States.
The United States has hosted eight Olympic Games, four Summer and four Winter, more than any other nation.
Reynolds died on 23 February 1792 at his house in Leicester Fields in London between eight and nine in the evening.
The European pine marten has lived to 18 years in captivity, but in the wild a lifespan of eight to ten years is more typical.
As of 1998, the division Pinophyta was estimated to contain eight families, 68 genera, and 629 living species.
Seriously ill from AIDS at the time, Charleson died eight weeks after his last performance.
The United States won eight gold medals, including all six men's events, and 15 medals in total.
Of the eight Scottish banks, Clydesdale had been the third largest by deposits, the North being the smallest.
There are over 60 recycling points located throughout Moray in addition to eight larger recycling centres.
In chapter eight of this book I wrote that I was uncertain about whether they were lovers.
By July, the Jacobites had eight battalions and two companies, almost all Highlanders.
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.
Spanish pieces of eight minted in Mexico or Seville were the standard trade currency in the American colonies.
About eight million men surrendered and were held in POW camps during the war.
Hannah was released from the asylum eight months later, but in March 1905, her illness returned, this time permanently.
The Presidencies and the first eight provinces were each under a Governor, while the latter six provinces were each under a Chief Commissioner.
The A330 and previous iterations of the A350 would only be able to accommodate a maximum of eight seats per row.
Most tournaments on that tour are eight ends, as are the vast majority of recreational games.
Architectural sculptor John Thomas contributed eight allegorical statues representing the cities served by the line.
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The Western Task Force included the battleships Arkansas, Nevada, and Texas, plus eight cruisers, 28 destroyers, and one monitor.
The armies took up battle positions daily and viewed each other from a mile without any major action for eight days.
The draft bill contained two proposals, one for eight local authorities and one for nine local authorities.
Anarchist historian Sam Dolgoff estimated that about eight million people participated directly or indirectly in the Spanish Revolution.
The Queen appoints Lords Lieutenant to represent her in the eight preserved counties of Wales.
Summa crusta of silex or lava polygonal slabs, one to three feet in diameter and eight to twelve inches thick, were laid on top of the rudens.
They consist of a carillon of eight bells operated by hand and are still in use today.
Plumer declined the suggestion, as eight fresh German divisions were behind the battlefield, with another six beyond them.
It will feature 42 navy blue gondolas that can hold up to eight adults and two kids.
During the 1990s, with Michael Jordan leading them, the Bulls won six NBA championships in eight seasons.
In 1950, four teams remained after the first round, in 1958 eight teams remained and in 2014 sixteen teams remained.
They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark, and in eight days time they are as well as before the illness.
Between Eccles and Pole Moor, 67 motorway crossings were required, including seven viaducts and eight junctions.
The national team is one of eight national teams to have won at least one FIFA World Cup title.
A minimum of six of the eight seat IFAB board needs to vote to accept a rule change.
The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liverpool.
In the last 16 World Cup tournaments, Germany has always reached at least the stage of the last eight teams.
Most species hunt for three to five hours each day and nursing mothers up to eight hours each day.
Internationally Super League is shown live by eight different broadcasters in eight different countries and regions.
He wrote poetry and read widely from eight or nine years of age and was especially fond of the works of John Keats and Shelley.
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Liverpool has won the English League Championship eighteen times, the FA Cup seven times and the League Cup a record eight times.
After the first knockout round, the 40 survivors entered a group phase, with the clubs being drawn into eight groups of five each.
By 1862, Ferrabee's company was making eight models in various roller sizes.
The dome is supported on pendentives rising between eight arches spanning the nave, choir, transepts, and aisles.
The league was played until April, and then the Celtic Cup was contested amongst the top eight teams.
In 2010 Chelsea Ladies were one of the eight founder members of the FA Women's Super League.
Dowding also introduced modern aircraft into service during the pre war period, including the eight gun Spitfire and Hurricane.
Jakub Smrz took third, as nine riders went down before the official called an early end after eight laps.
Armstrong is a leg-breaker, with eight fielders on the on-side. Probably he would do better if he bowled more at the wicket.
In September 2010, it was reported that a further two 787s might join the test fleet for a total of eight flight test aircraft.
Each of the first four tournaments was played by eight teams, divided into two groups of four.
The family traces its lineage across eight centuries to Norman times and was closely connected to many aristocratic families of Great Britain.
Telephone and cellular subscribers' numbers have eight digits, previously they were only six digits.
It is organised into eight directorates that report to the chief executive.
In May 1877, Richard Wagner himself conducted the first half of each of the eight concerts which made up the Grand Wagner Festival.
Part II of the Charter details eight main principles and objectives upon which States must base their policies and legislation.
Montoya finished third in the Drivers' Championship, eight points ahead of Ralf Schumacher, who finished fourth.
The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as a botanic garden.
His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson.
According to one theory, the eight romances were originally intended to be separate, but Caxton altered them to be more unified.
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For example, the Puritans who established Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 founded Harvard College only eight years later.
Hill became champion in 1996 with eight wins, but was dropped by Williams for the following season.
During the match, the players made a total of eight century breaks, four from Hendry and four from O'Sullivan.
Its LZR Racer suit helped Michael Phelps win eight golds at the 2008 Olympics.
He has been presented many awards, including seventeen BRIT and eight ECHO awards.
Wittgenstein's school hours were eight to twelve or one, and he had afternoons free.
The university also operates eight cultural and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a botanic garden.
Four minutes later in the 69th minute, Scotland quickly scored two tries with Manclark and Shelford sealing the eight points.
Ethiopia is one of the eight fundamental and independent centers of origin for cultivated plants in the world.
Of these, eight are endemic, one has been introduced by humans, and one is rare or accidental.
Currently, King's is made up of eight academic faculties, which are subdivided into departments, centres and research divisions.
Cambridge University operates eight arts, cultural, and scientific museums, and a botanic garden.
There are a total of eight intercollegiate halls of the University of London.
He then retires to a hermitage to live the remainder of his life in penitence, with eight of his kin joining him, including Sir Bors.
These were raised into position as eight pairs, and all were fixed into place within a week.
Dott then took all eight frames of the third session, leaving himself one frame away from his second final in three years.
Primary education consists of eight years, followed by four years of secondary education, and then four years of university instruction.
These Agencies were supported by a set of eight newly created Regional Assemblies, or Chambers.
Hawke remained in charge for 28 seasons until 1910, during which time the team won eight County Championships.
In 1996, a related series of eight lunchtime chamber concerts was started, taking place on Mondays during the Proms season.
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Henry was the seventh of eight children in a family that often struggled with poverty.
Her captain, Henry Bostock, and crew, remained Teach's prisoners for about eight hours, and were forced to watch as their sloop was ransacked.
He then called a meeting of his fellow sailors and moved eight ships into the harbour, causing panic within the town.
The Conservation Area has been split into eight 'character' areas, based on historic development, building type, uses and activities.
However the top eight full member teams in the ICC T20I Championship rankings on 8 October 2012 were given a place in the Super 10 stage.
The remaining eight teams competed in the group stage, from which two teams advance to the Super 10 stage.
Richard ruled peacefully for the next eight years, having reconciled with his former adversaries.
The host city for an Olympic Games is usually chosen seven to eight years ahead of their celebration.
By 1389 Richard had regained control, and for the next eight years governed in relative harmony with his former opponents.
From 1 April 1974 the number of counties and county councils was reduced to eight in number.
Hearts have won the Scottish Cup eight times and the Scottish League Cup four times.
The average clutch size is eight eggs but may amount up to 12, rarely only four or five eggs.
Prior to 2015 the eight authorities formed only a combined strategic planning authority.
This cabinet consists of the leaders of all eight councils, with the leader of Glasgow City Council being Chair of the Cabinet.
The eight district councils in Derbyshire and the unitary authority of Derby are shown in the map above.
Ten workers, eight of them British, were killed during construction between 1987 and 1993, most in the first few months of boring.
At the terminals the shuttle trains traverse a figure eight to reduce uneven wear on the wheels.
Census data provides eight nominal rather than 25 real wards, all of varying size and population.
However, many other scholars believe the poem to have been written during various years between the eight and tenth centuries.
There are eight sovereign states that have successfully detonated nuclear weapons.
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Badly damaged and with eight crew dead, Alferez Sobral managed to return to Puerto Deseado two days later.
The Rolling Stones would become the biggest band other than the Beatles to come out of the British Invasion, topping the Hot 100 eight times.
Coleridge made plans to establish a journal, The Watchman, to be printed every eight days to avoid a weekly newspaper tax.
It has a county council based in Matlock and eight district councils and since 1997, a unitary authority area of the City of Derby.
Ukraine is one of eight countries in Eastern Europe with an Individual Partnership Action Plan.
By now, much of Scotland was under English occupation, with eight of the Scottish lowland counties being ceded to England by Edward Balliol.
It consisted of fifteen songs, of which eight had been recorded at Headley Grange in 1974 and seven had been recorded earlier.
The final performance of the work at which Handel was present was at Covent Garden on 6 April 1759, eight days before his death.
Over the next eight years, Delius befriended many writers and artists, including August Strindberg, Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin.
The album is certified eight times platinum in the United States, and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide.
Overall, Military Air Solution has 14,000 employees spread across eight sites in the United Kingdom.
The fourteen tournaments held to date have been at intervals ranging from two to eight years, and have featured a number of different formats.
In 2014 it was reported that another eight aircraft would be cut from the following year's order.
In a meeting in Sydney, Australia in March 2012, the United States pledged to eight partner nations that there would be no more program delays.
When Brunel was eight he was sent to Dr Morrell's boarding school in Hove, where he learned the classics.
It features eight regional teams from South Africa and is aimed at increasing the amount of playing time for players.
In May 2013 VT Transman began operating two bus contracts in Budapest for eight years.
Three more wins followed, including a disqualification win in eight rounds against important challenger Tommy Yarosz.
She has earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations, eleven Golden Globe nominations and eight BAFTA nominations.
This trend continued with a further eight and fifteen lost on 16 and 17 August.
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From 1914 to 1918, trade union membership doubled, from a little over four million to a little over eight million.
He then told von Brauchitsch and Halder that he would decide on the landing operation eight to fourteen days after the air attack began.
The production of the film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was completed in about eight months.
Nine combat launches were made, resulting in the destruction of eight Axis aircraft for the loss of one Allied pilot.
The film was also nominated for eight Saturn Awards and won for its costumes design.
It took Campania and Plym eight weeks to make the voyage, as they sailed around the Cape of Good Hope instead of traversing the Suez Canal.
After 23 games, teams enter a Super 8 stage, the top eight play each other once more.
The women's record is held by Nicol David with eight wins followed by Sarah Fitzgerald five, Susan Devoy four, and Michelle Martin three.
In 1920, the United States, fielding a team with many players new to the sport of rugby, upset France in a shock win, eight points to zero.
When he was eight or nine he transferred to the most junior form of the Northampton Grammar School, on the Billing Road.
The eight teams in the quarter finals play each other with the four winners progressing to the semi finals before the World Cup Final.
Each team starts the match with 15 players on the field and seven or eight substitutes.
A scrum is formed by the eight forwards from each team binding together in three rows.
The village is overlooked by the eight story buildings of the British Library on the Thorp Arch Trading estate.
The mammalian species in the islands include the introduced Central American agouti and eight species of bats.
He bought shares in eight Cornish copper mines and met Thomas Williams, the 'Copper King' of the Parys Mountain mines in Anglesey.
Celtic also clinched their sixth successive league title on 2 April 2017, with a record eight league games to spare.
The table measures eight feet long when it is fully extended.
In national elections in September 2013, voters ended eight years of Labor rule.
There are two chicken dishes under eight dollars listed on the menu.
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The size and weight which the adipescent liver may acquire varies from five to eight or nine pounds.
Hell, it was only eight hours since he'd been kissing her goodnight, all afterglowy and affectionate.
The brave German car's all-wheel drive tackled and spun through almost eight inches of loosely plowed snow.
Agnes Minor Limberger was one of a family of eight children born to Francis and Atalina Minor.
In shape it is a tiny square box of silver, studded outside with eight small balas-rubies.
Even back then, a party just wasn't a party without my bestie, and I was miserable for the last eight frames.
After four to eight days of incubation, this biolung was grafted on to a rat.
Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him.
This first bolter contains a screen of eight meshes to the inch and separates the hard particles, dirt or scale.
We beg leave to state that on high colors cut by ten yards, there is a bonification of eight per cent.
Some fine Bordeauxes and Cabernets actually grow smoother as they sit, and are better served seven or eight years old.
Changes to the Laws of the Game must be agreed by at least six of the eight delegates.
A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.
Meanwhile, it is thirty eight degrees outside and Pastor Angie is cladly dressed walking down Gordon Parks Avenue.
Defensive clownery by the Mets at certain points of the game ultimately cost the 22-year-old Niese his first major league win in eight months.
I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history.
As well as outright control on these councils, the DUP is also the largest party in eight of the other councils.
The SNP took a further eight seats from the Liberal Democrats and one seat from the Conservatives.
There are only eight levels but the varied game modes in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.
Torque bursts greater than eight times operating torque have been calculated.
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The tournament proper begins with a group stage of 32 teams, divided into eight groups.
Seven of the world's top eight global advertising agency networks have their headquarters in New York.
But the De profundis has only eight verses and so it is not surprising that all of it should have been adapted.
He employs an equatorial with an object-glass having a focal length of five metres, and which was diaphragmed down to eight centimetres.
But Ireland dug out a gutsy response and applied pressure which resulted in number eight Heaslip diving over in the corner to revive home hopes.
You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.
The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy.
Since 1979, Europe has won ten times outright and retained the Cup once in a tied match, with eight American wins over this period.
Six Argentine National Gendarmerie Special Forces were killed and eight more wounded in the crash.
In 2014 Sevilla won their third cup in eight years after beating Benfica on penalties.
Under new Director of Rugby Phil Davies, Cardiff Blues managed only eight wins in the Pro12 and one in the Heineken Cup.
Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
Gelifluction is prominent in periglacial regions where snow falls during six to eight months of the year.
Amazingly, of Fly's first eight shots two are blocked, three go in, and three are goaltended.
The water was clear as crystal, and floating in it were eight hundred groopers, of from five to fifteen pounds weight each.
Pakistan's Olympics medal tally stands at ten, of which eight were earned in field hockey.
Our walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette.
This is like gunmakers coming out with bullets that contain eight essential vitamins.
She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.
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When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
The eight regional chambers as defined by the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 were not directly elected.
Built by Bombardier Transportation and Vossloh Kiepe, the initial eight M5000s were ordered to allow services to be increased.
Only seven or eight of the native 'Indians' arrived in Spain alive, but they made quite an impression on Seville.
Using the spinning wheel, it took anywhere from four to eight spinners to supply one hand loom weaver.
His mother was taken ill with abdominal cancer and, after an unsuccessful operation, died in December 1839 when he was eight years old.
The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia.
Crouch had earlier hopelessly miskicked an excellent volleyed chance from eight yards out after a delightful Pennant cross.
This was six times as much as that of the frilingi and eight times as much as the lazzi.
A team scoring four tries in one match scored a bonus point, as did a team that lost by fewer than eight points.
On the other hand, the eight hypergeusic children were described as temperamental during meals and difficult in their food choices.
Of the eleven ancient aqueducts serving Rome, eight of them entered Rome close to each other on the Esquiline Hill.
Rome had not fallen to an enemy since the Battle of the Allia over eight centuries before.
The unbinding of the Chrisom took place with great ceremony eight days later at the royal estate at Wedmore.
Louis had the marriage annulled and Henry married Eleanor eight weeks later on 18 May.
Jackson died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 three years later, after playing eight Tests.
The party held onto just eight constituencies in Great Britain, with only one in Scotland, one in Wales and six in England.
In the first eight years of the Church's life, 11 out of 21 missionaries who worked in the Gold Coast died.
Cornwall has a comprehensive education system, with 31 state and eight independent secondary schools.
Virginia has extended state recognition to eight Native American tribes resident in the state, though some lack federal recognition status.
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In recent years, the Eden Project near St Austell has been a major financial success, drawing one in eight of Cornwall's visitors.
A squadron of French ships, carrying eight hundred naval infantry, attempted retaliation but made little headway.
In the first eight years of his rule Napoleon III paid little attention to Algeria.
It was discovered in time with eight conspirators executed, including Guy Fawkes, who became the iconic evil traitor in English lore.
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
After eight hours, the English ships began to run out of ammunition, and some gunners began loading objects such as chains into cannons.
Within eight hours, James was proclaimed king in London, the news received without protest or disturbance.
The university was one of only eight UK universities to hold a parliamentary seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The much stronger castle at Pembroke, however, fell only after a siege of eight weeks.
Once the riverfront was on fire and the escape route cut off by boat, the only exits were the eight gates in the wall.
As for the 2011 season, 25 riders of eight nations participated in the premier class of the championship.
Napoleon had dispatched all eight battalions of the Young Guard to reinforce Lobau, who was now seriously pressed by the enemy.
It was said to be the largest object ever made out of resin, taking eight attempts to produce due to the resin cracking.
In 1963, he was the first of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
The eight months of bombing never seriously hampered British production and the war industries continued to operate and expand.
Seven major and eight heavy attacks were flown, but the weather made it difficult to keep up the pressure.
By the end of the air campaign over Britain, only eight percent of the German effort against British ports was made using mines.
A total of eight matches are known to have been played at Lord's in 1787, one of them a single wicket event.
Most professional degree programs require a prior bachelor's degree for admission, and many require seven or eight years of total study.
At the end of June in her first race in eight months, she won her fifth British title.

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