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The Brangus is genetically five-eights Angus and three-eights Brahman, and fares better in warm climates than other breeds.
Eights are especially prevalent; sometimes they look like infinity signs.
"In the mansion, they fly in figure eights," he said.
At the blackjack table, always split aces, eights and nines. 5.
Khalifeh leaned intently toward her, sculpting the air in figure eights.
One way we encourage this is with an exercise called Crazy Eights.
He was walking figure eights, over and over, the exact same path.
We twirled, hips winding in figure eights until the singer began to howl.
The Abner Read was doing figure-eights in the water, looking for submarines.
The hotel's bi-level restaurant and its bar, Crazy Eights, is packed every weekend.
Now, sadly, the Banks household is once again at sixes, sevens and possibly eights.
We watched as American bombers flew lazy eights in the sky awaiting their bombing runs.
Inside the boxes are bees, dancing in circles and figure-eights and sometimes just waggling.
It's why so many Chinese license plates, phone numbers, and even street addresses contain eights.
Lens extracted the address and date correctly, but thought the sixes were eights in the phone number.
No more After Eights, no more games of Frustration, no more worrying about your grandad's cholesterol levels.
As a result, four Russian boats, including the men's and women's eights, are out of the Games.
But its strategy is more complex than grueling little-kid standards like crazy eights, speed or (shudder) war.
Lesley Thompson-Willie, a member of the Canadian women's eights, will be competing in her eighth Olympic Games.
Australia's focus on the smaller boats had yielded results but left the eights in the cold, said Ginn.
Recruited athletes, which Harvard admits in droves to fill its lacrosse teams and rowing eights, are also disproportionately white.
The term comes from the dead man's hand, the fabled poker hand containing both black aces and two eights.
Right, and Larry Bird was wearing skates, not Converse, while doing figure eights between jump shots at the old Garden.
Eights months after that, and DJI's latest drone, the $22.7 Spark, halves the size and weight of the already slim Mavic.
DeMar DeRozan led the Spurs with 23 points and eights assists while LaMarcus Aldridge scored 14 points and took 18 rebounds.
As recently as the mid-2000s, the Tigers—then coached by John Calipari—reached two Elite Eights and one national title game.
Ginn, Australia's most successful Olympic rower, said the eights crews had paid the price for being treated as an afterthought by selectors.
You throw in very slow incubation times on top of that, and these attributes are collectively a bunch of black eights and aces.
Heating specific areas in sequence made it possible for researchers to create more complex and specific movement patterns, like circles and figure eights.
My favorite pigeons were the ones that gracefully traced figure eights, abruptly changing direction as if blown by a sudden gust of wind.
I have a long history of loving Nissan sixes, and while I like the eights, I never thought about them all that much.
This is the second time McDonald's has tweaked its menu this month, after trimming down its late-night menu to keep only eights items.
That's because straight-eights fell out of favor in the middle of the 20th century, replaced by their more compact cousin, the V8 engine.
From gifted athletes to teetering toddlers, they are looking to showcase their figure eights and pirouettes — or simply make it around while staying upright.
For up-to-the-minute traffic information, check this live traffic map or listen to the radio report on the ones or the eights.
We swayed in unison, dutifully did our figure eights with our ovaries and "gonads," a word I have never heard with such frequency before.
Are there more Elevens and Eights out there in the world, and will they all team up to defeat the threat once and for all?
I found her dancing in the center of the inn, her hands raised into the air as she moved her body in seductive figure eights.
Eights states (Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island) require employers to offer some level of I.V.F. benefit, Ms. Collura said.
Then there's the other kind of time: the expected rhythms of our lives (punching in, punching out, news and weather on the eights), constantly in flux.
The Crazy Eights had been good, but the newly formed Legion of Doom was even better, and it's the Lindros line everyone remembers to this day.
The single dining room, clad in raw two-by-eights, could be a suburban basement finished over the weekend by a couple with a table saw.
Britain's Prince Harry kisses his then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy as England plays Australia during their World Cup cricket Super Eights match in St. John's April 8, 2007.
He used the code 1488 to allude to a 14-word nazi slogan and "heil Hitler," double-eights, because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
The Fed has raised interest rates eights times since 85033, six times since Trump took office and three times since Powell took over as chairman in February.
Overall, Georgia leans to Trump, but his lead narrowed to five percentage points this week, down from eights points last week and 13 points a month ago.
Three protest leaders were given 16 months, one of them suspended for two years, two received eights months in prison and two were given suspended eight-month sentences.
In his tenure at Michigan State, Valentine appeared in three Sweet Sixteens, two Elite Eights, and a Final Four and earned many publications' Player of the Year awards in 2016.
More than eights years after finalizing her divorce from Jon Gosselin in 2009, the reality star is getting back into the dating scene with her new TLC series Kate Plus Date .
More than eights years after finalizing her divorce from Jon Gosselin in 2009, the reality star is getting back into the dating scene with her new TLC series Kate Plus Date.
And then they said it was in North Korea, and then they found out it was a nuclear test, I said, I never heard of a Richter scale in the high eights.
According to Bloomberg, Nasdaq said that information sent from its facility in Carteret, New Jersey to the New York Stock Exchange data center in Mahwah was taking about eights microseconds longer to transfer.
Eights months after Rob Kardashian was hospitalized for his type 2 diabetes, the Rob & Chyna star is revealing the "big-time scare" that pushed him to "make changes" to his body and lifestyle.
The line would stay together for much of those first two season, and became known as the "Crazy Eights" line because Fedyk wore 18, Recchi wore 8 and Lindros had his famous 88.
The Frenchman was instrumental in leading the Bulldogs to three Sweet 16 appearances, two Elite Eights, and a national title game appearance, but missed 22 games last season thanks to ankle and foot injuries.
He served eights years in federal prison for his crimes — one year at the FCI Butner Low, a low-security federal correctional institute in North Carolina, and seven at a prison camp in Tucson, Ariz.
Field Notes Brides who once may have looked forward to walking down the aisle dressed to the nines are now bouncing down it dressed to the eights, or maybe a seven and a half (narrow).
The overhaul was the first for VPS-5 after it began sustained production in 2013 following eights of piping repairs from chemical corrosion that occurred two months after the CDU's initial startup in April 2012.
No deaths were reported, but at least 25 people were treated for mostly minor injuries in area hospitals, including a woman eights months pregnant whose home caved in on her and her two children, officials said.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Three-time Olympic gold medalist Drew Ginn has blamed Australian rowing for a "tradition of secrecy" in its selections after the men's and women's eights failed to qualify for the Rio de Janeiro Games.
The real question is whether Cohen has anything valuable to trade for a deal with the special counsel, or whether his rambling threats inadvertently reveal that he is holding the "dead man's hand" of aces and eights.
He draws in white wax crayon on paper covered with wet chalkboard gray paint — a favorite wet-dry technique — to creating wobbly spirals, tumbling figure eights and lasso-y loops that suggest an artist working on a tightrope.
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo said it had reached an agreement with Serbia that will allow it to have its own international telephone dialing code, eights years after declaring independence, in a move that will save millions of euros in payments to foreign countries.
We do figure eights in the grass, we have a bump track that feels like you're driving on a railroad track, and we have a twist track, like a ditch, that twists components to make sure the axles and frame are flexible.
Even after filling three eights and three fours, plus coxswains for each boat—the equivalent of first through third string—the Hawkeyes still have an additional 47 athletes, or over half the team, remaining, and all of them are counted toward Title IX compliance.
Jettly customers, both individual and corporate, are willing to pay well above standard rates — a typical rate for a light jet that seats six to eights passengers is $5,000 for an hour — to evacuate areas within 24-48 hours instead of waiting a few days.
When the colossal Italian finally retires, he will be an obvious candidate for the World Rugby Hall of Fame: he is widely regarded as one of the best number eights ever to play the game, having twice been nominated for the World Rugby Player of the Year award.
Wild Bill Hickok, his days as a lawman only slightly behind him, came here to pan, quickly decided he'd rather make his fortune playing cards, and was shot dead in Saloon No. 10 while holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights, now known as the Dead Man's Hand.
Kyle Hughes, an Australian who has skied in South Korea for five years and runs an independent online travel guide called Korea Snow, points out other advantages: "The Koreans have the best skiing infrastructure in Asia — they have high-speed gondolas, fast quads, fast eights, the latest magic carpets," he said.
I'm on my back on the floor of a dim-lit Manhattan fitness studio, arms flat on my sides, hips raised as a painfully-fit instructor with an enviably bouncy ponytail (especially considering we've been working out for 220 minutes) calls out commands to lift our hips, make figure-eights, thrust towards the ceiling.
"It's beautiful here," my husband said in Farsi to some local men making repairs to solar panels donated by a German N.G.O. "Oh yes, so beautiful!" retorted one of the men with a sarcasm so sharp it broke the language barrier as children rode rusted bicycles in figure-eights around dwellings built from clay and yak dung.
There was a bit of a challenge to evenly distribute eight 8's in the grid while ensuring the horizontal 8's were all replacing ATE and pronounced like 8 while ensuring the vertical eights were all replacing OO. Because I didn't have a set of theme answers in mind, this provided some freedom to try to make the fill as interesting and clean as possible.
Nestlé has also made special editions of After Eights, including orange After Eights and milk chocolate After Eights.
Chris Fishers Profile at the Aces & Eights web site As of 2009, Fisher plays in the Washington, D.C. band, Aces & Eights.
After Eights are sold across Europe and North America, and one billion After Eights are made annually. After Eights were originally made from dairy-free dark chocolate. In 2002, however, Nestlé started adding butterfat to After Eights made at certain production facilities so as to increase resistance to chocolate bloom. This practice expanded to all production facilities in 2009.
The following week, Angle was chosen as the number one contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, but was defeated by Jeff Hardy in his title match. Afterwards, Angle was attacked by Aces & Eights. At Turning Point, Angle defeated Aces & Eights member Devon via submission, despite the rest of Aces & Eights trying to interfere. Angle continued his feud with Aces & Eights on the December 6 episode of Impact Wrestling, defeating DOC via disqualification after the rest of Aces & Eights interfered.
Victoria Lepădatu (born 12 June 1971) is a retired Romanian rower. She competed in coxless fours and eights at the 1992 Olympics and won a silver medal in the eights.
Since 1990, BNCBC Men's 1st VIII crews have finished as high as fourth in Summer Eights, and BNCBC Women's 1st VIII crews have finished as high as second in Summer Eights.
The other body styles used fabric. The wood paneled Sportsman convertible was gone. 86,363 Mercury Eights were sold. For all practical purposes the 1948 Mercury Eights were identical to the 1947s.
The club shares a boathouse with Oriel College Boat Club and The Queen's College Boat Club. The club competes in the Torpids and Summer Eights and the Henley Fours and Eights.
The FAA Airplane Flying Handbook FAA-H-8083-3A gives detailed instructions on flying Eights on Pylons Eights on Pylons or Pylon Eights, is a ground reference maneuver where an aircraft is flown in a figure eight pattern around two selected points on the ground (the pylons).United States Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA-H-8083-3A, Airplane Flying Handbook However, Eights on Pylons differs from similar maneuvers such as Eights Along a Road, Eights Across a Road, or Eights Around Pylons in that the objective of Eights on Pylons is not to maintain a specific altitude and ground track, but rather to fly the airplane so that the pylon remains fixed in place when viewed from the cockpit along a line parallel to the lateral axis of the aircraft. This is only possible when the aircraft is flown at the pivotal altitude corresponding to the current groundspeed. If the aircraft is flying in wind, the groundspeed will vary throughout the maneuver and thus the pivotal altitude will change also.
Annette Schortinghuis-Poelenije (born 1 January 1952) is a retired Dutch rower. Her team finished fourth at the 1975 World Championships and eights at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the coxed eights event.
The Eights Coast of Antarctica was named in his honor.
Maria Helena "Marleen" van Rij (born 29 August 1950) is a retired Dutch rower. Her teams finished sixth at the 1977 World Championships and eights at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the coxed eights event.
Sadler coached the Kingston Rowing Club in the eights in 1880.
The division's insignia was four 'eights' arranged in an 'X' shape.
The lowest pairs are the mismatched nines, eights, sevens, and fives.
Non-Championship Eights (formerly the Child Beale trophy) is an event for School and Club VIIIs and has traditionally been entered by smaller and less well established or funded schools. There is a similar event named First Eights at Schools' Head of the River. The Child Beale Trophy was last awarded in 2018 to Bedford School and the event is now renamed to 'Non-Championship Eights'. One month later at Henley, Championship and Non-Championship eights race together in the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup.
Balliol College 1st VIII rowing to the Summer Eights Headship in 2008. St Catherine's College at Torpids in 2010. In 2008, Balliol's Men regained the Head of the River in the Oxford Summer Eights competition, the first time in 52 years. As of 29 May 2010, the College's women are currently placed "Head of the River" in the Summer Eights.
Devon as Television Champion with Aces & Eights member DOC On October 14 at Bound for Glory, Devon returned to TNA turning heel, when he attacked Bully Ray and Sting, costing them their tag team match against the heel Aces & Eights stable, who, as a result, earned full access to TNA. Devon, the first unmasked member of Aces & Eights, wrestled his first match back in the main event of the following episode of Impact Wrestling, losing to Sting via disqualification following interference from Aces & Eights. On November 1, Devon and Bully Ray faced off in the main event of Impact Wrestling, however, the match ended in a brawl between the Aces & Eights and the TNA locker room. On November 11 at Turning Point, Devon was defeated by Kurt Angle in singles match via submission, despite the rest of Aces & Eights trying to interfere.
In 1941, he won his last German title with the coxed eights.
University College Boat Club (commonly abbreviated to UCBC) is the rowing club for all members of University College, Oxford ("Univ"). UCBC has had a recent run of successes, notably in the Women's divisions with the Women's 1st VIII winning Blades in Summer Eights 2015 to leave them fourth on the river, and the 2nd VIII winning Blades in Summer Eights 2014 and again in Summer Eights 2018. The men's side is also highly successful and is currently eighth on the river in Summer Eights, with three crews in fixed divisions., OURCS.
Harold Boyce Budd Jr. (born January 4, 1939) is a retired American competition rower who won a gold medal in the eights at the 1964 Olympics. Budd graduated from the Yale University in 1961, and then joined the Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club, winning with them national titles in the pairs, fours, and eights in 1964 and 1965. He also won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1965 European championships. In 1962, he spent a year at Cambridge University in England, and won with them the Henley Royal Regatta in the eights.
Rosenberg competed in from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s, and won four U.S. and three Canadian national rowing titles: in 1954, he won the U.S. coxed fours and Canada eights; in 1955, he won the U.S. eights; and in 1957 and 1958, he won both the U.S. and Canadian eights. Internationally he won a silver medal in the eights at the 1958 European Rowing Championships, a gold medal and a silver medal at the 1955 Pan American Games, and a gold medal at the 1961 Maccabiah Games.
James Eights (1798–1882) was an American physician, scientist, and artist. He was born in Albany, New York, the son of physician Jonathan Eights and Alida Wynkoop. James also became a physician and was appointed an examiner at a local engineering school which is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Eights became an assistant to Amos Eaton and helped complete the surveys along the Erie Canal.
Barbara Francine de Jong (born 22 June 1952) is a retired Dutch rower. Her teams finished in eights place at the 1975 World Championships in the coxed fours and at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the coxed eights events.
Schneider, p. 47 Splitting eights limits one's losses and improves one's hand.Jensen, p.
In 2018, the Pembroke Women's 1st boat again achieved the Summer Eights headship.
From 1997 when Hayman was at the Australian Institute of Sport he coxed ACT eights in the King's Cup, starting with the victorious ACT crew of 1997. He then steered the ACT King's Cup eights of 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003.
The games included are: Crazy Eights, Old Maid, Hearts, Gin Rummy, Cribbage, and Klondike.
He again competed in New South Wales King's Cup eights in 1922 and 1923.
At Slammiversary XI, Bully Ray successfully defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Sting in a No Holds Barred match, with the assistance of his faction Aces & Eights. The match stipulated that Sting would not receive a title shot at the title again. On the June 13 episode of Impact Wrestling, Sting announced that he was bringing back Main Event Mafia to battle Aces & Eights, with Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Magnus and Rampage Jackson being announced as the members in the upcoming weeks. At Destination X, Main Event Mafia countered Aces & Eights' interference in the World Heavyweight Championship match between Bully Ray and Chris Sabin, which led to Sabin winning the title. On the August 1 episode of Impact Wrestling, Angle proposed a match to Aces & Eights, which would be a five-on-five loser leaves TNA match between the Mafia and Aces & Eights at Hardcore Justice, where the losing member would be forced to leave TNA, which Aces & Eights accepted.
Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one nine, two eights, and one nine for the Xbox 360 version, and all four eights for the PS2 version.
Four years later he finished fifth with the British boat in the 1984 eights competition.
Chrysler used flathead straight-eights in its premium Chrysler cars, including the Imperial luxury model.
James was defeated by Team Aces & Eights' Ivelisse Vélez following interference from the other members of Aces & Eights. Team USA would go on to defeat Team Aces & Eights in a 5-on-5 elimination tag team match, in which James gained a measure of retribution by eliminating Vélez during the match; James and Storm were presented with the trophy afterward.TNA One Night Only: World Cup of Wrestling 2013 review iwheadlines.com. December 13, 2013.
Maarten Diederik Kloosterman (born 27 August 1942) is a retired Dutch rower who won a bronze medal in the coxless fours at the 1966 World Rowing Championships. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the coxed eights event and finished in eights place.
In Fate/Grand Order, a hand of one face down card with 2 black aces and eights is shown in the noble phantasm animation of Calamity Jane. In the RPG Serenity, "Aces and Eights" is the name of a spaceship belonging to a rival crew.
On twelve occasions between 1995 and 2008 he was selected in the Victorian senior men's eight to contest the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. Eight of those Victorian eights saw King's Cup victories and Ginn stroked three King's Cup eights, two to victory.
The following aerobatic maneuvers are approved: chandelles, steep turns, barrel rolls, snap rolls, loops, vertical reversements, lazy eights, spins, aileron rolls, Immelmann turns, Cuban eights and stalls (except whip stalls). ;F152: Reims-built Model 152, 552 built. ;FA152 Aerobat: Reims-built Model A152, 89 built.
Jeremiah Brown (born 25 November 1985) is a Canadian rower. Brown won an Olympic silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics as part of the men's eights for Canada. He has also won a world championship bronze as part of the eights crew in 2011.
Aces and Eights is a 1936 American film, a Puritan Pictures production directed by Sam Newfield.
Team USA won the World Cup of Wrestling in a tiebreaker match against Team Aces & Eights.
Senior women's eights compete for the Anne Redgrave Cup. There are also intermediate and novice events.
The feud led to a match at Bound for Glory alongside with Bully Ray, where they were defeated by the Aces & Eights, following interference from a man who was afterwards unmasked as Ray's longtime partner, the returning Devon. As a result of their win, the Aces & Eights earned full access to TNA. On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Sting defeated Devon via disqualification, following interference from the Aces & Eights. On the November 8 episode of Impact Wrestling, Sting was sidelined with a storyline injury, after being put through a table and beaten with a ball-peen hammer by DOC, a member of Aces & Eights.
At the 1948 Summer Olympics in England he was the coxswain of the British boat which won the silver medal in the Eights, and at the 1950 Empire Games in New Zealand he won the bronze medal as cox of the English boat in the Eights competition.
Marina Pavlovna Suprun (, born 17 August 1962) is a retired Russian rower who won four medals in the eights at the world championships of 1985–1991. She finished ninth in the coxed fours at the 1988 Olympics and fourth in the eights at the 1992 Games.
The club has three boat bays divided into eights, fours, and sculling boats. The 8+ bay can hold ten eights and two fours, the sculling bay can hold over thirty sculling boats (singles and doubles), and the 4+ bay can hold ten fours and four singles.
With only the points earned against Namibia being taken through to the Super Eights, Scotland faced a difficult route to the World Cup. Retrieved on 22 April 2009. Scotland started the Super Eights well by beating Holland in their first match. Defeats against Kenya and Afghanistan followed.
Nicoleta Albu (born 10 August 1988) is a Romanian rower. She finished fourth in the women's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She has won four World Championship silver medals (women's double sculls 2009 and 2013 and women's eights in 2009 and 2013) and one bronze (women's eights 2010), and four European gold medals (women's double sculls 2011 and 2012 and women's eights in 2013 and 2014) and two bronzes (women's coxed four 2011 and 2012).
Later in the evening (for the episode to be aired on August 22) The Main Event Mafia (who recruited AJ Styles to be Angle's replacement) defeated Aces & Eights after Styles pinned Devon following a Styles Clash. This forced Devon to leave TNA, thus also removing him from Aces & Eights. On the same show, Bully Ray also revealed that he had been involved romantically with Brooke Tessmacher, now named just Brooke. Brooke then also officially joined Aces & Eights.
This varies from season to season however there are some fixed events in the calendar: In December Trial Eights takes place. This is an opportunity for each of the four clubs (OUWBC, OUBC, CUWBC, CUBC) to race two of their own eights against each other. Traditionally, the coaches try to field two eights that are as equally matched as possible to emulate race day itself. In January the crews usually leave Oxford for a short Training Camp.
The Lonely Heartstring Band covers the song on their album Deep Waters. On Michael McDermott's 2000 LP Last Chance Lounge, there is a song entitled "Aces and Eights". The song expounds on the idea that life can make the writer feel like he is "Looking over my shoulder, holding aces and eights." Dale Oliver and Serg Salinas produced the song "Dead Man's Hand" as the entrance theme for the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling stable Aces & Eights.
Australia's blue-ribbon annual rowing race for men. Contested by state representative senior heavyweight men's coxed eights.
If the player splits the eights, he is expected to lose only $43 for a $100 bet.
Other paintings included Summer Eights, the Joseph trilogy, Dorset and the lush and opulent Wye from Olantigh.
The men's eights competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics took place at Henley- on-Thames, near London.
At the 1960 Games he won the bronze medal with the Czechoslovak boat in the eights event.
At the 1960 Games he won the bronze medal with the Czechoslovak boat in the eights event.
The following week, Ortiz officially joined Aces & Eights. However, on Impact Wrestling: No Surrender, it was announced that Bellator MMA had pulled Ortiz from TNA programming due to his upcoming PPV fight with Rampage Jackson, thus removing him from Aces & Eights. Ortiz has since parted ways with TNA.
She rowed again in the Queensland youth eight in 2010. From 2011 to 2016 she rowed in Queensland's senior women's eights who contested the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. Those Queensland eights took the silver medal in five of those six years.
Joseph John "Joe" Harris (October 2, 1912 - 1974) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition. He also competed in the 1936 eights competition.
Klaus Bittner (born 23 October 1938) is a retired German rower who won two Olympic medals for the United Team of Germany: a gold and a silver in the eights in 1960 and 1964, respectively. He also won four European titles in fours and eights between 1959 and 1964.
Philip George Jeffreys Baker (born 1975) is a former Great Britain international rower. Baker was educated at Abingdon School where he was captain of the Abingdon School Boat Club eights before moving on to Oxford Brookes University Boat Club. He represented Great Britain at the 1999 World Rowing Championships winning a silver medal in the Lightweight Men's Eights. The following year Baker repeated the feat in the 2000 World Rowing Championships winning a silver medal again in the Lightweight Men's Eights.
The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the GameCube and PS2 versions a score of one nine and three eights, bringing it to a total of 33 out of 40; for the PSP version, the same magazine gave it a score of three eights and one seven, while Famitsu Cube + Advance also gave the GameCube version three eights and one seven, both for a total of 31 out of 40.
Harry Brittain Fry (September 13, 1905 – 1985) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. At the 1930 Empire Games he won the bronze medal with the Canadian boat in the eights competition. In 1932 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the bronze medal in the Olympic eights event. Four years later he was eliminated with the Canadian boat in the repêchage of the 1936 eights competition.
He competed in the eights at the 1930 British Empire Games for England and won a gold medal.
He competed in the eights at the 1930 British Empire Games for England and won a gold medal.
He competed in the eights at the 1930 British Empire Games for England and won a gold medal.
The eights (plus cox) event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme.
It was later revealed by showrunner Kevin Murphy that Tamara eventually became the basis for the Number Eights.
The major changes consisted of different dial faces and no steering column lock. 50,268 Mercury Eights were sold.
However, Devon returned to TNA in October, as a member of the villainous Aces & Eights stable. On the November 15 episode of Impact Wrestling, Bischoff teamed with Kurt Angle to defeat Devon and masked member of Aces & Eights in a tag team match, despite outside interference from the rest of Aces & Eights and Wes Brisco. On December 9 at Final Resolution, Bischoff teamed with Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, and Wes Brisco to defeat Devon, D.O.C., and two masked members of Aces & Eights in an eight-man tag team match. On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Bischoff and Brisco teamed up to defeat Robbie E and Robbie T in a tag team match.
Despite Hogan's disapproval, he still walked Brooke down the aisle for her wedding on the next episode of Impact Wrestling, during which Ray's groomsmen Taz interrupted and revealed himself as a member of the Aces & Eights, leading the group to attack Hogan, Ray, and the rest of the groomsmen. On the January 31 episode of Impact Wrestling, Hogan reinstated Ray so he could take on the Aces & Eights. Hogan named Ray the number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on the February 21 episode of Impact Wrestling. However, at Lockdown, Ray betrayed Hogan, after Aces & Eights helped him win the title, and he revealed himself as the President of the Aces & Eights.
Sarmīte Stone (born 30 May 1963) is a retired Latvian rower who won four medals in the eights at the world championships of 1982–1991, competing for the Soviet Union. She finished fifth in the coxless pairs at the 1988 Olympics and fourth in the eights at the 1992 Games.
Michael Pustilnik is an American Magic: The Gathering player. His success include a win at Pro Tour Los Angeles 2001, two other Pro Tour top eights, and seven Grand Prix top eights. Pustilnik is one of six players who won a Pro Tour, a Grand Prix, and a Masters tournament.
Cedric Haswell Liddell (June 11, 1913 - June 4, 1981) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition. He also competed in the 1936 eights competition.
When playing with four, the rules are exactly the same, except that eights and sevens are now also added.
In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40.
During the 2019–20 season, Green recorded three goals and eights assists in 48 games for the Red Wings.
In the same Olympics he also competed with the Polish team in the 1980 eights contest and finished ninth.
At the same Olympics he also competed with the Polish team in the 1980 eights contest and finished ninth.
This marker shows the portrait of Fort Frederick by James Eights and a map of the stockaded Albany community.
The Clinker IV event was constituted the Second Crews's Race in 1938 and was rowed in eights from 1957.
The same crew then competed in the Olympic eights in Helsinki, winning a bronze medal behind USA and Russia.
1–2, 8 Rowing in eights (boats with eight oarsmen, each pulling one oar, and steered by a coxswain) began at Eton, where there is a record of the school owning three eights by 1811, and then progressed to Oxford. The first record of an inter-college race, between eights from Jesus College and Brasenose College, dates from 1815.Sherwood, p. 8 These may have been the only two colleges who had boats racing at that time, and the Brasenose boat was usually victorious.
Two aces and two eights in a standard deck of playing cards. Splitting aces and eights is part of blackjack basic strategy. Rules vary across gambling establishments regarding resplitting, doubling, multiple card draws, and the payout for blackjack, and there are conditional strategic responses that depend upon the number of decks used, the frequency of shuffling and dealer's cards. However, regardless of the various situations, the common strategic wisdom in the blackjack community is to "Always split aces and eights" when dealt either pair as initial cards.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. The eights crew consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. The eights crew consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. The eights crew consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. The eights crew consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. The eights crew consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. The eights crew consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge.
Later he produced the watercolors and sketches of the Albany of his youth, by which he is now better known. He is believed to have never practiced medicine after the Antarctic expedition. Eights never married and lived his last years in the home of a sister. Eights died in Ballston, New York.
Eugene Harvey is an American Magic: The Gathering player. His major successes include four Pro Tour top eights, and five Grand Prix top eights. Harvey was part of the US national team that won the World Championship in 2001, which was Harvey's first Pro Tour. He also won the 2002 US National Championship.
Karin Abma (born 5 December 1951) is a retired Dutch rower. She was most successful in the coxless pair, winning two medals with Joke Dierdorp at the world championships of 1977 and 1978. In the coxed eights, she was fourth at the 1975 World Championships and eights at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
His senior rowing was from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne.. He was seated in all eight Victorian men's eights which contested the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships between 1960 and 1967. Those Victorian eights won the King's Cup in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1966..
Werremeier also won a gold medal at the 1994 World Rowing Championships as part of the German coxed eights team.
He left the Utes with a 323–95 record, including 4 Sweet 16s, 2 Elite Eights and 1 Final Four.
Nina Grishchenkova () is a retired Russian rowing coxswain who won two European titles in the eights in 1963 and 1965.
At the 1964 Games he won his second bronze medal as part of the Czechoslovak boat in the eights event.
The Ha Ha Tonka song "Dead Man's Hand", the Motörhead songs "Ace of Spades", "Dead man's hand" and the Bob Dylan song "Rambling, Gambling Willie", the Uncle Kracker song "Aces and Eights" and the Bring Me the Horizon song "Alligator Blood" all refer to the legendary poker hand. The Motörhead song on the B-side of The One to Sing the Blues single, titled Dead Man's Hand, has the lyrics: "You can't beat the devil with a dead man's hand". The song "Aces & Eights" from the Lita Ford album Stiletto features "The dead man's hand holds aces and eights" in the refrain. The lyrics "Who's gonna play those eights and aces?" appear in the song "Fire Lake" by Bob Seger.
Karl Sture Lennart Hansson (21 January 1931 – 1 March 2013) was a Swedish rower who won two medals at the European championships in 1955 and 1959, in the coxed fours and eights. He finished fourth in the eights at the 1956 Summer Olympics, and also competed at the 1960 Olympics in coxless and coxed pairs.
The first attested bumps race, and the first attested race between two clubs anywhere in the world, took place in Oxford in 1815. This was between two eights from Brasenose College and Jesus College.Burnell, p. 26 The fact the racing was conducted in eight-oared boats gave rise to the event being known as Eights.
The game received "generally favourable reviews" on all platforms except the Australian Xbox version, which received "universal acclaim", according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights, one seven and one eight for the PSP version, and two eights and two sevens for the PlayStation 2 version.
In Oxford, SCCBC first took part in Torpids and Summer Eights in 1876, and produced the first crew to make 7 bumps in the then 6 days of Eights. Fortunes have fluctuated over the years; highlights include 3 crews each making 6 bumps in Eights (1949), and the Women's 1st VIII achieving headship in Torpids in 2007. In Torpids 2012, the men's first boat was fourth on the river and then were bumped three times, ending seventh. The first boat was then ninth on the river after being bumped in the Summer Eight's.
Bischoff as member of Aces & Eights, attacking Samoa Joe. On the January 31 episode of Impact Wrestling, Bischoff and Brisco revealed themselves as members of Aces & Eights and attacked Kurt Angle, turning heel again in the process. Bischoff explained his turn the following week, claiming he got no respect from the fans. On March 10 at Lockdown, Aces & Eights, consisting of Bischoff, Devon, DOC, Mike Knox, and Mr. Anderson were defeated by Team TNA, consisting of Eric Young, James Storm, Magnus, Samoa Joe, and Sting in a Lethal Lockdown match.
Richardson first made state selection for South Australia still aged eighteen, in the men's eight contesting the King's Cup at the 1966 Interstate Regatta. He rowed in eight successive South Australian King's Cup eights, placing second twice and stroking the 1973 and 1974 SA eights. After relocating to Melbourne, Richardson was selected in Victoria's King's Cup eight for the 1975 Interstate Regatta. He rowed in six consecutive Victorian King's Cup eights up to 1980, stroking those crews from 1978 and winning the King's Cup in 1979 and 1980.
D'Lo Brown as a member of Aces & Eights In September 2009, Connor was re-signed by TNA as their lead agent. Additionally, D'Lo was in charge of talent development and acquisitions heading up the TNA Gut Check program. On the March 7, 2013 episode of Impact Wrestling, Brown attacked Kurt Angle and revealed himself as the Vice President of Aces & Eights, turning heel in the process. Three days later at Lockdown, Brown interfered in Angle's steel cage match against fellow Aces & Eights member Wes Brisco, costing Angle the match.
56 Probabilistic research of expected value scenarios shows that by splitting eights one can convert a hand that presents an expected loss to two hands that may present an expected profit or a reduced loss, depending on what the dealer is showing.Hagen and Wiess, pp. 66-67 A split pair of eights is expected to win against dealer upcards of 2 through 7 and to lose less against dealer upcards of 8 through ace. If a player hits on a pair of eights, he is expected to lose $52 for a $100 bet.
The card hand purportedly held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his death: black aces and eights The makeup of poker's dead man's hand has varied through the years. Currently, it is described as a two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and black eights. The pair of aces and eights, along with an unknown hole card, were reportedly held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered while playing a game. No contemporaneous source, however, records the exact cards he held when killed.
Angle returned to in-ring action on the January 31 Impact Wrestling, defeating Aces & Eights member Mr. Anderson in a steel cage match. Afterwards, Angle's two allies Garett Bischoff and Wes Brisco revealed themselves as members of Aces & Eights and attacked him. Angle infiltrated the Aces & Eights hideout on the February 28 Impact and managed to unmask their Vice President, but was beat down by the other members before he could reveal his identity to the cameras. Angle revealed the Vice President as D'Lo Brown on the following episode of Impact.
Joe was then awarded the title match in his place, but Devon retained the title after interference from Aces & Eights. Joe returned on the May 23 episode of Impact Wrestling, saving former tag team partner Magnus from an attack by Aces & Eights. On June 2 at Slammiversary XI, Joe teamed with Jeff Hardy and Magnus in a winning effort against Aces & Eights (Garett Bischoff, Mr. Anderson, and Wes Brisco). On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Joe defeated Robbie E to qualify for the 2013 Bound for Glory Series.
In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights and two nines for a total of 34 out of 40.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
Rachel Loveridge (born 5 July 1980) is a retired British rower who participated in the women's eights in international level events.
He rowed in further Victorian King's Cup eights in 1955 and 1956, and those crews were victorious in 1954 and 1956.
Henley hosted the rowing events of the London Olympic Games in mid-July 1908, two weeks after the Royal Regatta. The course was extended downstream and upstream, making it and . Events for single sculls, coxless pairs, coxless fours and eights were offered but only the eights produced an international final.1908 Summer Olympics official report. p. 237.
Johnson bet $100,000 and was dealt two eights, which he split. Surprisingly, another two eights came, and he split again, wagering a total of $400,000. He was then dealt a three, a two, another three, and another two on the four hands, allowing him to double down on each hand. He was now wagering a total of $800,000.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. He rowed at stroke for the eights crew, which consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge.
In the same year she published Tilly and the Crazy Eights, a sequel to her first novel."Tilly and the Crazy Eights". Quill & Quire, September 2018. In addition to her work as a writer, Smith has worked as a psychiatric nurse in Indigenous communities for over 25 years, having completed formal nurses training at Douglas College.
Kristen Kit (born August 18, 1988) is a Canadian rower, who competes as a coxswain in both women's eights and mixed coxed four rowing events, and who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team in road bicycle racing. In rowing, Kit competes in international level events where she has won six medals in eights and coxed fours.
Some sources list Loomer as a silver medallist in eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, as a member of the Canadian team."1960 Summer Olympics - Rome, Italy - Rowing" (Retrieved on May 14, 2008) However, according to other sources Loomer competed in coxless pairs, but was replaced by substitute David Anderson in the coxed eights.
It is designed to help stop rope twisting. Figure eights, although not the most common belay device, are still frequently found in use. For most uses, a tubular style belay device is easier and safer to use. However, due to their tendency to twist rope and general disagreement about their safety, figure eights are often banned in climbing gyms.
Albert Taylor (born 1911, date of death unknown) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event. At the 1930 Empire Games he won the bronze medal with the Canadian boat in the eights competition.
At Slammiversary XI, Magnus teamed with Jeff Hardy and Samoa Joe in a winning effort against Aces & Eights (Garett Bischoff, Mr. Anderson, and Wes Brisco).CALDWELL'S TNA SLAMMIVERSARY PPV RESULTS (Hour 1): New X Division champion starts the show, Hogan has a potty-mouth, big TNA vs. Aces & Eights six-man tag match. PWTorch.com (2 June 2013).
Janine Stephens (née Hanson; December 14, 1982) is a former Canadian rower from Winnipeg on the Canadian National team.RowingCanada.org heavyweight women biography Stephens won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as part of the women's eights rowing team. She also has two World Championship silver medals to her credit, also in the women's eights.
Switch is very similar to the games Uno and Mau Mau, both belonging to the larger Crazy Eights family of shedding games.
She rowed in Western Australian senior women's eights contesting the Queen's Cup at Australian Championships on eight occasions between 2001 and 2008.
Liliana Gafencu (born 12 July 1975 in Bucureşti) is a Romanian rower, who has won three Olympic gold medals in the eights competition.
A total of 39 F3 cars were entered for this event. Come race weekend eights cars failed to arrive in Kent for qualifying.
Reeve represented England and won a gold medal in the eights at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Turnbull represented England and won a gold medal in the eights at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Burrough represented England and won a gold medal in the eights at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Hambridge represented England and won a gold medal in the eights at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Beazley represented England and won a gold medal in the eights at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Left by Soft is a studio album by David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights. It was released in April 2011 under Merge Records.
NCAA Division II title game appearances: One (2008) NCAA Elite Eights: Three (2008, 2009, 2010) NCAA Tournament appearances: Nine, most recently in 2014.
In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one nine, one seven, and two eights for a total of 32 out of 40.
Vienna Nightrow is an annual international sprint rowing regatta in Vienna (Austria) of the Erster Wiener Ruderclubs LIA for coxed eights at night.
From 29 October 2019 until eights days later, INE will ascertain mobile phone movements to know the usual shifts to improve his services.
"Jacks Twos and Eights" (J28 for short) evolved from earlier forms of rummy with the intention of being a faster, more complex game.
For over 9 months, the masked gang Aces & Eights, beginning with their attacks on Sting and Hulk Hogan, had waged war against TNA and the company's roster through a mixture of all-out brawls and calculated attacks. After holding Sting and Hogan for ransom (in a deal to free attorney Joseph Park, who worked for Hogan to investigate the mysterious gang), Aces & Eights received their chance to win "full access" to the promotion after defeating Sting and Bully Ray on October 14 at Bound for Glory, where a major member of the biker gang was revealed to be Devon, who later cited his groupies, a contract dispute, the anonymous leader of the group who patched him in, and Bully Ray mistreating him and his children in the past as his reasons for joining. Over the next few months, the unmasking and revelations of Aces & Eights members occurred leading to Aces & Eights challenging the TNA roster to "a war to end all wars" at Lockdown. In the following weeks, Aces & Eights assembled their team, captained by Devon.
In the novel Along Came a Spider by James Patterson, Jezzie Flannigan tells the story of how her father won his gun with a hand of aces and eights - she also uses "Aces&Eights;" as her computer password. Dead Man's Hand is the name of the seventh book of the "Wild Cards" series. In "Batman R.I.P.", while Batman is talking to the Joker in Arkham Asylum, the Joker sends a cryptic message to Batman by dealing himself a "dead man's hand, with a twist." The "twist" is that the eights in the hand are red cards, while the aces remain black.
The MCR has been particularly strong at women's boxing, polo and cricket. Despite being a newly formed team, Pembroke has also done well in pool, reaching the semifinals in the 2015 Pool Cuppers. Pembroke College Boat Club is one of Oxford's strongest boat clubs, in 2013 holding both the Torpids and Summer Eights men's headship, with the women's 1st boat sitting at 4th and 7th places respectively. In 2016, the men held Head of the River in Torpids and 4th in Summer Eights, and the women held 3rd and 2nd for Torpids and Summer Eights respectively.
The game first appeared as Eights in the 1930s, and the name Crazy Eights dates to the 1940s, derived from the United States military designation for discharge of mentally unstable soldiers, Section 8. There are many variations of the basic game, under names including Craits, Last Card, Mau-Mau, Switch and Last Card. Bartok, Mao, Taki, and Uno add further elements to the game. David Parlett describes Crazy Eights as "not so much a game as a basic pattern of play on which a wide variety of changes can be rung," noting that players can easily invent and explore new rules.
In 1993, Porzig applied for and won a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. During his senior Australian representative years, Porzig was selected in Australian Capital Territory eights to contest the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He raced in the victorious ACT King's Cup eight of 1997 and in further ACT eights in 1998 and 1999.
Sladden's senior rowing was from the Murray Bridge Rowing Club. He (and the rest of the champion Murray Bridge senior men's eight) was selected in South Australian state eights to contest the Australian men's interstate eights title at the Interstate Regattas of 1913 and 1914. 1914 Interstate Regatta They won the national title in 1913 1913 Interstate Regatta and placed second in 1914.
Most of Eights Coast is not claimed by any nation. In the east, Eights Coast borders the sector claimed by Chile as part of its southernmost province. Peter I Island, 450 km north of the coast, is claimed by Norway as a dependency. The coast was sighted by members of the US Antarctic Service by flights from the USS Bear during February 1940.
Following the Allied landing at Normandy in June, 1944, the Germans were pushed eastward towards the Rhine. Trains of Forty-and-eights were frequent targets of opportunity for Allied fighter-bombers, with carloads of prisoners occasionally being victimized. As France was liberated Forty-and- eights were used to transport Allied soldiers and materials to the shifting front through War's end in 1945.
José Oyarzabal (born 13 February 1970) is a French international rower. He won a silver medal in eights at the 1988 World Junior Rowing Championships, a silver medal in coxless fours at the 1990 World Rowing Championships, a silver medal in eights at the 1990 World Rowing Championships, and a bronze medal in coxless fours at the 1992 World Rowing Championships.
William Thoburn (December 3, 1906 - June 1997) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dundas, Ontario. In 1932 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the bronze medal in the Olympic eights event. At the 1930 Empire Games he won the bronze medal with the Canadian boat in the eights competition.
Brzozowicz finished second at the NCAA championships in 2004. Brzozowicz finished in fourth place at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China in the women's eights with Jane Thornton, Darcy Marquardt, Buffy Williams, Sarah Bonikowsky, Romina Stefancic, Andréanne Morin, Heather Mandoli and cox Lesley Thompson-Willie. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Brzozowicz won a silver medal in the Women's eights.
Volodymyr Ivanovych Sterlyk (, born 15 October 1940) is a retired Ukrainian rower. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics and finished in fifth, third and fourth place in the eights, eights and coxed fours events, respectively. Between 1963 and 1971 he won two gold, four silver and one bronze medals at European and world championships.
There are no redeals, but building is allowed, making the game much easier to win. Kingsdown Eights is a variation of Tournament and Cicely.
Three days later at Final Resolution, Angle teamed with Garett Bischoff, Samoa Joe, and Wes Brisco to defeat Devon, DOC, and two masked members of Aces & Eights in an eight-man tag team match. Angle unsuccessfully challenged Devon for the TNA Television Championship on the December 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, after interference from Aces & Eights, Garett Bischoff, Samoa Joe, and Wes Brisco. On the January 3, 2013, episode of Impact Wrestling, Angle and Samoa Joe defeated Devon and a masked member of Aces & Eights in a steel cage tag team match. Afterwards, the returning Sting saved Angle and Joe from a beatdown from Aces & Eights before revealing the mystery member as the debuting Mike Knox.Caldwell's TNA Impact Results 1/3: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live show – Sting casually returns, cage main event & unmasking (updated w/Box Score). PWTorch.
UCBC organises several social events per term, ranging from crew dates and pub crawls through to formal dinners, held to celebrate both Torpids and Eights.
After some years in the third division, it ended the 2011 Eights Week in twelfth place in the second division, winning blades in the process.
Yasmin Tredell (born 18 November 1992) is a British rower who competed in international events in the women's eights in both senior and junior levels.
Both Oxford and Cambridge Universities host two sets of university bumps races per year, one in early spring and one in early summer, each lasting four days. At Cambridge these are called "Lent Bumps" and "May Bumps" respectively, while at Oxford they are "Torpids" and "Summer Eights". The races are for eights (i.e. eight rowers with a cox steering), each representing one of the university's various colleges.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. The eights crew consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge. He was the captain of the Thames Boat Club from 1963 until 1965.
Unusually, tricks are won by the last card played that is of the same rank as the led card. So Sevens beat Sevens, Eights beat Eights, Obers beat Obers and so on. So if a Nine is led to the trick, the last Nine to be played to it wins. Players do not have to follow suit, nor do they have to follow rank.
Packard did not use yearly model changes in these years. A new series appeared when management felt that there were enough running changes made. Therefore, the Light Eight was introduced during January 1932, together with the new V-12 (called "Twin Six" in its first year to honor the pioneer Packard model built from 1915 to 1923). Standard Eights and Super Eights followed in June 1932.
Guillaume Wafo-Tapa is a French Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning Pro Tour Yokohama in 2007, Wafo-Tapa's career has featured three other Pro Tour top eights, and six Grand Prix top eights. He is also known as a deck designer and for his strong preference for control decks. In 2014, Wafo-Tapa was voted into the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame.
Hugh Miller Foley (March 3, 1944 - November 9, 2016) was an American rower. Competing in the eights he won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and a bronze medal at the 1965 European Championships. He also won a gold in the coxed fours at the 1967 Pan American Games. During his career, Foley won a total of six national titles in the fours and eights.
Marlies Smulders (born 22 February 1982 in Amstelveen) is a rower from the Netherlands.Athlete biography: Marlies Smulders, beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008 With the Dutch eights Smulders qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and she and her team mates rowed to the bronze medal. In 2007, she returned to the eights in which the Dutch only became seventh at the World Championships.
Jiří Lundák (born 31 August 1939) is a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Prague. In 1960 he was a crew member of the Czechoslovak boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event. Four years later he won his second bronze medal with the Czechoslovak boat in the eights competition.
Earl Hamilton Richard Eastwood (November 2, 1905 - July 4, 1968) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1932 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event. At the 1930 Empire Games he won the bronze medal with the Canadian boat in the eights competition.
Luděk Pojezný (born 7 March 1937) is a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Prague. In 1960 he was a crew member of the Czechoslovak boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event. Four years later he won his second bronze medal with the Czechoslovak boat in the eights competition.
Cantabs has held both the men's and women's headship in the CRA Bumps since 2017. The women's 2nd and 3rd and 4th eights are the highest ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th eights on the river, and the men's 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th eights are similarly the highest ranked. Since 2015, Cantabs has consistently entered the largest number of crews of any club in the CRA Bumps, reflecting the size of the club. In 2018, 16 men's and 11 women's crews took part, comprising 25% of the overall entry, with crews bumping up a 'net' of 35 places in addition to retaining the two Headships.
The Eights are known for their concern for others, naivete, emotional immaturity, and vulnerability to forming emotional attachments. They also have a propensity for fickleness and change loyalties to better suit their own desires, with the notable exception of Athena. Director Ron Moore has commented that the Eights are more likely to "shoot things they don't like," and early in the series, they are implied to be the most militaristic of the models and the most likely to have combat training. Unlike some other Cylon models, the individual Eights do not automatically have access to each other's memories and consciousnesses, which gives them a stronger ability to form distinct identities.
On March 10 at Lockdown, Team TNA, consisting of Sting, Eric Young, James Storm, Magnus, and Samoa Joe defeated Aces & Eights, consisting of Devon, DOC, Garett Bischoff, Mike Knox, and Mr. Anderson in a Lethal Lockdown match. After Bully Ray won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and revealed himself as the president of Aces & Eights later that night, Hulk Hogan blamed Sting as he had encouraged Hogan to give Ray the title shot while also encouraging Hogan to support Ray's marriage with his daughter Brooke. Sting proceeded to walk out on Hogan. Sting returned on the April 25 Impact Wrestling, saving Hogan from an attack by the Aces & Eights.
Bully Ray and Devon reunited again in the stable Aces & Eights On the February 21 episode of Impact Wrestling, Hogan named Ray the number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Ray received his shot in a steel cage match on March 10 at Lockdown, where he defeated Jeff Hardy, following interference from Aces & Eights, to win his first World Heavyweight Championship. Afterwards, Ray revealed himself as the President of Aces & Eights, turning heel again in the process, and reuniting with Devon. Ray made his first televised title defense on the April 11 episode of Impact Wrestling, defeating Jeff Hardy in a Full Metal Mayhem match to retain his title.
On the December 6 episode of Impact Wrestling, Devon defeated Samoa Joe to win his second Television Championship, after Aces & Eights member DOC hit Joe with a ball-peen hammer. Three days later at Final Resolution, Devon teamed with DOC and two masked members of Aces & Eights in a losing effort to Kurt Angle, Garett Bischoff, Samoa Joe, and Wes Brisco. On the December 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, Devon successfully defended the Television Championship against Kurt Angle, following interference from Aces & Eights, Garett Bischoff, Samoa Joe, and Wes Brisco. On January 13, 2013, at Genesis, Devon defeated Joseph Park in a non-title match.
The game received "average" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two sevens and two eights for the Xbox 360 version, and three eights and one seven for the Vita version; while Famitsu X360 gave the former console version a score of one seven, two eights, and one nine. Reviewers pointed out that the Xbox 360 version suffered from relatively poor graphics, a lack of many standard features and characteristically poor voice acting. However, said console version still received solid reviews from western critics, whose general consensus was that it is "inexplicably fun".
She specialised in the history of Delamere Forest.Mason & Pope, p. 204, in Garner et al. During the 1930s, Varley coached the University of Liverpool rowing eights.
The season begins with a tournament between the eights teams. The first six teams qualify for the play- offs, while the last two plays play-downs.
GTBC currently owns a sizable fleet - four Eights, two Fours, Double and Single Sculls - which are kept in the large and small boats bays at Longbridges.
Downing College heraldic shield The arms of the Downing baronets—Barry of eights, argent and vert, over all a gryphon rampant or—were adopted by Downing College.
Sevens, eights, kings, and the Ace of Spades are worth 20 points, jacks are worth 15, jokers are worth 25, and all other cards are worth 5.
Jūratė Narvidaite is a retired Lithuanian rowing coxswain who won a silver and a gold medals in the eights event at the European championships of 1966–1967.
"Black Jack" is the name of a shedding card game which shares its name with the casino card game Blackjack. It is a variant of Crazy Eights.
Yallop won the coxless pairs title rowing for the Thames Tradesmen's and Leander composite, with Lenny Robertson, at the 1973 National Rowing Championships. He participated in the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, competing in the eights event in which Great Britain won a silver medal. In 1976 he was a crew member of the British boat which won the silver medal in the eights event at the 1976 Olympic Games.
Scots excel in Nottingham Press and Journal, 2009-07-20. Retrieved on 2010-03-16 Glasgow also had a share in the composite crew that won the Silver medal in Women's eights. In March 2010, Glasgow members provided the core of a composite crew, along with rowers from Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, that won the Novice Academic category at the Women's Eights Head of the River Race (WEHoRR).
Gabriel Bergen (born 6 July 1982 in Dawson Creek) is a Canadian rower. Bergen won a silver medal as part of the men's eights for Canada at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He has also won one medal of every colour at the World Championships including being champion in the coxed pair in 2008 and a silver and a bronze in the eights in 2009 and 2011 respectively.
Rivington Hall The majority share of seven-eights of the manor was originally held by the Pilkington family of Lancashire. This share had reduced to five- eights when they sold Rivington Hall in 1611 to their relations Robert Lever and Thomas Breres. A quarter was owned by the Lathoms and an eighth by the Shaws. In 1765 the Shaws and their relations the Roscoes inherited the one- eight share.
Arthur Scott continued on as a first-class oarsman after the Olympics. He rowed at four in the South Australian representative eights in the King's Cup campaigns of 1925 (fourth) and 1926 (second). All told, Scott rowed in nine South Australian King's Cup eights in spite of war interrupting racing for five years in the middle of his career. He maintained an active involvement in rowing right through to his fifties.
The club primarily sweeps, with the majority of the fleet being composed of coxed fours (4+). In addition the club owns several double sculls (2x) and pairs (2-). Due to the narrow width of the River Stour at Plucks Gutter, rowing in eights (8+) was not possible. As a result of the move to Westbere Lake, the club was able to start training and competing in eights (8+).
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. He was the captain of the eights crew, which consisted entirely of members of the Thames Rowing Club and who won the final of the Empire Games Trials from the 1st and 3rd Trinity Boat Club, Cambridge. He was also a member of the Leander Club.
With the help of Caprica Six, she rescues Hera and returns to Galactica. Eight is described as "weak" by Baltar's Head Six, and Eights usually appear more compassionate and sympathetic than other Cylons. However, they fully supported the destruction of the Colonies. The actions of Boomer and an Eight who had a duplicitous affair with Felix Gaeta on New Caprica make it clear that Eights are capable of homicide and betrayal.
Helo and the Leader of the Eights board the Hub and leave with Biers. The Viper pilots are freed on cue, and destroy the Hub with nuclear missiles once Helo, the Leader of the Eights and D'Anna are safely away. Also, one of the two enemy Basestars is destroyed in the Hub's explosion accounting for the destroyed Basestar detected in the previous episode. During the battle, Baltar encounters a Centurion.
Bilson was selected in the stern of the first four New South Wales eights who contested the blue riband event in the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships from 1999 to 2002. She saw a New South Wales victory in 2002. In her first state representative year of 1999 she coxed both the senior and the youth New South Wales women's eights and had a victory in the youth eight.
Hicks' first state representation for West Australia came in 2009 when he was selected in the Western Australian youth eight to contest the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. From 2014 to 2018 Hicks was selected in the Western Australian men's senior eights to contest the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He stroked those WA eights in 2015, 2016 and 2018.
Jan Rudolf Steinhauser (born 20 September 1944) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the eight event and finished in eights place.
In 1934, the Pomeroy-designed poppet-valve Straight-Eights replaced the Daimler Double-Six sleeve-valve V12s without controversy or embarrassment, thereby being a personal triumph for Pomeroy.
Igor Boraska (born 26 September 1970 in Split) is a Croatian rower who won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Bengt-Åke Bengtsson (born 1 February 1938) is a retired Swedish rower. He competed in the eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final.
Caprica showrunner Kevin Murphy said that, had the prequel series Caprica continued, it would have revealed that the Eights' default personality was modelled after that of Tamara Adama.
Ninety-Eights were built in Lansing. In 1967 the sporty elegance of the Starfire was gone. The Ninety-Eight and the Toronado were now Oldsmobile's remaining luxury cars.
Weaves and figure eights help to build coordination and strength by forcing the animal to shift its weight quickly from one side to the other as it turns.
John Niklasson (6 June 1923, Öddö – 24 September 2006, Stromstad) was a Swedish rower. He was a member of Sweden's men's eights team at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Those Victorian eights were victorious in 2013, 2015 & 2017. In 2014 she was Victoria's representative contesting and winning the interstate single-sculls championship for the Nell Slatter Trophy.
In August, Aces & Eights encountered a series of brawls with the roster and on one of those occasions featured the return of Hogan to help fend for the roster. In September, Aces & Eights held attorney Joseph Park (who had started investigating them for Hogan) to ransom, to lure Hogan and Sting into their clubhouse to make a deal where the group would wrestle and gain "full access" to TNA events if they won a match, and in return, they would release Joseph Park. Ultimately, Hogan gave in and scheduled two members of Aces & Eights to take on Sting and a partner of his choice on October 14 at Bound for Glory. However if Aces & Eights lost they agree to leave TNA.On the October 4 episode of Impact Wrestling, Sting, seeking out a partner, found Mr. Anderson as the best candidate, but Anderson was attacked by the group before he could take the position.
Storm officiated a match between Bad Influence and Roode and Aries, during which he opposed and attacked competitors in the match, leaving it to end in a no-contest. Storm soon announced a four-way elimination tag team title match, pitting all three teams against him and a mystery partner, later revealed to be a returning Gunner. The feud between Team TNA and Aces & Eights continued after the Lockdown PPV. When Magnus was attacked by Aces & Eights members DOC and Knux prior to his TNA Television Championship match with defending champion Devon, Samoa Joe made the save taking Magnus' spot in the match, but ultimately lost to Devon due to interference from the rest of the Aces & Eights group.
Bully Ray and Devon (after reuniting as part of Aces & Eights) teaming up at a house show as World Heavyweight and Television Champion respectively During the late summer of 2012, both Devon's and Ray's contracts with TNA were set to expire. While Ray agreed to a new two-year extension with the promotion, Devon parted ways with TNA. However, Devon returned on October 14, 2012, at Bound for Glory, being revealed as a member (later identified as the Sergent at Arms) of the heel faction Aces & Eights after their victory against Sting and a now face Bully Ray. Ray spent the next few months becoming close to Hulk and Brooke Hogan while feuding with Devon and the Aces & Eights.
He raced in four further King's Cup eights for New South Wales in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. His King's Cup career was during a period of Victorian dominance.
Herman Johan Eggink (born 3 August 1949) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the coxed eights event and finished in ninth place.
Johannes Wilhelmus Huisinga (born 12 May 1950) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the coxed eights event and finished in ninth place.
Illustrations for Vol.1 drawn by B.F. Nutting; C.T. Jackson; James Eights. Lithographs by Pendleton's Lithography; Moore's Lithography, Boston; Jenkins Lithography. Vol.2 drawn by A.A. Gould; Teschemacher; J.Wyman.
He competed in the eights at the 1930 British Empire Games for England and won a gold medal. He gained a blue for Oxford at The Boat Race 1926.
But Eights have been noted to actually fall in love by personal choice with humans. This theme has been seen through out the series and dvd movies produced after.
The Vancouver rowing club currently has a fleet of 4 eights, 10 four-person boats (quads & fours), 11 two-person boats (primarily doubles but also pairs) and 5 singles.
Femke Boelen (born 5 May 1968) is a retired Dutch rower. In 1994 she won a world title in the coxless fours and finished in fourth place in the coxed eights. Next year she won a bronze medal in the coxed eights; she finished in sixth place in this event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Boelen retired from competitions in 1997 and worked as a coach at her rowing club Willem III in Amsterdam.
Lubsen participated in the men's eights at the 1976 Summer Olympics and placed 9th overall. He qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. Lubsen did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. He was a member of the American men's eights team that won the silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Bradley's senior rowing was done from the Edith Cowan University Perth Rowing Club. She was selected in representative Western Australian senior women's eights competing for the Queen's Cup in the Interstate Regatta at the Australian Championships on seven consecutive occasions between 2000 and 2007. She stroked those eights in 2004, 2006 and 2007. From 2001 to 2006 she was also Western Australia's senior sculling representative contesting the Nell Slatter Trophy at those same Australian championships.
Both pre and post-war, Scott was employed as a fireman with the South Australian Railways. Scott's senior rowing was from the Murray Bridge Rowing Club. He, along with the rest of the champion Murray Bridge senior men's eight, was selected in South Australian state eights to contest the Australian men's interstate eights title at the Interstate Regattas of 1913 and 1914. They won the national title in 1913 and placed second in 1914.
Over the following six years, Lévy did well without standing out. He remained continuously qualified for the Pro Tour, and put up nine Grand Prix top eights. However, his third Pro Tour Top Eight would not come until seven years after his second. In 2006, Lévy's two Pro Tour Top Eights and streak of then 47 consecutive Pro Tours attended were enough to get him inducted into the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame.
One fourth went to Baldwin VI Count of Hainaut, elected Latin Emperor, three eights went to Venice, and the remaining three eights to the other Crusaders. The Cyclades were not mentioned as such, contrary to the Sporades or the Ionian Islands. Only Andros and Tinos were mentioned : the one was given to Venice and the other to the Emperor. Historians tried to identify the others cycladic islands in the text but nothing is really convincing.
Joseph Brian "Joe" Amlong (December 17, 1936 - July 1, 2019)Joseph Amlong's obituary was an American competition rower who often teamed with his brother Tom. In 1964 they won the national title in coxless pairs and an Olympic gold medal in the eights. Next year Joe won a bronze medal in the eights at the European championships. Amlong was born at a military base in Haines, Alaska, to Colonel Ransom George Amlong and Marguerite Kennedy.
This Bump Supper saw the burning of two old Eights in front of Hennington Hall, the erection of a brick stone wall in front of the chapel's entrance, an attempt to colour the Christ Church pond purple and an encounter with the local police.David Darling: 1969. 1979 saw the first admission of women to the College. In the same year, one Torpid and two Eights were entered for the St Peter's Ladies Boat Club.
Jack Change It is a simple card game of the Crazy Eights family that is popular among children. It is usually played by two to six players, although theoretically it can be played with up to ten. This game is a shedding-type card game, the purpose being for a player to be the first to discard all of their cards. Jack Change It appears to be the same game as Jacks, Twos and Eights.
Eight's week in Oxford The LMHBC women's first VIII had the Summer Eights headship in 1977, the inaugural year of women's inclusion in Summer Eights as recognised, distinct divisions. In 2017 it was 24th on the river. The LMH women's first VIII had the Torpids Headship in 1978 and was 20th on the river in 2017. The LMHBC Women's second VIII first raced in 1986 and was 59th on the river in 2017.
The following week on Impact Wrestling, Taz revealed that he joined Aces & Eights because of his desire to be a member of a group that adheres to a higher power. On the November 21 episode of Impact Wrestling, Aces & Eights was forced to disband after Bully Ray lost to Mr. Anderson, which also saw Anderson retain his career in TNA. On April 15, 2015, it was officially announced that Taz had departed TNA.
Around the field, they have a similar set of responsibilities as the flankers at the breakdown. Number eights are often strong ball carriers and run off the backs in an attempt to break through or push past the opposition's defensive line. Number eights in the International Rugby Hall of Fame include: Mervyn Davies (Wales and British and Irish Lions), Morne du Plessis (South Africa), Brian Lochore (New Zealand) and Hennie Muller (South Africa).
Donald "Don" Gordon Boal (September 20, 1907 - July 31, 1953) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Toronto and died in a car accident in Ottawa. In 1932 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the bronze medal in the Olympic eights event. At the 1930 Empire Games he won the bronze medal with the Canadian boat in the eights competition.
David Kuiper (born 12 December 1980 in Aduard) is a rower from the Netherlands.Athlete biography: David Kuiper, beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008 Kuiper took part in the World Championships of 2007 in Munich becoming tenth in the eights. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Olaf van Andel, Jozef Klaassen, Meindert Klem, Rogier Blink, Diederik Simon, Olivier Siegelaar, Mitchel Steenman and cox Peter Wiersum.
Mitchel Steenman (born 17 June 1984 in Dirksland) is a Dutch rower.Athlete biography: Mitchel Steenman, beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008 Steenman took part in the World Championships of 2007 in Munich becoming tenth in the eights. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Olaf van Andel, Jozef Klaassen, Meindert Klem, David Kuiper, Diederik Simon, Olivier Siegelaar, Rogier Blink and cox Peter Wiersum.
He was also with the eights team that competed at the Pan American Games in 1959. At the 1960 Rome Olympics, he was the stroke (Captain) of the Canadian boat that won the silver medal in the eights event. This was the only medal the Canadians won that year. Glen coached the Canadian National team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where two of his rowers won a gold medal in the pairs event.
Zigmas Pranciškus Jukna (13 July 1935 – 7 October 1980) was a Lithuanian rower. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics, and finished in second, fifth and third place in the coxed pairs, eights and eights events, respectively. Between 1961 and 1969 he won three gold and five silver medals at European and world championships. Starting from 1971 he worked as a judge with the International Rowing Federation.
At 2005 World Rowing Championships he coxed both the eights and fours, winning a gold and a silver medal respectively, the first US athlete to have earned two medals at the same World Rowing Championships. In 2007 won both the eights and coxed fours at the 2007 USRowing championships. McElhenney grew up in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also the cousin of actor Rob McElhenney.
He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia together with his wife Sarah W. Carter (1854–1936). They had a daughter Catharine Eights Potter (1875-1971).
The aircraft was named Little Toot after the tugboat that liked doing figure eights in a Disney movie, itself based on a children's story written and illustrated by Hardie Gramatky.
He represented England and won a silver medal in the eights and a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada.
Hans Povel (born c. 1954) is a retired Dutch rower who won three medals at the World Lightweight Rowing Championships in 1977–1979 in the coxless fours and coxed eights.
The men's eights rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at the Krylatskoye Rowing Canal in Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 21 to 26 July.
In 1952 he was in the seven seat of the Australian boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event at Helsinki. He died in Greenwich, New South Wales.
He rowed in further New South Wales King's Cup eights in 1950, 1951 and 1952. Those crews were victorious in 1950 and in 1951 by a blistering four length margin.
Gerard Cornelis "Gee" van Enst (born 3 March 1945) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the coxed eights event and finished in eighth place.
Custom Sixes were in Series 24. Custom Eights were in Series 29. Station wagon bodies were built by Hercules and Ionia. The Ionia bodies had a more rounded rear end treatment.
173 - 174 . It controlled 80% of Ukraine's natural gas supply and accounted for an estimated eights of Ukraine's GDP.Pond E. "The Rebirth of Europe." Brookings Institution Press 2002 Second edition p.
He represented England and won a silver medal in the eights at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. He was a member of the Thames Rowing Club.
He represented England and won a silver medal in the eights at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. He was a member of the Thames Rowing Club.
The game received "average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights, for a total of 32 out of 40.
Roslin and Elosha discuss death and dying. The periods between jumps become somewhat lengthy. During one such period, Capt. Karl "Helo" Agathon discusses the mission with the Leader of the Eights.
Between 1932 and 1945 he stroked winning eights at Sydney Rowing Club. In 1963 he escorted Queen Elizabeth II on an informal tour of the facility.Google News Retrieved 9 August 2016.
Men's 1st VIII Summer Eights 2007 coxed by Acer Nethercott In Summer Eights, the Men's 1st VIII has climbed steadily over the past decade from the middle of Division II. As of 2018, the 1st Eight is eighth on the river. The Women's 1st Eight meanwhile, achieved Blades in 2010, 2011 and 2015 and are now fifth in Division 1. The club is also highly successful lower-down the divisions, qualifying more boats for Eights 2012 and 2014 than any other college. The club's recent record in Torpids is less successful, with the Men's 1st Torpid currently towards the bottom of Division II. The Women's 1st Torpid has been stronger recently, achieving Blades in 2010 and 2011, and moving up four places in 2015.
The Xbox, PSP, PlayStation 2 and GameCube versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the PC and Xbox 360 versions received "mixed or average reviews" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the PS2 version a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40; the same magazine gave the Xbox 360 version a score of two eights and two sevens for a total of 30 out of 40, while giving the PSP version a score of one eight, two sevens, and one six, for a total of 28 out of 40. Famitsu Xbox 360, on the other hand, gave its Xbox 360 version a score of all four eights, for a total of 32 out of 40.
On the January 3, 2013, episode of Impact Wrestling, Hogan suspended both Ray and Brooke after seeing them kissing in the parking garage two weeks before. The following week, Ray proposed to Brooke after saving her from the Aces & Eights, which she accepted. The ceremony took place the next week on Impact Wrestling, where Ray's groomsman Tazz interrupted and revealed himself a member of Aces & Eights, leading to the group attacking Ray, Hulk Hogan, and the rest of the groomsmen. On the January 31 episode of Impact Wrestling, Hogan reinstated Ray and pitted him and Sting against Aces & Eights (Devon and DOC) in a Tables match the following week, where Ray won the match by putting Devon through a table.
Selby Smith's senior rowing was from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. She was selected in representative Victorian state eights to compete for the Queen's Cup in the Interstate Regatta at the Australian Rowing Championships on ten occasions between 2002 and 2012. Those Victorian eights were victorious on seven of those occasions.Selby Smith career at Guerin Foster In 2005 and 2006 she was also Victoria's senior sculling representative contesting the Nell Slatter Trophy at those same Australian championships.
In 1992 he was selected in the West Australian senior eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. That eight placed second behind a stellar Victorian crew which included all four members of Australia's prominent crew of the time - the Oarsome Foursome. Porzig rowed in further West Australian King's Cup eights crew in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996. For the last four of those years he was seated in WA King's Cup eights with his younger brother David Porzig.
Swansea and Cardiff Universities Men's Senior eights in 2006 Swansea University Men's Senior eight in 2006 Cardiff University Men's Senior eight in 2006 The Welsh Boat Race, also known as the Welsh University Boat Race and The Welsh Varsity Boat Race, is an annual rowing race in Wales between the Swansea University Rowing Club and the Cardiff University Rowing Club, rowed between competing eights each spring since 2006 on the River Tawe or River Taff in South Wales.
Aces 'N' Eights is a 2008 American made-for-television action-adventure Western film from RHI Entertainment, starring Casper Van Dien, Bruce Boxleitner and Ernest Borgnine. It is directed by Craig R. Baxley and written by Ronald M. Cohen and Dennis Shryack. Aces 'n Eights first aired on ION on March 15, 2008 on in the US and on June 5, 2008 in the UK. A DVD release of the film was released by Genius Entertainment in May 2008.
The Magdalen College Boat Club (MCBC), a rowing club, was founded in 1859. It participates in the two annual Oxford bumps races, Eights Week and Torpids. In recent history, the MCBC men's rowers won Eights Week between 2004 and 2007, and the Torpids most recently in 2008 (for the men's rowers) and 2016 (women's). As well as the MCBC, Magdalen College is represented by teams in football, hockey, rugby, netball, cricket, lacrosse, squash and pool, amongst others.
At Lockdown, Aces & Eights, consisting of D.O.C., Devon, Garett Bischoff, Knux, and Mr. Anderson were defeated by Team TNA, consisting of Eric Young, James Storm, Magnus, Samoa Joe, and Sting in a Lethal Lockdown match. On the March 18 episode of TNA Xplosion, D.O.C. lost to James Storm. At Hardcore Justice 2, Aces & Eights (D.O.C., Wes Brisco and Knux) lost to James Storm, Magnus and Bob Holly in a Six-Man Hardcore Elimination tag team match.
The Eights remained in the Olympics until 1936. New, modern eights are still built utilising newest contemporary technologies, at the rate of 1–3 boats per year. During the 1980s, many old sailboat classes experienced a revival of interest. The class has undergone a renaissance which has continued to the day, with many old yachts restored or rebuilt to racing condition, and 8mr competition is once again thriving with 25–35 boats participating annually at the 8mR Worlds.
These figures are often taught as beginning figures for those just starting. They include simple circle eights, circle eights with three turns, and serpentines. More difficult figures include the use of turns like counters, brackets, and rockers, and they are numbered 19, 21, 22, 26, etc.. Judges in figure events consider the quality of the skater's tracing of the circle, clean takeoffs, edges and correct placement of turns. The skater's form and posture is emphasized as well.
In 2007, she returned to the eights in which the Dutch only became seventh at the World Championships. Earlier that year they won the Rowing World Cup in Amsterdam and they finished third in both Luzern and Linz. She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Roline Repelaer van Driel, Nienke Kingma, Annemarieke van Rumpt, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and cox Ester Workel.
Peter Wiersum (born 1 November 1984 in Sutton Coldfield) is a Dutch rowing cox.Athlete biography: Peter Wiersum, beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008 He took part in the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich and led the Dutch lightweight eights to the World title. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Olaf van Andel, Rogier Blink, Jozef Klaassen, Meindert Klem, David Kuiper, Diederik Simon, Olivier Siegelaar and Mitchel Steenman.
In 2007, she returned to the eights in which the Dutch only became seventh at the World Championships. Earlier that year they won the Rowing World Cup in Amsterdam and they finished third in both Luzern and Linz. She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Roline Repelaer van Driel, Nienke Kingma, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and Annemarieke van Rumpt.
A member of the club was first permitted to take part in Summer Eights in 1927, following the rejection of an earlier request in 1922. Now there are 6 women's divisions in Summer Eights and racing in the top divisions is as competitive as the men's. However, when women were first given their own division, only 12 colleges competed - Somerville, as an all women's college, was one of them. Within four years the W1 were Head of the River.
Sture Bengt Lorentz Baatz (26 August 1929 – 14 February 2004) was a Swedish rower. He competed in the eights at the 1952 and 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals.
Lord of Arcana received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the coxed four and a second bronze medal in the eights, at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.
Sree Angan massacre () refers to the massacre of Bengali Hindu monks of Sree Angan monastery in Faridpur on 21 April 1971. Eights monks were killed by the Pakistan Army in the massacre.
Athletes competing in that year's Boat Race, Women's Boat Race or any of the Lightweight University crews at Henley Boat Races may not compete in Torpids, but may compete in Summer Eights.
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Lebedev (; born 10 October 1984) is a retired rower. Competing the eights he won a silver medal at the 2008 European Championships and placed tenth at the 2009 World Championships.
The women's eights rowing competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics took place at Krylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Moscow, Soviet Union. The event was held from 21 to 26 July.
Nightshade received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one nine and three eights for a total of 33 out of 40.
Ari Michael Lax is an American Magic: The Gathering player. Best known for winning the 2014 Pro Tour Khans of Tarkir, Lax's resume includes nine Grand Prix top eights including one win.
Styles nailed a Styles Clash on Devon for the win, resulting in Devon legitimately being eliminated from TNA. ;Aftermath On the August 29 episode of Impact Wrestling, Mr. Anderson voiced his displeasure of Bully Ray not discussing with him before adding Tito Ortiz into Aces & Eights, to which Ray said that Anderson must not be sensitive and Ray could take care of the business on his own which caused dissension within Aces & Eights. Later that night, he revealed Brooke as his on-screen lover and revealed that he had used Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke Hogan to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and Hogan responded by saying that Ray would be defending the title against an Aces & Eights member at No Surrender. The following week on Impact Wrestling, Anderson cost Ray, a no disqualification match against Sting by tossing the hammer away from Ray and revealed himself to be Ray's challenger for the World Heavyweight Championship in a last man standing match at No Surrender, thus leaving Aces & Eights.
In 1915, he married Marie Therese "Maisie" Fitzpatrick. They had one daughter, Frances, and two sons, William and Brian, both of whom followed their father by rowing in winning "eights" at St Joseph's.
Carolyn Brand Graves, known as Carie Graves (born June 27, 1953), is a retired American rower. Competing in eights she won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics and a bronze in 1976.
Fourth in the doubles at the 1998 FISA World Championships. Ninth in the quads at the 1997 FISA World Championships. She placed fourth in the eights in the 1996 Olympic Games at Atlanta.
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one seven and three eights for a total of 31 out of 40.
Navy in 2013, and Columbia in 2014. After the third varsity eight became a Jope Cup event for the Kilpatrick Trophy in 2015, the Joke Cup is now passed between fourth varsity eights.
The game received "average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of three eights and one seven, for a total of 31 out of 40.
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of three eights and one nine for a total of 33 out of 40.
The game received "average reviews" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two nines and two eights, for a total of 34 out of 40.
Irmgard Brendenal-Böhmer (née Brendenal) is a retired East German rower who won two European titles in the eights event in 1964 and 1966. Her husband Joachim Böhmer was also a competitive rower.
He made it all the way to final, beating José Barbero and Tsuyoshi Ikeda, before losing to Mattias Jorstedt. It would also be the only time that he would make it past the quarterfinals. This finals appearance, along with a pair of Grand Prix top eights, was enough to earn him the title of Rookie of the Year. The following season, Oiso proved that the year before was no fluke with Pro Tour top eights in New Orleans and San Diego.
He rowed again in West Australian King's Cup eights in 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000. He stroked those WA eights in 1993, 1994 and 1996. Scott contested national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on a number of occasions. In 1996 in Curtin University colours he won the national coxless pair title (the Ted Bromley Memorial Trophy) with David Weightman and at stroke he won the 1996 national coxless four title in a composite selection crew.
Hotch reveals he was hiding another ace, thus beating the inmate. In June 2012, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling introduced a faction known as the "Aces & Eights". The faction would use the Dead Man's Hand (black aces, black eights and the fifth card overturned) as a calling card for their attacks. One edition of the Fox News Channel documentary series Legends and Lies: The Real West presented a biography of Wild Bill Hickok, including – of course – a description of the "Dead Man’s Hand".
It has since risen to as high as 2nd on the river during the 2006 Torpids competition, and 10th on the river during Summer Eights 2005. In recent years the men's first and second boats have risen steadily through the rankings of Summer Eights with the first eight now positioned at 15th on the river and second eight at 51st as of 2019. Notably, both boats achieved 'blades' (bumping on each day of the competition) in both the 2015 and 2017 regattas.
Blackjack's "Four Horsemen" (Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Cantey, Herbert Maisel and James McDermott), using adding machines, determined that splitting eights was less costly than playing the pair of eights as a 16. They were part of a 1950s group that discovered that strategy could reduce the house edge to almost zero in blackjack.Gros, p. 44 Now a typical strategy involves the following sequence of playing decisions: one decides whether to surrender, whether to split, whether to double down, and whether to hit or stand.
D.O.C. representing Aces & Eights alongside Devon On June 14, 2011, Hankinson wrestled a tryout dark match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), in which he was defeated by Gunner. In December 2011, Hankinson took part in TNA's India project, Ring Ka King, under the ring name "The Outlaw" Isaiah Cash. On June 21, 2012, Hankinson wrestled another tryout dark match for TNA. Hankinson began working TNA house shows as a masked member of the Aces & Eights stable in September 2012.
The International Eight Metre class are class of racing yachts. Eight Metre boats (often called "Eights" or 8mR) are a construction class, meaning that the boats are not identical but are all designed to meet specific measurement formula, in this case International rule. Before WW II Eights were the most prestigious international yacht racing class, and they are still raced around the world. "Eight metre" in class name does not, somewhat confusingly, refer to length of the boat, but product of the formula.
Rowing blade design of Somerville College Boat Club Somerville formed a rowing team in 1921. The college competes in both of the annual university bumps races, Torpids and Summer Eights. The women are the most successful women's rowing team at the University of Oxford, having won the title Head of the River eight times in Summer Eights and five times in Torpids. The club shares the award-winning University College Boathouse on The Isis with St Peter's College, University College and Wolfson College.
Mori first appeared on the Pro Tour in the 2000–01 season, at Pro Tour Los Angeles. With three Grand Prix top eights and a ninth-place finish at the World Championship, he accumulated enough points to win the rookie of the year title that season. The following season Mori's success abated as he was unable to repeat his strong performance from the previous Worlds at the Pro Tour level. However, he did manage to make a number of Grand Prix top eights.
In 1961 and in 1963 he coxed Victorian men's eights to victory in the King's Cup at the Interstate Regattas in those years. In 1964 Palfreyman took up an oar and was successful in being selected to stroke that year's Victorian lightweight four. That crew won the 1964 Penrith Cup title as the champion state representative lightweight four at the Interstate Regatta. In 1972 and in 1974 he stroked the Victoria men's eights which contested the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.
Raised in Adelaide, Hatcher's senior rowing was from the Adelaide University Boat Club and later the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. State representation first came for Hatcher in 1973 in the South Australian men's heavyweight eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He rowed in two further South Australian King's Cup eights in 1976 and 1977 and stroked both those crews. In 1974 and 1976 Hatcher rowed in Adelaide University eights at the Australian Intervarsity Championships.
On July 18 at Impact Wrestling: Destination X, Bully Ray lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Chris Sabin following interference from both Aces & Eights and the Main Event Mafia. On the August 1 episode of Impact Wrestling, Kurt Angle announced that the Main Event Mafia and Aces & Eights will face off in a 5-on-5 tag match at Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice on August 15, whereby the person to be pinned or submit must leave TNA. The 5-on-5 match would be delayed until the August 22 episode of Impact Wrestling due to Kurt Angle entering rehab for his DUI. At Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice, Bully Ray regained the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, defeating Sabin in a steel cage match after Tito Ortiz (who officially joined Aces & Eights) and Mr. Anderson interfered.
Having been told to show why he deserved a spot in Aces & Eights, D.O.C. afterwards put Sting through a table, before beating him with a ball-peen hammer. DOC made his TNA pay-per-view debut three days later at Turning Point, defeating Joseph Park in a singles match. On the December 6 episode of Impact Wrestling, D.O.C. was defeated by Kurt Angle which ended By disqualification when Aces & Eights attacked Angle. On December 9 at Final Resolution, D.O.C. teamed with Devon and two masked members of Aces & Eights in a losing effort to Kurt Angle, Garett Bischoff, Samoa Joe, and Wes Brisco. on the December 13 episode of Impact Wrestling, D.O.C. and a masked man (members of Aces and 8's) lost to James Storm and Jeff Hardy.
Max Bruno Alwin (17 June 1939 – 22 December 1995) was a Dutch rower. He competed in the double sculls event at the 1964 Summer Olympics, together with Peter Bots, and finished in eights place.
The club's highest ever finish in the Eights Head of the River Race was recorded in 1986 when the club's first VIII finished sixth overall, winning the Vernon Trophy as the fastest Tideway crew.
Polarium received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, one seven, and two eights for a total of 31 out of 40.
Eights strains of SAFV have been identified; these are named SAFV-1 through SAFV-8. Of these strains, SAFV-1 has a global distribution. The other strains have only been isolated from specific locations.
The later Cylon Raiders are different from Cylon Heavy Raiders. Like the raiders of the First Cylon War, the Heavy Raiders are transports and attack bombers, and are primarily piloted by Sixes and Eights.
Aldona Margenytė is a retired Lithuanian rower who won two European titles in the eights event in 1963 and 1965. One of these titles was a gold medal in the 1963 European Rowing Championships.
The city-state of Badagry was divided into eights wards with each having a traditional head. These are Ijegba (Akran), Asago (Bala), Ganho (Agoloto), Posuko (Possu), Boeko (Mobee), Ahoviko (Wawu), Ahwanjigo (Jengen), and Wharakoh.
Einar Sommerfeldt (16 July 1889 – 29 April 1976) was a Norwegian rower. He was born in Kristiania, and competed for Christiania Roklub. He competed in coxed eights at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
Lies Rustenburg (born 8 April 1990) is a Dutch rower who competes in the eights. She won silver medals at the 2015 and 2016 European Championships and placed sixth at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
José van Veen (born 9 January 1986) is a Dutch rower who competes in the eights. She won a silver medal at the 2016 European Championships and placed sixth at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
While he was a student at Oxford, Wason rowed in Trial Eights in 1865 and 1866 and was Captain of Wadham College Boat Club. He was also winner of the University foils for 1868.
He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one seven, two eights, and one six for a total of 29 out of 40.
The game received "average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, one seven, and two eights for a total of 31 out of 40.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights, one seven, and one eight, for a total of 31 out of 40.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one six, one seven, and two eights for a total of 29 out of 40.
Mel rowed for City of Oxford Rowing Club, competing at the Women's Eights Head of the River Race in London and at many regattas. In 2004, she captained her team to success at Cambridge regatta.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights, one six, and one seven, for a total of 29 out of 40.
The physics users at ITEP complained, thinking that the lab was being used for game playing, when the division was writing the Crazy Eights card game and chess trying to teach a machine to think.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights, one seven, and one eight, for a total of 31 out of 40.
Standard tire size was J78-15. Upholstery was vinyl, cloth or leather. In 1976 the Luxury and Regency editions of the full-size Ninety-Eights were offered, in 2-door coupes or 4-door hardtops.
James Showers Flanagan (1884 – March 28, 1937) was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Nikolay Gomolko (, born 18 July 1938) is a retired Russian rower who competed in the eights event at the 1960 Summer Olympics for the Soviet Union. His wife Tatyana Gomolko also competed internationally in rowing.
Louise Henriëtte Maria "Loes" Schutte (born 12 June 1953) is a retired Dutch rower. Her teams finished fourth at the 1975 World Championships and eights at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the women's eight event.
Owe Rune Gustav Lostad (27 June 1922 – 12 October 2013) was a Swedish rowing coxswain. He competed in the coxed pairs, fours and eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one six, two eights, and one seven, for a total of 29 out of 40.
The Head of the Yarra is a rowing regatta held on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. It is a head race, with each crew having a separate start time. Organized by Hawthorn Rowing Club, it is the largest eights-only rowing event in Australia, and is listed as one of the three most notable head races along with the Head of the River Race and the Head of the Charles. The regatta is limited to coxed Eights and was first run in 1957.
Bergen began his rowing career in 2005 and began his competitive career as part of the men's eights in 2006. His first World Championship was as a world title when he won the gold in the coxed pair at the 2008 World Rowing Championships with partner James Dunaway and cox Mark Laidlaw. He found further successes at the Worlds except this time as part of the eights. Bergen failed to win gold but did succeed in winning a silver in 2009 and a bronze in 2011.
Dignan's son Matthew is also a representative rower, and is in the Australian Under-19 coxed four. Dignan served as a modern history teacher in Sydney, Australia at Sydney Grammar School. He was also a senior coach at the Sydney Grammar School boatshed and the School Year 10 Second Eight. In previous years he had much success with younger crews, coaching three different Year 10 second eights to victory at Head of the River, including the 2004 and the 2008 Year 10 second eights.
Guest was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne where he was introduced to rowing but placed his sporting focus on athletics. His senior club rowing was initially from the Melbourne University Boat Club and later the Banks Rowing Club in Melbourne. Guest was selected in the Victorian men's eights that contested the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships in 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1975. Those Victorian eights won the King's Cup in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969 and 1970.
Established in 1899 as the Irish Amateur Rowing Union, the association hosted its first championship in 1912. At the 1912 AGM, which was held in February, it was agreed that a cup be purchased for £100 for the Union to be presented for annual competition amongst senior eights. This would in time become known as "The Big Pot". The inaugural Senior eights championship took place at Metropolitan Regatta in Ringsend on the Lower Liffey in July 1912 and City of Derry Boating Club were the winners.
Upon the recommendation of Amos Eaton, who called Eights "one of the most competent geologists in North America", Eights obtained the position of naturalist on the first voyage of discovery made outside the United States. He was a member of the "South Sea Fur Company and Exploring Expedition" of 1829. This was a private enterprise organized by Jeremiah N. Reynolds. The expedition included two brigs, Annawan and Seraph, commanded by Benjamin Pendleton and Nathaniel B. Palmer respectively, plus the schooner Penguin commanded by Alexander Palmer.
Eights made observations of the flora and fauna in the lands reached by the expedition, which included Patagonia and Staten Island. He was the first to describe a trilobite fossil found on the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic, a pycnogonid, and the presence of glacial erratics. Upon his return, James Eights published some of his materials in journals, but failed to obtain any further positions on exploratory voyages. He held himself out to be a geologist, mineralogist, and surveyor, obtaining some work away from Albany.
Their last appearance was at Actium, where Mark Antony is said by Plutarch to have had many "eights". Based on the comments of Orosius that the larger ships in Antony's fleet were only as high as the quinqueremes (their deck standing at above water), it is presumed that "eights", as well as the "nines" and "tens", were rowed at two levels. An exceptionally large "eight", the Leontophoros, is recorded by Memnon of Heraclea to have been built by Lysimachus (r. 306–281 BC), one of the Diadochi.
In May 2012, Knox competed in a dark match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling against the Television Champion Devon. Successivly Knux began working as a masked member of the Aces & Eights stable. At Bound for Glory (2012), D.O.C. and Knux (still masked) defeated Bully Ray and Sting to gain full access to the Impact Zone. Knox made his official television debut on the January 3, 2013, episode of Impact Wrestling, being revealed as a member of the villainous Aces & Eights stable after being unmasked by Kurt Angle.
On March 19, 2013, Knux took part in a six-man tag team match at a Hardcore Justice 2, teaming with D.O.C. and Wes Brisco, in a losing effort, being defeated by James Storm, Hardcore Holly, and Magnus. On the November 21 edition of Turning Point, Knux, Garett Bischoff, Bully Ray, and Taz (remaining members of Aces & Eights) were forced to disband the Aces & Eights after Bully Ray lost a match against Mr. Anderson with their memberships on the line against the TNA career of Mr. Anderson.
The following week, Hulk Hogan called out Abyss to thank him for his services, however, Joseph Park came out and claimed he was continuing the search for his brother. During his promo, Devon interrupted and claimed he was out for Abyss. Later that night, Park defeated Aces & Eights' D'Lo Brown to earn a shot at Devon's TNA Television Championship. On June 2 at Slammiversary XI, Park was attacked by Aces & Eights before his scheduled match with Devon, who was then awarded a count-out victory.
The Club regularly attends races throughout the United Kingdom, including Pairs Head, Fours Head, Eights Head, BUCS fours and eights, BUCS Regatta, Marlow Regatta and Henley. Notable former members include Oxford University Boat Club member and Boat Race winner Ben Ellison, Olympian Tom Solesbury, and Team GB para-rowing coxswain Oliver James MBE. The club was known internationally for the nude wall calendars produced by its members, first as 'Warwick Rowers' later as 'Worldwide Roar'. However, the club and the calendar are no longer affiliated.
Bohumil Janoušek (or Bob Janousek; born 7 September 1937) is a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics, and later moved to Britain as a rowing coach and then a boat- builder. He was born in Prague. In 1960 he was a crew member of the Czechoslovak boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event. Four years later he won his second bronze medal with the Czechoslovak boat in the eights competition.
In 2018, he played abroad for a second spell in the Canadian Soccer League with FC Vorkuta. The following season he played with Kingsman SC, where he finished as the club's top goalscorer with eights goals.
Cummings was coxswain in each of those crews and steered the 1920, 1922 and 1923, South Australian eights to victory. In 1921, 1922 and 1923 he was in those crews with his older brother Frank Cummings.
Harold Boyd Little (July 27, 1893 - 1958) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event.
Joseph "Joey" Hansen (born August 13, 1979 in Bakersfield, California) is an American competition rower. He represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he received a gold medal in men's eights.
Nataliya Grigoryeva (, born 8 December 1965) is a retired Russian rower who won two silver medals at the world championships of 1985 and 1991. She finished fourth in the eights event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
For example, Galhund and two other Eights can only be beaten by Spids or Brus and any two 'trick cards'. When the trick is taken, players replenish their cards in order starting with the trick winner.
He later played for The Adults and Aces and Eights. Both Jim and Manny were from Lodi, New Jersey and graduated from Lodi High School in 1971.Blush, Steven. American Hardcore: A Tribal History, p. 196.
Deborah Bassett (born 7 December 1965) is an Australian rower. Bassett competed at the 1986 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold medal in the eights event and a silver medal in the coxed four event.
The game received "favorable" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights and two sevens for a total of 30 out of 40.
John Vilhelm Bjørnstad (9 March 1888 – 3 June 1968) was a Norwegian rowing coxswain who competed for Christiania Roklub. He competed in coxed fours (inriggers) and in coxed eights at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
Lawrence Kingsley West (born 1935) is a Canadian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
After the match, Park, at the sight of his own blood, attacked Ray and hit him with Abyss' signature Black Hole Slam. On the September 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, Park was kidnapped by the Aces & Eights stable, who used him to force Hulk Hogan into allowing the group to wrestle for TNA roster spots at Bound for Glory. On the October 25 episode of Impact Wrestling, Park and Hogan had a discussion in which Park wanted revenge on Aces & Eights, even going so far as showing Hogan a legal contract that allowed him to take whatever measures he feels are necessary against the group. On the November 1 episode of Impact Wrestling, Park got a measure of revenge of his kidnappers by unmasking one of the members of Aces & Eights during a brawl between the stable and the TNA locker room.
Ralph Uno Hurtig (6 May 1932 - 23 November 2017) was a Swedish rower. He competed in the eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final. His son Pär also became an Olympic rower.
Marvin Frederick Stalder (December 9, 1905 - September 2, 1982) was an American rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928, he was part of the American boat which won the gold medal in the eights.
Francis Harland Frederick (February 28, 1907 - May 2, 1968) was an American rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
William Morris Dally (February 22, 1908 - May 30, 1996) was an American rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Stephen Patrick Trapmore (born 18 March 1975) is an English rower and Olympic champion. Trapmore won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as a member of the British rowing team.
Leonard Griswold Carpenter (July 28, 1902 - May 15, 1994) was an American rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Alfred Mayo Wilson (December 31, 1903 - October 27, 1989) was an American rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
The remaining cards - Kings, Queens, Tens, Eights and Sevens - are worthless cards or duds (with the exception of those that are matadors) and can only win a trick if led to a trick that contains four duds.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Division, the Los Angeles Police Department CRASH squad, and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System all use some variation of the aces and eights dead man's hand in their insignia.
Ingrid Falk is a retired East German rower. At European championships she won a silver medal in the coxed fours in 1964 and a gold in the eights in 1966. Before 1966 she competed as Ingrid Fischer.
Frank Reamer Schell (October 22, 1884 – December 5, 1959) was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Marilyn Joan Kidd (born 23 November 1964) is an Australian rower. Kidd competed at the 1986 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold medal in the eights event and a silver medal in the coxed four event.
Robert Robbers (born 3 January 1950) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls and finished in eights place. After retiring from competition he became a national rowing coach.
James Howard Blair (October 28, 1909 - May 23, 1992) was an American rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the gold medal as member of the American boat in the eights competition.
Duncan Smith Gregg (February 28, 1910 - February 14, 1989) was an American rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the gold medal as member of the American boat in the eights competition.
David Coombs Dunlap (November 19, 1910 - December 16, 1994) was an American rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the gold medal as member of the American boat in the eights competition.
Harold W. Tower (July 17, 1911 - August 12, 1994) was an American rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the gold medal as member of the American boat in the eights competition.
2008 Summer Olympics: Rowing Women's Eights Results Accessed: August 18, 2008. Anna grew up in Bellevue, Washington. She graduated from Newport High School. In high school, she ran varsity cross country and track; she played varsity basketball.
Stanley B. Stanyar (December 29, 1905 - June 5, 1983) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition.
Brisco made his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) debut on the October 11, 2012, episode Impact Wrestling, in a backstage segment with Kurt Angle. Three days later at the Bound for Glory pay-per-view, Brisco appeared during Angle's entrance. Brisco would then begin to feud with the villainous Aces & Eights stable, alongside Kurt Angle, after fending off the stable with a metal pipe, during a tag team match between Aces & Eights and Angle and Garett Bischoff on the November 15 episode of Impact Wrestling. Angle then recommended Brisco to for TNA's Gut Check program.
Just before the match, Joe was shown to have been mysteriously attacked. After Angle's cage match victory over Anderson, a masked member of Aces & Eights scaled the cage to pursue Angle while Brisco emerged to unlock the cage and apparently help Angle. Within the cage, the person unmasked to reveal himself to be Garett Bischoff. Wes Brisco then proceeded to assist Bischoff in assaulting Angle to reveal his alliance with the Aces & Eights and that the two of them were in on the attacks on Angle and Joe.
The lyric "Aces and eights are the fate that you drew" appears in the song "I Am the Storm" by Blue Öyster Cult on their album Mirrors. In the song "Rambling, Gambling Willie" by Bob Dylan, the main character, Will O'Conley, is a successful poker player who loses his life to an angry opponent while holding the dead man's hand. The song contains the lyric, "When Willie’s cards fell on the floor, they were aces backed with eights." Townes van Zandt covers the song on the album Roadsongs.
College women's eights during Oxford University Eights Week Sweep or sweep-oar rowing is a type of rowing when a rower has one oar, usually held with both hands. As each rower has only one oar, the rowers have to be paired so that there is an oar on each side of the boat.US Rowing This is in contrast to sculling when a rower has two oars, one in each hand. In the UK the term is less used as the term rowing generally refers to sweep oar.
The Aylings Challenge Cup for Championship Girls Eights has become the blue riband event for junior sweep women, with increasing entries in recent years to match the increase of junior women's rowing across the UK. A notable success has been that of Headington School who retained the trophy for 9 consecutive years between 2009 and 2017. The Aylings Challenge Cup makes up one of the three trophies for the Junior Women's Eights Triple, including Girls' Ch8+ at Schools' Head of the River and the Peabody Cup at Henley Women's Regatta.
The Wadham men continue their historical position at the bottom of the first divisions, and recent years have seen increased success as new training schemes have been put in place. In Torpids the men sit sixth on the river, compared to 11th in Eights. The Wadham men have consistently put out four boats in Eights, and have become renowned in recent years for their 'beer boat' composed of former M1 rowers mixed with alumni guests. Externally M1 has qualified for the Temple Challenge Cup in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Membership of OULRC is by competitive selection drawn solely from student members of the university. OULRC commences the selection process in September prior to the beginning of Michaelmas term, recruiting from both undergraduate and postgraduate members of the University. By the end of Michaelmas, the squad is reduced to two trial eights which compete in a Trial Eights race at Henley-on-Thames over the course used for the race against Cambridge. From this squad the club selects a first crew, known as the Lightweight Blue Boat, and a reserve crew, known as Nephthys.
Archibald MacKinnon (born January 13, 1937 in Cranbrook, British Columbia) is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Lorne Loomer, Walter D'Hondt and Donald Arnold."1956 Summer Olympics - Melbourne, Australia - Rowing" (Retrieved on May 14, 2008) At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, MacKinnon received a gold medal in eights. He received a silver medal in eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, as a member of the Canadian team.
If he now has fewer than 5 cards in his hand, he makes it up to 5 from the stock. Another player has the 8 in his hand and reinforces the attack by laying it next to the other Eights. If the defender has K J A 8 and A, he may place the 8 with the other Eights. He can then beat the 8 with the K, the 8 with the J and his 8 with the A. He is unable to beat the 8 and must therefore pick it up.
Sting returned on the January 3, 2013, episode of Impact Wrestling, saving Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe from Aces & Eights before beating the group down with a baseball bat. Sting wrestled his return match the following week, defeating Aces & Eights member Mike Knox after he injured Kurt Angle. Three days later at Genesis, Sting gained his revenge on DOC by defeating him in a singles match. On the February 7 episode of Impact Wrestling, Sting teamed up with Bully Ray to defeat Devon and DOC in a Tables match.
A busy riverbank scene as a boat is returned to one of the college boathouses in Eights Week 1982. The scene at Boathouse Island during Eights Week 2005, crammed with spectators awaiting the next race. The racing takes place on the Isis, a length of the River Thames, which is generally too narrow for side by side racing. For each division, thirteen boats line up at the downstream end of the stretch, each cox holding onto a rope attached to the bank, leaving around 1.5 boat lengths between each boat.
Sutherland profile at Mercantile Her senior club rowing has been from the Mercantile Rowing Club. Sutherland was first selected to represent Victoria in the women's youth eight in 2011 contesting the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. From 2014 to 2016 she rowed in consecutive successful Victorian eights who contested and won the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. She stroked two of those eights to victory - 2015 and 2016.2018 Queen's Cup results In Mercantile colours she has contested national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on numerous occasions.
Oxford's coach was Canadian former Olympic and University trainer Christine Wilson. She was assisted by British Olympic rower Natasha Page who was part of the women's eights that came fifth in both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
The song "Death and Burial of C.R." is lyrically based on the English nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin". The song "Vive La Mort!" includes the lyrics "aces and eights", a reference to Wild Bill Hickok's last hand.
Vermeersch was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in rowing in the eights. The crew nicknamed themselves the "Motley Crew". She earned selection on the boat after a battle between ten women for eight spots.
Pieter Lammert "Piet" Bon (born 18 April 1946) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the coxed eights event and finished in eighth place. His father Simon was also an Olympic rower.
Streamliner Eights were in Series 28. Beige corded wool cloth upholstery. There was also a Super Streamliner Torpedo subseries. Supers had the same body styling and trim but featured two-tone worsted wool cloth upholstery with pin stripes.
Kevin Neufeld (born November 6, 1960 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian rower, who was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Robert Sinclair Hunter (March 27, 1904 - March 25, 1950) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event.
Yekaterina Kotko (, born 20 October 1965) is a retired Soviet rower who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1991 World Championships. Next year her team finished fourth in this event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
He coxed composite Queensland lightweight eights contesting the Australian lightweight eight championship in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 2007 he was in the stern of the composite Queensland four which won the Australian coxed four national title.
He represented England and won a gold medal in the coxless four and a bronze medal in the eights at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia. He rowed for the Molesey Boat Club.
He represented England and won a gold medal in the coxless four and a bronze medal in the eights at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia. He rowed for the Molesey Boat Club.
Norman William Taylor (April 15, 1899 - December 14, 1980) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event.
The coxed eights was one of the competitions in the Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics events in Paris. It was held on 25 August and 26 August 1900. 5 boats, involving 46 rowers from 5 nations, competed.
Zinaida Fyodorovna Korotova (, born 5 April 1936) is a retired Russian rower who won eight European titles in the eights event between 1955 and 1962. For this achievement she was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour.
In 2012 she contested the U23 coxless pair and U23 eight titles. In 2013 and 2014 she competed for the coxless pair. In 2015 she won the Australian coxless four and eights championship titles in all-Mercantile crews.
Douglas John McDonald (born May 11, 1935) is a Canadian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Jürgen Schröder (born 6 March 1940) is a retired German rower who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics and two European titles in 1964–1965.
George Elwood Hunt Jr. (August 1, 1916 - September 3, 1999) was an American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936, he won the gold medal as a member of the American boat in the eights competition.
Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one nine and three eights for a total of 33 out of 40.
Richard Frederick "Dick" Murphy (born November 14, 1931 in New Jersey) is an American competition rower and Olympic champion. Murphy won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team.
He represented England and won a silver medal in the eights and a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. He was a member of the Thames Rowing Club.
John Lester Miller (June 5, 1903 in Brooklyn - August 1, 1965) was an American rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Yelena Medvedeva (, born 21 November 1965) is a retired Soviet rowing coxswain who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1991 World Championships. Next year her team finished fourth in this event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Arrigo Menicocci, Italian rower who competed in eights, was killed as a passenger in a car crash about 90 km northwest of Melbourne during the Olympics on 1 December 1956, four days after the end of the rowing competition.
Gillis Ferdinand Ahlberg (8 November 1892 – 6 November 1930) was a Swedish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He coxed the Swedish boat Göteborgs which was eliminated in the first round of the men's eights tournament.
Student-led demonstrations also occurred in March 1976, September 1987, March and June 1988. In August and September 1988, these demonstrations turned into a nationwide uprising against BSPP rule in what is now known as the 'Four Eights Uprising'.
The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the PlayStation 2 version a score of three eights and one seven for a total of 31 out of 40.
Jeroen Vervoort (born 18 June 1956) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls and finished in eights place, together with Victor Scheffers, Rob Robbers and his elder brother Ronald Vervoort.
The game received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40.
Jonathan Hall and Francis David Badcock (from Oxford) and Russell Carver (from Cambridge) were all selected for the England team for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games later in the year; Badcock was a reserve for the eights.
In the domestic Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) Laidlaw played for Sutherland Sharks and Wollongong Hawks. Laidlaw is the daughter of David Anderson, who participated in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games for Australia in the Eights Rowing Crew.
Carlton Susumi Ogawa (August 29, 1934 - September 23, 2006) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he was the coxswain of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Yuliya Bichyk (; , Yuliya Bichik; born 1 April 1983) is a Belarusian rower. Partnering with Natallia Helakh, she won a bronze medal in the coxless pairs in 2004 and 2008, and finished in fourth place in the eights in 2000.
Devon as Television Champion with Aces & Eights member D.O.C. After Slammiversary, Sting announced the return of The Main Event Mafia to war with Aces and Eights. On the June 13 edition of Impact Wrestling, Mr. Anderson won a battle royal which also included fellow members Devon, D.O.C., Knux, Wes Brisco, and Garett Bischoff for a spot in the 2013 Bound for Glory Series after D.O.C. was forcibly thrown out by Anderson after refusing to voluntarily eliminate himself as the other members had done. On the July 11 edition of Impact Wrestling, D.O.C. lost his bid to become the Vice-President of Aces and Eights as Knux gave his deciding vote to Mr. Anderson, to D.O.C.'s disgust. On July 12, 2013, D.O.C. parted ways with TNA after his contract expired (it was explained on-screen that he turned in his kutte over losing the VP bid to Anderson).
In Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom, just before Vagabond dies on an infiltration mission, he loses a critical hand of poker with a full house of aces and eights against Maniac's four queens. In the 90th Case of the Facebook game, Criminal Case, the player finds a set of poker cards with 2 black aces and eights, which allows the player to incriminate the killer as someone who plays poker. In Need For Speed: Carbon the crew Stacked Deck's insignia includes the ace of Spades and an unknown black 8, two of the five cards of the Dead Man's Hand. In The Walking Dead: A New Frontier a man is shot and killed in a bar shortly after a poker game between the bar owner and his wife, whose hand was both black aces, both black eights and the Jack of Diamonds.
Gordon Belgum Adam (May 26, 1915 - March 27, 1992) was an American rower, born in Seattle, who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936, he won the gold medal as a member of the American boat in the eights competition.
John Galbraith White (May 16, 1916 - March 16, 1997) was an American rower, born in Seattle, who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936, he won the gold medal as a member of the American boat in the eights competition.
Boom-O is a card game from the Crazy Eights and Fan Tan family of games. Boom-O is from the makers of Uno, Mattel. The aim is to keep the timer below 60 seconds. Otherwise, the player may "blow up".
Olha Oleksandrivna Puhovska (, born 1 November 1942) is a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was the coxswain of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
In May 2008 100 students moved into the new learning studio building. The 100 students consist of 50 year eights and 50 year sevens. In the studio there are four main rooms, one of which has 20 Apple Mac computers.
Stephen Hawking was a member of the club in the 1960s, coxing the Men's Second VIII. The club features on the front cover of his autobiography, My Brief History. Univ was last Eights Head of the River from 1990 to 1991.
In Torpids 2017, the men's first boat bumped three times to end fourth on the river. Following this, in Eights 2017, both the men's first and second boats won blades, finishing 10th in Division 1 and 3rd in Division 4 respectively.
Korf enjoyed the card game Crazy Eights, and is remembered for organizing tournaments at mycological conferences and during holidays on Exe Island. Korf passed away on August 20, 2016 at the age of 91 at home in Ithaca, New York.
The film has an overall rating of 20% on Rotten Tomatoes. One reviewer noted that the cinematography was distracting and some "violent scenes... were too many and went on too long."Aces 'N' Eights on Rotten Tomatoes Retrieved 26 February 2015.
James Theodore Workman (April 30, 1908 - October 15, 1983) was an American rower, born in Woodward, Oklahoma, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Peter Dwight Donlon (December 16, 1906 - December 14, 1979) was an American rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. In 1928, he was the stroke of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Frederick Sheffield (February 26, 1902 - May 8, 1971) was an American rower, born in New York City, who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Arthur Armstrong Bell (February 20, 1899 in Toronto, Ontario - February 23, 1963) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event.
Last Card is a shedding-type card game popular in New Zealand and Australia. It is similar in most aspects to Uno, Mau Mau or Crazy Eights but several rules differentiate it, for instance the function of a particular card.
William Frederick Langford (August 7, 1896 in Gravenhurst, Ontario - January 21, 1973) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event.
William Lawrence Wallace (April 12, 1901 in Toronto, Ontario - July 20, 1967) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event.
The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the game was ported on 10 June 2004, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40.
The poker hand Hickok was holding when he was shot was reportedly a pair of eights and a pair of aces–all black–which has become known as the "dead man's hand" of today.Deadwood Saloon at Legends of America online.
Parisse is widely considered as one of the greatest number eights to play the game in the modern era, and the greatest Italian rugby player of all time. He also holds the joint record of playing in five Rugby World Cups.
Anderson also described two combined figures, the salutation (already described by Jones) and the satellite. By the 1850s, the most important figures (eights, threes, and Qs) were developed, and formed the basis for figure skating at the time.Hines (2006), pp.
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two nines and two eights for the original, and one ten and three nines (37/40) for the Infinity version.
Michael D. "Mike" Gleason (November 16, 1876 - January 11, 1923) was an American rower, born in Philadelphia, who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
John Francis Geiger (March 28, 1873 - December 6, 1956) was an American rower, born in Philadelphia, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights.
The club shares a boathouse with Lincoln College Boat Club and The Queen's College Boat Club. The club is one of the most successful Oxford college boat clubs with a record of 35 Torpids headships and 33 Summer Eights Headships.
Winslow William Hall (May 15, 1912 - December 27, 1995) was an American rower, born in Oakland, California, who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the gold medal as member of the American boat in the eights competition.
To minimise tax ratings British designers developed engines with very long stroke and low piston surface area. Another effect was the multiplicity of models: Sevens, Eights, Nines, Tens, Elevens, Twelves, Fourteens, Sixteens etc. each to fit with a taxation class.
Frank James Fiddes (July 16, 1906 - March 26, 1981) was a Canadian rower, born in Toronto, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition.
John "Jack" Loudwell Hand (June 14, 1902 – July 7, 1967) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Born in Toronto, he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition in 1928.
Athol Charles Meech (March 28, 1907 - August 2, 1981) was a Canadian rower, born in Ottawa, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition.
Cyril Edgar Norris (December 23, 1902 - April 20, 1982) was a Canadian rower, born in Toronto, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition.
James Guthrie Howden (4 September 1934 - 10 October 1993) was an Australian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he was a crew member of the Australian boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
CALDWELL'S TNA IMPACT RESULTS 5/9 (Hour 2): Ongoing "virtual-time" coverage of live Impact – TNA Original returns to help TNA vs. Aces & Eights, #1 contender match ends without a finish. PWTorch.com (9 May 2013). Retrieved on 25 September 2015.
Chun Wei Cheung (15 April 1972 in Amsterdam – 14 October 2006) was a Dutch rowing cox and Olympic silver medallist. Cheung started coxing with Nereus Rowing Club in Amsterdam in 1992, later joining the Dutch National Team and coxing the men's coxed pair at the 1996 World Rowing Championships to bronze. He returned to coxing as the cox of the silver medal winning Dutch men's eights at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was diagnosed with liver cancer shortly after coxing the Dutch eights at Henley Royal Regatta and the 2006 World Rowing Championships, and died, aged 34.
Univ members who have rowed or coxed at least two days of Summer Eights as part of the Men's 1st VIII are entitled to become a member of the Dinosaurs society. Members who have rowed or coxed at least two days of Summer Eights as part of the Women's 1st VIII are entitled to become a member of the Cassandrians society. An annual Dinosaurs and Cassandrians dinner is held (usually in January) where many Old Members return to the college to celebrate Univ rowing with current members. A related club is the Univ Dinosaurs and Cassandrians Ironman Triathlon Club (UDCITC).
On 17 March 2014 Hill coxed the composite crew that won the Women's Eights Head of the River Race on the River Thames in London, setting a record time of 17:42.2 for the 4 1⁄4-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney.Women's Eights Head of the River Race, Official Results Archive. 2014 results He competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight with Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Matthew Tarrant, Will Satch, Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Tom Ransley and Constantine Louloudis.
Smoljanović moved from HVK Gusar to Zagreb-based HAVK Mladost rowing club in 1999, after enrolling in the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Smoljanović won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. His teammates were Igor Boraska, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Branimir Vujević, Krešimir Čuljak, Tihomir Franković and Igor Francetić, with Silvijo Petriško as coxswain. In the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Smoljanović was a member of a slightly changed national eights team – with Oliver Martinov and Damir Vučičić instead of Franković and Francetić – which won a silver medal.
Park later got into words with Devon over how the Aces & Eights treated him, ending with Park getting angered and competitive towards Devon. After winning contracts into the promotion through the TNA Gut Check challenge in 2012, TNA Held a 4-man Gut Check tournament to decide which Gut Check winner would compete in the Bound for Glory Series, Jay Bradley returned to television and defeated Christian York for a shot in the upcoming Bound for Glory Series. The following week, Sam Shaw returned and won his shot by default against Alex Silva, who was attacked and left unconscious by the Aces & Eights.
Along with Devon, this team included D.O.C., Mr. Anderson, Mike Knox and Garett Bischoff, and they were to fight against Team TNA captained by Sting which was revealed to include James Storm, Samoa Joe, Magnus, and a returning Eric Young, who was injured months ago by the Aces & Eights. Another feud was between Kurt Angle and Wes Brisco. After befriending Kurt Angle, Angle helped Brisco to get an opportunity to make it on the TNA roster. Brisco later helped fend off members of the Aces & Eights with a lead pipe to save Kurt Angle and Garett Bischoff from getting beat down.
Hardy made his first televised title defense on the October 25 episode of Impact Wrestling, defeating Kurt Angle to retain his title. On November 11 at Turning Point, Hardy defeated Austin Aries in a ladder match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. On the December 6 episode of Impact Wrestling, Hardy was attacked by the Aces & Eights who were revealed to be paid off by his number one contender Bobby Roode. Three days later at Final Resolution, Hardy defeated Roode to retain the World Heavyweight Championship, after which, both men were attacked by the Aces & Eights.
On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Aces & Eights member Devon revealed Austin Aries as the man who outpaid Roode for the Aces & Eights to interfere in their match, which led to Hardy issuing Aries a title challenge. The following week, Hardy was successful in retaining his title against Aries, following interference from Bobby Roode. The rivalry culminated in a three-way elimination match on January 13, 2013, at Genesis, where Hardy defeated both Aries and Roode to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. On the January 24 episode of Impact Wrestling, Hardy successfully defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Christopher Daniels.
Duesenberg Model A badge and mascot The initial production target was 100 cars per month. By the end of 1922, after slightly more than a year of production, fewer than 150 Duesenberg Straight Eights had been built. Production of the Straight Eight continued through several changes in management, placement of the Duesenberg Automobiles and Motors Company into receivership in January 1924, and the restructuring of the company into the Duesenberg Motor Company in February 1925, until the purchase of the company by E. L. Cord in October 1926. About 650 Straight Eights had been built when Cord ended production in 1926.
In May 2012, Taz began appearing as a judge in the monthly Gut Check segment on Impact Wrestling. On the January 17, 2013 episode of Impact Wrestling, Taz was a groomsman at the wedding between Bully Ray and Brooke Hogan. As Ray and Brooke exchanged their vows, Taz interrupted the ceremony and proclaimed himself to be a member of Aces & Eights after revealing a kutte underneath his coat, turning heel again in the process. Following his revelation, Aces & Eights ambushed the ceremony and attacked Ray, his groomsmen Tommy Dreamer and Brother Runt and Brooke's father Hulk Hogan.
Donald John Arnold (born July 14, 1935 in Kelowna, British Columbia) is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Archibald MacKinnon, Lorne Loomer and Walter D'Hondt."1956 Summer Olympics - Melbourne, Australia - Rowing" (Retrieved on May 14, 2008) At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Arnold received a gold medal in eights, and a silver medal in coxed fours. He received a silver medal in eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, as a member of the Canadian team.
The following week, Sting reconciled with Hogan and became the number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship later that night after defeating Matt Morgan. On June 2 at Slammiversary XI, Sting unsuccessfully challenged Bully Ray for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in a No Holds Barred Match after an interference by Aces & Eights. Per stipulation, Sting would never get another title opportunity again. On the June 13 episode of Impact Wrestling, Sting noted that nobody in the back helped him during his title match, but he would form a New Main Event Mafia to battle the Aces & Eights.
Having sided with the Colonials, along with the Sixes and Eights, against the remaining Cylon forces led by John Cavil, Leoben is instrumental in aiding them throughout their final confrontation. When Starbuck's interpretation of the musical notes in her head leads everyone to a new planet (which is later identified as our Earth), the Leoben series, along with the remnants of the Colonials, the Sixes and Eights, vote to settle the new world and help make a difference in rebuilding civilization before they "pass into God's hands". The Leobens, like his Cylon counterparts and the remnants of humanity, pass into history.
A short trip to the double sculls in 2005 left her at the fifth position at the 2006 World Championships in Eton. In 2007, she returned to the eights in which the Dutch only became seventh at the World Championships. Earlier that year they won the Rowing World Cup in Amsterdam and they finished third in both Luzern and Linz. She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Roline Repelaer van Driel, Nienke Kingma, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and cox Ester Workel.
Reinder Lubbers (born 6 November 1984 in Deventer) is a male rower from the Netherlands. The son of former Dutch cricket team captain Steven Lubbers, Lubbers took part in the World Championships of 2007 in Munich becoming fifth in the coxed four. In 2008, he claimed a seat in the Dutch eights team, the Holland Acht, competing at multiple World Cup regattas. He joined the Dutch eights team (Olaf van Andel, Rogier Blink, Jozef Klaassen, Meindert Klem, David Kuiper, Diederik Simon, Olivier Siegelaar, Mitchel Steenman and cox Peter Wiersum) to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing as a reserve.
Yuuya Watanabe (渡辺雄也) is a Japanese Magic: The Gathering player and former World Champion. With five Pro Tour top eights and 27 Grand Prix top eights (including seven wins), Watanabe is best known for his Rookie of the Year title in 2007, and his Player of the Year titles in 2009 and 2012. He is one of only three players to become Player of the Year more than once. He was elected to the Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame in 2016, along with Owen Turtenwald, but removed in May 2019 after a cheating scandal involving marked card sleeves.
The Vesta Veterans International Eights Head of the River Race is a rowing race held annually on the River Thames over the Championship Course. The direction in which the event is raced changes from year to year, dependent on the time of the tides: some years it is raced from Mortlake to Putney other years it will go the other way. It is open to veteran (also known as masters) eights, who race in categories determined by the average ages of the eight rowers. The race always takes place on the day following the Head of the River Race.
In March 2013, Bully Ray revealed himself as the President of Aces & Eights and began a feud with Hulk Hogan In August, Ray came together with the rest of the TNA locker room to battle the villainous Aces & Eights stable, who had been attacking random TNA wrestlers during the past months, in the process making a gradual face turn. In September, Ray, unlike his longtime tag team partner Devon, signed a two-year contract extension with TNA. On the September 6 episode of Impact Wrestling, Ray finished his Bound for Glory Series group stage with a win over Rob Van Dam, thus finishing third and advancing to the semifinals of the tournament. On September 9 at No Surrender, Ray defeated James Storm in his semifinal match, following interference from Bobby Roode, before losing to Jeff Hardy in the finals of the 2012 Bound for Glory Series, despite Hardy being attacked by the Aces & Eights before the match.
Olha Mikolayivna Huzenko (, born 17 July 1956) is a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Olena Antonivna Zubko (, born 8 May 1953) is a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Nelli Yuriyivna Tarakanova (; born 9 September 1954) is a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Nadiya Ivanivna Rozhon (, born 15 November 1952) is a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
James "Jim" Burge McMillin (March 8, 1914 - August 22, 2005) was an American rower, born in Seattle, who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936, he won the gold medal as a member of the American boat in the eights competition.
Lyubov Andreevna Talalaeva (, born 24 January 1953) is a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Nadezhda Nikolaevna Roshchina (, born 30 June 1954) is a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Olha Oleksiyivna Kolkova (, born 29 May 1955) is a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Shyril O'Steen (born October 5, 1960, in Seattle, Washington) is an American former competitive rower and Olympic gold medalist. She was a member of the American women's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Andrey Ivanavich Luhin (, born 1 April 1959) is a Belarusian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980, he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Ihar Anatol'evich Maystrenka (, born 21 November 1959) is a Belarusian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Viktor Oleksandrovych Kokoshyn (, born 11 October 1957) is a Ukrainian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Andriy Nestorovych Tishchenko (, born 3 April 1960) is a Ukrainian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
In 2016 Joanna was in the Ardingly crew that won the Women's Eights Head of the River small clubs pennant, she won the pairs event at Master's Henley and won in the women's Masters eight at the Masters World Championships in Copenhagen.
Oleksandr Vasylovych Mantsevych (, born 1 June 1960) is a Ukrainian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Glyptonotus antarcticus is a benthic marine isopod crustacean in the suborder Valvifera. This relatively large isopod is found in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. It was first described by James Eights in 1852 and the type locality is the South Shetland Islands.
Nines organise two regattas each year. The regatta in the spring is for eights and mainly attracts local Cambridge College crews preparing May Bumps. The larger autumn regatta attracts crews from a wider area and includes races for a range of boat categories.
Recently around half of finalists in World Cup and World Championships regattas have been rigged with a tandem middle pair, though it is less common at lower levels of competition. Occasionally eights are rigged with one or more tandems: several rigs are possible.
She represented Victoria again at the national level in 2000 winning the Queen's Cup that year in the Victorian women's eight. From 2001 at the annual Interstate Regatta she rowed in ACT crews, figuring in ACT representative eights from 2001 to 2004.
He represented England and won a silver medal in the eights and a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. He was a member of the University College London and Thames Rowing Club.
Niels Henning van Steenis (born 3 November 1969 in Groningen) is a former rower from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he won the gold medal with the Holland Acht (Holland Eights).
Lawrence Skipper: 1935. Summer Eights 1939 saw a new light-weight mahogany-skinned shell. During the Second World War, smaller colleges were grouped together to enable them to compete in inter-collegiate events. In 1940, Pembroke, Corpus and St Peter's boated together.
Beresford and Burnell (right) at the 1950 British Empire Games Burnell won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1950 British Empire Games, and in 1951 he won the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, together with Pat Bradley.
Through the 2018–2019 season, LSU has made 27 AIAW/NCAA tournament appearances including 14 Sweet Sixteens, eight Elite Eights, and five Final Fours. The Lady Tigers have won the SEC regular season championship three times and the SEC Tournament championship twice.
The men's eights event was part of the rowing programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The competition, the sixth appearance of the event, was held from 13 to 17 July 1924 on the river Seine. Ten teams, each from a different nation, competed.
For the luxury market it further encouraged the development of inherently smoother multi-cylinder engines in place of sixes and eights and, too late for Weymann, the introduction of flexible engine mounts and better chassis suspension systems in place of primitive leaf springs.
Norris "Norey" James Graham (January 25, 1906 - July 9, 1980) was an American rower, born in Portland, Oregon, who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the gold medal as coxswain of the American boat in the eights competition.
Inga Broberg (later Stenbrink, born 5 November 1939) is a retired Swedish athlete. She won national titles in the long jump (1958 and 1959) and 4 × 100 m relay (1957) and placed eights in the long jump at the 1958 European Championships.
The online version received a bit more "average" reviews than the original Sega GT 2002 according to Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu also gave it a score of one eight, one seven, and two eights for a total of 31 out of 40.
Half-Minute Hero received "generally favorable reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the PSP version a score of one eight, one nine, and two eights for a total of 33 out of 40.
Herbert Trenchard Richardson (November 25, 1903 – January 17, 1982) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition. He was born in Toronto.
ARC has 3 buildings for storing boats; a large building mostly housing eights, fours and quads, a cage holding singles, doubles, and pairs, and a small building holding private singles. There is also an erg room, kitchen and bathroom in the main boathouse.
Silver Streak lettering was placed above front fender spears on Deluxes and high on the fenders of standards. Eights had the number "8" between the two words. Most standard models had gray striped pattern cloth upholstery. Most Deluxes used dark gray broadcloth trims.
In 2008, she returned to the eights and she qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Roline Repelaer van Driel, Nienke Kingma, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Annemarieke van Rumpt and cox Ester Workel.
Václav Pavkovič (24 April 1936 in Břeclav – 17 November 2019) was a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1960 Summer Olympics when he was a crew member of the Czechoslovak boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Nelson Kuhn (born July 7, 1937) is a Canadian rower who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Whitemouth. In 1960 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Klaus Aeffke (born 9 May 1940) is a retired German rower who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, a world title in 1962, and three European titles in 1963–1965.
Klaus Behrens (born 3 August 1941) is a retired German rower who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, a world title in 1962, and three European titles in 1963–1965.
Jürgen Plagemann (born 28 December 1936) is a retired German rower who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, a world title in 1962, and two European titles in 1963–1964.
He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He represented England and won a silver medal in the eights and a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada.
By 1800, U.S. production was 35,000,000 pounds, of which 17,790,000 were exported. In 1945 the U.S. produced seven-eights of the 1,169,600,000 pounds of world production. The Americas, particularly the U.S., had labour shortages and high priced labour, which made slavery attractive.
Jacqueline Jean "Jackie" Zoch (born June 8, 1949) is an American rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1976 she was a crew member of the American boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Marion Ethel Greig (born February 22, 1954) is an American rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Hudson, New York. In 1976 she was a crew member of the American boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Gail Susan Ricketson (born September 12, 1953) is an American rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Plattsburgh, New York. In 1976 she was a crew member of the American boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
This is a three-hand game with so-called 'sharp cards': all the nines, eights and sevens are removed from the deck, leaving only 20 cards in play. Each player is dealt 6 cards. In this variant, 2 cards are placed in the skat.
St Hilda's College Boat Club, Oxford (SHCBC) is a rowing club part of the University of Oxford, England, located on the River Thames at Oxford. The club was founded in 1911, and competes primarily in the Torpids and Summer Eights bumps races in Oxford.
Carol Ann Bower (born June 9, 1956 in Riverside, California) is a former American competitive rower and Olympic gold medalist. She was a member of the American women's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Tkachenko (, 19 June 1960 – 3 November 2015) was a Ukrainian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Rune Ivar Charles Andersson (11 May 1930 – 9 October 2006) was a Swedish rower who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1955 European Championships. He competed in this event at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and finished fourth in 1956.
Shaun Kirkham (born 24 July 1992) is a New Zealand rower. He came fourth at the 2015 World Rowing Championships with the men's eight, qualifying the boat for the 2016 Olympics. He came sixth with his team at the eights competition in Rio de Janeiro.
Team International entered a tournament called the "World Cup of Wrestling", in which they tied with Team UK in 3rd place. This tournament was a part of TNA's One Night Only pay-per- view concept. The other teams included Team USA and Team Aces & Eights.
Kjell Hansson (16 July 1931 - 22 June 2019) was a Swedish rower who won a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1959 European Championships. He competed in the eights at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and finished in fourth place in 1956.
Hans-Peter Koppe (born 2 February 1958) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was born in Leipzig. In 1980 he won the gold medal as crew member of the East German boat in the eights competition.
The following year this event was renamed the Temple Challenge Cup. In 2000 and 2001, it was used for an event for women's eights. The following year this event was renamed the Remenham Challenge Cup following the donation of a trophy by Remenham Club.
Dante Secchi (14 August 1910 – 17 February 1981) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Livorno. In 1936 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Italian boat in the eights event.
John David Smith (March 3, 1899 – September 29, 1973) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event. He died in Scarborough, Ontario in 1973.
Wild Bill fell forward and let his hand fall to the table, black aces and eights and the nine of diamonds which would come to be known as the Deadman's Hand. The Saloon still stages a re-enactment of the shooting during the summer months.
Charles David "Charley" Manring (August 18, 1929 - August 7, 1991) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion, and later naval officer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as coxswain for the American team.
The structure for the 2015 Rugby Football League reintroduced promotion and relegation between Super League and the Championship which will both include 12 teams each. At the end of the regular seasons, the two divisions will split into three groups of eight, The Super Eights.
Diaethria neglecta is a species of butterfly of the genus Diaethria. It was described by Osbert Salvin in 1869. It is found in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. All Diaethria species are commonly called eighty- eights because of the patterns on the hindwing undersides.
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights for the PSP version, and one seven, one eight, and two sevens for the Xbox 360 version.
Genė Galinytė (born 18 January 1945) is a retired Lithuanian rower who won two European medals in the eights event in 1966 and 1967. In 1967 she graduated from the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, and since 1970 worked at the Vilnius City Sports Council.
Frederick "Fred" Cresser (born March, 1872, date of death unknown) was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in the German Empire. In 1904, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Ruurd Gerbens Leegstra (29 June 1877 in Wonokesoemo, Dutch East Indies – 17 January 1933 in Utrecht) was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which won the bronze medal in the eights.
The club operates from its own boathouse situated just downstream of Prebends Bridge; this was built in 1892. The club has a range of boats ranging in size from singles to eights and octuples. Durham School boats use the three letter boat code DUS.
William Becklean (born June 23, 1936) is an American competition rower and Olympic champion. Becklean was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He received a gold medal in eights with the American team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
In storyline Dinero was sidelined as a result of being attacked by Aces & Eights at Hardcore Justice. On January 8, 2013, Burke announced on Twitter that his TNA contract had expired on January 1, and he would not be re-signing with the company.
But from this year, the top eights will only participate in the evening gown competition. After that, the judges will select the final four. They only participated in one part of the only question and answer session before announcing three runners-up and Miss Earth.
Frederick Charles Hedges (October 4, 1903 - December 10, 1989) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition. He was born and died in Toronto.
Michael G. Rascher (born 26 July 1965 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a retired rower from Canada. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics for his native country. There he was a member of the team that won the gold medal in the men's Eights.
The belfry consists of massive four-sided tiers and is completed with a low eights, a dome and a spire. Inside the temple room is covered with a four-clot closed dome without a lantern. The refectory is communicated with the aisles with wide arches.
Cutler attended the Noble & Greenough School, where he rowed No. 2 in eights. He went on to Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. During his freshman year, Cutler was the No. 2. He stroked the JV boat during his junior year.
Yevgeny Nikolaevich Brago (, born 1 March 1929) is a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moscow. In 1952 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Soviet boat in the eights event.
Robert Andrew Wilson (born October 14, 1935) is a Canadian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kamloops, BC. In 1956 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Four of those crews won the King's Cup, with Doyle at stroke on two occasions. Doyle's was selected in the Australian eight to compete at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. He stroked the Australian crew to a bronze medal in the final of the eights event.
Settling there, he married a half-Cherokee woman named Lucy Cordery. Their first son was Robert, Jr., who was born in 1815. This son married Sallie Vann in 1835. Sallie was also from a mixed-blood family, and said to be three-eights Cherokee.
Walter Schröder (born 29 December 1932) is a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics. In 1960, he was a crew member of the West German boat which won the gold medal in the eights event.
Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht (8 August 1943 – 7 December 1970) was a German rower who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, a world title in 1962, and three European titles in 1963–1965.
Thomas Ahrens (born 27 May 1948) is a retired German coxswain who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, a world title in 1962, and two European titles in 1963 and 1964.
The prabandhas contain couplets grouped into eights, called Ashtapadis. It is mentioned that Radha is greater than Krishna. The text also elaborates the eight moods of Heroine, the Ashta Nayika, which has been an inspiration for many compositions and choreographic works in Indian classical dances.
In 1970 and 1974 he competed at the Australian Rowing Championships in Mercantile men's junior eights.1970 Austn C'ships The 1974 eight won that championship title. In 1975 in Mercantile colours he won a national championship in the stern of a second-grade eight.
Valentyn Ivanovych Kravchuk (, 12 April 1944 – 12 January 2003) was a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Zhytomyr. In 1968 he won the bronze medal with the Soviet boat in the eights event.
Styles, who remained silent in the following weeks, began feuding with Kurt Angle after refusing to tell Angle whether or not he was with the Aces & Eights stable. His new gimmick was nicknamed "The Lone Wolf", since he rejected to join Aces & Eights. At Slammiversary XI, Styles was defeated by Angle in a singles match, but he defeated him in a rematch to earn the final spot in the 2013 Bound for Glory Series. Throughout the following weeks, Styles participated in the Bound For Glory Series, winning the tournament and becoming the number one contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Bound for Glory.
On 29 August 2014, Shepherd was the cox for Hamish Bond and Eric Murray when they set the world best time in the men's coxed pair at the 2014 World Rowing Championships at Bosbaan, Amsterdam in the final race, thus winning gold. He came fourth at the 2015 World Rowing Championships with the men's eight, qualifying the boat for the 2016 Olympics. This is the first time that a New Zealand eight qualified for the Olympics since 1984, despite the famous performance of past eights including the 1982 New Zealand eight. He came sixth with his team at the eights competition in Rio de Janeiro.
A primary featured feud was between A.J. Styles and Kurt Angle. In March 2013, A.J. Styles returned to TNA following a 3-month hiatus and portrayed a darker, more silent, lone wolf persona after a past year of setbacks. Many wrestlers attempted to reach out to him, including James Storm, Aces & Eights, Bad Influence, Hulk Hogan, Sting, and his former rival and tag team partner Kurt Angle, some of whom caused his problems. Angle, however, became irritated by Styles' behavior of walking out and not picking a side to support between TNA and the rebel group, Aces & Eights, which led to a brawl between the two.
Brisco received a chance on talent evaluation segment, TNA Gut Check, winning his try-out match against Bischoff and gaining the majority vote from the judges to become a member of the TNA roster. Under the wing of Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe, Brisco and Bischoff aligned with them in their fight against Aces & Eights, winning their match against the Aces & Eights on December 9 at Final Resolution. In early January, however, Angle and Joe began to decline the help of Brisco and Bischoff. Weeks later on the January 31 edition of Impact Wrestling, Angle turned down their help again prior to his Lockdown 2010 cage rematch with Mr. Anderson.
In May 2016 the club achieved its highest positions in Summer Eights to date, with the Men's First VIII reaching 3rd place in Division Two and the Women's First VIII reaching 6th place in Division Two (winning blades in the process). In March 2017 the Men's First VIII won blades in Torpids for the third consecutive year, reaching 4th place in Division Two. In the 2017 Summer Eights campaign, the Women's First VIII was joined by Canadian national rower and Stroke of the 2017 Women's Boat Race Emily Cameron. The Women's First VIII had a very successful campaign, bumping up to 3rd place in Division Two.
Relocating to Sydney Robertson took on a senior coaching role at the Drummoyne Rowing Club. He was involved in schoolboy coaching with the Sydney Grammar School and was in charge in 1978 when Grammar eights took both the 1st and 2nd VIII titles at the GPS Head of the River following a 22 year drought. Robertson coached Drummoyne rowers and scullers, lightweight and heavyweight in competition for national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships from 1978. He was coach of New South Wales state senior eights competing in the Interstate Eight-Oared Championship (the King's Cup) in 1979, 1983, 1984 (to victory), 1985, 1987 and 1988.
The matching pair of eights (left) is worth more than the non-matching pair of eights (right). If a hand contained one of the tiles on the left and one of the tiles on the right, these would not form a pair at all, since the tiles that make pairs are defined by tradition. The 32 tiles in a Chinese dominoes set can be arranged into 16 pairs, as shown in the picture at the top of this article. Eleven of these pairs have identical tiles, and five of these pairs are made up of two tiles that score the same, but look different.
For Frozen Orange, Kilgour left his native New Zealand and recorded in Nashville with members of Lambchop and Jason Loewenstein of Sebadoh, along with his longtime backing band The Heavy Eights, consisting of Taane Tokona, Alan Haig, Tony De Raad and Thomas Bell. The album also marked the first recording that Kilgour did not produce himself, a task left to Mark Nevers (producer / engineer of Lambchop). Kilgour released his sixth solo album, The Far Now, on 5 February 2007 on Arch Hill/Remote Control (NZ/Australia) and Merge (USA). The new album was recorded in Kilgour's hometown of Dunedin with his backing band The Heavy Eights.
At World Cup, D.O.C. a part of Team Aces & Eights started off when D.O.C and Knux defeated Team International's Funaki and Petey Williams later that night Team Aces & Eights lost a Five-on-Five Elimination Tag Team match to Team USA (Christopher Daniels, James Storm, Kazarian, Kenny King and Mickie James) failing to win the cup. on the April 4 episode of Impact Wrestling, Aces and 8s (D.O.C., Devon, Knux, Wes Brisco and Garett Bischoff) defeated Kurt Angle, Eric Young, Samoa Joe, Magnus and Joseph Park in a ten-man tag team match. On the May 9 episode of Impact, D.O.C. lost a match to Magnus.
GameSpot said that the new content was welcomed but the walking and moving objects were clumsy at best. IGN's US review praised Black Box for building upon their winning formula and keeping the gameplay fun. They explained that while the presentation is good, the story seems weak at times and the graphics are not as sharp as they could be. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40, while Famitsu 360 gave the Xbox 360 version a score of one seven, two eights, and one seven for a total of 30 out of 40.
The shooting competition takes place on July 4, 1876, the Centennial, as the news of Custer's Last Stand in June is just becoming known across the west. A few days after Dutch Henry steals the prized rifle from Lin, he plays cards against the Indian trader, Joe Lamont, at Riker's Bar. Dutch Henry lays down a full house, aces over eights, stating that he just missed the "dead man's hand"—two pair, aces and eights, so nicknamed because Wild Bill Hickok was said to hold such a hand when he was murdered in Deadwood on August 2, 1876, almost a month later. Lamont had four treys.
2018 Great Britain and Ireland cold wave The Regent's Park Men's 1st boat bumped on the first and only day of lower division racing, meaning they bumped on every day of racing, and were technically eligible for blades, although these were not claimed by the crew or recognised by the college.Bumps race#Organisation After a sustained period of success, both the Men's and Women's boats are in historically high positions: the Men are at their highest position since 1982 in Torpids and their highest ever position in Summer Eights, while the Women's winning of Trophy Blades in the 2019 Summer Eights propelled them to their highest position since 2000.
During the following weeks, Aries moved from Roode to defending TNA against the Aces & Eights. On the December 13 episode of Impact Wrestling, Aries was revealed as the man who paid the Aces & Eights to prevent Bobby Roode, who originally paid the group to help him win the World Heavyweight Championship, from winning at the pay-per-view, which led Jeff Hardy to issue him a title challenge. On the December 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, Aries was unsuccessful in his challenge for Hardy's World Heavyweight Championship, following interference from Bobby Roode. Aries and Roode faced off in a number one contenders match on the December 27 episode of Impact Wrestling.
Afterwards, the returning Devon was revealed as one of the members of the Aces & Eights. On November 1, Ray and Devon faced off in the main event of Impact Wrestling, however, the match ended in a brawl between the Aces & Eights and the TNA locker room. Over the next few weeks, tension would be teased between Ray and Hulk Hogan after Austin Aries revealed a secret relationship between Ray and the General Manager's daughter Brooke. On December 9 at Final Resolution, Ray was defeated by Austin Aries in a singles match, following a distraction from both Brooke and Hulk Hogan and a low blow from Aries.
A year later at the World Championships in Munich she was part of the eights and became 7th. That same year they won the World Rowing Cup event in Amsterdam and became third in both Lucerne and Linz. upright She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Nienke Kingma, Annemarieke van Rumpt, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and cox Ester Workel, and the team won the silver medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympics the Dutch women's coxed eight team that van Driel was part of won the bronze medal.
Donald Bruce Hume (July 25, 1915 - September 16, 2001) was an American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.Don Hume, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Retrieved 2019-01-31. In 1936, he won the gold medal as a member of the American boat in the eights competition.
Phoebe Stanley (born 17 October 1985) is an Australian rower. She was a ten- time Australian national champion, including four victories as the stroke of Victorian state Queen's Cup winning eights. She won medals at world championships and represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in rowing.
Izak Cornelis Eric Wesdorp (15 February 1947 - 17 October 2017) was a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the eight event and finished in eights place. After retiring from competitions he worked as a rowing coach, particularly with Chun Wei Cheung.
Marin Gheorghe (born 5 September 1959) is a retired Romanian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a silver medal in eights in 1992. At the world championships he won 12 medals between 1987 and 2001, including four gold medals.Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften.
Both University crews were downselected from trials eights, with varied success. The Cambridge crew set a record time during practice, while Oxford "were in very rough condition".MacMichael, pp. 288-289 Just one former Blues returned to the crew, instead of the four who had been expected.
Branimir Vujević (born 29 November 1974 in Zadar) is a Croatian rower who won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. His teammates were Igor Boraska, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Krešimir Čuljak, Tomislav Smoljanović, Tihomir Franković and Igor Francetić.
Krešimir Čuljak (born 18 September 1970 in Zagreb) is a Croatian rower, who won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. His teammates were Igor Boraska, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Branimir Vujević, Tomislav Smoljanović, Tihomir Franković and Igor Francetić.
Igor Francetić (born 21 April 1977 in Zagreb) is a Croatian rower who won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. His teammates were Igor Boraska, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Branimir Vujević, Krešimir Čuljak, Tomislav Smoljanović and Tihomir Franković.
At the 1981 World Rowing Championships, he came eights. At the 1982 World Rowing Championships, he won the silver medal. At the 1983 World Rowing Championships, he came fourth. He did not attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in California, USA, due to the Eastern Bloc boycott.
Carlson served as chief coach for Oriel College Boat Club, Oxford, in 2011-2012 and 2013-2014. Oriel finished Head of the River in Summer Eights in both seasons; defending the Headship in 2012, and bumping Christ Church and Pembroke to recapture the Headship in 2014.
Athena rushes up and pulls a gun on Natalie. She announces Natalie will not take her child. Natalie says she does not want the child, but Athena shoots her twice. Aboard the Cylon basestar, Roslin, Baltar, and the leader of the Eights arrive in the Hybrid's room.
Cambridge were coached by William Fletcher, Oxford Blue and R. C. Lehmann, the former president of the Cambridge Union Society and captain of the 1st Trinity Boat Club (although he had rowed in the trials eights for Cambridge, he was never selected for the Blue boat).
The men's eights was a rowing event held as part of the Rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event. The competition was held from Wednesday to Friday, 17 to 19 July 1912. Ninety-nine rowers from eight nations competed.
The Bishop Owen Oar is a time trial eights race for secondary school students. The trophy itself is an oar donated by Reginald Owen (bishop), Archbishop of Wellington, who won the oar when he was studying at Wadham College, Oxford. It is painted in Wadham colours.
George Ahlgren (August 16, 1928 – December 30, 1951) was an American rower who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal with the American team in the eights competition.Profile: George Ahlgren sports.reference.com (Retrieved on December 10, 2008) Ahlgren was killed in an aircraft crash.
He represented England and won a silver medal in the eights and a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. He was a member of the King's College BC and Thames Rowing Club and rowed at bow.
Horst Meyer (20 June 1941 — 24 January 2020) was a German rower who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver and a gold Olympic medal (1964 and 1968), two world titles (1962 and 1966), and four consecutive European titles (1963–1967).
Dr. Warren Bertram Snyder (March 2, 1903 in Toronto, Ontario - March 27, 1957) was a Canadian athlete and doctor. Snyder competed for Canada in Rowing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Snyder won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event.
Coordination exercises help improve an animal's awareness of its surroundings. Such exercises include cavalettis, weaves, and figure eights. Cavaletti is an exercise that gives an animal obstacles to walk over. This exercise makes the animal focus on where each foot is being placed and builds coordination.
Rita Tamašauskaitė (born 22 June 1941) is a retired Lithuanian rower who won three European titles in the eights event in 1963, 1965 and 1967; she finished second in 1966. In 1962 Tamašauskaitė graduated from the Lithuanian Sports University and later worked as a rowing referee.
Boscawen married Mary Codrington in 1949 and they had two daughters and one son, who followed him into the Coldstream Guards. They lived at Ivythorm Manor in Street, Somerset. Boscawen was a rower and yachtsman. He stroked the Trinity boat and rowed in the University trial eights.
Roscoe Conkling Lockwood (November 22, 1875 - November 24, 1960) was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Upper Pittsgrove Township, New Jersey. Lockwood was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Katrin Schröder (born 10 July 1967) is a retired East German rower who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1989 World Rowing Championships. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the coxless pairs, together with Kerstin Spittler, and finished in fourth place.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights, one seven, and one eight, for a total of 31 out of 40. Odama won IGN's Most Innovative Design for a GameCube game in 2006.
Charles Robert Chandler (July 22, 1911 - June 22, 1982) was an American rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in California and died in Alameda, California. In 1932, he won the gold medal as member of the American boat in the eights competition.
At the Women's Eights Head of the River Race, Durham won the Senior II pennant in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and again in 2008, coming third overall. They won the University pennant in 2010, again coming third overall. In 2012 they won the Intermediate I pennant.
Jan Mrvík (born 29 March 1939) is a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Prague. In 1964 he was a crew member of the Czechoslovak boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.Sports-reference.com. Jan Mrvík .
Hannah Elsy (born December 28, 1986) is a former British rower who competed in international level events who competed in the women's double sculls and eights. She now works as a senior account executive for a consulting company. She is an alumna of Kingston Grammar School.
By 1864 a growing interest in competition led to the club’s first recorded win, in a four-oared race against the Excelsior Boat Club of Greenwich. The club also put on a crew for the Metropolitan Junior Eights, started in 1865, and followed this up the next year by securing the Challenge Cup for Junior Eights at the first Metropolitan Regatta. In 1870 the Club won at Henley Royal Regatta for the first time, taking the Wyfold Challenge Cup from the Oscillators Club of Surbiton and the Oxford Etonians in a race that, according to the Rowing Almanack, was ‘a pretty hollow affair, the Thames crew winning as they pleased from first to last.’ Over the next twenty years, Thames had its first great flowering, with 22 wins at Henley by 1890, including four victories in the most prestigious event, the Grand Challenge Cup for eights. In 1877 the Thames Boathouse Company (Limited) was formed for the purpose of providing a boat and club house for the club.
These birds fly over the ocean in figure eights as they hunt for anchovies. Tall grasses and scrubby vegetation grow along the beach. The park is surrounded by oak trees, Monterey cypress trees, eucalyptus trees, and soaring pine trees. Wild berry vines surround the campsites of the park.
Hans Sennewald (born 12 September 1961) is a retired German rower who won a bronze medal in the eights event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also won six medals in various events at the world championships of 1982–1993. His daughter Ulrike also became an Olympic rower.
She steered all nine of those crews to victory. In Melbourne University colours she coxed eights contesting the women's heavyweight national Australian titles at the Australian Rowing Championships from 2005 to 2010. She was in the stern of a composite Victorian eight who won that title in 2009.
The Wii version received "generally favorable reviews", while the DS and PlayStation 2 versions received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the PS2 and Wii versions a score of three eights and one seven for a total of 31 out of 40.
The front bumper is now of a two-piece design with a gap for the registration plate in the middle. The engine (as with all of Renault's sixes and eights this year) received an automatic choke and an optional engine starter which engaged when the throttle was depressed.
Peter Hertel (born c. 1944) is a retired West German rower who won the 1966 world title in the eights. Earlier in 1965 he won the national title and a European silver medal in coxed fours. After retiring from competitions Hertel became a prominent physician specializing in knee injuries.
Ulf Lindor Gustafsson (also Gustavsson, born 13 December 1937) is a retired Swedish rower who won a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1959 European Championships. He competed in the coxed fours and in the eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals.
Lars-Eric Gustafsson (also Gustavsson, born 6 June 1935) is a retired Swedish rower who won a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1959 European Championships. He competed in the coxed fours and in the eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals.
The NCAA Division II championship consists of an eight-oared shells and four-oared shell competition . The Division III championship involved both varsity and second varsity eights competing in the same event until 2012. Beginning in 2013, the V-1 and V-2 boats compete in separate events.
John Manning Brinck (September 16, 1908 - May 19, 1934) was an American rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights. Brinck was shot dead in a robbery in Texas in 1934.
Tokobot and Tokobot Plus received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of three eights and one seven for a total of 31 out of 40 for the PSP version, and 28 out of 40 for the PS2 version.
A studio update posted on February 19 noted eights days remained to record the vocals. Fuentes later said he was not going to be recording in Los Angeles again, as being so close to their hometown of San Diego provided "a lot of distractions that we didn't need".
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the game was ported and published by Success on January 24, 2008, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights, one seven, and one six for a total of 29 out of 40.
Closed Light Eights had a quarter window layout that was not shared by other Packards. The Light Eight used the same engine as the Standard Eight, but was lighter - for the sedan vs. for the model 901 Standard Eight sedan. It was also a good performer for its day.
Irina Dorneanu (born 3 March 1990 in Suceava) is a Romanian rower. She finished 4th in the eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was also part of the Romanian women's eights who won the European championships in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, and won bronze in 2015.
A valveless oil pump improved the Hudson splash lubrication system. The new eights were the only engine offering in the Hudson line, supplanting the Super Six, which soldiered on in the Essex models. At the 1931 Indianapolis 500, Buddy Marr's #27 Hudson Special (using a Winfield carburetor) finished tenth.
Aldona Čiukšytė (born 9 February 1944) is a retired Lithuanian rower who won two European titles in the eights event in 1965 and 1967; she finished second in 1966. In 1973 Čiukšytė graduated from the Economics Faculty of Vilnius University and later worked in the food administration in Vilnius.
United States men's eight team at the 1900 Games William "Bill" John Carr (June 17, 1876 - March 25, 1942) was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Nina Andreyevna Korobkova (, born 14 December 1926) is a retired Russian rower who won eight European titles in the eights event between 1955 and 1962.Rudern - Europameisterschaften (Damen - Achter). sport-komplett.de For these achievements she was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour.КОРОБКОВА (ПРОШКИНА) Нина Андреевна (СССР).
Thomas Høie (28 April 1883 – 30 August 1948) was a Norwegian rower who competed for Christiania Roklub. He competed in coxed eights at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was an educated engineer and married Louise Wilhelmine Collett Høie (16 May 1981 – 27 February 1991) in 1918.
Rob Roy organises the Cambridge Small Boats Head which is held in early October each year (for coxed and coxless pairs, and single and double sculls), and the Cambridge Autumn Head which is held in mid October each year (for coxed and coxless fours and quads, and eights).
Rescue eight A rescue eight is a variation of a figure eight, with "ears" or "wings" which prevent the rope from "locking up" or creating a larks head or girth hitch, thus stranding the rappeller on the rope. Rescue eights are frequently made of steel, rather than aluminum.
Andrew Bolton (born January 24, 1980) is a retired American competitor in lightweight rowing. He won a gold medal in the eights at the 2008 World Championships and placed second in 2003. He also won a silver medal in the coxless fours at the 2007 Pan American Games.
Ae-Ri Noort (born 10 January 1983) is a Dutch rowing coxswain who competes in eights. She won silver medals at the 2015 and 2016 European Championships, placing fourth in 2014, and participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Noort has a degree in biomedical science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Anca Tănase (born 15 March 1968) is a retired Romanian rower. She was part of the Romanian eights that won gold medals at the 1996 Olympics and 1989 and 1997 world championships, placing second in 1995 and third in 1994. She is married to the Olympic rower Iulică Ruican.
John Lawrence Cosgrave "Jack" Murdoch (July 18, 1908 - October 10, 1944) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition. He died in the Netherlands during the Second World War.
The horizontal center grille bar now wrapped around the corners of the body. Deluxes had a chrome body strip, chrome wheel rings, chrome headlight rings and stainless steel gravel guards. Eights had an "8" between the words. Streamliners (except for station wagons and sedan delivery trucks) had fastback styling.
Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick (24 August 1916 - 6 October 1995) was a British rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He also represented England and won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
Ivar Mauritz Aronsson (24 March 1928 - 6 February 2017) was a Swedish rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the coxed fours and finished fourth in the eights competition. He won two silver medals in these events at the 1955 European Championships.
Willi Padge (born 4 October 1943) is a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Mölln. In 1960, he was the coxswain of the West German boat which won the gold medal in the eights event.
Alan F Inns (born 28 August 1945) is a British rowing cox. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics. He won the coxed pairs title with Michael Hart and David Maxwell and the eights title, at the 1972 National Rowing Championships.
Michiel Bernhard Emiel Marie Bartman (born 19 May 1967 in Badhoevedorp, North Holland) is a former rower from the Netherlands, who won a total of three Olympic medals during his career. A member of the Nereus Rowing Club from Amsterdam, he won the gold medal in Atlanta with the Holland Acht (Holland Eights), followed by silver in Sydney (Quadruple Sculls) and silver (Eights) once again in Athens. He also won three medals at the World Championships, bronze in the coxed four in 1994, silver with the Holland Acht in 1995 and silver in the Quadruple Sculls in 2001. Notably the Netherlands eight set the world record in the men's eight in Atlanta that stood until 2002.
Ray then hit Brisco with a Clothesline and a Piledriver, after which Knux and Bischoff, after some hesitation, eventually took Brisco's kutte off and gave it to Ray. At Bound for Glory 2013, despite interference from Dixie Carter and the Aces & Eights, Bully Ray lost the TNA World Heavyweight Championship to AJ Styles. On the October 24 episode of Impact, Mr. Anderson returned and cost Bully Ray his rematch with Styles for the World Heavyweight Championship. On the November 14 edition of Impact, Mr. Anderson challenged Bully Ray to a No Disqualification match with the stipulation that if Ray loses, the Aces & Eights must disband but if Anderson loses, he must leave.
This team dropped down one place and won the bronze medal. In 2006 Dekker remained in the eights, but at the World Championships in Eton she performed in the coxless fours with Posthuma, Nienke Kingma and Roline Repelaer van Driel to finish in fifth. She returned to the eights in 2007 rowing to two third positions in the World Cup in Linz and Luzern as well as the first place in Amsterdam with Jacobine Veenhoven, Smulders, Hurnet Dekkers, Van Rumpt, Repelaer van Driel, Sarah Siegelaar, De Haan and Workel. Then at the World Championships in Munich the team failed to achieve the A-final and had to be satisfied with the 7th position overall.
Bully Ray as TNA World Heavyweight Champion. After turning into a villain and revealing himself as the President of the Aces & Eights following his inaugural TNA World Heavyweight Championship victory over defending champion Jeff Hardy, Bully Ray touted his acts of deception which he revealed to be a trick the whole time and a way to earn the trust of Sting, Brooke Hogan, and Hulk Hogan in order to get in line for a chance to capture the world title. A series of videos were later aired featuring Bully Ray explaining the nine month con. Aces & Eights also heightened their domination, prompting TNA General Manager, Hulk Hogan, to rally TNA roster members to fight for the company.
Schafkopf/Tarock pack, Bavarian pattern Schafkopf is a four-handed game played, in Bavaria, using a Bavarian pattern pack, a variant of the German suited deck, and, in Franconia, with the related Franconian pattern pack. It is played with 32 cards, known as 'long cards' or the 'long deck' - i.e. eight cards per player, including those cards with no points value (Luschen or blanks). Where Schafkopf is played In parts of eastern Bavarian (the Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia) the 'short cards' or 'short deck' of 24 cards (minus the Eights and Sevens) or of 20 cards (minus Nines, Eights and Sevens) is preferred, which gives each player a hand of six or five cards respectively.
Afterwards, Hardy was jumped by a masked member of Aces & Eights who then injured Hardy's left leg with a ball-peen hammer. This was done to write Hardy out of the tapings in the United Kingdom, as the UK would not allow him to make appearances due to his criminal convictions. Hardy made his in-ring return on the February 28 episode of Impact Wrestling, teaming with his new number one contender Bully Ray to defeat Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels and Kazarian). On March 10 at Lockdown, Hardy lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Ray in a steel cage match, following interference from the Aces & Eights, ending his reign at 147 days.
At Slammiversary XI, D.O.C. and other members of the Aces and 8s helped Bully Ray defeat Sting in a No Holds Barred match to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. On the June 13 episode of Impact, D.O.C. participated in an Aces & Eights battle royal match for a spot in the 2013 Bound for Glory Series, but ended up being thrown out by Mr. Anderson after refusing to get out of the ring, though not turning face. On the July 11 episode of Impact Wrestling, D.O.C. lost his bid to become the vice president of Aces and Eights as Knux gave his deciding vote to Mr. Anderson, to D.O.C.'s disgust. On July 12, Hankinson's contract expired.
In 1936, the Elder Hunter boatshed was built on the banks of the Brisbane River in Mowbray Park, East Brisbane. The school's rowing program now operates from the Graham Fowles Boathouse, built in 2005 on the site of the old boatshed. Since 1918, Churchie has entered both quads and eights in the Queensland Head of the River, Queensland's premier high school rowing competition. From 1918 to 1954, the O'Connor Cup for the Open 1st VIII race was contested in quads. Churchie won the cup six times in quads (1922, 1926, 1936, 1939, 1940 and 1941). Since the introduction of eights in 1955, Churchie has won ten times (1963, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2012).
Three days later at Genesis, Park was defeated by Aces & Eights member and Television Champion Devon in a non-title match. On the January 31 episode of Impact Wrestling, Park won his first televised match when he defeated Robbie E. On March 10 at Lockdown, Park defeated Joey Ryan in a singles match. Park returned under his Abyss persona on the May 9 episode of Impact Wrestling, joining Sting and Kurt Angle as their partner in the main event six-man tag team match against Aces & Eights' Bully Ray, Devon, and Mr. Anderson; Abyss chokeslammed Anderson through a table before hitting the Black Hole Slam on Devon and pinning him for the victory.
On the February 7 episode of Impact Wrestling, Devon and DOC were defeated by Bully Ray and Sting in a Tables match. On March 10 at Lockdown, Aces & Eights, consisting of Devon, DOC, Garett Bischoff, Mike Knox, and Mr. Anderson were defeated by Team TNA, consisting of Sting, Eric Young, James Storm, Magnus, and Samoa Joe in a Lethal Lockdown match. On the April 18 episode of Impact Wrestling, Devon was scheduled to defend his Television Championship against Magnus, however, he was attacked by DOC and Knox before the match could start. Samoa Joe was then awarded the title match in his place, but Devon retained the title after interference from Aces & Eights.
In 1994 she stepped up into the South Australian senior women's four which won that year won the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta. She rowed in five consecutive South Australian women's fours from 1994 to 1998, stroking the crew in 1995 and rowing to a second ULVA Trophy victory in the bow seat of the 1996 SA four. Klomp rowed in the five seat of the South Australian women's eight when in 1999 the women's heavyweight event at the Interstate Regatta switched into coxed eights. That SA crew placed third and Klomp held her seat in the eight in 2000 and 2001 when the SA women's eights placed second and fifth.
Whilst in education at Abingdon School he gained colours for the Abingdon School Boat Club eights. In 2007 he rowed across the English Channel to raise money for charity. After leaving Abingdon in 2008 he attended the London School of Economics. In 2011 Ollie was part of the Row Zambezi Expedition.
Thomas Hitzbleck (born 12 March 1947) is a German rower who represented West Germany. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with the men's coxless four where they came sixth. Hitzbleck competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with the men's coxed pair where they came eights.
He represented England and won double Bronze in the coxed four and eights at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia. Two years later, he won a silver medal in the coxless four at the 1964 Summer Olympics with Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh, William Barry and John James.
Death Alley is a studio album by the hardcore punk band Zeke. It was released in 2001 on Aces and Eights Records. "Death Alley," the last song on the album, is used in the game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. "Evil Woman" quotes "High Priest Of Rhythmic Noise," by Cheap Trick.
Mills had a strong influence even on the structure of the songs, as O'Sullivan would write "three middle eights and three times as many verses" and Mills would pick out which lyrics he found best. O'Sullivan considered it "an awful lot of fun" to have alternatives to play around with.
From mid-1955 all the Eights finally got wind up windows. At launch the car cost £481 including taxes on the home market. An example tested by The Motor magazine in 1953 had a top speed of and could accelerate from 0– in 26.5 seconds. A fuel consumption of was recorded.
255-56 Following a race between the two trial eights, the final crew was selected eight weeks prior to the race. Cambridge would not introduce this selection method until the 1868 race.MacMichael, p. 256 Oxford began training on 14 March with an outing almost every day between then and 13 April.
The bar owner's wife is also killed later in the story. In Hearthstone, the warrior has the card "Dead Man's Hand". In the mobile app Zombies, Run!, a season two Radio Abel caller refers to a dismembered zombie arm as Aces and Eights because it is a dead man's hand.
William Beauford Fields (6 August 1929 - 20 November 1992) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion, and later naval officer. He was born in Forsyth, Georgia. Fields won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team.Profile: Bill Fields sports.reference.
Henry Proctor (19 October 1929 - 13 April 2005) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion. He was later a military officer and retired as colonel in 1971. Proctor won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team.Profile: Henry Proctor sports.reference.
St Peter's College Boat Club (SPCBC) is the rowing club for members of St Peter's College, Oxford. Founded in 1929, it is now based in the University College Boathouse on the southern bank of The Isis (River Thames), The Boat Club competes in Torpids and Summer Eights bumps races in Oxford.
Another series of communities were established at Lviv, Brest-Litovsk and Grodno further east in the 14th century.Richard Overy (2010), The Times Complete History of the World, Eights Edition, pp. 116–117. London: Times Books. . King Casimir received Jewish refugees from Germany in 1349,Norman Davies, Europe: A History, p.
The primary sweep oar racing boats are as follows. ;Eight (8+) : A shell with 8 rowers. Always with coxswain because of the size, weight and speed of the boat; bow loader eights exist but are banned from most competitions for safety reasons. ;Four (4-) or (4+) : A shell with 4 rowers.
While having enjoyed only a moderate degree of success on the Pro Tour, he is one of the most successful Grand Prix players ever. With 21 appearances, Shvartsman held the record for most Grand Prix top eights for a long time, but is now ranked 12th tied with Shota Yasooka.
The boys' individual archery event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was part of the archery programme. It took place at the Kallang Field. Ranking Round was on 18 August 2010. First elimination round took place on 18 August, and eights, quarterfinal, semifinals and medals matches were on 21 August.
A boat without a cox is known as a coxless or "straight" boat. Besides the single and double, straight pairs and fours are the most common coxless boats at regattas in the US. Because of their speed and lack of maneuverability, eights without a cox are very rare and dangerous.
Following injury and suspension of the more established number eights at Tigers, Pienaar had an opportunity for a run in the first team earning the praise of the coaches in the process. Pienaar was added to Tigers Heineken Cup squad for the knock-out stages of the 2008–09 competition.
She won a gold medal in the eights with a time of 6:05.34. The Dutch team won a silver medal with a time of 6:07.22. The Romanian team won a bronze medal with a time of 6:07.25. Other finalists were Canada (fourth), Great Britain (fifth), and Australia (sixth).
In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, one seven, and two eights for a total of 31 out of 40; it also gave Futari no Fantavision a score of 30 out of 40. By mid-June 2000, Fantavision had sold 165,437 units in Japan, according to Media Create.
Wardle, Ralph. M. ed, Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1979, p.317 The bridge has been the starting point for The Boat Race since 1845 when the course was revised. The competitors are currently 32 men of Oxford and University of Cambridge with two crews of first and second eights.
It was possible to race the course "backwards" as the National Championships had finished the day before. The composite eight again won, this time by 1/3 length. The first Junior composite eight raced at Villach, Austria, 1976. After this year all GB Junior eights were composites of schools and clubs.
Four years later he was the only rower who did not reach the final in the single sculls competition. He was coached by his father Joseph Wright Sr., who won a silver and bronze medals at the 1904 and 1908 Summer Olympics as a member of a Canadian eights crew.
Andrew "Andy" Crosby (born 5 November 1965 in Bella Coola, British Columbia) is a retired rower from Canada. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988. In 1992, he was a member of the team that won the gold medal in the Men's Eights.
Post- competitive rowing Spuring moved straight into coaching. He coached the Victorian youth eights of 1985 and 1990 both to victory at the Interstate Regatta and he coached the winning Victorian King's Cup eight of 1994. He took Australian pairs and fours to World Rowing Championships in 1993, 1994 and 1995.
Garth O. V. Manton (born 16 December 1929) is an Australian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. His senior rowing was with the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. In 1956 he was a crew member of the Australian boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event.
Bertil Edvard Göransson (9 February 1919 – 10 April 2004) was a Swedish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the coxed fours and finished fourth in the eights competition. He won two silver medals in these events at the 1955 European Championships.
Marburg's senior rowing was done from the Melbourne University Boat Club. He was selected in the Victorian state representative eights who raced for the King's Cup at the Australian Rowing Championships on eight consecutive occasions from 2005 to 2012. Those Victorian crews saw King's Cup victories in 2006 and 2007.
A boat was named in Acer Nethercott's honour on 31 May 2014 at the University College Boathouse on the Isis at Oxford at the end of the last day of Eights Week. In January 2015, Oxford University announced that they would name their new sports centre building in his honour.
In 2013, she was a visiting student at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she stroked the college men's eight to a victory in both Torpids (spring intercollegiate races) and the Oxford University Summer Eights races (for the first time in Oxford rowing history)."ROWING: Olympic star helps Pembroke to victory". Oxford Mail.
Kenneth 'Richard' Knight (born 18 May 1928) was a British rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He represented England and won two bronze medals in the coxed four and eights at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.
Empacher reinforces the gunwale with an additional carbon layer and carbon foam frames. Empacher offers a wide range of boat molds for each category (such as eights and coxless fours) and rigger options. Different molds suit different weight racing categories. A lightweight rowing team would use a different mould than an openweight team.
You wanna play ... Aces and eights, baby? I got too many of > those, too! After the interview, Roberts staggered to the ring with his trademark snake. However, upon reaching the ring, Roberts put the snake down and attempted to return backstage; he then reversed course, returned to ringside, and began greeting fans.
The men's eights was a rowing event held as part of the Rowing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the second time the event was held at the Olympics. The competition was held on Saturday, July 30, 1904. Two crews, one from the United States and one from Canada, competed.
Viorel Talapan (born 25 February 1972) is a retired Romanian rower. He competed in coxed fours and eights at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in 1992. At the world championships he won seven medals between 1993 and 1998, including three gold medals.Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften.
Sleek fastback styling characterized the B-bodied Streamliner Torpedo. The roofline swept from the windshield to the rear bumper in one smooth curve. The front end sheet metal was the same as on the Deluxe Torpedo and trim difference between sixes and eights were also the same. Streamliner Sixes were in Series 26.
The women's individual archery event at the 2008 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme. It took place at the Olympic Green Archery Field. Ranking Round was on 9 August 2008. First and second elimination rounds took place on 12 August, and eights, quarterfinal, semifinals and medals matches were on 14 August.
It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Chief Photographer's Mate Frank Kazukaitis of the U.S. Navy who recorded features of the Walgreen Coast and Eights Coast on the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960. He served as photographer on several additional Operation Deep Freeze deployments to Antarctica.
Lightweight Rowing. Naval Academy Varsity Athletics official website. Retrieved 2010-02-13. The heavyweight crew won Olympic gold medals in men's eights in 1920 and 1952, and from 1907 to 1995 at Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta the team earned 30 championships, was runner-up 29 times, and had 31 third-place finishes.
Nicolaas Bernardus "Nico" Lutkeveld (9 September 1916 – 14 December 1997) was a Dutch javelin thrower. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and finished in 16th place. He was eights at the 1946 and 1950 European Athletics Championships. He was a national champion in 1938–1940, 1942, 1943, 1946–1951, 1953 and 1954.
Matt Deakin (born May 20, 1980) is an American competition rower, Olympic champion and world champion. Deakin was born in San Francisco, California. He won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 2004 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team. The time 5:19.85 was a new world record.
Repton's hockey teams have won a number of national school titles over the years. In 2019, the U18 girls (outdoor), U16 girls (outdoor and indoor), U16 boys (outdoor) and U14 girls (outdoor) won national titles. Repton has also won a number of football titles, including The 2018 ISFA Barry Burns Northern Eights Competition.
He also drove the AA/G Ford Prefect he named The Gasser Passer.Davis, p.187. In 1967, Montgomery was offered a new Ford Mustang, and promptly retired the ill-handling Willys.Motorsport.com (retrieved 21 September 2018) The Mustang gave him Super Eliminator wins with passes in the mid eights at speeds over ,Motorsport.
Hickok was playing five-card stud or five-card draw when he was shot. He was holding two pairs: black aces and black eights as his "up cards", which has since become widely known as the "dead man's hand". The identity of the fifth card (his "hole card") is the subject of debate.
In jazz, the drummer may "trade" short solo sections with a saxophone player or trumpet player; this practice, nicknamed "trading fours", typically involves the drummer and the horn player alternating four bar solo sections during a jazz tune. They can also trade eights, twos, ones, or other numbers depending on the musical context.
Q magazine called the album "a crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds, terrific hooks and middle-eights more memorable than some groups' choruses." In a retrospective appraisal of 1970s post-punk albums, Spin magazine's Sasha Frere-Jones said Parallel Lines may have been "the perfect pop-rock record" and Blondie's best album.
Some of the game titles were, Top That!. Finder's Keepers, Crazy Eights, 9-Ball, and Nest Egg. Players could win thousands of dollars in these games with the winner of each game moving on to The Championship Game. The strategy of the games centered around when to play and when to pass.
Barbro Ingmårie Svensson (sometimes listed as Ing-Marie; married name Blom, born 13 January 1950) is a retired Swedish sprint canoer. Competing in the K-1 500 m event she placed seventh and eights at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics, respectively. She is married to the Norwegian Olympic sprinter canoer Per Blom.
William MacPherson Ross (born July 29, 1900, date of death unknown) was a Canadian rower, born in Acton, Ontario, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as member of the Canadian boat in the eights competition. He also competed in the 1930 British Empire Games.
Silvijo Petriško (born 20 November 1979 in Zagreb) is a Croatian rower, who won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He was the coxswain of the team, compromising Igor Francetić, Igor Boraska, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Branimir Vujević, Krešimir Čuljak, Tomislav Smoljanović, and Tihomir Franković.
Donald WaynneI am his niece. His name constantly gets spelled wrong. Pretty (born June 11, 1936) is a Canadian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Heather Mandoli (born October 25, 1982 in Kelowna, British Columbia) is a Canadian rower. She finished in fourth place at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China in the women's eights with Ashley Brzozowicz, Darcy Marquardt, Buffy Williams, Jane Thornton, Romina Stefancic, Sarah Bonikowsky, Andréanne Morin and cox Lesley Thompson-Willie.
Viktor Nikolaevich Suslin (, born 19 July 1944) is a retired Russian rower who specialized in the eights. In this event he won bronze medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1967 European Championships and a silver at the 1966 World Rowing Championships. His elder brother Yury is also a retired Olympic rower.
Local residents nicknamed it the "Leaning Tower of Plaza", the "Leaning Tower of Las Vegas", and "Frank's Folly." Moffitt said, "It doesn't tilt. There is only three-eights of an inch difference in diameter from top to bottom." In May 1966, early negotiations were being held with a prospective buyer of the Landmark.
A.J. Styles won the gauntlet and became the leader in the BFG Series points with Magnus, Austin Aries and Bobby Roode being ranked next to Styles in the rankings respectively, thus determining the Final Four of the BFG Series who would qualify for the knockout stage at No Surrender. Styles was be given the opportunity to choose his semi-final opponent due to being points leader and he chose Aries as his opponent due to him losing Aries earlier in the tournament, thus setting up Styles versus Aries and Roode versus Magnus in the semifinals at No Surrender. At Hardcore Justice, Tito Ortiz revealed himself to be the newest member of Aces & Eights by turning on Rampage Jackson by hitting him with a hammer, which distracted Chris Sabin enough for Aces & Eights leader Bully Ray to defeat him in a steel cage match to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. The Aces & Eights Vice President Mr. Anderson took exception to Ortiz' inclusion into the group and said that Ray had to discuss with him before adding Ortiz into the group but Ray said that Anderson better not be sensitive and take care of his own business.
While Lindros became a preeminent star in Philadelphia, the trade proved heavily lopsided in favor of the Nordiques—soon to become the Colorado Avalanche—providing the core of their two Stanley Cup teams and an unprecedented eight-straight division championships, with Forsberg becoming a franchise player. The trio of Lindros, Recchi and Brent Fedyk formed the Crazy Eights line in Lindros' first two years in the NHL, the eights being the player's jersey numbers (88, 8 and 18 respectively). In 1992–93, Recchi set the franchise record for points in a season with 123 (53 goals and 70 assists) and Lindros scored 41 goals in 61 games. After struggling early, the Flyers made a run at the playoffs, but came four points short of the last spot.
In the main event, Bully Ray defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Chris Sabin, who invoked his Option C for the title shot. Ray's faction Aces & Eights interfered in the match on Ray's behalf and The New Main Event Mafia interfered in the match. Near the end of the match, Mr. Anderson handed over a hammer to Ray and then the referee was knocked out when Sabin performed a missile dropkick on Ray. A brawl occurred between Mafia and Aces & Eights and the two teams left the ring and then Ray tried to hit Sabin with a hammer but Sabin avoided it and then Ray tried to execute a Bully Bomb but Sabin hit him with the hammer in the head to win the title.
In May 2016 the Men's Second VIII reached fixed divisions in Summer Eights for the first time, winning blades in the process. In Summer Eights 2009 the Women's First VIII won blades with a crew featuring three university level 'blues' rowers and were the 10th crew in Division Two. The presence of three blues in one boat was unprecedented in Mansfield's Boat Club history, and goes some way to proving the oft-repeated notion that Mansfield College punches above its weight at inter-collegiate sport. While 2020 saw the cancellation of many major rowing events due to flooding, high stream and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, three Mansfield rowers were selected as part of the squads that would have raced on Boat Race day.
Ray then revealed that the real "Brooke" he loved was Brooke Tessmacher and not Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke Hogan, whom he had used to reach to the top and win the World Heavyweight Championship. On the August 29 episode of Impact Wrestling, Hulk Hogan announced that Ray would defend the title against a member of Aces & Eights at No Surrender. On the September 5 episode of Impact Wrestling, Anderson revealed himself to be that Aces & Eights member by costing Ray, a no disqualification match against Sting by tossing the hammer away from Ray while Sting had applied a Scorpion Deathlock on Ray. At No Surrender, Hogan added a stipulation to the title match that it would be a last man standing match.
Starting his career as a high school and club rower at 15, New Zealand, At the Maadi Cup regatta in 1977, Horan won the New Zealand schoolboy single sculls title, and came second in the U18 coxed four, with his younger brother Allan Horan as a crew member. He joined the Waikato rowing club in 1978 and enjoyed many years of success at New Zealand Championships, firstly in pairs rowing at senior level, then in eights at the Premier "red coat" level. He was first selected for New Zealand as a stroke of the 1979 "Colts" under-21 team coxed eights, against N.S.W. Australia, and won the series. In 1980 Horan was once again selected as stroke for the "Colts" eight, successfully defending the series.
They played in the East Asia Eights tournament in Australia in February 2002, finishing as runners-up to an Australian indigenous team.Scorecard of Australia Cricket Board Indigenous v Japan, 1 March 2002 at CricketArchive Indonesia and South Korea were the other teams in the tournament.2002 East Asia Eights at CricketArchive In 2004, they hosted the East Asia Pacific Cricket Challenge tournament as part of qualification for the 2007 World Cup, finishing third after beating Indonesia in a play-off.Scorecard of Japan v Indonesia, 29 May 2004 at CricketArchive In June 2005, Japan were promoted to associate membership of the ICC and that year they played in the 2005 ICC EAP Cricket Cup in Vanuatu, winning the tournament after beating the Cook Islands in the final.
He then had 110 yards and a game-winning touchdown reception with three minutes left in the 35-28 win over Syracuse. In the Insight.com Bowl against Missouri, Saunders ended his career with eights receptions for 95 yards and two touchdowns. Saunders is considered one of the greatest receivers in West Virginia Mountaineers history.
At this event, his teammates accurately predicted that he would win the Player of the Year title that season. The latter half of the season took Yasooka all over the world. He added three more Grand Prix top eights to his resume, in Sydney, Toulouse, and New Jersey, before the end of the season.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights and two sevens for a total of 30 out of 40. IGN gave the game a 7 out of 10, stating solely it was "a slumber party". It sold 1.86 million copies worldwide.
Valentin Robu (born 17 January 1967) is a retired Romanian rower. He competed in coxed fours and eights at four Olympics and eight world championships, and won two Olympic silver medals in 1988 and 1992 and eight world championship medals, including gold medals in 1989 and 1994.Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Vierer mit Steuermann, Achter. sport-komplett.
Marioara Popescu (later Ciobanu, born 9 November 1962) is a retired Romanian rower. She competed at the 1984, 1988 and 1996 Olympics and won gold medals in 1984 and 1996. At the world championships she won seven medals between 1983 and 2000, including two gold medals in the eights in 1990 and 1999.Marioara Popescu.
Ioana Olteanu (later Călin, born 25 February 1966) is a retired Romanian rower. Competing in eights she won two gold and one silver medals at the 1992–2000 Olympics and four world titles in 1993 and 1997–1999. Olteanu retired after the 2000 Olympics and gave birth to a child in August 2004, aged 38.
Patrick Todd (born November 14, 1979) is a retired American rower. He competed in the lightweight coxless fours at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and placed 9th and 11th, respectively. Todd won a gold and a silver medal in the lightweight eights at the world championships in 2003 and 2008.Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften - Leichtgewichte. sport-komplett.
All coxed fours and coxed quad sculls are named Hunter. All coxless fours and coxless quad sculls are named Adelaide and similarly, the Club's coxed eights are named I'Zingari in honour of the Club's original name. These boats then have Roman numerals affixed after their names to denote how many boats have acquired that name.
Duncan McDougall (born 14 March 1959) is a British rower who competed in the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics. He was born in Aylesbury in 1959. He is a member of the Leander Club. In 1980 he was a crew member of the British boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Sports Reference Olympic Sports – Henry Clay In 1977 he was part of the eight that reached the final and finished 5th, at the 1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam. Three years later in the 1980 Summer Olympics Clay was a member of the British boat which won the silver medal in the eights competition.
A total of 88 athletes (44 men and 44 women) will qualify to compete at the games. A nation may enter a maximum of four athletes per gender. As host nation, Peru automatically qualifies a full team of eights athletes. All other quotas were awarded through the team world rankings as of February 28, 2019.
Presidents produced from 1928-1933 established land speed records, some of which went unbroken for 35 years.In mid-July, 1928, four President eights covered 30,000 miles at Atlantic City in 19 days. Two roadsters averaged 68.37 mph and two sedans also averaged over 60 mph Later, two Presidents averaged 85 mph for 24 hours.
The chassis has a rear-wheel drive layout with a 50:50 weight balance, a longitudinally-mounted engine and aluminium multi-link suspension. In May 2005, in a commercial for the 1 Series Hatchback, Kermit the Frog was shown driving a BMW 1 Series around in a desert making figure-eights, showcasing the car's agility.
St Edward's School warming up in a four. Boatbuilding had taken place in the area since the 1800s, with composite racing boats introduced in 1994. Since then, the company developed its range of boats to include eights, fours, pairs and singles, were available in a range of colours and different types for training and racing.
Ian Gordon Turner (May 11, 1925 - October 11, 2010) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1948 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team.Profile: Ian Turner sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 8 December 2010) His brother David Turner was on the same Olympic team.
Gabriëls at the Dutch 2008 Summer Olympics celebrations Jan-Willem Gabriëls (born 21 January 1979 in Amsterdam) is a rower from the Netherlands.Athlete biography: Jan-Willem Gabriëls, beijing2008.cn, ret: 6 August 2008 Gabriëls started rowing in 1997. He started rowing in the eights, but after the 2004 Summer Olympics he switched to the fours.
The men's eights competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place at Grünau Regatta Course in Berlin, Germany. The event was held from 12 to 14 August, and was won by a United States crew from the University of Washington. This event is chronicled in The Boys in the Boat written by Daniel James Brown.
Uncharacteristically, Hickok had his back turned to the door. At 4:15 p.m., a gunslinger named Jack McCall walked in and shot Hickok in the back of the head. Hickok was famously holding two pairs—of black aces and black eights—when he was shot, a set of cards thereafter called the "Dead Man's Hand".
Logo Taki () is a card game developed by Israeli game inventor Haim Shafir. The game is an advanced variant of Crazy Eights (which is played with regular deck of playing cards) with a special card deck and extended game options. In its basic form it resembles UNO. It was introduced in 1956 by Shafir Games.
In response, Cavil lured Natalie and her forces into a trap beyond resurrection range and slaughtered them. Only Natalie's crippled Basestar survived. With her Raiders destroyed except for some Heavy Raiders and the surviving Twos, Sixes and Eights (minus Boomer), Natalie allowed Two Leoben Conoy to locate Kara Thrace and ally with the humans.
If three play, the Sevens and Eights are removed. Each player is dealt 7 cards, the dealer gets 10. The dealer shoves 2 cards to rearhand who shoves one to middlehand, so that each player has a hand of 8 cards. Otherwise the rules are the same as those of the four- hand game.
Canadian assembly of Hudson vehicles commenced in 1932 by Hudson Motors of Canada in Tilbury, Ontario. The factory building was owned by Canadian Top & Body Co. which built the motor bodies for the vehicles. The first models assembled were a series of Hudson Eights. World War II interrupted operations and production ceased in 1941.
Stanislava "Stasė" Bubulytė (born 5 May 1945) is a retired Lithuanian rower who won two gold and two silver medals in the eights event at the European Championships of 1963–1966. After graduating from the Vilnus University, she worked as mechanical engineer and designer in Vilnius (1969–1999), and later at Sigma tools (1999–2003).
Project Gotham Racing 2 received "universal acclaim" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40, while Famitsu Xbox gave it one ten, one nine, one eight, and one seven, for a total of 34 out of 40.
Crazy Eights is a shedding-type card game for two to seven players. The object of the game is to be the first player to discard all of his or her cards. The game is similar to Switch and Mau Mau. A standard 52-card deck is used when there are five or fewer players.
Traditionally, a Spanish 40-card deck is used, but a French-suited deck may be substituted in which case spades correspond to swords, clubs to clubs, hearts to cups and diamonds to coins. The eights, nines and tens can be stripped out of a standard 52-card deck to make a suitable 40-card deck.
Players need not follow suit, but must head the trick. Sevens are unbeatable if led, but otherwise cannot beat any other card. Eights, Tens, and Kings are of no value, with the exception of those that are matadors. The player who has played the highest card wins the trick and leads to the next.
A red card indicated a wounding and a black card indicated a killing, which was considered more prestigious. Pérez testified that at least one Rampart lieutenant attended these celebrations. Rampart officers wore tattoos of the CRASH logo, a skull with a cowboy hat encircled with poker cards depicting the "dead man's hand", aces and eights.
Prior to that he attended Hamden Hall Country Day School. Spock studied literature and history at Yale. Standing a lanky 6 feet and 4 inches, he also was active in college rowing. Eventually he became a part of the Olympic rowing crew (Men's Eights) that won a gold medal at the 1924 games in Paris.
Thomas Jackson "Tom" Charlton Jr. (born July 12, 1934) is an American competition rower and Olympic champion. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he won a gold medal in eights with the American team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The eight rowers were Yale undergraduates. Charlton was a member of the Class of 1956.
Women's eights competed this for the first time in 2015, having since 1927 competed a shorter varsity race in Henley also in the early spring. The bridge was badly damaged by the collision of a river barge in 1870. Although part of the bridge was subsequently replaced, soon the entire bridge would be demolished.
In the twelve-year period 2005 to 2016 he raced for South Australia on nine occasions in King's Cup eights and on eight occasions he sculled in the President's Cup. He rowed in both boats at five championships. After graduation Morgan relocated to Sydney and continued his club rowing from the Sydney Rowing Club.
Diagnosis is suspected based on symptoms and confirmed by X-rays or CT scanning. If the bones remain normally aligned treatment may be by casting without weight bearing for around eights weeks. If the bones are not properly aligned surgery is generally required. Returning the bones to their normal position results in better outcomes.
Richard (Dick) Neil McClure (born January 20, 1935) is a Canadian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1958 Commonwealth Games. In 1956 he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event. In 1958 he got a silver medal in the coxless fours.
Hans Lenk (born 23 March 1935) is a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy. He was born in Berlin. In 1960, he was a crew member of the West German boat which won the gold medal in the eights event.
Manfred Rulffs (6 March 1935 – 15 January 2007) was a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kiel and died in Ratzeburg. In 1960, he was a crew member of the West German boat that won the gold medal in the eights event.
In Italy the suit is known as denari and the corresponding court cards are the Re, Cavallo and Fante. Either 40 or 52-card packs are used. In the shorter packs, the Tens, Nines and Eights are removed. Card ranking is thus: R C F (10 9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
In Italy the suit is known as coppe and the corresponding court cards are the Re, Cavallo and Fante. Either 40 or 52-card packs are used. In the shorter packs, the Tens, Nines and Eights are removed. Card ranking is thus: R C F (10 9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
In Italy the suit is known as spade and the corresponding court cards are the Re, Cavallo and Fante. Either 40 or 52-card packs are used. In the shorter packs, the Tens, Nines and Eights are removed. Card ranking is thus: R C F (10 9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
Oldřich Svojanovský (born 9 March 1946) is a retired Czech rower who mostly competed in the coxed pairs, together with his elder brother Pavel Svojanovský. With different coxswains they won two Olympic (1972 and 1976), one world (1974) and two European championship medals (1969 and 1971). They also placed fifth in the eights at the 1968 Olympics.
Pavel Svojanovský (born 12 August 1943) is a retired Czech rower who mostly competed in the coxed pairs, together with his younger brother Oldřich Svojanovský. With different coxswains they won two Olympic (1972 and 1976), one world (1974) and two European championship medals (1969 and 1971). They also placed fifth in the eights at the 1968 Olympics.
Mount Goodman () is a mountain marking the northeastern extremity of the Behrendt Mountains, in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1961–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Alan L. Goodman, an aurora scientist at Eights Station in 1963.
Herbert Roger Morris (July 16, 1915 - July 22, 2009) was an American rower, born in Seattle, who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936, he won the gold medal as a member of the American boat in the eights competition. He manned the bow position on the University of Washington crew that won the eight-oared gold medal.
Charles Ward "Chuck" Day (October 19, 1914 - May 26, 1962) was an American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Colville, Washington. In 1936, he won the gold medal as a member of the American boat in the eights competition. He died of lung cancer due to years of heavy smoking at age 47.
Eaton Nunatak () is a prominent nunatak marking the southeastern extremity of the Merrick Mountains, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for John W. Eaton, an aurora scientist at Eights Station in 1963.
Mount Huffman () is a prominent mountain northeast of Mount Abrams, in the Behrendt Mountains of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1961–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Jerry W. Huffman, a scientific leader at Eights Station in 1963.
This now forms the major route between the city centre and the south, and the crossing point is near St Aldate's over Folly Bridge. It is possible however that he merely fortified an older crossing point. Eights Reach, which now forms part of Shire Lake Stream in Christ Church Meadow is also attributed to Robert D'Oyly.
Mount Hirman () is a prominent mountain marking the southern end of the Behrendt Mountains, in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1961–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Joseph W. Hirman, a scientific leader at Eights Station in 1965.
The Henry Nunataks () are a cluster of nunataks located west of the Merrick Mountains in Palmer Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for K.C. Henry, an engineman with the Eights Station winter party in 1963.
At the 1932 Winter Olympics he participated in the 10000 metres event but was eliminated in the heats. Four years later he finished eights in the 1500 metres competition. He also participated in the 500 metres event but did not finish. Engnestangen won a gold medal at the 1933 World Allround Championships, and a bronze medal in 1935.
St Catherine's College Boat Club (SCCBC) is the rowing club of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Established in 1875 as St. Catharine's Boat Club, the club first took part in Torpids and Summer Eights in 1876. Notable people associated with the club include British Olympic gold medallists Matthew Pinsent and Andrew Triggs Hodge and silver medallist Colin Smith.
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GameSpot cited great family and multiplayer fun, but the same idea of older Mario Party games. IGN criticized the game's lack of originality and the microphone. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 3 eights and a 7 for a total of 31 out of 40.
The game received "favourable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Eurogamer said, "Everybody's Tennis is the ideal handheld approach to the sport, exchanging realism for lightheartedness without compromising the quality of the tennis." In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two nines and two eights for a total of 34 out of 40.
In 1870, roughly three-eights of Wyoming's population was foreign born, coming primarily from Ireland, Germany and England.Wyoming: A Bicentennial History By Taft Alfred Larson pg. 82 The Union Pacific Railroad played a central role in the settlement of Wyoming. The land was good for cattle ranches, but without transportation it was too far for a cattle drive.
Brian McMahon (born July 24, 1961) is a Canadian rower, who was the coxswain of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. The rowing team was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2003.
Exeter College Boat Club (ECBC) is the boat club of Exeter College, Oxford, England. The club trains on the Thames on the Isis stretch in Oxford and at Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The Boat Club competes primarily in Torpids and Summer Eights bumps races in Oxford. However, it also races at various external events, such as Wallingford Regatta.
One-card is a shedding-type card game. The general principles put it into the crazy eights family. It is played with an ordinary poker deck and the objective is for a player to empty their own hand while preventing other players from emptying theirs. The game is commonly played in South Korea and The Netherlands.
Lehmann was a former president of the Cambridge Union Society and captain of the 1st Trinity Boat Club; although he had rowed in the trial eights for Cambridge, he was never selected for the Blue boat. The Cambridge team was coached by Stanley Muttlebury (who rowed for Cambridge five times between the 1886 and 1890 races).
The laminated wood also had problems with moisture at many locations. The geometry of Giant Cyclone Safety Coasters was extreme compared to other roller coasters of the time period. The coasters featured very tight turns, spirals, and figure eights. These elements drew inspiration from the swoops and spirals of earlier Prior and Church roller coasters like The Bobs.
On his retirement, he was appointed an Honorary Fellow. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1950. Davidge was a keen rower. Whilst at Pembroke, he rowed for the college boat club, and helped improve its position in Eights Week, the main inter-college races, raising them to high in the 1st Division of the races.
Guest had been rowing in Victorian and Australian representative eights with David Ramage from 1963. In 1967 they teamed up as a coxless pair and Ramage joined Guest to train from the Banks Rowing Club. In 1967 and 1968 they won the Victorian and the New South Wales state titles. In 1968 they won the Australian national title.
Bingham Peak () is a sharp peak, high, located southeast of Springer Peak in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–66, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Joseph P. Bingham, an auroral scientist at Eights Station in 1965.
A total of 220 rowers will qualify to compete at the games. A country may only enter a maximum of 26 rowers. All qualification will be done at the 2018 Qualifier Championship (except the men's eights which will be by entry only), where a specific number of boats will qualify in each of the fourteen events.
Georgia has won seven Southeastern Conference regular-season championships, four conference tournament championships and appeared in the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament 33 times, tied for 2nd among all schools. The team is coached by Joni Taylor. The Lady Bulldogs have also appeared in 5 Final Fours and 11 Elite Eights, but have never won a National Championship.
In a sweep boat, each rower has one oar. ;Eight (8+) : A shell with 8 rowers. Along with the single scull, it is traditionally considered to be the blue ribbon event. Always with coxswain because of the size, weight and speed of the boat – bow loader eights exist but are banned from most competitions for safety reasons.
For the 1859 race, Oxford instigated a new method of crew selection: trial eights. Prior to this, the selection of crew was made on the recommendations of the College boat club captains. Oxford boat club president John Arkell remarked "it will not do to trust too much the jugdment (sic) of the College captains."MacMichael, p.
Thorstein Kråkenes (3 April 1924 – 17 September 2005) was a Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal in coxed eights at the 1948 Summer Olympics, as a member of the Norwegian team.Profile: Torstein Kråkenes sports-reference.com (Retrieved on 10 December 2008) His brother Harald was a member of the same Olympic team.
Ulrike Sennewald (born 10 May 1989) is a German rower who had her best achievements in the eights. In this event she won two medals at the European championships of 2010 and 2013 and finished in seventh place at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Her father Hans competed in the same rowing event at the 1992 Olympics.
Irina Petrovna Gribko (, born 16 January 1969) is a retired Soviet rower who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1991 World Championships. Next year her team finished fourth in this event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She later competed for Belarus and won a bronze medal in the coxless fours at the 1995 World Championships.
Darren Barber (born 26 December 1968 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion. He is a graduate of Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, British Columbia. Barber won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, as a member of the Canadian team.Profile: Darren Barber sports.reference.
Cornelis Pieter "Niels" van der Zwan (born 25 June 1967 in Scheveningen, Zuid- Holland) is a former rower from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he won the gold medal with the Holland Acht (Holland Eights). He also competed at the 1992 and 2000 Summer Olympics.
Paul F. Rudolf (6 December 1892 – ?) was a Swiss rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he was part of the Swiss boat, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours event. He was also a member of the Swiss eights which was eliminated in the first round of the eight competition.
Wolfgang Maennig (born 12 February 1960) is an economics professor and a retired competition rower from West Germany. He competed in the coxed eights at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics and finished in sixth and first place, respectively.Profile: Wolfgang Maennig sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 12 December 2008) Currently Maennig is professor of economics at the Hamburg University.
Hans-Joachim Borzym (born 7 January 1878 in Brandenburg an der Havel) is an East German rower who competed in the early 1970s. He won 8 gold medals in the eights event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Borzym competed for SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He won medals at national and international rowing competitions.
Burnell was born in Henley-on-Thames the son of Charles Burnell who won a gold medal in the eights at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University. In May 1939, Burnell was commissioned into the London Rifle Brigade. He was on the losing Oxford team in The Boat Race in 1939.
The whole airframe is covered in doped aircraft fabric, including the plywood-covered wings. The airfoil is a custom symmetrical design. The SNS-7 is capable of advanced aerobatics, including vertical eight point rolls and inside and outside vertical eights. The tooling and manufacturing rights were acquired by Thunderbird Aviation in 2015, who began making parts and basic kits.
In 1992 the grandstands and concession areas at the track were destroyed when vandals took one of the tracks dozers on a rampage. The track crew was able to rebuild the track and was ready to race again within two weeks. In 2000 the track was converted from a one-third mile to three-eights mile.
Forty-and-eights (, typically written 40/8 or 40&8) were French 4-wheel covered goods wagons designed to hold 40 men or eight horses. Introduced in the 1870s, they were drafted into military service by the French Army in both World Wars. They were also used by the occupying Germans in World War II, followed by the Allies.
Standard equipment included: Turbo-Hydramatic 400 transmission, power steering, power brakes with front discs, power windows, power seats, Deluxe steering wheel, electric clock and full wheel discs. Standard tire size was J78-15. Interiors were vinyl, cloth or leather. All Ninety-Eights were made in Lansing indicated by the codel letter M in the Vehicle Identification Number.
Franklin Bradford "Frank" Shakespeare (born May 31, 1930) is an American competition rower and Olympic champion, and later naval officer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Shakespeare won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics with the American team. In 1982, he was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame.
Access starts very early to allow rowers to go to the boathouses. Eights Week and Torpids, Oxford University's two main rowing events, and Christ Church Regatta are held on the Thames here. In past times, ornamental wooden barges were moored on the river here to store boats and house spectators. However these have all now been replaced by boathouses.
Ike Landvoigt (born 19 September 1973) is a retired German rower who won a gold and a silver medal in the eights at the world championships of 1995 and 1998, respectively. He finished in 9th and 11th place in the coxless fours at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, respectively. His father Jörg is also a retired Olympic rower.
Willemien Jonetta "Wiljon" Vaandrager (born 27 August 1957 in Brummen, Gelderland) is a former international rower from the Netherlands, who won the bronze medal in the Women's Eights at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, alongside Marieke van Drogenbroek, Lynda Cornet, Greet Hellemans, Nicolette Hellemans, Harriet van Ettekoven, Catharina Neelissen, Anne Quist, and Martha Laurijsen.
At the end of the miniseries, a Six says "By your command" to an Eight. This phrase is usually spoken to the Imperious leader in the old series by Centurions. It seemed to give this particular Eight a leadership role. Eights also appear to be designed to be extremely beautiful, to seduce as a sleeper agent.
Claudia Belderbos (born 23 January 1985) is a Dutch rower who mostly competes in the eights. She won bronze medals at the 2009 World Championships and 2012 Olympics, placing sixth in 2016. She also collected two silver medals at the European championships in 2015-2016. Belderbos took up rowing in 2008 and started competing internationally in 2009.
Uno (; from Italian and Spanish for 'one'; stylized as UNO) is an American shedding-type card game that is played with a specially printed deck. The game's general principles put it into the Crazy Eights family of card games, and it is similar to the traditional European game Mau-Mau. It has been a Mattel brand since 1992.
The club was founded in 1981 by Wade Newmark who helped to purchase the first boat which was an eight. Following a dormant period the club purchased a new boat and has competed in events ever since. It regularly participates in the Torpids and Summer Eights. Women joined the club in 2016 after purchasing their first boat called Ithaca.
Anna van der Kamp (born June 19, 1972 in Abbotsford, British Columbia) is a former rower from Canada, who won the silver medal in the Women's Eights at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She formerly worked at the Delphi Group, but currently works for The Privy Council Office (Canada), and is a member of Clean Air Champions.
Yearbook photo published online by ancestry.com as public domain, April 4, 2013. Burton Albert Jastram (June 5, 1910 - May 20, 1995) was an American rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and won the Gold Medal as a member of the American boat in the Eights CompetitionOfficial Program-Xth Olympiad•Los Angeles•U.S.A, Sunday, August 14, 1932, p.
Rossiter was educated at Abingdon School and gained colours for the Abingdon School Boat Club. In 2008 he finished fifth in the Under-23 eights at the Junior World Championships. He continued his rowing as a student at Durham University. His younger brother George Rossiter is a World Under 23 Championship medallist and World University Champion.
Robb was raised in Hobart, Tasmania. His club rowing was from the Derwent Rowing Club. In 1913 and in 1914 he was selected at seven in the Tasmanian representative men's eights which competed for the Interstate eight-oared championship at the Australian Interstate Regatta.1913 Austn Interstate Regatta He rowed in 1914 Tasmanian eight to their championship victory.
Daniela Neunast (born 19 September 1966) is a retired German coxswain. She competed in the eights at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics and finished in first, third and eighth place, respectively. She also won one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at the world championships of 1985–1989.Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften Vierer mit Steuerfrau, Achter – Damen.
Each team was made up of 13 rowers (5 women, 7 men, and a cox). Events were held in Women's Single Sculls, Men's Single Sculls, Women's Double Sculls, Men's Pairs, Women's Pairs and Men's Fours. These crews then combined to form Mixed Quad Sculls and Eights. Great Britain were the eventual winners and crowned the Mercedes-Benz Sprints Champions.
In 1916 the company announced production of the "Roadplane" six and eights. The term "Roadplane" did not refer to a specific model but was a marketing concept devised by Elmer Apperson that was applied to the "Chummy Roadster" and the "Touring" car. Elmer took the unusual step of patenting the "Chummy Roadster" design (see:"U.S. Patent 48359").
Cavil seemingly acquiesces but, in reality, sets a trap to destroy Natalie and her followers. Boomer starts to have second thoughts about going against her fellow Eights. However, Cavil, who has developed a relationship with her, encourages her to embrace her true nature as a machine, and abandon her emotions. Natalie survives the attack, and a civil war ensues.
In a futuristic world where society is divided into castes, with Ones as the most prosperous, consisting of royals and elites, and Eights who are mostly orphans, drug users, handicapped, and unemployable. America is a Five, the "artist" caste (e.g. musicians, artists, actors, dancers, etc.). Since their prosperity depends on their desirability, Fives live a lower-class life.
Monica Lanz (born 8 April 1991) is a Dutch rower who competes in the eights. She won silver medals at the 2015 and 2016 European Championships and placed sixth at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Lanz took up rowing aged 12 with her sister and began competing in 2009. She has a degree in law from Utrecht University.
Earlier that year they won the Rowing World Cup in Amsterdam and they finished third in both Luzern and Linz. She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Roline Repelaer van Driel, Nienke Kingma, Sarah Siegelaar, Annemarieke van Rumpt, Helen Tanger and cox Ester Workel.
Alan Richard Watson (9 July 1929 - 15 February 2007) was a British rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He also represented England and won a silver medal in the eights at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada. He was a member of the Thames Rowing Club.
John Woodruffe Tilbury (born 4 January 1931) is a British rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also represented England and won a gold medal in the coxless four and a bronze medal in the eights at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.
John Lecky (29 August 1940 - 25 February 2003) was a Canadian sport rower. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he won a silver medal in coxed eights with the Canadian team. He was in the winning Cambridge crews in the University Boat Race in 1962 and 1964.
Clark won the coxless fours with Lenny Robertson, Bill Mason and Frederick Smallbone, rowing for the Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club, at the inaugural 1972 National Rowing Championships. Later in 1972 the same crew was selected for Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where they just failed to reach the final, finishing in fourth place in the semi finals of the men's coxless four. Four years later at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal he won the silver medal with the British boat in the eights competition, having also won the world silver medal in eights at the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne. At the 1977 (Amsterdam) and 1978 (Karapiro NZ) World Rowing Championships, he won silver medals both years rowing with John Roberts in the coxless pair event.
The most recent wins were the Thames Challenge Cup for men's club eights in both 2017 and 2015, the Visitors' Challenge Cup for intermediate men's coxless fours in 2016, the Wyfold Challenge Cup for men's club coxless fours in 2006 and 2003, and the Remenham Challenge Cup for women's open eights in 2005. The club also had a member in each of the composite crews which won the Remenham Challenge Cup in 2008 and 2009. The current Head Coach is Sander Smulders, who took over from former Head Coach, Ben Lewis, in the season beginning in 2019. Under Sander, is the Men's coach, Jeroen van der Kall, who joined from Okeanos R.S.V.U. at the start of the 2019 season, and Women's coaches, Jamie Low and Ellie Garratt- Smith.
Presenting himself to Hogan as the "ultimate solution", Morgan campaigned to help Hogan against the Aces & Eights if in turn, he received a shot at the TNA World Title. However, Sting, who was unceremoniously discharged by Hogan for having a wrongful judgement of Bully Ray in the past, returned to help his comrade Hogan combat the threat of the Aces & Eights. Hogan subsequently reconciled with Sting and scheduled Sting and Morgan in a contender's match to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, which Sting won after Morgan passed out to the Scorpion Death Lock. Sting and Bully Ray later met for the contract signing to their match, where Sting chose to compete in a No Holds Barred match and agreed to Ray's stipulation that if he lost, he could no longer compete for the world title.
Start time is usually about 2 hours after high tide and crews start at about 10 second intervals. The record time of 16 min 37 s was set in 1987 by the Great Britain National Squad. The Race is usually held on the third or fourth Saturday in March each year, depending on tides and the date of the Boat Race. Usually the two events are held on separate days, although in 1987 and 1994, the Boat Race took place in the morning and the Head in the afternoon Raced over the same course in eights are the Schools' Head of the River Race (SHORR) organised by Westminster School, the Women's Eights Head of the River Race (WEHoRR) and Veterans' Head of the River Race organised by Vesta Rowing Club.
This is the principal difference in the rules between Torpids and Summer Eights, where both crews stop racing. The name 'Torpids' derives from the event's origins as a race for the second boats of the colleges, which were of course slower than the first boats. The status of the event - still adjudged below that of Summer Eights on account of the absence of varsity oarsmen and women - only began to rise at the very end of the nineteenth century, when colleges began to form first boats to compete. Nowadays there is no limit on the number of boats a college may enter, although crews in the last two divisions and crews without a position have to qualify to race by competing in a timed race the preceding Friday, known as 'rowing on'.
Marie Byrd Land Glaciers and rock outcrops in Marie Byrd Land seen from NASA's DC-8 aircraft on October 17, 2011 Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W. The inclusion of the area between the Rockefeller Plateau and Eights Coast is based upon the leading role of the American Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in the exploration of this area. The name was originally applied by Admiral Byrd in 1929, in honor of his wife, to the northwestern part of the area, the part that was explored in that year.
The ceremony took place the next week on Impact Wrestling, where Ray's groomsman Tazz interrupted and revealed himself to be a member of Aces & Eights, leading to the group attacking Ray, Hulk Hogan, and the rest of the groomsmen. On the February 21 edition of Impact, after listening to Hogan plea, Hulk Hogan named Bully Ray the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship at Lockdown. At this event, Bully Ray would turn his back on Hogan and TNA by revealing himself as the President of the Aces & Eights. On the following episodes of Impact, Bully Ray touted the fact that the public bought into his deceptive act the entire time to earn the trust of Sting, Hogan, and Hulk Hogan as a way to get a chance to capture the TNA World Title.
On the following episode of Impact Wrestling, Ray was granted another opportunity to become the number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, but was again defeated by Hardy. On the September 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, Ray defeated World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries in a non-title match, after hitting him with a steel chain. On the October 4 episode of Impact Wrestling, Ray defeated both Aries and his number one contender Jeff Hardy in a three-way match, after which Hulk Hogan agreed to let him become Sting's partner for the match against the Aces & Eights stable at Bound for Glory. On October 14 at Bound for Glory, Ray and Sting were defeated by the Aces & Eights, who in the process earned full access to TNA.
On June 2 at Slammiversary XI, Ray successfully defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Sting in a No Holds Barred Match after an interference by Aces & Eights, with the added stipulation, that Sting would never get another World title opportunity again. Following Slammiversary, Ray and Aces & Eights would continue feuding with Sting and his New Main Event Mafia (Kurt Angle, Magnus, Samoa Joe, and Rampage Jackson). On July 18, during the Destination X episode of Impact Wrestling, Ray lost the TNA World Heavyweight Championship to Chris Sabin, ending his reign at 130 days. Ray received his rematch in a steel cage on August 15 at Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice, where he defeated Sabin, following interference from Mr. Anderson and Tito Ortiz, to regain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
Ulrich Kons (born 3 February 1955) is a retired German rower who had his best achievements in the eights. In this event he won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics and a world title in 1977. He also won a world title in the coxed fours in 1982. For his Olympic achievement Kons was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1980.
She competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and was a crew member of the American boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event. She qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. McCarthy did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.
There is a short obscure dark fuscous dash on the submedian fold at one-fourth, and another beyond the middle. A small roundish ill-defined dark fuscous spot is found in the disc at five-eights, and another at three-fourths, more elongate. The hindwings are ochreous- orange, somewhat paler posteriorly. The larvae feed on Acacia species, including Acacia longifolia and Acacia linifolia.
Joseph Harry "Joe" Rantz (March 31, 1914 - September 10, 2007) was an American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Spokane, Washington, but was raised in Sequim, Washington. Rantz rowed for the University of Washington during the Great Depression. In 1936, he won the gold medal as a member of the American boat in the eights competition.
The process is lengthy and very repetitive. There are also many similar variations in schedule and technique. What is described here is one such schedule. The finish is obtained through a specific combination of different rubbing motions (generally circles and figure-eights), waiting for considerable time, building up layers of polish and then spiriting off any streaks left in the surface.
In 2004 the men's and women's teams took bronze at the International Race of Eights in Zagreb, Croatia. Several alumni of the rowing program at GVSU have gone on to race at the elite level. Sarah Zelenka was a member of the 2012 US Summer Olympic Team, taking 4th in the pair. Dana Schmunk raced in the 2002 and 2004 World Championships.
Thomas Murray (born 5 April 1994) is a New Zealand rower. He was one of the finalists for the Emerging Talent category of the 2014 Halberg Awards. He came fourth at the 2015 World Rowing Championships with the men's eight, qualifying the boat for the 2016 Olympics. He came sixth with his team at the eights competition in Rio de Janeiro.
Brook Robertson (born 19 February 1994) is a New Zealand rower. Born in Nelson in 1994, Robertson was educated at Nelson College from 2005 to 2011. He came fourth at the 2015 World Rowing Championships with the men's eight, qualifying the boat for the 2016 Olympics. He came sixth with his team at the eights competition in Rio de Janeiro.
When the Canadian eights won silver at the 2012 London Olympics she became the first Canadian to win medals at five different Olympic Games. A former track athlete, she also competed in gymnastics until 1983. She lives in London and St. Catharines and is affiliated with the London RC Club. She was elected to the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1994.
Born in Melbourne, Chew's senior rowing was done from the Mercantile Rowing Club. She was club captain there in 2010 and 2011. Chew was selected in Victorian senior women's eights to contest the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships on six consecutive occasions from 2003 to 2008. Those crews were victorious each year from 2005 to 2008.
A Grade III race since 1981, in 2018 it was upgraded to Grade II status. The inaugural running took place as the Hill Prince Handicap on October 26, 1975 and was run at a distance of a mile and three-eights. It was won on a disqualification by Gustave Ring's homebred colt Don Jack. The race was run in two divisions in 1982.
Patrick "Pat" Turner (born March 24, 1961 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian rower, who was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. The rowing team was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2003.
Andrew Justice (19 January 1951 – 17 June 2005) was a British rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1976 he was a crew member of the British boat which finished ninth in the quadruple sculls event. Four years later he won the silver medal with the British boat in the 1980 eights competition.
Grzegorz Nowak (born 1 November 1954) is a Polish rower who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was born in Luboń. In 1980 he was a crew member of the Polish boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed fours event. At the same Olympics he also finished ninth with the Polish boat in the 1980 eights competition.
In three-hand games a pack of 24 French playing cards is used (i.e. the Eights and Sevens are omitted) and the card ranking is as follows: :Ace (high) – Ten – King – Queen – Jack – Nine (low). In four-player games, the standard German 32-card pack is used and the card ranking is: :Deuces (high) – Ten – King – Ober – Unter – Nine - Eight - Seven (low).
In the other high profile bouts Team TNA (Sting, James Storm, Samoa Joe, Magnus, and Eric Young) defeated Aces & Eights (Devon, D.O.C., Mr. Anderson, Knux, and Garett Bischoff) in a Lethal Lockdown match, and Wes Brisco upset Kurt Angle in a Steel Cage match. In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand.
The original challenge between the Oxford and Cambridge University boat clubs was issued in 1829. As a result two men's eights raced on the river at Henley-on-Thames. In 1836 the race was moved to the Tideway in London, and it has remained there ever since. At this time rowing was not seen as an appropriate sport for a lady.
They came with a flathead straight-eight engine, which were slightly less expensive to produce than the increasingly popular V8, but they were also heavier and longer. Additionally, the long crankshaft suffered from excessive flex, restricting straight-eights to a relatively low compression ratio with a modest redline. However, in this application, inexpensive (yet very quiet) flatheads were not a liability.
Jan Hijzelendoorn (20 March 1929 - 22 October 2008) was a Dutch track cyclist who was active between 1948 and 1959. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics in sprint events with the best achievement of eights place in the 1 km time trial in 1952. He won a bronze medal in the sprint at the 1950 world championships.
John Roberts is an American Record producer and electronic musician. He rose to critical acclaim with his debut album Glass Eights in 2010 and his follow- up album Fences, both released by Dial Records. In 2009 John Roberts co- founded the contemporary culture magazine The Travel Almanac with fellow musician Paul Kominek. In 2015, he started his own label, Brunette Editions.
CKD sets were also supplied to Australia, and assembled there by Mortlocks of Perth. For open tourers they used locally built bodies by Richards. The number of Flying Eights assembled in Australia is unknown. Production at Standard's Canley plant continued into the early weeks of 1940. The highest chassis number now known is 33433, a saloon first registered on 11.7.1940.
William "Huey" Jensen (born July 26, 1982) is an American Magic: The Gathering player. He won Pro Tour Boston 2003, and has finished in the top 8 of four additional Pro Tours. He also has 24 Grand Prix top eights, including six wins. Jensen is one of the few players to have beaten Kai Budde in the elimination rounds of a Pro Tour.
The incident has been said to be shown in an 1822 picture, the earliest depiction of an eights race at Oxford, painted by I. T. Serres (Marine Painter to George IV).Sherwood, p. 10 However, the print was published on 1 March 1822 and it would have taken several months to prepare and engrave. It also shows a summer scene.
Daniel Beery (born January 4, 1975) is an American competition rower, Olympic champion, world champion and world cup gold medalist. Beery won a gold medal in Men's Eights at the 2004 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team. The time 5:19.85 was a new world record. Beery is a member of the New York Athletic Club's Hall of Fame.
Bruce Robertson (born 17 June 1962) is a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion. Robertson won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, as a member of the Canadian team.Profile: Bruce Robertson sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 12 December 2008) He also competed in coxless fours at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he finished 11th.
Ante Katalinić, italianised to Antonio Cattalinich, (11 February 1895 – 31 October 1981) was a Croatian rower who competed for Italy in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the bronze medal as crew member of the Italian boat in the eights competition with two brothers: Frane and Šimun, and Latino Galasso, Vittorio Gliubich, Giuseppe Crivelli, Petar Ivanov, Bruno Sorić, Carlo Toniatti.
At the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, Payne and Hannen came sixth in the coxless pair. At the 1990 World Rowing Championships in Tasmania, Australia, Hannen competed in two events. She came fourth with the women's eight, and sixth with the women's coxless four. At the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna, Austria, Hannen came eights with the women's eight.
Bestowed the Jr. Hornets captaincy for the 2017-18 season, Fillier tied for eights in the PWHL in goals scored, while pacing all scorers during the 2018 PWHL playoffs. For the third consecutive season, she would enjoy a podium finish at the OWHA Provincial Championships, obtaining a silver. She would also lead the Jr. Hornets to a silver medal in the PWHL Championships.
Felice Mueller (born October 15, 1989) is an American rower. She won the gold medal in the coxless four at the 2013 World Rowing Championships. Her rowing career began at the Pomfret School. From there, she attended and rowed at the University of Michigan from 2008 to 2012. She won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in the Women’s Eights.
Wilhelm Brüderlin (born 20 October 1894, date of death unknown) was a Swiss rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he was part of the Swiss boat, which won the gold medal in the coxed four event. He was also a member of the Swiss eights which was eliminated in the first round of the eight competition.
Howard Thayer Kingsbury Jr. (September 11, 1904 - October 27, 1991) was an American rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in New York City and died in Yarmouthport, Massachusetts. He was the father Nathaniel Wales Kingsbury (October 13, 1940 – November 9, 1998) In 1924, he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.
Two St Peter's boats competed in the first post-war Torpids and Summer Eights in 1946.John Chavasse: 1945. The Bursar C. E. Tinne was still coaching, "bicycling, megaphone in hand, and bawling instructions anywhere between Sandford and the end of Port Meadow",Michael Tibbs: Cox in 1946. and the Boat Club moved with their fleet into the old OUBC boathouse.
Massacres and expulsions from many German states continued until 1552–1553.Richard Overy (2010), The Times Complete History of the World, Eights Edition, p. 116–117. London: Times Books. . By the mid-16th century, 80% of the world's Jews lived and flourished in Poland and in Lithuania; most of western and central Europe was by that time closed to Jews.
With three players, the Eights are removed and each player is dealt 8 cards; otherwise if four play, each is dealt 7 cards; if five play, 6 cards and if six play, 5 cards. Any remaining cards are put to one side and not used in the game. Forehand leads any card to the first trick. There are no trumps.
Nina Leonidovna Petrova (; born 28 November 1955) is a retired Russian swimmer. In 1972, she set a European record in the 200 m medley and finished eights in the 400 m medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Between 1970 and 1972 she set five national records in these disciplines. She is married to Vladimir Baranov; they both work as swimming coaches for children.
Adler's Appetite returned in April with new vocalist Patrick Stone (of Aces 'N' Eights) and guitarist Lonny Paul. Despite news that the group had begun recording new material, in September it was announced that Z'nuff had left the band. Adler quickly clarified the bassist's departure, claiming that he was dismissed due to the drummer's intention to start a new group.
And in video, they both had met up and shots rang out from some young gangsters. It’s a shame because both those kids in the video, both nephews of mine, ended up getting in trouble for ringing out shots and are both doing time right now. It’s kind of ironic. One of my nephews ended up getting eights years for that shit.
Johanne "Anne-Marie" Marie Quist (born 26 December 1957 in Nijmegen, Gelderland) is a former international rower from the Netherlands, who won the bronze medal in the Women's Eights at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Her teammates were Marieke van Drogenbroek, Lynda Cornet, Greet Hellemans, Nicolette Hellemans, Harriet van Ettekoven, Martha Laurijsen, Catharina Neelissen, and Wiljon Vaandrager.
Catharina Eline Maria "Catalien" Neelissen (born 4 November 1961 in Haarlem, North Holland) is a former international rower from the Netherlands, who won the bronze medal in the Women's Eights at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Her teammates were Marieke van Drogenbroek, Lynda Cornet, Greet Hellemans, Nicolette Hellemans, Harriet van Ettekoven, Martha Laurijsen, Anne Quist, and Wiljon Vaandrager.
The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of three eights and one seven for a total of 31 out of 40. X-Play complemented the game's emphasis on strategy and third person shooting as well as its cartoonish art style while criticizing the sometimes clunky controls and lack of multiplayer.
Daimler Hire provided 150 Daimler Straight Eights to carry foreign dignitaries attending the coronation of King George VI in 1937. Over a thousand privately owned Daimlers arranged by Daimler Hire were also used in connection with the coronation.Both sources mention the chartering of 150 Daimlers and a thousand Daimlers involved with the Coronation celebration, but neither source mentions Daimler Hire specifically.
Edward Marsh (born February 12, 1874 - died October 10, 1932) was an American rower, born in Philadelphia, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. A member of the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association in Philadelphia, he was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights. He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity.
It currently celebrated its 16th Anniversary last year. It is a member of the Kenya Private Schools Association (KPSA) in which the class eights every year sit for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE). The first KCPE sat for by the candidates was in the year 2005 where the first student got an outstanding 435 marks out of 500.
Shining Soul II received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four eights for a total of 32 out of 40. The earliest reviews came from Electronic Gaming Monthly (nearly four months prior to the game's release), Game Informer (nearly three months prior), and Nintendo Power (nearly two months prior).
In the preparation for the 1919 Peace Regatta Ross-Soden trialled in the various AIF eights. He was a member of the sub-committee charged with the coaching and selection of the 1919 AIF crews and in the final week before the event he co-coached AIF #1 eight which won the event and brought the King's Cup to Australia.
Suikoden V had disappointing sales compared to earlier PlayStation 2 Suikodens. In 2006 in Japan, the game sold 194,780 copies, down from Suikoden IV's 303,069. Famitsu gave it a score of one nine, two eights, and one seven for a total of 32 out of 40. Elsewhere, the game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
Pok Deng () is a Thai gambling card game in which players aim for a hand whose ones digit beats the dealer's, while taking into account pairs, three of a kinds, and flushes. The game is also known as Pok Kao (, kao means "nine") or Pok Paet Pok Kao (, paet means "eight") due to eights and nines being high, desirable values.
House was raised at Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania. His club rowing was from the Derwent Rowing Club. In 1913 and in 1914 he was selected at stroke in the Tasmanian representative men's eights which competed for the Interstate eight-oared championship at the Australian Interstate Regatta.1913 Austn Interstate Regatta He led the 1914 Tasmanian eight to their championship victory.
Mettam was born in Wollongong, New South Wales but raised in Perth, Western Australia. His club rowing was from the West Australian Rowing Club. In 1913 and 1914 he was selected at six in the Western Australian representative men's eights which competed for the Interstate eight-oared championship at the Australian Interstate Regatta.1913 Austn Interstate Regatta 1914 Austn Interstate Regatta.
The Allom Cup regatta is a rowing event held every November (or early December) on the River Thames in London. It is contested by the constituent colleges of the University of London. Imperial College School of Medicine still competes despite Imperial College London separating from the University of London in 2007. The Allom Cup itself is competed for by senior men's eights.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one nine and three eights for a total of 33 out of 40. In its first week on sale in Japan, the game sold more than 342,000 units. Phantasy Star Portable was the 14th best- selling game in Japan in 2008.
Michael Joseph "Mike" Forgeron (born 24 January 1966, in Main-à-Dieu, Nova Scotia) is a rower from Canada. He competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. At his debut he was a member of the team that won the gold medal in the Men's Eights (3 seat). In the 1996 Olympics, he competed in the Men's Double Sculls.
The WSHS crew team was established in 1981. The team primarily owns sweep style eights and fours. Previously the team owned a quad, as well as some smaller boats, but they have since been sold and WSHS crew no longer sculls. In 2008, the men's freshman 8 was awarded the bronze medal at VASRA States, and continued through to compete in Nationals.
Duško Mrduljaš successful professional career is recognisable and known also for its vast amateur work and contribution to Croatian sport. He comes from a well- known and distinguished Split athletic family. His grandfather was a state representative in rowing, father and uncle champions of Europe in eights (1932) and the son Jure Mrduljaš of silver in the overall World Cup in coxless four.
Charlotte was raised in Corryong in northern Victoria. She attended Geelong Grammar School with her twin sister Sophie and took up rowing in 2007. She rowed in the Geelong Grammar Girl's first VIIIs which won the Victorian Head of the River in 2008 and 2009. In those years she also contested the national Schoolgirl Eights title at the Australian Rowing Championships.
He went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1932 he was a member of the winning Cambridge boat in the Boat Race. The 1932 crew won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta rowing as Leander Club. They were subsequently chosen to represent Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the eights where they came fourth.
A crew wearing the club colours The Queen Mary Boat Club accepts experienced and novice rowers to improve their fitness and technique. They represent Queen Mary at rowing events, offering opportunities for rowers to compete locally and nationally. Student crews race in eights, fours/quads, doubles/pairs and singles. Alumni of the university are eligible to row with Drapers Rowing Club.
Ester Workel (born 18 March 1975 in Enschede) is a rowing cox from the Netherlands.Athlete biography: Ester Workel, beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008 With the Dutch eights she qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and she led her team mates rowing to the bronze medal. They won another bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships in Gifu.
Sven Evert Gunnarsson (born 28 December 1929) is a retired Swedish rower. In his early career he competed in the coxless pair. Together with Bernt Torberntsson he won the 1949 European Championships, but had no success at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. He then changed to coxed fours and eights and won three silver medals at the 1955 European Championships and 1956 Olympics.
Olof Hindrik "Olle" Larsson (21 June 1928 – 13 January 1960) was a Swedish rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the coxed fours and finished fourth in the eights competition. He won two silver medals in these events at the 1955 European Championships. Larsson was killed in an accident on a tugboat in Trollhättan.
He rowed in four successive King's Cup winning New South Wales eights between 1933 and 1936 and then contested the event on three further occasions from 1937 to 1939. In 1939 Dixon rowed in a Sydney Rowing Club which contested the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. They won their first round but were knocked out in second.
Sohen Biln (June 17, 1939 - March 27, 2012) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1958 Commonwealth Games and 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Westlock, Alberta. In 1960 he was the coxswain of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event. At the Commonwealth Games in 1958 he got a silver medal in the coxed fours.
Four years later he won the bronze medal in the same class. Finally, at the 1912 Summer Olympics he was a coach of the Canadian eights crew. Off the water Wright was an accomplished athlete in track and field, sprint, and billiards. He claimed amateur titles in both wrestling and boxing and set throw records in shot put and hammer throw.
University College Men's 1st VIII 2007 with Acer Nethercott steering. Despite coxing for both Oxford University Boat Club and Great Britain, Nethercott still found time to compete for University College Boat Club in 2007 in the annual Eights Week competition. Acer started coxing in his first term at University College, when he took part in the traditional freshers' Christchurch Regatta.
White competed at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles in the eights which finished fourth. At the 1988 Olympics, White won Bronze in the coxed four along with George Keys, Greg Johnston, Ian Wright and Andrew Bird (cox). At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta in the coxless four, he finished fourth and thirteenth, respectively.
The following week, Magnus defeated Kazarian in his first Bound for Glory Series match via submission to earn ten points and take an early lead in the tournament.CALDWELL'S TNA IMPACT RESULTS 6/20: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of semi-live Impact – BFG Series kick-off, Open Fight Night, Sting takes out Aces & Eights, more. PWTorch.com (20 June 2013). Retrieved on 25 September 2015.
Cyril Alec "Bob" Stiles (10 October 1904 – 5 March 1985) was a New Zealand rower. He won a Silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the coxless pairs with partner Rangi Thompson. He also won a Bronze medal at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney in the eights. A Christchurch street is named after Stiles.
Deluxe Eights were in Series 27. The sixes had shorter hood ornaments, a "6" badge on the hood and Pontiac lettering on the side. The eights had larger hood ornaments, an "8" badge on the hood and Pontiac Deluxe lettering on the side. Deluxe Torpedoes had notchback styling. Initially five body styles were available: a 3-passenger 2-door Business Coupe, a 5-passenger 2-door Sedan Coupe, a 5-passenger 2-door Sedan, a 5-passenger 2-door convertible and a 5-passenger 4-door Sedan. The 5-passenger 4-door Metropolitan Sedan was added in the middle of the model year. It had 4-window styling with rear ventiplanes similar to the 4-door Custom Torpedo Sedan instead of the 6-window styling found on the regular 4-door Deluxe Torpedo Sedan. The convertible had a power top.
On The X-Files episode entitled "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", the title character is playing poker with Agent Scully and is seen holding a full house of aces and eights (the ace of hearts being the fifth card). In "The Assassin" (Season 3 Episode 11) of the television series The Pretender, poker plays a key role, including the appearance of the dead man's hand at the end of the episode. In a first episode of Quantum Leap ("How The Tess Was Won") a character attempts to rig a game of poker by dealing aces and eights to Sam's love interest. It is referred to as a "dead man's hand" by Al. In an episode of The Untouchables syndicated TV series (1993-1994), members of an Irish gang are playing poker when they are gunned down by members of an Italian mob.
At Enstone Dunbar completed her second portrait of her husband, which Folley renamed The Cerebrant when he presented it to Manchester Art Gallery in 2005. Dunbar's post at the Ruskin School led to a commission by Worcester College, Oxford, of The River in Eights Week, 1922 (sometimes known as Summer Eights), an unusual painting outside her regular canon, of which no other details survive as the painting was stolen in 1994. Other paintings from the period 1946–1950 include Oxford, an allegorical painting featuring a woman seated, with knees drawn up, lifting a dark blue canopy over the dreaming spires of the university cradled in her lap, and Mercatora, another allegorical study, of which Folley said '[The subject]...was really navigation...air navigation which she might have learned from me. [...] So that's probably what the spark, the germ might have been. Navigation...travel'.
Between 2005-2010, the Men's VIII established a record of thirty-four consecutive starts in a bumps race without being bumped once itself. The Men's VIII has currently gone sixteen days of racing, or four years, without being bumped in the Summer Eights competition (as well as nine days in Torpids), the third- best record of crews currently on the water. Double blades (blades in Torpids and Eights in the same year) have been achieved three times in Boat Club history - by the Men's crews of 1979 and 2006, and the Women's crews of 2015 and 2016. Torpids 2018 coincided with the "Beast from the East" (officially Anticyclone Hartmut, a cold wave in February 2018), and so while full racing took place on the first day of the regatta, racing for lower divisions was called off for the remaining three days.
Edwin Jongejans (born 18 December 1966) is a retired diver from the Netherlands. He competed at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic in the springboard event and finished in eights and seventh place, respectively. His sister Daphne competed in the same event at the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics. Between 1989 and 1995 Jongejans won one world and two European titles in the 1 m springboard.
Gottfried Döhn (born 10 June 1951) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dresden. In 1976, he was a crew member of the East German boat, which won the gold medal in the eights event. Four years later, he won his second gold medal with the East German boat in the coxed fours competition.
With 46 Pro Points that season, he finished 17th in the Player of the year race. The 2005 season was Oiso's strongest yet. Despite skipping Pro Tour Philadelphia, he was a strong contender for Player of the Year, finishing just three points behind Olivier Ruel, and four behind Kenji Tsumura who won the title. He made two more Pro Tour top eights that season.
The Darkness received "favorable" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Hyper's Daniel Wilks commended the game for its "brilliant storytelling, looking great and excellent level design". However, he criticised its "weak physics engine and some AI problems". Famitsu gave the former console version a score of two eights and two sevens for a total of 30 out of 40.
Maagoe Peak () is a peak, high, at the north end of the Gifford Peaks in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1961–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Steffen Maagoe, an ionospheric scientist at Eights Station in 1964.
Gomez Nunatak () is an isolated nunatak southwest of Mount Vang, surmounting the interior ice plateau near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Jose M. Gomez, a mechanic with the Eights Station winter party in 1965.
These features were discovered in helicopter flights from the and the of the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names. The peninsula was named for Charles E. Lofgren, personnel officer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30. The cape was named for Reinhard W. Menzel, a geomagnetist-seismologist with the Eights Station winter party, 1965.
Eric Fransiscus Charles Niehe (born 4 November 1943) is a retired Dutch rower who won a bronze medal in the coxless fours at the 1966 World Rowing Championships. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the eight event and finished in eights place. His younger brother Ivo is a television presenter, producer and actor.Bert van der Linden (19 March 2006) De Niehe connectie. ad.
Jaugstetter qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was not able to compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal many years later. He was a member of the American men's eights team that won silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Michal Klasa (born 19 December 1953) is a retired cyclist from Czechoslovakia. He competed in four events in total at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1976, he finished in eights and fifth place in the 4000 m individual and team pursuit, respectively. In 1980, he won a bronze medal in the 100 km time trial, but failed to finish the individual road race.
Burke first made state selection for New South Wales in the 1996 senior men's eight to contest the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He stroked that crew to a second place. He raced in four further King's Cup eights for New South Wales in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. His King's Cup career was during a period of Victorian dominance.
The participation of women in the BNCBC was made possible with the admission of women undergraduates in 1974, and a BNCBC Women's crew first contested Eights in 1976. Since that time, women members of BNCBC have represented Oxford in OUWBC Blue Boat, Osiris and OUWLRC crews, alongside their male colleagues who have competed in OUBC Blue Boat, Isis, OULRC Blue Boat and Nephthys crews.
Iulică Ruican (born 29 August 1971) is a retired Romanian rower. He competed in coxed fours and eights at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in 1992. At the 1996 Olympics he served as a flag bearer for Romania at the opening ceremony. At the world championships he won seven medals between 1993 and 1998, including three gold medals.
Tihomir Franković (born 30 September 1970) is a Croatian rower who won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. His teammates were Igor Boraska, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Branimir Vujević, Krešimir Čuljak, Tomislav Smoljanović and Igor Francetić. He was a world record (world's best time) holder, for 20 years, in a coxed pair event set at 1994 World rowing championship.
Stevens returned to TNA on March 17, 2013 as he took part in 10 man Battle Royal which featured TNA Wrestlers from the past and present, the match was won by Matt Morgan. On March 18, 2013, The Hot Shots (Cassidy Riley and Chase Stevens) were defeated by the Aces & Eights (Wes Brisco and Garett Bischoff) in the first round of the TNA Tag Team Tournament.
In 1967 the start of the Straight Course was relocated exactly 1 mile 550 yd from the finish. In the same year, moving pontoons were introduced at the start which allowed all boats, from singles to eights, to be aligned with their bows precisely on the start line. Since then all crews have raced a course of exactly one mile and 550 yards (2112 metres).
1st & 3rd Trinity Boat Club bumped on the 1st day to regain the highest 2nd VIII place that they lost in 2006. Jesus College Boat Club were the highest 2nd women's VIII at the start of the week, and managed to get into the first division - the first time that any women's 2nd VIII has achieved this since the women's Mays were rowed in eights in 1990.
Hill grew up in Loxton, South Australia. He attended Loxton North Primary School and took up rowing at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide. His senior club rowing has been from the Adelaide Rowing Club. In 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2019 Hill was seated in the South Australian state representative men's eights competing for the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.
Members who have raced in the first crews in Torpids are granted the right to wear this tie. Members who have raced in the first boats in Summer Eights are permitted to wear the club blazer, which has been in use since the mid-nineteenth century. The blazer is peony red, with black trim. Captains are entitled to an extra stripe on the sleeve.
Hommes returned to the team instead of Smulders for the World Championships, while Beukers was replaced by Nienke Dekkers. This team dropped down one place and won the bronze medal. In 2006 De Haan remained in the eights and they rowed to a fifth position at the World Championships in Eton. Together with Van Rumpt she also achieved a third place in the World Cup in Luzern.
Merton College Boat Club (MCBC) is a rowing club for members of Merton College, Oxford. It was established in 1838 and competes every year in Torpids and Summer Eights, the intercollegiate bumps races at the University of Oxford, as well as external regattas. The club shares a boat house with Worcester College Boat Club on Boathouse Island, on the northern bank of the Isis.
Stanley Francis "Stan" Cwiklinski (pronounced "quick-LIN-skee",Stowe, 55 born July 25, 1943) was an American rower. Competing in the eights he won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and a bronze at the 1965 European Champsionship. Cwiklinski took up rowing at La Salle University, where he was teammates with Hugh Foley, and studied zoology. In 1963, he joined the Vesper Boat Club.
Crazy Eights 8 km. ARRS. Retrieved on 2015-07-13. Nesbit managed only eleventh in the 3000 m at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1987, but was much higher placed the following year, taking the runner-up spot behind Lynn Jennings. At the separately held United States Olympic Trials she was back down the order, ending 17th in the 10,000 meters.
She made Tasmania's senior women's eight in 2013 and stroked that crew contesting the Queen's Cup. She rowed again in Tasmanian women's eights competing for the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regattas of 2014 and 2015. In 2016 and 2018 she was Tasmania's single sculls entrant to race for the Nell Slatter Trophy at the Interstate Regatta. She placed sixth in the single scull on both occasions.
Wayne Frye (November 30, 1930 - February 26, 2014) from Manchester, Ohio was an American competition rower and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as a member of the American team.Profile: Wayne Frye sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 10 December 2008) He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1954 and became a military officer (US Air Force).
Cambridge University Women's Boat Club (CUWBC) was the rowing club for women at the University of Cambridge. CUWBC fielded both a lightweight eight that races against Oxford at the Henley Boat Races, and two openweight eights that race at the Women's Boat Race. In April 2020 it was agreed that the club would be combined with the men's club CUBC and the lightweight men's club CULRC.
John Alan Campbell (13 April 1899 - 20 February 1939) was a British rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Campbell was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1920. In 1920 he was a crew member of the British boat, which won the silver medal in the eights at the Summer Olympics.
Jeroen Tarquinis Cornelis Duyster (born 27 August 1966 in Amsterdam, North Holland) is a former coxswain from the Netherlands, who won a gold medal with the Holland Acht (Holland Eights) as a cox at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the older brother of former Dutch field hockey international Willemijn Duyster, who won the bronze medal at the same Olympic tournament.
The club fields a Men's First VIII and a Women's First VIII in the annual inter-collegiate Torpids and Summer Eights bumps racing competitions. As a new entrant, initially placed at the bottom of the rankings, the club achieved several years of regular success in the 1960s and 1970s as it slowly worked its way up through weaker boats to reach its natural level.
It was formally opened by Rab Butler in his capacity as High Steward of Cambridge on 13 July 1971. It is still the most recent road bridge to be built in Cambridge and is now one of the main vehicular bridges across the Cam in the city. To the west on the northern bank of the Cam is The Eights, a private marina and apartment blocks.
Lehmann attended Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was president of the Cambridge Union Society in 1876. He was also a rower, and captained the First Trinity Boat Club, although in the trial eights for two years, he did not quite make the Cambridge eight. At Henley Royal Regatta he finished last in every heat he entered, from the 1877 Visitors’ to the 1888 Wyfolds.
For the first time ever all Oldsmobile Ninety-Eights were now hardtops, and for the first time since 1964 not all hardtops were called Holidays. Standard equipment included armrests, front and rear, power brakes with front discs, electric clock, carpeting, inside hood release, lamp package, power seat, power steering and Turbo-Hydramatic transmission. Standard tire size was J78-15. Interiors were vinyl, cloth and leather.
4-doors had an extra window (like an opera window) in the C-pillar. A landau roof option for the coupe gave it a huge-looking opera window. Like the Custom Cruiser, Ninety-Eights had a dual section eggcrate-design grille, with new front end panel, front bumper, and wraparound horizontal parking lamps. Amber marker lenses aligned with the headlamps wrapped around the fender sides.
However at the 2007 World Championships in Munich they had to be satisfied with another bronze medal. With a World Cup win in Poznań and a second place in Luzern in 2008, they qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. At the 2008 Olympics, the Dutch coxless four finished eighth. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Vellenga again took part in the men's eights, finishing in 5th place.
Woodbine Racetrack is a racetrack for thoroughbred horse racing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group, Woodbine Racetrack manages and hosts Canada's most famous race, The Queen's Plate. The track was opened in 1956 with a one-mile oval dirt track, as well as a seven-eights turf course. It has been extensively remodeled since 1993, and since 1994 has had three racecourses.
Later that evening, the President of the Aces & Eights was revealed to be Bully Ray. Brown wrestled his first televised match in four years on the May 2 episode of Impact Wrestling, losing to Kurt Angle in an I Quit Match. As a result of his loss, Brown was demoted to a prospect the following week. On July 17, Brown announced his release from TNA.
Eights have a fin towards the rear, to help prevent roll and yaw and to help the rudder. The riggers are staggered alternately along the boat so that the forces apply asymmetrically to each side of the boat. If the boat is sculled by rowers each with two oars the combination is referred to as an octuple scull. In a scull boat, the riggers apply forces symmetrically.
Yury Nikolaevich Suslin (, born 19 May 1935) is a retired Russian rower who specialised in the eights. In this event he won two silver medals at the European championships of 1963–1964Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Achter) at sport-komplett.de and finished fifth at the 1964 Summer Olympics.Yury Suslin at Sports Reference Suslin competed at the 1961 European Rowing Championships with the coxed four and won silver.
The Landvoigt brothers also won a bronze medal in the eights at the 1972 Olympics and a European title in coxless fours in 1973. Jörg is left-handed, whereas Bernd is right-handed. After retiring from competitions Jörg worked as a rowing coach at his club SG Dynamo Potsdam and later with the junior national team. Today he works for the Regional Sports Federation of Brandenburg.
It is a loose adaptation of Hickok's life, ending with his famous aces and eights card hand. A later film (1953) and subsequent stage musicalboth titled Calamity Janealso portray a romance between Calamity Jane and Hickok. In the film version, Howard Keel co-stars as Hickok to Doris Day's Calamity Jane. In the movie Little Big Man (1970), Wild Bill Hickok was played by Jeff Corey.
SNRC has a large boathouse (rebuilt after severe gales in 1976 which completely demolished the boathouse and destroyed the club's fleet of boats) The Club rows on a 4 km stretch of the River Great Ouse and races in eights, fours, quads, doubles, pairs and single sculls with a fleet of excellent racing shells and several training boats. The club has produced multiple British champions.
West attended Yale University for his undergraduate degree, majoring in geology and international studies. At Yale, he learned to row under Freshman Coach Justin Moore and Varsity Coach Dave Vogel. He participated in the Varsity Eights version of the Harvard-Yale Boat Race his senior year (1998) but lost to Harvard. As an undergraduate he was a member of the literary society, St. Anthony Hall.
Irena Sonia Bačiulytė (later Vaitkevičienė, born 8 January 1939) is a retired Lithuanian rower who won three European titles in the eights event in 1963, 1965 and 1967; she finished second in 1964 and 1966. In 1962 Bačiulytė graduated from the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and later worked as a rowing coach in Vilnus. Her husband Ričardas Vaitkevičius was also an international rower and rowing coach.
The enneres () is first recorded in 315 BC, when three of their type were included in the fleet of Antigonus Monophthalmus. The presence of "nines" in Antony's fleet at Actium is recorded by Florus and Cassius Dio, although Plutarch makes explicit mention only of "eights" and "tens". The oaring system may have been a modification of the quadrireme, with two teams of five and four oarsmen.
Roslin continues to try to talk to the Hybrid. The Hybrid's vocalizations soon lead the Cylons and humans to realize that the Number Six model known as Natalie is either wounded or dying back aboard the Galactica. This leads to murmurs of distrust among the Cylons. Helo and the Leader of the Eights discuss the Viper towing plan with the Cylon and human pilots.
Harry Leopold DeBaecke (June 9, 1879 – November 6, 1961) was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born to Henry DeBaecke (1830-1910) and Octavia Slembrouck (1846-1889) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had an older sister named Annie. He was part of the American Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights at the 1900 Paris Olympics.
Wells, J (1898). Wadham College: College History, (London). It is from this defeat of Trinity that Wadham claimed its traditional right to wear Cambridge Blue as its boating colors, and to this day the 1st Eight Blazers and Ties continue this tradition. The following year Wadham increased its good run by claiming the Headship in Summer Eights, and then reclaimed the Head six years later in 1856.
Recently the Society organized a rowing event to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Wadham College which included races in eights between alumni and current students. A number of former members continue to row, and there is a growing contingent at Furnivall Sculling Club on the Tideway where plans are afoot to rack a permanent alumni boat for use in races such as the Head of the River.
He was in the winning Tideway Scullers crew in the Head of the River Race for eights, on three occasions. He was also runner up in the Wingfield Sculls in 1968. Massara represented Great Britain from 1969 until 1972 and was captain of the Tideway Scullers from 1969 until 1972. He became a selector for the British Rowing team from 1973 until 1976 (Chairman in 1976).
Closer Than Ever is a musical revue in two acts, with words by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire. The revue contains no dialogue, and Maltby and Shire have described this show as a "bookless book musical." The show was originally conceived by Steven Scott Smith as a one act revue entitled Next Time Now!, which was first given at the nightclub Eighty-Eights.
He also appears on the television series Chuck as the father of Devon Woodcomb. He was in such made-for-television films as The Secret, Hope Ranch, Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door, Pandemic, Sharpshooter and Aces 'N' Eights. Boxleitner was a guest-star on NCIS in the fall of 2010. He played Vice Admiral C. Clifford Chase, a high-ranking Navy official.
Mau-Mau is a card game for 2 to 5 players that is popular in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, the United States, Brazil, Poland, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovenia and the Netherlands. Mau-Mau is a member of the larger Crazy Eights or shedding family, to which the proprietary card game Uno belongs. However Mau-Mau is played with standard French or German-suited playing cards.
Guerin Foster Aust Rowing History In those crews he saw two King's Cup victories and six times placed second. He stroked four of those Victorian eights in King's Cup races.Dunkley- Smith Mercantile profile On 10 March 2018, he became the world's fastest 2k erg time holder, setting a time of 5:35.8, beating Rob Waddell's record of 5:36.6 which was set in 2008.
Donald A. E. Beer (May 31, 1935 - January 25, 1997) was an American competition rower from Massachusetts, and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in eights with the American rowing team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne."1956 Summer Olympics - Melbourne, Australia - Rowing" (Retrieved on May 15, 2008) The eight rowers were Yale undergraduates. Beer was a member of the Class of 1957.
In 1905 he entered the Club races and won the Novice Division. In 1906 Riddy won the Canadian Junior Singles Championship. In 1907 Riddy joined the Toronto Argonauts, rowing in the winning fours boat in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Canadian Championship held in St. Catharines, Ontario. At the same meet he rowed in the winning eights boat in the Junior and Senior Championship.
At 1400m the five lane course is much shorter than the 2000m raced by senior club crews and school eights. Otherwise the shortest schoolboy courses raced in the Sydney season are of 1500m length.Regatta Detail Rowing NSW Unusually, the regatta course includes a dog-leg to stroke side around a pylon at the 1100m mark.Riverview Gold Cup course There is a second pylon at the finish line.
Much attention is given to the termly intercollegiate rowing regattas: Christ Church Regatta, Torpids and Summer Eights. A blue is an award given to those who compete at the university team level in certain sports. As well as traditional sports, there are teams for activities such as Octopush and quidditch. There are two weekly student newspapers: the independent Cherwell and OUSU's The Oxford Student.
The Canadian eights had performed poorly in the heats, finishing last and casting doubts on their ability to win a medal. But in the repechage, they finished second behind the Great Britain crew and in the A final the Canadian boat managed to pull past Great Britain and finish in the silver position behind the German boat who were the reigning three time world champions.
Severin (or the Siphon) is a major antagonist in the Season Nine comic book series. He first appears in a single panel of Season Eights final issue, where he appears "as a guy in John Lennon glasses who looks fairly evil". In Season Nine, artist Georges Jeanty models Severin's appearance on actor James McAvoy as he appears in the film X-Men: First Class.Jeanty, Georges.
Elisabeth Wilhelmina "Ellen" Hogerwerf (born 10 February 1989) is a Dutch rower. She placed eighth in the double sculls at the 2012 Olympics and sixth in the eights at the 2016 Rio Games. She won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships and two silver medals at the European championships in 2015–2016. Hogerwerf has a degree in mechanical engineering from Delft University of Technology.
In Japan, Famitsu gave Sands of Destruction a score of three eights and one seven for a total of 31 out of 40. The game sold 56,000 copies in Japan in its debut week. Elsewhere, the game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Nintendo Power praised the game's battle system and dungeon design but criticized the story and characters as being generic.

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