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English eight, from Old English eahta, æhta, Proto-Germanic *ahto is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓ(w)-, and as such cognate with Greek ὀκτώ and Latin octo-, both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary.
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, [1] big ones and little ones, [2] or rarely highs and lows [3]) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls). The object balls include ...
The Magic 8 Ball is a plastic sphere, made to look like an oversized eight ball, that is used for fortune-telling or seeking advice. It was invented in 1946 by Albert C. Carter and Abe Bookman and is manufactured by Mattel . [ 1 ]
8, the X-SAMPA symbol for the close-mid central rounded vowel, equivalent to the IPA symbol ɵ 8, a common substitute for the ou-ligature ȣ 8, a letter in the Old Italic script (𐌚) with the value /f/
The 8 bore (Commonwealth English), also known as the 8 gauge (American English), is an obsolete caliber used commonly in the 19th-century black-powder firearms for hunting large dangerous game. Design
Display in Deadwood, South Dakota with the dead man's hand (here given as A♠ A♣ 8♠ 8♣ 9♦). What is currently considered the dead man's hand card combination received its notoriety from a legend that it was the five-card stud or five-card draw hand, held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall on August 2, 1876, in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon, Deadwood ...
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The term "Gang of Eight" gained wide use in coverage of the controversial warrantless surveillance of American citizens by the National Security Agency under the George W. Bush administration, in the context that no members of Congress other than the Gang of Eight were informed of the program, and they were forbidden to disseminate knowledge of the program to other members of Congress.