This article is about the year 8. For other uses of 8, see 8 (number). 8 - Events. Ovid is banished to the Black Sea. Vipsania Julia banished The Ara Pacis ("altar to peace") is built by Augustus. Marcus Furius Camillus, Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus, suff. Lucius Apronius become Roman Consuls Vonones I becomes king of Parthia. Start of Chushi era of the Chinese Han Dynasty Wang Mang seizes power in China and establishes the short-live ...

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OS/8 supported a simple, flat file system on a variety of mass storage devices including: TU56 DECtapes DF32 32KB fixed-head disks RF08 256KB fixed-head disks RK01/02/03/04/05 cartridge disk drives RX01/02 floppy diskette drives Filenames on the PDP-8 took the form of FFFFFF.XX where "F" represents an uppercase, alphanumeric character of the filename and "X" represents an upper-case, alphanumeric character of the extension (filetype). Assembly-language sources used the extension ".PA"; saved core-images (ex ...

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November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. November 8 - Events. 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god. 1520 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 persons. 1576 - Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent - The States ...

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2C-T-8 is a psychedelic phenethylamine first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin, sometimes used as an entheogen. 2C-T-8 - Chemistry. The full name of the chemical is 2,5-dimethoxy-4-cyclopropylmethylthiophenethylamine. The compound is reported to have a bad taste and smell. 2C-T-8 - Effects. In his book PIHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved), Shulgin lists the dosage range as 30 to 50 mg. 2C-T-8 is generally taken orally, and effects typically last 10 to 15 ...

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >> List of numbers -- Integers 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 >> octo-/oct- (from Latin) 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. The SI prefix for 10008 is yotta (Y), and for its reciprocal yocto (y). 8 number - In mathematics. It is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, and 4. Eight is a power of two, being 23, or two cubed. 8 ...

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June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. June 8 - Events. 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date). 793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known 1405 - First execution in England of a Bishop (Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York) by a King (Henry IV) 1624 - An earth ...

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In computer architecture, 8-bit is an adjective used to describe integers, memory addresses or other data units that are at most 8 bits (1 octet) wide, or to describe CPU and ALU architectures based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. 8-bit CPUs normally use an 8-bit data bus and a 16-bit address bus which means that their address space is limited to 64 kilobytes; this is not a "natural l ...

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8 Flora (flor'-a) is a large, bright main belt asteroid. 8 Flora - Discovery and naming. Flora was discovered by J. R. Hind on October 18, 1847. It was his second asteroid discovery after 7 Iris. The name Flora was proposed by John Herschel, from Flora, the Latin goddess of flowers and gardens, wife of Zephyrus (the personnification of the West wind), mother of Spring, and whose Greek equivalent is Chloris (who has her own asteroid, 410 Chloris). 8 Flora - Characteristics ...

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August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. August 8 - Events. 1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned in the town of Chittoor in the present-day state of Andhra Pradesh, India. His accession marks the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire after a period of internal strife. 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage. 1588 - Battle of Gravelines ...

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Wizardry 8 is the 8th title in the Wizardry series of computer role playing games by Sir-Tech. It is also the 3rd in the Dark Savant trilogy, which includes Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge and Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant. It was published in 2001 by Sir-tech Software, Inc. Wizardry 8 is unusual in that it does not have a second title—i.e. it is not named Wizardry 8: Ascension. Wizardry 8 - Development. Wizardry 8 was published nine years a ...

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April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). There are 267 days remaining in the year. April 8 - Events. 217 - Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus 1203 - Congress in Bilino Polje, where Ban Kulin officially declared his allegiance to the Catholic Church and denounced the heresy. 1730 - Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.Including:

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8 Mile is a movie starring Eminem (Marshall Mathers) as the young white rapper Jimmy Smith Jr. Eight Mile Road is a road which forms the boundary between predominantly-African American Detroit, Michigan, United States and the city's mostly white northern suburbs. The term "8 Mile" therefore represents a barrier that is difficult to cross. Besides Mathers, the movie stars Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Omar Benson Miller, Eugene Byrd, Michael Shannon, Evan Jones, Chloe Greenfield, Taryn Manning and De'Angelo ...

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Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to leave Earth orbit and to orbit around the Moon. It was also the first manned launch of the Saturn V rocket. NASA prepared for the mission in only four months. The hardware involved had only been used a few times—the Saturn V had launched only twice before, and the Apollo spacecraft had only just finished its first manned m ...

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Luyten 726-8 is a binary star system that is one of Earth's nearest neighbors. One of its components is the well-known flare star UV Ceti (Luyten 726-8 B). Although UV Ceti was not the first flare star discovered, it is the most prominent example of such a star, and in fact flare stars are sometimes called "UV Ceti variables". It goes through fairly extreme changes of brightness: for instance, in 1952, its brightness increased by 75 times in only 20 seco ...

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UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. It is able to represent any universal character in the Unicode standard, yet is backwards compatible with ASCII. For this reason, it is steadily becoming the preferred encoding for email, web pages, and other places characters are stored or streamed. UTF-8 uses one to four bytes (strictly, octets) per character, depending on the Unicode symbol. For example, only one byte is needed to encode the 1 ...

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The PDP-8 did not implement any general-purpose stack so there was no stack upon which to store the PC, AC, or any other context when a subroutine was called or an interrupt occurred. Instead, the updated PC simply replaced the first word of the targeted subroutine. An indirect JMP instruction was then used to exit from the subroutine. For example, here is "Hello, World!" re-written to use a subroutine: *200 / Set assembly origin (load address) HELLO, CLA CLL / Clear the AC and the Link bit ...

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The 8-track cartridge is a now-obsolete audio storage magnetic tape cartridge technology, popular from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The 8-track was created by Bill Lear in 1964 at Lear Inc. (the company of Lear Jet fame), after he heard Earl "Madman" Muntz's 1962 Stereo-Pak 4-track stereo tape system, which had been inspired in turn by the 1959 Fidelipac 3-track tape cartridge system used by radio broadcasters for commercials and jingles. The original format for magnetic tape sound reproduction was reel-to-reel audio tape ...

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Gemini 8 - Backup crew. Charles Conrad, Jr., Command Pilot Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Pilot ...

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8 number - In astronomy. Messier object M8, a magnitude 5.0 nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. The New General Catalogue object NGC 8, a double star in the constellation Pegasus The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on 2579 BCE March 7 and ended on 1281 BCE April 26. The duration of Saros series 8 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 solar eclipses. ...

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