That is why the Beijing Olympics were staged on 8 August 2008, the eighth day of the eighth month of an eighth year.

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An eighth error was caught and corrected on August 1.

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Fans of New Nordic cuisine, take note: the eighth annual Copenhagen Cooking festival runs 24 August to 2 September, featuring top Danish and Scandinavian chefs, including Rene Redzepi, head chef at Noma, awarded best restaurant in the world two years running.

BBC: Openings: Shanghai, Istanbul, Brooklyn, Copenhagen

On August 5th Chile's CSAV, which runs the world's eighth-largest container fleet, became the first shipper to make a container-derivative trade (with Morgan Stanley).

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