• Slavonic and Albanian peoples have lived side by side in Kosovo since the eighth century.

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  • He shared an opening stand of 193 with Suppiah - their eighth century stand of the season.

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  • In voting to kill a tradition that was at the center of the ancient Greek Olympics from the eighth century B.

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  • Trescothick, already the country's leading run scorer took his Championship tally for the season to 1, 745, hitting his eighth century of the summer.

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  • Miletus greatly surpassed all of the other Ionian cities in its maritime ventures and commerce, founding its first colonies in the eighth century B.

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  • The college is home to the Book of Kells, an eighth century set of gospels created by the monks of the Abbey of Kells in County Meath.

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  • Romulus did not create Rome out of nothing, he grants, but it is possible that there was a single day, around the middle of the eighth century B.

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  • The Christian holiday of All Hallows' Eve, celebrated on the same date, was originally celebrated on May 13, and was moved to its present date by Gregory III in the eighth century.

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  • Locals claim that the territory of Asturias is the one and only true Spain, since it was the only part of the country that resisted Moorish occupation after the Islamic conquest of the eighth century.

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  • According to legend, travelling performers of "bugaku, " the ritual dance and music of the imperial palace, visited Hachimantai Town in northern Japan in the early eighth century, during the reconstruction of Dainichido, the shrine pavilion.

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  • Muslim rulers, from the Abbasids in the eighth century to the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and the Ottomans, developed the institution of military slavery to lessen nepotism and the internal conflicts created by tribal loyalties.

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  • "Beowulf, " the original action-adventure yarn -- it's the oldest epic narrative verse written in the English language, dating back to the eighth century -- has been spiked with enough risque business and healthy splatterings of gore to make it unsuitable for kids (the rating is PG-13).

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  • But the Essex left-hander admitted he was disappointed not to convert his promising start into his eighth Test century.

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  • With three figures on the horizon, Cook's lack of footwork denied him an opportunity to score his eighth Test century when he was superbly caught by Kallis off Nel for 76.

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  • Rather, he wants us to engage with a dual problem of aesthetics and faith: a problem which came to a head in the dispute among eighth- and ninth-century Christians known as the iconoclastic controversy, but which can be readily generalised.

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  • The department hopes to enroll about 360 first- through third-graders in what it's calling the Early Literacy Skills Camp and 360 sixth- through eighth-graders in the 21st Century Skills Camp, according to the outlines of the program issued this week by the department.

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  • The centre of world economic and commercial activity from about the eighth and ninth centuries until around the dawn of the 18th century was the area encompassed by the Islamic empires, India, Southeast Asia and the coastal areas of China.

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  • He soon became the eighth batsman in Test history to score 9, 000 runs, but a double century remained elusive.

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  • He reached a third Test century when he drove his 197th delivery from Dwayne Bravo through mid-on for an eighth boundary.

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  • Ervine brought up his century off 169 balls, including 15 fours and a six, and, after sharing 48 for the eighth wicket with Herath, saw the hosts to 392-8 at lunch.

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