Miletus greatly surpassed all of the other Ionian cities in its maritime ventures and commerce, founding its first colonies in the eighth century B.
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.
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.
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.
Slavonic and Albanian peoples have lived side by side in Kosovo since the eighth century.
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.
As a proportion of the population, more people were killed during the An Lushan rebellion in eighth-century China, for example, or by the Thirty Years War in 17th-century central Europe.
"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).
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.
The talk then turned to eighth-century Buddhism not a common topic in the global motor trade.
Many of the love poems of the eighth-century Abu Nuwas in Baghdad, and of other Persian and Urdu poets, were addressed to boys.
He soon became the eighth batsman in Test history to score 9, 000 runs, but a double century remained elusive.
In voting to kill a tradition that was at the center of the ancient Greek Olympics from the eighth century B.
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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