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3 unusual facts about Eights


Eights

James Eights (1798–1882), American physician, scientist, and artist

Eighty-eights

Diaethria, a genus of butterflies collectively known as "the Eighty-eights"

Callicore, a genus with a number of species whose common names also include "Eighty-eight"


Aces 'N' Eights

Aces 'N' Eights is a 2008 action/adventure western television movie from RHI Entertainment, starring Casper Van Dien, Bruce Boxleitner and Ernest Borgnine.

Cloister Inn

Notable alumni include Ian Caldwell, author of the bestselling novel The Rule of Four, which was set at Princeton and includes several scenes that take place at Cloister; as well as Chris Ahrens, gold medalist in the Men's Eights event while Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Craits

It was invented in the 1970s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is derived from Crazy Eights; in fact, the name Craits is derived from Crazy Eights itself.

Georges Irat

The company turned to producing Lycoming powered models in 1929, both sixes and eights; this was also the year in which they moved from Chatou to Neuilly.

Hated in the Nation

According to Board's liner notes for Allin's posthumous studio album Brutality and Bloodshed for All (1993), Allin arrived at the studio carrying a big bottle of Jim Beam whiskey that was already about seven-eights empty, and in a rather visibly disheveled condition from not having bathed or cut his hair in quite some time.

Ioana Olteanu

Ioana Olteanu (born 25 February 1966 in Drăcșenei, Teleorman) is a Romanian rower who has won three Olympic medals in the eights competition.

Larry Van Kriedt

Bands Van Kriedt was a member of include: The Eighty Eights, Non Stop Dancers, Def FX, Afram, The LPs, and The Larry Van Kriedt Quartet.

Meyer Little Toot

The aircraft was named Little Toot after a character that liked doing figure eights in a Disney movie.

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa

However, da Rosa excelled off the Pro Tour, with two Grand Prix top eights and a win at the Brazilian national championship.

Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

The coxed eights was one of the competitions in the Rowing at the 1900 Summer Olympics events in Paris.

Rowing at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

The men's eights event was part of the rowing programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's eights

Men's Eights was an event in Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

Rüdiger Henning

Henning won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, as a member of the rowing team from West Germany.

Trinity College Boat Club

Another nineteen years passed with rowing at Trinity growing in its importance within the college, until finally during the Eights in 1861, Trinity bumped University College, Oxford, BNC, Exeter and finally Balliol College to go Head of the River.

Walkerton, Ontario

The town is also home town to Laryssa Biesenthal who currently has six world championship medals, an Olympic silver medal as a member of the quad sculls crew in 1996 and the women's eights in 2000 where she received bronze.


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