8 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

• The ordinal adjective is octaval or octavary.
• The distributive adjective is octonary.
• Eight babies delivered in one birth are called octuplets. The first set of eight surviving babies, the Chukwu octuplets, were born in 1998
• October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar; currently August is the eighth month
• A double quatrefoil has eight foils used as the cadency mark of a ninth son.
• A duke's coronet, worn by a British or Irish duke, has eight conventional strawberry leaves upon the rim of the circlet.
• Eight extra facets are sometimes added around the culet at the lower pyramid of a brilliant diamond.
• I-8 is the designation of the US interstate highway that runs from San Diego, California to Casa Grande, Arizona
• Eight is the number of categories the VALS system uses to classify consumer groups, and the number of categories used by Fallon-McElligott's system for teen marketing
• War of the Eight Princes, a war in Chinese history
• "88" is the abbreviated terminology used by the Aryan Brotherhood for the Nazi salute, "Heil Hitler" – "H" being the eighth letter of the alphabet, twice
• The silver piece of eight was coined in the Spanish Empire and moved trade around the world. Examples include the Carolus dollar, cob and cut. A doubloon was worth 8 gold escudos or 16 pieces of eight.
• Eight elementary grades are included in the eight-four plan of school organization (along with four secondary grades).
• 8 is the official number of the Bishop James Madison Society, a secret society at the College of William & Mary.
• There are Eight Principles of Yong in Chinese calligraphy
• 8vo is shorthand for "octavo", a book size.
• The Eight - Eight American painters who exhibited together only once in 1908 in New York City. They joined this exhibition to oppose traditions upheld by the National Academy and help advance modernism in the United States. Five of the eight painters were associated with the Ashcan School: Robert Henri (1865–1929), George Luks (1867–1933), William Glackens (1870–1938), John Sloan (1871–1951), and Everett Shinn (1876–1953), along with Maurice Prendergast (1859–1924), Ernest Lawson (1873–1939), and Arthur Bowen Davies (1862–1928).
• Astadiggajas is the collective title given to the eight Telugu poets in the court of the emperor Sri Krishnadevaraya who ruled the Vijayanagara Empire from 1509 until his death in 1529.
• A stop sign has eight sides.
• In mythology, the horse of the Norse god Odin has eight legs and is called Sleipnir.
• Proposition 8, the ballot measure banning same-sex marriage in California.
• No H8 campaign in protest of Proposition 8 in California.