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74th (Yeomanry) Division The British 74th (Yeomanry) Division was an First World War infantry division formed in Egypt in early 1917 from brigades of dismounted yeomanry (Territorial Army cavalry). The division fought in Palestine before moving to France in May, 1918.
74th Academy Awards The 74th Academy Awards ceremony was significant for a number of reasons. It saw the return of the Academy Awards celebrations to Hollywood, after more than forty years away, taking place at the brand new Kodak Theatre.
75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 The Schneider-Danglis mountain gun (also written as Schneider-Dagli, or, in Greek, Schneider-Δαγκλή or Σνάιντερ-Δαγκλή) was Greek-designed, an invention and design by the renowned in Greece Gen. Panagiotis Danglis (Παναγιώτης Δαγκλής), and French otherwise, as all its manufacture (including test construction) was made by the French Schneider company.
75th Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line) 75th Avenue (once known as 75th Avenue–Puritan Avenue) is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line. There are two platforms, westbound and eastbound, with two express tracks in the center for trains that bypass the station.
76 mm gun M1 The 76 mm M1 Gun was a American Forces World War II-era tank gun, which replaced the 75 mm gun on late Medium tank M4s, and was equipped on all 76 mm Gun Motor Carriage M18 tank destroyers. Developmentally, it was a new gun with breech similar to that of the 75 mm M3 Gun.
76-mm divisional gun M1902 76.2 mm divisional gun model 1902 () was a Russian light field gun, utilized in Russo-Japanese War, World War I, Russian Civil War and a number of interwar armed conflicts with participants from the former Russian Empire (Soviet Union, Poland, Finland, etc).
76-mm divisional gun M1936 (F-22) 76-mm divisional gun model 1936 (F-22) was a Soviet divisional semi-universal gun, adopted for the Red Army service in 1936. This gun was used in conflicts between USSR and Japan on the Far East, in the Winter War and in the Great Patriotic War.
76-mm divisional gun M1939 (USV) 76-mm divisional gun model 1939 (F-22 USV or USV) (Russian: 76-мм дивизионная пушка образца 1939 года (Ф-22 УСВ or УСВ)) was Soviet 76.2-mm divisional gun, adopted for the Red Army service in 1939 and utilized in Great Patriotic War.
764-HERO 764-HERO was an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington, signed to Up Records. The band's name, suggested by a friend, is taken from the Washington State Department of Transportation phone number for reporting HOV lane violators and early work===
76th Academy Awards The big contenders for the 76th Academy Awards (for the best achievement in film in 2003) included The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Lost in Translation, and in the highly competitive Best Actor category, strong work from Johnny Depp, Sean Penn and Bill Murray.
76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 76th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry ( or 76th OVI) was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment served in the Western Theater, primarily as part of the XV Corps in the Army of the Tennessee.
76th Street (IND Fulton Street Line) 76th Street is an abandoned station on a stub of the IND Fulton Street Line. The station was originally planned to be on a branch of the Fulton Street line that would have went out to Linden Boulevard, continuing under Pitkin Avenue.
77 Sunset Strip 77 Sunset Strip was one of the most popular of the detective series in early television. Created by Roy Huggins and based on the Warner Brothers 1958 TV-movie Girl on the Run, the show ran on ABC television from 1958 to 1964 and won the 1960 Golden Globe Award for best TV series.
770 Eastern Parkway 770 Eastern Parkway, commonly abbreviated to 770 or Seven-seventy is the street address of the central headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch, Hasidic movement, located in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in New York, United States of America.
771 Naval Air Squadron 771 Naval Air Squadron (motto: non nobis solum) of the Fleet Air Arm was formed in 1939 at Lee-on-Solent as a Fleet Requirements Unit flying a variety of fixed wing aircraft. In September 1945 it received the Hoverfly, making 771 the first naval air squadron to operate helicopters, which it used until May 1947.
773d Airlift Squadron The 773d Airlift Squadron is one of the oldest airlift squadrons in existence today. It historically calls itself the "Fleagles" and is assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing (Air Force Reserve Command), Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Vienna, Ohio.
774 ABC Melbourne The radio station 3LO began transmission in October 1924 as Melbourne's second radio station, behind 3AR. The callsign "LO" was taken from London's second radio station, 2LO, which stood for London Orchestra.
777-9311 "777-9311" is the second track and lead single off The Time's second album, What Time Is It?. Recorded for the album at Prince's home studio in May/June 1982, the song was produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince with Morris Day later adding his lead vocals.
77th Grey Cup The 77th Grey Cup was held at the Skydome in Toronto at the end of the 1989 CFL season, between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Roughriders beat the heavily-favoured Tiger-Cats 43-40 on the strength of a last-minute drive capped by a field goal by placekicker Dave Ridgway in what is often described as the greatest Grey Cup game of all time.
77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders) The 77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders) was a Highland Scots Regiment raised under Major Archibald Montgomerie, son of the Earl of Eglington. It was originally raised as the "First Highland Battalion" in 1757, around Stirling, Scotland, with thirteen companies.
77th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) 77th Street is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the train at all times and is located at 77th Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with a north exit at 76th Street.
77th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) 77th Street (also known as 77th Street–Lenox Hill Hospital) is a local station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 77th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it is served by the train (all times), and by the train (late nights).
78 Derngate 78 Derngate is a Grade II* listed Georgian house in the centre of Northampton, England. It's noted for its interior, which was extensively redeveloped in 1916 and 1917 by noted architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh for businessman Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke.
78 Saab 78 Saab is an Australian rock band, comprising Ben Nash (guitar, vocals), Jake Andrews (lead guitar), Garth Tregillgas (bass) and Nicholai Danko (drums). The band compare themselves to Neil Young, REM and The Rolling Stones as well as Australian bands Died Pretty and The Church http://www.
78th Fraser Highlanders The 78th Fraser Highlanders, more properly the 78th Regiment, Second Highland Battalion of Foot was a British military unit raised in Scotland in 1757, to fight in the French and Indian War. The regiment fought at the capture of Louisbourg in 1758, at the battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, at the capture of Montreal in 1760 and at the capture of St.
78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, also known as The Scottish Lion - 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, is a pipe band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by the regiment of the same name, the Frasers became the first non-Scottish band to win the World Pipe Band Championships, in the summer of 1987.
78th Infantry Division (Germany) The 78th Infantry Division was raised in August 1939. It was stationed in France for occupation duties from the summer of 1940 through the spring of 1941, and then transferred east to participate in Opeation Barbarossa with Army Group Center.
79 Group The 79 Group was an internal faction within the Scottish National Party (SNP), formed in the aftermath of the 1979 UK general election. The SNP had polled poorly at the election and this prompted a period of internal questioning by many SNP members about the direction the party should take.
79896 Billhaley 79896 Billhaley is a Main Belt asteroid previously designated which in February 2006 was renamed in honor of rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley. The new designation commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of the acclaimed musician in February 1981.
79th Academy Awards The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film for 2006, is scheduled to be held on February 25 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. Ellen DeGeneres is slated to host the ceremony for the first time.
79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) The 79th Armoured Division was a specialist British Army armoured unit formed as part of the preparations for the Normandy invasion of 6 June 1944. The unit comprised armoured vehicles modified for specialist roles, intended to assist with the landing phase of the operation.
79th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery The 79th LAA Battery was an independent Territorial Army unit of the Royal Artillery of the British Army. It was originally trained to defend key installations in the area of Walton on Thames, including water reservoirs supplying London.
79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers) The 79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, also known as the Liverpool Blues. The Royal Liverpool Volunteers was the second of three regiments numbered the 79th.
79th Street (BMT West End Line) 79th Street is a local station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway, located in Brooklyn at the intersection of 79th Street and New Utrecht Avenue. It is served by the train (all times), and by the train rush hours.
79th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) 79th Street is a station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 79th Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, it is served by the train (all times), and by the train (late nights).
7:00AM-8:00AM (24 season 5) 7:00AM-8:00AM is the Emmy-awarding winning first episode of the drama series 24's fifth season two-part season premiere that first aired on on January 15, 2006. 7:00AM-8:00AM is set 18 months after the fourth season, beginning with a recap of that season's finale.
7:84 7:84 is a Scottish left-wing agitprop theatre group, which has produced pro-independence work. The name comes from a statistic, published in The Economist in 1966, that 7% of the population of the UK owned 84% of the state's wealth.
7DAYS 7DAYS is an English language newspaper published from Dubai, United Arab Emirates with a circulation of 75,000 copies per day. Launched in December 2004 as a weekly, it is the UAE's first (now daily) tabloid newspaper, and is well-known for its irreverent style.
7G-Tronic 7G-TRONIC is Mercedes-Benz' trademark name for its seven-speed automatic transmission. This fifth-generation transmission was introduced in the Fall of 2003 on 8-cylinder models, and was the first seven-speed automatic transmission ever used on a production vehicle.
7k Alternative rock group from Huntington Beach, California founded in 2001, whose song Who Dies First is featured on the soundtrack of the recently-released horror movie "Blood and Guts" [Current members include lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Jeff Garvin, lead guitarist David Neil Black, bassist Carlos Rivera, Jr., and drummer Corey Manske.
7L & Esoteric 7L & Esoteric (7LES) formed in 1992 when Esoteric (known at the time as Seamus the God Awful) DJed a hip hop show at a college radio station north of Boston. 7L, a DJ and producer who listened to the show, contacted Esoteric in the interest of collaborating.
7Q5 Among the Dead Sea scrolls, 7Q5 is the designation for a papyrus fragment discovered in Cave 7 of the Qumran community. The significance of this fragment is derived from an argument made by José O’Callaghan in his work ¿Papiros neotestamentarios en la cueva 7 de Qumrân?
7stanes The 7stanes are seven mountain biking centres spanning the south of Scotland, from the heart of the Scottish Borders to Dumfries and Galloway. They are on Forestry Commission land and along with schemes in Wales are regarded as the benchmark by which further trails in the UK should be developed.
7Search 7Search is an online advertising network and was one of the first search engines to use pay-per-click sponsored links. Today 7Search's traffic primarily comes through affiliate partnerships and by publishing its sponsored links and search results on other Web sites; search engines, directories, and web portals.
7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) Composed of regular British Army units, the famous "Desert Rats" division was originally formed as the Mobile Division or Mobile Force (Egypt) and was one of two training commands used by the British before World War II to develop armoured warfare techniques. During this time the first divisional commander was the acclaimed tank theorist Major General Sir Percy Hobart.
7th Avenue (album) 7th Avenue is the first album by rapper KJ-52, and his only release before signing to BEC Recordings. The album notably contains little to no pop influence, instead favoring old school hip hop, and KJ-52 has a more conventional flow here than in his BEC Recordings work, in which it is very simplistic.
7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment The 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7 RAR) was a regular infantry battalion of the Australian Army. The battalion was formed in September 1965 at Puckapunyal in Victoria during the expansion of the regular infantry that occurred because of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
7th Bomb Wing The 7th Bomb Wing (7 BW) is the premier operational B-1B Lancer unit in the United States Air Force, based at Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas. The 7 BW is part of the Twelfth Air Force, Air Combat Command, and is is the host unit at Dyess Air Force Base; the other major unit is the 317th Airlift Group, Air Mobility Command.
7th Canadian Parliament The 7th Canadian Parliament was in session from April 29, 1891 until April 24, 1896. The membership was set by the 1891 federal election on March 5, 1891, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1896 election.
7th Congress of the Philippines The Seventh Congress of the Philippines was the meeting of the legislature of the Republic of the Philippines, composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives from January 26, 1970 until it was effectively dissolved with the declaration of martial law on September 23, 1972 by Pres. Ferdinand Marcos.
7th Connecticut Regiment The 7th Connecticut Regiment also known as 19th Continental Regiment was raised on September 16, 1776 at New Milford, Connecticut. The regiment would see action in the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown and the Battle of Monmouth.
7th Continental Regiment The 7th Continental Regiment was raised April 23, 1775 as a Massachusetts militia Regiment at Cambridge, Massachusetts under Colonel William Prescott. The regiment would join the Continental Army in June of 1775.
7th Daytime Emmy Awards The 7th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1980 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1979). The seventh awards included a cameo appearance category, giving an award to a memorable soap cameo.
7th Division (Australia) The 7th Division of the Australian Army was formed to serve in World War II, as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF). The 7th Division was raised from regular army units and new, all-volunteer infantry brigades, from April 1940 onwards.
7th Floor Crew The 7th Floor Crew is an underground rap group out of Coral Gables, Florida, in the United States. The group gained substantial notoriety when it was reported that the group includes some University of Miami football players.
7th Heaven (band) Seventh Heaven, is the title of international producer Alan Stott, who has produced numerous tracks as an individual and also collaborated with big producers/writers in the dance scene. Alan has had numerous record signings (pop and dance related) on an international level, and recently initiated his own publishing company and record label (2005/2006) which is under the name Amor Music, this publishes music worldwide on various formats with a niche list of producers signed as a part.
7th Infantry Brigade (Guards) The 7th Infantry Brigade (Guards) was a British Army formation in the Second World War , it served with the British 3rd Infantry Division in France and Belgium 1940. On 15th September 1941 it was converted to the Guards Support Group .
7th Infantry Division (United States) The 7th Infantry Division (Light), nicknamed Lightfighters and sometimes referred to as the "The Bayonet Division" is a reserve combat division of the United States Army currently made up of National Guard units. It has its base of operations at Fort Carson, Colorado.
7th millennium BC During the 7th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from Anatolia to the Balkans. World population is essentially stable at around 5 million people, living mostly widely scattered across the globe in small hunting-gathering tribes.
7th millennium BC in North American history The 7th millennium BC in North American history provides a time line of events occurring within the present political boundaries of United States (including territories) from 7000 BC through 6001 BC in the Gregorian calendar. Although this time line segment may include some European or other world events that profoundly influenced later American life, it focuses on developments within Native American (and Polynesian) communities.
7th Maryland Regiment The 7th Maryland Regiment was authorized on September 16, 1776, for service with the Continental Army and was assigned on December 27, 1776. The regiment was composed of eight companies of [organized from Frederick] and [[Baltimore County, Maryland|Baltimore counties of the colony of Maryland.
7th Muslim Brigade 7th Muslim Brigade (Bosnian: El MudĹľahid) was a brigade of Mujahideen volunteers that included as its core El Mujahid - foreign Arab and other fighters from various Islamic countries that fought during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. During the Yugoslav wars, Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) forces received financial and military aid from Islamic countries.
7th Ohio Infantry The 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 7th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the East in a number of campaigns and battles with the Army of Virginia and the Army of the Potomac, and was then transferred to the Western Theater where it joined the Army of the Cumberland besieged at Chattanooga.
7th Pennsylvania Regiment The 7th Pennsylvania Regiment was raised January 4, 1776 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania for service with the Continental Army. The regiment would see action during the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Monmouth and the Battle of Springfield.
7th Ring Road Currently only present in the minds of urban projectors, it is likely that Beijing's 7th Ring Road will be built as the city's first expressway ring road which transcends beyond the boundaries of Beijing municipality.
7th Special Operations Squadron The 7th Special Operations Squadron is an active unit within the 352d Special Operations Group (352 SOG), United States Air Force, United States European Command, and is currently based at Royal Air Force base RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, eastern England.
7th Street Entry The 7th Street Entry is a smaller venue attached to the side of the infamous First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "The Entry", as it is called, is a venue where smaller and lesser known bands will play (more popular bands play the First Avenue).
7th United States Congress The Seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1801 to March 3 1803, during the first two years of the first administration of U.
7th United States Congress - Membership Changes The Seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1801 to March 3 1803, during the first two years of the first administration of U.
7th United States Congress - Political Parties The Seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1801 to March 3 1803, during the first two years of the first administration of U.
7th United States Congress - State Delegations The Seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1801 to March 3 1803, during the first two years of the first administration of U.
7th Vermont Infantry The 7th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry (or 7th VVI) was a three years' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the Western Theater, predominantly in Louisiana and Florida, from February 1862 to March 1866.
7th Virginia Regiment The 7th Virginia Regiment was raised on January 11, 1776 at Gloucester, Virginia for service with the Continental Army. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown (after which it wintered at Valley Forge), Battle of Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston.
7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. For much of the war, it was a part of the famed "Gibraltar Brigade" in the Army of the Potomac.
7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 7th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade in the Army of the Potomac.
7th Wonder 7th Wonder (occasionally rendered as Seventh Wonder) was the Maltese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in English by Ira Losco. The song was composed by Philip Vella and written by Gerard James Borg.
7zX 7zX is a file archiver for Mac OS X that handles the 7z archive file format. It has probably been the first utility to support the 7z format on the Macintosh, being distributed to the public a few weeks after the release of the 7-Zip Command Line Interface for POSIX systems, which it still uses as the default compression/decompression engine.
8 (Belfast) HAA Regiment Royal Artillery The 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Supplementary Reserve), was founded in the wake of the Munich crisis, and recruited mainly in the spring of 1939 from young men of the City and District of Belfast. The regiment was mobilised and at action stations, manning its guns in readiness to defend Belfast, before war was declared on September 3, 1939.
8 Ball Bunny 8 Ball Bunny is a Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese where Bugs Bunny travels around the world with a penguin to take him back home to the South Pole. It was released theatrically on July 8, 1950.
8 Bit Weapon 8 Bit Weapon is a chiptune music band created by Seth Sternberger. 8 Bit Weapons' instrument set is primarily composed of old 8-bit computers such as the Commodore Vic-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and the Apple II, as well as game consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Atari 2600, and an Intellivision synthesizer.
8 Days (magazine) 8 Days is a weekly Singaporean magazine published by MediaCorp's publishing arm MediaCorp Publishing, aimed mainly at the teenage market. The magazine is predominantly about the latest celebrity gossip and television news as well as television synopsis for every episode, with small sections featuring other subjects.
8 Diagrams 8 Diagrams is the upcoming album by Hip Hop group Wu-Tang Clan, scheduled for release in Summer 2007 through Street Records Corporation. The album's title is derived from the Kung Fu film Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter.
8 mm video format The 8 mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats for the NTSC and PAL/SECAM television systems. These are the original Video8 format and its improved successor Hi8 (both analog), as well as a more recent digital format known as Digital8.
8 Man 8 Man (8マン) or Eightman (エイトマン) is a fictional manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by writer Kazumasa Hirai and artist Jiro Kuwata. He is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, predating even Kamen Rider (the same year, Shotaro Ishinomori created Cyborg 009), and was supposedly the inspiration for RoboCop.
8 Mile 8 Mile is the 2002 Academy Award-winning film starring Marshall "Eminem" Mathers as the young white rapper Jimmy Smith Jr. Eight Mile Road is a road which forms the boundary between predominantly African American Detroit, Michigan and the city's mostly white northern suburbs.
8 Mile Corner 8 Mile Corner is a monument in the Cimarron National Grassland dedicated to the tri-point (a place where three states meet) of Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma. The landmark is a windmill with the three states names on the blades.
8 Mile Road 8 Mile Road forms the boundary between the city of Detroit, Michigan (and Wayne County) and Detroit's northern suburbs in Oakland and Macomb Counties. Residents of Detroit, and, as a whole, the State of Michigan, refer to this road (and other "mile" roads) as "Eight Mile", or "Eight" (as in 8 and Woodward).
8 Million Ways to Die 8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 film, the last to be directed by Hal Ashby. The film was the first attempt to adapt the popular Matt Scuder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen and Block also wrote the screenplay with Oliver Stone.
8 Soothing Songs for Rut 8 Soothing Songs For Rut is the second studio album by the Norwegian rock band Motorpsycho, then still tinged in hard rock and alternative metal. It was first released as vinyl-only-mini-album called "Soothe" but later re-released on CD with two additional tracks from the single "3 Songs For Rut".
8 x 56 mmR The 8x56R cartridge was used by Austria-Hungary. Originally created for the Steyr-Solothurn light machine gun as the M30, it was later adopted for use in rifles in 1931 as the M31 to replace the 8 x 50 mmR cartridge.
8-Aminoquinoline The 8-aminoquinoline family of drugs contains three members, primaquine, tafenoquine and pamaquine and are used in the treatment of malaria. They may be used to eradicate malaria hypnozoites from the liver and have both been used for malaria prophylaxis.
8-bit clean Eight-bit clean describes a computer system that correctly handles 8-bit character sets, such as the ISO 8859 series and the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. Up to the early 1990s, programs and communications systems assumed that all characters would be represented as numbers between 0 and 127 (7 bits), leaving the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity or flag bit.
8-bit color 8-bit color graphics is a method of storing image information in a computer's memory or in an image file, such that each pixel is represented by one 8-bit byte. The maximum number of colors that can be displayed at any one time is 256.
8-Bit Theater 8-Bit Theater (also spelled 8-Bit Theatre) is a popular" Breaking the stereotype that comics must be hand-drawn, Anez inspired an explosion of webcomics using video games sprites, including one of the most popular and successful webcomics currently running, 8-bit Theater." "An in-depth look at the business viaibility of webcomics.
8-cell stage joel is crazy but sam thatd a mouth full The 8-cell stage is a period in embryonic development when the conceptus has undergone 3 cleavages from a single cell, resulting in 8 cells. In some mammals, it is at this stage of development that the individual cells begin to adhere tightly, a process called compaction.
8-Eyed Spy 8-Eyed Spy was an early 1980s No Wave band featuring Lydia Lunch, Jim Sclavunos, and George Scott III. They covered the Swamp rock classic Run Through The Jungle by Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit.
8-Pass Charlie 8-Pass Charlie was an unknown Pakistani B-57 bomber pilot who raided Adampur airbase a number of times during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 The Class of ’65 The Indian Express. Posted online July 30, 2006 URL accessed on 24 Sep 2006
8-track cartridge The 8-track cartridge is a magnetic tape technology for audio storage, popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. The 8-track was created by Bill Lear in 1964 at the Lear Jet Corporation, after he heard Earl "Madman" Muntz's 1962, 4-track tape system, called Stereo-Pak.
8.8 cm PaK 43 The PaK 43 (Panzerabwehrkanone 43) was a German 88 mm anti-tank gun developed from the famous 88 mm anti-aircraft gun and used during the Second World War. It was the most powerful anti-tank gun of the Wehrmacht to see service in significant numbers.
80 class The Australian 80 class locomotives were the first class to be built "as a whole" by Commonwealth Engineering Granville, still based on an Alco design. These units were a follow on for the 442 class units, which were mostly supplied by A.

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