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Eighth Dynasty of Egypt

The Eighth Dynasty of Egypt (Dynasty VIII) was a line of about 18 short-reigning kings resident near Memphis around 2150–2118 BCE, at the close of Egypt's Old Kingdom.

Eighth generation of video game consoles

Eighth generation of video game consoles: Wii U (2012), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (2013), plus 3DS, Vita, and the Switch sometimes classed here. AMD Jaguar x86 CPUs, GDDR5 vs DDR3+ESRAM, PS4 won with 117M+ units vs 58M Xbox One and 13.56M Wii U.

Eighth grade

Eighth grade is the eighth year of formal schooling in grade-numbered systems such as the US and Canada, for students aged 12 to 14, typically the top middle school year, a TIMSS and NAEP assessment point, and the focus of grade-configuration research.

Eighth Grade (film)

Eighth Grade (2018) is Bo Burnham's feature directorial debut, an A24 comedy-drama starring Elsie Fisher as anxious 13-year-old vlogger Kayla Day; released July 13, 2018, 94 minutes, R-rated, $2 million budget, 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Eighth note

Eighth note (quaver): a musical note worth half a quarter note, one eighth of a whole note, half a beat in 4/4; written as a filled notehead with stem and one flag or beam, with a matching eighth rest.

Eighth Route Army

The Eighth Route Army (八路军) was the name taken by the Chinese Red Army when reorganized into the National Revolutionary Army in August 1937, under commander Zhu De.

Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India

Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India (आठवीं अनुसूची): the constitutional list of 22 scheduled languages under Articles 344(1) and 351, expanded from 14 by the 1967, 1992, and 2003 amendments, with no fixed inclusion criteria and 38 pending demands.

Eighth Wonder of the World

The Eighth Wonder of the World is an unofficial, hyperbolic title for any site, person, or invention compared to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; no body such as UNESCO designates one, and claimants range from the Terracotta Army to King Kong.

Eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly

The 80th session of the UN General Assembly (2025–2026), led by President Annalena Baerbock of Germany, theme "Better Together," opened 9 September 2025, marking the UN's 80th anniversary.

Eighty Mile Beach

Eighty Mile Beach, Western Australia: a 220 km coastline and Mandora Salt Marsh Ramsar site (no. 480, listed 1990, 175,487 ha) between Port Hedland and Broome, a major East Asian-Australasian flyway shorebird stop-over supporting up to 500,000 birds.

Eighty three

Eighty three (83) is a Maine, USA four-player partnership trick-taking card game, a Pedro variant with 53 cards including a joker, 83 points per hand, minimum bid 30, and an '83 double' bid worth 166.

Eighty Years' War

Eighty Years' War (Tachtigjarige Oorlog), or Dutch Revolt: 1568–1648 conflict of the Seventeen Provinces against Spanish rule, ending with a divided Low Countries and the independent Dutch Republic in the north.

Eighty-First session of the United Nations General Assembly

Eighty-first session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 81), 8 September 2026 to 7 September 2027, president Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh, theme "Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation", six pillars, general debate from 22 September 2026.

Eighty-Seven Capital

Eighty-Seven Capital is a Menlo Park venture capital firm founded in 2020 by former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie, investing in technology and internet businesses.

Eigin Corona

Eigin Corona is a 200-km-diameter corona on Venus at 5.0°S, 175.0°E, quadrangle v37, named in 1994 after a Celtic fertility goddess; one of 740 cataloged Venusian coronae.

Eihei-ji

Eihei-ji (永平寺), Daihonzan Eihei-ji, is one of two head temples of Sōtō Zen in Japan, founded by Dōgen in 1244 in Fukui Prefecture as Daibutsu-ji, renamed 1246; an active training monastery with about 150 monks and 19 Important Cultural Property buildings.

Eiichi Nakamura (chemist)

Eiichi Nakamura (中村栄一, born 1951 in Tokyo) is a Japanese organic and organometallic chemist at the University of Tokyo, known for iron-catalyzed C–H activation and functionalized fullerenes.

Eiichi Ohtaki

Eiichi Ohtaki (大瀧詠一) was a Japanese singer, songwriter, and producer, a founding member of Happy End whose 1981 album A Long Vacation sold over 2 million copies.

Eiichi Ohtsubo

Eiichi Ohtsubo (大坪 栄一) was a Japanese molecular geneticist known for sequencing bacterial insertion sequences and transposon Tn3, largely at Stony Brook and the University of Tokyo.

Eiichi Saitoh (才藤栄一)

Eiichi Saitoh (才藤栄一, born 1955) is a Japanese rehabilitation medicine physician, Professor Emeritus and former president of Fujita Health University, known for dysphagia research, stroke rehabilitation, and assistive robotics.

Eiichiro Oda (尾田栄一郎)

Eiichiro Oda (尾田栄一郎) is a Japanese manga artist from Kumamoto, creator of One Piece (1997, Weekly Shonen Jump); over 600 million copies, Guinness record for a single-author comic, executive producer of Netflix's live-action series.

Eijaz Khan

Eijaz Khan (born 1975, Hyderabad) is an Indian actor in Hindi TV, films, and web series, known for Kkavyanjali, Kahiin To Hoga, City of Dreams, Jawan, Dhoom Dhaam, 120 Bahadur, and Bigg Boss 14; distinct from filmmaker Ejaz Khan of New York.

Eiji Aonuma (青沼 英二)

Eiji Aonuma (青沼 英二), Nintendo game designer and producer from Nagano prefecture; directed Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Wind Waker, then succeeded Shigeru Miyamoto as Zelda series producer from about 2003.

Eiji Kawashima (川島永嗣)

Eiji Kawashima (川島永嗣), born 1983, Japanese goalkeeper; 95 caps for Japan; 2011 AFC Asian Cup winner; World Cup squads 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022; clubs included Kawasaki Frontale, Standard Liège, FC Metz, Jubilo Iwata.

Eiji Ohtani

Eiji Ohtani (大谷 栄治) is a Japanese high-pressure geophysicist and emeritus professor at Tohoku University, known for pioneering melting experiments on mantle minerals and rocks.

Eiji Saitoh

Eiji Saitoh (齊藤英治) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist and University of Tokyo professor who discovered the inverse spin Hall effect in 2006 and the spin Seebeck effect in 2008.

Eiji Tsuburaya

Eiji Tsuburaya (円谷英二, 1901–1970), born Eiichi Tsumuraya in Sukagawa, Fukushima, was Japan's 'father of tokusatsu': Toho special effects director for Godzilla (1954), inventor of Japan's first screen process, and founder of Tsuburaya Productions, creator of Ultra Q and Ultraman.

Eiji Yashima

Eiji Yashima (八島 栄次), born in Kyoto in 1958, is a Japanese supramolecular polymer chemist known for artificial helical polymers and the memory of macromolecular helicity.

Eike Nagel

Eike Nagel, born 1967 in Cologne, is a German cardiologist who directs cardiovascular imaging at Goethe University Frankfurt, known for stress cardiac MRI and the 2019 MR-INFORM trial.

Eiken (manga)

Eiken (エイケン), also Eiken Club, is a 2001-2004 school ecchi harem manga by Seiji Matsuyama in Weekly Shōnen Champion, 160 chapters, 18 volumes, adapted as a two-episode J.C.STAFF OVA and remade with generative AI in 2024.