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Eight Great Manchu Surnames
The Eight Great Manchu Surnames (满洲八大姓) were the eight Manchu clans, including Gūwalgiya and Niohuru, that the Qing court's genealogy marked as the elite's noted surnames.
Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song
The Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song (唐宋八大家) are Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, and six Song writers canonized as models of classical guwen prose.
Eight Immortals
The Eight Immortals (八仙, Baxian) are a group of eight Daoist immortals in Chinese folklore: Li Tieguai, Zhongli Quan, Zhang Guolao, Lan Caihe, He Xiangu, Lü Dongbin, Han Xiangzi, and Cao Guojiu, fixed by the Ming novel Dongyouji and famous for the sea-crossing legend.
Eight Is Enough
Eight Is Enough is an ABC comedy-drama (1977-1981) based on Thomas Braden's book, starring Dick Van Patten as Tom Bradford, a Sacramento columnist raising eight children; Diana Hyland died after season one and Betty Buckley joined as stepmother Abby.
Eight Legged Freaks
Eight Legged Freaks (originally Arac Attack) is a 2002 Warner Bros. horror comedy directed by Ellory Elkayem, starring David Arquette and Scarlett Johansson, about toxic-waste-mutated giant spiders attacking an Arizona mining town.
Eight Men Out
Eight Men Out: Eliot Asinof's 1963 book on the 1919 Black Sox World Series fix and John Sayles's 1988 Orion Pictures film adaptation, later corrected by SABR's Eight Myths Out research.
Eight Pillars of the State
The Eight Pillars of the State (八柱國) were the eight top generals of China's Western Wei state, headed by Yuwen Tai, whose families became the era's greatest aristocratic pedigrees.
Eight Principles of Yong
The Eight Principles of Yong (永字八法, yǒng zì bā fǎ) is a Chinese calligraphy precept set using the character 永 to teach the eight basic brushstrokes.
Eight Provinces of Korea
The Eight Provinces of Korea (팔도, paldo) were the eight provincial divisions into which the Joseon dynasty organized the Korean Peninsula in 1413, lasting until 1895.
Eight queens puzzle
The eight queens puzzle, also known as the n-queens problem, asks for placements of chess queens that do not attack each other; it has 92 solutions.
Eight Sima affair
The Eight Sima affair (八司马事件) was the 805 demotion of eight Tang dynasty officials to remote prefectures after the failed reform government of Wang Shuwen under Emperor Shunzong.
Eight Sleep
Eight Sleep is a New York sleep technology company founded in 2014, known for the Pod, a smart mattress cover that heats and cools each side of the bed.
Eight Views of Xiaoxiang
Eight Views of Xiaoxiang (Japanese Shōshō hakkei) is a set of eight Chinese landscape-painting subjects, first painted by Song Di in the late eleventh century.
Eight-Article Law of Gojoseon
The Eight-Article Law of Gojoseon (팔조금법) was the law of the ancient Korean state of Gojoseon, the oldest law transmitted in Korean history; three articles survive in the Hanshu.
Eight-ball
Eight-ball (8-ball, eightball pool) is a two-player cue sport with a cue ball and 15 numbered balls; clear your group of seven (solids or stripes, or reds/yellows in blackball), then pocket the 8-ball to win.
Eight-Character Army
The Eight-Character Army (八字軍) was a Southern Song volunteer force whose soldiers tattooed eight characters on their faces vowing to fight the Jin, later fighting at Shunchang under Liu Qi.
Eight-crossing molecular knot
An eight-crossing molecular knot is a synthetic molecule knotted with eight crossing points on one closed loop, exemplified by the 192-atom 819 knot tied at Manchester in 2017.
Eight-legged essay
The eight-legged essay (八股文) was the structured classical essay form used in Ming and Qing China's civil service examinations, with topics from the Four Books and Five Classics.
Eight-Nation Alliance (八国联军)
Eight-Nation Alliance (八国联军), 1900–01 coalition of Britain, the US, Japan, Russia, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy that relieved the besieged Beijing legations during the Boxer Uprising and imposed the 1901 Boxer Protocol.
Eight-string guitar
Eight-string guitar: extended-range guitar tuned F#-B-E-A-D-G-B-E, adding low B and F# strings; first mass-produced by Ibanez (RG2228, 2007), popularized by Meshuggah and Tosin Abasi, used in djent, jazz, and classical music.
Eight-thousander
Eight-thousander: any of the 14 mountains above 8,000 m, all in the Himalaya and Karakoram (Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, etc.). First climbed 1950–1964, in winter 1980–2021; UIAA recognizes the classic 14 list.
Eighteen Greater Texts
Eighteen Greater Texts (Patiṉeṇmēlkaṇakku, பதினெண்மேல்கணக்கு) is the Sangam-era Tamil corpus of 2,381 poems in the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) and Ten Idylls (Pattupattu), distinct from the later didactic Eighteen Lesser Texts.
Eighteen Kingdoms
The Eighteen Kingdoms (十八王) were eighteen vassal kingdoms that Xiang Yu decreed after the fall of the Qin dynasty, carved from the old six states' territories.
Eighteen Lesser Texts
Eighteen Lesser Texts (Pathinen Keelkanakku) is a Tamil corpus of eighteen short post-Sangam works, mostly on ethics and love poetry, including the Thirukkural and Naladiyar.
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji (Hujia shiba pai tu) is a Ming dynasty handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting the Han poet Cai Yan.
Eighteen Springs
Eighteen Springs is a novel by the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, her first full-length, serialized in Shanghai in 1950–51 under the pen name Liang Jing.
Eighteen Stanzas for a Barbarian Reed Flute
Eighteen Stanzas for a Barbarian Reed Flute (Hujia Shibapai, 胡笳十八拍) is a Chinese poem and qin composition in eighteen sections attributed to Cai Yan, a Han dynasty woman writer.
Eighteen Visions
Eighteen Visions is an American metalcore and hard rock band from Orange County, California, formed around 1995 and credited with shaping the early-2000s fashioncore image.
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan (2010) is a consensus constitutional reform that abolished the Concurrent List, devolved 17 federal ministries to the provinces, curtailed presidential powers, and, with the 7th NFC Award, reshaped fiscal federalism.
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established national Prohibition, banning manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors; it was ratified January 16, 1919 and repealed in 1933.