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Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (c. 1550–1295 BC), first dynasty of the New Kingdom, founded by Ahmose after expelling the Hyksos; rulers included Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and Horemheb.
Eighteenth Party Congress
The Eighteenth Party Congress (XVIII съезд ВКП(б)) was a congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), held in Moscow from 10 to 21 March 1939.
Eightercua
Eightercua (Íochtar Cua) is a Bronze Age four-stone row near Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland, tallest stone 2.7 m, traditionally the burial place of Scéine, wife of Amergin, with a solstice alignment claim.
Eightercua Fossa
Eightercua Fossa is a 407-km-long fossa, a narrow trough, on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered near 6.68°N, 340.71°W, IAU-approved in 2019 and named after a County Kerry stone row in Ireland.
Eighth Air Force
Eighth Air Force, the "Mighty Eighth," is a USAF numbered air force at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, leading strategic deterrence and global strike; it was the WWII daylight strategic bombing force in England.
Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland
The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (1983) guaranteed the equal right to life of mother and unborn, effectively banning abortion; repealed by the 2018 Thirty-sixth Amendment after the May 2018 referendum.
Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights (ratified 1791), prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments; its clauses govern bail setting, civil forfeiture, proportionality, and conditions of confinement.
Eighth Cinven Fund
The Eighth Cinven Fund is the eighth flagship European buyout fund of London private equity firm Cinven, closed at $14.5 billion (€13.2 billion) in January 2024.
Eighth Crusade
The Eighth Crusade was a 1270 military expedition led by Louis IX of France against Tunis, abandoned after the king died there on 25 August 1270.
Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is Paul McGann's incarnation of Doctor Who's Doctor, debuting in the 1996 TV movie and regenerating in 2013's The Night of the Doctor; between those two screen appearances he was the franchise's incumbent for nine years across novels, comics, and Big Finish audio dramas.
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.