The eighty-eight-year-old was Wally, who was downstairs, in hospice care.
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" According to IMDB, the historical drama focuses on the "siege of Ansi Fortress" and the "eighty-eight day battle that Yang Man-chun and his Goguryeo troops fought against 22020,000 invading Tang dynasty men to defend it.
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I hadn't given it much thought, but when I discovered a list of the eighty-eight recognized constellations that was compiled, in 1922, by the International Astronomical Union, I came up with a couple of ways it might have happened.
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The project was a collaboration between Belgian radio station Studio Brussels and the American researchers at MIRA Public Observatory, and the constellation consists of seven stars which sit in the vicinity of Mars (yes, where the spiders are), making it a new addition to the eighty eight registered constellations.
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There is a rare form, ab. confluens, found in central Peru, in which the black markings on the underside are greatly enlarged. Renowned lepidopterist William Chapman Hewitson provided the first description of the "eighty-eight" in 1853.
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The Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance Text (Chinese:八十八佛洪名寶懺, 八十八佛大懺悔文, 禮佛大懺悔文) is an important Buddhist text widely used in the repentance practice or ritual of Buddhism, especially in the Mahayana tradition. The repentance practice features the recitation of the holy names of the eighty-eight Buddhas in the text, which are sourced from two Buddhist scriptures: Bhaiṣajyarājabhaiṣajyasamudagatabodhisattvasūtra (Chinese:佛說觀藥王藥上二菩薩經; The Buddha Speaks of the Sutra of Visualization of the Two Bodhisattvas, the King of Medicine and the Superior Physician) and Upāliparipṛcchā (Chinese:決定毘尼經; The Buddha Speaks of Decisive Vinaya Sutra). The main body of these two scriptures are not included in some versions of the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance Text. Recitation of the Buddhist text can help one to clear their karmic obstacles and draw out their inner wisdom.
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The eighty-eight Cabinet of Bulgaria was an interim technocratic government set up by President Rosen Plevneliev's decree № 56 following the resignation of the Borisov government. The government, headed by Prime Minister Marin Raykov, ruled from March 13, 2013 to May 29, 2013, at which time the new cabinet took office.
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Greek letters are used to denote the brighter stars within each of the eighty-eight constellations. In most constellations, the brightest star is designated Alpha and the next brightest Beta etc. For example, the brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus is known as Alpha Centauri. For historical reasons, the Greek designations of some constellations begin with a lower ranked letter.
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As enrollment increased, Irvine expanded the campus from four acres to over 120, constructing numerous new buildings along the way. The groundbreaking of one such building, the Eighty-eight Dormitory, was attended by Woodrow Wilson in 1903. Irvine met Wilson at Princeton, where Wilson was a professor and ultimately university president. The two kept in touch after Wilson was elected President of the United States.
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Seiya is the eponymous main character of the Saint Seiya series. He is one of the eighty-eight Saints of Athena and serves loyally at her side. Seiya draws his superhuman powers from the Cosmos, the energy of the Big Bang that lingers inside each being and which connects a Saint to his constellation and Cloth. At the start of the series, Seiya is thirteen years old.
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In the 2015 Japanese film I Am a Monk, Koen, a twenty-four year old bookstore clerk becomes a Shingon monk at the Eifuku-ji after the death of his grandfather. The Eifuku-ji is the fifty- seventh temple in the eighty-eight temple Shikoku Pilgrimage Circuit. He is at first unsure of himself. However, during his first service as he chants the Heart Sutra, he comes to an important realization.
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These former constellations are often found in older books, star charts or star catalogues. The eighty-eight modern constellation names and boundaries were standardised by Eugene Delporte for the IAU in 1930, under an international agreement, removing any possible astronomical ambiguities between astronomers from different countries. Nearly all former or defunct constellations differ in their designated boundaries inasmuch as they have outlines that do not follow the exact lines of right ascension and declination.
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By 1843, some of the eighty-eight lots laid out were vacated. The village was, in general, considered a favorable place to live by the westward settlers. It was often seen as a haven from the problems of lawlessness, drinking, fighting, and crime that began to plague Ohio canal towns.Rettig, 18 A catastrophic fire swept through the village in 1846, destroying most of the many wooden buildings in the central business district.
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The Zen life seemed to work for Santōka: by the next year at the age of forty-two he was ordained in the Sōtō sect. In 1926, after a year spent as caretaker of Mitori Kannon-dō temple in Kumamoto, Santōka set out on the first of many walking trips. He was away for three years. Part of this time was spent completing the eighty-eight temple pilgrimage circuit on Shikoku Island.
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Cover of the first volume, as released by Kodansha in Japan on February 14, 2001. The eighty-eight chapters of the science-fiction manga series Chobits are written and illustrated by Clamp. Chobits appeared as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Young Magazine from the 43rd issue for 2000 to the 48th issue for 2002. Kodansha collected the chapters in eight bound volumes from February 14, 2001 to November 29, 2002.
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The Silver Slipper Casino from nearby Lakeshore built a seafood restaurant, the Pier House now named Hula Club, at the former site of the yacht club over the water. The eighty-eight acres north of there is also planned to be a major resort casino. It would be the only casino in Mississippi with virtually direct interstate access (I-10). As of June 27, 2014 the Mississippi Gaming Commission denied the site application as not being on the Bay of Saint Louis.
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The LASD has entered into contracts with the numerous cities to serve as their police department/law enforcement agency. Forty-two (42) of the eighty-eight (88) cities in Los Angeles County contract with the Sheriff's Department for their complete municipal law enforcement services. Some of the newer contract cities like Santa Clarita and West Hollywood have never had police departments. When their city governments were founded, they took over what was formerly unincorporated land, and then contracted their police responsibilities to the county sheriff.
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The Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera is a mid-size car that was manufactured and marketed from the 1982 through 1996 model years by the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors. It shared the front-wheel drive A platform with the Buick Century, Pontiac 6000 and Chevrolet Celebrity; both Oldsmobile and Chevrolet considered using the Celebrity name, which had originally been used on the Eighty Eight model in the 1960s. Available body styles included a 2-door coupe, 4-door sedan, and the Cutlass (Ciera) Cruiser station wagon.
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In Slovenia, elections in the National Assembly are held in eight voting units, each of which further divides into 11 districts. Different candidates apply in each of the eighty-eight districts. From each of eight units, 11 deputies get elected; however, not necessarily one deputy from each district (from some districts nobody gets elected, from others up to four candidates enter the parliament). Deputy's mandates are distributed at two levels: at the level of the voting unit and at the level of the state.
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The successful Kickstarter campaign was endorsed by The HuffPost, who quoted Beck: "This is not an LGBTQ story; this is a human story." Internationally recognized drag queen Manila Luzon also championed the web series. Production for the eighty-eight minute web series took place over nine days throughout New York, including one overnight on the subway. Fashion designer Viktor Luna was hired as a key set dresser in addition to designing the red gown for Rosina Fernhoff in the pivotal episode six on the New York subway.
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The constellation Mensa as it can be seen by the naked eye. Mensa is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere near the south celestial pole, one of twelve constellations drawn up in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. Its name is Latin for table, though it originally commemorated Table Mountain and was known as Mons Mensae. One of the eighty-eight constellations designated by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), it covers a keystone-shaped wedge of sky 153.5 square degrees in area.
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Chobits began as a manga written and illustrated by Clamp, a collective of four Japanese manga artists. It appeared as a serial in Weekly Young Magazine from the 43rd issue for 2000 to the 48th issue for 2002. Kodansha compiled the eighty-eight chapters into eight bound volumes and published them from February 14, 2001, to November 29, 2002. In 2002, Tokyopop licensed Chobits for an English-language translation in North America and marketed it as part of its new unflipped manga line, which reads from right- to-left.
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Flak is a contraction of German Flugabwehrkanone (also referred to as Fliegerabwehrkanone) meaning "aircraft-defense cannon", the original purpose of the weapon. In English, "flak" became a generic term for ground anti- aircraft fire. In informal use, the guns were universally known as the Acht- acht ("eight-eight") by Germans and the "eighty-eight" by the Allies. Air defense units were usually deployed with either a Kommandogerät ("command device") fire control computer or a portable Würzburg radar, which were responsible for its high level of accuracy against aircraft.
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Otobong Effiong Bob, Esq returned to Nigeria to practice law having completed the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corps programme. On 5 October 2018, Otobong Effiong Bob, Esq was nominated by the PDP in Nsit Ubium to fly the flag of the party in the election into the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly to represent Nsit Ubium State Constituency. He polled 127 votes out of a total of 128 accredited delegates. Otobong Effiong Bob, Esq embarked on a vigorous and elaborate campaign that took him to all the eighty eight political units in Nsit Ubium.
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In 1947, Beck was appointed as headmaster of Cheam. On 23 September 1957, he found himself at the centre of intense press interest when Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, then aged eight, arrived at his school, accompanied by his parents, Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Beck called a press conference at the school and made an appeal to the news media to be left in peace, but in the eighty-eight days of Charles's first term, no fewer than sixty-eight of them saw stories about the prince and the school carried in national newspapers.Anthony Holden, Prince Charles (1979), p.
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Persephassa gains much of its effect from having the six percussionists distributed around the audience. The treatment of space as a musical parameter is one of the most important preoccupations of Xenakis' music, particularly in his works of the mid-to-late 1960s. (See, for example, Terretektorh (1966), which "distributes the eighty-eight musicians in quasi- stochastic fashion in a circular space around the conductor, with the audience being seated amid the musicians.") The dramatic impact of utilizing the performance space in this manner is evident in many passages throughout the piece in which accents or imitative rhythms are passed around the ensemble.
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In October 1933 Ilse Reicke and her estranged husband were two of the eighty-eight German writers who signed the widely publicised (and subsequently infamous) Vow of loyal obedience ("Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft") to the leader.Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 272,477. She was a member of the government's "Chamber of Writers" which was seen as an important prerequisite to pursuing a career as a published author, but later, as the inhuman and destructive impetus of Nazi government emerged, became deeply discrediting.
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In April 2009, Finn contributed a patch to the "A Little Piece of Mind" project. Curated by Marque, who had for some time been following the infiltration of modern techniques into craft forms, the project involved commissioning "internationally recognised leaders in the creative arts" to collaborate in creating a patchwork quilt. Each of the eighty-eight artists involved were asked to submit a 6-inch fabric swatch, which when put together would construct the whole. The project involved amongst others Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, and Vivienne Westwood; the finished quilt was exhibited in Glasgow, New York, and London, before being auctioned in aid of UK homeless charity Shelter and New York's Bowery Mission.
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He was granted a protective patent in 1673, where production moved from his glasshouse in the precinct of the Savoy, London, to the seclusion of Henley- on-Thames. In 1676, having apparently overcome the crizzling problem, Ravenscroft was granted the use of a raven's head seal as a guaranty of quality. In 1681, the year of his death, the patent expired and operations quickly developed among several firms, where by 1696 twenty-seven of the eighty-eight glasshouses in England, especially at London and Bristol, were producing flint glass containing 30–35% PbO. At this period, glass was sold by weight, and the typical forms were rather heavy and solid with minimal decoration.
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On September 16, 1776, the Continental Congress passed the "eighty-eight battalion resolve," which called for each state to contribute regiments in proportion to their population. (The terms regiment and battalion were virtually interchangeable at that time since nearly every Continental Army regiment consisted of a single battalion). The quota of infantry regiments was fixed at 15 each from Massachusetts and Virginia, 12 from Pennsylvania, 9 from North Carolina, 8 each from Connecticut and Maryland, 6 from South Carolina, 4 each from New York and New Jersey, 3 from New Hampshire, 2 from Rhode Island, and 1 each from Delaware and Georgia. Each state was expected to arm, clothe, and equip its regiments.
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The Oldsmobile 88 (marketed from 1989 on as the Eighty Eight) is a full-size car that was sold and produced by Oldsmobile from 1949 until 1999. From 1950 to 1974, the 88 was the division's top-selling line, particularly the entry level models such as the 88 and Dynamic 88. The 88 series was also an image leader for Oldsmobile, particularly in the early years (1949–51), when it was one of the best performing automobiles, thanks to its relatively small size, light weight, and advanced overhead-valve high-compression V8 engine. This engine, originally designed for the larger C-bodied and more luxurious 98 series, also replaced the straight-8 on the smaller B-bodied 78.
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On February 5, 2005, the eighty-eight-minute final product premiered at UVSC's Ragan Theater, receiving a standing ovation from the 700 people overflowing the Theater's 400-seat capacity. On the heels of the sold-out premiere, the filmmakers commenced a publicity blitz to any magazine, newspaper, or film studio that would take their call. Without previous experience, the filmmakers had to quickly learn how to produce their own press kits and market their movie with a team of only four people and minimal resources. Their first big break occurred when Campus Progress, a division of the Center for American Progress, sponsored a tour of the film as part of its "Reel Progress" series.
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On September 16, 1776, the Continental Congress passed the "eighty-eight battalion resolve", which called for each state to contribute regiments in proportion to their population. (The terms regiment and battalion were virtually interchangeable at that time since nearly every Continental Army regiment consisted of a single battalion). The quota of infantry regiments was fixed at 15 each from Massachusetts and Virginia, 12 from Pennsylvania, 9 from North Carolina, 8 each from Connecticut and Maryland, 6 from South Carolina, 4 each from New York and New Jersey, 3 from New Hampshire, 2 from Rhode Island, and 1 each from Delaware and Georgia. Each state was expected to arm, clothe, and equip its regiments.
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Library of Congress. With six brothers and four sisters there was a full household. After Gertrude's grandfather died, her father moved the family to Gum Bottom, Arkansas, to take over the eighty-eight-acre cotton farm where she usually stayed in the house but would sometimes come out and help pick cotton.Library of Congress. Jackson graduated in the tenth grade since that was the highest grade able to be completed in Arkansas and several years later returned to earn her GED and continued for two years in college.Library of Congress. She married Earlis "Hog" Jackson in 1943 and they created a family of eleven children.Library of Congress. All eleven children graduated from high school and seven attained college degrees.University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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This left the two remaining number-names to carry on into the 1990s as the bread and butter of the full-size Oldsmobile lineup until the Eighty Eight-based Regency replaced the 98 in 1997. Occasionally additional nomenclature was used with the name, such as L/S and Holiday, and the 98 Regency badge would become increasingly common in the later years of the model. The 98 shared its General Motors C-body platform with Buick and Cadillac. Since it was the top-line Oldsmobile, the series had the most technologically advanced items available, such as the Hydramatic automatic transmission, the Autronic Eye, an automatic headlight dimmer, and Twilight Sentinel (a feature that automatically turned the headlights on and off via a timer, as controlled by the driver), and the highest-grade interior and exterior trim.
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Although of less power than Germany's 20 mm systems, the typical four or five combat batteries of an Army AAA battalion were often spread many kilometres apart from each other, rapidly attaching and detaching to larger ground combat units to provide welcome defence from enemy aircraft. Indian troops manning a Bren light machine gun in an anti-aircraft mount in 1941. AAA battalions were also used to help suppress ground targets. Their larger 90 mm M3 gun would prove, as did the eighty-eight, to make an excellent anti-tank gun as well, and was widely used late in the war in this role. Also available to the Americans at the start of the war was the 120 mm M1 gun stratosphere gun, which was the most powerful AA gun with an impressive altitude capability, however no 120 M1 was ever fired at an enemy aircraft.
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At sometime between 1969 and 1973, KY 90 from the KY 685 junction to US 31W was rerouted to make KY 90 go directly into Cave City. KY 90's western terminus was also relocated to its current west end at a then-new junction with KY 70 near the I-65 exit 53 interchange, thus extending KY 90 by another , and providing westbound KY 90 traffic direct access to I-65. In 2013, KY 90 between the Cumberland Parkway junction and the Eighty Eight community was reconstructed to add truck-climbing lanes in two spots. Reconstruction of KY 90 continued from that area to the Metcalfe County line, and was completed by Fall 2015. In September and October 2014, the first of KY 90, along with the KY 70 overpass over I-65 (the latter of which began in 2013), were both reconstructed and were widened to four lanes, plus a center lane for left turns.
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