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The Eight Men was a group of eight residents chosen by the people of New Netherland in 1643 to advise its Director-General, Willem Kieft, on his governance of the colony. An early form of representational democracy in colonial North America, it replaced the similarly selected Twelve Men and was followed by the Nine Men.

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Eight Men Out

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Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written...

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Eight Men

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The Eight Men was a group of eight residents chosen by the people of New Netherland in 1643 to advise its Director-General, Willem Kieft, on his governance...

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Eight Iron Men

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Eight Iron Men is a 1952 American World War II drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Bonar Colleano, Arthur Franz...

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Eight Men Speak

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Eight Men Speak is a Canadian agitprop play written in 1933 by a committee of E. Cecil-Smith, Mildred Goldberg, Frank Love, and Oscar Ryan. The play made...

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John Sayles

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(1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Passion Fish (1992), The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Lone Star (1996), and Men with Guns (1997). For Eight Men Out, Sayles...

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Black Sox Scandal

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November 4, 2016. Asinof's Eight Men Out includes a dramatic, but entirely fictional, report of what happened before the Game Eight. Asinof admitted in 2003...

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Eight Men in a Castle

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Eight Men in a Castle (French: Huit hommes dans un château) is a 1942 French mystery crime directed by Richard Pottier and starring René Dary, Jacqueline...

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Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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single sculls (both men and women), top seven in the lightweight double sculls, fours, and quadruple sculls, top five in the eights, and top eleven each...

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Xianfeng Emperor

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the throne as the Tongzhi Emperor. On his deathbed, Xianfeng appointed eight men to a regency council to assist his young successor. A few months later...

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Charlie Sheen

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successful films such as Red Dawn (1984), Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Young Guns (1988), The Rookie (1990), The Three Musketeers...

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Clifton James

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and the owner of the scandalous 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team in Eight Men Out (1988). James was born in Spokane, Washington, the son of Grace (née...

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François Ozon. Eight Below is a 2006 film directed by Frank Marshall. Eight Legged Freaks is a 2002 film directed by Ellory Elkayem. Eight Men Out is a 1988...

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Abraham Pietersen van Deusen

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the Director-General and Council, and on November 3 he was one of the "Eight Men" who sent a memorial to the State General of Holland, setting forth the...

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Daniel Conahan

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the prime suspect in the additional murders of eight men, collectively referred to as the Fort Myers Eight, who were discovered in a mass grave site in...

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North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens

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during a period of six years from 1977 to 1983. Although only 17 Japanese (eight men and nine women) are officially recognized by the Japanese government as...

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Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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every event and took five of the seven gold medals. The final race, men's eights, was won by a working-class United States team from the University of...

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Eights Week

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the Wednesday to the Saturday of the fifth week of Trinity Term. Men's and women's eights compete in separate divisions for their colleges. The racing takes...

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Phalanx

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deployed in ranks of eight men or more deep; the Macedonian phalanxes were usually 16 men deep, sometimes reported to have been arrayed 32 men deep. There are...

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Squad leader

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fireteams of 4 men each) or 13 Marines (U.S. Marine Corps: squad leader and three fireteams of 4 men each) in a rifle squad, or three to eight men in a crew-served...

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Eddie Cicotte

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denying him a chance at a 30-win season and the bonus money. The book Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof and the movie based on the book does record that Cicotte...

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Eliot Asinof

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nonfiction best known for his writing about baseball. His most famous book was Eight Men Out, a nonfiction reconstruction of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Asinof...

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