Marissabidilla: Octet

Its the moment one sixth of the world population (ching chongs) have been waiting for...Yea, you've guessed it...China is hosting its First Ever OLYMPIC GAMES-Opening Ceremony is about to start....China has poured roughly 12 years of planning for this day.
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So while at the Dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point, I took Kahner into the little excavation site they have where you can un-bury dinosaur bones.
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To celebrate this numerical quirk, I thought I'd make a list of Eight Nifty Things that Come in Eights.1. The History Boys: The titular boys are eight in number--all bright lads applying to Oxford and Cambridge. It's also what prompted this post, as I got to thinking about what other works of fiction feature groups of eight characters...2. The Group: In this Mary McCarthy novel, eight women are the main characters; And if you have two holidays per season--one at its commencement, one in the middle--that gives you eight holidays, as well as the Wheel of the Year used by Wiccans. I read a lot of fantasy novels when I was younger, many written by Wiccans, so I learned a lot about the eight festivals: Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Midsummer, Lughnasa and Harvest Home. Ottava rima: A stanza of eight lines that rhyme A-B-A-B-A-B-C-C. The way that each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet allows Byron to end many of his stanzas with a clever zinger, and also some hilarious trick rhymes. The Noble Eightfold Path: Another religion which incorporates the number eight is Buddhism. It consists of: right perspective, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. (Note that the Eightfold Path is different from the Eight Precepts of Buddhism, which I do not like so much. The solar system: Yeah, we all learned that it had nine planets, but now that Pluto has been kicked out, it's back to eight.
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