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Encyclopedia > G8 (disambiguation)

G8 can mean:

  • G8, The Group of Eight, the seven top industrialized nations of the world, United States of America, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, plus Russia. This collection is also known as the G7+1.
  • The Group of Eight is an association of Australia's leading universities.
  • G8 can also signify the Gang of Eight, a group of Canadian premiers who precipitated a constitutional crisis.
  • If you were looking for the footballer G8, see Paul Gascoigne
  • G8 star, a subclass of G-class stars
  • G-8 fictional aviator
  • Group 8 of the periodic table

G-8 work session; July 20-22, 2001. ... The United Kingdom has Presidency of the G8 during 2005. ... Not to be confused with the G8 (Group of Eight Industrialized Nations). ... Paul Gascoigne (born in Gateshead, England on May 27, 1967) is an English football player, often referred to by his nickname Gazza. ... In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based initially on photospheric temperature and its associated spectral characteristics, and subsequenly refined in terms of other characteristics. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space, just like the Sun. ... G-8 was an heroic aviator during World War I in pulp fiction. ... A Group 8 element is an element in periodic table group 8 (IUPAC style) in the periodic table, which consists of: Iron (26) Ruthenium (44) Osmium (76) Hassium (108) All of these elements are classed in Group 8 because their valence shell holds four electrons. ... The periodic table of the chemical elements, also called the Mendeleev periodic table, is a tabular display of the known chemical elements. ...

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G8 - ExampleProblems.com (1332 words)
The hallmark of the G8 is an annual economic and political summit meeting of the heads of government with international officials, though there are numerous subsidiary meetings and policy research.
In June 2005 the G8 agreed to launch an international database on paedophiles, expected to be set up by the end of the year.
The opening day of the 2005 G8 Summit in Scotland, 7 July, 2005, was accompanied by a synchronized series of bombings in the London Underground and in a London red double-decker bus that claimed more than 50 lives and wounded hundreds more.
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