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  2. Ship's bell - Wikipedia

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    At midnight on New Year's Eve, 16 bells would be struck – eight bells for the old year and eight bells for the new. When a sailor has died he or she can be honoured with the sounding of eight bells; meaning "end of the watch". The term "eight bells" can also be used in an obituary, as a nautical euphemism for finished.

  3. Eight Bells (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Eight Bells was the outgrowth of a series of oil paintings that Homer made using three wooden panels he found in the cabin of his brother's sloop at Prouts Neck, Maine.On two of the panels Homer painted scenes of mackerel fleets at Prouts Neck, one at dawn and the other at sunset; on the third he painted a grisaille study of the work that inspired Eight Bells, which depicted a ship's officer ...

  4. Eight Bells - Wikipedia

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    Eight Bells may refer to: Eights bells, a duty period on board ship, see ship's bell; Eight Bells, a 2009 album by SubArachnoid Space; Eight Bells (band), an American experimental metal band based in Portland, Oregon; Eight Bells, a 1935 action adventure film directed by Roy William Neill

  5. Change ringing - Wikipedia

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    Today, some towers have as many as sixteen bells that can be rung together, though six or eight bells are more common. The highest pitch bell is known as the treble , and the lowest is the tenor . For convenience, the bells are referred to by number, with the treble being number 1 and the other bells numbered by their pitch—2, 3, 4, etc ...

  6. 17 Traditional Christmas Symbols (Including Bells, Holly and ...

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    Believe it or not, there is a special meaning behind each one of those traditional Christmas decorations and rituals—and many of the symbols associated with the Christmas holiday actually have ...

  7. Peal - Wikipedia

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    For seven bells the extent is 7! = 5,040 changes and is thus synonymous with a peal. For lower numbers of bells several extents are rung to make up the number of changes in a peal. For larger numbers of bells a peal is a subset of the extent. The extent on eight bells comprises 40,320 changes, and would be referred to today as a long-length peal.

  8. Notre-Dame’s bells ring out for the first time since the ...

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    The eight restored bells of the cathedral’s northern belfry, which was partially destroyed in the fire, rang together Friday morning as part of a technical test before Notre-Dame’s official ...

  9. When Eight Bells Toll - Wikipedia

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    When Eight Bells Toll is a first-person narrative novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean and published in 1966. It marked MacLean's return after a three-year gap, following the publication of Ice Station Zebra (1963), during which time he had run several restaurants. [1] [2] When Eight Bells Toll combines the genres of spy novel and ...