** Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.

** USS Grapple ( shipped out August 31, arrived September 4 )

** Runners-up ( 2 ): 1980, 2006

** Langer Eugen, since 2006 the centre of the United Nations Campus, formerly housing the offices of the members of the German parliament

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** Bahamian dollars per US dollar-1 ( 2008 ), 1 ( 2007 ), 1 ( 2006 ), 1 ( 2005 ), 1 ( 2004 )

** unpaved: 10, 421 km ( 2006 )

** Cars ( film ), a 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar

** Ron Cyrus ( 1935 – 2006 ), Kentucky politician

** WildStorm Signature ( 2004 – 2006 ; merged with main WildStorm line )

** Khorramshahr, Iran, to Basra, Iraq-almost complete ( 2006 )

** 2006 Base

** 2006 – 2010 Limited

** Roland Juno-G ( 2006 – )

** 2006

** Fono Aoao Faitulafono o Samoa-current membership ( 2006 )

** Torvalds, L. Linus Torvalds about the microkernels again, 2006. 05. 09

** August 2006 article on Citizen journalism, titled, Amateur Hour: Journalism Without Journalists

** I get it, I know I'm inferior, November 9, 2006, Pharyngula – comments

** Reviewed by Adam Thorpe in The Guardian, 23 December 2006.

** Richard Butler ( album ), the singer's self-titled album released in 2006

** 2006: Lisey's Story

** The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq ( 2006 )

** In Kamen Rider Kabuto ( 2006 – 2007 ), 1999 is the year in which a meteor strikes the city of Shibuya and also spawns the Worm, an alien race that forms the main antagonist in the series.

** 2006 Lebanon War ( summer 2006 ) – took place in southern Lebanon and northern Israel.

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

* Parliamentary Reply states that 106 New Zealand veterans from Operation Grapple are receiving War Disablement Pension ( 2006 )

* Settling Accounts: The Grapple ( 2006 ) ; third book in the series and tenth in the overall timeline.

* Settling Accounts: The Grapple ( 2006 )-SA: G