In March 2006, BBC Scotland documentary Happy Birthday Oor Wullie celebrated his 70th birthday with celebrity guests including Karen Dunbar, Sanjeev Kohli, Kaye Adams, Iain Robertson, Tony Roper, Tam Cowan, Stuart Cosgrove and Dominik Diamond, and was narrated by Lord of the Rings star Billy Boyd.

Roper issued a statement regarding the status of the band in 2006:

A 2006 Roper poll showed that 25 % of all American adults had been skinny dipping at least once, and that 74 % believed nude swimming should be tolerated at accepted locations.

* Poll of Parisians on Delanoë, January 2006

" The Best of the Beach Visitors ’ Poll " of the Grand Strand conducted by The Sun News, voted the Pier at Garden City as the “ Best Pier ” in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bloggy: An Online Poll Covets the Territory Once Owned by Pazz & Jop, November 30, 2006 edition of The New York Times.

In 2006, Jackie McLean was elected to the DownBeat Hall of Fame via the International Critics Poll.

Wake Forest's football team was ranked in the Top 25 in the nation by the AP Poll during most of the 2006 season.

Before the 2006 – 07 season, the maximum point value of the Harris Poll was increased to 2, 850 and the USA Today / Coaches ' Poll was increased to 1, 575.

A Field Poll held on June 2, 2006 had Westly leading Angelides by one percentage point, 35 % to 34 % with 26 % undecided and an error size of +/- 4. 5 points.

A USA Today / Gallup Poll in June 2006 found that 54 % of Americans opposed a flag desecration amendment.

A USA Today / Gallup Poll in June 2006 reached a different conclusion, with 56 % supporting a constitutional amendment, but down from 63 % favoring a flag burning amendment in Gallup's 1999 poll.

* A 2006 CBS News Poll of 899 U. S. adults found that 76 % of those surveyed believed in a god, while 9 % believed in " some other universal spirit or higher power ", 8 % believed in neither, and 1 % were unsure.

He won Downbeat's Critics Poll for Musician of the Year, Big Band of the Year, and Acoustic Bassist of the Year ( he also garnered top bassist in the 2006 poll ).

The baseball team at Columbus State University has made seven trips ( 1984, 1986, 1987, 1990, 2002, 2004, 2007 ) to the College World Series, twenty-three ( 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ) NCAA Regional Championship appearances, and is frequently in the NCSWA National Top 30 Poll.

GRCC Football-NJCAA Football Coaches Association Final Poll ( 68 NJCAA football members in 2006 ):

R & R also announced Evans as the Female Vocalist of the Year in its 2006 Readers ' Poll.

* 2006 Best Actress In Austin Austin Chronicle's Reader Poll

The Eckerd College Men's Lacrosse Team finished the 2006 season ranked # 3 in the National Collegiate Club Lacrosse Poll, with a 13-1 record.

* 2006: Best Local Publication ( Readers ' Poll )

* Terrorizer Reader ’ s Poll 2006 – Best Band “ DragonForce ”

* Terrorizer Reader ’ s Poll 2006 – Best Musician “ Herman Li ”

* Terrorizer Reader ’ s Poll 2006 – Best Live Act “ DragonForce ”

* WisPolitics: Article on the 2006 Convention Straw Poll

Miami began the 2006 season 1 – 2, with losses to Florida State and Louisville, leaving the team unranked in the AP Poll for the first time since 1999.

* Paper Television Ranked No. 66 in Idolater 2006 Jackin ' Pop Critics Poll " Top Albums " category "

In 2006, the China Confucius Foundation commissioned a standard portrait of Confucius based on the Tang dynasty portrait by Wu Daozi.

Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

Within a year, in April 2006, Harry completed his officer's training and was commissioned as a Cornet in the Blues and Royals, a regiment of the Household Cavalry in the British Army.

* HMAS Perth ( FFH 157 ), an Anzac-class frigate commissioned in 2006

In September 2006, Rem Koolhaas was commissioned to develop 111 First Street in Jersey City across the Hudson River from Manhattan, working with real estate developer Louis Dubin.

Although this achievement has long been a feature of the tournament, it was not until 2006 that a physical trophy, commissioned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was awarded.

The UK-based Central Science Laboratory, commissioned by Coke, found its products met EU standards in 2006.

TNS had previously been commissioned by the Gaming Technologies Association to conduct the World Count of Gaming Machines in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

Since 1999, the Headmaster has been Dr John Marincowitz, who commissioned the new Martin swimming pool, opened in 2006, Shearly Hall, opened in 2009, and a digital library which is currently in construction.

This asteroid and the cosmonaut inspired the composer Brett Dean to write a piece of symphonic music commissioned by conductor Simon Rattle in 2006.

In November 2006, the Oregonian commissioned an outside editor to investigate the deteriorating relationship, a move the rival Willamette Week called " unusual ".

Folkestone Harbour Company commissioned Foster Associates to produce a masterplan for Folkestone which was published in April 2006.

In 2006, the Skagit County Marine Resources Committee commissioned a study to evaluate establishing one or more no-take marine reserves to protect rockfish and other groundfish from overfishing.

In 2004 the Victoria & Albert Museum commissioned curator and author Lucy Bullivant to write Responsive Environments ( 2006 ), the first such publication of its kind.

* Red Duckies ( 2006 ): Short film directed by Luke Seomore & Joseph Bull, featuring a voice-over from Simon Fisher Turner commissioned by Dazed & Confused ( magazine ) for World Aids Day 2006.

In 2006, a report commissioned by the London Assembly identified that whilst demand was at an all time high across the capital, the pressures caused by high density building was further decreasing the amount of allotment land.

* was commissioned in September 2006, and she is in active service in the U. S. Navy.

In May 2006 CITV announced that an animated TV series of 52 episodes based on the Horrid Henry books had been commissioned from Novel Entertainment ( see also ) and launched in October 2006 for Halloween.

The independent IpsosMORI National Student Surveys in 2006 – 2008 commissioned by HEFCE placed it joint third among the UK universities.

In 2006 Transport for London commissioned a consultation in respect to pedicab licenses because of their growing number, currently around 500, due to opposition from the industry and London ’ s cab drivers no further action was taken.

The themes of modern television were further explored in Wearing's recent project Family History ( 2006 ) commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, and accompanied by a publication on the project.

* The USS Farragut ( DDG-99 ) is an Flight IIa Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, commissioned on 10 June 2006.

* In 2006 the Orlando Shakespeare Theater commissioned a unique adaptation for their Theater For Young Audiences series.