The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

-- The granting of the Jan Masaryk award August 13 to Senator Paul Douglas is a bitter example of misleading minorities.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

It is an amazing fact that in some species this will happen while the summer is still in full swing, for instance, in August.

`` Seeing The Moon Rise '' is dated August, 1927.

Gus Ehlers, competitor of Mr. Houtz in this farm community, says his business since August 1 is running 50% above a year earlier.

All Mantle needs is eight more home runs in August and ten in September, and he will establish a new record.

It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

* Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August

* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* 14 August is Pakistan's Independence Day since 1947.

* In many European countries, August is the holiday month for most workers

* In the United States, August is National Back to School month.

* In the United States, August is National Goat Cheese Month.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

* During the first week of August in Sweden, the Medieval Week of Wisby in Gotland is held each year.

* During the first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week.

* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.

* The middle week of August is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the Ames Straw Poll of August 1999, he finished eighth.

On August 15, Thome hit 599th and 600th homerun at Comerica Park to become the eighth player in Major League history to hit 600 homeruns, joining Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez.

Williams, after returning from the Korean War in August, practiced with the Red Sox for ten days before playing in his first game back, garnering a large ovation from the crowd and hitting a home run in the eighth inning.

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900-31 August 1986 ), was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland ( 1950 – 1953, 1954 – 1956 ) and later as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland ( 1956 – 1982 ).

* August 23 – James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore ( d. 1877 )

* August – September ( the eighth month of the Chinese calendar ) – Wanyan Xiyin completes the design of the first version of the Jurchen script

Risk is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth released on August 31, 1999, and is the band's final studio album released by Capitol Records.

* An abbreviation of August, the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar

As a result of these combined factors, Murder, She Wrote plummeted from eighth to fifty-eight in the yearly ratings ; the series lost nearly six million viewers as the audience was not willing to follow it to Thursday, which left CBS with little choice but to end Murder, She Wrote after twelve seasons in August 1996.

Gordy's eighth and youngest child is a son he has with Nancy Leiviska, known by his stage name as Redfoo of the duo LMFAO ( the other member of the duo is Skyler Gordy, born August 23, 1986, and known professionally as SkyBlu ; he is the grandson of Gordy and Thelma Coleman through their son Berry Gordy IV, and his wife, Valerie Robeson ):

Thomas Owen Townley ( August 18, 1862 – March 19, 1935 ) was a Canadian lawyer and the eighth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving one term in 1901.

In the final months of the season, Perry experimented with a submarine delivery for the first time in his career and took a no-hitter into the eighth inning against the first-place Baltimore Orioles on August 19.

His first goal came with a header in the eighth minute against Manchester City, which was enough to earn a 1 – 0 victory on 24 August.

John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL ( 27 April 1874 – 20 August 1941 ), known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth Governor-General of Australia.

* Shooting Stars returned for an eighth series on 8 August 2011.

On 22 August the band announced their eighth studio album, Lost Songs, and released song entitled " Up To Infinity ", which is dedicated to Pussy Riot.

‘ Alī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā () ( commonly known as, ‘ Alī al-Riḍā, Ali Rezā, or Ali Rizā ) ( December 29, 765 – August 23, 818 ) was the seventh descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the eighth of the Twelve Imams, according to Shia sect of Islam as well as an Imam of knowledge according to the Zaydi Shia school and Sufis.

On 26 August 2009, Daniel Vettori became the eighth player and second left-arm bowler ( after Chaminda Vaas ) in history to take 300 wickets and score 3000 test runs, joining the illustrious club.

Citation ( April 11, 1945 – August 8, 1970 ) was the eighth American Triple Crown winner, and one of three major North American Thoroughbreds ( along with Cigar and Zenyatta ) to win at least 16 consecutive races in major stakes race competition.

On May 6, 1909, Prince Asaka married Nobuko, Princess Fumi ( August 7, 1891 – November 3, 1933 ), the eighth daughter of Emperor Meiji.

As a result, CTV closed down CKNX-TV and became a full time rebroadcaster of London's CFPL-TV on August 31, becoming the eighth and final television station in Canada of the 2000s to become a rebroadcaster since the CTV-owned CBC stations in Saskatchewan and Northern Ontario became rebroadcasters of CBKT Regina and CBLT Toronto in October 2002.

Released in August 2008, coinciding with their ' Beautiful Days ' festival, Letters from the Underground, their eighth studio album.

On August 24, 2012, the band announced on Facebook that their eighth studio album was complete and the title and artwork would be revealed the following week.