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 ".

August ( ) is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.

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.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

On August 12, 2010 GM announced that Whitacre would relinquish the CEO position effective September 1, 2010 and that of Chairman of the Board at the end of the year, to be replaced in those functions by current board member Dan Akerson.

The cabinet of ministers passed a decree on August 23, 2011 to increase the current speeds of Internet connection setting the minimum speed to 1Mbit / s in addition to lowering the prices.

On August 30 of that year, Mike Powell of the United States, in a well-known show down against Carl Lewis, leapt at the World Championships in Tokyo, setting the current men's world record which has now stood for over 20 years.

According to the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ), Magdeburg was assigned to Brandenburg-Prussia after the death of the current administrator, August of Saxe-Weissenfels, as the semi-autonomous Duchy of Magdeburg ; this occurred in 1680.

As of August 4, 2011, the current version of the Xiph. Org Foundation's reference implementation, is libogg 1. 3. 0.

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 ( with the current line up solidifying in 1985 ), the band's four members — Trey Anastasio ( guitars, lead vocals ), Mike Gordon ( bass, vocals ), Jon Fishman ( drums, percussion, vocals ), and Page McConnell ( keyboards, vocals )— performed together for over 20 years before breaking up in August 2004.

The expanded version under the current title was first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on August 24, 1966, by the Oxford Theatre Group.

The current chief of the defence staff is Robert Yira Koroma, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma in August 2010 to replace Major General Alfred Nelson Williams, who was placed on terminal leave.

Shadowruns fourth and current edition was released at Gen Con in August 2005, and brought significant changes to the game's system and setting.

The current ( 2011 ) IWPS champion is Chris August.

The current president Abdullah Gül was elected by Parliament on 28 August 2007.

The current dome and the House and Senate wings were designed by Thomas U. Walter and August Schoenborn, a German immigrant, and were completed under the supervision of Edward Clark.

The current Vietnamese state traces its direct linage back to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) and the 1945 August Revolution led by Hồ Chí Minh.

* August 4 – Alan Mulally, American businessman, current CEO of the Ford Motor Company

On 1 January 1996, the community officially changed its name from Lac La Martre to the Tłı ̨ chǫ name " Wha Ti ", meaning " Marten Lake ," the same meaning as the French and then on 4 August 2005 to the current spelling.

On 16 August 1960, Joseph Kittinger, in the Excelsior III test jump, set the current world record for the highest parachute jump.

GCMG (,, Shim ' aoon Beereez ; born Szymon Perski ; 2 August 1923 ) is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel.

In 1893, Westinghouse Electric was hired to design a system to generate alternating current on Niagara Falls, and three years after that, the world's first large AC power system was created, activated on August 26, 1895.

The current director of GSI is Horst Stöcker who succeeded Walter F. Henning in August 2007.

The 50-foot-high statue, which rotated in order to always face the sun during daylight hours, was removed on August 26, 2010 after Niyazov ’ s successor, current President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, made it clear earlier in the year that the statue was going to be taken out of Ashgabat ’ s parliament square.

In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, and Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special convention.

* 14 August: The LVF was blamed for attacks on four homes belonging to current and former prison officers in Mid Ulster.