* Charge of the heavy brigade, The Guardian, 4 September 2006

The first phase of a proposed eastern bypass for the city is the Dublin Port Tunnel, which officially opened in 2006 to mainly cater for heavy vehicles.

The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the morning on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 2006 when Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon, leaving more than 1500 dead civilians and still the Israeli army couldn't penetrate the Lebanese land borders and was driven back by Hezbollah suffering heavy casualties and defeated.

In 2006 the U. S. trucking industry employed 1. 8 million drivers of heavy trucks.

However, the October 2006 emergence of a “ martyrdom ” video shot on January 18, 2000, along with Mohamed Atta has cast heavy doubt on such claims.

Proving their susceptibility to heavy weapons and their value as a military prize, the Islamic Courts Union ( ICU ) was able to capture 30 " battlewagons " during the defeat of warlord Abdi Qeybdid's militia at the Second Battle of Mogadishu in 2006.

Only in 2006 and after heavy political pressure were women allowed to be members of this party.

However, due to extremely heavy rains, the Susquehanna River crested high enough that most of the city had to be evacuated on June 28, 2006, forcing the cancellation of the events.

The river occasionally floods after heavy rain, such as on 20 October 2006, and again on 29 May 2008, when rainfall was so heavy that the culverts were unable to cope with the volume of water, resulting in the flooding of some of the lower-lying parts of the town.

However, Cypriot politicians have frequently spoken out against Israeli military raids in the Palestinian territories as well as the 2006 Lebanon War, during which Cyprus was forced to manage a heavy flow of refugees and aid out of and in to Lebanon.

On January 24 through January 28, 2006, a snowstorm which also affected Eastern Europe brought heavy snowfalls with snow accumulating to heights ranging from, cutting off roads from the rest of Greece in the northern, eastern and southern parts of the island.

Due to heavy road traffic on the aging, one-lane bridge, construction on a new steel and concrete bridge to bypass the covered bridge occurred in the summer of 2006.

On November 7, 2006 he also produced Lumines II for PSP, the sequel to the popular original ( this time supplementing the original score with a heavy integration of music videos ), and a shooter / puzzle hybrid game called Every Extend Extra ( a heavily-modified ' synesthesia ' update to an existing PC freeware title, Every Extend ," by indie developer " Omega "), which was released on August 7, 2006.

In the summer of 2006 the exit ramps and overpass on Interstate 75 were widened to accommodate heavy truck and car traffic to the truck stops.

Moreno's influences include such bands as The Cure, Bad Brains, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Duran Duran, The Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, Helmet, Jawbox, Faith No More, Hum, Kool Keith, Alice in Chains, Tool, Jane's Addiction and Weezer, and claims that Deftones ' 2006 album, Saturday Night Wrist, is more of a compromise between all of the members ' influences, ranging from their brutal and brooding heavy signature seen on Adrenaline and Around the Fur to the more experimental sound heard on White Pony and Deftones.

On January 9, 2006, a heavy winter storm struck the prefecture and its neighbors.

On 31 December 2006, Wet Wet Wet were the headline act for Aberdeen's Hogmanay celebrations when the celebrations in all other Scottish cities was held off because of strong winds and heavy rain.

His wife Diana Mukpo wrote in 2006 that: " Although he had many of the classic health problems that develop from heavy drinking, it was in fact more likely the diabetes and high blood pressure that led to abnormal blood sugar levels and then the cardiac arrest ".

In August 2006 it was announced that after heavy losses Superbank would be shut down and have its portfolio sold to GE Money.

The band promoted the album in 2006, touring with heavy metal band Sevendust.

In 2006, shortly after Hurricane Ernesto affected Bath, North Carolina, eleven year-old Kevin Schanze discovered a piece of metal debris on the ground near his beach home.

* Chimera ( Andromeda album ), a 2006 album by Swedish progressive metal band Andromeda

In 2006, frontman Aaron Lewis was listed in metal magazine Hit Paraders Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists list at No. 49.

According to Max Boot's book War Made New ( 2006, pg 122 ), sometime between 1803 and 1809, the Prussian General Staff developed war games, with staff officers moving metal pieces around on a game table ( with blue pieces representing their forces and red pieces those of the enemy ), using dice rolls to indicate random chance and with a referee scoring the results.

On their 2006 album The Morrigan's Call, the Irish Celtic metal band Cruachan featured a song " Ungoliant " as well as one named after Shelob.

* " City of Dis ", a song by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura from their 2006 release Dante XXI

In 2006, the band toured extensively through North America and Europe with their new guitarist, Ben Christo, formerly of UK punk / metal band AKO.

On March 9, 2006, Tad Morose announced their new frontman-American metal legionnaire Joe Comeau, formerly of Liege Lord, Overkill and Annihilator.

In June 2006 it was announced that portable X-ray machines and metal detectors would be randomly placed at stations and carried by officers on trains during summer 2006 to catch people carrying weapons, in a joint operation with Essex Police and British Transport Police, following trials at London Underground stations.

Nostalgia for the genre was evidenced in the production of the glam metal themed musical Rock of Ages, which ran in Los Angeles in 2006 and in New York in 2008.

A 2006 New York Times article suggested the retractable hardtop may herald the demise of the textile-roofed convertible, and a 2007 Wall Street Journal article suggested " more and more convertibles are eschewing soft cloth tops in favor of sophisticated folding metal roofs, making them practical in all climates, year-round.

A 2006 New York Times article suggested the retractable hardtop may herald the demise of the textile-roofed convertible, and a 2007 Wall Street Journal article suggested " more and more convertibles are eschewing soft cloth tops in favor of sophisticated folding metal roofs ".

Because of soaring metal prices in early 2006, by May of that year the pre-1992 ( 97 % copper ) coins contained 3p worth of copper each.

& Soler, F. ( 2006 ): Heavy metal and arsenic content in seabirds affected by the Prestige oil spill on the Galician coast ( NW Spain ).

In 2006, " Beverage Bags " were introduced to the MRE, as servicemembers have begun to depend more on hydration packs than on canteens, thus denying them the use of the metal canteen cups ( shaped to fit in a canteen pouch with the canteen ) for mixing powdered beverages.

* Tempest ( Balflare album ), a 2006 album by Japanese power metal band Balflare

In its 2006 In Review issue ( February 2007 ), Revolver Magazine dubbed Christian metal the phenomenon of the year.

Mixed by Dutkiewicz, the album received mostly positive reviews — Thom Jurek of Allmusic called it " a Top Five metal candidate for 2006 for sure ".

* In 2006, Malibu punk / metal band 2Cents released Lost at Sea ( Atlantic Records ), which features a tribute song to Abbott titled " A Song for Darrell Abbott ".

* Finnish metal band Kiuas ´ song " Bleeding Strings " from their 2006 album Reformation is dedicated to Dimebag Darrell.

* Brazilian death metal band Krisiun dedicated their 2006 album AssassiNation to the memory of Dimebag and late Vader drummer Doc.

and the track was featured on " cello metal " band Apocalyptica's 2006 album Amplified // A Decade of Reinventing the Cello.