Entrants included Jackass stars Ryan Dunn and Bam Margera, driving Margera's Billy Idol-customized Lamborghini Gallardo ; Tony Hawk, Mike Vallely, and Rooftop Escamilla in a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 ; blink-182's Travis Barker drove his Rolls Royce Phantom with Swizz Beatz ; Dirty Sanchez used a Japan-Tuning style Nissan 180SX ; Dan Joyce, Matthew Pritchard, and Love Actually star Martine McCutcheon drove a pink Range Rover ; and American television host Matt Johnston drove his custom 2006 Dodge Charger, among Gumball's regular assortment of eccentrics, celebrities, millionaires and billionaires from all over the world.

In 2006 he started his vlog to cover a different point of view with irony, humour and an assortment of characters that reflect the gay community in a pecliar news report called " Teledivario: news from the other side of the street ".

In 2006, the Grand Canyon University Campus received a $ 150 million makeover including a brick promenade, an aquatics center, with pool and hot tub, and a café offering an assortment of games and big-screen televisions.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

Speaking on Channel Nine TV on 25 November 2006, he said x-rays of the urn had shown the pedestal and handles were cracked, and repair work had to be carried out.

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

* 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.

By 2001, the population had jumped to 206, 073, and it was 217, 988, in 48, 061 families, according to 2006 census.

As of December 2006, the Recorded A Cappella Review Board ( RARB ) had reviewed over 660 a cappella albums since 1994, and its popular discussion forum had over 900 users and 19, 000 articles.

The software, maintained by AOL, Inc., at one time had the largest share of the instant messaging market in North America, especially in the United States ( with 52 % of the total reported as of 2006 ).

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless ( Caribbean ) had a statutory monopoly on telephone and other electronic communications services.

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

To complement this, a permanent live news ticker had earlier been introduced in 2006: this had only previously been in use sporadically.

* In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.

This logo had been used in the Beano Club for one issue in 2006.

The logo was still grooved, but was now back to the rounded style which it had from 1999 to 2006.

" In 2006, the state with the largest number of students enrolled was South Carolina, but many of these were married students who had moved from other parts of the country to attend the University.

Beef extract was eventually reintroduced as a key Bovril ingredient in 2006, after the European Commission lifted its ban on the export of Britain's beef products ; it was only at this point that the manufacturer stated explicitly that this had been the main reason for beef's removal.

In 2006, Bo Diddley participated as the headliner of a grassroots organized fundraiser concert, to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs.

Chad and Taiwan had relations from 1962 to 1972 and 1997 to 2006 when, for financial and security reasons, Chad announced its intention to recognize China.

During a UN mission in the northern part of the country in November 2006, the mission had a meeting with a prefect who said that he could not maintain law and order over the military and the presidential guards.

In 2006 – 07 season the accounting method changed to IFRS, which 2005 – 06 result was reclassified as net loss of € 4, 051, 905 and 2006 – 07 season was net income of € 10, 135, 539 (€ 14. 011 million as a group ).

After years of operating profits at Community Newspaper and losses at the Herald, Purcell in 2006 sold the suburban chain to newspaper conglomerate Liberty Group Publishing of Illinois, which soon after changed its name to GateHouse Media.

In January 2006, MP Tsogtyn Bataa changed sides from the Motherland Party to the MRPR, giving the latter exactly 50 % of the seats.

In 2006 NASDAQ changed from stock market to licensed national exchange.

A historic moment came about in 2006 when the town of Radłów changed its local laws to make German, alongside Polish, the district ’ s second official language ; thus becoming the first town in the region to achieve such a feat.

On April 1, 2006, Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home was sold to Arvin Starrett and E. Casey Rose ( who was managing the firm at the time ) and the name was changed to Starrett-Rose Funeral Home.

In June 2006, after the General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama changed policy ( details ), both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups praised the resolution.

As a result of studies showing the effects of sleep deprivation on grades, and the different sleep patterns for teenagers, a school in New Zealand, changed its start time to 10: 30 a. m., in 2006, to allow students to keep to a schedule that allowed more sleep.

In France the Nice Matin, a popular Southern France newspaper changed from Broadsheet to Tabloid on April 8, 2006.

* A 2006 survey of leading rock and film stars by Uncut magazine ranking films, books, music or TV shows that changed the world, placed The Prisoner at # 10, the highest for a TV show.

On October 29, 2006, the background changed to red, the title text color changed to white, and the stopwatch was shifted to the upright position.

In November 2006, it changed its name to Soho Revue Bar.

In 2006 the Corporation of London changed its name to the City of London Corporation.

In 2006, she became lead singer of the pop rock band Ultra Orange, and the group's name was changed to Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle.

In 2006, McDonald's changed the design of their McFlurry containers to be more hedgehog-friendly.

However, after the government changed policy and subsidies for fertilizer and seed were introduced, farmers produced record-breaking corn harvests in 2006 and 2007 as production leaped to 3. 4 million in 2007 from 1. 2 million in 2005.

This occurred when Hisanoumi changed his nationality from Tongan at the end of 2006, allowing another Tongan to enter his stable, and Kyokutenhō's change of citizenship allowed Ōshima stable to recruit Mongolian Kyokushuho in May 2007.

Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) and Kuwait also followed this convention until they changed to a Friday – Saturday weekend, on 1 September 2006 in Bahrain and UAE, and a year later in Kuwait.

Despite finishing the 2005 – 06 season in seventh, Roeder's fortunes changed in the 2006 – 07 season, with a terrible injury run to the senior squad, and he left the club by mutual consent on 6 May 2007.

However, there are calls for this to be changed, and a 2006 survey conducted by the BBC suggested that 55 % of the English public would rather have " Land of Hope and Glory " than " God Save the Queen " as their national anthem.

On January 16, 2006, Pharmacia Diagnostics announced that its name was changed to Phadia, which has ended the use of the Pharmacia trademark.

After the 2006 elections the CDA changed their course radically: they formed a new fourth cabinet Balkenende still led by Balkenende, but now with the social-democratic PvdA and the social-Christian ChristianUnion.

In 2006, the party changed its logo from the torch, to featuring a Anemone hepatica, reminiscent of the party's very first logo.