During the first 11 months of 2006, the European Union remained Armenia's largest trading partner, accounting for 34. 4 percent of its $ 2. 85 billion commercial exchange during the 11-month period.

The largest successful publicly known brute force attack against any block-cipher encryption was against a 64-bit RC5 key by distributed. net in 2006.

In 2006, the deviation from the national average was the largest for any province in Canadian history.

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, 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.

In the United Kingdom, DSG ( Dixons ), the largest retailer of domestic electronic equipment, reported that CRT models made up 80 – 90 % of the volume of televisions sold at Christmas 2004 and 15 – 20 % a year later, and that they were expected to be less than 5 % at the end of 2006.

The class of 2006 was the largest class to go through Cadillac Public Schools.

In 2006 the Danish military budget was the fifth largest single portion of the Danish Government's total budget, significantly less than that of the Ministry of Social Affairs (~ 110 billion DKK ), Ministry of Employment (~ 67 billion DKK ), Ministry of the Interior and Health (~ 66 billion DKK ) and Ministry of Education (~ 30 billion DKK ) and only slightly larger than that of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (~ 14 billion DKK ).

It was put into service in September 2006, aboard the world's largest container ship Emma Maersk which belongs to the A. P.

Ecuador's economy is the eighth largest in Latin America and experienced an average growth of 4. 6 % between 2000 and 2006.

Exports are almost entirely agricultural commodities, with coffee as the largest foreign exchange earner, and its flower industry becoming a new source of revenue: for 2005 / 2006 ( the latest year available ) Ethiopia's coffee exports represented 0. 9 % of the world exports, and oilseeds and flowers each representing 0. 5 %.

What began as a programme of marginal acts has become the largest arts festival in the world, with 1867 different shows being staged in 2006, in 261 venues.

Globally one of the largest contributors to erosive soil loss in the year 2006 is the slash and burn treatment of tropical forests.

As of 2006, the federal government operates the largest voucher program, for evacuees from the region affected by Hurricane Katrina.

A 2006 study from Brazil examined data from testing children during 1930 and 2002 – 2004, the largest time gap ever considered.

It is the third largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of about 397, 456 as of 2006.

The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4, 354, 155 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14 % of the nation's total population.

Finland holds the record for the largest number of people singing karaoke at one time, for over 80, 000 people singing " Hard Rock Hallelujah " on 26 May 2006 in Helsinki after Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

Arcelor was taken over in 2006 by Mittal Steel to form Arcelor-Mittal, the largest steel producer in the world.

Mongolia is the world's second largest producer of cashmere, with the main company, Gobi Cashmere, accounting for 21 % of world cashmere production as of 2006.

The largest Antarctic ozone hole recorded as of September 2006

If their estimates are correct, 6. 1 percent of North Korea's total population was in the military, numerically the world's fifth largest military force, in the late 1980s ( fourth largest as of 2006 ).

The USA has become Peru's largest trading partner following a free trade agreement with the United States signed on April 12, 2006 and a free trade agreement with China ( 2009 ).

For instance, between 2006 and 2011, Chopin potato vodka earned one double gold, three gold, and two silver medals from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

* 2006 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Love ) ( b. 1945 )

* 1920 – Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer ( d. 2006 )

* 1928 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer ( d. 2006 )

* 1974 – J Dilla, American record producer ( d. 2006 )

* 1933 – James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Dan Curtis, American television producer and director ( b. 1928 )

Turkey's Vestel is the largest TV producer in Europe, accounting for a quarter of all TV sets manufactured and sold on the continent in 2006.

Turkey has a large and growing automotive industry, which produced 1, 024, 987 motor vehicles in 2006, ranking as the 7th largest automotive producer in Europe ; behind Germany ( 5, 819, 614 ), France ( 3, 174, 260 ), Spain ( 2, 770, 435 ), the United Kingdom ( 1, 648, 388 ), Russia ( 1, 508, 358 ) and Italy ( 1, 211, 594 ), respectively.

Mexico, once the leading producer of natural vanilla, with an annual 500 tons, produced only 10 tons of vanilla in 2006.

Singer worked either as an executive producer or producer on eight of Herzog ’ s documentaries starting with “ Lessons of Darkness ” in 1991, “ The Wild Blue Yonder ” – won the International Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, 2006 and including two of the most recent “ La Boheme, short ”, 2009, and “ Into the Abyss ”/” Death Row ”, 2011.

** J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, African-American hip-hop producer ( d. 2006 )

** Aaron Spelling, American television producer and writer ( d. 2006 )

In March 2006, original producer Celador announced that it was seeking to sell the worldwide rights to the show, together with the UK programme library, as the first phase of a sell-off of the company's format and production divisions.

During the 1980s, peanut production began to increase so greatly that as of 2006, China was the world's largest peanut producer.

On November 26, 2006 the network broadcast an hour-long documentary titled The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank featuring rarely-seen footage of the 1960s version, many odd or memorable moments from the main 1973 – 1982 runs, plus interviews with Rayburn, Somers, Dawson, DeBartolo, producer Ira Skutch, and others involved in the show's production.

On January 4, 2006, Discovery Communications announced anchor Ted Koppel, executive producer Tom Bettag and eight other former Nightline staff were joining Discovery Channel.

In 2006, the seijin shotacon OVA anime, which the producer has described as the first shotacon anime, was released.

In 2006, Mizuguchi pursued his love of technology and electronic music, founding the band Genki Rockets with a consistent group of collaborators, notably songwriter and producer, Kenji Tamai, as well as singers Rachel Rhodes and Nami Miyahara.

* Jan Tuttel ( 1943 – 2006 ), – Drents nature activist, columnist, publicist en TV-presenter / producer

After Disney's acquisition of Pixar in 2006, Pixar executive producer John Lasseter became Chief Creative Officer at both Pixar and Disney, with a plan to reintroduce two-dimensional animation, starting with The Princess and the Frog in 2009.

Currently residing in Long Beach, California ( having previously lived in Easton, Pennsylvania until around 2006 ), Howe continues to work as a session musician and producer, as well as providing online guitar lessons through his official website.