From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.

The damaged sections of the Pentagon were rebuilt in 2002, with occupants moving back into the completed areas on August 15, 2002.

She notably spoke of her support for its reintroduction for the worst cases of murder in the aftermath of the murder of two 10-year-old girls from Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.

The U. S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV / AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

Several international financial institutions have praised the economic reforms introduced by former president Álvaro Uribe ( elected 7 August 2002 ), which include measures designed to reduce the public-sector deficit below 2. 5 % of GDP in 2004.

For example, Ecuador has closed its main border crossing with Colombia every night since August 2002, when evidence emerged that Colombian guerrillas and paramilitaries were asserting control over Ecuador's border communities.

The death penalty was removed from peacetime law in August 2002, and in May 2004 Turkey amended its constitution in order to remove capital punishment in all circumstances.

" On August 13, 2002 American Catholic bishops issued a joint statement with leaders of Reform and Conservative Judaism, called " Reflections on Covenant and Mission ", which affirmed that Christians should not target Jews for conversion.

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Bucknell University Press ( August 1, 2002 ).

A proposed alternative end-of-mission plan involved an encounter with the asteroid 1999 KK1 in August 2002.

In the United States, the primary standard for full-featured EVM systems is the ANSI / EIA-748A standard, published in May 1998 and reaffirmed in August 2002.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (; May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002 ) was a Dutch computer scientist.

He died in Nuenen on August 6, 2002 after a long struggle with cancer.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

On 1 June 2002 Baresi was officially appointed as director of football at Fulham, but tensions between Baresi and then Fulham manager Jean Tigana led to resignation from the club in August.

* Baddeley, Gavin: Goth Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture ( Plexus, US, August 2002, ISBN 0-85965-308-0 )

* XHTML 1. 0, published January 26, 2000, as a W3C Recommendation, later revised and republished August 1, 2002.

Windows XP SP1 was released in September 2002, SP2 came out in August 2004 and SP3 came out in April 2008.

The Socialists re-elected Ilir Meta as Prime Minister in August 2001, a post which he held till February 2002, when he resigned due to party infighting.

* Ambrós ( Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza ( 31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992 )), a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno ( Captain Thunder ).

Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.

On August 19, 1727, Bradley then embarked upon a further series of observations using a telescope of his own erected at the Rectory, Wanstead.

The elector Clemens August ( ruled 1723-1761 ) ordered the construction of a series of Baroque buildings which still give the city its character.

" By a series of brilliant marches Marlborough concentrated his forces on Donauwörth and, by noon 11 August, the link-up was complete.

In early August the Cubs swept the Mets in a 4-game home series that further distanced them from the pack.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

After losing each of the first two games by two runs, the Rockies opened up a 5 – 2 lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on August 30.

In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, alleging that the contras contributed to the rise of crack cocaine in California.

A more dramatic upgrade to the PDP-1 series was introduced in August 1966, the PDP-9.

At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.

Nine of the 14 episodes from the first ( Rediffusion ) series were released on DVD in the UK and the US in August 2005.

In the United States, the series premiered in August 1999 on the Fox Television Network.

On Sunday 12 August 2012, new president Mohamed Morsi announced a series of military appointments.

In August 2012 Channel 4 viewers voted the series as the No 1 in C4's 30 Greatest Comedy Shows.

The first manga was originally serialized in Young Magazine from April 1989 to November 1990 and was followed by a sequel, Man-Machine Interface, from September 1991 to August 1997 ; each series was later published as its own tankōbon volume by Kodansha.

The HKTD has also regulated, after a series of minibus accidents, that all new minibuses brought into service after August 2005 must have safety belts installed, and riders must use safety belts when there is one.

The most notable eruptions of Krakatoa culminated in a series of massive explosions August 26 – 27, 1883, which were among the most violent volcanic events in recorded history.

The adaptation on the UK series Out of This World was telecast August 11, 1962.

In August 2007, Microsoft issued its Game Content Usage Rules, a license intended to address the legal status of machinima based on its games, including the Halo series.

Beginning in August 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of concentrated aerial attacks ( designated Unternehmen Adlerangriff or Operation Eagle Attack ) on targets throughout the United Kingdom in an attempt to destroy the RAF ( Royal Air Force ) and establish air superiority over Great Britain.

* Polyphemus is also the subject of a series of sculptures made by the French artist August Rodin about 1888.

The first game of the Mario Kart series, it was launched in Japan on August 27, 1992, in North America on September 1, 1992, and in Europe on January 21, 1993.

SGI rapidly evolved its machines into workstations with its second product line — the IRIS 2000 series, first released in August, 1985.

August saw a losing record of 13 – 15, as the club lost four series against the Braves, Padres, Phillies, and Cardinals.