* Satellite photo of the Alps, taken on 31 August 2005 by MODIS aboard Terra

In August 2005, India revealed its new anti-hijacking policy.

This is not an annual event ; the most recent performances have been in August 2000 and 2005 but more are planned.

* August 25, 2005: Tsukuba Express, Tokyo's fastest private railway, opens in Akihabara.

The Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois presented a staged concert on August 26 and 27, 2005, with Audra McDonald ( Fay ), Michael Cerveris ( Hapgood ) and Patti LuPone ( Cora ).

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.

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In August 2005, police in Cambridgeshire, England, issued warnings about thieves using Bluetooth enabled phones to track other devices left in cars.

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

Octavian ( Julius Caesar's 18-year old adopted son and heir ), and Cleopatra of Egypt ( Joseph M. Horodyski, Military Heritage, August 2005, Volume 7, No. 1, pp 58 to 63, and p. 78 ), ISSN 1524-8666.

On August 8 / 9, 2005, China Central Television ( CCTV ) aired a two-part documentary about flying rods in China.

Image: HKWanchaiwaterfront. jpg | A view of Wanchai waterfront with Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in the foreground and Central Plaza behind it, August 2005

In August 2005, Elwes filed a lawsuit against Evolution Entertainment, his management firm and producer of Saw.

__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.

Another version of the song was recorded by Chris Kline in August 2005.

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

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

* The first EVA to perform an in-flight repair of the Space Shuttle was by American Steve Robinson on August 3, 2005, during " Return to Flight " mission STS-114.

On 4 August 2005, Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry called for more Indo-Fijians, who presently comprise less than one percent of the Military personnel, to be recruited.

On 26 August 2005, the government announced plans to study ways to reduce the size of the military.

* " Rank and Phile " – Arts Hub feature, August 12, 2005

The plan began to be implemented on 15 August 2005, and was completed on 12 September 2005.

On 24 August, Bainimarama went public with allegations that Senator Apisai Tora and other politicians, whom he did not name, had asked him to depose President Iloilo in 2000.

* Senator Apisai Tora harshly criticized the Military on 23 August for opposing the legislation.

On 24 August 2005, Commodore Bainimarama went public with allegations that a number of politicians, including the nationalistic Senator Apisai Tora, had approached him at a meeting held in the boardroom of the Fijian Holdings company during the 2000 crisis and asked him to depose the newly appointed President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, barely a week after Iloilo's inauguration.

In an angry reaction on 24 August, Commodore Bainimarama accused Tora of using fear to influence voters in the upcoming election by threatening instability if indigenous Fijian parties do not win.

In a statement on 29 August, Tora emphatically denied having taken part in any meeting at the Fijian Holdings boardroom where the proposal to remove President Iloilo was allegedly discussed.

On 31 August, Tora defended his racial rhetoric, saying that racial politics was a fact of life in Fiji and that people needed to face that reality.

Police spokeswoman Sylvia Low announced on 25 August that they were considering opening an investigation into allegations made the previous day by the Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, that Senator Apisai Tora and a number of others had approached him in the Fijian Holdings boardroom during the 2000 crisis and asked him to remove from office President Ratu Josefa Iloilo.

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.

On 4 August Orwell gave a talk at the Adelphi Summer School held at Langham, entitled An Outsider Sees the Distressed Areas ; others who spoke at the School included John Strachey, Max Plowman, Karl Polanyi and Reinhold Niebuhr.

In August 2008, he spoke at the book launch of Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution, authored by economist David Love.

John Morgan spoke at the ICM on the Poincaré conjecture on August 24, 2006, declaring that " in 2003, Perelman solved the Poincaré Conjecture.

At the beginning of August 2008, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his colleagues from Argentina and Brazil spoke about Latin American integration and Chavez threw an ambitious idea out: a train that would connect Venezuela's capital ( Caracas ) with Argentina's ( Buenos Aires ), and cities in between.

* August 11 ( Wednesday ) Frederick Douglass spoke in front of the Anti-Slavery Covention in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

He also spoke in support of the Slum Clearances Bill, which provided entitlement for full compensation for those who purchased a house after August 1939 and still occupied it in December 1955 if this property would be compulsorarily purchased by the government if it was deemed unfit for human habitation.

When Ralph Sadler spoke to her again in August, Guise assured him the English marriage would go ahead when Mary was ten years old.

In June, Chamberlain spoke at St. Helens against his doctor's orders, and vacationed again in August, travelling to Aix-les-Bains.

In August 2007, she spoke out against homophobia at the International Association of Suicide Prevention 24th Biennial Conference.

In an interview with The Guardian, Hoskins spoke of his regret at appearing in the film Super Mario Bros .. On 8 August 2012, Hoskins announced his retirement from acting after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2011.

On 3 August Law spoke openly in the House of Commons, saying that " the Government already know, but I give them now the assurance on behalf of the party of which I am leader in this House, that in whatever steps they think it necessary to take for the honour and security of this country they can rely upon the unhesitating support of the Opposition ".

During its existence the JMIP forged strong links with the Scottish Socialist Party, and Tommy Sheridan spoke at its Summer Gathering in August 2003.

On 2 August when the Commons debated the Orissa famine in India, Cranborne spoke out against experts, political economy, and the government of Bengal.

On Sunday, August 24, 2008, the day before the convention began, Kovic spoke, then led thousands in a march against the war which ended with him saying, " In the city of Denver, we got welcomed home.

On 17 August French met General Charles Lanrezac, commanding the French Fifth Army on his right-they conferred in private despite the fact that Lanrezac spoke no English and Sir John could speak little French, Henry Wilson being eventually called over to translate.

Jade and Ryan both had an interview with the E Team from U20 Radio Station which aired on 7 August 2010, where they briefly spoke to Peter Styles about the Facebook group and the show.

More recently, Charles Cecil spoke in a Eurogamer interview dated August 10, 2006, of his admiration for the work done by ScummVM and the resulting interest in a sequel.

President George W. Bush spoke to military personnel, their families and civilian employees at Collier Field House while visiting U. S. Army Garrison Yongsan, 6 August 2008.

Moberly and Jourdain described how they had become convinced, over the following weeks, that persons they saw and even spoke to on that occasion – given certain details of dress, accent, topography and architecture – must have been of a presumed recollection by Marie Antoinette, on August 10, 1792, of her last days at Trianon in 1789.

Schill managed to cause a stir and a wave of indignation throughout the whole of Germany when he spoke in front of the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament, in the final session of the 14th Bundestag on 29 August 2002.

According to James Madison who took notes at the Convention, Morris spoke openly against slavery on August 8, 1787:

On August 30, Lenin spoke at a Moscow factory called " Hammer and Sickle ".

Taylor and Adams promoted a famous angle in August which involved a press conference, where Taylor spoke about his situation with Adams and then left.

In August 2011 he joined the Scottish Socialist Party, and on 1 October 2011 he spoke at an SSP fringe meeting in Glasgow following the STUC anti-cuts demonstration.