* 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.

The Bonapartes moved to Marseille but in August Toulon offered itself to the British and received the protection of a fleet under Admiral Hood.

* July 29 – August 21 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Toulon – Allies are obliged to withdraw, but the French fleet is effectively put out of action.

) In Toulon, the opponents of the Revolution handed the city to a British and Spanish fleet on 28 August 1793.

The Germans in Toulon resisted until 27 August, and Marseille was not liberated until 25 August.

Toulon has an average of 2899. 3 hours of sunshine a year, making it the sunniest city in metropolitan France, The average maximum daily temperature in August is 29. 1 ° C., and the average daily minimum temperature in January is 5. 8 ° C.

Toulon was captured by the Free French Forces of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny on 28 August 1944.

For example the American 6th Army Group, which was set up under the Mediterranean Theater of Operations to oversee Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes, was passed to SHAEF ( and into ETO ) a month after the invasion which took place on August 15, 1944.

The 157th Division retreated from Grenoble on 21 August toward the Alps, leaving a large gap in the eastern flank of the retreating Army Group G. Army Group G now decided to sacrifice 242nd Infantry Division in Toulon as well as the 244th Infantry Division in Marseille to buy time for the rest of Army Group G to retreat trough the Rhône Valley, while the 11th Panzer Division and the 198th Infantry Division would shield the retreat in several defense-lines.

After heavy fighting around Hyères, they approached Toulon on 19 August.

The invasion of southern France commenced on 15 August 1944, with Operation Dragoon, when Allied forces landed on the Riviera between Toulon and Cannes.

" They proceeded to suppress Caen, Lyon, and Marseille, although the counter-revolutionary forces turned Toulon over to Britain and Spain on 29 August, resulting in the capture of much of the French navy, and Toulon was not retaken by Dugommier ( with the assistance of the young Napoleon Bonaparte ) until 19 December.

* Lawrence Sephaka ( born 8 August 1978 ), a Springbok rugby player ( prop ) from 2001 to 2006 gaining 24 caps and playing in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, former Lions rugby player, and current professional player for Rugby Pro D2, the second level of the French professional league, for Toulon, attended Hoer Tegniese Skool in Springs.

In 1793 he joined Sir Samuel Hood, with 18 Spanish ships-of-the-line, in capturing the French naval arsenal of Toulon ( August – December ).

In August 1793, following the Siege of Toulon, Naples joined the First Coalition, comprising Great Britain, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal and Savoy-Sardinia, against France.

On August 15, 1944, in an effort to aid their operations in Normandy, the Allies launched Operation Dragoon — the invasion of Southern France between Toulon and Cannes.

On 1 August 1811 Keats was promoted vice-admiral and joined Sir Edward Pellew off Toulon.

On 5 August de la Clue left Toulon, and on 17 August passed the straits of Gibraltar, where he was sighted by the look-out ships of Boscawen.

* Téméraire, a torpedo boat ( 1944 ), sunk in a bombing in Toulon in August 1944.

As early as 1815 we find August Wilhelm von Schlegel reviewing the Altdeutsche Wälder ( a periodical published by the two brothers ) very severely, condemning the lawless etymological combinations it contained, and insisting on the necessity of strict philological method and a fundamental investigation of the laws of language, especially in the correspondence of sounds.

The brothers were in great disagreement and Frederick II negotiated a treaty with Ivan IV on August 7, 1562 in order to help his brother obtain more land and stall further Swedish advance.

On August 27, brothers Nawaf and Salem purchased flight tickets through Travelocity. com using Nawaf's Visa card.

On August 27, brothers Nawaf and Salem purchased flight tickets through Travelocity. com using Nawaf's visa card.

* August 7 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor ; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Imperial City ( Beijing ) ( which are doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising ), Cao Qin finds himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, loses three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he flees to his home in the city and commits suicide by jumping down a well located within his walled compound.

For years to come literary celebrities — e. g. Goethe, Wieland, the Schlegel brothers August and Friedrich, and Tieck — twice a week gather in her house.

She was tried and acquitted of suspected involvement in the Soledad brothers ' August 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California.

The settlement of Houston was founded in August 1836 by brothers J. K. Allen and A. C. Allen.

Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921, and was the oldest of three brothers and a sister.

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

* The television show American Pickers aired an episode on August 21, 2012 that consisted of a visit to the Mantini Funeral Home in Ford City as well as several other locations owned by the Mantini brothers.

In 1843 the August Heckscher family from New York acquired the Payne brothers holding, and changed the name to Heckscherville.

Godfrey, along with his two brothers, started in August 1096 at the head of an army from Lorraine ( some say 40, 000 strong ) along " Charlemagne's road ", as Urban II seems to have called it ( according to the chronicler Robert the Monk )— the road to Jerusalem.

In August 1867 Charles ( US consul in Switzerland ) and George Page, two brothers from Lee County, Illinois, USA, established the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in Cham, Switzerland.

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the Healy brothers supported the Allied and British war effort, two had a son enlist in one of the Irish divisions, Timothy's eldest son, Joe, fought with distinction at Gallipoli.

Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first ( unmanned ) hydrogen-filled balloon in August 1783 ; then in December 1783, Charles and his co-pilot Nicolas-Louis Robert ascended to a height of about 1, 800 feet ( 550 m ) in a manned balloon.

Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers launched the world's first hydrogen filled balloon on August 27, 1783, from the Champ de Mars, ( now the site of the Eiffel Tower ) where Ben Franklin was among the crowd of onlookers.

In 1798 Tieck married and in the following year settled in Jena, where he, the two brothers August and Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis were the leaders of the new Romantic school.

On 15 August 1998, McCoy and Pettitt held a press conference at the Zillo Festival in Germany, announcing their future plans to collaborate under two separate monikers, Fields of the Nephilim ( along with the Wright brothers ) and The Nephilim ( an altered spelling of McCoy's solo project ).< ref >

The studio, founded in 1919 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922.

The world's first hydrogen filled balloon — the unmanned Le Globe, launched by Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers on the Champ de Mars in Paris on 27 August 1783 — flew for forty-five minutes and landed in Gonesse, where the reportedly terrified local peasants destroyed it with pitchforks.

The expulsion in 1837 of the seven professors – Die Göttinger Sieben – the Germanist, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( 1800 – 1876 ); the historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann ( 1785 – 1860 ); the orientalist Georg Heinrich August Ewald ( 1803 – 1875 ); the historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus ( 1805 – 1875 ); the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( 1804 – 1891 ); and the philologists, the brothers Jakob ( 1785 – 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( 1786 – 1859 ), for protesting against the revocation by King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover of the liberal constitution of 1833, further reduced the prosperity of the university.

At the end of the 18th century, the university became the largest and most famous one among the German states and made Jena the centre of idealist philosophy ( with professors like Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schiller and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ) and of the early romanticism ( with poets like Novalis, the brothers August and Friedrich Schlegel, and Ludwig Tieck ).

FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862 under the name “ Toy Bazaar ” by German immigrant Frederick August Otto Schwarz, in Baltimore, where he and his brothers retailed toys from a fancy-goods store.

However, the relationship between the two brothers had become strained throughout 2009, leading eventually to a last-minute cancellation of an Oasis concert scheduled to take place on 28 August 2009 in Paris, due to an " altercation within the group.