The Rocna obtained the highest averaged holding power in SAIL magazine's comparison testing in 2006 and the highest " ultimate holding capacity " in Practical Boat Owner's testing in August 2011.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

After suggestions of selling Jaguar Cars, Land Rover or Volvo Cars, Ford appointed UBS AG to sell all or part of Aston Martin by auction and announced the fact in August 2006.

At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.

* Powell, Michael, " Boston's Big Dig Awash in Troubles ", Washington Post, 2004-11-19, Retrieved on August 9, 2006.

* ScienceDaily: Physicist Discovers Exotic Superconductivity ( University of Arizona ) August 17, 2006

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

* BBC News report on handover, 8 August 2006

On 11 August 2006, Chad and Sudan resumed relations at the behest of Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi.

Taiwan broke off relations with Chad on August 5, 2006 ( hours before a scheduled official visit by Premier Su Tseng-chang ) and Chad formally recognized the PRC on August 6.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Unemployment finally dipped to 7. 8 % in 2006, and continued to fall in 2007, averaging 6. 8 % monthly ( up to August ).

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After it was shown that at least one such body was larger than Pluto, on August 24, 2006 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) reclassified Pluto, grouping it with two similarly sized " dwarf planets " rather than with the eight " classical planets ".

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

That was the origin of a fight between the two parts from 20 – 22 August 2006 in the streets of the capital, Kinshasa.

* Cole, Alan, " Simplicity for the Sophisticated: ReReading the Daode Jing for the Polemics of Ease and Innocence ," in History of Religions, August 2006, pp. 1 – 49

Bomber operations ceased from Diego Garcia on 15 August 2006.

The 2006 " Days of Syn " was on 26 – 28 August ( UK August Bank Holiday weekend ) and featured a talk on Dr. Syn at the Anglican church at 6: 30 p. m. On Sunday at 3 p. m. there was a church service where Dr. Syn and the cast appeared in period costume.

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.

In Tasmania, on 19 August 2008, amendments were introduced in to allow retrial in serious cases, if there is " fresh and compelling " evidence.

On August 9, 1995, Whitacre was terminated for conducting a $ 9. 5 million fraud after ADM learned that he was an FBI informant for three years, where Whitacre wore a wire for the FBI assisting in one of the largest price fixing cases in U. S. history against ADM.

Food prices were stabilised in December 1939, initially as temporary measure, but made permanent in August 1940, while both milk and meals were provided at subsidised prices, or free in those cases of real need.

In August 1999 the U. S. affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Race, Rights & Brutality: Portraits of Abuse in the USA ," prompted by high-profile excessive-force cases involving local and state police in Chicago, New York and other cities, that called on federal officials to better document excessive-force cases and to ensure that the officers responsible are prosecuted.

There were thirteen meetings from May to August 1291 at Berwick, where the claimants to the crown pleaded their cases before Edward, in what came to be known as the " Great Cause ".

According to spokesperson Vivian Tan of the WHO office in Beijing, " In cases like this August 2009, we encourage the authorities to identify cases, to investigate any suspicious symptoms among close contacts, and to treat confirmed cases as soon as possible.

He said August 1 that most of the infections are bubonic plague, with four cases of pneumonic plague.

The dates listed are launch dates, but the achievements noted may have occurred some time laterin some cases, a considerable time later ( for example, Voyager 2, launched 20 August 1977, did not reach Neptune until 1989 ).

After a series of court cases, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in favor of Sapulpa on August 1, 1913.

One of the nine reported cases of a close encounter of the fourth kind in the U. S. for the year 1995 occurred in Forest Lake on August 19, 1995.

By September, 1, 104 cases were recorded ( out of a population of just over 8, 000 ), including 713 in April, 261 in May, 83 in June, 31 in July, 15 in August and 1 in September.

Since August 1995, all criminal cases which go to court are tried at the district court first.

Similar outbreaks were reported in Singapore ( more than 2, 600 cases as of April 20, 2008 ), Vietnam ( 2, 300 cases, 11 deaths ), Mongolia ( 1, 600 cases ), and Brunei ( 1053 cases from June – August 2008 )

Over 10, 000 new cases were recorded in the second half of August alone.

* Congo-Brazzaville ( variously named, often Middle Congo ) had a single High commissioner, a bit after it was granted on 28 November 1958 autonomy ( as Republic of Congo ), 7 January 1959 – 15 August 1960: Guy Noël Georgy ( b. 1918 – d. 2003 ) after many Lieutenant governors since 11 December 1888 ( under the governor-general of AEF, except the several cases when he governed the French Congo personally ); afterwards it was an independent republic

In August 2008, the British Journal of Psychiatry reported similar cases in the United Kingdom.

In some cases, the series looked set to return but never did ; for example, in the London region Carlton ( where, the series was mid-run after beginning on predecessor Thames Television ), where viewers were told, in August 1998 after episode 598, that the run would resume after a Summer break, but the series never returned.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

The decrees proposed by the amici curiae were filed in August of 1958.

Those persons who were lucky enough to see and hear the performance of his work at the Brest-Silevniov Festival in August, 1916, will certainly welcome his return to public notice ; ;

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.

`` In August our dealers sold 13% more farm machinery than a year earlier and in September retail sales were 14% higher than last year '', says Mark V. Keeler, farm equipment vice president of International Harvester Co..

They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.

On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act that authorized judiciary proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederate war effort.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

Angola-Vietnam relations were established in August 1971, four years before Angola gained its independence, when future President of Angola Agostinho Neto visited Vietnam.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

) His men were routed when they encountered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army.

In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.

Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

In August of 1334 Stefan Dusan and Andronikos made peace, and the forces of Andronikos were allowed to retake control of those parts of Macedonia that Syrgiannes had captured.

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

On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.

Image: Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Burning in Interior Alaska ( natural ). jpg | The thick pall of smoke the fires were creating ( August 2, 2009 ).

There were union conferences about this matter held in August 2009 which reached the conclusion to keep the treaty until pending investigation.

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.