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.

In August 2006, cases of bluetongue were found in the Netherlands, then Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg.

* 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.

In a polemical scientific essay that was published in the August 2006 issue of the journal Climatic Change, he says that an " escape route " is needed if global warming begins to run out of control.

In August, after extensive testing E-1 step samples of the 80286, Digital Research acknowledged that Intel corrected all documented 286 errata, but said there were still undocumented chip performance problems with the prerelease version of Concurrent DOS 286 running on the E-1 step.

* anon., Food Irradiation: Available Research Indicates That Benefits Outweigh Risks, RCED-00-217, August 24, 2000, Government Accountability Office, United States General Accounting Office, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, Washington, D. C. 20548 " Food Irradiation "

Meitnerium was first synthesized on August 29, 1982 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research ( Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung ) in Darmstadt .< ref name = 82Mu01 > The team bombarded a target of bismuth-209 with accelerated nuclei of iron-58 and detected a single atom of the isotope meitnerium-266:

* The exhibition The Persian Sensation: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in the West at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, February 3 – August 2, 2009

* Landin, Peter J .; A Generalization of Jumps and Labels, Report, UNIVAC Systems Programming Research, August 1965, reprinted in Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 11, pp. 125 – 143 ( 1998 )

* August 3 – Fritz Hellwig, German politician ( CDU ) and former European Commissioner for Science & Research

Within the year, Britain, Australia and New Zealand began a joint Antarctic Research Expedition, and the German airship Graf Zeppelin began a round-the-world flight ( ended August 29 ).

Alfred Charles Kinsey ( June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956 ) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

It is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research ( IACR ), and it is held yearly in August in Santa Barbara, California at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

* Paul Baran et al., On Distributed Communications, Volumes I-XI ( RAND Corporation Research Documents, August, 1964 )

The UB is also home to three large research foundations: the Barcelona Science Park Foundation ( PCB ), which includes the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona ( IRBB ); the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute ( IDIBAPS ); and the Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research ( IDIBELL ).

* WashingtonPost. com-' Poindexter to Leave Pentagon Research Job: Project to Create Futures Market on Events in Middle East Caused Controversy ', Bradley Graham, Washington Post ( August 1, 2003 )

* C. S. Herrman, The Bipolar Spectrum, SSRN ( Social Science Research Network, 5 August 2010 ),

EDVAC was delivered to the Ballistics Research Laboratory in August 1949.

In August, AOMC and Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA, a Department of Defense organization ) jointly initiated a program managed by ABMA to develop a large space booster of approximately 1. 5-million-pounds. thrust using a cluster of available rocket engines.

The importance of endothelial progenitor cells in tumor growth, angiogenesis and metastasis has been confirmed by a recent publication in Cancer Research ( August 2010 ).

In August 1961, John F. Parsons, Associate Director of the Ames Research Center, was tasked with heading a site selection team.

March 1958 to October 1963, he was Associate Professor, Institute of Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, although from November 1959 to August 1962 he was on leave from the above as Senior Research Associate with the honorary rank of Associate Professor and as the Acting Director, Laboratory of High Energy Physics and Cosmic Radiation, Department of Physics, University of Chicago.

* August 2005: Bentley acquires netGuru's Research Engineers International ( REI ) business including STAAD structural analysis and design software.

Beginning in August 1983, till May 1987, Indian government, through its intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing ( RAW ), provided arms, training and monetary support to 6 Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups including LTTE, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization ( TELO ), People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam ( PLOTE ), Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students ( EROS ) Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) and Tamil Eelam Liberation Army ( TELA ).

Journal of Folklore Research 43: 2 ( May – August 2006 ): 89-108.

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Blindness ( NINDB ), the original name for the NINDS, was officially established on November 22, 1950, three months after President Harry Truman signed the Omnibus Medical Research Act ( Public Law 81-692 ) on August 15, 1950.