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

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

On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.

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.

On 17 August 2008 club chairman and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ; his place at the chairmanship of the club was successively taken by his daughter Rosella.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

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 ".

in Stockholm 4 July 2008, and on Swedish television on 5 August.

In August 2008, two traffic lanes from 42nd to 35th Streets were taken out of service and converted to public plazas.

As a celebration, in partnership with the CLIC Sargent charity, 2 August 2008 was Gnashional Menace Day, where children were sponsored to behave like Dennis.

Regardless, the territory was formally transferred to Cameroon on 14 August 2008.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

* BBC News report on handover, 14 August 2008

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

* EU27 population projections 2008-2060, Eurostat Newsrelease 119 / 2008, 26 August 2008.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

In August 2008, a Comorian delegation visited China on a good-will visit.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.

she died on August sixth.

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 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

Daria is not featured in the newer episodes, but she will make a cameo, according to an August 2011 Rolling Stone interview with Mike Judge.

As of August 2012 she has seen eight, and plans to see the November 2012 total solar eclipse in Australia.

With this deed dating back to August 15, 805 A. D., the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she donated her entire property in Dachau, including 5 so called Colonenhöfe and some serfs and bondsman, to devolve to the Bishop of the Diocese of Freising after her death.

The encounter apparently went smoothly, for a brisk courtship followed and, by August, she had accepted his proposal of marriage.

On August 15, 1959, she married John Blume whom she had met while a student at New York University ; the wedding was held in the summer of her sophomore year of college.

Blume announced she was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2012 after undergoing a routine ultrasound as she was preparing to leave for a five-week trip to Italy.

She told the Florida newspaper Today in August 1993 that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles ' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet.

In August 1918, Pickford's contract expired and when refusing Zukor's terms for a renewal, she was offered $ 250, 000 to leave the motion picture business.

On 24 August 1975 their frogmen planted a mine on the river's bed below the hull of a navy destroyer, the ARA Santísima Trinidad, as she remained docked at Rio Santiago before her commissioning.

In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, " Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip ", which she continued to write until August.

Margaret Mitchell was struck by a speeding automobile as she crossed Peachtree Street at 13th Street in Atlanta with her husband, John Marsh, while on her way to see a movie on the evening of August 11, 1949.

Following the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, she said she was " terribly saddened ...

On August 4, 2009, after numerous contract negotiations, Abdul confirmed that she would not be returning to Idol for its ninth season.

In August 2005, the Fox network confirmed that she would be returning to the show, as the investigation had found " insufficient evidence that the communications between Mr. Clark and Ms. Abdul in any way aided his performance.

Pascalina Lehnert, born Josefina Lehnert 25 August 1894, the seventh of twelve children, near the village of Ebersberg in Bavaria, Pius XII's housekeeper and confidant from his time as nuncio to Germany, she followed him to Rome.

On August 12, 2009, Wright filed for divorce once more, declaring she had no plans to reconcile.

In August 1999, she posed for a nude pictorial in Playboy.

Ira Gershwin ( December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983 ) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

In August, 2001, they collaborated with other artists in a song titled " Canción para Vieques ", about the Navy-Vieques protests.

In August 2011 Ash collaborated with We Are Scientists to release a cover of the song " Washington Parks " by British songwriter Robert Manning, raising money and awareness for Multiple Sclerosis and The MS Society.

The brothers Arkady (; August 28, 1925 – October 12, 1991 ) and Boris (; born April 14, 1933 ) Strugatsky (; alternate spellings: Strugatskiy, Strugatski, Strugatskii ) are Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction.

Lil Hardin Armstrong ( February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971 ) was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader, and the second wife of Louis Armstrong with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s.

After the Indemnity and Oblivion Act became law on 29 August 1660, Cooper sat on the special commission that tried the regicides, and in this capacity took part in sentencing to death several colleagues with whom he had collaborated during the years of the English Interregnum, including Hugh Peters, Thomas Harrison, and Thomas Scot.

Joachim, who had first been alerted when Brahms informed him in August that " a few violin passages " would be coming in the mail, was eager that the concerto should be playable and idiomatic, and collaborated willingly, not that all his advice was heeded in the final score.

Geijer also collaborated with Arvid August Afzelius, in the three volume collection of Swedish folk-songs, Svenska folk-visor från forntiden ( Stockholm, 1814 – 1816 ).

After returning to Kalamazoo in August, he collaborated with Roger Gregoire in writing Worker-Student Action Committees, May 68.

In the second quarter of 1996, Tamia collaborated with American soul singer Gladys Knight, Brandy, and Chaka Khan for the single, " Missing You ", which was featured in the 1996 blockbuster film, Set It Off, and released in August of that year, the single peaked at # 10 on the Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs, and at # 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first Top 40 single and third Top 40 R & B hit overall.

During August 2002, Tom Fulp and Dan Paladin collaborated in creating the Flash game Alien Hominid for Newgrounds.

During August and September 2011 he collaborated with the artist Graham Dean in ' Painting Music ' which involved live painting projected across the walls, floors and audience with live music by David.

In August 2010, the band collaborated with author Neil Gaiman and comics author / artist Eddie Campbell at the inaugural Graphic festival at the Sydney Opera House, composing a 70-minute accompaniment to Gaiman's novella " The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains ".

The working group collaborated with a number of researchers at Physiome Sciences Inc. ( particularly Melanie Nelson, Scott Lett, Mark Grehlinger, Prasad Ramakrishna, Jeremy Rice, Adam Muzikant, and Kam-Chuen Jim ) to draft the initial CellML 1. 0 specification, which was published on the 11th of August 2001.

Leon Rupnik, also known as Lav Rupnik or Lev Rupnik ( August 10, 1880 – September 4, 1946 ) was a Slovene general during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia who collaborated with the Fascist Italian and Nazi German occupation forces during World War II.

In August, he was invited to participate in three events in The Big Draw: he collaborated with Zandra Rhodes on The Big Picture Frame at the V & A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, he gave a presentation of his watercolours in The Newsroom at The Guardian and in Covent Garden.

In addition, Himuro released first collaborated single with Glay called " Answer " on August 2, 2006.

He and his daughter Julia Clare Tillinghast have collaborated on a book of translations from the poetry of Edip Cansever ( 1928 – 1986 ), Dirty August, published in 2009 by Talisman House.

Of the 9000 Karaims across Europe at the time some of the 50 at Lutzk ( Spector p. 106 ) were reported by Jacob Eilbert, a survivor of the Lutsk Ghetto, to have collaborated in war-crime atrocities in August 1942 ( Green 1978a ).

He hosted radio shows and collaborated on numerous radio and TV series, including the very first one broadcast on August 3, 1952 on SRC, Le Seigneur de Brinqueville.

In August 1998 he collaborated with the band Spiritualized on a project for the Flux Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Darby's connections with the early Eighties festival scene and involvement in organising free acid house parties centered around Pepper Box Hill near Salisbury in Wiltshire in the latter part of that decade-especially a joint event at that location in August 1989-led to an informal partnership between a DJ and sound system collective based around the shop and Nottingham's The DiY Sound System, with whom they collaborated to stage many free parties throughout the South West during the early to mid 1990s.

Their biggest selling record came in August 2000, when True Steppers collaborated with Dane Bowers and Victoria Beckham on " Out of Your Mind ".