In October 2010, John Graham-Cumming started a campaign to raise funds by " public subscription " to enable serious historical and academic study of Babbage's plans, with a view to then build and test a fully working virtual design which will then in turn enable construction of the physical Analytical Engine.

In France, an " Antibiotics are not automatic " government campaign started in 2002 and led to a marked reduction of unnecessary antibacterial prescriptions, especially in children.

Zimmerman, winner of a $ 10 million state lottery in 1988, immediately put up a $ 5, 000 reward for the perpetrators, told the press that “ Beavis and Butt-Head ” was responsible for the death, and started a letter-writing campaign against the show.

On September 3, 1884 The Boston Evening Record was started by the Boston Advertiser as a campaign newspaper.

From the success of this campaign, the company started a series of events and sponsored locations.

A vehement campaign against " Titoism " was immediately started in the Eastern Bloc, describing agents of both the West and Tito in all places engaging in subversive activity.

As a result of this dumping the residents had symptoms of skin irritation, Lois Gibbs, a resident of the development, started a grass routes campaign for reparations.

Urban myth has it that the red suit only appeared after the Coca Cola company started an advertising campaign depicting a red suited Father Christmas in the 1930s.

In a few years, Greenpeace spread to several countries and started to campaign on other environmental issues such as commercial whaling and toxic waste.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

After received the support of the archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Visconti, and of those of Pisa, Florence and Siena, he started a campaign against Giovanni di Vico, lord of Viterbo, who had usurped much of the Papal territories in the Latium and Umbria.

Under him Albornoz started the military campaign against Visconti and, when all attacks failed, Urban proclaimed a crusade against him.

John's campaign started well.

Tirpitz started with a publicity campaign aimed at popularising the navy.

In 1993 he started a campaign to collect funds for the " people's automobile " and created the AVVA venture, which stands for All-Russian Automobile Alliance ; the AvtoVAZ held a major share in the venture.

" ( okay ) started during the presidential campaign and subsequent presidency of Martin Van Buren.

In the late 1940s the pressure to sign the " verification documents " grew and in February 1949 the former chief of the stalinist secret Police ( UB ) of Lodz, Mieczyslaw Moczar, started the " Great verification " campaign.

Soviet authorities immediately started a campaign of sovietization of the newly acquired areas.

The infamous " fig-leaf campaign " of the Counter-Reformation, aiming to cover all representations of human genitals in paintings and sculptures, started with Michelangelo's works.

In Australia, the PAGANdash campaign was started to help government and community get a correct representation of the number of Pagans currently in Australia.

Nobunaga agreed to install Yoshiaki as the new shogun and, grasping the opportunity to enter Kyoto, started his campaign.

After Kenshin's death and much confusion among his successors, Nobunaga started his campaign again on this area.

In the UK, a major turnabout was achieved with the ironic " It is a Škoda, honest " campaign, which was started in the early 2000s.

He eventually reveals that he has started a war among members of the Continuum in a campaign for individual freedom, having been inspired by Quinn.

The Chargers started the 2009 campaign slowly, with a 2 – 3 record, a trend under current coach Norv Turner ( 1 – 3 in 2007 & 2 – 3 in 2008 ).

Following his return, Lincoln continued his campaign for the August 6 election for the Illinois General Assembly.

He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

Marshal Tallard, with 34, 000 men, reached Ulm, joining with the Elector and Marsin in Augsburg on 5 August ( although Tallard was not impressed to find that the Elector had dispersed his army in response to Marlborough's campaign of ravaging the region ).

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

From there he led an army over the Andes and captured New Granada after a quick campaign that ended at the Battle of Boyacá, on August 7, 1819.

There he remained while Vermont declared independence, and John Burgoyne's campaign for the Hudson River met a stumbling block near Bennington in August 1777.

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.

In August 1776, British General William Howe launched a massive naval and land campaign designed to seize New York.

In August 2004, the Keep Britain Tidy campaign issued a press release calling for zero tolerance of graffiti and supporting proposals such as issuing " on the spot " fines to graffiti offenders and banning the sale of aerosol paint to anyone under the age of 16.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

On August 5, 1996, Dole announced a 15 % flat tax in response to both the Forbes campaign and Kemp's tax reform commission.

If so, he went back to business as usual in Gaul, for, from June to August of that year, Julian led a successful campaign against the Attuarian Franks.

Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware plagiarized one of Kinnock's speeches during his 1988 presidential campaign in a speech at a Democratic debate in Iowa in August 1987.

In August 2011, the American National Middle Eastern Presbyterian Caucus ( NMEPC ) endorsed the boycott, divestment, and sanctions ( BDS ) campaign against Israel.

On August 30, 1995, 1995 NATO air campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina was initiated and Serbian Armed Forces soon withdrew from the vicinity of Sarajevo.

As relations between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire deteriorated, Suleiman resumed his campaign in Eastern Europe and on 29 August 1526, he defeated Louis II of Hungary ( 1506 – 26 ) at the Battle of Mohács.

On August 14, 2012, the campaign was funded at $ 558, 863, with an estimated release in May 2013.

In August 1989, the month that campaigning began, the Contras redeployed 8, 000 troops into Nicaragua, after a funding boost from Washington, becoming in effect the armed wing of the UNO, carrying out a violent campaign of intimidation.

* August 30 – The NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, continuing into October.

* August 2 – The Dutch ten-day campaign in Belgium is halted by a French army.

* August 9 – Failure of a Norman campaign in North Africa, the Norman troops are massacred near Mahdia at the battle of al-Dimas.

In August 1916, upon the start of the Romanian campaign, Romanian troops crossed the Carpathian Mountains, marching into the Austro-Hungarian-ruled region of Transylvania, but their effort was halted when the Central Powers opened new fronts.

* August 12 – King Henry V of England begins using English in correspondence ( back to England from France whilst on campaign ), marking the beginning of this king's continuous usage of English in prose, and the beginning of the restoration of English as an official language for the first time since the Norman Conquest, some 350 years earlier.