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 addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

The first, classified, edition of Factbook was published in August 1962, and the first unclassified version in June 1971.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Many of Smith's stories were published in six hardcover volumes by August Derleth under his Arkham House imprint.

Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847, and six weeks later Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, was published.

In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, alleging that the contras contributed to the rise of crack cocaine in California.

The first linguist to offer reconstructed forms from a proto-language was August Schleicher, in his Compendium der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen, originally published in 1861.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

By August 1605 there were two Madrid editions, two published in Lisbon, and one in Valencia.

In the United States, the primary standard for full-featured EVM systems is the ANSI / EIA-748A standard, published in May 1998 and reaffirmed in August 2002.

On 28 August 1924 Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO ( 1888 – 1971 ), editor of the book department in the publishing firm of George Newnes, which published two of her books that year.

The researchers involved in the discovery officially published their findings in the journal Nature, in August 2009.

On 26 August 1789, the Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which comprised a statement of principles rather than a constitution with legal effect.

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story was published in Britain on 17 August 1945, and a year later in the U. S., on 26 August 1946.

The first manga was originally serialized in Young Magazine from April 1989 to November 1990 and was followed by a sequel, Man-Machine Interface, from September 1991 to August 1997 ; each series was later published as its own tankōbon volume by Kodansha.

* XHTML 1. 0, published January 26, 2000, as a W3C Recommendation, later revised and republished August 1, 2002.

Articles that were published about television were also tested in this manner when the radio station was used to send pictures to experimental television receivers in August 1928.

* Science and Invention — formerly Electrical Experimenter ; published August 1920 to August 1931

The classical phase of Indo-European comparative linguistics leads from Franz Bopp's Comparative Grammar ( 1833 ) to August Schleicher's 1861 Compendium and up to Karl Brugmann's Grundriss, published in the 1880s.

Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits ( October 1, 1949 – August 12, 2010 ) was an influential American Druid who published a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic.

* Charles Dickens ' novel, Great Expectations ( first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ), contains a reference in chapter 48 to a couple having been married " over the broomstick.

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.

On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.