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February 2006 in Britain and Ireland
2006 – On July 11, bombs planted on the train system in Mumbai exploded, killing 209 people. Newsroom» News Releases and Statements» 2006 News Releases. Everybody wants to learn English, so why not fund more ESL programs instead of wasting money stating the obvious that English is the de facto national language of the U.S. William Shatner sold one of his kidney stones for $25,000 in 2006. 7:57 PM Большой английский. Houston Community News >> Top 10 World News in 2006.
Radio and Telly News Archive 2006
Select a month of the year 2006. 17th February» A 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide known as massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126. Warwick Davis' wife Samantha tragically dies aged 53: Heartbroken Harry Potter star pays tribute to his 'favourite human' Devastating news. It's a good time to think about what went right and what went wrong in 2006. With the advent of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the years prior to 2006 had seen UNDP scale up its activities in a major way.
Edge in the News: 2006
Now our work is even more important than ever. However much fun you had conceiving it, the end product is entirely new, entirely itself, and not always entirely happy. Jung Chang I had brought eight international writers together under the heading Migrations of the Mind to explore the challenges of taking stories between cultures. Each writer exemplified the problems of a world increasingly built out of small and mobile communities. Yet as soon as they were put together on stage at the ICA, most of the participants fiercely refused to define themselves either culturally or nationally. Whether Chinese or Turkish, Moroccan or Northern Irish, they saw themselves purely as writers, compelled to tell certain stories not because they were representatives of their communities, but because they were compelled to write, full stop.
The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash. President George W. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
Beckenbauer, 70, captained and coached Germany to the 1974 and 1990 World Cup titles respectively and was head of the organising committee for the 2006 finals. He has repeatedly denied both that any votes were bought and that he is guilty of any wrongdoing.
Bale has previously shot down rumours that he would play the masked hero again.
Ранее Бэйл отверг слухи, что он опять сыграет героя в маске. Greg Silverman, president of creative development at Warner Bros, said the studio could not think of any director better suited to bringing Superman and Batman together. Грег Силверман, президент креативного подразделения Warner Bros, сказал, что студия не могла бы подумать ни о каком другом режиссере для съемок фильма, сводящего вместе Супермена и Бэтмена.
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As you can see, running under the Bridge of Sighs in Oxford is a bit drier than it would be if you tried it next week in Venice. The race demanded constant map reading and decision making, especially in working out how to get in and out of the colleges…. Running to catch up — 2006-09-06 After a period of silence its time to try to catch up. There have been all sorts of things I have been meaning to write about, but just never seemed to get round to. The moral is to do it little and often, rather than trying to write carefully crafted pieces as you would elsewhere. We went along to one of the qualifying days just to get a feel for what the World Championships of another sport a….
The Amharic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles, one day after reaching its 1,000th article.
The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 60,000 entries. The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 registered users. The Amharic Wikipedia has become the fourth Semitic language to reach its 1000th article. The first was Hebrew, followed by Arabic and Maltese yesterday. All official languages of European states have now passed this benchmark. The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 30,000 registered users. The Czech Wikisource has reached 1,000 text units.
The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users. The Greek Wiktionary has reached 75,000 articles. The Vietnamese Wikipedia reaches 60,000 pages total. The Norwegian Wikipedia reached 30,000 registered users. Later it passed 90,000 articles. Logo for celebrating 30 000 articles on Korean Wikipedia 13 The Korean Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles with article about Eri Kamei. Logo for celebrating 40,000 articles on Serbian Wikipedia 12 The Persian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 registered users.
The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles. The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles with Vezirac. The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 80,000 registered users. The Turkmen Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. The script, designed by Tatari, addresses text-entry problems faced by languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet. The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles. The Sanskrit Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles, as the Wikipedia number 120 to pass this benchmark.
Internet Guide magazine. The Galician Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles. Wikipedia is now the 12th most-visited website on the Internet, getting more page hits than eBay, according to Alexa. The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has had its 150,000th edit.
August 1 August — Steve McClaren is officially appointed as manager of the England national football team. Her death is reported to be suspicious and police launch a murder inquiry. There are also concerns about another Ipswich prostitute, 19-year-old Tania Nicol, who went missing on 30 October.
Both sides have denied involvement in the killings. Chad had recognized the Republic of China Taiwan from 1997-2006. Chadian diplomats cited the prospects of greater financial investments and the PRC status in the United Nations Security Council as the principal factors motivating the diplomatic shift.
Bloomberg 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict : Lebanon rejects a draft U. European countries attacked Kosovo and killed ten thousand civilians.
10 big news stories that happened in 2006 (when OpenLearn was born)
Read the news articles from the day before and check if you remember all new words. Listening Listen to the news from today and read the text at the same time. Listen to the news from today without reading the text. Speaking Choose one person from the Skype section.
Bale has previously shot down rumours that he would play the masked hero again. Ранее Бэйл отверг слухи, что он опять сыграет героя в маске. Greg Silverman, president of creative development at Warner Bros, said the studio could not think of any director better suited to bringing Superman and Batman together. Грег Силверман, президент креативного подразделения Warner Bros, сказал, что студия не могла бы подумать ни о каком другом режиссере для съемок фильма, сводящего вместе Супермена и Бэтмена.
July — European heat wave affects the UK. The 60,000-seat stadium is the largest club stadium to have been built in English football since Maine Road , which was home of Manchester City from 1923 to 2003. August 1 August — Steve McClaren is officially appointed as manager of the England national football team.
And a high school student in Wisconsin was suspected of killing his principal after being disciplined for carrying tobacco.
2006 (year): how to read?
The profound sentiments of the musician laid bare in his very human letters 2. We began our conversation for Traces with this new appointment. A conversation with the Custodian of the Holy Land.
Charles Clarke is dismissed as Home Secretary.
His murderer, Hannad Hasan, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey in 2007. The Lord Chancellor , Lord Falconer , rejects calls from families of murder victims for all convicted murderers to be sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison. Five other men were cleared of conspiracy to murder following the trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Beckenbauer, 70, captained and coached Germany to the 1974 and 1990 World Cup titles respectively and was head of the organising committee for the 2006 finals. He has repeatedly denied both that any votes were bought and that he is guilty of any wrongdoing.
Polynesian language Wikipedias grew most, while the rest advanced slowly. No Wikipedia reached 500 articles.
One year ago, 3 had reached 100 articles. The total article count was 918. There is still no Wikipedia in any Australian aboriginal language. East Asia competes with Europe and America as a developed Wikipedia area.
Chinese passed 100,000 articles. One year ago, the total article count was 238,190. European languages still dominate the Wikipedia system. English has 1,560,143 articles, more than the total number of articles for Wikipedias in languages of all continents outside of Europe.
English passed the milestones of 1 million and later 1,5 million articles in 2006, fortifying the position of the English Wikipedia as the greatest one-language encyclopedia that ever existed. But historically, the relative weight of the English Wikipedia is going down. The percentage of english Wikipedia articles seems to be roughly similar to the percentage of native english speakers on the Internet. One year ago they had 2,747,489 articles.
With less than one thousand: Romansh state language in Switzerland. One year ago such Wikipedias had 74,392 articles. Of the 97 Wikipedias listed above, 1 has more than 1,5 million articles, 1 more than 500,000, 8 have more than 100,000, 27 more than 10,000, 35 more than 1,000, and 17 more than 100. One year ago 1 had more than 500,000, 6 more than 100,000, 20 more than 10,000, 31 more than 1,000, and 11 more than 100.
The 7 wikipedias have 3,803 registered users, of which Esperanto alone has 2,662. Including these, planned languages on the Meta page have 84,213 articles. The 9 Wikipedias in historical or «dead» languages have 14,537 articles and 3,327 registered users. The borderline Wikipedia in Simple English , arguably a language without native speakers, has 13,124 articles and 7,195 users.
Together, the 20 Wikipedias or online lexicons without native speakers registered on the Meta page have 111,874 articles. The 17 active wikipedias have 14,326 registered users, 7,113 excluding Simple English. The Japanese Wikibooks has reached 1,000 book modules. The Latin Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
What Happened in 2006 Major News Events, Popular Culture, History Prices
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