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10 big news stories that happened in 2006 (when OpenLearn was born)
| Breaking News 2006 | 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. |
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2006 English football corruption investigation
Another was former representative Mark Foley. He resigned after he was found to have sent sexual messages to male students working for Congress. He was sentenced to death by hanging. In the Middle East, Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia fought a month-long war during the summer. More than nine hundred people were killed. Much of southern Lebanon was severely damaged. Robert Gates was approved as the new defense secretary. In August, officials in Britain said they prevented a terrorist plot to bomb several passenger airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean.
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.
In addition to the 3 that passed 10,000 articles, 7 have passed 1,000 and 8 passed 100. One year ago, no Wikipedia from the subcontinent had more than 2,300 articles. The total article count was 10,507. American language Wikipedias advance in 2006: 16 American language Wikipedias for the first time together passed 10,000 articles. Today they have 11,234 articles and 1,839 registered users. This includes 3 American languages of European origin with 8,271 articles and 373 registered users. The greatest American language Wikipedia is Haitian with 7,038 articles. Other european origin languages are Pennsylvania German with 1,185 articles and Papiamentu.
Native American language Wikipedias include 10 in American Indian languages with 2,835 articles and 1,139 registered users, and 3 in Inuit languages with 128 articles and 327 users. The 3 Inuit languages are Inuktitut , Greenlandic and Inupiak. In addition to the 4 that have passed 1,000 articles, 2 have passed 100. One year ago no American language Wikipedia had passed 300 articles, 2 had passed 100, and the total article count for all was 768. African Wikipedias make great progress in 2006: For the first time, African language Wikipedias had more than 10,000 articles. As of today, 38 african language Wikipedias have 14,163 articles and 4,784 registered users. The greatest of these is in Afrikaans , a language of European colonial origin, that has 6,177 articles and 1,315 registered users. However, for the first time, the 37 Wikipedias in languages of African origin are bigger together, with 7,986 articles and 3,479 registered users. In addition to the 2 that have passed 1,000, 7 have passed 100 articles.
One year ago none had passed 500 and 4 had passed 100. The Wikipedia of the most widespread language in Africa, Arabic , has 21,177 articles and 44,655 registered users. One year ago, the article count for the african origin language Wikipedias was 772, the Afrikaans Wikipedia 4,439 and the Arab Wikipedia 10,247. Together they had just above 15,000 articles, while today they have passed 36,000. The pacific language Wikipedias remained small during 2006. 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.
Yet writers themselves hate to be categorised: there is something about being a writer that is all about putting your roots in the air. Stories, on the other hand, grow downwards, seeking the cultural nutrients in the soil. When David Edgar, chairing a session on theatre and censorship, asked the Northern Irish playwright Gary Mitchell whether he spoke for the Protestant community in North Belfast, Mitchell replied pugnaciously that he spoke only for himself. Mitchell knows all too well what it means to be accused of representing a community. He calmly described the intimidation that he and his family have received at the hands of loyalist paramilitaries who object to his portrayals of their culture. Her play Bells, staged last year at the Birmingham Rep, explores the world of the mujra: so-called dancing clubs prevalent throughout South Asia and now common in Britain.
2006 in England
April[ edit ] 5 April — Discovery of a swan with avian influenza in Scotland. The judgment itself contains a coded message on the whim of the judge. The Prince of Wales makes a televised address in tribute. Richard Lochhead holds the seat for the Scottish National Party.
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.
Perspectives from two intellectuals at the forefront of American liberalism. Giussani for the children fleeing from the war who take refuge in the hospital. The re-discovery of the true mission of education.
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. Фильм, в котором Супермен и Бэтмен появятся вместе в виде анимированных Лего.
Radio and Telly News Archive 2006
| news 2006 4 5 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | Berlin (AFP) – The German FA’s (DFB) inquiry into the 2006 World Cup scandal is set to cost around 3.5 million euros ($3.83m), interim. |
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| Breaking News 2006 | 2007 Officers and Board of Directors Nominated. |
Empire News 2006
How much do you remember about 2006? We take a look back at ten of the biggest news stories from the year. Empire News 2006. Unidentified jpeg image. Empire News Fall 2006 (PDF 2,660kB). The headlines in 2006 were marked by death, scandal and politics: 12 die in Sago Mine disaster. 7.1.2006Current EventsPaolo Perego and Paola Ronconi. 2006 – On July 11, bombs planted on the train system in Mumbai exploded, killing 209 people.
2006 News Archive
| news 2006 4 5 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | 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. |
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| Radio and Telly News Archive 2006 | Publication date: 01 Jan 2006. Author: UNFPA. |
The Times & The Sunday Times Homepage
7:57 PM Большой английский. Check out the online archives of TIME Magazine: complete coverage since 1923 of world news, politics, entertainment, science, health, history, business and more. William Shatner sold one of his kidney stones for $25,000 in 2006. Актуальные новости на английском с переводом каждый день! On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting company Odeo officially releases Twttr—later changed to Twitter—its short messaging service (SMS) for groups, to the public.
February 2006 in Britain and Ireland
In light of this news, someone asks Nasypany what to do with the fighters—the two F-15s from Otis Air National Guard Base—which have now just blasted off for New York at full afterburner to find American 11. The earth moved, winds blew, fires burned and rains failed as climate change fears, worsening drought and raging bushfires scorched Australia during 2006. Eriksson, 57, has been in charge of the England team for five years and, as a Swede, is the first non-English manager of the England team.[1].
Empire News 2006
By 95-2, the united states senate has confirmed robert gates as next secretary of defense. Bainimarama nominates jona senilagakali to be interim prime minister of fiji. After the military made promises not to censor further news, the fiji times resumes publication. The united kingdom joins australia, the united states and new zealand in stopping foreign defense aid. Three people are killed in an explosion near milwaukee.
April[ edit ] 5 April — Discovery of a swan with avian influenza in Scotland. The judgment itself contains a coded message on the whim of the judge. The Prince of Wales makes a televised address in tribute. Richard Lochhead holds the seat for the Scottish National Party.
It was Speed of Sound by Coldplay. We only have 8 planets in the solar system instead of 9, because in 2006 a panel of 424 astronomers in a meeting of the International Astronomical Union IAU in Prague has demoted and reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. Russian cosmonaut hit a golf ball in space for an estimated 2. Western Union sent their last telegram in 2006. Bambi and Bambi II hold the record for the longest gap in between movie sequels, the first being released in 1942 , the second being released 64 years later in 2006. The first female space tourist was Iranian Anousheh Ansari. In 2006 they fell on hard times and were absorbed into a larger company. On Domino Day, November 13, 2009 , a total of 4,491,863 dominos were toppled — the record as of this writing… In October 2000, Heinz introduced colored ketchup products called EZ Squirt, which eventually included green 2000 , purple 2001 , mystery pink, orange, or teal, 2002 , and blue 2003.
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.
War in Iraq Voted Top News Story of 2006
A landslide buried an entire village in the Philippines in February, and tens of thousands were evacuated amid the erupting Mayon volcano in the Philippines in August. Back home, cyclone Larry smashed the far north Queensland coast in March, with its destructive core flattening Innisfail, south of Cairns. As the most bushfire prone place in the world , authorities feared the worst bushfire season yet for south-eastern Australia. Firefighters have already tasted what may be in store for the tough bushfire season ahead , as they battled massive blazes in Victoria and Tasmania during December. Commissioner Terence Cole recommended a task force be established to look into possible charges against several former AWB executives. The Stern report on global warming released in the UK in October put the effect of climate change in economic terms, making governments around the world stand up and take notice. The nuclear energy debate intensified after a report by Dr Ziggy Switkowski recommended a rethink on uranium mining and alternative energy industries. Scientists rejoiced as Federal Parliament passed a controversial Bill lifting the ban on stem cell research. New industrial relations laws took hold in March, as unions joined the Federal Opposition and state governments in a vow to fight implementing the legislation. As Prime Minister John Howard celebrated 10 years in office in March, he disappointed Treasurer Peter Costello who said the Prime Minister promised him 12 years ago to hand over the leadership crown to him before two terms were up.
Business In the second-biggest share offer in Australian history behind the T2 sale seven years ago, the Federal Government finally gave the green light for the third sell-off of Telstra shares. T3 shares began trading on the Australian Stock Exchange in November. The Government parked the remaining 17 per cent of Telstra stock into the Future Fund to sell down over time.
Репортаж о новой телекомпании В этом году в мировом телеэфире появилась новая компания. Ее штаб-квартира находится в Москве, но журналисты и ведущие работают для зрителей всех стран.
Они в круглосуточном режиме на английском языке рассказывают о том, как живет Россия. Канал так и называется - "Россия сегодня". О наших коллегах - репортаж Олега Шишкина. О России сегодня - каждый час и каждую минуту. Между выпусками новостей - интервью в прямом эфире, спортивные и биржевые сводки.
Идея англоязычного российского телевизионного канала появилась, когда стало ясно, что зарубежный зритель или вообще ничего не знает о событиях в современной России, или знает очень мало. Новости из России и о России. Из сегодняшнего выпуска новостей зарубежные телезрители могли узнать о переговорах между Газпромом и Минском о цене на газ, о том, погода в декабре выдалась необычно теплой и как москвичи собираются встречать Новый год.
In Frisco, voters rejected the chance to land a consolidated campus of Colorado Mountain College on a small corner of the Frisco Peninsula Recreation Area. The vote was 55 percent to 45 percent opposed to the plan, and CMC afterward said they would pursue a new non-consolidated campus in nearby Breckenridge.
As far as elected officials, young aide to U. Gibbs will follow local favorite son Gary Lindstrom, who announced the end of his lengthy public service career by not seeking re-election to the House seat. In local municipal elections in April, voters opted for change in a number of races. In Frisco, repercussions from the 2005 debate over bringing Home Depot to town were evident, as the top two vote-getters in the town council election were vocal opponents to the big box. Attorney Kent Willis and brewery owner Woody Van Gundy both won seats with the highest vote tallies, and restaurant owner Dan Fallon kept the seat he was appointed to in 2004.
In Dillon, incumbent Mayor Barbara Davis easily won reelection, but voting for the third town council spot required a recount. A vote margin of a single vote held up as retired doctor Don Parsons won the seat over nonprofit director Lucinda Burns. The year at the resortsIn October, Vail Resorts reported a record year in terms of revenue as well as skier visits, and freshman CEO Rob Katz credited Breckenridge as being a top performer within the company. VR realized a 5. And as always, the race to be the first resort to open was notable again this year.
Perennial Opening Day race winner Loveland Ski Area could only sit idly by on the morning of October 12, as friendly competitor Arapahoe Basin turned its lifts a full nine days earlier than it ever had.
The stripper, we found out later, made up the story. Terrell Owens supposedly tried to kill himself by taking 35 painkillers. He was a hero to millions of children.
Stingray injuries are almost never fatal. When Steve Irwin died from a stingray attack in 2006, it was only the second recorded stingray-related death in Australia since 1945. Russ listened to the song consecutively for 24 hours, reaching 324 listens. Just days after the campaign, the painting was found by the Norwegian Police.
Skiing is one of the fastest non-motorized sports on land.