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unusual facts about May 2006


The School of Panamerican Unrest

The core of the project consisted of a travelling schoolhouse which made 30 stops between the U.S. state of Alaska and Chile's Antártica Chilena province between May and September 2006, following the entire length of the Pan-American Highway.



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Active Space Technologies

In May 2006, following its expansion strategy, Active Space Technologies moved into a new office in the Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), University of Coimbra's business incubator and technology transfer centre.

Alan Coren

In May 2006, Coren was bitten by an insect that gave him septicaemia which led to his developing necrotising fasciitis.

Aldo Biscardi

In May 2006, extracts from intercepted telephone conversations between Biscardi and Luciano Moggi were revealed.

Belgian Cancer Registry Foundation

The Belgian Cancer Registry Foundation, a joint initiative of the national, Brussels, Flemish and Wallonian governments, was founded on 28 June 2005 and officially inaugurated on 17 May 2006 in the presence of the ministers Rudy Demotte, Catherine Fonck and Inge Vervotte.

Ben Roberts-Smith

On 31 May 2006, Lance Corporal Roberts-Smith was employed as a patrol scout and sniper that was tasked with establishing an observation post near the Chora Pass in Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan.

Charles Starr

In the May 2006 Republican primary, Charles lost to Larry George who would then win the general election in November, and joined his own father in the Senate.

Chicago Stockyarders

In May 2006, a successful beach Rugby League 9's exhibition game was held at North Avenue Beach, Chicago between the Chicago Saints and the touring UK team Ormskirk Heelers.

David Hawker

After a motion regarding share trading was moved by Kelvin Thomson, the Member for Wills, on 25 May 2006, Leader of the House Tony Abbott referred to Thomson indirectly using unparliamentary language by moving the motion "that that snivelling grub be no longer heard".

David Hudgins

In 2003, Hudgins began his career as a staff writer on Warner Bros. Television show Everwood, where he worked for three years until the show's cancellation in May 2006.

Dora Maar

On 3 May 2006, one of Picasso's portraits of her, Dora Maar au Chat ("Dora Maar with Cat") was auctioned at Sotheby's at a closing price of $95,216,000.

Elizabeth Cosson

On 15 May 2006, following a meeting with the Victorian Coroner, she left a CD-ROM containing a draft copy of her confidential report in a public computer in the Qantas Club lounge of Melbourne Airport.

Gas Exporting Countries Forum

In May 2006 Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev threatened that Russia would create "an alliance of gas suppliers that will be more influential than OPEC" if Russia did not get its way in energy negotiations with Europe.

Graeme Garden

Garden wrote a play called The Pocket Orchestra which ran in London from 26 April 2006 till 20 May 2006.

Grégory Coupet

This ultimately led to a row on 25 May 2006 between Coupet and Domenech that resulted in Coupet storming out of the team's training camp in Tignes with his family in tow, but he later returned and made amends with the coach.

Guantanamo Bay detainee uniforms

In May 2006, a Turkish judge barred Loai al-Saqa, a suspected terrorist, from being brought into his own trial, because he chose to wear an orange jumpsuit for the hearing, demonstrative of his solidarity with those in Guantanamo, and his intentions to protest or resist legal authority.

Hanoi Taxi

At 9:30 AM on Saturday, 6 May 2006, the Hanoi Taxi touched down for the last time and was received in a formal retirement ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) Area B in Riverside, Ohio near Dayton, Ohio.

Hape Kerkeling

In April and May 2006 he presented the live TV show Let's Dance, the German version of Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars, with Nazan Eckes.

Institut Polaire

"City Walls and Empires" is a split 7" single (w/ The Bank Holidays) released by Love Is My Velocity Records in May 2006.

Jeffrey Walker

A solo album, Welcome to Carcass Cuntry, was released on 9 May 2006 on Fractured Transmitter Records under the moniker Jeff Walker Und Die Fluffers.

JP Reid

Sucioperro - "Dialog On The 2" (15 May 2006, Captains of Industry)

Kevin Perkins

Kevin Perkins is the executive director of the Canadian not-for-profit organization Farm Radio International since May 2006.

Kheredine Idessane

In May 2006, he was the commentator for Sportscene's live coverage of Scotland's two Kirin Cup matches, with Derek Whyte as his summariser.

Knitta Please

For another large project, the group tagged all 25 trees in the median of Allen Parkway in Houston for the annual Art Car parade in May 2006, wrapping them in blankets measuring two feet tall by two-and-a-half feet long.

Krishna Mandir demolition reports

In May 2006, newspapers reported the demolition of Krishna Mandir, a Hindu temple located in Lahore, Pakistan.

KXKW-LP

UATV suspended operations in May 2006, upon which The Sportsman Channel replaced its feed.

Mahyar Monshipour

He lost his belt to Thai Somsak Sithchatchawal on 18 May 2006, in a match that won The Ring Fight of the Year and Harry Markson Awards, the latter the prize for "fight of the year" awarded by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros (1 September 1927, Chihuahua – 29 May 2006, Cuernavaca) was a Mexican-born mezzo-soprano and contralto.

Michael Schudrich

In May 2006 an Israeli newspaper accused Schudrich of participating in a conversion where one of the participant rabbis, Haim Drukman, falsely signed his presence.

Michael Tomczyk

In 2000 he helped launch the BioSciences Crossroads Initiative and in 2006 co-authored (with Paul J. H. Schoemaker) a major research report entitled: “The Future of BioSciences: Four Scenarios for 2020 and Their Implications for Human Healthcare” (May 2006).

Nihal De Silva

On 28 May 2006, Nihal De Silva was killed by a landmine explosion at the Wilpattu National Park.

Nitish Katara murder case

In May 2006, D. P. Yadav stated in court that he did not know his daughter's whereabouts.

Northumbria Student

Warburton's interviews included those with Newcastle Falcons' Matt Burke, Jamie Noon and Jonny Wilkinson, which resulted in him receiving the Media Volunteer of the Year Award at the Volunteer Evening in May 2006.

Nuer White Army

However, it was not until a major defeat in May 2006 near Motot, in Jonglei's Uror County, in which 113 White Army fighters were reportedly killed for the loss of a single Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier, that the fighters gave up their attempts at resistance, according to the Small Arms Survey.

Peteca

May 2006 sees the first International Peteca Tournament being hosted by the FFP in Sannois, Paris.

Pimp That Snack

Initially known as 'Pimp My Snack', the site changed name during May 2006 following contact from Viacom legal representatives, who claimed that the name of the website was an infringement on trademarks relating to their Pimp My Ride television program.

Samadhi of Ranjit Singh

In May 2006, following concerns about the state of the samadhi, the Indian Minister for Tourism and Culture, Ambika Soni wrote to Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and expressed her concerns.

Shooting at Unarmed Men

The second, "Yes! Tinnitus!" was released on 22 May 2006 - however, Chapple has since moved to Melbourne, Australia for two years (the band played their last gig in the Northern Hemisphere on 16 April 2006 at Cardiff's Clwb Ifor Bach, where Chapple also sold most of his books, videos and some of his records).

Silvian Iosifescu

Silvian Iosifescu (21 January 1917 - May 2006) was a literary critic, educator, translator and Romanian literature professor at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.

Telecommunications in North Korea

On May 2006 TransTeleCom Company and North Korea’s Ministry of Communications have signed an agreement for the construction and joint operation of a fiber-optic transmission line in the section of the KhasanTumangang railway checkpoint in the North Korea-Russia border.

Teurnia

Víctor René Rodríguez Gómez, Titular Bishop of Tiburnia 13 May 2006 – 25 October 2012; born 17 November 1950 in San Martín de las Pirámides; appointed Titular Bishop of Tiburnia and Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco, 13 May 2006; ordained Bishop of Tiburnia 25 July 2006; appointed Bishop Valle de Chalco, 25 October 2012.

The Heathens

Building momentum on the success and release of their first music video for the song "Stickin' Around," the video was accepted at the Los Angeles Film Fest in May 2006, where it played alongside the likes of other such notable artists as Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie, The Go! Team, The Shins, and Bright Eyes.

The Receiving End of Sirens

After a year of almost non-stop touring, Casey Crescenzo parted ways with the band in May 2006 and started pursuing his side project, The Dear Hunter, full-time.

Timothée Kolodziejczak

He made his debut with the team in the team's last match against Germany at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on 30 May 2006.

Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

In May 2006, VWML Online was launched which hosts a number of the library's indexes to manuscript collections, together with its index to mummers' plays and the Roud Folk Song and Broadside Indexes, the largest of their kind in the English language.

Warren W. Tichenor

Warren W. Tichenor (born in Harlingen, Texas in 1960) served as the nation's 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, serving under President George W. Bush, having been sworn in on 12 June 2006 after being confirmed by a unanimous vote of the United States Senate on 26 May 2006.

Wisdom in Chains

DVD contains live material (14 songs) recorded at show from May 2006 at Backstage Enterprises in Kingston, Pennsylvania, interview with Mad Joe Black and a three song recording from live performance at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.

Yuli Tamir

She was elected to the Knesset again in the 2006 elections, and as of 4 May 2006, is the Education Minister in Ehud Olmert's Kadima-led coalition government.