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Definition: August 1 |
August 1Noun1. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: August 1Synonyms: Lammas (n), Lammas Day (n). (additional references) |
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Crosswords: August 1 |
| Specialty definitions using "August 1": Gules of August ♦ Minden Boys. (references) |
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 | Caption: Edison Co. Filming the Motion Picture, "Christian and Moor"; Havana, Cuba; August 1, 1911; {23.480/23} (jpg). |  | Monhegan, August 1, 1890. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The free zones existing in German ports on August 1, 1914, shall be maintained. (reference) |
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Business | The revisions to the Law took effect on August 1, 1997. The privatization of the laboratory accreditation program is currently in progress. (references) | |
The Estonian National Communications Board, which was founded on August 1, 1998, deals with frequency management, standards and type approval of radio communications equipment. (references) | ||
Effective August 1, 1999, General License GP-22 Provisioning of Telecommunication Network and Voice Communications via the Internet' had been issued by the Czech Ministry of Transport and Communication. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kazakhstan | However, according to government statistics, there were 1,431 mass media and information agencies in the country as of August 1, nearly 80 percent of which were privately owned. (references) |
Panama | In July the Legislative Assembly passed a bill mandating that all school textbooks written in Spanish must be written by Panamanian authors; however, on August 1, the President vetoed the bill. (references) | |
Burma | There was an unconfirmed report from the Democratic Voice of Burma that on August 1, military security personnel arrested a monk for delivering a sermon criticizing the economic and political conditions in the country at a ceremony at the Mahamyatmunni Payagyi Pagoda in Mandalay. (references) | |
Economic History | Benin | Independence: August 1, 1960. (references) |
Slovak Rep | However, several amendments that came into force August 1 should strengthen creditor rights. (references) | |
Oman | The Omani government recently announced that effective August 1, 2001 only unleaded gasoline will be used in Oman. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | On August 1, 12 inmates led by Jose Luis Mancilla took 4 guards hostage and demanded a helicopter to escape from the municipal jail in Tazmazula, Jalisco. (references) |
Guatemala | A police study of crime over the 9 months from August 1, 2000, through April 30 revealed homicides numbering 2,328 or the equivalent of 1 homicide for every 5,000 persons. (references) | |
Benin | As in the previous year, on the eve of the August 1 Independence Day holiday, the Government granted partial amnesty or modified the sentences of approximately 130 prisoners convicted of minor crimes, such as petty theft. (references) | |
Political Economy | Indonesia | As August 1, the date set for the MPR session, neared, Wahid pressed the military and the police to enforce a state of emergency, if he called one. (references) |
Indonesia | Political opposition to Wahid -- in the form of a parliamentary move to impeach him -- gained momentum May 30, 2001, when the DPR decided that the MPR would hold a Special Session to hear (and vote on) the president's accountability speech on August 1, 2001. Wahid was defiant and adamant that the MPR had no authority to hold a Special Session on his accountability. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | Depending on the product category, Phase 2 ends either on April 1, 2001, August 1, 2001, December 1, 2001 or April 1, 2002. (references) |
Women | Paraguay | CODEHUPY reports, according to a government survey, that from January to August 1 woman was killed every 12 days by a family member or other acquaintance. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "1-a-g-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: august. | |
-3 letters: gast, gats, gust, guts, stag, tags, taus, tugs, utas. | |
-4 letters: gas, gat, gut, sag, sat, sau, tag, tas, tau, tug, uta, uts. | |
-5 letters: ag, as, at, ta, us, ut. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 75 67 75 73 74 31 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110101 01100111 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 00110001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A u g u s t   1 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0075 0067 0075 0073 0074 0031 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358773878586219 |
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