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Definition: August 15 |
August 15Noun1. Celebration of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: August 15Synonyms: Assumption (n), Assumption of Mary (n). (additional references) |
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August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining.
August 14 - August 16 - July 15 - September 15 -- listing of all days
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Crosswords: August 15 |
| Specialty definitions using "August 15": Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Kiska landing, August 15, 1943. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | South Korea | Liberation: August 15, 1945. (references) |
India | Independence: August 15, 1947. (references) | |
South Korea | KEDO broke ground for the project on August 15, 1997, and site preparation work has continued since then. (references) | |
Minorities | India | The fear of conversion of Hindus and Muslims by Christians was highlighted in a August 15 statement by Prime Minister Vajpayee. (references) |
Political Economy | SAUDI ARABIA | The GCC Patent Office issued its first patents in spring 2001. Revisions to the GCC patent law were approved at the GCC Supreme Council Summit in Riyadh in November 1999. Amendments to the implementing by-laws were approved in April 2000 and entered into force on August 15, 2000. These changes include extension of the term of protection from 15 years to 20 years (from the date of filing of the patent application with the GCC patent office), and the extension of protection to pharmaceutical products in all GCC states, including product and process protection. (references) |
Trade | Vietnam | The regulation entitled Decision No. 178/1999/QD-TTg dated 30 August 1999, and amended by Decision No. 95/2000/QD-TTg dated August 15, 2000, was effective starting January 1, 2001. According to this regulation, new labels must be affixed displaying the name of the product, name and address of the manufacturer or trader liable for the product, quantity, detailed composition, master quality inspection, and manufacturing and expiration date. (references) |
Worker Rights | Dominica | There were reports that 52 persons purchased economic citizenship between August 15, 2000, and January 12. This site is managed by the Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. (references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "1-5-a-g-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: august. | |
-4 letters: gast, gats, gust, guts, stag, tags, taus, tugs, utas. | |
-5 letters: gas, gat, gut, sag, sat, sau, tag, tas, tau, tug, uta, uts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 75 67 75 73 74 31 35 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110101 01100111 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 00110001 00110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A u g u s t   1 5 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0075 0067 0075 0073 0074 0031 0035 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35877387858621923 |
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