About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC it was renamed in honor of Augustus (despite common belief, he did not take a day from February; see the debunked theory on month lengths). According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
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Assumption of Mary, August 15, Assumption-celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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In this season I was much surprised with the increase of my family; I had been concerned for the loss of one of my cats, who ran away from me, or, as I thought, had been dead, and I heard no more tidings of her till, to my astonishment, she came home about the end of August with three kittens.
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The idea was, if you could damage those connections, you could stop the bad behaviors.. When lobotomy was invented, there were no good ways to treat mental illness, and people were looking for pretty desperate kinds of interventions, he said. Even so, there were always critics of the procedure, he added.
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The Portuguese neurologist Antonio António Egas moniz is credited with inventing the lobotomy in, 1935 for which he shared The Nobel prize For physiology Or medicine in (1949, later a movement was started to revoke the, prize). unsuccessfully
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[ɔːˈgʌst] adj (formal) → auguste (formal) Auld Lang Syne [ˌɔːldlaeŋˈsaɪn] ˌɔːldlæŋˈsaɪn N le temps ; jadis chanson ecossaise écossaise'que l on entonne sur le coup de minuit le soir De-La. saint sylvestre
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Lobotomy was an umbrella term for a series of different operations that purposely damaged brain tissue in order to treat mental illness, said Dr. Barron Lerner, a medical historian and professor at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.
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Italian and American doctors were early adopters of the lobotomy. The American neurosurgeons Walter Freeman and James Watts adapted Moniz's technique to create the Freeman-Watts technique or the Freeman-Watts standard prefrontal lobotomy, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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References in classic literature? He returned in the month of August to Kouka; from there he successively traversed the Mandara, Barghimi, and Klanem countries, and reached his extreme limit in the east, the town of Masena, situated at seventeen degrees twenty minutes west longitude.
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Depiction of harvesting in the August calendar page of the Queen Mary Psalter (fol. 78v), ca. 1310. August (/ˈɔːɡəst/ AW-gəst) is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.
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The definition of August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days.