Page 5 - Every August News Today

The Perseids, just like the other meteor showers that occur during the year, draw their name from the stellar constellation in which the majority of the meteors appear to radiate.

Daines and Tester are both co-sponsors of the “Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act,” which would provide permanent increases in firefighters’ base pay.

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By Kim Hae-yong, secretary general of the ASEAN-Korea Center ​Every August 8th, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations celebrates ASEAN Day in commemoration of its founding in 1967. While the celebration lends ASEAN’s collective effort to consolidate the region’s unity, it is also an opportune time to reflect on how ASEAN and Korea have become indispensable partners. Amid the multifaceted challenge...

Coast Guard Day was held at the U.S. Coast Guard Station, Port Canaveral on Friday, August 4, 2023, to celebrate 233 years of service. There were displays, family activities, a water slide bounce house, and much more, for those that attended to enjoy. Multiple sponsors were on hand to support the event.

We found tickets to the 2023 Bethlehem Musikfest at Bethlehem's Wind Creek Steel Stage from Aug. 5-13. Here's how to see Goo Goo Dolls, Train, Gabriel Iglesias, Dan and Shay, Keith Sweat and more.

Every August the tax on alcohol goes up - and while some businesses in the Hunter region of New South Wales...

  Every August we celebrate jiló, a variety of eggplant that is popular in Brazilian cuisine. Originally from Africa, and still grown and eaten there, jiló traveled to Brazil with enslaved peoples. The plant has many of the same growing requirements as eggplant, but does benefit from being started as a seedling in a greenhouse, […]

Q COSTA RICA - Every August 1 and 2, around 2.5 million faithful from all over the country descend on the Basilica de los Ángeles, in Cartago, in the traditional Romería de la Virgen de los Ángeles - religious pilgrimage -, an activity that after the Coronavirus pandemic was resumed last year under a series…

While the Circus World museum will still pay tribute to elephants in their exhibits, Baraboo's circus acts will go on without elephants after August.