Frankie Yankovic, a Slovenian from Cleveland Ohio traveled the world playing his version (" Cleveland Style " as per Polka Hall of Fame, Euclid Ohio ) of the Viennese Waltzes.

He is the 15th person to serve as both governor of Ohio and U. S. senator and one of only two people to be mayor of Cleveland, governor of Ohio and United States Senator ; the other was Frank J. Lausche, who like Voinovich was Slovenian.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, his father was a Croatian Serb ( from Kordun ), and his mother was Slovenian.

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

The boyhood home to eventual Cleveland mayor and, Ohio Governor and Senator, George Voinovich, the Slovenian neighborhood was centered around St. Mary of the Assumption Church, and the Slovenian Home, both located on Holmes Avenue.

Many Slovenian polka / oberkrainer style bands in Europe are also in tribute of Avsenik's music, including Slovenia's Hisni ansambel Avsenik and Gasperji / Die Jungen Oberkrainer.

On the Kercopian Literary Criticism in the Slovenian Literary Field ), written with a rare combination of fine irony and piercing analytical style, on drastically unrefexive criticism in Slovenian literature she has shown how important it is for a critic to be disposable and open to the artistic work and at the same time able to produce analytical distances in relation to the work read and evaluated, and in the next step to compound both experiences into a certain perspective, which can come out as his / her own distinctive approach and a singular way of seeing things and works of art.

Slavko and his brother, Vilko, are usually credited as the pioneers of Slovenian folk music, having solidified its style in the 1950s.

Their musical style is somewhat reminiscent of that of Slovenian pioneers Laibach, but differs from it in that it has a less electronic sound, and incorporates elements of medieval music, Gregorian chants, and an overall epic feel.

Slovenian-style polka is an American style of polka in the Slovenian tradition.

The Slovenian style polka band always includes a piano accordion, chromatic accordion, or the Diatonic button accordion ( also called a " button box ").

The Slovenian style polka in the United States of America came about when immigrants from Slovenia taught the old songs to their children.

At first Slovenian style polka was just music for ethnic clubs and union halls, but the commercial success of Frankie Yankovic and other musicians soon introduced the genre to a wider audience.

On the other hand, when the middle-class Slovenian band Pankrti adopted the style of London punk music rooted in unemployment and other issues specific to the UK, it was seen in Yugoslavia as the spread of British culture and its adaptation to the local setting.

Hungarian, Slovenian, and Romanian fiddle players are often accompanied by a three-stringed variant of the viola known as the kontra, or as well as double bass, with cimbalom and clarinet being less standard yet still common additions to a band.

After spending part of his childhood years with his maternal grandfather Martin Javeršek in the Slovenian village of Podsreda, he entered primary school in 1900 at Kumrovec, he failed the 2nd grade and graduated in 1905.

The western parts of the Slovene Lands ( the Slovenian Littoral and western districts of Inner Carniola ) were first occupied by, and then officially annexed to the Kingdom of Italy with the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920.

Almost all Slovenian inhabitants older than 64 are retired, with no significant difference between the genders.

According to France Bučar, one of the founding fathers of Slovenian democracy and independence, the democracy in Slovenia is very weak, with the power concentrated in the hands of a few people, as in the time of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia before 1991, and the Parliament being only a formal institution.

The government, most of the Slovenian polity, shares a common view of the desirability of a close association with the West, specifically of membership in both the European Union and NATO.

The existing Slovenian rails, which were mostly built in the 19th century, are out-of-date and can't compete with the motorway network.

It comprises the motorway route heading from east to west, in line with the Pan-European Corridor V, and the motorway route heading in the north – south direction, in line with the Pan-European Corridor X, part of which is considered the Slovenian transport backbone.

On 28 January 2010, after short-term vignettas were introduced by Slovenia and some other changes were made to the Slovenian vignette system, the European Commission concluded that the vignette system is in accordance with the European law.

Prior and during the Kosovo War of 1999, Slovenian top government officials called repeatedly for Slobodan Milošević's compliance with NATO demands.

* the Trdinov vrh / Sveta Gera peak in the Žumberak / Gorjanci, with the Slovenian Army occupying barracks that lay partially in Croatian territory ;

Although, the most important disputed issue with Croatia is Slovenian and Italian opposition to the proclamation of the Croatian Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone ( Exclusive Economic Zone ) in the Adriatic sea.

* December 23 – In the Slovenian independence referendum, 88. 5 % of the overall electorate ( 94. 8 % of votes ), with the turnout of 93. 3 %, supported independence of the country.

They were filled with Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian militia members who had collaborated with the Germans, as well as civilians who had opposed either the national liberation movement or the communist revolution during the war, civilians of German descent or simply individuals accused or suspected of anti-communism.

Along with Triglav, it is a landmark of Slovenia and a symbol of Slovenes and the Slovenian territorial sovereignty.

In 1986, the Slovenian television produced a TV series, directed by Andrej Strojan with the screen play written by Drago Jančar, in which Trubar was played by the Slovenian actor Polde Bibič.

The original pre-Roman name of the city Tergeste derives from the Venetic words terg-( market ) and est-( place ) is etymologically related with the Scandinavian torg ( et ), Old Church Slavonic, Slovenian and

The Avsenik saga began in 1953 with a band formed in Slovenia, broadcast on the Slovenian Hour from Austria, and dubbed the " Musicians of the Oberkrain " by a Vienna disc jockey.

In sheer volume, Avsenik's compositions rank him with Slovenian folk music, Matt Hoyer, and Dr. William J.

( note that only most known songs are listed with Slovenian titles ; Slavko Avsenik wrote around 1000 songs altogether, in Slovenian and German )

An image of Gallus appeared on the Slovenian 200 tolar bill, along with an image of the Slovenian Philharmonic and a short excerpt from one of his mass settings.

Arcos, a Slovenian security firm, found one related vulnerability for iTunes and decided to publish without alerting the vendor, saying " it hasn ’ t paid out well " in the past and " we ’ ve found better markets for this kind of information ".

Apart from many fresh intellectual ideas and innovations ( for the Slovenian circumstances and intellectual coordinates, but very likely also in a wider sense ) Taja Kramberger has written many critical articles on various aspects of Slovenian history, cultural life, but also on broader European History and culture, e. g. on Spanish Civil War, different models of Enlightenment in Europe and the recurrent Enlightenment features in the works of Anton Tomaž Linhart, on epistemic divergence between Enlightenment's and Historismus's: de: Historismus ( Geschichtswissenschaft ) paradigms of historiography, on anthropology of translation, history of university and the formation of university habitus: fr: Habitus ( sociologie ), on literary and cultural fields: fr: Pierre Bourdieu # Théorie des champs in the 1930s in Slovenia ( by then partially covered by the administrative unit of Dravska banovina ) and on the role of women in the constitution of these fields etc.

Adjectives in Slovenian can serve in three syntactical functions: left attributes ( levi prilastek ), predicate articles ( povedkovo določilo ) and predicate attributes ( povedkov prilastek ).

* Dušan Velkaverh, born in Georgetown, Guyana is a famous Slovenian lyricist, considered as the greatest lyricist in Slovenian history of popular music.

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles.

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* Stanko Premrl ( 1880 – 1965 ), composer, author of the music for the Slovenian National Anthem.

* Interview in Slovenian music magazine RSQ:

In the minds of many foreigners, Slovenian folk music means a form of polka that is still popular today, especially among expatriates and their descendants in North America.

However, there are many styles of Slovenian folk music beyond polka, kolo and waltz.

The history of modern Slovenian music can be traced back to the 5th century, when Christianity spread in Carantania.

The 19th century saw the growth of a distinctively Slovenian classical music sound based on romanticism, while the German minority continued to push for a stronger Germanic identity.

Traditional Slovenian music include various kinds of musical instruments such as:

Typical Slovenian folk music is performed on Styrian harmonica ( the oldest type of accordion ), fiddle, clarinet, zithers, flute, and by brass bands of alpine type.

Two of the most famous modern Slovenian bands are Laibach, an early 1980s industrial music group, and Siddharta.

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group strongly associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles.

Pestner also sings gospel and Slovenian folk music.

Jesus Christ Superstars is an album by Slovenian industrial / electronic music group Laibach.

WAT is an album by Slovenian music group Laibach, released September 8, 2003.

The first verse from the patriotic poem Oh, Triglav, My Home () by Matija Zemljič, put into music by Jakob Aljaž, is engraved in the Slovenian 50 cent euro coin.

Siddharta's first bass player Primož Majerič, Big Foot Mama's singer Grega Skočir, rapper Nikolovski, legend of Slovenian rock music Vlado Kreslin and string quartet Godalika joined them on stage.

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* 1991: The New World ( music, Dvořák ), Slovenian National Theater Ballet, Ljubljana