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Consitutional government, popular vote, trial by jury, public education, labor unions, cooperatives, communes, socialized ownership, world courts, and the veto power in world councils are but a few examples.
For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.
The murder of Naboth ( see Jezebel ), an act of royal encroachment, stirred up popular resentment just as the new cult aroused the opposition of certain of the prophets ( Elijah, Micaiah, and a few unnamed prophets ).
Due to its proximity to Athens, it is a popular quick getaway during the summer months, with quite a few Athenians owning second houses on the island.
However, septic tanks remain popular because they permit standard plumbing fixtures, and require few or no lifestyle sacrifices.
Valens, who seems to have sincerely dreaded the possible consequences of a popular outbreak, gave orders within a few weeks for the return of Athanasius to his episcopal see.
During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.
Among the few popular new stars during this period were Judy Holliday and the comedy team phenom of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Today's strip artists, with the help of the NCS, enthusiastically promote the medium, which is considered to be in decline due to fewer markets ( today few strips are published in newspapers outside the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, mainly because of the smaller interest there, with translated versions of popular strips-particularly in Spanish-are primarily read over the internet ) and ever-shrinking newspaper space.
Cuauhtémoc is also one of the few non-Spanish given names for Mexican boys that is perennially popular.
Their cash registers were particularly popular around the time of decimalisation in Britain in early 1971, Henry having designed one of the few known models of cash register which could switch currencies from £ sd to £ p so that retailers could easily change from one to the other on or after Decimal Day.
These few works have successfully made the transition from the elite realm of the museum visitor to the enormous venue of popular culture.
One of the most popular zones in the game is the Plane of Knowledge, one of the few zones in which all races and classes can coexist harmoniously without interference.
The group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light ( as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers ) but also using " electric " rock instruments combined with a " light orchestra " ( orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s ).
But a few months later, Trimble made Jean Rescues, another of the popular series starring the fictional exploits of his Border Collie, which has Point of View shots introduced at an appropriate point without explanation.
In English speaking countries, " Xavier " is one of the few names starting with X, and until recently was likely to follow " Francis "; in the last decade, however, " Xavier " by itself has become more popular than " Francis ", and is now one of the hundred most common male baby names in the US.
In the past, it was a popular cliché with travel writers that Gibraltar still had traditional red British-style telephone boxes when there were just a few original ones in service.
The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.
A few of Rossini's operas remained popular throughout his lifetime and continuously since his demise ; others were resurrected from semi-obscurity in the last half of the 20th century, during the so-called " bel canto revival.
A few cities experimented with funeral trolley cars and / or subway cars to carry both the casket and mourners to cemeteries, but these were not popular.
In Asia, there are very few harps today, though the instrument was popular in ancient times ; in that continent, zithers like China's guzheng and guqin and Japan's koto predominate.
A popular variation of Hollywood-Style Lindy Hop called LA-style Lindy Hop has a few technical changes in the footwork and fewer steps.
After that, much of Indian Pop music comes from the Indian Film Industry, and until the 1990s, few singers like Usha Uthup, Sharon Prabhakar, and Peenaz Masani outside it were popular.
Volapük was popular for some time and apparently had a few thousand users, but was later eclipsed by the popularity of Esperanto, which arose in 1887.
This pattern of development has resulted in a few elements of movement key to the dance style, the most important being that jazz is they physical embodiment of the popular music of a given time.

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Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.
The music drove them off, or away, and he was free to walk on air in a very few moments, humming and jiving within, beating the rhythm within.
The tonal novelties consist in the introduction of a few chords used in classical music for centuries.
With the exception of a few spots, Milhaud's music mostly churns away with his usual collection of ditties, odd harmonies, and lumbering, satiric orchestration.
In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.
His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.
Barbershop music is one of the few uniquely American art forms.
Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.
Belgian hip hop music has a few rappers stemming from Africa and Italy.
Latin / Rhythm dances are commonly danced to contemporary Latin American music, and, with the exception of a few traveling dances ( e. g., Samba and Paso Doble ), couples do not follow the line of dance but perform their routines more or less in one spot.
The Cantigas are frequently recorded and performed by Early Music groups, and quite a few CDs featuring music from the Cantigas are available.
Already a controversial figure in the clubhouse after his corked-bat incident, Sammy's actions alienated much of his once strong fan base as well as the few teammates still on good terms with him, ( many teammates had tired of Sosa's playing of loud salsa music in the locker room ) and possibly tarnished his place in Cubs ' lore for years to come.
Programs would run for hours or days, on multi-million-dollar computers, to generate a few minutes of music.
A few artists still managed to score disco hits in the early 1980s, but the term " disco " became unfashionable in the new decade and was eventually replaced by " dance music ", " dance pop ", and other identifiers.
Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.
The Christiane F. soundtrack album, which featured Bowie's music prominently, was released a few months later.
While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.
Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.
Starting earlier, in 1976, Punk was published in New York and played a major part in popularizing punk rock ( a term coined a few years earlier in Creem ) as the term for the music and the bands being written about.
Verdi's comments on Wagner and his music are few and hardly benevolent (" He invariably chooses, unnecessarily, the untrodden path, attempting to fly where a rational person would walk with better results "), but at least one of them is kind: upon learning of Wagner's death, Verdi lamented, " Sad, sad, sad!
Immediately after leaving the band, Parsons stayed at Richards ' house and the pair developed a close friendship over the next few years, with Parsons reintroducing the guitarist to country music.

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