He continued to tour and record through the 1950s into the early 1960s, despite the fact that Western swing's popularity, even in the Southwest, had greatly diminished.

This did nothing for her popularity in Christendom – as did the blame affixed to her baggage, and the fact that her Aquitainian soldiers had marched at the front, and thus were not involved in the fight.

From the outset, this new republic held that film would be the most ideal propaganda tool for the Soviet Union because of its widespread popularity among the established citizenry of the new land ; Vladimir Lenin, in fact, declared it the most important medium for educating the masses in the ways, means and successes of Communism, a position which was later echoed by Joseph Stalin.

" The former term plays off the fact that those not familiar with geocaching are called muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series of books which was rising in popularity at the same time Geocaching got its start.

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).

In the United Kingdom, game shows have had a more steady and permanent place in the television lineup and never lost popularity in the 1990s as they did in the United States, due in part to the fact that game shows were highly regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the 1980s and those restrictions were lifted in the 1990s, allowing for higher-stakes games to be played.

His popularity ( or notoriety ) was verified by the fact that his name turned out to be the strongest brand of the year.

In fact, he asserts that he generally feels more kinship with punks than with heavy metal ; he even played with The Damned for a handful of gigs when they had no regular bassist and Lemmy's guttural vocals were unique in the world of rock at that time, as they would not be copied until the rise in popularity in punk.

Despite this, Najibullah was not the only choice the Soviets had ; a GRU report claimed he was unfit to be leader considering the fact that he was a Pashtun nationalist, a stance which could decrease the regimes popularity even more.

Otherwise, the costs of an extensive war caused that Mieszko II's popularity declined among his subjects, despite the fact that on the invasion of Saxony the King only defended their territory.

In fact, the rise of rock music to popularity is intimately tied to the history of music radio.

Their popularity seems to be partly due to the fact that their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as " hits " ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ).

Saddam routinely cited his survival as " proof " that Iraq had in fact won the war against the U. S. This message earned Saddam a great deal of popularity in many sectors of the Arab world.

However, Venice's popularity as a major worldwide tourist destination has caused several problems, including the fact that the city can be very overcrowded at some points of the year.

The opera's immense popularity, with some 229 productions worldwide in the following three years, is illustrated by the fact that " in Naples, for example, where the opera in its first three years had eleven stagings in six theaters, the performances totaled 190 ".

In 1982, while in Italy, she made headlines after serving an 18-day prison sentence on tax evasion charges — a fact that failed to hamper her popularity or career.

" Perhaps one of the reasons the books did not achieve wider popularity was the fact that their format was geared to a very young audience, but the concept itself was more appealing to older children and adults.

Much of its popularity is attributed to the fact that in the 1971 film Le Mans, Steve McQueen's character, Michael Delaney, drives for the Gulf team.

As Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to prominence, Chaplin's popularity throughout the world became greater than ever ; he was mobbed by fans on a 1931 trip to Berlin, which annoyed the Nazis, who published a book in 1934 titled The Jews Are Looking at You, in which the comedian was described as " a disgusting Jewish acrobat " ( despite the fact that Chaplin was not Jewish ).

TWENEX was successful and very popular ; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as Unix or ITS-but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put an end to TWENEX's brief period of popularity.

The avant-garde art world has made note of the undeniable fact of the Mona Lisa's popularity.

The popularity of Berlin work was due largely to the fact that, for the first time in history, a fairly large number of women had leisure time to devote to needlework.

Whereas Dobbs County and Tryon County, named for Martin's predecessors Arthur Dobbs and William Tryon, were abolished after American independence, Martin County was neither abolished nor renamed, a fact which has been attributed to the popularity of Alexander Martin, twice governor of the state ( 1782-1784, 1789-1792 ).

However, Bertrand Delanoë's popularity in fact rose during July 2005.

It rapidly spread to Limerick and elsewhere, and some idea of its popularity may be formed from the fact that at Nenagh 20, 000 persons are said to have taken the pledge in one day, 100, 000 at Galway in two days, and 70, 000 in Dublin in five days.

In the election of 1872, Democratic candidate Horace Greeley did in fact die before the meeting of the Electoral College, resulting in Democratic disarray ; the electors who were to have voted for Greeley split their votes across several candidates, including three votes cast for the deceased Greeley.

This came from the fact that nearly every farmer who came to the mill brought at least two or three dogs along, and also from the fact that Horace Wood had three hounds who loved to devour the corn meal as it left the grinder.

The LP contained five hit songs in " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", " Last Train to London ", " Confusion " and " The Diary of Horace Wimp ", many of which were heavily influenced by disco ( in fact, Richard Tandy came up with its well known nickname, Disco Very ).

In fact, from the Act of Union in 1801 until 1992, every Speaker elected came from the benches of whichever party was in government at the time of transition ( see List of Speakers of the British House of Commons )-a convention which had, by coincidence, led to alternation between Labour and Conservative Speakers being elected between 1965 ( Horace King, the first Speaker elected from the Labour Party ) and 1983 ( Bernard Weatherill ).

The fact that Horace Hall made no complaint might suggest this name being a pseudonym.

Furthermore, Baldauf points out such pronounced parallels between the poetry of Horace and Ovid ( who were presumably unaware of each other's existence ) that one becomes convinced that the works of both belong to a third party – apparently, a much later author-a fact most philologists explain by the fact that Roman literature was heavily influenced by Greek models and especially Homer's writings and the motives used in the Ilias and the Odysee have marked all occidental literature until today.

What attracted Christian to the cause is arguable, but something that may have had to do with it was the fact that before his campaigning, Christian declared a chivalric love for Elizabeth, Frederick's wife and daughter of James I of England, who at this point of the war had sent several thousand troops under Sir Horace Vere to the Palatinate.

While the compositions and performances were credited to " Jimmy Thudpucker ", they were in fact co-written and sung by Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for " Ginny's Song ", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. Label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits, an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver's subsidiary of RCA Records ).

Although the species called " stormy petrel " in English is not one of those to which the burevestnik name is applied in Russian ( it, in fact, is known in Russian as an entirely un-romantic kachurka ), the English translators uniformly used the " stormy petrel " image in their translations of the poem, usually known in English as The Song of the Stormy Petrel.

In theory this was an amateur art practised by gentlemen, a distinction that begins to be made in writings on art from the Song dynasty, though in fact the careers of leading exponents could benefit considerably.

" However, this type of imagery was not officially endorsed by the central authorities in China at that time: in fact the kǎozhèng movement of the Qing scholars ( consisting of " Song Learning " and " Han Learning ") as supported by the government was opposed to this to the point that out of some 2, 320 resultingly suppressed works many were banned for having a perceived critical, " antibarbarian tone ".

However, this seems to take on a different light in considering the somewhat paradoxical situation that after the Song Dynasty, China's ruling dynasties were often of Inner Asia ethnicities, such as Qidan, Ruzhen, and Mongol of the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties: according to historian John King Fairbank: the " influence on China of the great fact of alien conquest under the Liao-Jin-Yuan dynasties is just beginning to be explored.

During her opening speech, Kleveland said of Norway's road in the contest, " For those of you who have followed Norway's course through the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, you will know that it has been quite thorny, in fact.

Perhaps because of Biblical references ( especially the well-known verse from the Song of Songs ), its mournful voice, and the fact that it forms strong pair bonds, Turtle Doves have become emblems of devoted love.

In 1980, the group attempted to represent the UK again in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Tell Me ", but it was disqualified shortly before the British heats were televised due to the fact the group had already been promoting the single.

In fact it was published in South Africa, in a wartime leaflet, with an anonymous English translation of the text, as " Lili Marleen: The Theme Song of the Eighth Army and the 6th Armoured Division ".

In theory this was an amateur art practised by gentlemen, a distinction that begins to be made in writings on art from the Song dynasty, though in fact the careers of leading exponents could benefit considerably.

This result can be attributed to the fact of " Advance Australia Fair " being exposed to schoolchildren in the more populous States, where " The Song of Australia " was only sung in schools in South Australia, and to a lesser extent in Western Australia and Tasmania.

Despite the fact that the painting represents an ideal example of the achievements of the Northern Song landscape styles, the painting still represents several archaic conventions dating back to the Tang Dynasty.

At the end of " Grandmother's Song ", Martin says to the audience, " You guys are gonna be on a record " ( making reference to the fact that his live performance that night was being recorded for an album ), to which the audience responds positively.

During the 2010 British election the song was parodied as " The Eton Voting Song ", with reference to the fact that David Cameron, Boris Johnson and other leading Conservatives went to Eton.

" Later, in his autobiography, he revealed that MTV had pressured him to do so in order to maintain the image that Total Request Live was, in fact, a live request show ( the next week's episodes had been pre-taped on location, and the producers of the show were completely unaware of " The Bum Bum Song " at the time ).

In fact, members of the LDS Church still sing a modified version of the Handcart Song.

The word appears in the Major-General's Song, in which Major-General Stanley sings, " In fact, when I know what is meant by mamelon and ravelin.

The word appears in the Major-General's Song from the comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert & Sullivan, in which General Stanley sings, " In fact, when I know what is meant by mamelon and ravelin ..."

In addition, the Song was greatly disadvantaged by the fact their enemies had taken advantage of the era of chaos following the collapse of the Tang to conquer the Great Wall region, allowing them to advance into Northern China unimpeded.

He tells Song that he knew of the younger man's affair with Jinbao and of the fact that Song had been working with Fat Yu to supplant him as king of the Shanghai underworld.

Although Madsen was not an obvious choice for a pop band, he was invited on the basis of the fact that he had been part of the band Hip Hop that had reached the final of the Danish competition to nominate a song to the Eurovision Song Contest.

However, Macross 7 expands and builds the concept of Song Energy on the already established fact of music's effectiveness in the last war.

Alan Alvarez wrote about " the fashion for the diluted near-verse designed for mass readings and poetry-and-jazz concerts ", linking it with pop lyrics as " the logic of a traditional form at its weariest ", scolding " the poet resigns his responsibilities " and concluding, " what he offers is not poetry ", a criticism remarkably similar to that made by F. Dalton in The Times Literary Supplement, on 31 June 1917 about " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ": " The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone, even to himself.

Certified Silver for sales of 250, 000, the total sales of " This Is My Song " in the UK would in fact exceed 500, 000.