In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.

The style is characterized by specific rhythms and of Qacidate ( Popular poems ) in Arabic dialect that are long poems from the Algerian heritage.

Angola changed from a one-party Marxist-Leninist system ruled by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), in place since independence in 1975, to a multiparty democracy based on a new constitution adopted in 1992.

Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).

Popular culture has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings.

In June 2012, the Cypriot government announced it would need € of foreign aid to support the Cyprus Popular Bank, and this was followed by Fitch down-grading Cypus's credit rating to junk status.

... a closer look cyberpunk authors reveals that they nearly always portray future societies in which governments have become wimpy and pathetic ... Popular science fiction tales by Gibson, Williams, Cadigan and others do depict Orwellian accumulations of power in the next century, but nearly always clutched in the secretive hands of a wealthy or corporate elite.

* The Invention of False Medieval Authorities as a Literary Device in Popular Fiction by Gwendolyn A. Morgan.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

According to Popular Mechanics, " The common sponge was used in ancient Greece as a gas mask ..." An early type of rudimentary gas mask was invented in the 9th century by the Banu Musa brothers in Baghdad, Iraq.

* Worst Performance by a Popular Singer: Tony Bennett in The Oscar

Popular bases for these are not limited to large sedans, but also minivans and even pickup trucks by companies like Nissan and Toyota.

In 1996, the centre-right Partido Popular government came to power, led by José María Aznar.

joined the smaller Popular Orthodox Rally in a grand coalition, pledging their parliamentary support for a government of national unity headed by former European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos.

He took over the premiership later in the year and turned his back on the Popular Party by announcing his engagement to the daughter of the Progressive Party leader, Shefqet Verlaci.

John Brand's Popular Antiquities ( 1859 ) describes a custom in Kent of ' going a hodening ' at Christmas, going round the houses in procession and singing carols, accompanied by a sort of hobby-horse.

The second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was awarded to Stevie Wonder by U. S. President Barack Obama on February 25, 2009.

* 1997 – Partido Popular ( Spain ) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

* 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

* Back by Popular Demand ( 1988, Mercury )

The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

* Turning a Locomotive into a Stationary Engine, Popular Science monthly, February 1919, page 72, Scanned by Google Books: http :// books. google. com / books? id = 7igDAAAAMBAJ & pg = PA72

Popular procedural-markup systems usually include programming constructs, so macros or subroutines can be defined and invoked by name.

The new armed forces were formed by integrating those soldiers of the former Popular Forces for the Liberation of Mozambique ( FPLM ) and the rebels Mozambican National Resistance RENAMO who wished to stay in uniform.

By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady.

Popular music sung by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and their contemporaries was relegated in the 1960s and 1970s to Las Vegas club acts and elevator music.

Popular plays, musicals, Vaudevillian and burlesque acts, silent films, talkies and favorite local and national entertainers, such as Will Rogers, appeared at the theatre during its heyday.

Popular complaints on judicial acts normally had the sympathy of the king.

The Popular Front's founding manifesto condemned the actions of the conservative-led government, demanding the release of political prisoners detained after November 1933, the re-hiring of state employees who had been suspended, fired, or transferred " without due process or for reasons of political persecution ", it proposed establishing an independent judiciary from government control, the investigation and prosecution of acts of unwarranted violence by police, and revision of the Law of Public Order to protect the rights of citizens against arbitrary power.

Popular Chilean metal acts include Mar de Grises, Coprofago, Asunto.

Popular music has also featured, and in the 1960s and 1970s, headline acts such as Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones & Bob Dylan appeared.

Popular rock acts of the late 1980s and the 1990s were Galija, Partibrejkers and Dejan Cukić.

Popular acts of the 1990s include Del Arno Band, Van Gogh, Babe, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi, Familija, and the Belgrade faction of the band Zabranjeno Pušenje.

Popular during the mid 1980s in continental Europe, Matt Bianco was part of the new jazz pop genre, that they shared with acts such as Working Week, Sade, Everything but the Girl, and The Style Council.

Popular Russian-language hip hop acts from Ukraine include U. R. Asquad, Yuzhny Tsentral, Tuman, Schnell Sprechen and Don Drew.

Popular acts ranging from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley to Nirvana all performed to sold-out crowds.

Popular show segments during Bleu's morning show include Bleuper calls ( prank calls to unsuspecting listeners ), The Daily Dish ( entertainment gossip ), and the Bleu Room, an in-studio lounge session that featured acts including Dido, Natasha Bedingfield, Matchbox Twenty and others performing acoustic versions of their hits.

Popular du ' as would include Jazuli's Dala ' il al-Khayrat, which at its peak spread throughout the Muslim world, and Imam al-Shadhili's Hizb al-Bahr which also had widespread appeal.

Popular appeal is not very easy to achieve for any form of poetry ; especially when audiences are not kept in mind.

Popular throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the brand's appeal waned with the rise of cheaply available alternatives and a tightening up of the regulations governing alcohol advertising on television.

Popular music forms that infuse Western elements and appeal to younger, mass audiences gained popularity in the 1970s and the 1980s.

Popular tastes in theater were shifting toward melodrama and comedy, and there was little commercial appeal in staging verse tragedies ( though Coleridge, Robert Browning, and others wrote verse dramas that were staged in commercial theaters ).