The first Armenian version of " Misirlou " was recorded by Reuben Sarkisian in Fresno the early 1950s.

Examples are Shaheenian ( Persian ) and Sarkisian ( Armenian ).

The document was signed for Russia by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Industry Minister Ilya Klebanov, while Prime Minister Andranik Markarian and defense and security strongman Serge Sarkisian signed for Armenia.

:*-Arthur Sarkisian, head of the Public Relations Department for Armenia's Ministry of Transport, speaking at a United Nations meeting, announces that Armenia is investigating building a railway link with Iran that would completely bypass Turkey and Azerbaijan.

When asked about connecting to Turkey and Azerbaijan, Sarkisian stated that " using such facilities will cause many difficulties ", but it is unclear what difficulties would be involved.

Leo Sarkisian ( who went on to join the Africa Service of the Voice of America in 1963 ) recorded Orchestre de Beyla in 1961 for the Hollywood based Tempo International label ( Tempo 7015 ).

Ephrem wrote exclusively in the Syriac language, but translations of his writings exist in Armenian, Coptic, Georgian, Greek and other languages.

Irenaeus also wrote The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, an Armenian copy of which was discovered in 1904.

Armenian historian Matthew of Edessa wrote that Baldwin II was thoroughly devoted to his wife, and refused to consider divorcing her.

Hayk Khachatryan, an Armenian novelist, wrote a book called Tigran the Great.

He was buried in St. Sarkis Armenian Church, London, sponsored and oversaw by Gulbenkian, to provide “ spiritual comfort ” to the Armenian community and a place of gathering for “ dispersed Armenians ,” as he wrote at the time to the Catholicos of All Armenians.

In 1921, Lord Bryce wrote that the Armenian genocide had also claimed half of the population of Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire, as similar cruelties were perpetrated upon them.

* Armenian poetess Silva Kaputikyan wrote a poem It's raining my sonny dedicated to the memory of Levon Ekmekjian, an ASALA member, one of two organizers of the Esenboğa International Airport attack in 1983.

Eduard Abramian ( 1923 – 1986 ) wrote songs on the poetry of Armenian poets Hovannes Tumanyan and Avetik Isahakian which are now part of the standard repertoire.

Haghartsin was built between the 10th and 14th centuries while Goshavank was founded by Mkhitar Gosh, an Armenian scholar and priest who wrote the civil and canon law.

He wrote his songs in Armenian, Georgian, Turkish and Persian.

She wrote " Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight " a memoir of her great and tragic relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky, translated into Russian, German, Armenian and many other languages.

As Robert van Voren wrote, the Armenian Vartanyan was as slick as one could be, and had no problem lying in the twinkling of an eye.

He was an ethnic Armenian citizen of Turkey who spent most of his life in Turkey and wrote most of his lyrics in Turkish.

Turkish journalist Cengiz Çandar wrote that the main intention is to hide the Armenian heritage in Anatolia.

Anatol Lieven wrote in The Times after visiting the site of the massacre: " Scattered amid the withered grass and bushes along a small valley and across the hillside beyond are the bodies of last Wednesday ’ s massacre by Armenian forces of Azerbaijani refugees.

In the article that she wrote for a Russian newspaper she described how she saw a large crowd of Meskhetian Turks from Khojaly, who were led to captivity by the Armenian militants.

Notable Soviet Armenian literary figures such as Hovhannes Shiraz and Paruyr Sevak, whose work " Sardarapat " was turned into a popular song, even composed songs and wrote poems that lionized the Armenian fighters.

Manouchian wrote poetry and, with his Armenian friend by the surname of Séma ( Kégham Atmadjian ), founded two literary magazines, Tchank ( Effort ) and Machagouyt ( Culture ).

Robert Musil wrote the well-known novel The Man without Qualities, Stefan Zweig published a multitude of essays, stories and novels, Karl Kraus edited the magazine Die Fackel ( The Torch ), for which he wrote almost all articles by himself, Franz Werfel wrote some of his best novels, e. g. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh which narrates the Armenian tragedy of 1915, and after Franz Kafka's death, his life-time friend Max Brod began to publish Kafka's unfinished novels.

Not content to create only the music and lyrics, Noel Coward also wrote the book and directed Sail Away ( Capitol WAO 1643 ; ;

Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

He received an urgent call from Andrew Lloyd Webber who wanted him to write the lyrics to The Phantom of the Opera, for which he wrote " Masquerade ".

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler ( also of Irish descent ) wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " on the album of the same name in 1973.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

* Christian artist Michael Card wrote a song " Hound of Heaven ," basing the lyrics on parts of Thompson's poem.

Marrow decided to adopt Schoolly D's style, and wrote the lyrics to his first gangsta rap song, " 6 in the Mornin '", in his Hollywood apartment, and created a minimal beat with a Roland TR-808.

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

"... Arthur's genius lay in his ability to imagine songs, with fully formed lyrics and melodies ," wrote John Einarson in " Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love ," an authorized biography on Lee that was released in 2010.

Of course, it didn't occur to me at the time I wrote it that anybody outside of my twenty or thirty friends who I was singing to would ever have to actually ponder the lyrics or even consider them.

MacKaye was allegedly skipping practice sessions towards the end of the band's career, and he wrote the lyrics to the songs on the Salad Days EP in the studio.

He also wrote the lyrics for the 1952 revue Two's Company.

Out of this collaboration came his first musical, Always You, for which he wrote the book and lyrics.

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

Music Journalist Hal Horowitz wrote: " These songs aren ’ t as loud or frantic as those of her late 70s heyday, but they resonate just as boldly as she moans, chants, speaks and spits out lyrics with the grace and determination of Mohammad Ali in his prime.