He later received an offer to be the opening act for a local band, and enlisted Flea, Slovak, and drummer Jack Irons to assist.

" Slovak, Kiedis, and Flea became best friends and often used LSD, heroin, cocaine, and speed recreationally.

Kiedis, Slovak, and Flea began to create their own music after finding inspiration in a punk-funk fusion band called Defunkt.

Flea, Slovak and Kiedis especially were involved in heavy drug use and their relationships became strained.

Kiedis became dependent on heroin, leaving Flea and Slovak to work on much of the album's material by themselves.

Kiedis and Flea decided to continue making music, hoping to continue what Slovak " helped build ".

Slovak met future band mates Anthony Kiedis, Flea, and Jack Irons while attending school in Los Angeles.

Slovak, Flea, Kiedis, and Irons started Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1983, which became popular in the Los Angeles area, playing various shows around the city.

" Slovak, Kiedis, and Flea became best friends and often used LSD, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine recreationally.

Anthym's original bassist was deemed unsatisfactory, so Slovak began teaching Flea to play bass.

Following several months of commitment to the instrument, Flea developed proficiency, as well as a strong musical chemistry with Slovak.

Slovak ( right ) with Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmates Anthony Kiedis ( middle ) and Flea ( musician ) | Flea ( top left ) in 1987.

Slovak, Kiedis, and Flea began to create their own music after finding inspiration in a punk-funk fusion band called Defunkt.

Slovak, Kiedis, and Flea moved into a small house in a high-crime area in Hollywood where they collaborated musically and continued their drug addictions.

album, Slovak became frustrated with the band and contacted Flea about rejoining the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

When Flea asked Kiedis how he felt about Slovak rejoining the band, Kiedis responded by saying " I'd give my firstborn son to get him back in the band.

Flea, Slovak and Kiedis especially were involved in heavy drug use and their relationships became strained.

Slovak and Flea would wrestle regularly on tour, but Slovak became too weak to participate.

Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1988 during the Uplift Mofo Party Plan tour ; ( left to right ) Jack Irons, Flea ( musician ) | Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Hillel Slovak

Kiedis and Flea decided to continue making music, hoping to continue what Slovak " helped build ".

When Kiedis and Flea were searching for a new guitarist to replace Slovak, Kiedis likened the experience to " shopping for a new Mom and Dad " because of his influence over the band.

Among her closest forefathers there were family names like Polereczky ( Magyarized Polish or Slovak ) and Fegyveres ( Magyar ).

In the Eastern Military District, there were two tank divisions, the 13th and 14th, with a supervisory headquarters at Trenčín in the Slovak part of the country.

Voight's paternal grandfather was a Slovak immigrant from Košice, then under Austro-Hungarian rule, while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were immigrants from Germany.

Since the establishment of the Slovak Republic in January 1993, Slovakia has undergone a transition from a centrally planned economy to a free market economy, a process which some observers were to believe was slowed in the 1994-98 period due to the crony capitalism and other fiscal policies of Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar's government.

Despite the inspired nonviolent resistance of the Czech and Slovak population, the reformers had little hope of holding out against Soviet pressure and ultimately were forced to accede to Soviet demands, signing the Moscow protocols.

On 19 November 2004, large parts of the forests in the southern Slovak part of the High Tatras were damaged by a strong wind storm.

In 1991 and 1992, there were frequent, but fruitless, negotiations between the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic concerning the future relations between the two constituent republics of Czecho-Slovakia.

As a result, several new endemic areas were found in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria and surrounding countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and Italy.

22. 2 % were of Polish, 15. 6 % Italian, 13. 8 % Irish, 12. 1 % German and 5. 3 % Slovak ancestry according to Census 2000.

19. 8 % were of German, 13. 2 % Italian, 11. 4 % Irish, 9. 2 % American, 8. 4 % Polish, 7. 9 % English and 6. 6 % Slovak ancestry according to Census 2000.

29. 4 % were of German, 10. 1 % Irish, 9. 2 % Italian, 7. 9 % American, 6. 6 % Slovak, 6. 0 % Polish and 5. 8 % Pennsylvania German ancestry according to Census 2000.

24. 7 % were of German, 9. 6 % Finnish, 9. 6 % Norwegian, 8. 2 % Czech, 6. 8 % Slovak and 5. 5 % Italian ancestry according to Census 2000.

17. 5 % were of Italian, 9. 8 % German, 9. 8 % Irish, 6. 7 % Slovak and 5. 0 % English ancestry according to Census 2000.

22. 4 % were of Polish, 22. 0 % Italian, 13. 0 % German, 8. 7 % Irish, 7. 9 % Slovak and 5. 6 % English ancestry according to census 2000.

6. 8 % were of Italian and 5. 2 % Slovak ancestry according to Census 2000.

23. 8 % were of German, 10. 0 % Italian, 9. 2 % Irish, 7. 7 % Polish, 7. 2 % Slovak and 5. 7 % American ancestry according to Census 2000.

15. 3 % were of German, 12. 0 % Italian, 11. 1 % Polish, 9. 9 % Irish, 9. 0 % Slovak, 9. 0 % American and 7. 0 % English ancestry according to Census 2000.

11. 8 % were of German, 11. 7 % Hungarian, 10. 2 % Polish, 8. 8 % American, 8. 7 % Irish, 8. 7 % Italian, 6. 0 % Slovak and 5. 3 % English ancestry according to Census 2000.

The entire synod is divided into districts, usually corresponding to a specific geographic area, as well as two non-geographical districts, the English and the SELC, which were formed when the formerly separate English Missouri Synod and the Slovak Synod, respectively, merged with the formerly German-speaking Missouri Synod.

They were one of two explicitly Slovak parties in Slovakia, the others either representing national minorities or structuring themselves as Czechoslovak.

Jewish deportations were resumed by German occupation authorities in October 1944 after the Soviet army reached the Slovak border and the Slovak National Uprising took place.

It was funded by Czechoslovakia's central authorities ( as were all films under the supervision of local Communist Party ), produced at the Barrandov Film Studio in Prague, and filmed with a Slovak cast on location at the town of Sabinov in north-eastern Slovakia and on the Barrandov sound stage.

In the twentieth century there were a number of composers who identified with Slovak culture.

The ten largest ethnicities were Italian 11, 025 ( 29. 70 %), Irish 9, 166 ( 24. 70 %), German 4, 363 ( 11. 70 %), English 3, 112 ( 8. 40 %), Polish 2, 762 ( 7. 40 %), Russian 1, 558 ( 4. 20 %), Hungarian 1, 447 ( 3. 90 %), French ( except Basque ) 1, 087 ( 2. 90 %), Portuguese 885 ( 2. 40 %), & Slovak 881 ( 2. 40 %).