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In the streets, red banners appeared and the crowds chanted " Down with the German woman!
At the royal funeral crowds chanted: “ You will answer for the blood of Ghazi, Nuri .” He supported the accession of ' Abd al-Ilah as regent for Ghazi ’ s successor, Faisal II, who was still a minor.
His name was changed to Megatron, when crowds chanted his name.
In addition to this, he also had to deal with unpleasant taunts from crowds at matches, as he had throughout his footballing career, who often chanted " freak " at him due to his unusual height.
Fender was barracked several times by the crowds when reports reached Australia of his newspaper columns ; occasionally, the crowds chanted " Please Go Home Fender ", making a play on his initials, but Fender made light of this, joining in by conducting the barrackers.

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But any critical feeling on the part of the public was drowned by appreciation of such melodies as " Di tanti palpiti ... Mi rivedrai, ti rivedrò ", which became so popular that the Italians would sing it in crowds at the law courts until called upon by the judge to desist.
It was popular in Australia, attracting crowds of up to 40, 000.
During the 19th century these races were to become numerous and popular, attracting large crowds.
During the 19th century, as in England, wager matches in North America between professionals became very popular attracting vast crowds.
However, it was mainly Harding's support in the Senate for women's suffrage legislation that made him more popular with that demographic: the ratification of the 19th Amendment in August 1920 brought huge crowds of women to Marion, Ohio, to hear Harding.
Yvette Guilbert paid him homage saying “ You have the knack of creating popular pleasure, in the finest sense of the word, of entertaining crowds with subtlety, according to the status of those to be entertained ".
For a time, executions by guillotine were a popular entertainment that attracted great crowds of spectators.
The albums were popular and resulted in numerous live appearances and promotional record signings that attracted crowds of fans in the thousands.
The races were very popular and some attracted crowds of over 200, 000 spectators.
The first Indian talkie was so popular that " police aid had to be summoned to control the crowds.
Undeniably, racing is one of the most popular sports in Mauritius now attracting regular crowds of 20, 000 people or more to the only racecourse of the island.
On Saturdays throughout the year there is a popular market in the car park next to the railway station which attracts large crowds even out of the holiday season.
The library's popular Brown Bag lunch series offers a wide range of subjects and often draws crowds in excess of 100 people.
This track was very popular and drew crowds of 3, 000.
Convergence theory claims that crowd behavior as such is not irrational ; rather, people in crowds express existing beliefs and values so that the mob reaction is the rational product of widespread popular feeling.
The most popular twitches in the UK have drawn large crowds ; for example, a group of approximately 2, 500 people travelled to Kent, England, to view a Golden-winged Warbler.
The experiment caused a sensation in both the learned and popular worlds, and " Foucault pendulums " were suspended in major cities across Europe and America and attracted crowds.
Sacred music is the theme of this popular festival, which attracts huge crowds each year ( January ).
Dominican rock is also popular among younger and not so younger crowds of the Dominican Republic.
The Ghanaian E. T. Mensah, easily the most popular highlife performer of the 1950s, toured Igbo-land frequently, drawing huge crowds of devoted fans.
Apart from dozens of new songs being introduced into the Afrikaans music market, it became popular for modern young artists to sing old Afrikaans songs on a stage or in a pub, with crowds of young admirers singing along.
Schabowski gained worldwide fame in November 1989 when he improvised a slightly mistaken answer to a press conference question, raising popular expectations so rapidly that massive crowds gathered the same night at the Berlin Wall, forcing its opening after 28 years ; soon after, the entire inner German border was opened.
The Community Cup was a popular community Australian rules event which was run for 14 years by the local Sacred Heart Mission which up until 2007 had drawn crowds of up to 23, 000 spectators.
It became a popular society venue attracting large crowds to its fêtes.

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Even more successful was the premiere of his Violin Sonata No. 2, which drew crowds to the Wigmore Hall in London and attracted the interest of a number of publishers, including one who arrived on Ireland's doorstep the morning after the concert.
The announcement prompted great celebrations in London, with crowds yelling " No Popish Successor, No York, A Monmouth " and " God bless the Earl of Shaftesbury ".
No one may now recall the plays " Maria Martin and the Red Barn ," " The Face at the Window ," " The Dumb Man of Manchester ," but they did pull in the crowds ( John Lawrence ).
No Christian rock band had sold more records, played before bigger crowds or had enjoyed such pervasive radio airplay.
Having drawn huge crowds to a rally commemorating the Battle of Kosovo, he pledged to Kosovo Serbs that " No one should dare to beat you ", and became an instant hero of Kosovo's Serbs.
No one had anything against this priest, but they were afraid of the crowds and the troubles that would follow.
No one doubted the young virtuoso's skill on the instrument, but he did not draw large crowds.
( No source listed ) But the size of the crowds varies greatly from year to year, with the weather being the biggest factor in determining crowd size.

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For example, Jesus, the twelve apostles, and the crowds are Jewish.
For instance, in Matthew 15: 31, after a story of the healings of Jesus, the text reads that the crowds ‘ praised the God of Israel .’
For many years the Derby was run on a Wednesday or a Thursday and on the day huge crowds would come from London, not only to see the race but to enjoy other entertainment ( during some of the 19th century and most of the 20th Parliament would adjourn to allow members to attend the meeting ).
For two weeks the crowds besieging its chambers practically eliminated all city business.
In November 1966 Stills composed his landmark song, " For What It's Worth ", after witnessing police actions against the crowds of young people who had gathered on the Sunset Strip to protest the closing of a nightclub called Pandora's Box.
For instance, in Tokyo, crowds of teenage fans would assemble seemingly spontaneously at subway stops where a rock musician was rumored to be headed.
In the mid-1960s and 1970s it became a major gathering-place for the counterculture — and the scene of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in the winter of 1966, involving police and crowds of beatniks, serving as the inspiration for the Buffalo Springfield song " For What It's Worth.
For three days, crowds were riled in the Washington Riot, and numerous police were called in to protect one of their targets.
For several years the Workingmen's Party would provide a forum for Kearney to speak before growing crowds of unemployed people in San Francisco.
For much of his career he played a villainous character who would arrogantly taunt both opponents and crowds.
For example in " Public Opinion " Vincent Price compares masses and crowds:
For several years his success as a preacher was comparatively small ; but he became suddenly popular in about 1814, and began to attract large crowds.
For most contemporaries, the riotous but largely bloodless actions of the crowds presented less cause for alarm than the high incidence of arson during the period of Swing ( October to December 1830 ).
For more information, please see crowds.
For many years from the 1960s through the 1990s, Warrior basketball games attracted the largest and rowdiest basketball crowds in the country.
For the next two seasons, Portland-San Francisco games had the atmosphere of a heavyweight title fight, and games between the two routinely attracted crowds of 8, 000 or more.
For the last few years Spencer has been working on a drug Deighton C, designed to provide humane crowd control by temporarily disabling rioting crowds — but is apparently making little progress.
For some time, the library was beset by crowds of schoolboys who “ come in at certain hours of the day to read, more for amusement than improvement, and shun their classical lessons by the use of English translations .” On Cogswell's recommendation, the trustees raised the age limit to 16.
The stadium formerly hosted Charlotte ( Central ) High School ( which is now Garinger ). For many years afterward as the city grew and opened more high schools, the stadium was used practically every week during the football season to accommodate both schools which had no campus stadium and large crowds which some campus stadiums could not contain for the more popular match-ups.
For particularly grand funerals, crowds of spectators would gather, and people would festoon the cemetery walls to get a better view.
For many years this was the biggest football derby in Australia, with the Italian Community Club from Fairfield amongst the wealthiest football clubs in Australia, games between Olympic and Marconi regularly drew large crowds and saw passionate encounters spurred on by their large followings.
For games where larger crowds are expected, Villanova plays at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia ( where Villanova holds the record for largest Pennsylvania crowd to ever watch a college basketball game ).

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