The largest institutions of military education in Bulgaria are:

The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, French officials and foreign guests.

This is a popular event in France, broadcast on French TV, and is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

The Citadelle of Quebec still survives as the largest citadel still in official military operation in North America after more than two hundred years of existence.

The largest military action in the Maritimes during the revolutionary war was the attack on Fort Cumberland ( the renamed Fort Beausejour ) in 1776 by a force of American sympathizers led by Jonathan Eddy.

In 2006 the Danish military budget was the fifth largest single portion of the Danish Government's total budget, significantly less than that of the Ministry of Social Affairs (~ 110 billion DKK ), Ministry of Employment (~ 67 billion DKK ), Ministry of the Interior and Health (~ 66 billion DKK ) and Ministry of Education (~ 30 billion DKK ) and only slightly larger than that of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (~ 14 billion DKK ).

France maintains one of its largest military bases outside France in Djibouti.

Diocletian separated and enlarged the Empire's civil and military services and reorganized the Empire's provincial divisions, establishing the largest and most bureaucratic government in the history of the Empire.

Since military upkeep took the largest portion of the imperial budget, any reforms here would be especially costly.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park — the world's largest — would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes.

About 80, 000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.

Claims under the law have typically involved health care, military, or other government spending programs, and dominate the list of largest pharmaceutical settlements.

The two countries are also economically interdependent: 8. 8 % of German exports are U. S .- bound and 6. 6 % of German imports originate from the U. S. Other signs of the close ties include the continuing position of German-Americans as the largest ethnic group in the U. S. and the status of Ramstein Air Base ( near Kaiserslautern ) as the largest U. S. military community outside the U. S.

From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 ( lost in 1640 ) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.

Tiny Honduras soon became the tenth largest recipient of United States assistance aid ; total economic and military aid rose to more than US $ 200 million in 1985 and remained at more than US $ 100 million for the rest of the 1980s.

On 18 February, demonstrators took control of Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya, with some support from police and military units.

The Irish still represent the largest contingent of foreign volunteers to the British military, with more Irishmen serving in British uniforms than Irish ones.

With the world's seventh largest military expenditure, ninth largest economy by nominal rates and third largest by purchasing power parity, India is a regional power, a nascent great power and a potential superpower.

Though India continues to have a military relationship with Russia, Israel has emerged as India's second largest military partner while India has built a strong strategic partnership with the United States.

The largest public protest in Melbourne since the Vietnam War occurred on 10 November 1992, with an estimated 100, 000 people marching in opposition to the retrenchment of many workers and the large State budget cutbacks.

Oblong also boasts the largest nighttime marching band parade competition in the state of Illinois.

The Belleville High School Marching Band is one of the three largest marching bands in the United States, with almost 300 members on the field at one time.

is the largest national contest for many marching bands across America.

The parade, one of the largest in Missouri, featured floats, area marching bands, and state and national politicians.

The 70-strong military marching band of the Duke of York's Royal Military School, the largest in the whole of the British Armed Forces, also uses this formation.

* It is the site of the field show of the annual Illini Marching Band Festival, hosted by the Marching Illini and usually the largest high school marching band competition in Illinois.

The International Four Day Marches Nijmegen ( or Vierdaagse ) is the largest marching event in the world.

The Allen Escadrille is the world's largest high school marching band, with a membership of over 800 students.

It is the largest marching band in the state of Pennsylvania, over 100 members larger than the Penn State Blue Band.

As of 2010, it is the second largest marching band in the country.

The College ’ s football program and marching band were revitalized and the College experienced its largest enrollment in the history of the institution.

They are also one of the largest high school marching bands in the country, with more than 200 members each year.

Today the chant is led by the " Big MO " drum ( the worlds largest marching bass drum ).

1988 saw the Marching Chiefs hit another membership milestone when it reached 400 students, thus making Chiefs the world's largest collegiate marching band.

In 2009 The Marching Chiefs hit 460 members allowing it to retain the title as the world's largest collegiate marching band.

However, the majority of those attending the founding meeting of the VMC rejected the CPA's proposals ; Jim Percy, a leading member of Resistance, played a leading role in the following Moratorium campaign of independent mass mobilisations against the war, which built the largest antiwar actions ever seen in Australia at that time, with 75, 000 marching in Melbourne and 20, 000 marching in Sydney.

* New Order Online – semi-official website and largest New Order website in general, endorsed by the band

During the Ottoman Empire, size of a military band reflected the rank of its commander in chief: the largest reserved for the Sultan ( viz.

Alternatively, the number of band members determines the class — with the largest bands being Division I, and smaller bands being classified as Division II, III, and IV.

The tour included five shows in Argentina, one of which drew the largest single concert crowd in Argentine history with an audience of 300, 000 in Buenos Aires and two concerts at the Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, where they played to an audience of more than 131, 000 people in the first night ( then the largest paying audience for a single band anywhere in the world ) and more than 120, 000 people the following night.

The largest Cree band and the second largest First Nations Band in Canada after the Six Nations Iroquois is the Lac La Ronge Band in northern Saskatchewan.

The tour was the band's largest to date, each of the band members had expanded gear with added instruments ( such as Stewart Copeland's auxiliary percussion and Andy Summers ' guitar synthesizer components ), and the band used backup singers for the first time.

In May 1997, George Clinton and 15 other members of Parliament-Funkadelic were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the largest band yet inducted.

The two communities are part of a band of districts, from Culver City's Fox Hills district on the west to the Los Angeles district of Leimert Park on the east, that compose the single largest geographically contiguous middle-and upper-class black area in the United States.

The band's manager negotiated the largest advance up to that point, with Warner Bros. signing the band for between $ 250, 000 to $ 300, 000.

Japan is also home to the world's leading wind band., the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, and the largest music competition of any kind, the All-Japan Band Association national contest.

The band played in front of an EZLN backdrop to the largest crowds of the festival.

With a line-up consisting of Erickson, Stroht and German musician Ingo Beitz, the band toured Europe in 1998 with Off-Beat label-mate Suicide Commando, which attracted the attention of Metropolis Records, the largest industrial label in United States.

The band is credited in major national press as " South Africa's most successful Gothic Rock act and one of the top bands in the far broader Alternative scene " and headlined major national festivals throughout South Africa, including the country's largest music festival Woodstock, in addition to Oppikoppi and RAMfest.

The most notable musicians to benefit from this and one of the largest Canadian exports is the progressive rock band, Rush.

* Kâtá (‘ Biters ’, often called Arikara, most powerful and largest Kiowa band )

One of the largest crowds in the Astrodome's history, more than 66, 746 fans, came on Sunday, February 26, 1995, to see Tejano superstar Selena and her band Los Dinos perform for a sell-out crowd during the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

In August the band performed their first concert at Japan's largest indoor concert venue, the Tokyo Dome.

On August 14 and 15, 2010, the band performed a two-day show at Nissan Stadium, the largest stadium in Japan.

North Bethesda's Strathmore opened in 1976, and is now a home for numerous programs, including the largest of its music venues, the Music Center at Strathmore ; the Strathmore has hosted well-known musicians and composers like the cellist Steven Honigberg, pianist Christopher Taylor, jazz singers Nnenna Freelon and Luciana Souza and composers Virgil Thomson and Gunther Schuller, as well as DC-area cult acts like the founder of Go-go, Chuck Brown, and the reunited punk band The Slickee Boys.