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Also, the name changed to The Rasmus so that the band would not be confused with an artist named DJ Rasmus, who was active in Sweden.


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Into (2001) In 2001, after a hiatus, the band released an Into album.


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It was met with ferocious success.


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The album was recorded at Nord Studios</i>in Stockholm and was produced by Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen, who have also produced the next two albums by The Rasmus.


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Into went public throughout Scandinavia and in Finland it sold more than double platinum (67,000 pcs).


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The first single “F-F-Falling” formed into a big hit; it won the MTV Nordic viewership vote and sold a platinum single by the tune of a platinum single.


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Also, the single “Chill” was very successful, and sold gold.


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At the 2002 Emma Gala, The Rasmus won 4 Emmas: Band of the Year, Song of the Year (F-F-Falling), Pop/Rock Album of the Year as well as Album of the Year.


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The singles “F-F-F-Falling”, “Chill”, “Madness” and “Heartbreaker/Days” were released from the album.


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Enthusiasm can be called rock with some pop influences.


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Into is also the first record on which the drums are played by Aki Hakala.


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Music videos were shot for the songs F-F-F-Falling and Chill.


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Of these, the latter was directed by the band itself and the first by Miikka Lommi.


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With the success of Hell of a Collection compilation album (2001), Into's success, The Rasmus wanted to show off their older production to their new fans.


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Hell of a Collection was released in November 2001 and included songs by Peep, Playboys and Hell of a Tester and in addition to Into's two success singles “F-F-Falling” and “Chill”.


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The first compilation album by The Rasmus sold 50,000 copies, namely a platinum disc and a gold disc on top of it.


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Dead Letters (2003) With their 2003 album Dead Letters, The Rasmus made their final international breakthrough and climbed the charts in several countries (including Germany at number one).


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History it made by becoming the first Finnish album to reach the top ten of the UK Official Albums Chart.


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Internationally, the album sold eight gold records and five platinum albums.


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The Dead Letters album differed stylistically from the band's earlier recordings as The Rasmus's musical line and lyrics became darker and the sound darker.


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The album's single and major hit “In The Shadows” was MTV Europe's most played video and rose to number three on the British Isles singles chart in the spring of 2004.


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Reaching the top 10, it climbed in more than a dozen countries.


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Other singles from the album are “In my Life”, “First Day of My Life”, “Funeral Song (the Resurrection)” and “Guilty”.


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Of these five singles, the band also made music videos, three different versions of “In the Shadows”.


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The album Dead Letters was among the top ten selling in about ten countries, overall it sold over 1.5 million copies and 77,000 copies in Finland.


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Dead Letters is the highest-selling album by The Rasmus to date.


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Live Letters live DVD (2004) In 2004, the band released their first DVD release, Live Letters.


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It contains a concert recorded on 21 August 2004 from Gampel Open Air, Switzerland, all 7 music videos from Dead Letters, as well as additional footage including behind-the-scenes documentaries about making music videos.


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The concert was recorded with 5.1 sound and contains 11 songs.


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Hide from the Sun (2005) The Rasmus's sixth studio album Hide from the Sun appeared in Finland as well as Scandinavia, Central Europe, UK and Japan on September 9, 2005.


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The album was very successful across Europe and the album reached number one in the album charts not only in Finland but also in Mexico.


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Hide from the Sun sold platinum in Finland (37,500 copies) in advance.


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Hide from the Sun took The Rasmus sound even darker and bleaker.


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Influences from metal are audible, too.


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A dedicated version of the album was also released to the US in October 2006.


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This release contains, in addition to the album's originals, but also bonus tracks collected from various versions of the album, as well as a previously unreleased video by Immortal.


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Music videos have appeared for the songs “No Fear”, “Shot”, “Sail Away” and “Immortal”.


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Singles the band has released from other songs, except Immortal.


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In addition, a radio single was released from the song “Keep Your Heart Broken”.


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Many critics have criticized Hide from the Sun's Dead Letters as being better and more diverse, but on Dead Letters' sales figures the album failed to reach.


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The band went on a one-and-a-half-year Hide from the Sun tour in which the band toured 38 countries playing just over 200 concerts.


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The tour began with two concerts in Helsinki, Crane and Tavastia and extended to many countries new to the band, including India, South Africa and Siberia.


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The first half of the tour was alcohol-free for both the band and the touring staff.


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After the tour, the weary band pressed into a one-and-a-half year hiatus, for the duration of which they were preparing their new album.


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Black Roses (2008) The band began composing their new album Black Roses from late 2006 onwards, when the band met esteemed producer Desmond Child, in the Dominican Republic during their Hide from the Sun tour concert.


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Ylönen and Rantasalmi composed new songs with Child e.g.


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Greece.


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Recordings of the album's 11 songs began in September 2007 in Helsinki, followed by the album being recorded in Nashville, USA and four other countries.


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The album was mixed by Michael Wagener.


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Black Roses is a theme album dealing with one person's story from difference to self-search, struggle and martyrdom.


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The album's first single, “Livin' in a World Without You”, was first performed live in Berlin on 5 July and on radio on 25 July.


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Its video shot in Stockholm was directed by Niclas Fronda and was released in mid-August.


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A physical single from the song was released on September 10.


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Black Roses was released in Finland on 24 September and in Central Europe two days later.


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Later on in the year, “Justify”, a slow and atmospheric song, also became available for release as a single.


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[4] In style, the album mixes lighter rock and heavier sounds like Into and is more varied than the band's previous albums.


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In 2008, apart from a few German promo gigs, the band performed only in Scandinavia.


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In Finland, the band had a long period of 3rd—12.


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October 2008 Dynasty Tour 2008, which covered eight cities.


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On tour with them were the Von Hertzen Brothers and Mariko.


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For the Black Roses world tour, the band left in January 2009, starting in Europe.


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The album has been the band's most expensive production ever, but despite this it has gained less popularity.


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The album has been sold below the gold limit of 20,000 copies in Finland.


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Best of 2001—2009 compilation album (2009) In November 2009, The Rasmus released their second compilation album.


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The album features one new song, the duet “October & April” made with Anette Olzon.


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It was also released as a single.


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The album has a total of 17 tracks.


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[5] The Rasmus (2012) The band released a studio album bearing their name in April 2012.


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Two singles were released from the album, I'm a mess and Stranger.


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Dark Matters (2017) In March 2017, The Rasmus released new single “Paradise”.


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It is the band's first release after a five-year recording hiatus.


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[6] A music video for the single was released on May 7.


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The new album Dark Matters was released on September 22, 2017.


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In the spring of 2017, the band also released their summer touring schedule.


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It launches in midsummer from Estonia and includes 12 concerts.


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Tickets for the London concert were sold out in an instant.


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Composition Current members Lauri Ylönen, vocals (born 23 April 1979 Helsinki) Aki Hakala, drums (born 28 October 1979 in Espoo) Pauli Rantasalmi, guitar (born 1 May 1979 Helsinki) Eero Heinonen, bass (born 27 November 1979 Helsinki) Former members Janne Heiskanen drums 1995—1998 (26 January 1979, Huddersfield) Discography Peep (1996) Playboys (1997) Hell of a Tester (1998) Into (2001) Dead Letters (2003) Hide from the Sun (2005) Black Roses (2008) The Rasmus (2012) Dark Matters (2017) Awards Emma Award 1996: newcomer of the year 2000: pop/rock album: Into 2001: band of the year album: Into pop/rock album of the year: “Into” song of the year: “F-F-F-Falling” 2003: band of the year export-Emma 2004: MTV's Emma Gala award as best video: “Funeral Song” 2012: Emma-Gala award as best video: “I'm a Mess” Album Cover of the Year: The Rasmus NRJ Radio Awards 2004: Best Nordic Artist Finnish Artist Nordic Song 2005: Best Nordic Band Sources About the rest of Transclusion error: {{En}} is only for use in File namespace.


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Francina Elsje “Fanny” Blankers-Koen (26 April 1918 in Baarn, Netherlands — 25 January 2004 in Hoofddorp, Netherlands) was a Dutch track and field athlete who most notably competed in the sprint distances and in the length and height jump.


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The peak moment of her career came at the 1948 London Olympics, when, as a 30-year-old mother of two, she won four Olympic golds despite not even taking part in jumping sports.


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In addition to Olympic medals, Blankers-Koen won eight European Championship medals, five of them gold, and set several world records.


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Blankers-Koen, who shaped the status of women's athletics, was selected by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1999 as the best female athletics athlete of the 20th century.


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Youth Francina Koen was born on 26 April 1918 in Baarn, village of Lage Vuursche.


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She was the only daughter in the family, and had both two older and younger brothers.


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[1] [2] Her father Arnold Koen had competed in discus throw and ball pushing and inspired his daughter to play the sport.


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[3] Fanny went to school in Hoofddorp and did gymnastics, swimming and athletics, among other activities.


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On the advice of the school director, Fanny decided to focus on athletics and joined an Amsterdam-based women's athletics club.


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[1] Racing career Early stages Koen participated in 1935 in Groningen in his first race, but he did not finish high in the 200 m run.


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[4] Although the first race did not go well, Koen participated in other competitions during the year.


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Still in the same year he won the Dutch champion by 800 metres, setting a new Netherlands record for the distance.


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The run convinced the Dutch Athletics Commission, which decided to take Koen into the group preparing for the Berlin Olympics.


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At the same time Koen took over as coach Jan Blankers, who had himself competed at Olympic level in triplex.


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[5] 800 metres running was forbidden to women at the Olympics, but Koen was selected to represent the Netherlands in the high jump.


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In the running competitions leading up to the Olympics, he showed his speed, and was also admitted to the Netherlands relay team.


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At the Olympics, Koen topped 1.55 metres in the height jump and finished sixth.


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The 4×100 metres relay team finished fifth in turn.


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[5] Later, Koen recalled that getting Jesse Owens's autograph was the most precious moment of the Games for him.


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[6] After the Olympics, Blankers began to hone Koen's sprint running technique.


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Over the next year Koen won every sprint race in the Netherlands and two in Germany.


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[7] Koen's first world record came about in 1938 when he ran the 100-yard distance to 11 seconds.


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In the same year he won his first prestigious race medals when he finished runner-up at the European Championships in Vienna for bronze in the 100 and 200 m runs.


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[3] The 1938 European Championships were the first to which women were admitted, although the competitions were held in a different city than the men's competitions.


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[6] Koen began his training to aim for the 1940 Helsinki Olympics and concentrated on the high jump and 100 m running.


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[5] In the Netherlands, the press expected success from the Olympics, but international competitive activities were suspended in 1939 after the outbreak of World War II.


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[3] World records and family addition in wartime The Netherlands was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II, but Koen continued to train during the war and participated in national competitions.


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[6] Germany took over the Netherlands in May 1940.


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Koen had gotten engaged to her coach Blankers a couple of weeks earlier, and they married on August 29.


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Their firstborn, Jan Blankers the Younger, was born in August 1941, and Blankers-Koen was unable to compete during 1941.


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She began training on the inside track, however, as early as three months after the birth of a son.


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During 1942, Blankers-Koen decided to focus on the 80 m hurdles as well and still sidelined the distance world record time of 11.3 during the same year.


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[5] Blankers-Koen broke several world records during the war, winning, for example, in 1942 each of his runs.


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On 30 May 1943, he surpassed the world record height of 1.71 metres in the height jump and set a world record result of 6.25 metres in the long jump on 19 September.


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[5] The following year, Blankers-Koen ran the 100-yard distance in a world record time of 10.8 and was involved in setting the 4×110-yard and 4×200-meter world records.


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[8] The winter of 1944—1945 was harsh in the Netherlands.


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However, the Blankers-Koen family survived the winter known as Hongerwinter, during which, due to the bloc of Germans, the country suffered severe famine in some places.


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[3] The war ended in May 1945, and Blankers-Koen had no plans to return to competitive sports.


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However, he decided to continue his career after hearing that the European Championships would be held in Oslo in 1946.


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[8] After World War II A four-time Olympic champion in London, Blankers-Koen gave birth to a daughter bearing the name Fanneke in February 1946.


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He resumed training two months later, taking part in the Netherlands Championships in August and winning five titles in them.


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At the European Championships in Oslo, however, Blankers-Koen did not fare as he expected.


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The high jump final and 100m semi-finals took place on the same day and she was unable to fully concentrate on either.


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He finished fourth in the high jump eventually, but in the 100 metres he crashed and was pared out of the rest of the race.


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However, during the Games, Blankers-Koen won gold in the 80 m hurdles and 4×100 m relay.


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[8] Blankers-Koen trained hard during the winter of 1946—1947, and the 1947 results were promising: he improved on his previous year's results, winning no fewer than six sports at the Netherlands Championships (100 and 200 metres runs, 80 metres hurdles, high jump, long jump and ball push ).


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Towards the end of the year, Blankers-Koen and her coach husband decided to aim at the London Olympics only for quick trips and skip the more precarious sports of jumping.


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[8] The settlement was made partly out of necessity, as women were only allowed to participate in three personal species.


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[6] Blankers-Koen, in the winter of 1947—1948, concentrated only on training in running classes for the first time in his career, and his results before the Olympics were excellent.


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She broke the 200 m Netherlands record, sidelined Helen Stephens's 100 m world record time of 11.5 seconds and a few weeks later ran the 80 m hurdles in 11 seconds, 0.3 seconds below the old world record.


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[8] Despite setting world records in Blankers-Koen's name for the 100 m, 80 metres hurdles, high jump and long jump, she received much criticism for her participation in the Games.


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Many suspected she, as a 30-year-old mother of two, would be too slow for the Games.


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[4] In addition, Blankers-Koen received letters advising her to end her racing career and focus on raising her children.


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[3] At the London Olympics, Blankers-Koen's first sport was the 100 metres run.


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He won both his own initial round, semi-final and ultimately final run.


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The winning time for the final was 11.9 seconds.


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In the next sport, the 80 m hurdles, Blankers-Koen twice broke the Olympic record.


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First time in the first start round with a time of 11.3 seconds and for the second time in the final with a time of 11.2 seconds.


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[8] The solution for the hurdles only came about after a paint camera review, when Maureen Gardner had received the same time.


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The run had been a difficult one for Blankers-Koen, as he had received a poor start and was still crashing into the fifth fence.


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[3] Blankers-Koen broke the Olympic record again twice in the 200 metres: in the early round with a time of 25.7 and in the semi-final with a time of 24.3 seconds.


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In the final race, she ran a time of 24.4, beating Audrey Williamson, who came second, by 0.7 seconds.


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[8] In the last of her kind, Blankers-Koen ran the anchor section in a relay team that included Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs and Nettie Witziers-Timmer.


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When Blankers-Koen received the baton, the Netherlands were only fourth, but he was able to lift the team in the anchor leg to victory.


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[3] Blankers-Koen became the first female athlete in London to win four gold medals from the Olympics.


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[9] However, during the Games, she was about to miss the Olympics because of homesickness twice.


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He felt he had won enough before the 200m run and missed his children.


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However, Jan Blankers managed to persuade his wife to go 200 metres as well.


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[3] Blankers-Koen, who received the name “Flying Housewife”, received a glorious reception at home in the Netherlands: she and her family were transported across Amsterdam in an open carriage drawn by four white horses.


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[6] The final years of his career at the European Championships 1950 Blankers-Koen was again victorious.


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He managed to win gold in the 100 and 200 metres, as well as in the 80 m hurdles, although Germany had returned to the racecourses and the Soviet Union took part in the Values Games for the first time.


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The Netherlands failed to renew the Message Championship, but remained in it for silver.


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After the European Championships, Blankers-Koen also added pentathlon to her range, which was not yet a women's prestige race sport.


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In it, he set a world record in 1951.


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[6] Blankers-Koen still participated in the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.


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However, the abscess hampered his preparation for the Games and he was forced to withdraw from sprints and relay.


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[6] Blankers-Koen ran on from the 100 m starters and quarterfinals, but did not participate in the semi-finals again.


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[10] In hurdles, Blankers-Koen qualified for the final, but he interrupted after badly hitting the second fence.


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[6] After the Olympics, Blankers-Koen continued her career even though she did not participate in any more prestigious Games.


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His career he ended at the age of 37 in 1957.


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In addition to his international success, Blankers-Koen won 58 Netherlands titles during his career.


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[9] After a racing career, Blankers-Koen continued his racing career in athletics.


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He was manager of the Netherlands athletics team at the Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964 and México 1968 Olympics.


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[6] Jan Blankers died in July 1977, and within a few years Blankers-Koen decided to move from Amsterdam to his former hometown of Hoofddorp.


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She was placed in a psychiatric nursing home in her final years after her health had deteriorated as a result of Alzheimer's disease and cerebral infarction.


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[11] Blankers-Koen died at the age of 85 in January 2004.


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[6] Recognitions and significance The International Athletics Federation selected the Athletics of the Century in 1999.


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Blankers-Koen was selected as the best female athletics player of the 20th century and Carl Lewis the male athletics player.


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[12] Blankers-Koen's influence on female athletics was great.


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During her racing career, women's athletics was practically only an ancillary activity for men's competitions.


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In addition, women were not thought to be able to compete at the top level again by the age of 30.


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Blankers-Koen's long and creditable career, however, forced many to rethink the status of women's sport.


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The Battle for Norway, Battle of Norway or occupation of Norway was a conflict in which Norway was conquered by Germany in World War II in April—June 1940.


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The main objective of the operation was to secure the supply of iron ore important to the German war industry from Sweden.


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The operation proceeded quickly and Norway was badly taken by surprise.


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The Allies arrived to the aid of the Norwegians, and although counter-strikes in the southern parts of the country were left inconclusive, in northern Norway the Germans experienced their first defeat throughout the war at the Battle of Narvik.


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[1] [2] The German invasion of France in May 1940, however, prompted the Allies to withdraw from Norway, after which the country had to surrender to the Germans, and its government went into exile in London.


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Norway remained occupied until May 1945, when British troops entered the country, and German troops surrendered without resistance.


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[3] Background of the Fake War and the Winter War The Second World War had begun on 1 September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland.


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Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September in response to the invasion, but did not engage in any major war effort.


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On September 17, the Soviet Union also invaded Poland, capturing its eastern parts, which Germany had promised it in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.


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Poland was defeated in just over a month, and after this the so-called fake war began, during which the Allies and Germany were at war with each other but did not wage any major war effort.


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Instead, the Soviet Union invaded Finland, which had also been placed under its sphere of interest by the Molotovin-Ribbentrop Pact, on 30 November.


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However, the Soviet offensive went badly, and in December its main attack stalled on the Finns' Mannerheim Line.


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[4] The Soviet invasion of Finland provoked indignation all over the world.


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The Allied leadership was clearly on the side of the Finns in attitudes, but Finland did not receive any actual help.


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[4] Some arms aid was sent to Finland, but not only volunteers.


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On 5 February 1940, however, the Allies decided to send troops to Norway and proceed from there to the aid of Finland.


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The decision was likely motivated by the Allied desire to block German access to Swedish ore resources, which were being shipped via Norway to Germany.


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On 28 March, Great Britain and France agreed to mine Norwegian waters to force German ships carrying iron ore into the open sea and into Allied targets.


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However, there was no time to implement this before 9 April.


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Nor did the colonist army for the aid of the Allied Finland ever take part in the Winter War, as it had time to end on 13 March with the Peace of Moscow.


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[4] At the same time, the Germans had their own plan for Norway.


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Adolf Hitler intended to take over Norway so that Swedish ore would continue to be available to the Germans.


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The offensive was to use the lightning war established in the Polish offensives.


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The operation was renamed Weserübung.


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One important reason for the attack was also the incident in which the German freighter Altmark was captured by the British fleet in Jössinfjorid, Norway.


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[1] This made Hitler furious, and gave him the impression that Norway did not intend to remain neutral.


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[1] Norway, like the other Nordic countries, Norway had decided to remain neutral in World War I.


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[5] Nasjonal Samling, a small but vocal far-right party, chaired by Vidkun Quisling, operated in the country.


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The party was highly sympathetic to the Nazis, and Quisling met Hitler in person twice.


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Hitler told Quisling that he considered Norwegian neutrality as the best option, but that he would intervene armed immediately if the British showed any intention to go ashore in Norway.


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[1] At the start of World War II, the Norwegian Armed Forces were small and highly inadequately armed.


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There was no armour force at all, neither was heavy artillery.


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The anti-tank and anti-aircraft equipment was quite inadequate.


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The minimal equipment provided by the land forces, navy and air force was also obsolete.


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[1] The Norwegians also responded to the increasing threat of German invasion slowly - General Hatledal, Chief of the General Staff of the Norwegian Army, had called for a full mobilization of the army as early as 5 April, but this was not authorised.


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The Norwegians were completely unprepared for battle at the time of the Germans.


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Battles of Germans attack German troops backed by about 1000 aircraft attacked Denmark and Norway early in the night of 9 April 1940.


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Denmark was overrun within hours.


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The first-ever landing attack was carried out on Oslo and Stavanger airfields in Norway.


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The ships counted soldiers at six different targets.


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The six Norwegian divisions had no armoured corps and effective artillery, and the country's coastal defences were ill-equipped.


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When Kristian Laake, Commander-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army, received word that German warships were moving along the Oslo Fjord towards the Norwegian capital Oslo, he did not take this very seriously at first.


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Most of the strongholds in Oslo Fjord (which were old and inadequately armed) surrendered without resistance or were quickly overrun, but the ancient fort Oscarsborg managed with artillery fire and torpedoes to sink the heavy cruiser Blücher, which took hundreds of soldiers with it, some estimates have spoken of up to a thousand Germans.


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[1] [6] The surviving Germans swam ashore, where they were briefly captured by the Norwegians.


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General Erich Engelbrecht, commanding the Oslo attack, was also captured.


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[6] This slightly delayed the German takeover of Oslo, and King Haakon of Norway was able to flee to Elverum with his government as a result.


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German paratroopers were sent towards Elverum to capture the king and the country's main politicians, [1] but they were ambushed by the Norwegians and fled in disarray, losing their commander, Captain Eberhard Spiller.


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[1] [7] Off Narvik, two old Norwegian coastal defence ships, the Eidsvold and the Norge, made resistance to three German ships carrying General Eduard Dietl's troops to Narvik.


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Eidsvold fired a warning shot at the German Heidkamp.


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Friedrich Bonte, commanding the German convoy, sent a negotiator aboard the Norwegian ship.


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The Norwegians refused to allow the Germans into the port.


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The Germans' negotiator left Eidsvold, and after this Heidkamp sank the ship by firing three torpedoes at it.


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Norge then began shelling another German ship, the Armin, but inconclusively.


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Armin launched torpedoes which also sank Norge.


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Hundreds of Norwegians died in the battle along with the sinking ships.


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[1] Subsequently, the Germans drove to the port of Narvik.


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[1] There was only weak ground defences at Narvik, and the city had to surrender without a fight.


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In the following days, the Royal Navy made surprise attacks off Narvik against German naval divisions (the First Battle of Narvik on 10 April and the Second Battle of Narvik on 13 April).


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After securing their first bridgeheads, the Germans launched the conquest of Norway proper.


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The Norwegians defended tenaciously in Lake Mjøsa and the Glomma Valley.


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Allied countermeasures in central and southern Norway, the Norwegian government negotiated whether they should leave the country for Sweden.


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The Prime Minister supported this, but King Haakon flatly refused.


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The Norwegian government therefore temporarily moved to Lillehammer and decided to continue the fight.


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[7] Laake was devastated mentally, but General Otto Ruge, who was considered more vigorous than his predecessor, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army.


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[8] When the Norwegian army was put into motion, about 40000 men responded to the call.


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The armament of the army was very poor, but the fighting spirit, by contrast, good - those who arrived in arms were predominantly passionate patriots.


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[7] On 14 April, the actual Allied settler army, of about 10,000 men, formed initially to assist Finland, went ashore at Namsos (Operations Henry and Maurice), Åndalsnes, Ålesund and Molde (Operations Primrose and Sickle) and Narvik (Operation Rupert).


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The intention was to recapture Trondheim in order to bring a major bridgehead to Norway.


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The troops were ill-prepared for battle and contacts with the Norwegians did not work.


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Allied forces were incapable of joint action and had not been trained in warfare in the north.


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[8] Operation Henry, or the Namsos landings, to secure the area north of Trondheim, took place on 14 April when the forward command came ashore at Namsos.


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A force of 350 sailors and marines commanded by Captain Edd of the Royal Marines secured the bridge of the road entering the area and mined the harbour's equipment.


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The actual landings, or Operation Maurice, took place on 16—17 April.


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The main force was the British 146.


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The brigade (Battalions from the Lincolnshire, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, York and Lancaster Regiments) was commanded by General Carton de Wiart, who arrived on the scene by flying boat.


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As reinforcements, French Alpine ice fighters were supplied to the area as well as some light artillery as well as anti-aircraft cannons.


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The attack on Trondheim began on 20 April.


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The Germans held their ground and waited for reinforcements.


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The German Air Force supported the defenders.


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Eventually, on 30 April, the Allies, who suffered heavy losses, retreated.


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After the Trondheim operation failed, the Allies evacuated Namsos and Åndalsnes 1—2.


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on May.


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More than half of Norway was now in the hands of the Germans and by early May the situation stabilized into a war of positions south of Narvik.


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Operation Rupert — Invasion of Narvik Although Allied resistance had been broken in southern Norway, in the north the situation was different.


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The main objectives of the entire operation had been Narvik and its ore port, through which future Swedish ore was vital to the German war industry.


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The Germans had already occupied Narvik at the beginning of the operation, but their defensive lines around the town were very weak, and in early May the situation with the German forces commanded by General Eduard Dietl began to be really tough at Narvik.


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Facing them, the Norwegian 6th Division, commanded by General Fleischer, was the only mobilised division of the Norwegians and was supported by British forces.


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[1] The Norwegians had been testing the Germans' defensive capabilities since early May, when they began advancing towards Narvik.


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Hitler was at one point panicked over the situation in Narvik and suggested that General Dietl's troops be sought by air to safety from Narvik.


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However, the operation would have been unworkable.


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[1] With the onset of the German major offensive in the west, both sides concentrated their forces in France.


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Norway was now a “thorn in the flesh” for the Allies because it bound their powers.


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Churchill gave the order to retake Narvik, but only as a blur, after which the Allies might be evacuated from Norway safely.


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The Norwegians were not told of the plan, as they were feared to surrender at once if they heard of the Allied intention, and the evacuation would not necessarily succeed in doing so.


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Ruge was admittedly briefed on the matter, something he was initially infuriated about but eventually accepted the Allied plan.


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[8] In early May, the Allies received their first tanks and landings equipment to the Narvik Front, and Narvik began to be encircled.


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On 7 May, the Norwegians captured a strategically important highland already overlooking Narvik.


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[2] The French Foreign Legion went ashore on 12 May and captured Bjerkvik.


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In Bjerkvik, the Germans made resistance.


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The village suffered severe damage in the battle and numerous civilians were killed.


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The Allies in Øyjord, on the other hand, gained control without resistance, as the Germans had fled.


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[2] Subsequently, the German forces at Narvik had been surrounded.


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Further south, General Feuerstein's German 2nd Mountain Division set out to advance towards the north, with the intention of assisting the isolated General Dietl.


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The German attack proceeded, forcing the Allies to hasten the takeover of Narvik.


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The British and Norwegians slowed Feuerstein by blowing up bridges and waging delaying battles.


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[1] General Feuerstein did not reach Dietl's aid in time, but rather the Norwegian, French, Polish and British led by Generals Fleischer and Auchinleck took Narvik, forcing the Germans to retreat from the city towards the Swedish border.


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[1] [2] [9] The Battle for Narvik was the first major land battle in World War II to be won by the Allies.


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[2] The ripples of Dietl's troops were driven into a small area around Bjørnefjell, close to the Swedish border.


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The Norwegian 6th Division approached them inexorably when Hitler gave Dietl permission to retreat across the border to Sweden.


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From there they were to be evacuated by trains.


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[1] [2] This never happened, however, as the Allies carried out their plans and, to the surprise of the Norwegians, began to withdraw from the coast.


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The Norwegian army would not have been able to continue fighting without replenishment from the Allies and, despite its victory, had to surrender, having first protected the Allied evacuation.


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[2] [9] Allied evacuation Planning for the evacuation of Allied forces, or Operation Alphabet, had begun in mid-May.


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The evacuation was to be carried out mostly through the ports of Narvik and Harsted from 4 to 10 a.m.


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June and was to be used by several large ships suitable for troop transport, assembled in various ports.


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Ships included Atlantis, Arandora Star, Duchess of York, Franconia, Georgic, Lancastria, Monarch of Bermuda, Orama, Ormonde, Oronsay, Royal Ulsterman, Ulster Prince and Poles Batory and Sobieski.


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In addition to these ships, there were fleet support ships as well as the armed lander Van Dyck.


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Maintenance and tank ships in the operation included Acrity, Blackheath, Cotswold, Couch, Cromarty Firth, Glenaffaric, Glengarry, Harmattan, Oil Pioneer, Oligarch and Theseus.


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Some 25,000 men and their equipment were evacuated over five days.


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On withdrawal, the ore port of Narvik was also destroyed to prevent iron ore shipments to Germany for an extended period of time.


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King Haakon VII and his government left for Great Britain on 7 June, coinciding with the evacuation of the last Allies from Norway.


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Ruge, commander-in-chief of the Norwegians, had refused to leave the country and insisted on being allowed to stay with his men as a prisoner of war.


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[8] Large numbers of Norwegian soldiers left the country to participate in the war in the Allied forces.


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[8] On 8 June, Admiral Hipper was sunk by cannon fire and finally launching a torpedo on the Orient Line's Orama (19840 t).


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As the ship sank, 19 sailors were drowned and 280 men were captured as one of Orama's chief Sherburne.


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On the same day, the British Oil Shipping Company Limited tanker Oil Pioneer (5666 t) was sunk off Narvik ().


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In addition, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and its escorted destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were sunk in the area.


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And elsewhere, the still-armed lander Van Dyck was sunk.


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Late on June 9, the king told the Norwegians to stop fighting.


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The battle for Norway was over and the Germans soon occupied northernmost Norway as well.


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However, even after this, the Norwegian Resistance was active.


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Due to minor male losses at Verrate after Operation Verrate, the conflict is sometimes referred to as the “occupation of Norway”, but due to the localized rawness of the fighting, it is also referred to as the “Battle for Norway”.


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Although German losses were small in ground fighting, in naval battles they were nevertheless much more palpable.


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During World War II, the German Navy no longer recovered properly from the losses it suffered in Norway, and was at no point able to challenge the British Royal Navy.


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[1] The British naval losses were roughly equal, but they withstood them better.


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The Luftwaffe had also lost much valuable transport equipment.


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[1] With the invasion of Norway, Germany secured the supply of ore from Sweden.


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In addition, they gained access to a large number of coastal bases from Norway, where e.g.


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disrupted the British's chances of controlling Atlantic shipping.


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These bases became particularly important with the onset of Operation Barbarossa, when Allied convoys began to pass into the Soviet Union, carrying this war aid.


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Norway's strategic importance diminished as the Germans also gained control of the west coast of France, whose bases had direct access to the Atlantic.


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[1] However, the occupation of Norway swallowed up German military capabilities quite a bit.


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Hitler was convinced that Norway was very important to the war and the country was very heavily occupied, there were at best 400,000 German soldiers - one German per ten inhabitants.


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[3] As part of Nazi Germany's nuclear programme, a heavy water plant also operated in Norway.


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The factory suffered severe damage in an Allied sabotage attack in February 1943 (Operation Gunnerside), in which Norwegian commandos trained by SOE destroyed by blowing up large parts of the factory.


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[10] After the attack, the Germans decided to move the rest of the heavy water, as well as the plant, to Germany.


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However, this plan failed when the Norwegian resistance sank the transport ship.


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Metallica is an American metal music band founded in Los Angeles, California in 1981 by vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich.


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Famed for its fast-paced and heavy music, Metallica is one of the most prominent bands in metal music throughout the ages, and is known along with Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax as one of the “big four” bands of the thrash metal genre.


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In addition to James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, who had been involved in the band since its inception, Metallica's line-up includes solo guitarist Kirk Hammett, who has played in the band since 1983, and bassist Robert Trujillo, who joined the band in 2003.


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[1] Early in their career, Metallica garnered fans with their music especially in underground metal circles, but the band's first five albums also gained acclaim among critics.


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Metallica's third album Master of Puppets (1986) has been considered one of the heaviest and most influential thrash metal albums.


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With their fifth album, Metallica (1991), the band had musically moved closer to more conventional heavy metal, elevating the band more prominently to mainstream audience consciousness than before.


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[2] The album has sold over twenty million copies worldwide.


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After Metallica, the band recorded albums Load and ReLoad, which represented a lighter style, a cover album with Garage Inc., and a live album with S&M in association with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, until making a return to their thrash roots with their 2008 album Death Magnetic.


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In 2000, Metallica attracted attention with a lawsuit against file-sharing service Napster, launched by drummer Lars Ulrich after learning Napster was distributing the band's songs for free on the internet.


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In 2004, the band appeared in a positive reception documentary film Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, which depicted the band's harrowing crisis and strife and the recording of their eighth album, St. Anger (2003).


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In 2009, the band was nobly inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


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[3] A cross between concert video and film, Metallica: Through the Never, scripted by band members, premiered in 2013.


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Metallica have released ten studio albums, the latest being 2016's Hardwired... to Self-Destruct.


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The band has been a nominee for Grammy Award winners 23 times, winning nine Grammys in all.


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[4] In the United States, where Metallica has sold over 58 million albums, the band's six most recent studio albums have debuted at the number one spot on the Billboard 200 album charts.


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Worldwide, by 2018, Metallica's record sales have surpassed the mark of 125 million albums sold, making the band one of the most successful musical artists of all time.


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Some of the band's best-known songs include “Master of Puppets”, “Fade to Black”, “One”, “Enter Sandman”, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “Nothing Else Matters”.


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History Early Years (1981—1983) In the summer of 1981, Lars Ulrich met James Hetfield through one of his friends.


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However, Ulrich's audition for Leather Charm, composed of James Hetfield, Hugh Tanner and Ron McGovney, was not a success.


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[5] Later, however, Lars contacted James after receiving permission from Brian Slagel to release one song on his Metal Massacre compilation album.


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[6] James agreed and, to his surprise, found that Lars's drumming skills had developed significantly.


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They recorded Leather Charm's early song “Hit The Lights” on which Hetfield and McGovney worked out guitars, bass tracks as well as sang and Ulrich played drums.


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However, the song still needed solos, but James Hetfield's skills were not yet sufficient for believable solos.


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Eventually, judging by newspaper announcements, there were two viable candidates for Ulrich and Hetfield: one was Lloyd Grant and the other was Dave Mustaine.


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[7] Both were allowed to attempt to play the solos for the song, and eventually Lloyd's version ended up on tape, albeit with Dave getting a spot as Metallica's second guitarist.


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Metallica's first song made it onto the Metal Massacre compilation, though, much to the chagrin of the band, its name was written in the form “Mettallica”.


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On later editions of the album, however, the typo was corrected and they also included a re-recorded version of “Hit The Lights”, with solos played by Mustaine, and bass played by Ron McGovney, familiar to James from pre-existing band activities.


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[8] However, McGovney's career as the band's bassist did not continue for very long after he got tired of the constant drunkenness and partying of the rest of the trio, especially when he had to do the work.


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Hetfield and Ulrich took note of McGovney's displeasure and began looking for a new bass player.


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They saw future bassist Cliff Burton at a concert by his then-band Trauma in San Francisco and became convinced of what they saw.


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On the way home to Los Angeles, intervals between the band members became tense.


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Black violent behavior while drunk began to conjecture others.


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McGovney grew tired of the other members' drunken antics and announced his resignation from the band.


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The trio Ulrich, Hetfield and Mustaine began persuading Burton to join the band.


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[9] This was conditional on him not having to leave his friends and family in San Francisco.


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The members of Metallica moved to San Francisco and on December 28, 1982, the bassist became incumbent Cliff Burton.


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The band did not perceive Los Angeles as a suitable environment for them surrounded by the city's glam rock scene and were well received in San Francisco.


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[9] Hetfield and Ulrich liked Burton's playing style and stage performance: “It felt like there was a solo guitar player playing on stage instead of a solo bassist.


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“[9] Burton, on the other hand, liked Metallica's aggressive and unpretentious style, and he had long been tired of Trauma.


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[10] Crew changes continued in the spring of 1983 when the band went to New York to record their first-born album.


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On this trip, the band decided that a successor needed to be obtained for Mustaine.


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In New York, after a couple of concerts, they fired Mustaine and took the place of Kirk Hammett, a founding member of the band Exodus.


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[11] The difference was heavy for everyone.


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However, Mustaine made an impact in the band for almost a year.


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[9] [12] Kill 'Em All and Ride the Lightning (1983—1984) In 1983, the band's first-born album, Kill 'Em All, was released.


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Released by Megaforce Records in the United States and Music For Nations in Europe, the album was initially not a commercial success, but gained an increased Metallica fan base and rose to number 120 on the Billboard 200 chart with its 1987 reissue.


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[13] Two singles were released from Kill 'Em Alli, 'Whiplash' and 'Jump in the Fire'.


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Also, the song “Seek & Destroy” has become a fan favorite.


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With the release of the album, the band embarked on a United States tour.


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The second album Ride the Lightning was released in 1984, from which the singles releases “For Whose the Bell Tolls”, the band's first ballad “Fade to Black”, and “Creeping Death”, about the plagues of ancient Egypt, emerged as hits.


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On the album, the band went in a more melodic and ambitious direction.


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At the time of that album, Metallica asked John Bush (ex-Armored Saint, ex-Anthrax) as their vocalist, as Hetfield did not consider himself a good enough singer.


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Bush, however, refused.


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[9] Ride the Lightning ranked top 100 on the Billboard 200 list.


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[13] Master of Puppets and first steps towards major success (1985—1986) In late 1985, the band's third album Master of Puppets was completed, which was released in March 1986.


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The album was a major success in metal music circles, although no singles were released from it.


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Tracks such as the fast-paced “Battery”, the slow ballad-like “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”, the instrumental “Orion” and especially the album's title track “Master of Puppets” emerged as classics.


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The seventh track on the album was an over eight-minute piece of skill by Cliff Burton.


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The album was ranked on the Billboard 200 chart peaking at number 29 and it stayed on the chart for 72 weeks.


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[14] The album was awarded a gold disc on November 4, 1986, and a six-time platinum album in 2003.


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Many critics, including All Music Guide's Steve Huey consider the album to be “the best heavy metal album ever”.


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[15] Following the album's release, Metallica toured the United States with Ozzy Osbourne.


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[16] The death of Cliff Burton and the new bass player (1986—1987) as Metallica travelled through Sweden towards Copenhagen, Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett were pulling cards from sleeping places, leaving Burton with an upper bed in the back of the bus.


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[17] At night, the tour bus drifted into a ditch in Dörarp in Ljungby Municipality, Sweden after the driver lost control of the bus.


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In the accident, Burton flew out of the bus window, the bus rolled over on him, and he died instantly.


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The official cause of death for Burton, who died at the age of 24, was a chest compression injury and resulting lung damage.


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[18] It remains undetermined whether the driver was under the influence of alcohol or whether black ice was caused by the accident.


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The rest of the band survived what happened without serious injury at Cliff Burton's funeral was played mainly a song he made, “Orion” and his body was cremated in the presence of a close circle.


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Burton's death left the band's future in doubt.


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However, Hetfield, Ulrich and Hammett concluded that Burton would have preferred them to continue playing.


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The band began looking for a new bass player, and about 40 entrepreneurs visited the auditions.


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Bassist Jason Newsted, who played in the band Flotsam and Jetsam, had learned all the songs in the band and, after auditioning, received an invitation to San Francisco.


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Newsted became the band's new bassist, but had to endure bullying from the rest of the band for about a year, as the other members wanted to see if Newsted would be tough enough to hold ground in the band.


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[19] Metallica played the end of the tour, which had been broken due to Burton's death, in early 1987.


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In March 1987, Hetfield broke his wrist while skateboarding, causing the band to be forced to cancel their Saturday Night Live appearance.


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In August, Metallica released an EP composed of covers, The $5.98 E.P.


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: Garage Days Re-Revisited, which aimed to test the playing skills of new bassist Newsted, to make use of the band's new recording studio and alleviate the grief caused by Burton's death.


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In 1987, the band released a still video compilation Cliff 'Em All in Burton's memory, which contained mainly footage of Burton shot by fans.


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... And Justice for All (1988—1990)... And Justice for All, the band's first album after Burton's death, was released in the fall of 1988.


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The album was a success and it reached number six on the Billboard 200 charts.


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[13] The album sold a platinum album eligible for nine weeks after its release.


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The mischief directed at Newsted reached the extreme during the recording sessions for the album.


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His musical ideas were discarded and his playing was mixed on the record into almost inaudible ones.


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[9] The album also featured the instrumental track “To Live Is To Die”, which remained as the last composition by the late Cliff Burton, containing a short poem written by Burton as recited by James Hetfield.


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The song “Dyers Eve”, lyrics by Hetfield, is dedicated to his parents.


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Three singles were released from the album, “Eye of the Beholder”, “Harvester of Sorrow” and “One”.


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... From the And Justice for All album, Metallica's first music video, One paraphrasing Dalton Trumbo's anti-war novel Military Boy, was produced, which emerged as a hit.


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The video was voted number 38 on MTV's “Top 100 Videos of All Time” list in 1999, and was the most desirable song on MTV's heavy metal programme Headbangers Ball.


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[20] In 1988-89, the band was on a major Damaged Justice world tour.


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The tour's Seattle gig has later been considered one of the band's best appearances.


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In 1989, Metallica received its first Grammy nomination for... And Justice For All.


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Metallica was an advance favourite, but the win eventually went to Jethro Tull's album Crest of a Knave.


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This decision caused controversy among fans and in the music press.


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The decision also made it into Entertainment Weekly's magazine's “The 10 Biggest Disappointments” list of the Grammy Awards.


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[21] Three years later, Lars Ulrich referenced what happened after Metallica won a Grammy Award for their song “Enter Sandman”, saying “We have to thank Jethro Tulli for not releasing an album this year”.


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Black Album/Metallica (1991—1993) In October 1990, Metallica relocated to North Hollywood to record their next album.


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Bob Rock, who had worked with artists such as The Cult, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crue, was hired as the album's producer.


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Metallica, also known as “The Black Album,” was remixed three times and cost $1 million to make.


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The album peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 chart.


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[13] The major radio hits that emerged from the album, “Enter Sandman” known for its guitar riff, the heavy “Sad But True”, and the melodic “Nothing Else Matters” put the band once and for all into the mainstream of metal music.


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The album has sold 15-times platinum in the United States and is thus the 25th highest-selling album in the United States.


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Metallica embarked on a world tour that lasted more than two years.


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The tour began in Europe in the summer of 1991 when Metallica played on the Monsters of Rock tour along with Pantera and AC/DC, among others.


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The European section ended on 28 September 1991 in Moscow, where a massive free concert was held at Tushino Airport.


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Next, the band continued their tour of their homeland with a nearly year-long section of “Wherever I May Roam”, which ended in July 1992.


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At one concert on this tour, James Hetfield was in the wrong place at the wrong time while standing on a shower of fire.


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He received second- and third-degree burns.


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[22] However, the tour was brought to a close and with Hetfield focusing solely on singing and in his place guitar was played by Kirk Hammett's longtime friend and the band's guitar technician John Marshall.


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The “Wherever I May Roam” tour continued with a US stadium tour with Guns N' Roses, lasting until October 1992.


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In late autumn 1992, Metallica toured indoor rinks in Europe, stopping also at the Helsinki Ice Hall on December 16.


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In 1993, the band continued their tour under the name “Nowhere Else To Roam”, stopping in Finland at Oulunkylä Sports Park in June 1993.


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The long tour put a strain on the band members and problems began to pile up especially between Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield, who suffers from substance abuse problems.


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Metallica released a live compilation Live Shit: Binge & Purge in 1993, which included material from their 1989-93 appearances.


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Load, ReLoad and Garage Inc.


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(1994—1999) After almost three years of touring, Metallica returned to the studio for a year to write and record their sixth album.


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Load was released in 1996 and it immediately rose to number 1 on Billboard's chart.


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[13] On the album, Metallica again changed their style to a more pronounced lighter direction.


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It came as a shock to many fans that the band members had cut their long hair off.


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Although the album rose to the top of the charts after appearing, it split fan opinions in two.


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The album did not become the same kind of classic as the band's previous output, but the songs “Until It Sleeps” and “Mama Said” received a lot of radio play.


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During the early stages of Loaded's production, the band produced enough material to allow them to release a double album.


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However, the band decided to release half of the songs and finish the remaining songs the following year.


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This resulted in the album ReLoad, which, like Black Album and Loaded, ranked number 1 on the Billboard chart.


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[13] James Hetfield said in the 2004 film Some Kind of Monster that Loaded and RELOAD's songs were mediocre in quality.


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To promote RELOAD, Metallica performed the songs “Fuel” and “The Memory Remains” on NBC's Saturday Night Live program in December 1997, the latter of which Metallica performed with Marianne Faithfull.


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[23] The band took a lengthy touring hiatus during which Metallica recorded a collection of cover songs for Garage Inc.


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album, which included two discs.


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The first disc of the album contained covers from Diamond Head, Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy, among others.


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The second disc briefly contained the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP released after Cliff Burton's death.


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On April 21 and 22, 1999, Metallica recorded two more appearances with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.


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The symphony orchestra was conducted by Michael Kamen, who had worked with Metallica previously on “Nothing Else Matters”.


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Metallica wrote two new songs to play with the symphony orchestra, “No Leaf Clover” and “-Human”.


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The appearances were released in 1999 as a double album and video, renamed S&M.


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Problems (2000) In 2000, the mutual relations between the members of Metallica were inflamed.


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The band's internal division of labour had become pregnant for the members.


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Drummer Lars Ulrich practically ran Metallica's business, guitarist-vocalist James Hetfield wrote almost all of the songs for the band and composed them together with Lars Ulrich.


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Bassist Jason Newsted felt he was a “new” member of Metallica even after all his years, and didn't feel he was gaining the necessary appreciation in the band.


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[24] Newsted also reported that James Hetfield did not tolerate the solo ventures of various members even during the band's season.


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Newsted, for example, had several ensembles of their own over the years, including Echobrain and IR8.


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[25] Metallica was on a trough: the previous two official studio albums Load and ReLoad failed to perform as expected, drummer Ulrich received negative publicity due to a Napster yupaka, Hetfield's substance abuse problems worsened and eventually bassist Newsted thought Metallica would break up.


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[26] Newsted parted ways from the band in 2001.


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Members other than Newsted who already left the band began to fear the band would break up.


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[26] Napster (2000—2001) Metallica recorded the song “I Disappear” for the soundtrack of Mission: Impossible II, which turned out to be on radio play even before the song's release.


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While finding out the source that responded to the song leak, found the band file in the Napster file sharing program.


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The band also discovered that their entire production was on Napster for free download.


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Of this, drummer Ulrich had enough and sued Napster, who distributed the songs.


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[27] [28] He also won the trial.


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The incident sparked protests among Metallica fans.


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[29] [30] Metallica did not go to court with Napster alone.


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In 1999, the band also sued lingerie company Victoria's Secret [31] and, in 2000, the Guerlain cosmetics company for abuses of its trademark, the Metallica name.


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[32] Compensation claims were settled outside the courtrooms.


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[31] St. Anger album and new bassist (2001—2006) Despite problems, the trio Hetfield, Hammett and Ulrich, who were at the break-up point, decided to continue as a band through intensive therapy.


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Recordings for the St. Anger album began in early 2001, but work was interrupted after Hetfield went into substance abuse rehab.


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There, Hetfield spent six months, keeping no contact whatsoever with the band.


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The new album was not completed until 2003, following many misfortunes and shared therapy sessions, which were captured in Metallica's documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.


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Although making the album was difficult, for the first time in Metallica's history, for example, the lyrics of songs were actively involved by members other than James Hetfield.


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The writing of the songs and the album's recordings were also slowed down by unconditional time limits for work imposed by Hetfield, who returned from substance abuse rehab and who began substance abuse therapy.


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James Hetfield, at the urging of therapists, was practically working day jobs at Metallica from twelve to four, after which Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett stayed with producer Bob Rock in the studio with each other to work on the material.


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Among other things Ulrich this arrangement did not please, but Hetfield, despite requests, did not flex his time.


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[26] Despite the clammy process, the album was completed in April 2003.


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On the St. Anger album, producer Bob Rock played bass.


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During the album's completion, the band held auditions involving artists such as Jeordie White (Marilyn Manson), Scott Reeder (Kyuss), Eric Avery (ex-Jane's Addiction), Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity), Les Claypool (Primus), and Danny Lohner (former live bassist of Nine Inch Nails).


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However, the final choice fell on bassist Robert Trujillo, who had previously played in Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne's band, who soon joined the band.


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Trujillo's first public appearance occurred on May 6, 2003, at an MTV Icons event in New York City.


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According to the St. Anger album, a DVD was attached, with all songs from the album played in the band's rehearsal space live with Trujillo.


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St. Anger marked Metallica's return to heavier sound again.


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The band now played on lower-tuned guitars and bass than ever before, with almost all songs played in Drop C tuning.


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The aforementioned documentary film, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, which had its world premiere at the cinema on May 21, 2004, details the recording sessions at St. Anger, and how the band got out of their difficulties with help from therapist Phil Towle, among others.


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From St. Anger, the title track “St.


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Anger”, whose highest ranking on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks list was 2.


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Another song that performed well on the same list was “Frantic”, which rose to number 21.


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In 2004, the band released the Some Kind of Monster EP, supporting the film of the same name.


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The EP included live tracks from the 2003 Paris concert as well as two versions of the new “Some Kind of Monster” song.


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In 2004, Metallica played their first post-bass player change Finland concert on 28 May 2004 at the sold-out Helsinki Olympic Stadium.


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More than half a year earlier, the approximately 41,000 tickets that went on sale on December 15, 2003 were sold out in four hours.


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[33] Tickets that went on sale later also went into trade, causing audience numbers to almost 50,000 spectators.


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The band played as an additional encore song on the Kill 'Em All album, “Jump In The Fire”, which was first played at the time as a live version in Europe throughout the band's history.


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[34] Sweden was also tough, with 55,802 spectators at Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium two days after the Helsinki concert.


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[35] Slipknot's drummer Joey Jordison and Slayer's drummer Dave Lombardo tucked Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for one concert at the 2004 English Download Festival due to Ulrich being sidelined for health reasons.