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Petr Eben 
 Other organ works include Faust (1980), Job (1987) and A Festive Voluntary which is a set of variations on the tune of Good King Wenceslas, written for the reopening in 1986 of the organ at Chichester Cathedral which had just been restored.
Petr Eben 
 He composed some beautiful music for children’s choir, including church music called Liturgical Songs.
Totalitarianism 
 Totalitarianism is when regimes (political systems) control all public behaviour and as much of private behaviour as they can.
Totalitarianism 
 However, their main examples in modern times are Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, North Korea, the Soviet Union, Eritrea and China.
Totalitarianism 
 Italian fascism under Benito Mussolini, Spain under General Franco, Portugal under Dr. Salazar, China under Mao Zedong, and many Latin American countries for periods were dictatorships with some aspects of totalitarianism.
Totalitarianism 
 The Empire of Japan (predecessor state of the modern nation-state of Japan) was a well-known example of a totalitarian military dictatorship during World War II.
Totalitarianism 
 In contrast, a totalitarian regime attempts to control virtually all aspects of the social life, including the economy, education, art, science, private life and morals of citizens.
Lüneburg 
 Salt used to be transported along the Old Salt Route to the Baltic Sea from where it was sent by ship to other countries.
Lüneburg 
 On May 23, 1945 the Nazi war criminal Heinrich Himmler committed suicide in Lüneburg after he had been captured by the British Army.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg retired again in 1919, but returned to public life one more time in 1925 to be elected as the second President of Germany.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 He was 84 years old and in poor health, but deciced to run for re-election in 1932 as the only candidate who could defeat Adolf Hitler, because he saw him as a dangerous extremist.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 He tried to stop Hitler's and the Nazi Party's rise to power, but Franz von Papen persuaded Hindenburg, that the Conservative elite and the military could control Hitler when he becomes Chancellor of Germany and that the other more dangerous alternative was Communist rule.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 But von Papen's belief in controlling Hitler and his assurances to Hindenburg did not happen, because Hitler started to control them and gain more power.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 With this act, Hitler became a dictator in the next months, and crushed all opposition and banned all political parties, except the Nazi Party by the summer of 1933.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg died the next year, after which Hitler declared the office of President vacant and made himself Führer (Head of State and Head of Government) of Germany.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 The famous zeppelin Hindenburg that was destroyed by fire in 1937 had been named in his honour, as is the causeway joining the island of Sylt to mainland Schleswig-Holstein, the Hindenburgdamm, built during his time in office.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 After the first round Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, one of the leaders of the DNVP, visited Hindenburg and asked him to run.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg eventually agreed to run in the second round of the elections as a non-party independent, although he was a conservative.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Because he was Germany's greatest war hero, Hindenburg won the election in the second round of voting held on 26 April 1925.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 He was helped when the Bavarian People's Party (BVP), switched its support from Marx, the SPD candidate and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) to did not withdraw its candidate, Ernst Thälmann.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 If they had their supporters would most likely have voted for the SPD and Hindenburg may not have won.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg often complained that he missed the quiet of his retirement and, that politics was full of ideas like economics that he did not understand.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 His advisers included his son, Oskar, his old army aide General Wilhelm Groener, and General Kurt von Schleicher.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 The younger Hindenburg served as his father's aide-de-camp and controlled politicians' access to the President.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Under a "Presidential" government the chancellor is responsible to the president), and not the Reichstag.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 The "25/48/53 formula" was the three articles of the Constitution that could make a "Presidential government" possible:
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Article 48 allowed the President to sign into law emergency bills without the consent of the Reichstag. (
Paul von Hindenburg 
 The Reichstag could cancel any law passed by Article 48 by a simple majority within sixty days of its signing).
Paul von Hindenburg 
 If the Reichstag should threaten to cancel any of those laws, Hindenburg could threaten a dissolution, and call new elections.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg did not like the idea, but was pressured into going along with them by his son and his other advisors.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 During the winter of 1929–1930, Schleicher had a series of secret meetings with Heinrich Brüning, the leader of the Catholic Center Party (Zentrum).
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Schleicher then set about splitting the "Grand Coalition" government of the Social Democrats and the German People’s Party.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Brüning's first act was to introduce a budget calling for steep spending cuts and sharp tax increases.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 When the budget was defeated in July, Brüning had Hindenburg sign the budget as an emergency law under Article 48.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 When the Reichstag voted to cancel the budget, Brüning had Hindenburg dissolve Reichstag only two years into its mandate, and had the budget passed again by Article 48.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Brüning ruled through Article 48; the Social Democrats never voted not to cancel his Article 48 bills in order not to have another election that could only benefit the Nazis and the Communists.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 In the first round of the election held in March 1932, Hindenburg was the frontrunner, but did not have an absolute majority.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 After the presidential elections had ended, Schleicher held a series of secret meetings with Hitler in May 1932, and thought that Hitler had agreed to support the new "presidential government" Schleicher was building.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 In May 1932 Schleicher had Hindenburg sack Groener as Defence Minister to humiliate both Groener and Brüning.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 On 31 May 1932, Hindenburg sacked Brüning as Chancellor and replaced him with Schleicher's suggestion, Franz von Papen.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Like Brüning's government, von Papen's government was a "presidential government" that governed through the use of Article 48.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Schleicher and von Papen both believed that the Nazis would win the majority of the seats and would support von Papen's government.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 The Nazi party did become the largest party in the Reichstag, and expected Hitler would be Chancellor.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 When Hindenburg met Hitler on 13 August 1932, in Berlin, Hindenburg rejected Hitler's demands for the Chancellorship.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg issued a press release about his meeting with Hitler that seemed to say that Hitler had demanded absolute power and that the President had refused.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 When the Reichstag met in September 1932, its first and only act was to pass a massive vote of no-confidence in von Papen’s government.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 In the 1949 constitution, a vote of no confidence must be accompanied by the election of a new chancellor, so this could not happen.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 In the second Reichstag elections of 1932 the Nazis lost some support, but stayed the largest party in the Reichstag.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 There ensued another round of talks between Hindenburg, von Papen, von Schleicher on the one hand and Hitler and the other Nazi leaders on the other.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg could not accept this, so von Papen suggested Hindenburg declare martial law and do away with democracy.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Von Papen got Oscar Hindenburg to support the plan, and they persuaded the president to ignore his oath to the Constitution and go along with this plan.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Schleicher saw von Papen as a threat so he blocked the martial law plan by saying it would make the Nazi SA and the Communist Red Front Fighters rebel, and that the Poles would invade and the Reichswehr would be unable to cope.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg hated the idea of Hitler as Chancellor, but under pressure from Meißner, von Papen and Oskar Hindenburg the President decided to appoint Hitler Chancellor.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 On the morning of 30 January 1933, Hindenburg swore Hitler in as Chancellor at the Presidential Palace.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg thought that the Nazis' power was limited, especially as his favourite politician, von Papen, was the Vice-Chancellor and the Reich Commissioner for Prussia.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hitler's first act as Chancellor was to ask Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag so that the Nazis and D.N.V.P. could increase their number of seats, Hindenburg agreed.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 In early February 1933, von Papen had an Article 48 bill signed into law that limited the freedom of press.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 At the opening of the new Reichstag on 21 March 1933, at the Kroll Opera House, the Nazis staged an elaborate ceremony, in which Hindenburg played the leading part, that was meant to mark the continuity between the Prussian-German tradition and the new Nazi state.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 The ceremony at the Kroll Opera House had the effect of reassuring many Germans, especially conservative Germans, that life would be fine under the new regime.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 The Nazis made sure that whenever Hindenburg did appear in public Hitler was with him, and that Hitler was always very respectful to the President.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 The Nazi propagandists hoped people would think Hindenburg liked Hitler, and Hitler would become more popular.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 This said that all Jewish civil servants working for the Reich, the Länder, or the local districts should be sacked immediately.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg refused to sign this bill into law unless all Jewish veterans of World War I, Jewish civil servants who served in the civil service during the war and those Jewish civil servants whose fathers were veterans were allowed to stay in office.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hitler agreed, in order to get the law signed, even though he believed that the Jews had tried to undermine Germany during the Great War.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 It was Hindenburg who said that Germany lost the First World War because of politicians and others "stabbing the Army in the back".
Paul von Hindenburg 
 He said it so that his wartime deputy Erich von Ludendorff would not write bad things in his memoirs.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg stayed president until he died from lung cancer at his home in Neudeck, East Prussia on 2 August 1934.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg, old and senile, thought he was meeting Kaiser Wilhelm II, and called Hitler "Your Majesty".
Paul von Hindenburg 
 He would be Germany's last president until 1945, when Karl Dönitz was appointed president in Hitler's last will.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Following Hindenburg's death, Hitler declared the office of President to be permanently vacant, effectively merging it with the office of Chancellor under the title of Leader and Chancellor (Führer und Reichskanzler), making himself Germany's Head of State and Head of government.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Hindenburg was buried in the Tannenberg memorial near Tannenberg, East Prussia (today: Stębark, Poland).
Paul von Hindenburg 
 In 1945, German troops removed his and his wife's coffins, to save them from the approaching Soviet troops, and blew up the memorial with explosives.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Asprey, Robert The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I, New York, New York, W. Morrow, 1991.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Bracher, Karl Dietrich Die Aufloesung der Weimarer Republik; eine Studie zum Problem des Machtverfalls in der Demokratie Villingen: Schwarzwald, Ring-Verlag, 1971.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Dorpalen, Andreas Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Eschenburg, Theodor "The Role of the Personality in the Crisis of the Weimar Republic: Hindenburg, Brüning, Groener, Schleicher" pages 3–50 from Republic to Reich The Making Of The Nazi Revolution edited by Hajo Holborn, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Feldman, G.D. Army, Industry and Labor in Germany, 1914-1918, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1966.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Görlitz, Walter Hindenburg, eine Auswalh aus Selbstzeugnissen des Generalfeldmarschalls und Reichpräsidenten, Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing, 1935.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Kitchen, Martin The Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the High Command under Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916-1918, London: Croom Helm, 1976.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Noakes, Jeremy & Pridham, Geoffrey (editors) Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 1 The Rise to Power 1919-1934, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, 1983.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John Hindenburg: the Wooden Titan, London : Macmillan, 1967; New York, Morrow, 1936.
Paul von Hindenburg 
 Turner, Henry Ashby Hitler's thirty days to power : January 1933, Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996.
Sharon Osbourne 
 Sharon Rachel Osbourne ( Levy; born 9 October 1952) is a British-American music manager, television personality, and talent show judge.
Sharon Osbourne 
 Osbourne first became famous on The Osbournes which was a reality show that showed Osbourne and her family in their daily lives.
Sharon Osbourne 
 Her autobiography, Extreme, which Osbourne wrote about her life, was very successful and has sold 2 million copies.
Sharon Osbourne 
 She is married to the rock singer Ozzy Osbourne and she has three children with him named Kelly Osbourne, Jack Osbourne and Aimee Osbourne.
Full Moon 
 Full Moon (manga), (also known as Full Moon o Sagashite), a manga and anime series by Arina Tanemura
Summertime 
 Summer Time, advancing the clock one hour during summer, in American English known as daylight saving time
Cy Young 
 He set many pitching records during his 22-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB), some of which have stood for 100 years.
Cy Young 
 When Young retired from baseball, he had won a total of 511 games in his career, the most in MLB history and 94 more wins than Walter Johnson, who is second on the list.
Cy Young 
 The award is given each year to the pitcher who is voted the most effective in each of the two leagues.
Cy Young 
 During his professional career, Young won 30 or more games in a season five times, with ten other seasons of 20+ wins.
Cy Young 
 In addition to wins, Young holds the MLB records for most career innings pitched (7,355), most career games started (815), and most complete games (749).
Cy Young 
 He also retired with 316 losses, the most in MLB history (the only other pitcher with more than 300 career losses was Pud Galvin).
Cy Young 
 In 1999, 88 years after his final Major League appearance and 44 years after his death, editors at The Sporting News ranked Cy Young 14th on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players".
Cy Young 
 Young began his professional career in 1889 with the Canton, Ohio team of the Tri-State League, a professional minor league.
Cy Young 
 The catcher who warmed up Young gave him the nickname "Cyclone" because of the speed of his fastball.
Cy Young 
 In 1890, Young signed for $500 with the Cleveland Spiders, which had moved up from the American Association to the National League the previous year.
Cy Young 
 Two years later, the National League moved the pitcher's mound from  away from the home plate (where it had been since 1881) to .
Cy Young 
 In the book The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers, sports journalist Rob Neyer wrote that the reason for the move was that pitchers like Cy Young, Amos Rusie, and Jouett Meekin threw too fast at the shorter distance.
Cy Young 
 On September 18, 1897, Young pitched the first no-hitter of his career in a game against the Cincinnati Reds.
Cy Young 
 Before the 1899 season, Frank Robison, the owner of the Spiders, bought the St. Louis Browns, thus owning two clubs at the same time.
Cy Young 
 Just weeks before the start of the season, most of the better Spiders players were transferred to St. Louis, including three future Hall of Famers: Young, Jesse Burkett and Bobby Wallace.
Cy Young 
 In 1901, Young left St. Louis and joined the American League's Boston Americans for a $3,500 contract.
Cy Young 
 Young was traded back to Cleveland before the 1909 season, this time to the Cleveland Naps of the American League.
Cy Young 
 On September 22, 1911, Young shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates and their pitcher Babe Adams 1-0, for his last career win.
Cy Young 
 However, two weeks later, Young's 906th and final game ended badly: the last eight batters of Young's career combined to hit a triple, four singles and three doubles.
Cy Young 
 Walter Johnson, then in his fourth season, finished his career with 417 wins and is now second on the list.
Cy Young 
 When Young's career began, pitchers delivered the baseball underhand and fouls were not counted as strikes.
Cy Young 
 The pitcher's mound was not moved back to its present position of 60 feet, six inches until Young's fourth season.
Cy Young 
 Any young player who has good control will become a successful curve pitcher long before the pitcher who is endeavoring to master both curves and control at the same time.
Cy Young 
 "I figured the old arm had just so many throws in it," said Young, "and there wasn't any use wasting them."
Cy Young 
 Oh, I'd relieve all right, plenty of times, but I went right from the bench to the box, and I'd take a few warm-up pitches and be ready.
Cy Young 
 Young also said that his offseason farming chores, including wood chopping, kept his pitching arm in good shape until he was 44.
Cy Young 
 Even at the time of his retirement, his arm was healthy, but Young had gained weight and was unable to field his position anymore.
Arabic alphabet 
 The Arabic alphabet is an abjad that is used to write several languages of the Middle East such as Arabic, Persian, Pashto and Urdu.
Arabic alphabet 
 The most common script in everyday life is called Kufic, after the city Kufa, in Iraq, where it was developed.
Arabic alphabet 
 When the alphabet is used to write numbers,  is 1,   is 2,   is 3 and so on until   = 10,   = 20,   = 30, …,   = 200, …,   = 1000.
Arabic alphabet 
 That is sometimes used to produce chronograms in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when they are rearranged.
Arabic alphabet 
 For dictionaries, it is necessary to put the letters into a predetermined sequence, which is usually called sort order, or alphabetical order.
Arabic alphabet 
 The Arabic script has two sort orders: The one, abjid, derives from the position of the letters in the Phoenician alphabet.
Arabic alphabet 
 Islam requires its followers to learn Arabic because it states that Gabriel (Jibril) spoke the words of Allah to Muhammad in Arabic.
Arabic alphabet 
 After the fall of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, use of the Arabic language and alphabet, became less common in the Muslim world.
Arabic alphabet 
 The Turkic states and other Muslim-majority states controlled by the Soviet Union did not favour Arabic script.
Arabic alphabet 
 In 1928, Turkey passed a law that banned the use of the Arabic alphabet for writing Turkish, which is now written with the Latin alphabet.
Arabic alphabet 
 Around the same time, the Soviet Union created a Latin alphabet for the Central Asian states that it occupied: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
Arabic alphabet 
 The decision to replace the Arabic alphabet was amdre to  remove religious influence in Central Asia and to modernise the region.
Arabic alphabet 
 For a time, Soviet leaders, including Vladimir Lenin, believed the Latin alphabet was the "world alphabet" because it was the writing system of most developed countries.
Arabic alphabet 
 However, the Soviet Union then required the Central Asian states to write only in the Cyrillic script.
Arabic alphabet 
 Although the Soviet Union fell, none of the Central Asian nations returned to using the Arabic alphabet.
Arabic alphabet 
 They either kept using Cyrillic, like Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, or adopted a new Latin alphabet, like Azerbaijan.
Arabic alphabet 
 In Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Brunei have all adoptedfor Malay the Latin alphabet, which is called Rumi in Malay.
Arabic alphabet 
 Brunei is the only Southeast Asian country in which both the Latin and Arabic alphabets are co-official.
Brandenburg Gate 
 This is rather like Admiralty Arch in London, the central roadway is reserved so that royal and important traffic is not delayed.
Brandenburg Gate 
 After 1806, when Prussia was defeated at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Napoleon stole the Quadriga and took it to Paris.
Brandenburg Gate 
 When Napoleon was beaten in 1814 Prussian General Ernst von Pfuel occupied Pais and took the Quadriga back to Berlin, the olive wreath was changed to an Iron Cross.
Brandenburg Gate 
 The governments of East Berlin and West Berlin restored it but it was closed when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961.
Brandenburg Gate 
 On the 22nd of December 1989, the Brandenburg Gate re-opened when Helmut Kohl, the West German Chancellor, walked through to be greeted by Hans Modrow, the East German Prime Minister.
Languages of the Caucasus 
 The languages of the Caucasus are languages spoken by more than ten million people in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Languages of the Caucasus 
 The term Caucasian languages can mean only these families or all languages historically spoken in that area.
Lake Urmia 
 It is in the provinces of East Azarbaijan and West Azarbaijan, and is southwest of the close shaped Caspian Sea.
Lake Urmia 
 The concentration of salt is different in each season of the year; it may be 26-28% in the late Autumn.
Lake Urmia 
 In the early years of the 20th century, it was named Rezaiyeh Lake after the name of Reza Pahlavi, the king of Iran.
Lake Urmia 
 Different creatures live inside or near this lake, including some species of shrimps, amphibians and birds like flamingos and pelicans.
Lake Urmia 
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Giuseppe Piazzi 
 Giuseppe Piazzi (July 7, 1746 – July 22, 1826) was an Italian astronomer who was famous for discovering the asteroid, now dwarf planet Ceres.
Vesta (mythology) 
 She rarely appeared in art, as her presence was symbolized by the sacred fire that burned at her temple.
Vesta (mythology) 
 The Roman equivalent of the Greek Hestia, Vesta was seen to protect everything that was most important to people's survival.