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History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 A free media brought to notice of the public many bad aspects of the society and the economy of the Soviet Union.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 These bad aspects included poor housing, alcoholism, drug abuse, pollution, out-of-date technologies in many factories, and corruption.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 For example, they learnt about prisoners at Gulags, agreement with Adolf Hitler, and large massacres of Stalin opponents.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Further, people also learnt details about such events as the ongoing Soviet war in Afghanistan and bad management of nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl (the Soviet Union didn't publicly admit to the meltdown until three days after it happened).
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 By 1989, the Soviet government found it to be too difficult for the Soviet Union to keep its control over its Eastern European bloc and decided to let them choose their own futures.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 After the end of the Second World War, with the support of the Soviet Union, communist governments were ruling all these countries.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 The change in the policy of the Soviet Union resulted into fall of the communist governments in many such countries by 1990: in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 The Glasnost policy also released long wanted nationalism in the "republics" that the Soviet government had suppressed and covered up.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 For example, price control, inconvertibility of the ruble, and government control over most means of production continued.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 The government had removed many controls but did not bring forth other changes for smooth transition from state control to a free economy.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 On 7th February 1990, the Central Committee of the CPSU was forced to loosen its control over power.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 At around the same time, different "republics" of the Soviet Union started to claim their right to become independent.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 During a 1990 visit of Gorbachev to Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, about 250,000 persons protested in a public meeting.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 However, the Soviet central-government demanded Lithuania to give up its independence and sent the Soviet Army continued to keep many troops in Lithuania.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 On 30th March 1990, the leaders of Estonia declared that the control of their country by the Soviet Union from 1940 was illegal.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 On 17th March 1991, people of the Soviet Union voted to keep the existing Soviet Union in a slightly changed form.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 In each of the other nine "republics" of the Soviet Union, a majority of the voters supported the retention of the Soviet Union.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 The "republics" of the Soviet Union had agreed to sign on 20th August 1991, an agreement making them almost independent republics but part of a federation, with a common president, foreign policy and military.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 However, many persons disagreed, and they wanted a fast transition to market economy even if it meant dissolution of the Soviet Union.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 There were many others in the CPSU and the military of the Soviet Union who supported continuation of the Soviet Union.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 On 19th August 1991, some senior leaders of the Soviet Union formed a "State Committee on the State Emergency."
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 These leaders included Gorbachev’s vice president Gennadi Yanayev, prime minister Valentin Pavlov, defense minister Dmitriy Yazov, KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, and many other senior officials.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Instead, they supported "White House" (Yeltsin's office), then the symbolic seat of Russian sovereignty.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Through the autumn of 1991, the Russian government took over the union government, ministry by ministry.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 As a result, many former CPSU personnel left CPSU to join the new positions in the new Russian government.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 After the failure of the coup, the republics of the Soviet Union increased their efforts to become independent.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 On 6th September 1991, the Soviet Union recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 On 1st December 1991, Ukraine declared its independence, after 90% of the voters opted for an independent Ukraine; this really destroyed any hopes of keeping the Soviet Union together since Ukraine was the second most powerful "republic" after Russia.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 One by one, the remaining eleven "republics" of the Soviet Union also declared themselves as sovereign and independent states.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 As noted above, on 6th September 1991, the Soviet Union had recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 It may be note that twelve out of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union had signed an international agreement (European Energy Charter) in the Hague on 17th December 1991.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 The signing had indicated that these republics had practically become independent and sovereign countries.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Leaving apart already independent Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the remaining 12 republics, all (except Georgia) joined the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Many persons believed that with the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Many others think that with CIS, the Russia continues to have some control over the former republics of the Soviet Union.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 By December 31, 1991 all official Soviet institutions had stopped to function in different "republics" of the Soviet Union.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 The four principles had governed the Soviet Union: a chain of soviets; ethnic federation; state socialism; and supremacy of the Communist party.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost created a situation which weakened all the above four principles.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 He tried to do all these as he and his team saw that the Soviet Union was moving toward a long-term stagnation.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Gorbachev’s policies made it possible for leaders of various Soviet republics to gain confidence and influence.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 At the same time, he faced opposition from many including the nationalist forces and the traditional communists.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Some people accepted the reforms; some wanted the old system to continue; and some desired complete independence from the Soviet Union and central control.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Immediately after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin took many steps to change the economy of the Soviet Union from a socialist economy to a capitalist economy.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 For example: he cut the payment of grants to money-losing farms and industries; he also removed control over prices; he took steps for convertibility of the Russian rouble.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 He also allowed many people close to his circle, and other business people, to take possession of the businesses and industries earlier owned by the government, and to run them as private enterprises.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 The planners and economists had thought that these changes would lead to a faster economic development.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Many persons still believe that the situation still continues to be worse compared to earlier times.
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Helene Carrere D'Encausse, The end of the Soviet Empire: the triumph of the nations, Basic Books, 1992,
History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) 
 Ronald Grigor Suny, The revenge of the past: nationalism, revolution, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Stanford University Press, 1993,
Meiji Restoration 
 The term describes a series of events that changed the shape of Japan’s political and social systems.
Meiji Restoration 
 These changes took place mainly in the three years from 1866 to 1869, at the beginning of the Meiji period.
Meiji Restoration 
 This was an alliance between the Satsuma Domain and the Chōshū Domain, and a person named Sakamoto Ryoma brought the two domains together.
Meiji Restoration 
 The Tokugawa Shogunate’s rule ended on 9th November 1867, but they still retained some authority and power.
Meiji Restoration 
 In the Boshin War of 1868, an army from Satsuma Province and Choshu defeated the forces of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Meiji Restoration 
 After defeating the Tokugawa Shogunate, the leaders of the Meiji Restoration started to reform the system of the country.
Meiji Restoration 
 In fact, even after the Meiji Restoration, an oligarchy, a small group, had the real power and ruled in the name of the emperor.
Meiji Restoration 
 The revolution includes centralizing power, changing the tax system, starting the educational system, constructing factories and railways, etc.
Meiji Restoration 
 Industrialization developed rapidly and within next three to four decades (by 1905) Japan had become a military power, comparable to others of the time.
European Convention on Human Rights 
 Countries, which are members of the Council of Europe agreed on certain points written in a document to ensure human rights written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
European Convention on Human Rights 
 The Convention also established the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and the sentence of this Court has a force legal power by its Article 46.
European Convention on Human Rights 
 The ECHR has made many protocols, for example: protocol 2nd for right to education, 12th against all discrimination also by public authority and 13th for complete abolition of the death penalty.
European Convention on Human Rights 
 If a person thinks that a European country has abused his or her human rights, that person may take the matter to the judges of ECtHR.
European Court of Human Rights 
 Member countries of the Council of Europe created ECoHR to arrange all such complaints, listen to the complaints, and to give decisions.
European Court of Human Rights 
 The number of judges is seven normally but at the case of dealing a great issue, the number will be 21 and the judges are equally from member countries of the Council of Europe.
Ted Turner 
 Ted Turner (born November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American businessman who is best known for being the founder of the television networks Turner Broadcasting Station (TBS) and Cable News Network (CNN).
Ted Turner 
 He is also famous for being the founder of professional wrestling company World Championship Wrestling (WCW), as well as the Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
Ted Turner 
 One of Turner's children, Robert Edward "Teddy" Turner IV, announced on January 23, 2013, that he would run in the South Carolina Republican primary for the open Congressional seat.
Taco Bell 
 Brands, Inc. Taco Bell's menu has items such as tacos, burritos, soft drinks, chalupas, gorditas, and nachos.
Żagań 
 It is now part of the in the Lubusz Voivodship (a Voivoidship is part of the way Poland is organised into areas), before it was in Zielona Gora Voivodship (1975-1998).
Żagań 
 The double title, both Prussian and French, meant that the duc de Sagan was a neutral party in the Second World War.
Żagań 
 His house (the Château de Valençay) was a safe place to keep pictures and other things from the Louvre when German soldiers were in France.
Palatine Hill 
 According to Livy (59 BC – 17) the Palatine hill got its name from the Arcadian settlement of Pallantium.
Chupacabra 
 El Chupacabra (or El Chupacabras) is a cryptid said to live in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Anaheim California.
Chupacabra 
 Its name comes from the Spanish translation of "goat sucker", because of its habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, including goats.
Hydra (animal) 
 In budding, the offspring forms as a lump on the parent and eventually becomes big enough to break off and live by itself.
Hydra (animal) 
 Recent research has found they produce an antimicrobial protein hydramacin, which protects their outer layer from bacterial infection.
Clownfish 
 Clownfish live in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, from north west Australia, the coast of South East Asia as far north as Japan.
Clownfish 
 Scientists believe that clown fish are protected from the poison because they are coated in a type of mucus.
Clownfish 
 Many people like having clownfish in their aquarium because they are some of the easiest salt water fish to keep and care.
Bruce Lee 
 Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973) was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial artist, martial arts instructor, philosopher, movie director, movie producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement.
Bruce Lee 
 Lee is famous for making martial arts popular in the United States in the 1970s, when he played in a series of movies.
Bruce Lee 
 Lee also taught other people martial arts, including actors Huggo Chairres, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Bruce Lee 
 He inspired many other actors who are famous for using martial arts in their movies including Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Chuck Norris.
Bruce Lee 
 Jackie Chan had a small part in 'Enter The Dragon' and Chuck Norris co-starred in Way of The Dragon.
Bruce Lee 
 Lee starred in five movies, including The Big Boss, Fist of Fury (also known as The Chinese Connection and The Iron Hand), The Way of the Dragon (also known as Return of the Dragon), Enter the Dragon and The Game of Death.
Bruce Lee 
 He is noted for his major contributions to both the Hong Kong and American movie industry during the 1970s, his martial arts movement and innovative ideas (including Jeet Kune Do), his philosophy, and his physical fitness ability.
Bruce Lee 
 He is considered to be a cultural icon and is considered to be one of the most influential martial artists ever by social critics and other martial artists alike.
Bruce Lee 
 On the night of July 20, 1973, Lee aged 32, died at his home from cerebral edema, which is a buildup of fluid around the brain.
George Martin 
 Sir George Henry Martin, (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was a British record producer, composer and musical arranger.
George Martin 
 Parlophone mostly recorded classical music and original cast recordings of popular stage shows and plays.
George Martin 
 He made comedy records (often working with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan) along with his usual jobs, to help promote the label.
George Martin 
 When rock and roll became popular in the mid-1950s, Martin began looking for rock groups or artists to join Parlophone.
George Martin 
 He saw that the young band were willing to try different things, and gave them an audition (a studio tryout).
George Martin 
 He did this because there was no time to audition Starr before the record had to be made, but he never did so again.
George Martin 
 With Starr as their drummer, and Martin as their producer (who sometimes joined them in playing, to give the records a bigger sound), the Beatles became the most popular act in the history of show business.
George Martin 
 While Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote most of the band's songs, they were musically untrained, as Martin had been earlier.
George Martin 
 He helped the band learn to talk to other musicians about the sounds they wanted to make, and added a classical touch to many of their songs.
George Martin 
 He started his own company, called Associated Independent Recording (AIR), with some other producers.
George Martin 
 Martin returned to help make their last album (titled Abbey Road after the location of the studio), after all the Beatles promised to work with him "like the old days", and let Martin take charge of the sessions once more.
George Martin 
 Paul McCartney, the most "conventional" (normal) Beatle, worked with Martin several times after the Beatles ended in 1970.
George Martin 
 John Lennon counted on Martin to turn his sometimes "way-out" ideas into finished records, but he did not always like the way Martin worked, and mostly produced his own solo recordings.
George Martin 
 Martin praised Ringo Starr's "super-steady beat", and the sound his drums gave the Beatles records, but each later worked with other people.
George Martin 
 Even years after they broke up, Martin still worked with and for the Beatles and the music they had made together.
George Martin 
 He made several records of his own with classical and orchestral versions of Beatles tunes, and was the music producer for Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a fantasy movie based on their songs, which starred the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton.
George Martin 
 Besides the Beatles, Martin worked with other recording artists, including Shirley Bassey, Bernard Cribbins, America, Kenny Rogers, the trio EL&P, Dudley Moore, and Little River Band.
George Martin 
 He wrote a book, All You Need is Ears, that told his life story and explained how many of his most famous recordings were made.
George Martin 
 During the 1990s, Martin was made a knight by the British government, for his work and his role in popular music.
George Martin 
 Martin retired in 1999, and released an album titled In My Life, which featured many different artists performing Beatles songs.
Brian Epstein 
 Epstein was the manager of The Beatles, who became the most popular rock band in the world during the 1960s.
Brian Epstein 
 Epstein started out to become an actor, and went to school at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) with future movie stars Peter O'Toole and Susannah York.
Brian Epstein 
 The department was so successful that the family decided to open a whole store to sell music and records.
Brian Epstein 
 Popular music, rock and roll especially, sold better than classical music, and Epstein wanted to sell what the public would buy most.
Brian Epstein 
 He began to stock rock and roll records, and record buyers around England liked Epstein and his store.
Brian Epstein 
 Some of his customers were members of bands, looking for new music to play or to pass the time, and came often to the store.
Brian Epstein 
 Late in 1961, when a fan asked Epstein about a record the Beatles had made in Germany, Epstein was unable to find it through his sources.
Brian Epstein 
 When he learned the band were playing at the Cavern Club not far away, Epstein visited them there, and was impressed by their act.
Brian Epstein 
 Epstein also discovered that the band had no manager, but they wanted one, and their main goal was to get a recording contract in England.
Brian Epstein 
 He also used his position (as manager of one of the leading music stores in northern England) to make contact with different record labels, hoping to get the Beatles signed up.
Brian Epstein 
 An audition with Decca Records on New Year's Day 1962 sounded hopeful, but Decca decided to turn the band down, as did most of the labels Epstein approached.
Brian Epstein 
 Decca gave Epstein a copy of the band's demo (demonstration) tape, which he used to promote them, but could not find anyone interested.
Brian Epstein 
 The recording engineer who made the record told Epstein about George Martin, who worked for EMI's Parlophone Records and had been looking for a rock band to record.
Brian Epstein 
 Drummer Pete Best did not meet Martin's standards, though, and Martin planned to use a studio drummer instead on their records.
Brian Epstein 
 When the band found out, they asked Epstein to fire Best, and they replaced him with Ringo Starr, who quit another band to join them.
Brian Epstein 
 Over the next year (1963), The Beatles became the most popular recording act in Britain and Europe, and then in America during 1964.
Brian Epstein 
 Following their success, Epstein signed up other bands and singers, including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and the Remo Four.
Brian Epstein 
 Epstein started a management company, NEMS Enterprises (named after the music store), who later signed up the Bee Gees, Jimi Hendrix, and Cream.
Brian Epstein 
 He published an autobiography (his life story) in 1964, with help from Derek Taylor, who was the Beatles's press agent.
Brian Epstein 
 Epstein was still interested in theater, and he bought the Saville Theatre in London, which presented plays and rock concerts.
Brian Epstein 
 As time went on, Epstein felt more and more stress in his working and personal lives, and turned to sleeping pills, to help him cope.
Brian Epstein 
 During 1967, he became afraid that the Beatles would not stay with him when their management contract expired (ended) that year, and his insomnia increased.
Brian Epstein 
 One weekend while the band was away in Wales, Epstein overdosed on sleeping pills, and died in his sleep.
Brian Epstein 
 An autopsy concluded that Epstein did not commit suicide, but accidentally took too many sleeping pills over a long period of time, without giving the pills a chance to clear out of his body.
Jurong 
 It used to be a swamp until the 1960s, when Goh Keng Swee, a minister, together with the United Nations, cleared the swamps, making Jurong an industrial estate (a place where industries are built to make goods).
Jurong 
 Jurong is divided in Jurong East, where houses and shops are built and Jurong West, mainly an industrial estate.
Jurong 
 Jurong East is under the Jurong Group Representation Constituency or Jurong GRC, while Jurong West is under the West Coast Group Representation Constituency.
Plastic Ono Band 
 The Plastic Ono Band was a rock and roll band formed by Yoko Ono with husband (and former Beatle) John Lennon.
Plastic Ono Band 
 Lennon and Ono recorded their first single together, titled "Give Peace A Chance", in a Montreal hotel with a roomful of guests, including Tommy Smothers, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, and the local Hare Krishna chapter.
Plastic Ono Band 
 The pair were in an auto accident before the single was to debut (be played in public for the first time), and they had to stay in the hospital.
Plastic Ono Band 
 Not wanting to cancel the debut, they sent the first version of their "new band" – a set of plastic cases that held the sound equipment – which played in their place.
Plastic Ono Band 
 It was a strange kind of debut for a new band, but the song (a protest against the Vietnam War) became a minor hit that year, in England and in the United States.
Plastic Ono Band 
 The second version of the Plastic Ono Band included Ono and Lennon in person, along with musicians Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White.
Plastic Ono Band 
 They performed together at a rock concert in Toronto in September 1969, and it was the first time Lennon had played in public with a band other than the Beatles.
Plastic Ono Band 
 The show went well, and helped Lennon decide to leave the Beatles, which he had thought about doing for some time.
Plastic Ono Band 
 After the Beatles ended, Lennon decided he did not want to have another permanent band, and he and Ono used the Plastic Ono Band name to refer to any musicians who appeared on the records they made together.
Plastic Ono Band 
 An advertisement for one of their records included a page from a telephone book, and the words "YOU are the Plastic Ono Band".