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The conflict Hostile_encounter began Process_start in December 1991 , when the new and enormously popular Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) party Participation appeared Coming_to_be poised to defeat Conquering the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) party Social_event in the national parliamentary elections Change_of_leadership .

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Chávez , who had been elected Change_of_leadership in 2000 , was aided Assistance in his return to power by popular support ( mostly labor unions ) and mobilization against the coup by moderate ranks in the military .

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Alter featured popular news Statement anchor Nikos Hadjinikolaou , morning show host Giorgos Aftias & controversial but popular investigative Scrutiny reporter Makis Triantafyllopoulos .

In popular culture and the 14th-century historical novel `` Romance of the Three Kingdoms '' , the campaigns were erroneously referred Name_conferral to as the `` nine campaigns on the Central Plains '' ( 九伐中原 ) .

The Imam escaped Escaping to the Saudi Arabian border where he rallied popular support Supporting from northern Shia tribes to retake power , escalating Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale shortly to a full-scale civil war Hostile_encounter .

The pubs were targeted Aiming because they were popular with British Army personnel stationed at Pirbright barracks .

Acts have represented Change_sentiment many genres of popular music , including rock , folk , electronic , hip hop , rhythm and blues , and country ; as well as stand-up comedy acts .

As of 2003 , it featured seven or eight stages ( depending on the venue ) , accommodating popular contemporary rock music , electronic music , mainstream international acts and local acts .

although the unk massacre , and others that followed Motion it , are often viewed Perception_active ( variously ) as a royalist revolt Change_of_leadership , or a counter-revolution , twenty-first century historians generally agree Agree_or_refuse_to_act that vendee revolt Change_of_leadership was a complicated popular event brought on Causation by anti-clericalism of the revolution Change_of_leadership , mass conscription , and jacobin unk .

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Ernie Ball International Battle Of The Bands started Process_start in 2006 , to get popular upcoming small and unsigned bands to play Competition the Taste of Chaos shows in their local towns across many of the tour dates .

One feature common to most of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil resistance , demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation of one-party rule and contributing to the pressure for change .

The exact history of the incident Catastrophe has been the source of some disagreement Quarreling , largely because popular anti-railroad sentiment in the 1880s made the incident Catastrophe to be a clear example of corrupt and cold-blooded corporate greed .

The man drew huge crowds at all eight shows , proving that he was hugely popular in that part of the world .

Durham Regatta is a popular day out for residents and students at the University , providing Supply the climax of the rowing year for most college rowers .

They succeeded in winning popular support Supporting : the majority of Polish units stationed Placing in Warsaw joined Becoming_a_member the ranks of the uprising Change_of_leadership .

although dozens of vc were killed Killing , the operation took Conquering a hard toll on the populations as civilian casualties eroded popular support for diem and resulted in growing peasant hostility toward america , which was largely blamed Judgment_communication for the unpopular resettlement program as well as the bombings .

These grew popular with preteens and teenagers and even received Receiving press coverage in broadsheet national newspapers like The Guardian and the BBC 's arts programmes , which reported Reporting it as a `` youthquake '' .

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The revolution was unusual for the surprise it created Creating throughout the world : it lacked many of the customary causes of revolution ( defeat at war , a financial crisis , peasant rebellion , or disgruntled military ) , occurred Coming_to_be in a nation that was experiencing relative prosperity , produced Creating profound change at great speed , was massively popular , resulted in Causation the exile of many Iranians , and replaced Change_of_leadership a pro-Western authoritarian monarchy with an anti-Western theocracy based on the concept of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists ( or `` velayat-e faqih '' ) .

In addition to being one of the most well-known range wars of the American frontier , its themes , especially class warfare , served Assistance as a basis for numerous popular novels , films , and television shows in the Western genre .

Rawa Blues Festival ( pronounced `` rava '' ) is one of the largest ( world 's largest indoor blues festival ) and most popular blues festivals in Europe and in the world .

The German Peasants ' War , Great Peasants ' War or Great Peasants ' Revolt ( ) was a widespread Dispersal popular revolt Change_of_leadership in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525 .

the german peasants ' war was europe 's largest and most widespread Dispersal popular uprising Terrorism prior to the french revolution Change_of_leadership of 1789 .

Starting Process_start 29 October afternoon , a massive popular procession accompanied the remains of Néstor Kirchner from Casa Rosada to the metropolitan airport , and then from the airport of Río Gallegos to the cemetery .

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the israeli government accused Judgment_communication the palestinian popular resistance Control committees ( prc ) , a unk coalition of palestinian militant groups , of orchestrating Causation the attacks Attack , but the prc denies Statement involvement .

on march 9 , 2012 , israel air force , in a strike on palestinian targets in gaza , killed Killing the secretary-general of the popular resistance committees , unk unk , whom israel considers as `` one of the masterminds '' of the august 18 , 2011 attacks .

Williams ' account , `` The Redeemed Captive '' , was published Publishing in 1707 and was widely popular in the colonies .

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The Reading Festival , the older of the two festivals , is the world 's oldest popular music festival still in existence .

instead , the uprising was presented Presence as a symbol of czech resistance to nazi rule , and the liberation by the red army was exploited by the czechoslovak communist party to increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale popular support for communism .

The country 's ubiquitous secret police force , the Securitate , which was both one of the largest in the Eastern Bloc and for decades had been the main suppressor of popular dissension , frequently and violently quashing political disagreement , ultimately proved incapable of stopping the looming , and then highly fatal and successful revolt .

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although it was crushed Destroying after a week of fighting Hostile_encounter , the easter rising and the british response Response led to Causation greater popular support Supporting for irish independence .

since then , the conflict Hostile_encounter has been portrayed Change_sentiment with varying degrees of accuracy in numerous western films and books , and has become Becoming an archetype for much of the popular imagery associated with the old west .

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