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2. 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia

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   The 70th national anniversary parade was the fifth major parade since Xi Jinping took power as CCP General Secretary (China's paramount leader) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (Commander-in-chief) in 2012, and occurred with the mass protests in Hong Kong that have been on-going since 9 June as backdrop.

3. Bed-ins for peace - Wikipedia

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   Bed-ins for peace. The bed-ins for peace were two week-long nonviolent protests against wars, intended as experimental tests of new ways to promote peace. As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, artist Yoko Ono and her husband John Lennon held one protest at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. The idea is ...

4. Marina Abramović - Wikipedia

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   In celebration of her 70th birthday on November 30, 2016, Abramović took over the Guggenheim museum (eleven years after her previous happening there) for her birthday party entitled "Marina 70". Part one of the evening, titled "Silence," lasted 70 minutes, ending with the crash of a gong struck by the artist.

5. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

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   Baker wrote in The Guardian that Polari was often used sarcastically or as a way to throw shade. This included inventing feminizing terms for the largely male group (at the time) that persecuted ...

6. Erich Sokol - Wikipedia

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   Erich Sokol was born in Vienna and attended the Goethe-Realschule (now Gymnasium Astgasse) in the city's 14th district. Besides his interest in handball, drawing was his passion from an early age. During his high school years he attended courses at the Akademie der bildenden Künste " in Vienna. In 1952, the young Sokol sold his first drawing ...

7. Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South ...

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   Background. The success of an earlier concert, a 70th birthday-tribute concert to Mandela in June 1988, held while the black South African leader was still in prison, and the growing likelihood that he would be released reasonably soon led Mandela's lawyer to ask Tony Hollingsworth, producer of the first concert, to organise the 1990 concert.