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1 members 1.1 michael donovan 1.2 ashley donovan 1.3 merv donovan 1.4 troy russell members michael donovan – bass guitar, lead vocals ashley donovan - rhythm , lead guitar , backing vocals merv donovan – lead guitar , backing vocals troy russell - drums. the donovans have played likes of col hardy, jimmy little, roger knox, vic simms , troy cassar daley. michael, ashley , merv have completed studio work on changes, cd have released niece, emma donovan. michael donovan has toured australia legendary brian young show , musical director aboriginal showcase held annually @ tamworth country music festival. was member of band runaway train, nominated golden guitar in 1998. released solo album during 2004 ashley donovan completed studio recording on children s cd happy me, aunty wendy s mob launched on 8 september 2004 @ darlington primary school. merv donovan participated emma donovan , guitarist alan morris in series of arts , cultural activities leading 2004 olympics in athens. the donovan...

lyrics composer sergey mikhalkov in 2002 meeting president putin russian national anthem lyrics — once world s smallest book after selecting music alexandrov anthem, stalin needed new lyrics. thought anthem short and, because of great patriotic war, needed statement impending defeat of nazi germany red army. poets sergey mikhalkov , gabriel el-registan called moscow 1 of stalin s staffers, , told fix lyrics alexandrov s music. instructed keep verses same, find way change refrains described country of soviets . because of difficulty of expressing concepts of great patriotic war in song, idea dropped version el-registan , mikhalkov completed overnight. after few minor changes emphasize russian motherland, stalin approved anthem , had published on 7 november 1943, including line stalin inspir[ing] keep faith people . revised anthem announced of ussr on january 1, 1944 , became official on march 15, 1944. after stalin s death in 1953, soviet government examined legacy. governm...

1 community , traditions 1.1 dining hall 1.2 stein club 1.3 cabot café 1.4 cabot house theater company 1.5 intramural sports 1.6 spring formal 1.7 dutch auction 1.8 lambing 1.9 festivus community , traditions dining hall cabot s dining hall different @ river. unlike other house dining halls, cabot s not enormous, paneled in mahogany , decorated oil paintings, marble busts, , medieval tapestries. dining hall—completed during 1987 renovations of quad, replacing jcr house s cafeteria—is intimate , bright space. located beneath moors hall (pforzheimer house) terrace, three-tiered room painted white, floors carpeted; long wall facing quad entirely glass, bathed in natural light throughout day. servery likewise bright , airy, knotty pine walls , earthenware tile floors. 1 of renovated house serveries, completed in 2002. more serving merely house cafeteria, dining hall center of house activity. aside being site of hours-long, social dinners, each evening dining hall fills students work on pro...

after adoption of christianity in 864, intensive construction of churches , monasteries began throughout empire. many of them erected on old pagan temples. new sacral architecture altered appearance of cities , fortresses. construction sponsored state donations rich people, known ktitors. among first places of worship constructed after 864 great basilica of pliska. 1 of biggest structures of time, contemporary europe s longest church, rectangular shape reaching 99 m in length. basilica divided 2 equal parts – a spacious atrium , main building. during reign of simeon i domed cruciform type of church building introduced , same dominate country s sacral architecture. preslav adorned tens of churches , @ least 8 monasteries. churches decorated ceramics, plastic elements , variety of decorative forms. leading example of city s ecclesiastic architecture splendid round church. domed rotunda two-tiered colonnade in interior , walled atrium niches , columns. style of church h...

the ruins of pliska, first capital of bulgaria the bulgarians constructed forts residences, called contemporary byzantine authors auls, or fortified palaces. example of type of construction aul of omurtag, mentioned in chatalar inscription, bears many similarities pliska, such presence of baths , usage of monumental construction techniques large carved limestone blocks. archaeologists have discovered damaged lion statue 1 m in height , matches description in inscription: in field of pliska staying [omurtag] made court/camp (aulis) @ [the river] ticha ... , skillfully erected bridge @ ticha camp [he put] 4 columns , above columns erected 2 lions. same method of construction employed in fortress on danubian island of păcuiul lui soare (in modern romania), gate similar in plan @ pliska, preslav , aul of omurtag. further north on southern slopes of carpathian mountains located fortress slon, important juncture connected salt mines of transylvania lands south of danube, , constructed in s...

the decisions of council of preslav brought end byzantine hopes exert influence on newly christianized country. in 894 byzantines moved bulgarian market constantinople thessaloniki, affecting commercial interests of bulgaria , principle of byzantine–bulgarian trade, regulated under treaty of 716 , later agreements on favoured nation basis. new prince, simeon (r. 893–927), came known simeon great, declared war , defeated byzantine army in thrace. byzantines turned aid magyars, @ time inhabited steppes north-east of bulgaria. magyars scored 2 victories on bulgarians , pillaged dobrudzha simeon i allied pechenegs further east , in 895 bulgarian army inflicted crushing defeat on magyars in steppes along southern bug river. @ same time, pechenegs advanced westwards , prevented magyars returning homeland. blow heavy magyars forced migrate west, settling in pannonian basin, established kingdom of hungary. in 896 byzantines routed in decisive battle of boulgarophygon , pleaded peace c...

the ottomans reorganised bulgarian territories, dividing them several vilayets, each ruled sanjakbey or subasi accountable beylerbey. significant parts of conquered land parcelled out sultan s followers, held benefices or fiefs (small timars, medium ziyamet , large hases) directly him, or beylerbeys. category of land not sold or inherited, reverted sultan when fiefholder died. lands organised private possessions of sultan or ottoman nobility, called mülk , , economic base religious foundations, called vakιf, other people. bulgarians regularly paid multiple types of taxes, including tithe ( yushur ), capitation tax (jizyah), land tax ( ispench ), levy on commerce, , various irregularly collected taxes, products , corvees ( avariz ).