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2 hrs ago | Valley Morning Star

Lady Scorpions' NAIA semifinal match set for 10 a.m.

A NAIA Volleyball National Championship elimination match between UTB/TSC and College of Idaho will be shown on a big screen at the Student Union La Sala at 10 a.m. today, Friday, Dec.

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Sun Nov 29, 2009

People's Daily Online

Celebrities gather at Bambi media awards

Actor Edgar Selge poses with his Bambi for Best National Actor award for his role in the film 'Jenseits der Mauer' during the 61st Bambi media awards ceremony in Potsdam November 26, 2009.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

SCORPIONS To Embark On 'Get Your Sting And Blackout' World Tour

German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS have announced the following dates as part of their "Get Your Sting And Blackout" world tour: May 07 - Leipzig, Germany - Arena May 08 - Munich, Germany - Olympiahalle May 12 - Frankfurt, Germany - Festhalle May 14 - Stuttgart, Germany - Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle May 29 - Berlin, Germany - O2 World May 30 - ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Sting, World News, Germany,

Mon Nov 16, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

AVANTASIA: New Album Titles Announced

EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet 's AVANTASIA project will celebrate its comeback next year with a new epic masterpiece, to be released as two separate albums entitled "The Wicked Symphony" and "Angel Of Babylon" . So far Tobias has confirmed the following musicians to be part of the forthcoming AVANTASIA opus: * Klaus Meine * Tim "Ripper" Owens * Eric ...

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Related Topix: Metal, Avantasia, Edguy, Tobias Sammet's Avantasia, Symphony, Arts, Pop/Rock, Iced Earth

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Cool Hunting

MC Lars: Joker or Superstar?

MC Lars , who went to Stanford University , is a little bit hip hop and a little bit pop rock .

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Related Topix: Joker, Pop/Rock, Superstar, Startups, Stanford University, Hurricane

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Wired News

Convicted Murderer Sues Wikipedia, Demands Removal of His Name

Wikipedia is under a censorship attack by a convicted German murderer invoking his country's privacy laws in a bid to remove references to him killing Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr in 1990.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Tue Nov 10, 2009

UPI

Berlin celebrates demise of wall

World leaders gathered in Berlin Monday for an emotional celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that heralded the end of the Cold War and culminated in Germany's reunification.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Berlin, Germany Travel, Travel, El Salvador Travel, Germany Travel, Berlin, El Salvador Travel, Angela Merkel, Pop/Rock

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Hindustan Times

Obama fires up Berlin Wall celebrations

A video address from US President Obama provided the icing on the cake to celebrations marking 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall sounded the death knell for communism in Europe.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Berlin, Germany Travel, Travel, El Salvador Travel, Germany Travel, Berlin, El Salvador Travel, Angela Merkel, Pop/Rock

Sun Nov 08, 2009

The Star Online

Fall of the wall

Come Monday Nov 9, Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of a historical event that not only dismantled physical barriers but reunited a nation.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Deutsche Welle

Scorpions rocked through changes in Europe

German rock band Scorpions might be more associated with bombastic power ballads, spandex leggings and big hair, but at the start of the 90s their track, Wind of Change, captured the political zeitgeist like no other.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Hard-Rock, Europe

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Mirror

U2 at Brandenburg Gate and the Top 10 landmark gigs

U2 last night played a free gig at Brandenburg Gate to mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall so we at Mirror.co.uk thought we'd dig up the strangest and most imaginative venues played by musicians over the years.

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Related Topix: Travel, Canada Travel, Toronto, Canada Travel, Short, Music!, Pop/Rock, The Beatles, Entertainment

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Mail & Guardian

'Glenn, are you the landlord?'

Drug-dealer Glenn Agliotti testified on Monday afternoon that the former top cop and corruption accused Jackie Selebi asked him whether he was the "landlord" referred to in media reports.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon Nov 02, 2009

The United States Army

Europe Lead Story

"Wind of Change" by the German rock band The Scorpions is not a song you would expect to hear at a military ceremony.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, US Military, US Army, Panzer Kaserne

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

The song that soundtracked the fall of the Iron Curtain

Lead singer Klaus Meine and lead guitarist Rudolf Schenker of the Scorpions, 20 years after their iconic political anthem "Wind of Change" topped the charts around the world The song, of course, is "Wind of Change", the anthem which more than any other hit would come to be associated, cigarette lighters aloft, with the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, World News, Germany

Fri Oct 30, 2009

BlabberMouth.net

SCORPIONS: 'Amazonia - Live In The Jungle' DVD Due Next Month; Preview Available

In August 2007, Germany's most successful music export worldwide, SCORPIONS , ventured deep into the Brazilian jungle for a sold-out show in front of 40,000 enthusiastic fans the band played a concert in Manaus, the metropolis on the Amazon river.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, World News, Brazil,

The Japan Times

Rockers turn it up to 11

Metallica. Slayer. Anthrax. The Scorpions. Even a casual fan of rock music knows that these names make up the pantheon of modern heavy metal, the bands that rose to the top and never looked back when metal swept away all before it in the 1980s.

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Related Topix: Metal, Metallica, Pop/Rock, Anthrax, Slayer, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Anvil

Thu Oct 29, 2009

The Globe and Mail

Swank stars in Amelia Earhart biopic

To view this content you need to install the Flash Player. Swank stars in Amelia Earhart biopic AP Video Monday, Oct.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Pop/Rock, Life, Holidays, Halloween, Bernie Madoff

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Sunday Times

Hawks to get more detectives

Government plans to give the newly established Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation , which replaces the Scorpions, a lot more muscle.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Mon Oct 26, 2009

ClipSyndicate

'Wind of Change': 20 years on

They were responsible for penning the song that became the soundtrack not only for a momentous event in European history but for a whole generation.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Video, Celebrity, Entertainment

Mail & Guardian

Jackie Selebi's big gamble

Six months ago the corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma were dropped after secret tapes of telephone conversations intercepted by South Africa's intelligence services mysteriously landed up at his attorney's office.

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Related Topix: World News, South Africa, Africa, Pop/Rock

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