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The theme music was the Velvet Underground.

Three months later, the Velvet Revolution began in Prague.

After she had surgery to remove the tumor, her parents dressed her in this beautiful green velvet dress, a pink ribbon in her hair, and they wanted the painting to be shown around the world, despite the fact that they were orthodox Muslims and the mother wore a full burqa.

I see not one white ribbon, but many.

There is a white ribbon on every branch.

The yellow ribbon is used for various symbolic purposes.

Havel eventually saw his ideas triumph in the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

Singapore In Singapore, the government has initiated an annual Yellow Ribbon Campaign, through the Yellow Ribbon Project, to promote giving ex convicts a second chance in society.

White Ribbon campaign image from the Facebook page of AWARE

Olympic gold medalist Joseph Schooling supports the White Ribbon campaign.

The yellow ribbon was worn in person, but also virtually on Facebook.

Opera cloaks are made of quality materials such as wool or cashmere, velvet and satin.

However encouraging, Czechoslovakia s peaceful velvet divorce into two states has not been the norm in Europe or elsewhere.

Near Detroit, the ribbon farms were about 250 feet wide and up to three miles long.

Jackson embarked on The Velvet Rope World Tour, traveling to Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.

In the United States military, the symbol of the yellow ribbon is used in a popular marching song.

In 2009, the yellow ribbon was used during the appeal for those affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

The yellow ribbon saw renewed popularity in the United States during the Gulf War in the early 1990s.

After the big macho Rrrrrrr BAM! We're gonna hit this thing in the face, then we bring in the velvet gloves.

Five months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia s Velvet Revolution, Poland had negotiated its way out of totalitarianism.

You can't see an awful lot. You can just see, there's a yellow ribbon tied to one of my ski poles.

Ukraine is undergoing a true liberal revolution, akin to the great European liberal revolutions of 1848, and reminiscent of Prague s Velvet revolution of 1989.

For that, a specialised Facebook App was created for people to automatically be able to add a yellow ribbon to their profile pictures.

If his family had forgiven him, they were to put up a white ribbon in the big apple tree which stood near the tracks.

Typically, a person shows his support for ex convicts by pinning a yellow ribbon on his shirt during the annual campaign held in September.

Many ambassadors have built mass followings in electronic terms, and generate numerous likes as they go about their daily routines of meetings and ribbon cuttings.

A gender equality advocacy group in Singapore is supporting the White Ribbon Campaign, a global movement of men and boys working to end violence against women.

He would be able to see it from the bus driving by their house, and would stay on the bus in the absence of the ribbon.

One factor that may have influenced Hamill's decision to do so was that, in May 1973, Tie A Yellow Ribbon sold 3 million records in three weeks.

From there, the ribbon farm plan situated along rivers was carried to other parts of the French colonies, and diffused into some parts of the Spanish colonies.

Supervised by a blue ribbon commission of college presidents and distinguished jurists, they have all been honest, fair, and peaceful, with the results accepted by winners and losers.

Representatives of his regime are still concerned about what they see as externally backed attempts to stage a velvet revolution in the country, but there is little fear of new challenges from within.

The IRGC considers the Internet an instrument for velvet revolution (non violent overthrow of government by foreign influence) and warned that enemy nations have invested in this tool to topple the Islamic Regime.

Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their opposition to Western imperialism and Israel, saluted Mousavi s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, the anti Zionist resistance cannot afford a pro American velvet revolution.

Several hours after the accident, Georgia's Olympic Team, wearing black scarves and armbands and carrying a flag with a black ribbon, was greeted with a standing ovation at the opening ceremony.

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist Party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face.

The Velvet Revolution, as Havel dubbed it, was sheer theater, a geopolitical spectacular that unfolded in vignettes, scenes, and acts, with cameo appearances by famous faces from the past, including Alexander Dubcek and Joan Baez.

Denmark and Sweden In Denmark the yellow ribbon has become the more or less official (though not directly officially endorsed by the countries' armed forces) symbol for support of troops in missions.

It appeared again during the 2003 invasion of Iraq with similar meanings, most prominently in the form of a yellow ribbon printed on magnetized material and displayed on the outside of automobiles.

So chirped many in Prague in November 1989, reflecting the pride and the joy of the Velvet Revolution, but also the sustained effort that was needed to end communism, whose demise began in Warsaw the previous February.

PRAGUE The fifteenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989, which brought an end to 41 years of communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, is an opportunity to ponder the meaning of moral behavior and free action.