Although the future Parliament ostensibly marks a shift to civilian government, it is heavily weighted toward the military, which has held power for the past half-century.
And yet their sepulchral beat assault remains a potent draw, filling two nights at Brixton Academy, ostensibly to mark the end of the world.
Last week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a symbolic trip to the demilitarised zone that divides North Korea from South Korea, ostensibly to mark the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War.
On April 12th over 20 women and children were killed at a rally in Lucknow, ostensibly to mark the birthday of a leader in Uttar Pradesh of Mr Vajpayee's BJP.
Gerhard Schröder went further and threw himself into Mr Putin's hug at a party in St Petersburg in late April (ostensibly to mark Mr Schröder's 70th birthday).In this section Putin's gambit Fighting on or off?
Three years ago Khan was invited to a White House dinner with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the only British guest among a group of prominent Muslim sports personalities at an occasion ostensibly to mark the end of Ramadan.
The decamping of the show for this essentially Parisian house to New York – the first time that the house has shown out of the French capital in more than 60 years – is ostensibly to mark the new store opening on Madison Avenue, and this was a showcase of all the clothes that will fill it come spring 2016.
Both opponents and supporters of the country's ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, rallied in their thousands – ostensibly to mark the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war which is viewed in Cairo as an Egyptian victory, despite ending in a stalemate that favoured Israel.
Indeed, the onset of direct rule by Westminster in that month also marked, ostensibly, an even more startling change of heart, with hints of interest in, and even approval for, eventual Irish unity.
He funded and attended a lavish event in a Habsburg palais in Vienna last year for leaders of the European far right, ostensibly devoted to marking 200 years since the alliance between the Russian tsar, the Austro-Hungarian emperor and the king of Prussia following Napoleon's defeat.
