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Tuesday 8 December 2015

Eagles of Death Metal in emotional Bataclan return

Eagles of Death Metal have made an emotional return to the Bataclan theatre following the Paris terror attacks last month.

Members of Eagles of Death Metal visited the Bataclan concert venue

The US rock band visited the concert venue to lay flowers in memory of the 90 concert-goers who were killed.

They embraced one another as they read messages in silence, fighting to contain their emotions.

Frontman Jesse Hughes wiped away tears before speaking to a small group of fans at the site.

The band made a surprise appearance on stage in Paris on Monday when they took to the stage to perform with U2.

Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes, right, and Julian Dorio pay their respects to 89 victims who died at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris

Jesse Hughes right, and Julian Dorio paid their respects

They belted out the Patti Smith anthem People Have The Power at the concert at the AccorHotels Arena.

A total of 130 people were killed on when gunmen attacked bars, cafes and restaurants in co-ordinated attacks on 13 November.

Most of the dead were in the Bataclan watching the California-based band.

The band escaped the carnage by hiding in a dressing room backstage and later told how they want to return to Paris to finish their performance.

In a Facebook post, the band thanked U2 and said they had "reminded us that the bad guys never take a day off, and therefore we rock 'n rollers cannot either... and we never will".

They paid tribute to "everyone in the world who continues to prove that love, joy and music will always overcome terror and evil". (From BBC News)

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Agatha Christie was born in 1890, the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family. Her father was called Frederick Miller so she was born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. She was educated at home and studied singing in Paris.

In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that Christie first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel. Although it was completed in a year, it wasn't published until 1920.

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She fell in love with Max Mallowan, a young archaeologist whom she met on a trip to Mesopotamia and married in 1930 and Agatha Christie became Agatha Christie Mallowan. In 1971 she was awarded the high honor of becoming a Dame of the British Empire.

Agatha Christie ultimately became the acknowledged Queen of the Golden Age. She wrote nearly seventy novels in her career and more than a hundred short stories. Her most famous characters are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Agatha Christie also wrote six romantic novels under the name Mary Westmacott. Several of her works were made into successful feature films, the most notable being Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Agatha's plays have also made her famous and her best known play, The Mousetrap, is most likely the best known mystery play in the world. Her work has been translated into more than a hundred languages. In short, she is the single most popular mystery writer of all time.

Agatha Christie died in 12 January 1976, two years after Max Mallowan died.

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Tuesday 8 December 2015

Eagles of Death Metal in emotional Bataclan return

Eagles of Death Metal have made an emotional return to the Bataclan theatre following the Paris terror attacks last month.

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