Todor Zhivkov to 1988, Bulgaria won an unprecedented 153 Olympic medals and numerous European and world competitions in sports as diverse as volleyball, rhythmic gymnastics and wrestling. Dissent was punished under Zhivkov's rule. The CSS was a feared tool of control, and overt opposition largely stayed underground until the late 1980s. In 1978, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London by an agent who stabbed him with an umbrella tip which implanted a very small ricin ball. According to former KGB general Oleg Kalugin, this was requested by Zhivkov and either performed by the KGB or it assisted the CSS;
A House on a Street in a Town I'm From were a "classical take on West Coast sunshine pop ala Byrds via Simon and Garfunkel and The Doves". All tracks by Paul Otway, Jae Laffer, Myles Wootton, Drew Wootton and Julian Grigor. A House on a Street in a Town I'm From A House on a Street in a Town I'm From is the debut full-length album from The Panics, released on August 4, 2003, by LittleBIGMAN Records. A number of the songs on this album appeared on the two previous EPs although most appear as alternate versions. Some of the songs on the album were recorded in Manchester,and co-produced