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"The Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection on the Las Vegas Strip (Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard), is noteworthy for several reasons.",
" It was the first intersection in Las Vegas completely closed to street level pedestrian traffic and its four corners are home to four major resorts: Excalibur Hotel and Casino, Tropicana Las Vegas, New York-New York Hotel and Casino and MGM Grand Las Vegas—the latter has 5,044 rooms and was once the largest hotel in the world.",
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" It is the original townsite and was the gambling district of Las Vegas prior to the Strip, and the area still incorporates downtown gaming.",
" As the urban core of the Las Vegas Valley, it features a variety of hotel and business highrises, cultural centers, historical buildings and government institutions, as well as residential and retail developments.",
" Downtown is located in the center of the Las Vegas Valley and just north of the Las Vegas Strip, centered on Fremont Street, the Fremont Street Experience and Fremont East.",
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"Air Vegas (IATA: 6V, ICAO: VGA, Call sign: Air Vegas) was an airline with its headquarters on the grounds of the North Las Vegas Air Terminal in North Las Vegas, Nevada.",
" It operated daily sightseeing flights from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon.",
" Prior to moving to the North Las Vegas Airport its main bases were McCarran International Airport (LAS), Las Vegas and Henderson Executive Airport (HND), Las Vegas."
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" The company was owned by Allen Glick, a San Diego real estate investor.",
" The name Argent came from the three initials of his name, combined with the first three letters of the word \"Enterprises\".",
" However, state and local officials in Nevada believed that the casinos were controlled by organized crime families in the Mid-West and that a huge skimming operation was conducted within the casinos."
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"The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino is a hotel and casino in Winchester, Nevada.",
" It is owned by Westgate Resorts and operated by Navegante Group.",
" It has 2,956 hotel rooms including 305 suites.",
" It opened in 1969 as the International Hotel, and was known for many years as the Las Vegas Hilton, then briefly as the LVH – Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.",
" It was renamed the Westgate Las Vegas on July 1, 2014."
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"The Las Vegas metropolitan area is home to many sports, most of which take place in the unincorporated communities around Las Vegas rather than in the city itself.",
" The Las Vegas Valley has one major league professional team: the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL) who began play in 2017 as the region's first major pro team.",
" The Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) will begin play in Las Vegas as the \"Las Vegas Raiders\" by 2020 and become the region's second major professional team.",
" Las Vegas is also home to one minor league sports team: the Las Vegas 51s of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League (Minor League Baseball).",
" The 51s are currently the only team to actually play in the city of Las Vegas, playing at the city owned Cashman Field.",
" They will be joined in 2018 by the Las Vegas Lights FC of the United Soccer League, one of two leagues that collectively make up the second level of the U.S. men's soccer league system."
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"The Trump International Hotel Las Vegas is a 64-story luxury hotel, condominium, and timeshare located on Fashion Show Drive near Las Vegas Boulevard, just off the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, named for real estate developer and the 45th and current President of the United States Donald Trump.",
" It is located across the street from Wynn Las Vegas, behind Alon Las Vegas on 3.46 acre , near the Fashion Show Mall, and features both non-residential hotel condominiums and residential condominiums.",
" The exterior glass is infused with gold.",
" The hotel is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World."
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"El Rancho Vegas was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip.",
" It was located at 2500 Las Vegas Boulevard, at the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, and opened on April 3, 1941.",
" Until 1942, it was the largest hotel in Las Vegas with 110 rooms.",
" On June 17, 1960, the hotel was destroyed by fire.",
" In 1982, the El Rancho Hotel and Casino formerly known as the Thunderbird and later as the Silverbird opened across the street from the former site of the El Rancho Vegas, creating some confusion."
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"The Palazzo is a luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.",
" It is the tallest completed building in Nevada.",
" Designed by the Dallas based HKS, Inc., the hotel offers luxury in an Italian Renaissance ambiance.",
" The hotel and casino are part of a larger complex (operated as one hotel) comprising the adjoining Venetian Resort and Casino and the Sands Convention Center, all of which are owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation."
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" It was one of a chain of four Hacienda properties, with the other three being located in Fresno, Bakersfield, and Indio, California.",
" Each Hacienda featured a distinctive horse and rider sign; the Las Vegas sign is now prominently displayed at the Neon Museum."
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"Xiaogan () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hubei province, People's Republic of China, some 60 km northwest of the provincial capital of Wuhan.",
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5a8eacc75542995085b37473 | Which contains more species, Stigmaphyllon or Aloe? | Aloe | comparison | hard | {
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5ac2663b55429951e9e685a2 | By whom is employed now Sean McDonough who used to be a broadcaster partner of Peter Joseph Cronan, a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and the Seattle Seahawks? | ESPN | bridge | easy | {
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"Stanley Anthony Woods (born October 11, 1965) is a former professional American football linebacker and defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Seattle Seahawks from 1987 to 1992, as well as the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins.",
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"Fred John Hageman (born June 30, 1937 in Bunkie, Louisiana) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins.",
" He played college football at the University of Arkansas and University of Kansas, and was drafted in the 2nd round in 1959 by the Oakland Raiders but did not report and returned to Kansas to finish his undergraduate degree and play out his senior season where he was a 2 time All Big 8 selection as a center and middle linebacker.",
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" Was drafted in the 7th round of the 1960 NFL Draft by the New York Giants and was immediately traded to Washington for cash and a high draft pick.",
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" He played college football at Boston College.",
" He has been the color commentator on the Boston College radio broadcasts since 1988.",
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"\"Work\" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, \"Anti\" (2016), featuring Canadian rapper Drake, the song was released as the lead single from \"Anti\" on January 27, 2016 through Westbury Road and Roc Nation.",
" The song was written by PartyNextDoor, Drake, Monte Moir, Rupert \"Sevn\" Thomas, Allen Ritter and Matthew Samuels, and was produced by Boi-1da, Sevn Thomas, Ritter, Kuk Harrell and Noah \"40\" Shebib.",
" The dancehall, reggae-pop and R&B song, contains an interpolation of \"If You Were Here Tonight\" (1985) performed by Alexander O'Neal.",
" Lyrically, the song incorporates themes of working for money, as well as discussing fragile relationships.",
" The song uses West Indian Patois and Creole."
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" It was written by Kevin Cossom, M. B. Williams, StarGate and Chase & Status, with production done by the latter two and Kuk Harrell.",
" It samples the lyrics of the 1996 single \"Pony\", performed by Ginuwine.",
" Its composition and structure received comparisons to not only Justin Timberlake's song \"Cry Me a River\" and Magnetic Man's \"I Need Air\", but also to some of Rihanna's previous songs, including \"Rude Boy\" and \"Red Lipstick\".",
" A remix of the song called \"Jump (Club Cheval Rap Remix)\" by rapper Theophilus London was leaked onto the internet.",
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" The singer co-wrote the track together with Sean \"Elijah Blake\" Fenton, Alexander Izquierdo, Steve Wyreman and Ernest Wilson, who produced it under his production name No I.D..",
" Kuk Harrell and Marcos Tovar recorded the song at Record One Studios and Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles and Metropolis Studios in London; Harrell also did the vocal production.",
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"\"Umbrella\" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her third studio album \"Good Girl Gone Bad\" (2007).",
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" He was a member of a songwriting–production team composed of himself, Christopher \"Tricky\" Stewart and Terius \"The Dream\" Nash.",
" In 2011, Kuk Harrell and partner Tricky Stewart joined the ranks of Fox's \"American Idol\" along with music mogul Jimmy Iovine, producing many of the songs performed on television by the contestants and released via iTunes.",
" 2011 marked the highly anticipated return of Jennifer Lopez and her album LOVE?",
" in which Kuk served as Album Vocal Producer.",
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" A composer and engineer on Beyoncé's chart topping \"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)\" from the album \"I Am... Sasha Fierce\", he is also vocal producer and engineer of the Diane Warren-penned \"I Was Here\" from Beyoncé's 2011 album \"4\".",
" He also produced the majority of the vocals on Mary J. Blige's Platinum album \"Growing Pains\", which recently won a Grammy for \"Best Contemporary R&B Album\", 2008.",
" The first single from \"Growing Pains\", \"Just Fine\", earned a Grammy nomination for best R&B vocal performance in 2007."
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"\"Only Girl (In the World)\" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her fifth album, \"Loud\" (2010).",
" The album's lead single, it was released on September 10.",
" Crystal Johnson wrote the song in collaboration with producers Stargate and Sandy Vee.",
" Rihanna contacted Stargate before \"Loud\"'s production and asked them to create lively, uptempo music.",
" \"Only Girl (In the World)\" was the first song composed for the album, and the singer decided to include it on the track list before she recorded her vocals.",
" Backed by strong bass and synthesizer, it is a eurodance song that incorporates elements of hi-NRG, rave and R&B in its composition.",
" In its lyrics, Rihanna demands physical attention from her lover."
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" She wrote the song in collaboration with Bibi Bourelly, Hit-Boy and Travis Scott, and it was produced by the latter two.",
" Kuk Harrell was also enlisted as Rihanna's vocal producer.",
" On April 14, 2017, Rihanna released a four-track EP which included remixes of \"Pose\" by the Far East Movement, Salva, Deadly Zoo and Eva Shaw."
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" It was written and produced by Fred Ball, with additional writing by Joseph Angel and Rihanna, and Kuk Harrell serving as the vocal producer.",
" The song was provided to US rhythmic contemporary and urban contemporary radio stations on September 27, 2016, as the album's fourth single.",
" \"Love on the Brain\" is a doo-wop, R&B and soul ballad inspired by 1950s and 1960s music.",
" Its instrumentation consists of a guitar arpeggio, swirling organ, a simple chord progression, syncopated strings, and orchestra.",
" Lyrically, the song has themes of swinging back and forth between the highs and lows of a toxic love."
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"\"Sex with Me\" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, \"Anti\" (2016); it is one of three bonus tracks included on the deluxe edition.",
" She wrote the song in collaboration with PartyNextDoor, Chester Hansen, Boi-1da, Frank Dukes and Vinylz, and it was produced by the latter three.",
" Kuk Harrell was also enlisted as Rihanna's vocal producer.",
" On February 3, 2017, Rihanna released a five-track EP which included remixes of \"Sex with Me\" by MK, Salva, John Blake, Addal and DEVAULT."
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"\"You da One\" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna recorded for her sixth studio album, \"Talk That Talk\" (2011).",
" It was co-written by Rihanna with Ester Dean, Henry Walter, John Hill and Lukasz Gottwald.",
" Production of the song was completed by Gottwald, under his production name Dr. Luke, and Cirkut.",
" Kuk Harrell and Marcas Tovar recorded the track at the Sofital Paris Le Laubourg, Room 538, and Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California.",
" It premiered on US radio on November 11, 2011, and was made available to download digitally throughout Europe and Australasia on November 14, 2011.",
" It was added to US Mainstream, rhythmic and urban radio station playlists on November 29, 2011.",
" Throughout December 2011 and January 2012, a remix extended play (EP) was released worldwide."
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"Snowy Hydro Limited is an electricity generation and retailing company in Australia that owns, manages, and maintains the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme which consists of nine hydro-electric power stations and sixteen large dams connected by 145 kilometres (90 mi) of tunnels and 80 kilometres (50 mi) of aqueducts located mainly in the Kosciuszko National Park.",
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" It is the fifth-largest food retailing company in the United States (after Kroger and Albertsons), and ranks in the top 100 on the 2015 Fortune 500 list.",
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" It stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison.",
" \"The Inbetweeners Movie\" was released on 17 August 2011 in the UK and Ireland by Entertainment Film Distributors, to favourable reviews, although its later release in the United States was not as well received.",
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" She has also appeared in several TV commercials."
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"The Inbetweeners is a British coming of age sitcom television series originally aired on E4 from 2008–2010, created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris.",
" The series followed the misadventures of suburban teenager Will (Simon Bird) and his friends Simon (Joe Thomas), Neil (Blake Harrison), and Jay (James Buckley) at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive.",
" The episodes involved situations of school life, uncaring school staff, friendship, male bonding, and largely failed sexual encounters."
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"Drifters is a British sitcom that stars Jessica Knappett, Lydia Rose Bewley and Lauren O'Rourke as three female friends who live in Leeds following their graduation from university.",
" All three actresses had previously appeared together in \"The Inbetweeners Movie\".",
" Four series were broadcast, between 2013 and 2016."
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" Morris is best known for creating \"The Inbetweeners\" with his writing partner Damon Beesley and co-hosting a show on London radio station XFM with stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr.",
" He featured in the \"Iron\" and \"Music\" episodes of cult spoof TV show \"Look Around You\", as well as on Jimmy Carr's second live DVD, as a panelist on a feature named \"Comedy Idol\".",
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"HAT-P-8b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 750 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus, orbiting the 10th magnitude star GSC 02757-01152.",
" This planet was discovered by transit on December 5, 2008.",
" Despite the designation as HAT-P-8b, it is the 11th planet discovered by the HATNet Project.",
" The mass of the planet is 50% more than Jupiter while the radius is also 50% more than Jupiter.",
" The mass of this planet is exact since the inclination of the orbit is known, typical for transiting planets.",
" This is a so-called “hot Jupiter” because this Jupiter-like gas giant planet orbits in a really close torch orbit around the star, making this planet extremely hot (in the order of a thousand kelvins).",
" The distance from the star is roughly 20 times smaller than that of Earth from the Sun, which places the planet roughly 8 times closer to its star than Mercury is from the Sun.",
" The “year” on this planet lasts only 3 days, 1 hour, 49 minutes, and 54 seconds, compared with Earth's 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 10 seconds in a sidereal year."
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"The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is a 1982 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing.",
" It is the fourth book in her five-book \"Canopus in Argos\" series and relates the fate of a planet, under the care of the benevolent galactic empire Canopus, that is plunged into an ice age.",
" It was first published in the United States in January 1982 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in March 1982 by Jonathan Cape."
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"HD 16417 b (also called λ Fornacis b) is an extrasolar planet located approximately 84 light years away in the constellation of Fornax, orbiting the 6th magnitude G-type main sequence star HD 16417.",
" This planet has minimum mass only 7% that of Jupiter, making this a Neptune-mass planet.",
" In addition to this, it orbits relatively close to the host star and suffers high temperature.",
" It is the third planet discovered in Fornax constellation on February 23, 2009.",
" This planet was discovered by a method called the radial velocity method."
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"Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983.",
" \"Akhnaten\" had its world premiere on March 24, 1984, at the Stuttgart State Theatre, under the German title \"Echnaton\".",
" Paul Esswood sang the title role, German director Achim Freyer staged the opera in an abstract style with highly ritualistic movements.",
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"HD 7924 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 54 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia, orbiting the 7th magnitude K-type main sequence (slightly metal poor) star HD 7924.",
" It was published on January 28, 2009 and is the second planet discovered in the constellation Cassiopeia.",
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"HD 156668 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 156668 78.5 light-years away in the constellation Hercules.",
" It has a minimum mass of 3.1 Earth masses.",
" At the time of discovery it was the second least massive planet discovered by the radial velocity method, subject to the mass/inclination degeneracy that affects radial velocity measurements.",
" The only radial velocity planet less massive than this planet is Gliese 581 e, which was discovered on April 21, 2009, and has a minimum mass of 1.94 Earth masses.",
" In addition to this, it has the lowest semi-amplitude, or the speed of the stellar wobble caused by planet's gravity tugging on the star determined by radial velocity, at 2.2 m/s.",
" This planet was discovered on January 6, 2010; it is the 8th planet discovered in 2010 after the first five planets detected by Kepler on January 4 and two planets around HD 9446 on January 5."
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"Kepler-1520 (initially published as KIC 12557548) is a K-type main-sequence star located in the constellation Cygnus.",
" The star is particularly important, as measurements taken by the \"Kepler\" spacecraft indicate that the variations in the star's light curve cover a range from about 0.2% to 1.3% of the star's light being blocked.",
" This indicates that there may be a rapidly disintegrating planet, a prediction not yet conclusively confirmed, in orbit around the star, losing mass at a rate of 1 Earth mass every billion years.",
" The planet itself is about 0.1 Earth masses, or just twice the mass of Mercury, and is expected to disintegrate in about 100-200 million years.",
" The planet orbits its star in just 15.7 hours, at a distance only two stellar diameters away from the star's surface, and has an estimated effective temperature of about 2255 K.",
" The orbital period of the planet is one of the shortest ever detected in the history of the extrasolar planet search.",
" In 2016, the planet was confirmed as part of a data release by the \"Kepler\" spacecraft."
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"HD 104067 b is an extrasolar planet which orbits the K-type main sequence star HD 104067, located approximately 68 light years away in the constellation Corvus.",
" This planet has at least one-sixth the mass of Jupiter and takes over one-sevenths of a year to orbit the star at a semimajor axis of 0.26 AU.",
" This planet was detected by HARPS on October 19, 2009, together with 29 other planets.",
" It is also the first planet to be discovered in this constellation."
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"The Bendery Uprising of 1919 was an armed uprising by Bolsheviks and their working-class allies in the city of Bendery.",
" It targeted the recent union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania and sought the establishment of Soviet power in the region.",
" It began at dawn on May 27.",
" The insurgents, together with a small Red Army unit that had been sent from across the Dniester River, captured the treasury building, the railroad station, and other points in the city.",
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" It covered the northwest part of the country and lasted from April–November 1932.",
" The principal leaders were lamas. Main part of ordinary rebels consisted of common people but even many party members and the local bureaucracy joined the rebellion.",
" The insurgents were inspired by rumours of support from the Panchen Lama and the Japanese.",
" They were noted for a number of atrocities they committed, but the Mongolian troops sent with Soviet support to quell the rebellion engaged in more brutalities.",
" More than 1500 people were killed.",
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" At first the Yugoslav Partisans had mounted diversions and conducted sabotage and had attacked representatives of Aćimović's quisling administration.",
" In late August some Chetniks joined the uprising and liberated Loznica.",
" The uprising soon reached mass proportions.",
" Partisans and Chetniks captured towns that weak German garrisons had abandoned.",
" The armed uprising soon engulfed great parts of the occupied territory.",
" The largest liberated territory in occupied Europe was created by the Partisans in western Serbia, and was known as the Republic of Užice.",
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"The Malaba or Malabar genocide(also known as the Moplah rebellion, \"മാപ്പിള ലഹള\" \"Māppila Lahaḷa\" in Malayalam) was an armed uprising in 1921 against British authority and Hindus in the Malabar region of Southern India by Mappila Muslims and the culmination of a series of Mappila revolts that recurred throughout the 19th century and early 20th century.",
" The 1921 rebellion began as a reaction against a heavy-handed crackdown on the Khilafat Movement by the British authorities in the Eranad and Valluvanad \"taluks\" of Malabar.",
" In the initial stages, a number of minor clashes took place between Khilafat volunteers and the police, but the violence soon spread across the region.",
" The Mappilas attacked and took control of police stations, British government offices, courts and government treasuries.",
" The Moplah rebellion that started as a fight against the British ended up as large-scale massacre and persecution of Hindus.",
" In the later stages of the uprising, Mappilas committed several atrocities against the Hindu community, who they accused of helping the police to suppress their rebellion.",
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"The Negro Rebellion (Spanish: \"Levantamiento Armado de los Independientes de Color\" , \"Armed Uprising of the Independents of Color\", also known as the Little Race War, the War of 1912, or The Twelve) was an armed conflict for several weeks during 1912 in Cuba between Afro-Cuban rebels and the armed forces of Cuba and the United States.",
" It took place mainly in the eastern region of the island where most Afro-Cubans were employed.",
" After a widespread massacre of Afro-Cubans by the Cuban Army and the intervention by the U.S. military brought an end to the rebellion in a matter of weeks.",
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"The Rakovica revolt (Croatian: \"Rakovička buna\" ) was an armed uprising in 1871 led by Croatian politician Eugen Kvaternik against authorities of Austria-Hungary, with the aim of establishing an independent Croatian state at the time when it was part of Austria-Hungary.",
" The uprising, named after the village of Rakovica in south-central Croatia where it started, lasted only four days in October 1871, and ended in defeat for Croatian rebels."
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" He was referred to as the \"Master Spirit\" of the insurrection, and was only passed over as overall leader in favor of Daniel Shays due to the perception of overzealousness on his part, by his men.",
" As a lieutenant, and then a captain, he served for eight years and participated in many key battles of the American Revolutionary War, including the Siege of Boston, Quebec Expedition, Battles of Saratoga, Cherry Valley massacre, Sullivan Expedition and Siege of Yorktown.",
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"Amos Singletary (September 1721 – October 30, 1806) was an Anti-Federalist mill operator, lawyer, and justice of the peace from Sutton, Massachusetts.",
" He was often a Representative in the Massachusetts General Court, and was a delegate to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention.",
" Singletary supported Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising that catalyzed the calling for the Constitutional Convention.",
" He became furious with perceived Federalist arrogance, asking them to \"not play round the subject with their fine stories, like a fox round a trap, but come to it."
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"When General Santa Anna changed the constution and began operating as a dictator.",
" Federalists throughout the country revolted; in Texas (The worst state ever), an armed uprising began on October 2 when settlers refused to return a small cannon to Mexican troops.",
" This [Battle of Gonzales] ended with Mexican troops retreating empty handed to San Antonio de Bexar (now the U.S. city of San Antonio, Texas).",
" Emboldened by their victory, the Texans formed a volunteer army.",
" A small force of Texans traveled down the Texas coastline, defeating Mexican troops at Goliad and at Fort Lipantitlán.",
" The majority of the Texan troops followed General Stephen F. Austin to Bexar, where they initiated a siege of the Mexican garrison.",
" After victories in several skirmishes, including the Battle of Concepción and the Grass Fight, the Texans attacked Bexar.",
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"Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts (mostly in and around Springfield) during 1786 and 1787.",
" Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in an uprising against perceived economic and civil rights injustices.",
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5a90771e55429916514e74cc | Which band was formed earlier, Marilyn Manson or Walk the Moon? | Marilyn Manson | comparison | medium | {
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" The song originally appeared as \"Marilyn Manson Ate My Girlfriend\" on the band's demo album, \"All Work and No Play\".",
" The song is about Marilyn Manson eating Matt Thiessen's girlfriend.",
" Thiessen wrote this song when he was 15 years old.",
" Thiessen has said that he wrote it because of a female friend, who lived eight hours away in Pennsylvania, who he would talk to about many things including spiritual matters such as where God was taking them in the future.",
" His friend would later turn from Christian music to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.",
" In an interview with CCM Magazine Thiessen stated \"through this she changed her lifestyle [and] what she believed in.\"",
" His friend would later be expelled from school and would be kicked out of her house and sent to a youth detention center.",
" Thiessen would later state \"She felt that Christianity was stupid and just this big hypocrisy.",
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"Walk The Moon (styled WALK THE MOON) is an American rock band based in Cincinnati, Ohio.",
" Lead singer Nicholas Petricca started the band in 2006, while a student at Kenyon College, deriving the band's name from the song \"Walking on the Moon\" by The Police.",
" The group independently released their debut studio album, \"i want, i want\", in November 2010, receiving airplay for the track \"Anna Sun\" on multiple Alternative radio stations."
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"Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known professionally as Marilyn Manson, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, actor, painter, author and former music journalist.",
" He is known for his controversial stage personality and image as the lead singer of the band Marilyn Manson, which he co-founded with guitarist Daisy Berkowitz and of which he remains the only constant member.",
" His stage name was formed by combining and juxtaposing the names of two American pop cultural icons: actress Marilyn Monroe and cult leader Charles Manson."
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" Originally named Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids, they gained a local cult following in South Florida in the early 1990s with their theatrical live performances.",
" In 1993, they were the first act signed to Trent Reznor's Nothing Records label.",
" Until 1996, the name of each member was created by combining the first name of an iconic female sex symbol and the last name of an iconic serial killer, for example Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson.",
" Their lineup has changed between many of their album releases; the current members of Marilyn Manson are the eponymous lead singer (the only remaining original member), bassist Twiggy Ramirez, guitarists Paul Wiley and Tyler Bates, and drummer Gil Sharone."
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"Jeordie Osbourne White (born June 20, 1971), once known professionally as Twiggy Ramirez, shortened to just Twiggy since returning to Marilyn Manson, and sometimes referred to by his real name, is an American musician, mostly known as the bassist and guitarist of the band Marilyn Manson.",
" Previously, he was the bassist for A Perfect Circle and a touring member of Nine Inch Nails, and is currently the vocalist for Goon Moon.",
" He left Marilyn Manson in 2002, and later rejoined the band in 2008.",
" He has been a principal songwriter for the band and has also contributed to some of the Desert Sessions recordings.",
" He also currently hosts the Hour Of Goon podcast with fellow musician Fred Sablan, on the Feral Audio network."
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"Throughout the band's history, Marilyn Manson has only had one consistent member, being Marilyn Manson himself.",
" This is a timeline of all of the band members since their formation in 1989.",
" Most, if not all, members of the band have contributed performances (either live or in-studio) on instruments other than their primary ones.",
" For instance, Gacy has played theremin and calliope, Manson has played pan flute, harpsichord, keyboards, and guitar, and Berkowitz has been credited with bass guitar and drum machines. Keyboardists Madonna Wayne Gacy and Chris Vrenna have also performed additional percussion on-stage, and current touring keyboardist Spencer Rollins plays additional guitar live.",
" Further details on these contributions can be found in the individual members' articles, and in the articles on the band's albums."
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"Fred Sablan (born April 28, 1970) is an American musician originally from Cupertino, California, who is best known for being the bassist for Marilyn Manson.",
" He is also the bassist and occasional guitarist for Goon Moon.",
" He was also the bassist for Butcher Holler, and the guitarist for Crack.",
" He became Marilyn Manson's bassist in July 2010 until June 2014.",
" Fred is currently the bass player for Queen Kwong and co-host of the Hour Of Goon podcast with Jeordie White."
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"Eat Me, Drink Me, stylized as EAT ME, DRINK ME, is the sixth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson.",
" It was released on June 5, 2007 by Interscope Records.",
" It was recorded in a rented home-recording studio in Hollywood by lead vocalist Marilyn Manson and guitarist and bassist Tim Sköld.",
" The album was produced by Manson and Sköld, and mixed by Sean Beavan.",
" Upon release it was met with positive reviews from mainstream music critics.",
" It is the band's first album not to be recorded as a five-piece as John 5 departed from the group in 2004.",
" Instead of replacing 5, Tim Sköld remained with bass and played guitar, and the band continued as a four-piece."
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"Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows is a compilation album of previously unreleased demo tracks recorded in the early 1990s by Marilyn Manson (then known as Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids).",
" Original guitarist Scott Putesky (\"Daisy Berkowitz\") obtained the rights to these and 11 other recordings in a lawsuit against Brian Warner (\"Marilyn Manson\"), and has announced that this release is only the first in a planned series of Spooky Kids CDs.",
" Some are from demos and others have never been previously released.",
" These are digitally remastered and Putesky says they sound better than the original cassettes because of it."
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"This is a list of United States Ambassadors to Mongolia.",
" The United States established diplomatic relations with then-People's Republic of Mongolia on January 27, 1987.",
" The Embassy in Ulaanbaatar was opened Apr 17, 1988, with Steven Mann as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.",
" Richard Llewellyn Williams was the first ambassador to the Republic, and resided in the District of Columbia.",
" The current Mongolian ambassador to the United States is Altangerel Bulgaa, who succeeded Khasbazaryn Bekhbat when he was appointed on December 7, 2012.",
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"How Green Was My Valley is a BBC Television serial based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, and features one of the last performances by Stanley Baker.",
" It was first shown in the UK from 29 December 1975 in six weekly parts, while producer Martin Lisemore also cast Siân Phillips in his next production, \"I Claudius\" (1976)."
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"The Welsh Mam (\"mam\" means \"mother\" in Welsh) was an archetypal image of Welsh married women that emerged in 19th century industrial South Wales.",
" Described as \"hardworking, ‘pious’ and clean, a mother to her sons and responsible for the home\", this image of women was depicted in Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel \"How Green Was My Valley\".",
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" He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker .",
" Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse."
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" The author had claimed that he based the book on his own personal experiences but this was found to be untrue after his death; Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in Wales, though he was of Welsh descent.",
" Llewellyn gathered material for the novel from conversations with local mining families in Gilfach Goch."
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"Ralph Charles (born 5 February 1943) is an English amateur welterweight and professional light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1959 Junior Class-A title against Kenneth \"Ken\"/\"Kenny\" J. Cooper (Warley ABC), boxing out of West Ham Boys & ABC, won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1960 Junior Class-B title against J. Harwood (National Association of Boys Clubs), boxing out of West Ham Boys & ABC, and was runner-up for the 1963 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Johnny Pritchett (Bingham & District ABC), boxing out of West Ham ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Southern Area welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title, European Boxing Union (EBU) welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title, and World Boxing Association (WBA) World welterweight title against José Nápoles, his professional fighting weight varied from 140 lb , i.e. light welterweight to 157 lb , i.e. middleweight."
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"Keith Wallace (29 March 1961 – 4 January 2000 (aged 38)) born in Prescot was an English amateur flyweight and professional fly/super fly/bantam/super bantam/featherweight boxer of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, who as an amateur won the 1974 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 33 kg Schools title, against Kelvin Smart (Newport) boxing out of the BICC ABC (Prescot), won the 1980 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) flyweight title, against Danny Flynn (Meadowbank ABC) boxing out of the St. Helens Star ABC, and won the 1981 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) flyweight title, against Dai Williams (Gelligaer BC) boxing out of the St. Helens Star ABC, and represented Great Britain at flyweight in the Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics, in Moscow, Soviet Union, losing to Daniel Radu of Romania."
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"Johnny Pritchett (born 15 February 1943) is an English amateur welterweight and professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s, and boxing manager of the 1970s and '80s, who as an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1959 Junior Class-A title against B. Ford (St Peters ABC), boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, won the 1962 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Harry Dean (Oxford YMCA), boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, won the 1963 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Ralph Charles (West Ham ABC), boxing out of Bingham & District ABC, and represented England and won the silver medal at welterweight in the Boxing at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia, losing to Wallace Coe of New Zealand, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) British middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title against Juan Carlos Durán, his professional fighting weight varied from 153+1/4 lb , i.e. light middleweight to 162+1/2 lb , i.e. light heavyweight.",
" Johnny Pritchett managed; Dave Needham, Howard Hayes, Johnny Cheshire, and Dave Symonds."
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"Sylvester \"The Master Blaster\" Mittee ( (1956--) 29 1956 (age 61 ) ) is a Saint Lucian/British amateur lightweight and professional light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who as an amateur won the 1973 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) Junior Class-B title boxing out of Crown and Manor ABC , Hoxton, London, won the 1976 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) lightweight title, against Thomas McCallum (Sparta BC), boxing out of Repton Amateur Boxing Club , Bethnal Green, London, and represented Great Britain as a lightweight in the Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, losing to eventual silver medal winner Simion Cuţov of Romania, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Southern (England) Area light welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British light welterweight title against Clinton McKenzie, and European Boxing Union (EBU) welterweight title against Lloyd Honeyghan, his professional fighting weight varied from 139 lb , i.e. light welterweight to 151+1/2 lb , i.e. light middleweight."
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"Alan Richardson (born 4 November 1948 in Fitzwilliam) is an English amateur and professional featherweight boxer of the 1960s, and '70s, he was the 1969 Amateur Boxing Association of England featherweight boxing champion, won bronze medals in both the 1969 European Amateur Boxing Championships and the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, and was British professional featherweight boxing champion from Tuesday 15 March 1977 to Thursday 20 April 1978."
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"Percy Lewis ( (1927--) 31 1927 (age 89 ) ) is a Trinidad and Tobago/British amateur featherweight and professional feather/super feather/lightweight boxer of the 1950s and '60s who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1950 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) featherweight title, against Peter Brander (Slough Centre ABC), boxing out of The Royal Air Force, was runner-up for the 1951 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) featherweight title, against Jim Travers (Lansdowne BC), boxing out of The Royal Air Force, won the 1952 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) featherweight title, against Steve Trainer (Hulme Lads ABC), boxing out of The Royal Air Force, represented Great Britain at featherweight in the Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics, losing to Georghe Ilie of Romania, and won the 1953 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) featherweight title, against Alan Sillett (The British Army), boxing out of Oxford YMCA ABC, and as a professional won the British Empire featherweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 124+1/2 lb , i.e. featherweight to 134 lb , i.e. lightweight, he served with the Royal Air Force."
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"Reginald Denny (born Reginald Leigh Dugmore, 20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967) was an English stage, film and television actor as well as an aviator and UAV pioneer.",
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"Wally Thom (14 June 1926 — 1980 (aged 53)) born in Birkenhead, Merseyside an English amateur middleweight and professional welter/middleweight boxer of the 1940s, and 1950s, and referee of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, who as an amateur was runner-up for the 1945 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) middleweight title, against Randolph Turpin (Leamington Spa ABC ), boxing out of Army ABC, was runner-up for the 1949 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) middleweight title, against Alan Buxton (Harrow ABC), boxing out of Birkenhead ABC, and won a silver medal at middleweight in the 1947 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Dublin, Ireland, losing to gold medal winner Aimé-Joseph Escudie of France, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Central Area welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title, European Boxing Union (EBU) welterweight title, and British Empire welterweight title (twice), his professional fighting weight varied from 145+1/4 lb , i.e. welterweight to 154 lb , i.e. middleweight.",
" Wally Thom was managed by Johnny Campbell (circa-1905 — 2 May 1994 (aged 89))."
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"Curt McCune (born August 2, 1960), from Homewood (Birmingham), Alabama, is a former amateur boxer and 4-time State of Alabama amateur boxing champion, and was the 1994 International Law Enforcement Games Boxing Champion at 193 lbs.",
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"A Lady's Morals is a 1930 American Pre-Code film offering a highly fictionalized account of singer Jenny Lind.",
" The movie features opera diva Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum; Beery would play Barnum again four years later in \"The Mighty Barnum\".",
" The film contains some fine opera arias by Moore and was directed by Sidney Franklin."
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"The Pari Aike Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation of Cenomanian (formerly believed to be Maastrichtian) age in southern Patagonia, Argentina.",
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"Caleta Herradura Formation (Spanish: \"Formación Caleta Herradura\" ) is a geologic formation of Miocene age located in Mejillones Peninsula in northern Chile.",
" The erosion at the Coastal Cliff of northern Chile have created particularly good exposures of Caleta Herradura Formation.",
" The formation deposited in a half graben within Mejillones Peninsula.",
" The formation rests nonconformably on the Jorgino Formation."
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"The Santa Marta Formation is a geologic formation in Antarctica.",
" It, along with the Hanson Formation and the Snow Hill Island Formation, are the only formations yet known on the continent where dinosaur fossils have been found.",
" The formation outcrops on James Ross Island off the coast of the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.",
" In its entirety, the Santa Marta Formation is on average one kilometer thick."
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"Río Negro (] , \"Black River\") is a province of Argentina, located at the northern edge of Patagonia.",
" Neighboring provinces are from the south clockwise Chubut, Neuquén, Mendoza, La Pampa and Buenos Aires.",
" To the east lies the Atlantic Ocean."
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"The Britton Formation is a geologic formation deposited during the Middle Cenomanian to the Early Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous in modern-day East Texas.",
" It forms the lower half of the Eagle Ford Group in the northern portion of East Texas.",
" The formation was named by W. L. Moreman in 1932 for outcrops on Mountain Creek near the small town of Britton, south of Dallas.",
" In the Dallas area it has been subdivided into the Six Flags Limestone, Turner Park Member, and Camp Wisdom Member.",
" The Six Flags Limestone is a 3 ft (1 m) thick fossiliferous calcarenite made up of pieces (prisms) of \"Inoceramus\" clams.",
" The Turner Park and Camp Wisdom Members were subdivided based on the numerous volcanic ash beds (bentonites) found in the Turner Park, and the common occurrence of concretions in the Camp Wisdom.",
" They are approximately 120 ft (37 m) (Turner Park) and 250 ft (76 m) (Camp Wisdom) thick in the Dallas area.",
" Thin sandstones known as the Templeton Member are found in Grayson County, north of Dallas, that are age equivalent to the lower part of the Turner Park Member.",
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" It is the fourth-oldest formation in the Neuquén Group and the older of the two formations in the Río Neuquén Subgroup.",
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"The Becraft Formation is a geologic formation of marine sedimentary rock found in New York State.",
" The Becraft is a part of the lower Devonian Helderberg Group and conformably overlies the New Scotland Formation and is overlain by the Alsen Formation throughout the lower Hudson Valley of New York State.",
" The formation is Gedinnian in age.",
" Outcrops of the formation are found from the New York-New Jersey border to the Helderbergs of Albany County, New York and as far west as Schoharie County, New York.",
" The thickness of the formation varies from around 3 meters in Canajoharie to 8 meters thick in Albany and swells to 27 meters near Kingston.",
" The Becraft Formation is named for Becraft Mountain in western Columbia County, New York where it prominently crops out."
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"The Bajo de la Carpa Formation is a geologic formation that outcrops in Patagonia, in the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, Argentina.",
" It is the first of two formations belonging to the Río Colorado Subgroup within the Neuquén Group.",
" Formerly that subgroup was treated as a formation, and the Bajo de la Carpa Formation was known as the Bajo de la Carpa Member."
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"Pan de Azúcar Formation (Spanish: \"Formación Pan de Azúcar\" , \"Sugar-loaf formation\") is a geologic formation of Hettangian–Sinemurian (Jurassic) age made up of chiefly by sandstone, tuff, mudstone and limestone.",
" The formation is located in the Coast Range of northern Chile.",
" The formation interdigitates and is coeval with the Posada de los Hidalgo Formation.",
" It concordantly overlies the Cifuncho Formation and is overlain by the La Negra Formation."
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"The Chattanooga Shale is a geologic formation in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee.",
" It preserves conodont fossils dating to the Devonian Period.",
" It occurs mostly as a subsurface geologic formation composed of layers of shale.",
" It is located in Eastern Tennessee and also extends into southeastern Kentucky, northeastern Georgia, and northern Alabama.",
" This part of Alabama is part of the Black Warrior Basin."
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"The Alhambra was an entertainment complex in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, from 1899–1903.",
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"H & J Smith Ltd, branded as H & J Smith and known colloqually as \"H&J's\" is a company which operates in the lower South Island of New Zealand.",
" The company primarily operates Department Stores, but also some specialty stores and franchises (some within the main department stores).",
" The Department Stores are located in Invercargill, Dunedin, Gore, Queenstown, Te Anau and Balclutha.",
" There were also department stores in Nelson and Blenheim but these stores closed in March 2006.",
" H & J Smith has been operating since 1900."
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"Lewis's was a chain of British department stores that operated from 1856 to 2010.",
" The parent companies of Lewis's have gone into administration many times over the years, including 1991.",
" The first store, which opened in Liverpool city centre, became the flagship of the chain of stores operating under the Lewis's name.",
" Several stores in the chain were bought in 1991 by the company Owen Owen and continued to operate under the Lewis's brand name for several years, but after the closure of the Manchester store in 2002, only the original Liverpool store continued to trade under the Lewis's name.",
" This store was sold in 2007 to the Vergo Retail Ltd and closed in 2010."
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"King's Department Stores was a chain of discount stores in the Eastern United States.",
" The chain started in 1956, in Brockton, Massachusetts.",
" They expanded to about 190 stores when, in 1978, they purchased the bankrupt Mammoth Mart chain.",
" Three stores operated in the Buffalo, New York area.",
" Because of the Mammoth purchase, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1982, and in 1984 Ames Department Stores purchased the chain and converted most of them into Ames stores."
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"NewCore Outlet (뉴코아아울렛) is a South Korean retail company owned by E-Land Group.",
" The company runs NewCore Outlets (뉴코아아울렛) and NC Department Stores (엔씨백화점).",
" The company was originally owned by NewCore Group, which owned several NewCore department stores throughout the country.",
" After NewCore Group was dishonored in 1997, E-Land Group mergered NewCore department stores.",
" Some of the department stores were changed into fashion outlets, after being renamed as NewCore Outlet or 2001 Outlet, which is also run by E-Land Group, while some remained department store, but they were renamed as \"NC Department Store.\""
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"Gamble-Skogmo Inc. was a conglomerate of retail chains and other businesses that was headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.",
" Business operated or franchised by Gamble-Skogmo included Gambles hardware and auto supply stores, Woman's World and Mode O'Day clothing stores, J.M. McDonald department stores, Leath Furniture stores, Tempo and Buckeye Mart Discount Stores, Howard's Brandiscount Department Stores, Rasco Variety Stores, Sarco Outlet Stores, Toy World, Rasco-Tempo, Red Owl Grocery, Snyder Drug and the Aldens mail-order company.",
" In Canada, retail operations consisted of Macleods Hardware, based in Winnipeg, MB, and Stedmans Department Stores, based in Toronto.",
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"Filene's was an American department store, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts; it operated throughout New England and in New York.",
" It was owned by Federated Department Stores from 1929 until 1988, at which time it was acquired by The May Department Stores Company.",
" In 2005, Federated Department Stores bought May Department Stores, which resulted in Federated reacquiring Filene's.",
" In September 2006, Federated retired the Filene's brand and converted the majority of its stores to Macy's over the course of 2006-07."
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"Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.",
" It was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of 'Fallingwater'.",
" In the post-war years, the store became a regional chain in the eastern United States, and was last owned by Federated Department Stores.",
" At the height of its existence, it had some 59 stores in 5 states.",
" Formerly part of May Department Stores prior to that company's acquisition by Federated on August 30, 2005, Kaufmann's operated as part of the Filene's organization in Boston, Massachusetts.",
" On February 1, 2006, the Filene's/Kaufmann's organization was dissolved and the management of its stores was assumed by Macy's East and the new Macy's Midwest.",
" On September 9, 2006, Macy's retired the Kaufmann's name as Federated Department Stores converted the former May Company brands to its masthead.",
" In 2015, Macy's closed and sold the iconic Pittsburgh store for redevelopment as part of the company's ongoing reorganization of its owned properties.",
" Core Reality of Philadelphia, the new owners of the building, have named the proposed mixed-use property \"Kaufmann's Grand on Fifth\" in honor of the historic property."
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"House of Fraser is a British department store group with over 60 stores across the United Kingdom and Ireland.",
" It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser.",
" By 1891, it was known as Fraser & Sons.",
" The company grew steadily during the early 20th century, but after the Second World War, a large number of acquisitions transformed the company into a national chain.",
" Between 1936 and 1985 over seventy companies, not including their subsidiaries, were acquired.",
" In 1948, the company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange, and eventually was included in the FTSE Index before the company was acquired by a consortium of investors including Baugur and Don McCarthy in 2006.",
" On 2 September 2014, Don McCarthy, retiring Executive Chairman of House of Fraser, announced the completion of the sale of 100% of the preferred ordinary shares and B ordinary shares, and approximately 89% of the A ordinary shares and preference shares of Highland Group Holdings Ltd, to Nanjing Xinjiekou Department Store Co, a leading chain of Chinese department stores, for an enterprise value of approximately £480 million."
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"Magasin du Nord is a Danish chain of department stores.",
" Its flagship store is located on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.",
" The company is a subsidiary of the British department store retailer Debenhams."
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"Richard J. \"Richie\" Cunningham is a fictional character played by Ron Howard on the sitcom \"Happy Days\".",
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" Cunningham was the original lead character, but was supplanted by Fonzie when that character's popularity came to dwarf that of Cunningham and the other characters (however, Ron Howard and Henry Winkler (Fonzie) continued to share top billing in the opening credits of the show)."
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"Night Shift is a 1982 American comedy film, directed by Ron Howard, concerning a timid night shift morgue employee whose life is turned upside down by a free-spirited entrepreneur.",
" It stars Howard's \"Happy Days\" co-star Henry Winkler along with Michael Keaton, in his first starring role, and Shelley Long.",
" Also appearing are Richard Belzer and Clint Howard.",
" A young Kevin Costner has a brief scene as \"Frat Boy #1\", Shannen Doherty appears as a Bluebell scout, Vincent Schiavelli plays a man who delivers a sandwich to Winkler's character, and Charles Fleischer has a brief role as one of the jail prisoners."
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"Splash is a 1984 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, and Eugene Levy.",
" The film involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid.",
" The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.",
" The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge."
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"Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, based on Dan Brown's novel of the same name.",
" It is the sequel to the 2006 film \"The Da Vinci Code\", also directed by Howard, and the second installment in the \"Robert Langdon\" film series.",
" The novel was published first and \"The Da Vinci Code\" novel followed it.",
" Filming took place in Rome, Italy, and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.",
" Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon.",
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"Paige Carlyle Howard (born February 5, 1985) is an American theater, television and film actress.",
" She is a sister of actress Bryce Dallas Howard and daughter of director Ron Howard.",
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"Son of Flubber is the 1963 sequel to the Walt Disney children's sci-fi comedy movie \"The Absent-Minded Professor\" (1961).",
" Both films star Fred MacMurray as a scientist who has perfected a high-bouncing substance, Flubber (\"flying rubber\") that can levitate an automobile and cause athletes to bounce into the sky.",
" The film co-stars Nancy Olson and Keenan Wynn, and was directed by Robert Stevenson.",
" Many of the cast members from \"The Absent-Minded Professor\" also appear in this film, including Elliott Reid and Tommy Kirk.",
" The film was shot in black and white, but a colorized version was released on VHS in 1997."
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" He is the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of the actress Bryce Dallas Howard."
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"Tom Hanks is an American actor and producer who has had an extensive career in films, television and on the stage.",
" Hanks made his professional acting debut on the stage playing Grumio, in the Great Lakes Theater production of \"The Taming of the Shrew\" (1977).",
" He made his film debut with a minor role in the horror film \"He Knows You're Alone\" (1980).",
" In the same year, Hanks appeared in the television series \"Bosom Buddies\".",
" His role in the show led to guest appearances on a variety of long running television shows including \"Happy Days\".",
" Hanks' appearance on the show led film director Ron Howard to cast him in his first leading role in the fantasy romantic comedy \"Splash\" (1984).",
" He went on to host \"Saturday Night Live\" for the first time in 1985 (a show he has since hosted nine times as of 2016), star in films such as \"Nothing in Common\" (1986) and \"Dragnet\" (1987) before playing his breakthrough role in the age-changing comedy \"Big\" (1988).",
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"Grand Theft Auto is a 1977 American comedy road movie directed by Ron Howard.",
" It was Howard's feature film directorial debut, and it features Howard as Sam Freeman and Nancy Morgan as Paula Powers in the leading roles.",
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"OK Jaanu (English: \"OK Darling\" ) is a 2017 Indian romantic drama film directed by Shaad Ali, story and screenplay by Mani Ratnam.",
" Produced by Mani Ratnam and Karan Johar under their banners Madras Talkies and Dharma Productions respectively.",
" The film stars Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor in the lead roles, portraying a young couple in a live-in relationship in Mumbai with Naseeruddin Shah and Leela Samson play supporting roles as an older couple in the film, portraying the younger couple's landlords.",
" Eesh Kakkkar plays Tara's ex-boyfriend.",
" A. R. Rahman composed the film's score and soundtrack.",
" Gulzar is the dialogue writer of this film.",
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" He has worked as the cinematographer for a number of major box office hits in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam.",
" He is an acclaimed ad film cinematographer with more than 3000 ad films to his credit.",
" He won the Best Cinematographer award [filmfare award] for the movie \"Anniyan\".",
" His debut movie was \"Atharmam\" (Tamil) in 1994.",
" He has been congratulated by the industry's most acclaimed directors like Mani Ratnam and S. Shankar.",
" In a function Mani Ratnam said \"Yes - he is one of the good cinematographers in India\".",
" V. Manikandan was nominated for Asia Pacific Cine Awards(ASPA) for his work in Raavanan/Raavan in 2010 for Best Cinematography.",
" He has won Apsara award for best cinematography for Raavan in 2011.",
" He is the younger brother of Artist V. Jeevananthan, A National Awardee for his Book On Cinema 'Thiraicheelai' in the National film Awards 2010."
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"Urmila Matondkar is an Indian actress, who appears primarily in Hindi language films.",
" Apart from her acting, Matondkar has also gained popularity for her dancing skills.",
" She made her acting debut as a child artist in Shreeram Lagoo's 1980 Marathi film \"Zaakol\" and later appeared in Shekhar Kapur's critically acclaimed Hindi film \"Masoom\" (1983).",
" After making her leading role debut with the 1989 Malayalam thriller \"Chanakyan\", Matondkar starred in her first major Bollywood role in the 1992 fantasy film \"Chamatkar\".",
" She successfully made the transition from child star to a leading actress with Ram Gopal Varma's blockbuster \"Rangeela\" (1995).",
" Her portrayal of an aspiring actress, Mili Joshi, opposite Aamir Khan received praise from critics and public alike and garnered her first nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress."
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" The film Starred Venkatesh, Sridevi and Paresh Rawal in the lead roles.",
" The sound track and background score composed by M. M. Keeravani received rave reviews.",
" The Comedy thriller film is one of the highest rated Telugu films on the Internet Movie Database.",
" The narrative by Ram Gopal Varma, and the cinematography by S. Gopala Reddy, received positive reviews."
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"Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), commonly known by his screen name Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema.",
" Cited by the media as one of India's influential filmmakers, Mani Ratnam is widely credited with revolutionising the Tamil film industry and altering the profile of Indian cinema.",
" Although working in the mainstream medium, his films are noted for their realism, technical finesse, and craft.",
" The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, acknowledging his contributions to film in 2002."
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"The 44th Filmfare Awards were held on February 21, 1999, in Mumbai India.",
" Karan Johar's directorial debut \"Kuch Kuch Hota Hai\" dominated the awards, including a sweep of the major acting categories.",
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" The film stars Shahrukh Khan and Manisha Koirala in lead roles while Preity Zinta (in her film debut) appears in a supporting role.",
" Mani Ratnam also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Tigmanshu Dhulia.",
" It is the third in Ratnam's trilogy of terror films after \"Roja\" and \"Bombay\".",
" An example of parallel cinema tackling difficult subjects, to be found in director Ratnam's wider body of work as well, the film received a special mention at the Netpac Awards."
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"Gaayam (Telugu: గాయం, English:The Wound ) is a 1993 Telugu political thriller film, based on the 1980s Vijayawada Gang Warfare.",
" Directed by Ram Gopal Varma, and story co-written by himself and Mani Ratnam, the film starred Jagapathi Babu, Revathi, and Urmila Matondkar in pivotal roles.",
" Upon its release, the film received positive reviews, with six state Nandi Awards, and recorded as \"Super Hit\" at the box office."
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"Thiruda Thiruda (\"Thief!",
" Thief!\")",
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" had its soundtrack and background score composed by A. R. Rahman while the cinematography was handled by P. C. Sriram.",
" The film opened to positive critical reception, but did not do well at the box office The film achieved cult status over the following years.",
" In 1994, the film premièred at the Toronto International Film Festival."
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"Black Eagle Dam is a hydroelectric gravity weir dam located on the Missouri River in the city of Great Falls, Montana.",
" The first dam on the site, built and opened in 1890, was a timber-and-rock crib dam.",
" This structure was the first hydroelectric dam built in Montana and the first built on the Missouri River.",
" The dam helped give the city of Great Falls the nickname \"The Electric City.\"",
" A second dam, built of concrete in 1926 and opened in 1927, replaced the first dam, which was not removed and lies submerged in the reservoir.",
" Almost unchanged since 1926, the dam is 782 ft long and 34.5 ft high, and its powerhouse contains three turbines capable of generating seven megawatts (MW) of power each.",
" The maximum power output of the dam is 18 MW.",
" Montana Power Company built the second dam, PPL Corporation purchased it in 1997 and sold it to NorthWestern Corporation in 2014.",
" The reservoir behind the dam has no official name, but was called the Long Pool for many years.",
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" It is one of two dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.",
" The dam impounds Wilbur Lake, which extends for about 3 mi up the Watauga to the base of Watauga Dam.",
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" The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in the early 1940s as part of a unified plan to provide electricity and flood control in the Tennessee Valley and create a continuous 652 mi navigable river channel from Knoxville, Tennessee to Paducah, Kentucky.",
" It is the uppermost of nine TVA dams on the Tennessee River.",
" The dam impounds the 14600 acre Fort Loudoun Lake and its tailwaters are part of Watts Bar Lake.",
" The generating capacity of Fort Loudoun Dam is enhanced by the Tellico Reservoir, from which water is diverted via canal to Fort Loudoun Lake."
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"The Jigüey Dam is an arch-gravity dam on the Nizao River about 32 km east of San Cristóbal in San Cristóbal Province of the Dominican Republic.",
" At 110.5 m tall, it is the third highest dam in the country.",
" The purpose of the dam is to produce hydroelectric power and it supplies the largest hydroelectric power station in the country.",
" The dam diverts water through over 4.4 km of headrace pipe and penstock to the power station downstream.",
" The power station contains two 49 MW Francis turbine-generators for an installed capacity of 98 MW.",
" The dam was completed and its power station was commissioned 1992.",
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" It is one of three dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s to bring flood control and electricity to the region.",
" The dam impounds the Hiwassee Lake of 6000 acre , and its tailwaters are part of Apalachia Lake.",
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" The dam is the lowermost of three dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to provide emergency power for aluminum production during World War II.",
" While the dam is in North Carolina, an 8.3 mi underground conduit carries water from the dam's reservoir to the powerhouse located 12 mi downstream across the state line in Polk County, Tennessee."
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"Fontana Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River in Swain and Graham counties, North Carolina, United States.",
" The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to accommodate the skyrocketing electricity demands in the Tennessee Valley at the height of World War II.",
" At 480 ft high, Fontana is the tallest dam in the Eastern United States, and at the time of its construction, it was the fourth tallest dam in the world."
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"The Campos Novos Dam (also known as Barragem de Campos Novos locally) is a hydroelectric dam in the Santa Catarina state in southern Brazil.",
" In 2006, at 200 m dam height, it was regarded as the third highest dam of this type (concrete-faced rock fill dam or CFRD) in the world, but, in June 2006, the water which it held back ran out following a break in the dam wall."
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"Nottely Dam is a hydroelectric and flood storage dam on the Nottely River in Union County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.",
" The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s as a flood control structure and to help regulate flow at nearby Hiwassee Dam.",
" The dam impounds the Lake Nottely of 4180 acre .",
" While the dam was built primarily for flood storage, a generator was installed at Nottely in the 1950s, giving it a small hydroelectric output."
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"Chatuge Dam is a flood control and hydroelectric dam on the Hiwassee River in Clay County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina.",
" The dam is the uppermost of three dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s for flood storage and to provide flow regulation at Hiwassee Dam further downstream.",
" The dam impounds the 7000 acre Chatuge Lake, which straddles the North Carolina-Georgia state line.",
" While originally built solely for flood storage, a generator installed at Chatuge in the 1950s gives the dam a small hydroelectric output."
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"Degraves Street is a pedestrian precinct and thoroughfare in Melbourne, Australia.",
" It is a short, narrow laneway in the Central Business District that runs north-south from Flinders Street to Flinders Lane and is situated in-between Swanston Street and Elizabeth Street.",
" Degraves, as the street is colloquially known, is famous for its alfresco dining options and because it epitomises Melbourne's famous coffee culture and street art scene.",
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"\"Cover on My Heart\" is a pop ballad performed by Guy Sebastian and is the third single from his third album \"Closer to the Sun\".",
" Sebastian announced that this song was the album's third single in April 2007.",
" The single was released on 28 July 2007 in Australia, set by his record label Sony BMG Australia.",
" Sebastian performed the song on various programmes such as \"Sunrise\" and \"Rove Live\"."
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"The discography of Guy Sebastian, an Australian singer-songwriter, consists of eight studio albums, one compilation album, one live album, three EPs and 34 singles, including three as a featured artist and four charity singles.",
" Sebastian won the first series of \"Australian Idol\" in 2003, and gained a record deal with Sony BMG.",
" He has released eight albums which peaked in the top six of the ARIA Charts, including two which reached number one.",
" The first seven achieved either platinum or multi-platinum certification.",
" He has also released twenty one top twenty singles in Australia, with twelve reaching the top ten, including six number ones.",
" Sebastian is the only Australian male artist in Australian chart history to achieve six number-one singles, and is third overall for all Australian acts with only Kylie Minogue and Delta Goodrem having achieved more.",
" He has also reached the top ten of the New Zealand charts with an album and six singles, including two number ones.",
" Sebastian has fifty-two platinum and seven gold certifications in Australia, the highest number for an \"Australian Idol\" contestant. \"",
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" It also reached number 2 in Norway."
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"Jolimont Yard was an array of railway lines and carriage sidings on the edge of the central business district of Melbourne, Australia.",
" Located between Flinders Street Station, Richmond Junction, the Yarra River and Flinders Street they were often criticised for cutting off the city from the river, being the site of many redevelopment proposals.",
" The Princes Gate Towers (Gas and Fuel Buildings) were built over part of the yard in the 1960s, which themselves were replaced by Federation Square in the 1990s.",
" The rail sidings themselves were progressively removed from the 1980s to the 1990s with only running lines today, but the area continues to be referred to as the 'Jolimont railyards' by Melburnians."
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" They were designed by architects Leslie M. Perrott and Partners and constructed in 1967.",
" They were occupied by the Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria, leading to the buildings also being known as the Gas and Fuel Corporation Towers.",
" They were demolished in 1997 to make way for Federation Square, the mixed-use development and public space that now occupies the site."
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" Its local government area are the Cities of Melbourne and Port Phillip.",
" At the 2011 Census, Southbank had a population of 11,235.",
" Its northernmost area is considered part of the Central Business District and Central Activities District of the City.",
" Southbank is bordered to the north by the Yarra River, and to the east by St Kilda Road.",
" Southbank's southern and western borders are bounded by Dorcas Street, Kings Way, the West Gate Freeway and Montague Street."
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"Princes Bridge was a Melbourne railway station built in 1859 and was the terminus for all Epping line and Hurstbridge line trains.",
" The station was named after the adjacent Princes Bridge, which crosses the Yarra River.",
" Originally Princes Bridge station was isolated from Flinders Street Station, even though it was adjacent to it, sited just on the opposite side of Swanston Street.",
" Some years later the railway tracks were extended under the street to join the two stations, and Princes Bridge slowly became amalgamated into the larger Flinders Street Station."
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"Federation Square is a mixed-use development in the inner city of Melbourne, covering an area of and centred on three major public spaces – St. Paul's Court, The Square, and The Atrium.",
" Built on a concrete deck above busy railway lines, it is located at the intersection of Flinders Street and Swanston Street/St Kilda Road in the city's Central Business District, adjacent to Flinders Street railway station."
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"Transport Hotel is located near the south-west corner of Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.",
" Designed by Maddision Architects this contemporary urban precinct was built in 2004 making it the first new pub site in Melbourne in over 50 years.",
" Utilising steel frame structure, re-enforced concrete and glass panelling the open plan interior provides a space for dining.",
" The space enjoys immediate frontage to the busy Swanston Street as well as panoramic views encompassing both the Yarra River Princes Bridge and Flinders Street Station.",
" Melbourne business man Anthony Di Pietro is a former major shareholder, purchasing in 2007 but later selling in 2010."
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"Closer to the Sun is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian, released on 28 October 2006 by Sony BMG Australia.",
" Early news hinted that the album would feature a little bit of rock, soul, funk and pop genres.",
" Some tracks that appear on the album were premiered at the free concert at Federation Square on 27 September 2006.",
" The album debuted at number four on 5 November 2006 and achieved Gold status (shipments in excess of 35,000) in its second week (12 November 2006).",
" It has since been credited Platinum (70,000 units).",
" The album exited the Top 50 Albums Chart on 8 January 2007 and moved outside the Top 100 on 26 February 2007."
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"A Mother's Rage (also entitled Road Trip) is a 2013 television film directed by Oren Kaplan and starring Lori Loughlin, Kristen Dalton and Ted McGinley.",
" The story starts with Rebecca Mayer and her daughter Conner, who is about to start her first day in college, being chased by a carjacker on the road.",
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" Written by Neal and Tippi Dobrofsky, based on characters created by Luke Perry, the film is about a circuit judge who rescues a beautiful woman from a vengeful colonel.",
" Unaware that the woman is a con artist, the judge helps her escape her pursuer, and their journey together takes them to a gambling riverboat, where the judge discovers her true identity, just as the colonel catches up with them.",
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"Angelina Jolie is an American actress and filmmaker.",
" As a child, she made her screen debut in the 1982 comedy film \"Lookin' to Get Out\", acting alongside her father Jon Voight.",
" Eleven years later she appeared in her next feature, the low-budget film \"Cyborg 2\", a commercial failure.",
" She then starred as a teenage hacker in the 1995 science fiction thriller \"Hackers\", which went on to be a cult film despite performing poorly at the box-office.",
" Jolie's career prospects improved with a supporting role in the made-for-television film \"George Wallace\" (1997), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Television Film.",
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"The Republic of Ecuador and the United States of America maintained close ties based on mutual interests in maintaining democratic institutions; combating cannabis and cocaine; building trade, investment, and financial ties; cooperating in fostering Ecuador's economic development; and participating in inter-American organizations.",
" Ties are further strengthened by the presence of an estimated 150,000-200,000 Ecuadorians living in the United States and by 24,000 U.S. citizens visiting Ecuador annually, and by approximately 15,000 U.S. citizens residing in Ecuador.",
" The United States assists Ecuador's economic development directly through the Agency for International Development (USAID) program in Ecuador and through multilateral organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.",
" In addition, the U.S. Peace Corps operates a sizable program in Ecuador.",
" More than 100 U.S. companies are doing business in Ecuador."
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"The Inter-American Peace Force (IAPF) was established, by the Organization of American States, on 23 May 1965, after the United States's intervention in the Dominican Republic.",
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"The Haitian Revolution provoked mixed reactions in the United States.",
" In June 1793 when the Haitian people, led by Toussaint Louverture, overthrew the French colonial rule and declared themselves an independent colony, it made the neighboring United States uneasy.",
" The slaves in Saint-Domingue’s were able to observe the growing disunity among the white colonists and themselves.",
" They realized that they would need to seek an opportunity to stop the tyranny that was being placed upon them, thus they took a stand and revolted.",
" The Haitian Revolution of 1804 impacted the United States of America, led by Thomas Jefferson, instilling fear of racial instability in the US, and the possible problematic effect the revolution could have on the early foreign relations and trade between the US and the new independent Haiti.",
" Thomas Jefferson realized that the Haitian Revolution had the potential to cause an upheaval against slavery in the US not only by the slaves themselves, but by white abolitionists as well.",
" Southern slaveholders feared that the revolt might spread from the island of Hispaniola to the slave plantations of the Southern United States.",
" The primary goal of the US was to maintain social order in the country, so the United States attempted to suppress the Haitian Revolution.",
" The US even went as far as to refuse acknowledgement of Haitian independence until 1862, which was during the heat of the North American civil war; coincidentally the main causal factor for the war between the states was slavery.",
" The second major impact that the Haitian Revolution had on the United States was on early foreign relations and trade that had been conducted with Haiti.",
" The United States had conducted trade and commerce with the Haitian island under French rule during the eighteenth century.",
" Haiti was the main producer of the United States supply of sugar and coffee, and once the Haitian slave population had broken from slavery, the US was reluctant to continue trade with them in fear that they would upset the French and the Southern slaveholders.",
" American merchants conducted a substantial trade with the plantations on Hispaniola (aka the French colony of Saint Domingue or Haiti).",
" But there were anti-slavery advocates in northern cities who believed that consistency with the principles of the American Revolution — life, liberty and equality for all—demanded that the U.S. support the slave insurgents.",
" An extremely beneficial aspect and real estate triumph that resulted from the Haitian Revolution and impacted the United States was the Louisiana Purchase.",
" Once Napoleon had lost his control of the land holding in the Caribbean to the Haitian rebellion, he felt that the French territory in the southern part of the United States was useless to the French Empire.",
" The US was only interested in the New Orleans area; however, the revolution enabled the sale of the entire territory west of the Mississippi River for around $15 million.",
" This purchase more than doubled the United States’ territory."
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"USS \"Phelps\" (DD-360) was a World War II-era \"Porter\"-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy.",
" She was named for Thomas Stowell Phelps, who was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy in 1884.",
" \"Phelps\" was laid down 2 January 1934 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts; launched 18 July 1935; sponsored by Mrs. Richard A. Kearny; and commissioned 26 February 1936, Commander Albert H. Rooks in command.",
" In November 1936 \"Phelps\", along with the cruiser \"Chester\", escorted the heavy cruiser \"Indianapolis\" carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the opening of the Inter-American Peace Conference of 1936.",
" The cruise included good-will visits to Montevideo, Uruguay and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."
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"The illegal drug trade in Haiti involves trans-shipment of cocaine and marijuana to the United States.",
" It is a major shipment route.",
" The island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic places Haiti in an ideal location for drug smuggling between Colombia and Puerto Rico.",
" Because Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth of the United States, shipments are generally not subject to further U.S. Customs inspection after reaching the territory.",
" Cocaine is also often smuggled directly to Miami in freighters."
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"Maj. Gen. George G. Finch became the Senior Leader of the US Air National Guard; (Chief of the Air Division National Guard Bureau) (1948-1950) In June 1953 it was reported that Gen. Mark W. Clark would retire and be replaced by Maj. Gen George G. Finch on the UN command delegation to the Korean armistice talks George G. Finch, born April 11, 1902 in Dade City, Florida, is considered one of the pioneers in United States aviation history.",
" He began his military career during World War 1, enlisting in the Aviation Section of the Army's Signal Corps in 1918.",
" He remained in the Reserve Corps after the war, and in 1926, became Commander, 27th Pursuit Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group.",
" In 1940, Georgia Governor Ed Rivers commissioned him to form the first flying unit of the Georgia Air National Guard.",
" The unit was mobilized into the U.S. Army in September, 1941, with Major Finch as commander.",
" After World War II, he was a leading critic of efforts to eliminate the air arm of the National Guard during peacetime.",
" General Finch gained the respect and admiration of Air National Guardsmen throughout the nation with his steadfast support and successful efforts to preserve the Air Guard.",
" He became the first Chief of the Air Force Division of the National Guard Bureau in 1948.",
" Under his leadership, the Air National Guard built to combat readiness and was among the first components called into service after the outbreak of the Korean War.",
" As a result of General Finch's vision and perseverance, 45,000 highly trained officers and airmen of 22 wings and 65 squadrons gave the Air Force the strength it needed in the early, critical phases of the Communist drive down the Korean peninsula.General Finch served as the senior Air Force member of the United Nations negotiating team at the peace talks at Panmunjom, Korea, and received the Legion of Merit for outstanding service in 1955; General Finch assumed command of Fourteenth Air Force, Robins AFB, Georgia, becoming the nation's first Air National Guardsman to head a numbered air force.",
" General Finch had a career of \"firsts\" including the US Army's first night landing with a single, five-million-candlepower floodlight in 1927.",
" He also established and endowed the General John P. McConnell Award at the United States Air Force Academy.",
" Considered by many as the father of the strong, independent Air National Guard existing today, General Finch retired in 1957.",
" No man has had greater impact on the Air Force Reserve and National Guard than has General George G. Finch.A graduate of the University of Georgia and a member of the Georgia Bar, General Finch was enshrined in the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame May 18, 1996."
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"The Dominican Republic (Spanish: \"República Dominicana\" ] ) is a country located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.",
" It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that are shared by two countries.",
" The Dominican Republic is the second-largest Caribbean nation by area (after Cuba) at 48445 km2 , and third by population with approximately 10 million people, of which approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city."
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"Carmen Helena Téllez (b. Caracas, Venezuela, 25 September 1955) is a Venezuelan-American music conductor.",
" Reviewed as\" \"a quiet force behind contemporary music in the United States today” \"(www.Sequenza21.com), she has concentrated her career on the exploration of the relationship of music with other arts through her performances of contemporary works for chorus, orchestra and new opera.",
" She has conducted in the United States, Europe, Israel and Latin America.",
" After her tenure as Music Director of the National Chorus of Spain, she joined the music faculty at Indiana University in 1992, as Director of the Latin American Music Center and the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble.",
" For these organizations, she has commissioned and recorded several new works, and has founded the Inter-American Composition Workshops.",
" During the 2001-2002 period, she was the Resident Conductor of the pioneering Contemporary Chamber Players of Chicago and became the Music Director of the Pocket Opera Players in New York City."
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"The Caribbean Peace Force (CPF), also known as the Eastern Caribbean Peace Force (ECPF), was an OECS mandated 350-member peacekeeping force operating in Grenada, from October 1983 to June 1985, after the Invasion of Grenada, codenamed \"Operation Urgent Fury\", by the United States of America and several other nations in response to the illegal deposition and execution of Grenadan Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.",
" On October 25, 1983, the United States, Barbados, Jamaica and members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States landed ships on Grenada, defeated Grenadian and Cuban resistance and overthrew the military government of Hudson Austin."
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"Agustina Casas Seré Leguizamon (born June 23, 1984) is an international award-winning digital artist.",
" Her digital art collection \"Ensueños Rioplatenses\" was declared a \"National Work of Tourist Interest\" by the government of Uruguay, the highest artistic honor awarded by that nation (analogous to the prestigious United States National Medal of Arts).",
" Casas was also officially declared a \"Young Leader in Latin America\" by the Washington, D.C.-based Inter-American Development Bank (IBD).",
" Casas was named by the Museum of the Americas as \"one of the most influential artists of 2015,\" and she was permanently admitted to its 100 Certified Artists Organization.",
" Casas' work has been exhibited across the globe, including as part of Google's Project for New Media in New York and in private commissions and exhibitions by Fortune 500 companies, such as Fiat (2013) and Goodyear (2014)."
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"Ottis Elwood Toole (March 5, 1947 – September 15, 1996) was an American drifter and serial killer who was convicted of six counts of murder.",
" Like his companion Henry Lee Lucas, Toole made confessions he later recanted, but which resulted in murder convictions.",
" The discrediting of the case against Lucas for crimes in which Toole had offered corroborating statements created doubts as to whether either was a genuine serial killer or, as Hugh Aynesworth suggested, both were merely compliant interviewees whom police used to clear unsolved murders from the books.",
" Toole received two death sentences, but on appeal they were commuted to life imprisonment.",
" He died in his cell from cirrhosis, aged 49.",
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" It documents the lives of sixty Canadian serial killers, with the earliest being Edward H. Rulloff and the most recent being Russell Williams.",
" The book uses Katherine Ramsland's interpretation of what constitutes a serial killer—someone who has killed at least two people on two separate occasions, and who attempted to or likely would have killed again—as outlined in her 2007 book \"The Human Predator\".",
" \"Cold North Killer's\" own definition of what constitutes a Canadian serial killer includes both Canadians who committed murder abroad (such as Keith Hunter Jesperson and Gordon Stewart Northcott) and non-Canadians who committed murder in Canada (like William Dean Christenson and Earle Nelson)."
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" The film is about a quiet and unambitious owner of a tropical fish shop whose life and family are taken over by a fellow fish entrepreneur who happens to be a serial killer.",
" The film is loosely based on the exploits of two Tokyo serial killers, Sekine Gen and Hiroko Kazama, a husband and wife duo who owned a pet shop and murdered at least four people."
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"Futoshi Matsunaga (松永 太 , Matsunaga Futoshi , born April 28, 1961) is a Japanese serial killer who both defrauded and tortured his victims in what is publicly known as the Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident (北九州連続殺人事件 ).",
" He was convicted of six counts of murder and one count of manslaughter between 1996 and 1998 and sentenced to die by hanging.",
" He murdered his victims with an accomplice, Junko Ogata, who received a life sentence."
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" There are gaps of time between the killings, which may range from a few hours to many years.",
" This list shows serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims.",
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"Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born 23 November 1945) is a Scottish serial killer and necrophiliac, also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly Killer, who murdered at least 12 young men in a series of killings committed between 1978 and 1983 in London, England.",
" Convicted of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder at the Old Bailey, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years.",
" He is currently incarcerated at HMP Full Sutton maximum security prison in Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England."
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"Serial Killers Ink is a website dedicated to selling \"murderabilia\" (collectibles related to murders, murderers or other violent crimes) and serial killer art, interviewing convicted serial killers and also serves as a meeting place for those interested or involved in the murderabilia industry."
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"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film directed and co-written by John McNaughton about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity.",
" It stars Michael Rooker as the nomadic killer Henry, Tom Towles as Otis, a prison buddy with whom Henry is living, and Tracy Arnold as Becky, Otis's sister.",
" The characters of Henry and Otis are loosely based on real life serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole."
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"The Swedish invasion of the Holy Roman Empire, or the Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years' War is a historically accepted division of the Thirty Years' War.",
" It was a military conflict that took place between 1630 and 1635, during the course of the Thirty Years' War.",
" It was a major turning point of the war, as during this time, the Protestant cause, previously on the verge of defeat, won several major victories and snatched victory away from the Habsburg-Catholic coalition.",
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"The Last Valley (1959), by J. B. Pick, is an historical novel about the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).",
" The story occurs from September 1637 to March 1638, and centres on two men – a mercenary soldier and an intellectual – who are fleeing the destruction and starvation wrought by religious war.",
" In southern Germany, each man stumbles upon a fertile valley untouched by the war.",
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" The dispute culminated after several battles in the final Battle of White Mountain, where the estates suffered a decisive defeat.",
" This started re-Catholisation of the Czech lands, but also triggered the Thirty Years' War, which spread to the rest of Europe and devastated vast areas of central Europe, including the Czech lands."
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" Her courses include Comparative Ethnic and Religious Conflict, Democracy in South Asia, Global Social Movements, Women in International Security, and Conflict Analysis and Resolution.",
" Bandarage specializes in international development, political economy, women and gender studies, multiculturalism, conflict analysis and resolution, peace and security, South Asia, Sri Lanka, population and ecology."
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" Döblin's approach to narrating the war differed from prevailing historiography in that, rather than interpreting the Thirty Years War primarily as a religious conflict, he portrays it critically as the absurd consequence of a combination of national-political, financial, and individual psychological factors.",
" Döblin saw a strong similarity between the Thirty Years War and the First World War, during which he wrote \"Wallenstein\".",
" The novel is counted among the most innovative and significant historical novels in the German literary tradition.",
" In large part, contemporary critics found the novel to be difficult, dense, and chaotic—a reception Döblin discussed in his 1921 essay \"The Epic Writer, His Material, and Criticism\"—yet writers such as Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Blei, and Herbert Ihering praised \"Wallenstein\" for its formal innovation, poetic language, epic scope, and bold departure from other German writing of the time.",
" Despite the novel's difficulty, the critical consensus was that \"Wallenstein\" was a major achievement and confirmed the promise seen in Döblin's earlier historical novel, \"The Three Leaps of Wang Lun\"."
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"The Bishops' Wars (Latin: \"Bellum Episcopale\" ) were conflicts, both political and military, which occurred in 1639 and 1640 centred on the nature of the governance of the Church of Scotland, and the rights and powers of the Crown.",
" They constitute part of a larger political conflict across Scotland, England and Ireland, and are often considered a prelude to the English Civil Wars.",
" They were so named due to the central conflict between Charles I, who favoured an episcopal system of church government for Scotland (that is, with bishops), and the desire of much of the polity of Scotland for a presbyterian system of governance (without bishops)."
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"The Bündner Wirren (Romansh: \"Scumbigls grischuns/Scumpigls grischuns/Sgurdins grischuns\" , French: \"Troubles des Grisons\" , Italian: \"Torbidi grigionesi\" , English: \"Confusion of Graubünden\" or \"Confusion of the Leagues\") was a conflict that lasted between 1618 and 1639 in what is now the Swiss canton of Graubünden.",
" The Bündner Wirren was a conflict between the alliance of France and Venice against the Spanish-Austrian Habsburg Monarchy over control of the alpine passes and religion as part of the larger Thirty Years War.",
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" It took place in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648 and resulted in eight million casualties."
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"Mariam Stepanyan (born 22 September 1989) is an Armenian professional footballer.",
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"Karl Brill was an American football player.",
" He played at the tackle position for the Harvard Crimson football team in 1904 and 1905 and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1905.",
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" He said, \"I came to Harvard to get a degree as a mining engineer.",
" For the last two years 'Varsity football has played havoc with my studies.",
" Already I have been forced to drop work in my freshman and sophomore years.",
" If I play football again it means that I shall fail to get my degree in four years, and I cannot afford a fifth.",
" It's either play football and fail to get a degree or abandon the gridiron and get a degree.\"",
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"Indoor soccer, or arena soccer (known internationally as indoor football, minifootball, fast football, floorball or showball), is a game derived from association football adapted for play in a walled indoor arena.",
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" In those countries, areas such as hockey rinks or basketball courts are adapted for indoor soccer play.",
" In other countries the game is played in either indoor or outdoor arenas surrounded by walls, and is referred to by different names (such as \"fast football\" (futbol rapido) in Mexico, \"showbol\" in South America, and \"indoor football\" (futbol indoor) in Spain)."
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"George Eardley Gibson (29 August 1912 – 30 December 1990) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left.",
" Gibson was an early pioneer of British overseas footballers, playing in the French Ligue 1 in the inter-war years.",
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"Pongpisuth Pue-on is a retired Thai football player who played as a striker.",
" He father name is Piyapong Pue-on and mother name is Somkid Pue-on.",
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" He started play football since 9 years.",
" He studied at the Bangkok Christian College and Suankularb Wittayalai School until Mattayom 4 and get quota of Football Association of Thailand and Adidas give to studied at Middle Bocollage in England for 3 years.",
" and comeback Thailand in 2004."
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"Robert Bruce \"Bob\" Adams (born August 15, 1946) is a former professional American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL) and a spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International.",
" He attended El Camino High School during the 1960s, and was encouraged by a coach at the College of San Mateo to play football.",
" He played for a single season at the college, during 1966, while participating in other sports at the school including track-and-field and basketball.",
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"FA Thailand High Performance Training Center (Thai: ศูนย์ฝึกกีฬาฟุตบอลเยาวชนแห่งชาติ ), is the Football Association of Thailand national football centre based in Bangkokthonburi University, Thawi Watthana, Thailand.",
" It was launched by the Football Association of Thailand on 4 April 2017 with the aim of developing Thailand's most promising young footballers.",
" The goal for Football Association of Thailand is to create an ideal football player from the youth level to gain and understanding of how to play in the truth way, have the mind, knowledge, physical basis, the ability to fight with the Asian team and then to move on to world class in 2026.",
" Football Association of Thailand significant partnerships with three partner organizations include Ekkono Method Soccer Services, Bangkokthonburi University and Police General Hospital.",
" Ekkono Method Soccer Services a football coaches from Barcelona are will take charge of the technique and create the concept of play football in the style of \"Thailand's Way\" to the youth footballer idealist of the Football Association of Thailand along with sending the Spanish coaches to oversee the four youth teams (U14, U16, U19 and U21)."
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"Wesley Theodore \"Moose\" Englehorn (January 21, 1890 – September 3, 1993) was an American football player and coach.",
" Born in Helena, Montana, Englehorn first gained fame as a football player for Spokane High School.",
" While he was a junior in high school, he was reportedly recruited by Princeton University to come east to play football for the school.",
" A newspaper account in 1907 reported: \"It is expected that Wesley Englehorn, the giant left tackle of the high school team, will also enter the Eastern college.",
" If this materializes the Spokane high school will be weakened next year by the loss of two of its greatest players.",
" ... Englehorn is also a strong basket ball player and track athlete.\"",
" Englehorn did not enroll at Princeton and instead played for two years on the All Star Pacific Northwest football and basketball teams.",
" He began his collegiate career at Washington State College.",
" After playing one year of football at Washington State, Englehorn enrolled at Dartmouth College, where he played two years at the tackle position.",
" He was elected team captain for the 1913 season, but he was declared ineligible under \"the so-called three-year rule\" because of his year at Washington State.",
" Though ineligible to play, Englehorn served as the team's assistant coach in 1913 and was elected class president.",
" He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1912.",
" He graduated from Dartmouth in 1914 and worked as a football coach for several years thereafter.",
" From 1914 to 1916, he was the football coach at Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio.",
" In 1917, he was hired as the line coach and first assistant football coach at Colgate University.",
" In 1920, he was an assistant coach under Frank Cavanaugh at Boston College.",
" In 1921, he was hired as the head football coach at Amherst College.",
" In January 1922, Englehorn announced his retirement from coaching.",
" Shortly before his death at age 103, Englehorn said, \"It's the football I remember best ... the teammates .",
".",
" the teamwork.\"",
" Prior to his death in 1993, he was living at Stapeley Hall, a home for the elderly in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the oldest living All-American football player."
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" Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din) is a 1963 Egyptian war drama film directed by Youssef Chahine.",
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" It stars Ahmed Mazhar as Saladin, Salah Zulfikar, Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Tewfik El Dekn, Omar El-Hariri, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, , Hamdi Gheiss, Ahmed Luxor, Nadia Lutfi, Hussein Riad, Laila Taher and Zaki Toleimat.",
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" It was the longest film ever released until 2011.",
" Composed over 28 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,987 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time.",
" Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley.",
" Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar.",
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" The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010."
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" Born March 28, 1958 in Baghdad, Khairiya studied there from 1976 to 1980 at the Academy of Arts, and in Cairo at the Higher Film Institute in 1987.",
" She was an assistant director to well-known Iraqi and Egyptian directors such as Salah Abu Seif, Tewfik Saleh, and Youssef Chahine.",
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"Tim Canterbury is a main character in the BBC sitcom \"The Office\", portrayed by Martin Freeman.",
" He is a 30-year-old sales representative for paper merchants Wernham Hogg.",
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"Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series.",
" Her first book, \"Murder with Peacocks\" (1999), introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia.",
" It won the St. Martin's Minotaur Best First Traditional Mystery contest, the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice awards for best first novel, and the Lefty award for funniest mystery of 1999.",
" The first novel in the Turing Hopper series (\"You've Got Murder\", 2002) debuted a highly unusual sleuth—an Artificial Intelligence (AI) personality who becomes sentient—and won the Agatha Award for best mystery that year."
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"Jamie Freeman is a singer, songwriter, musician and producer who fronts The Jamie Freeman Agreement.",
" He is the brother of the actor Martin Freeman (\"The Hobbit\", \"Sherlock\", \"The Office\") and the musician Tim Freeman (Frazier Chorus).",
" He and his wife Stevie co-founded Union Music Store in Lewes, East Sussex.",
" He is a member of the Americana Music Association (Nashville) and Americana Music Association UK."
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"Martin John Christopher Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English actor, who became known for portraying Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary \"The Office\", Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama \"Sherlock\", Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's \"The Hobbit\" film trilogy, and Lester Nygaard in the dark comedy-crime drama TV series \"Fargo\"."
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"The Good Night is a 2007 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jake Paltrow.",
" The film stars his sister Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Danny DeVito, Simon Pegg and others.",
" The movie takes place in London and New York City, where a former pop star (Freeman) who now writes commercial jingles for a living experiences a mid-life crisis."
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"The Office is a British mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001.",
" Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictitious Wernham Hogg Paper Company.",
" Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character, David Brent."
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"Keith Freeman (born December 11, 1963) is an assistant coach of the women's basketball team at Wright State University.",
" He is the former women's basketball program head coach at Valparaiso University.",
" Freeman, the sixth head coach in the history of the Valparaiso University Crusader women’s basketball program, was hired as the head coach before the 1994–1995 season.",
" Freeman also served as the head women's basketball coach at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana, from 1990–1994, and was the Great Lakes Valley Coach of the Year in 1992.",
" Prior his tenure at Saint Joseph's, Freeman was the head men's basketball coach at Huntington (Ind.) College from 1985 to 1989.",
" Freeman took over the Huntington program at age 21, making him one of the youngest college coaches in the nation.",
" Freeman began coaching at the age of 19 when he was named the head women's basketball coach at Huntington, serving from 1983 to 1985."
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"Boy Meets Girl is an ITV comedy-drama television miniseries starring Rachael Stirling and Martin Freeman.",
" In the show, Danny Reed (Freeman) is struck by lightning.",
" When he wakes up from the attack, he is inside the body of a woman, fashion journalist Veronica Burton (Stirling).",
" Written by David Allison, the series began on 1 May 2009."
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"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic high fantasy action film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro.",
" It is the third and final installment in Peter Jackson's three-part film adaptation based on the novel \"The Hobbit\" by J. R. R. Tolkien, following \"\" (2012) and \"\" (2013), and together they act as a prequel to Jackson's \"The Lord of the Rings\" film trilogy.",
" It was produced by New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and WingNut Films, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.",
" \"The Battle of the Five Armies\" was released on 11 December 2014 in New Zealand, 12 December 2014 in the United Kingdom, and on 17 December 2014 in the United States.",
" It stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ken Stott, and James Nesbitt.",
" It also features Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, and Orlando Bloom.",
" The film received mixed reviews and grossed over $956 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of 2014 and the 38th highest-grossing film of all time.",
" At the 87th Academy Awards, the film received a nomination for Best Sound Editing."
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"Shaykh Haydar or Sheikh Haydar (Persian: شیخ حیدر \"Shaikh Ḥaidar\"; b. 1459, Amed - d. 9 July 1488, Tabasaran) was the successor of his father (Shaykh Junayd) as leader of the Safaviyya from 1460-1488.",
" Haydar maintained the policies and political ambitions initiated by his father.",
" Under Sheikh Haydar, the Safaviyya became crystallized as a political movement with an increasingly extremist heterodox Twelver Shi'i coloring and Haydar was viewed as a divine figure by his followers.",
" Shaykh Haydar was responsible for instructing his followers to adopt the scarlet headgear of 12 gores commemorating The Twelve Imams, which led to them being designated by the Turkish term Qizilbash \"Red Head\"."
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"The Chullachaki (Quechua, \"one-footed\", from \"chulla\" or \"ch'ulla\" = single, odd, unpaired, asymmetric, \"chaki\" = foot; spelling sometimes also used in Spanish) or Chullachaqui (hispanicized spelling), also known as the Shapishico, is a mythical forest creature of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazonian jungle."
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"The Nariphon (Thai: นารีผล ), also known as Makkaliphon (Thai: มักกะลีผล , from Pali \"makkaliphala\"), is a tree in Buddhist mythology which bears fruit in the shape of young female creatures.",
" The maidens grow attached by their head from the tree branches.",
" This tree grows at the Himaphan, a mythical forest where the female fruits are enjoyed by the Gandharvas who cut the fruits and take them away."
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"The skogsrå , (Forest Rå), \"Skogsfrun\" (The Mistress of the Forest), \"Skogssnuvan\", \"Skogsnymfen\" (Forest Nymph), \"Råndan\" (the Rå) or \"huldra\", was a mythical creature of the forest, or Rå, in Swedish folklore."
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"Silili is a divine figure mentioned in Tablet VI of the Epic of Gilgamesh.",
" Gilgamesh objects to the unwanted attractions of the goddess Ishtar, enumerating the previous lovers of Ishtar, and the misfortunes which befell them.",
" He claims that Ishtar once loved the horse, but ultimately decreed a number of misfortunes for him, including the continuous wailing of \"his mother, Silili\".",
" Because Silili is only mentioned in passing, there is little to say of her character, other than she is a female divine figure closely associated with the horse."
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"Cura is the name of a divine figure whose name means \"Care\" or \"Concern\" in Latin.",
" Hyginus seems to have created both the personification and story for his \"Fabulae\", poem 220."
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"In Etruscan religion and myth, Thalna was a divine figure usually regarded as a goddess of childbirth.",
" Determinate gender, however, is not necessarily a characteristic of Etruscan deities, and Thalna is also either depicted as male, or seems to be identified as a male figure because of the placement of names around a scene.",
" Her other functions include friendship and prophecy.",
" Her name may mean \"growth, bloom.\"",
" She appears in Etruscan art in the company of Turan, Tinia, and Menrva."
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"The almaz (Chechen: \"almaz\" or \"hun-sag\"; Adyghe: \"almesti\"), roughly translated as various \"feral forest-man\" or \"stone spirit\", is a mythical beast that is considered to be an evil forest creature with magical powers residing in its hair that exists in Chechen and Ingush folk beliefs and Circassian folk beliefs.",
" The first \"attestation\" of it in writing was by a Bavarian captive of the Mongols, but it is present in the national folklore of Chechens and Ingush and of Circassians.",
" The male almaz is said to be hairy and hideous, and have an axe embedded in its chest, while the female is very beautiful with large breasts and golden hair, and has a \"favorite pastime\" of dancing naked at night under the moon.",
" The almaz is said to have magical powers residing in its hair, but if the hair is removed or even grabbed, it may be rendered helpless.",
" It has been theoried by some to have arisen under Mongolian influence, either during the Mongol invasions of Dzurdzuketia or the intervening period where the northern Dzurdzuk state of Simsir was subjugated to the Mongol-controlled Golden Horde.",
" The word \"almaz\" is a loan from Mongolian where it originally meant \"forest man\".",
" Amjad Jaimoukha however suggested that the name \"almaz\" may have started to have been used by North Caucasians for an already existent native concept during the sojourn of the Golden Horde of Simsir."
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"Oceanus ( ; Greek: Ὠκεανός \"Ōkeanós\", ] ), also known as Ogenus (\"Ogenos\", Ωγηνος) or Ogen (Ωγην), was a divine figure in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of the sea, an enormous river encircling the world."
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"A hulder is a seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore.",
" (Her name derives from a root meaning \"covered\" or \"secret\".)",
" In Norwegian folklore, she is known as huldra (\"the [archetypal] hulder\", though folklore presupposes that there is an entire Hulder race and not just a single individual).",
" She is known as the skogsrå \"forest spirit\" or Tallemaja \"pine tree Mary\" in Swedish folklore, and ulda in Sámi folklore.",
" Her name suggests that she is originally the same being as the völva divine figure Huld and the German Holda."
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"The Ateneo de Davao University is a private teaching, service and research university run by the Society of Jesus in Davao City in the Philippines.",
" It is also known by the acronym AdDU.",
" It was established in 1948, and is the seventh Ateneo opened by the Jesuits in the Philippines.",
" The university has five undergraduate schools, namely the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Business and Governance, School of Engineering and Architecture, School of Education and the School of Nursing.",
" The graduate programs are under these units as well.",
" The College of Law is a separate unit within the university.",
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"The Ateneo de Iloilo – Santa Maria Catholic School (AdI–SMCS), (), is a private, Catholic, Chinese Filipino preparatory school run by the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus in Iloilo City, Philippines.",
" Ateneo de Iloilo began in 1958 as a parochial school named Santa Maria Catholic School.",
" In 2004, the school was officially recognized as a Jesuit school separate from the parish and was renamed Ateneo de Iloilo - Santa Maria Catholic School.",
" It is the eighth Jesuit school in the Philippines to be named Ateneo.",
" Ateneo de Iloilo is a K-12 school and its curriculum includes a Chinese language program."
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"The Ateneo de Tuguegarao was a Catholic college in Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Philippines run by the Society of Jesus.",
" It was established in 1945 when the Jesuits took over the administration of the diocesan secondary school, \"Cagayan Valley Atheneum\".",
" The Jesuits renamed the school Ateneo de Tuguegarao after taking control.",
" Ateneo de Tuguegarao had a high school and college departments.",
" It was the fifth Ateneo that the Jesuits established in the Philippines.",
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"The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as The University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.",
" The Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses are approximately 3 mi apart, and the Saint Paul campus is actually in neighboring Falcon Heights.",
" It is the oldest and largest campus within the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 51,147 students in 2013–14.",
" The university is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota system, and is organized into 19 colleges and schools, with sister campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester."
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"Lex Talionis Fraternitas, Inc.",
" Sodalitas Ducum Futurorum is an exclusive fraternal organization of Filipino jurists, legal practitioners and law students founded on September 29, 1969 at the San Beda College of Law.",
" A chapter in the Ateneo de Davao University School of Law was established in 1974.",
" In 1983, the Securities and Exchange Commission granted the incorporation of the fraternity."
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"Joel E. Tabora (born September 26, 1947, Manila, Philippines) is a Jesuit priest and the president of Ateneo de Davao University.",
" He demonstrated a commitment to \"whole person formation\", social justice and spirituality."
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"Ryan Joseph Ramos Rizada, better known as R.J. Rizada, (born October 5, 1982 in Davao) is a Filipino former professional basketball player who played in the Philippine Basketball Association.",
" He was the twelfth overall pick in the 2006 PBA Draft.",
" He played for the Ateneo de Davao Blue Knights for a year and was recruited by the Far Eastern University Tamaraws after he was scouted in the University games."
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"The Ateneo de Manila University Law School (often referred to as Ateneo Law School) is the law school of the Ateneo de Manila University, a private Jesuit university in the Philippines.",
" It was founded in 1936, in the Padre Faura St., Ermita, Manila campus of the Ateneo, where it remained even after the college, graduate school, and basic education units moved to Loyola Heights, Quezon City in the 1950s.",
" In 1977, it moved to Salcedo Village in Makati, and in 1998, transferred to its present location in Makati's Rockwell Center.",
" Its current Dean is alumnus Sedfrey Candelaria who succeeded Cesar L. Villanueva.",
" Its patron saint is Thomas More."
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"He was born in Iloilo but spent most of his life in Davao.",
" He went to school at the Davao City High School and graduated in 1955.",
" He earned his BA English degree at the Ateneo de Davao University where he graduated cum laude in 1959.",
" He later received his MA in English from Xavier University in 1970 and went on to receive his PhD in English and Literature with a specialization in creative writing from Silliman University in 1981 where he later on served as professor and chairperson of the English Department."
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"The Ateneo de Manila University (Filipino: \"Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila;\" Spanish:\" Universidad Ateneo de Manila\") is a private research university in Quezon City, Philippines.",
" Founded in 1859 by the Society of Jesus, the Ateneo is the third-oldest university in the Philippines.",
" Ateneo offers elementary and secondary education exclusively to male students (and has recently opened the Senior High School to girls).",
" The undergraduate and graduate programmes are coeducational and organized into four schools, collectively known as the Loyola Schools, which are located at its main campus at Loyola Heights.",
" Four professional schools occupy campuses in different parts of Metro Manila."
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5ab69a17554299710c8d1ee0 | Afghan Hound and Rhodesian Ridgeback, are a type of which animal? | dog | comparison | easy | {
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"The Phu Quoc Ridgeback is a breed of dog from Phú Quốc Island in Vietnam's southern Kiên Giang Province.",
" The Phu Quoc Ridgeback is one of only three breeds that has a ridge of hair that runs along its back in the opposite direction from the rest of the coat (the others are Rhodesian Ridgeback and Thai Ridgeback).",
" The Phu Quoc is the smallest of the three ridgeback breeds."
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"Maris Soule (born June 19, 1939) is an American author of romance and romantic suspense novels, mysteries, and short stories.",
" Her latest book, \"Eat Crow and Die\", is a mystery novel.",
" Her books feature a variety of settings and situations, including the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Search and Rescue dogs, barrel racing, dressage, and a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy."
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"Bakhmull is an Aboriginal Afghan Hound belonging to an ancient group of oriental sighthounds.",
" The Afghan Royal Family were the only humans who possessed this breed.",
" The bakhmull tazi (tazi means \" fast running sighthound\" ) is a long haired variety of sighthounds in Afghanistan.",
" There are two more: Luchak tazi short haired like sloughi and Khalagh tazi with moderate long hair on ears, shoulders, elbows and thighs.Bakhmull tazi has developed in the mountain areas of Mid and Central Asia - ancient Punjab, Paunchala, \"Five river land\".",
" This dog breed roots back presumably in the ancient Indian Harappa( Mohenjo Daro) civilization 2300 - 1700 B.C.",
" If translated from Pashto (Afghan) the word \"bakhmull\" means \"velvet\" due to its incredible silky velvet, long, ivory color hair of the coat, rather abundant and long on the whole body, because it is a mountain oriental sighthound, except the \"saddle\", front parts of four legs and the muzzle.",
" Its color is always fawn, ivory or white with a darker \"saddle\", thus it produces an impression of a fawn (yellowish) dog which coat color is protective khaki that matches sandstone and limestone of the Hindu Kush mountain landscape and deserts.",
" Following colors are not permissible: red, red with white spots, black and black with white spots.",
" Bakhmulls hunt the wild ram, ibex (wild mountain goat), hare, fox, wolf, jackal, wild big cats, in old times leopard, but never birds.",
" They are also good guards; they guard homes and flocks of sheep.",
" They hunt solo, in couples and rarely in packs.",
" Since the 1980s the centre of Bakhmull breeding is in Russia, \"The Blue Dale el Bark Bakhmull\" Moscow, where they are spread all over the former Soviet Republics and various regions.",
" The foundation stock was brought to Russia in the 70s by military men from Afghanistan.",
" Breed Standard for tazi BAKHMULL (aboriginal Afghan Hound) was adopted in Moscow, Russia (since Russia has become the 2nd motherland of bakhmulls) first in 1985 and later after detailed elaboration in 1997 (RFOS-RKF)."
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"The Thai Ridgeback (Thai: ไทยหลังอาน , rtgs: Thai Lang-An ) is an ancient landrace of dog, recently established also as a standardized breed.",
" The breed was formerly unknown outside of Thailand, but is gaining notice in the Western world.",
" They are also known as a Mah Thai Lang Ahn.",
" The Thai Ridgeback is one of only three breeds that has a ridge of hair that runs along its back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat.",
" The other two are the Rhodesian Ridgeback and the Phu Quoc Ridgeback."
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"Snuppy (Korean: 스너피 a portmanteau of \"SNU\" and \"puppy\"; born April 24, 2005) is an Afghan hound, credited with being the world's first cloned dog.",
" The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only three produced pups (Snuppy being the sole survivor).",
" Department of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University for cloning Snuppy was led by Woo Suk Hwang.",
" Snuppy has since been used in the first known successful breeding between cloned canines, after his sperm was used to artificially inseminate two cloned females, which resulted in the birth of 10 puppies in 2008."
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"Phyllis McCarthy (12 March 1903 Johannesburg – 16 February 1986 Johannesburg) was a noted South African breeder of and authority on Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs.",
" She established the Glenaholm Kennels in 1949 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, played a seminal role in the Ridgeback community and produced a long line of Ridgebacks featuring prominently in the ancestry of almost all modern members of the breed."
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"\"Mongrels\", formerly known under the working titles of \"We Are Mongrels\" and \"The Un-Natural World\", is a British puppet-based situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 August 2010, with a making-of documentary entitled \"Mongrels Uncovered\" broadcast on 11 August 2010.",
" The series revolves around the lives of five anthropomorphic animals who hang around the back of a pub in the Isle of Dogs, London.",
" The characters are Nelson, a metrosexual fox (voiced by Rufus Jones, performed by Andy Heath); Destiny, an Afghan hound (voiced by Lucy Montgomery, performed by Richard Coombs); Marion, a \"borderline-retarded\" cat (voiced by Dan Tetsell, performed by Warrick Brownlow-Pike); Kali, a grudge-bearing pigeon (voiced by Katy Brand, performed by Iestyn Evans); and Vince, a sociopathic foul-mouthed fox (voiced by Paul Kaye, performed by various puppeteers)."
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"The Afghan Hound is a hound that is distinguished by its thick, fine, silky coat and its tail with a ring curl at the end.",
" The breed was selectively bred for its unique features in the cold mountains of Afghanistan.",
" Its local name is Tāžī Spay (Pashto: تاژي سپی ) or Sag-e Tāzī (Dari Persian: سگ تازی).",
" Other names for this breed are \"Kuchi Hound\", \"Tāzī\", \"Balkh Hound\", \"Baluchi Hound\", \"Barakzai Hound\", \"Shalgar Hound\", \"Kabul Hound\", \"Galanday Hound\" or sometimes incorrectly \"African Hound\"."
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"The Rhodesian ridgeback is a dog breed developed in South Africa.",
" Its European forebears can be traced to the early pioneers of the Cape Colony of southern Africa, who crossed their dogs with the semi-domesticated, ridged hunting dogs of the Khoikhoi."
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"Canine degenerative myelopathy, also known as chronic degenerative radiculomyelopathy, is an incurable, progressive disease of the canine spinal cord that is similar in many ways to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).",
" Onset is typically after the age of 7 years and it is seen most frequently in the German shepherd dog, Pembroke Welsh corgi, and boxer dog, though the disorder is strongly associated with a gene mutation in SOD1 that has been found in 43 breeds as of 2008, including the wire fox terrier, Chesapeake Bay retriever, Rhodesian ridgeback, and Cardigan Welsh corgi.",
" Progressive weakness and incoordination of the rear limbs are often the first signs seen in affected dogs, with progression over time to complete paralysis.",
" Myelin is an insulating sheath around neurons in the spinal cord.",
" One proposed cause of degenerative myelopathy is that the immune system attacks this sheath, breaking it down.",
" This results in a loss of communication between nerves in lower body of the animal and the brain."
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"Expeller pressing (also called oil pressing) is a mechanical method for extracting oil from raw materials trademarked by Anderson International Corp.",
" Mr. Valerius D. Anderson founded the V. D. Anderson Company in Cleveland, Ohio in 1888.",
" In 1900, Mr. V. D. Anderson created the first successful continuously operated Expeller press.",
" The raw materials are squeezed under high pressure in a single step.",
" When used for the extraction of food oils, typical raw materials are nuts, seeds and algae, which are supplied to the press in a continuous feed.",
" As the raw material is pressed, friction causes it to heat up; in the case of harder nuts (which require higher pressures) the material can exceed temperatures of 120 F ."
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"The Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival is an annual event held at the Balboa Yacht Club in Newport Beach, California.",
" The festival celebrates wooden boats of all sizes including wooden canoes, kayaks, and dinghies, as well as yachts and tall ships."
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"Shide railway station, was an intermediate station at Shide on the southern fringes of Newport situated near Shide Chalk Pits on the line from Newport to Sandown incorporated by the Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway in 1868, opened in 1875 and closed 81 years later.",
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"The Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival takes place in June in Middlewich, Cheshire, England.",
" The festival builds on the town's industrial heritage in which canal boats were used to move coal and other raw materials in the town for the production of salt, and then move the salt out of town, either for use directly, or as a raw material in the manufacture of chemicals such as chlorine and soda ash."
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"The foreign debt of the Socialist Republic of Romania were loans made by Socialist Republic of Romania under Nicolae Ceaușescu from international creditors denominated in hard currencies.",
" These loans were used to buy technology, equipment and raw materials needed for the industrialization of the country."
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"Lethbridge Dragon Boat Festival is a dragon boat festival held annually in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.",
" The festival, held every July since 2002 at Henderson Park, attracts over 60 teams from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana consisting of over 1600 participants.",
" The three-day festival is the largest dragon boat festival in Alberta, and it includes not only the dragon boat races but entertainment, vendors, and beer gardens."
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"The Middlewich Paddies are an Irish folk band formed in 1979 in the town of Middlewich in Cheshire.",
" Although not widely known outside of folk music circles, two members of the band were instrumental in setting up the Middlewich folk and boat festival which has now become a recognised festival on the folk circuit."
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"The ABCD line (ABCDライン , Ēbīshīdī rain ) was a Japanese name for a series of embargoes against Japan by foreign nations, including America, Britain, China, and the Dutch.",
" It was also known as the ABCD encirclement (ABCD包囲陣 , Ēbīshīdī hōijin ) .",
" In 1940, in an effort to discourage Japanese militarism, these Western powers and others stopped selling iron ore, steel and oil to Japan, denying it the raw materials needed to continue its activities in China and French Indochina.",
" In Japan, the government and nationalists viewed these embargoes as acts of aggression; imported oil made up about 80% of domestic consumption, without which Japan's economy, let alone its military, would grind to a halt.",
" The Japanese media, influenced by military propagandists, began to refer to the embargoes as the \"ABCD (\"American-British-Chinese-Dutch\") encirclement\" or \"ABCD line\"."
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"Sodium carbonate (also known as washing soda, soda ash and soda crystals, and in the monohydrate form as crystal carbonate), NaCO, is the water-soluble sodium salt of carbonic acid."
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"Pamunuwa is a suburb of colombo city and near to Maharagama in Sri Lanka and is famous as a destination for clothing and textile.",
" It is located within Western Province.",
" From raw materials needed in textile industry to ready-made garments, Pamunuwa has been a center of attraction to people all over the country."
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"The 2009–10 Udinese Calcio season was the club's 15th consecutive and 30th overall season in Serie A.",
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"Udinese Calcio had its best season since the days of Zico in the club during the 1980s.",
" With goal scoring trio Oliver Bierhoff, Márcio Amoroso and Paolo Poggi on top form, Udinese finished fifth, even troubling the top three in the standings.",
" Bierhoff and Poggi scored 13 goals each, while Amoroso hit the back of the net on 12 occasions.",
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"The 2011–12 season was Udinese Calcio's 17th consecutive and 32nd Serie A season.",
" The club had a successful league season, finishing third in Serie A, but disappointed in the three cup competitions in which it competed.",
" Udinese were eliminated from the Coppa Italia in the round of 16, and also experienced disappointment in the UEFA Champions League, where it was eliminated in the play-off round and thus failed to make its first appearance in the group stage since the 2005–06 season.",
" As a result, Udinese dropped down to the UEFA Europa League, where it successfully advanced from both the group stage and the round of 32, only to be eliminated in the round of 16.",
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"Udinese Channel is a subscription-based channel, entirely dedicated to the Italian football team Udinese Calcio.",
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"Antonio Pietro Paolo Virdis (born 26 June 1957) is an Italian football manager and former player, who played as a forward.",
" Throughout his career, he played for Nuorese, before playing in Serie A with Cagliari Calcio, Juventus F.C., Udinese Calcio, and A.C. Milan; he ended his career with Lecce.",
" Known for his eye for goal, with Juventus, he won two league titles and a Coppa Italia; with Milan, he was the league's top-scorer in 1987, also winning a league title and the Supercoppa Italiana in 1988, and was part of the club's European Cup victory in 1989.",
" At international level, he represented the Italy under-23 side at the 1988 Summer Olympics, helping the team to a fourth-place finish."
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"Atilio Ceferino García Pérez (Junin, Argentina, August 26 1914 - Montevideo, Uruguay, December 12 1973) was an Argentinian born Uruguayan naturalized footballer who played as a forward.",
" He is the top goal scorer in the history of Uruguayan football with 465 goals scored in official tournaments and the second highest goal scorer in the history of the Uruguayan Football Championship with 208 goals scored in 210 matches, which also converted him in to the top goal scorer of the Uruguayan Championship playing for the same club.",
" He is also the top scorer in the history of the \"clasicos\" between Nacional and Peñarol, with 35 goals.",
" He played for Club Nacional de Football between 1938 and 1951."
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" Under new coach Luciano Spalletti, Udinese gathered strength, and was a constant feature on the top half of the league table.",
" Even though the squad lacked the goalscoring punch, the defence led by Néstor Sensini and surprising goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis held it together to such a degree it finished sixth in the league.",
" Also Czech signing Marek Jankulovski impressed, the Napoli signing switching form left-wing to left back, causing interest from several bigger clubs.",
" In the offence, Udinese's most influential player was David Pizarro, who scored seven times from the midfield and grabbed the attention from Lazio, who tried to sign him and teammate Martin Jørgensen immediately after the season had finished.",
" Undisclosed Lazio players refused moving to Udine as compensation for the transfers, and both stayed on, much to the relief of Spalletti."
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"Udinese Calcio only faded a little bit compared to its club record-breaking 1997–98 season, in which it finished third in Serie A.",
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" Many role-playing video games have origins in tabletop role-playing games (Including \"Dungeons & Dragons\") and use much of the same , settings and game mechanics.",
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" It revolves around a leader who must lead an army in phalanx formation across a battlefield in real-time against overwhelming enemy forces while freeing and recruiting soldiers along the way, with each unit able to gain experience and level up through battle.",
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"Hack and slash, or hack and slay (H&S or HnS), refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat.",
" The term \"hack and slash\" was originally used to describe a play style in tabletop role-playing games, carrying over from there to MUDs, MMORPGs, and role-playing video games.",
" In arcade/console-style action video games, the term has a different usage, specifically implying a focus on real-time combat with hand-to-hand weapons as opposed to guns or fists.",
" The term is often written in hyphenated form and with the conjunction contracted, e.g. hack-and-slash, hack 'n' slay."
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" In tabletop role-playing, a party is composed of a group of players, occasionally with the addition of non-player character allies (sometimes called \"henchmen\") controlled by those players or by the gamemaster.",
" In computer games, the relationship between the party and the players varies considerably.",
" Online role-playing games or MMORPG parties are often, in the above sense, of the same constituency as tabletop parties, except that the allies are always controlled to a lesser or greater extent by the computer AI.",
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"Live action role-playing games, known as LARPs, are a form of role-playing game in which live players/actors assume roles as specific characters and play out a scenario in-character.",
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"Hoplites were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields. Hoplite soldiers utilized the phalanx formation in order to be effective in war with fewer soldiers.",
" The hoplites were primarily represented by free citizens—propertied farmers and artisans—who were able to afford the bronze armour suit and weapons (estimated at a third to a half of its able-bodied adult male population).",
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5ae77a31554299540e5a55c7 | "Happy Birthday to You", more commonly known as simply "Happy Birthday", is a song that is traditionally sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person's birth, the melody, comes from the song "Good Morning to All", which has traditionally been attributed to American sisters Patty and who, which was an American songwriter and musicologist? | Mildred J. Hill | bridge | easy | {
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"\"Happy Birthday to You\", more commonly known as simply \"Happy Birthday\", is a song that is traditionally sung to celebrate the anniversary of a person's birth.",
" According to the 1998 \"Guinness World Records\", \"Happy Birthday to You\" is the most recognized song in the English language, followed by \"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow\".",
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" The song is noted for being similar in musical structure to Take Good Care of My Baby by Bobby Vee (another 1961 hit), and additionally for its resemblance to the melody of the Chiffons' subsequent 1963 hit \"One Fine Day\".",
" Both of these songs exhibiting similarity to \"Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen\" were penned by the team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin.",
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"Happy Birthday is a 2016 American horror-thriller film that was written and directed by Casey Tebo.",
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"\"Happy, Happy Birthday Baby\" is a 1957 song written by Margo Sylvia & Gilbert Lopez.",
" \"Happy, Happy Birthday Baby\" was originally performed by The Tune Weavers, who had their only hit with this song.",
" Both Margo Sylvia and Gilbert Lopez were members of The Tune Weavers.",
" The single went to number four on the R&B chart and went to number five on the Hot 100.",
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" Its catalogue was originally heavily weighted towards twee indie pop music, with several of its bands being associated with or influenced by The Elephant 6 Recording Company.",
" The label originally began as a compilation CD, \"Happy Happy Birthday To Me Volume 1\", before it expanded into a 7\" singles club, which released records by, among others, Of Montreal, Marshmallow Coast, The Essex Green, Great Lakes and Masters of the Hemisphere, while also releasing several tape and CD compilations.",
" The singles club was noted for its individuality, with each individual record by an artist often being different.",
" For example, each copy of The Essex Green's single came with a different original photograph on the sleeve, while Marshmallow Coast's were hand-drawn by school children.",
" The label then began to release full-length CDs for the first time, the first of these being Birddog's \"A Sweet and Bitter Fancy\".",
" The label also continued to release 7\"s, compilations and T-shirts, as well as a video compilation DVD, and a further singles club featuring Bunnygrunt, Casper and the Cookies, and Andy From Denver.",
" There are currently over 150 releases on the label, and an even larger catalogue of distributed titles.",
" Today, its catalogue has expanded to span several genres."
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" is a 1959 children's book by Dr. Seuss.",
" It deals with a fantastic land called Katroo, where the Birthday Bird throws the reader an amazing party on their special day.",
" It consists of a running description of a fantastical celebration, narrated in the second person, of the reader's birthday, from dawn to late night.",
" The celebration includes fantastical and colorful gifts, foods and a whirl of activities all arranged by the Birthday Bird for the reader's birthday.",
" It focuses on the reader's self-actualization and concludes with the happy and exhausted reader falling blissfully asleep.",
" A popular Seuss paragraph in this book reads: \"Today you are you, that is truer than true.",
" There is no one alive who is youer than you.\""
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"Happy Birthday is the fourth mixtape released by British rapper Tinie Tempah.",
" The mixtape was released for free download on December 16, 2011 on Disturbing London Records - featuring production from 3Mindz, S-X, Wizzy Wow and Stargate.",
" The mixtape title is \"Happy Birthday\" because the mixtape came into production around Tempah's 23rd birthday (November 7).",
" Tracks \"Like It or Love It\", \"Lucky Cunt\" and \"Till I'm Gone (Remix)\" were leaked prior to the mixtape release to create buzz, with \"Like It or Love It\" receiving minor radio airplay.",
" \"Happy Birthday\" features British rappers Chipmunk, Giggs, Wretch 32, G-Frsh, Tinchy Stryder and Krept and Konan, including a variety of American rappers; Soulja Boy, J. Cole and Big Sean, along with Wiz Khalifa, Pusha T and Jim Jones on the \"Till I'm Gone\" remix (originally released on August 29, 2011).",
" British vocalist J. Warner also makes a guest appearance."
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"\"Happy Birthday Darlin' is a song written by Chuck Howard, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty.",
" It was released in October 1979 as the third and final single from his album \"Cross Winds\".",
" \"Happy Birthday Darlin'\" was Conway Twitty's 23rd number one on the country chart as solo artist.",
" The single stayed at number one for three weeks and spent a total of 11 weeks on the country chart."
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"Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), now known as NASDAQ OMX PHLX, is the oldest stock exchange in the United States.",
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" In 1875, the Board of Brokers changed its name to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.",
" The exchange merged with the Baltimore Stock Exchange in 1949 and was named the Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange.",
" It merged with the Washington Stock Exchange in 1954, becoming known as the Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington Stock Exchange (often abbreviated as PBW).",
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" Founded in 1976 by Serge Godin and André Imbeau as an IT consulting firm, the company soon began branching into new markets and acquiring other companies.",
" CGI went public in 1986 with a primary listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange.",
" CGI is also a constituent of the S&P/TSX 60, and has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.",
" After almost doubling in size with the 1998 acquisition of Bell Sygma, CGI acquired IMRGlobal in 2001 for $438 million, which added \"global delivery options\" for CGI.",
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" It is a combination of the FTSE 100 Index of the largest 100 companies and the FTSE 250 Index of the next largest 250.",
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" It was founded as a construction business in the 1840s.",
" It shut down its construction activities in the 1920s and switched to publishing.",
" It is the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world.",
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"Oil and Gas Development Company Limited commonly known as OGDCL is a Pakistani multinational oil and gas company.",
" It has a primary listing on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, and secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange.",
" Established in 1961 by the Government of Pakistan, it was turned into a public listed company on 23 October 1997.",
" Today it is involved in exploring, drilling, refining and selling oil and gas in Pakistan.",
" It is the market leader in terms of reserves, production and acreage.",
" It is based on Jinnah Avenue, Blue Area in Islamabad, with the Government of Pakistan holding 74% stake in the company.",
" Rest are held by private investors.",
" In 2013, it has revenue of Rs.",
" 223.365 billion and profit before tax soaring at Rs.",
" 90.777 billion."
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"Panadol night is a GlaxoSmithKline painkiller intended for use at night.",
" It consists of 500 milligrams of paracetamol, 25 milligrams of diphenhydramine hydrochloride (a sedating antihistamine) and other \"non-hazardous ingredients\" It is sold in Australia, Cyprus United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and the Middle East.",
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" The company is incorporated and domiciled in Ireland where it ranks as the largest Irish company.",
" CRH has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.",
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"Tribute to the American Duck is the seventh album by bluegrass group The Dillards.",
" Released only a year after \"Roots and Branches,\" \"Tribute\" features the same lineup and a similar sound.",
" Billy Ray Latham's electric guitar features on \"Caney Creek,\" and folk rock influences are evident in the song writing and cover choice.",
" The album features a re-recorded version of \"Dooley\" from the Dillards' debut, \"Back Porch Bluegrass.\""
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"The 1982 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season.",
" Arkansas had two consensus All-Americans in 1982, Steve Korte, on the offensive line, and defensive lineman Billy Ray Smith.",
" Smith anchored a defensive unit that was the number one scoring offense, giving up only 10.5 points per game, and ninth in the nation in terms of stopping the run, only giving up 96.7 yards per game.",
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"Still the King is an American comedy television series created by Travis Nicholson, Potsy Ponciroli and Billy Ray Cyrus.",
" The series stars Billy Ray Cyrus, Joey Lauren Adams, Madison Iseman, Travis Nicholson, Lacey Chabert and Leslie David Baker.",
" The series premiered on June 12, 2016, on CMT.",
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"Wanna Be Your Joe is the ninth studio album released from country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus.",
" Released on July 17, 2006 on New Door Records and UM, it was Cyrus' first country album since 2000's \"Southern Rain\".",
" It is also his first album of non-gospel music in three years.",
" From Billy Ray's exposure on \"Hannah Montana\", the album debuted and peaked at number 24 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, number 113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number 118 on the \"Billboard\" Top Comprehensive Albums.",
" The album sold well, but no hit single was released.",
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" It features three newly released tracks — \"It's All the Same to Me\", \"Cover to Cover\", and \"Bluegrass State of Mind\" — as well as a reprise of \"Trail of Tears\" from his 1996 album of the same name.",
" \"It's All the Same to Me\" was a Top 20 hit for Cyrus in 1997 on the Hot Country Songs charts."
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" It was named in honor the Northern Iowa's third president, Orval Ray Latham."
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" The song was first heard in the 2009 film \"\", in which both Cyruses star, and was subsequently released on the film's .",
" An extended version is featured on Billy Ray's eleventh studio album, \"Back to Tennessee\".",
" The song is a soft country ballad with lyrics that describe a child's transition to adulthood."
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"Shot Full of Love is the fifth studio album by country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus.",
" It features the single \"Busy Man\", which peaked at number 3 in early 1999, becoming Cyrus's first Top Ten country hit since \"Somebody New\" in 1993.",
" The album's title song is a cover of a song originally recorded by Juice Newton in 1981, in 1983 by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and a number 73-peaking single in 1990 for Jennifer McCarter and The McCarters.",
" This was also his last studio album for the Mercury Records label.",
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"The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments.",
" The top tier of men's tennis is the ATP World Tour, Challenger Tour events are the second highest level of competition, and the Futures tournaments on the ITF Men's Circuit are the third and final tier of international professional competition.",
" The ATP Challenger Tour is administered by the Association of Tennis Professionals.",
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" He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 161 on September 18, 2017 and a career high ITF junior ranking of No. 2 on June 6, 2016.",
" He is the youngest player ever to qualify and to win a main draw match on the ATP Challenger Tour.",
" With his titles at the Open Sopra Steria de Lyon in June 2017 and the Copa Sevilla in September 2017, he became the seventh youngest player in history (16 years, 10 months) to win an ATP Challenger title and the second youngest to win multiple ATP Challenger titles.",
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" The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's Circuit and is played on indoor hard courts.",
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" It stars Amrinder Gill, Simi Chahal & Ranjit Bawa as the main protagonists of the film and was release worldwide on 13 January, 2017.",
" It is an action, drama film about an NRI boy Mithu (Amrinder Gill), coming to India to connect to his true roots."
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"Daraar is a 1996 Indian thriller film directed by Abbas-Mustan starring Juhi Chawla, Rishi Kapoor and Arbaaz Khan in his film debut.",
" Khan received the Filmfare Best Villain Award for his portrayal as a possessive husband.",
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"1888 is a 2017 Indian thriller film shot using Guerrilla filmmaking technique.",
" It's a micro-budget, independent Kannada film with Demonetization as the backdrop.",
" 50% of the film is shot inside a car.",
" Neethu Shetty a well known Kannada actress plays an important character along with Prathap Kumar, Manju Raj and Vikram Kumar.",
" The movie is directed by debutante Sourabh Shukla.",
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" After modelling for numerous advertisements and companies, he made his film debut with \"Jism\" (2003), which earned him a Filmfare Best Debut Award nomination.",
" This was followed by his first commercial success, \"Dhoom\" (2004).",
" He received two Filmfare Award nominations, for his negative roles in \"Dhoom\", and in \"Zinda\" (2006).",
" He later appeared in the major critical success \"Water\" (2005).",
" He was nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film \"Baabul\" (2006).",
" Since then, Abraham has starred in many critically and commercially successful films including \"Kaal\" (2005), \"Garam Masala\" (2005), \"Taxi No. 9211\" (2006), \"Dostana\" (2008), \"New York\" (2009), \"Force\" (2011), \"Desi Boyz\" (2011), \"Housefull 2\" (2012), \"Race 2\" (2013), \"Shootout at Wadala\" (2013), \"Madras Cafe\" (2013), \"Welcome Back\" (2015), \"Dishoom\" (2016), and the latest, \"Force 2\", thus establishing himself as a commercially successful actor of Indian cinema."
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" She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in \"Gandhi\" (1982).",
" An alumna of the National School of Drama of New Delhi, Hattangadi had worked mainly in theatre when she made her movie debut with \"Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan\" in 1978.",
" Some of her noted cinematic roles were in such art films as \"Arth\" (1982), \"Party\" and \"Saaransh\" (1984).",
" Hattangadi was mostly offered character roles in mainstream Hindi cinema after her portrayal in \"Gandhi\", often typecast in mother roles much ahead of her years.",
" Respected for her acting prowess, she has appeared in over 80 feature films, and is active in theatre and television."
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"Kal Naga (also credited as Khaled Naga or Khaled Abol Naga) is a multi award-winning actor, film producer and director from Egypt (he directed theatre mostly and short films).",
" He is a movie star in the Arab World and the Middle East but also a familiar face internationally specially in European film festivals, where he has been honoured with a diverse range of awards as an actor and producer as well as a jury member in film festivals.",
" Since 2016 he focused on English speaking markets [\"Tyrant\" TV series season 3 (2016), American FX TV Network, \"Vikings\" season 5 (2017), History Channel and \"The Last Post\" TV mini series, UK's BBC TV].",
" His roles covered a multitude of genres, from musicals [\"None but that!\"",
" (2007)], action [\"Agamista\"(2007), \"Eyes Of A Thief\" (2014)], thrillers [\"Kashf Hesab\" (2007)], art-house [\"Heliopolis\" (2009), \"Villa 69\" (2013), \"Decor\" (2014)] and a slapstick comedy [\"Habibi Naeman (Sleeping Habibi)\" (2008)].",
" He played the lead in many award-winning films that gained him outstanding international critics acclaim as one of the finest actors in the world today out of the Arab region.",
" He studied and graduated (with highest honours) as a Tele-communication engineer' from Ain Shams University, studied theatre (as a minor) at the American University in Cairo, and worked on a spacecraft design program (UoSAT-5 ) in the UK.",
" He finally confirmed his passion and calling for the arts by the year 2000.",
" In a film festival in 2016 celebrating Arabic films submissions to the \"Oscars,\" he was honoured for being the most submitted actor in Arabic films submissions to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (\"The Oscars)\".",
" He is often tagged in western media as \"Egypt's \"Brad Pitt\" for his many career similarities with the latter, also described as \"the next Omar Sharif\" specially after his American debut movie \"Civic Duty\" in 2007.",
" He was also described as \"Egypt's International treasure\" for advocating for freedom and standing up against injustice in his home country Egypt.",
" He is one of the most recognisable faces of the 2011 revolution, seizing the anti-regime sentiment in the streets of Cairo and taking part in mass demonstrations that led to the removal of President Mubarak.",
" He faced defamation campaigns against him by the state owned and controlled media during Mubarak era before the January 25th 2011 revolution in Egypt, and once again from the 2013 \"coup d'etat\" General Sisi government in Egypt.",
" Nonetheless he continued his regional and international award-winning success, as well as waves of strong support on social media.",
" He also had a very celebrated and successful career across the Arab world TV networks as a TV & radio host in prime time shows from 1997 till 2005.",
" He is a human and child rights activist and has been Egypt's UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador 2007–2015.",
" He has worked across a diverse variety of media, including theatre, radio, television and film in Arabic, English and some French and Italian."
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" Produced by Boney Kapoor, Sunil Manchanda, Mukesh Talreja, Naresh Agarwal and Gautam Jain, the film stars Sridevi, as a vigilante, who sets out to avenge her daughter, played by Sajal Ali.",
" Adnan Siddiqui.",
" Akshaye Khanna and Nawazuddin Siddiqui play supporting roles in the film.",
" Music for the film has been produced by A. R. Rahman.",
" The film was released on 7 July 2017, in four languages, and received positive reviews from film critics.",
" It was successful commercially as well.",
" \"Mom\" marked Sridevi's 300th film appearance."
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" He made his acting debut in 1997 with \"Himalay Putra\" which was produced by his late father Vinod Khanna.",
" Since then, he has featured in several critically and commercially acclaimed films, such as \"Border\" (1997), \"Taal\" (1999), \"Dil Chahta Hai\" (2001), \"Humraaz\" (2002), \"Hulchul\" (2004), \"Gandhi, My Father\" (2007) and \"Race\" (2008) amongst others, for which he has received two Filmfare Awards."
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"Kamal Swaroop is a dual National Award- and Filmfare Award-winning film, television and radio director and screenwriter.",
" In 1974 he graduated from the Film and Television Institute and even his student works met with unusual international acclaim.",
" He continued with postgraduate studies at the Institute.",
" He assisted the director Richard Attenborough in the filming of \"Gandhi\" (1982).",
" He made documentary as well as feature films.",
" He is currently working on a full-length documentary titled \"The Battle of Benaras\", produced by Medient.",
" Famously banned, a formal experimenter, \"Om-Dar-Ba-Dar\" (1988) is his master work."
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"David Huynh (born February 5, 1983) is a Canadian actor.",
" Huynh won a Special Jury Prize Award at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival for Outstanding Newcomer and Best Emerging Actor for his performance in Juwan Chung's \"Baby\", which also won a Special Jury Award for Best Feature Length Film at that year's Festival.",
" Huynh has also Starred in Byron Q's film, \"Bang Bang\" (2011), which won a Special Jury Award for Best First Feature, Narrative, at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.",
" He also played Jonathan Chen in Byron Q's film, \"Las Vegas Story\" and Ty Do in Mark Tran's film \"All About Dad\".",
" He recently stars in a Web Series entitled \"Hollywood Aliens\" from Beyond Cinema Productions, directed by \"Bang Bang\" Director Byron Q and Kevin Boston.",
" He also appears as the protagonist \"Fong\" in a pilot entitled \"Chinatown Squad\" about 1890s San Francisco Chinatown, directed and produced by Stephane Gauger and written by and starring \"Baby\" co-star Feodor Chin, who plays the antagonist, \"Pistol Pete.\"",
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" Humphrey has been featured in other films and in several television movies.",
" In 2005 he starred in \"Living With the Enemy\" with Sarah Lancaster.",
" In 2006 he starred in \"The Wives He Forgot\" with Molly Ringwald as a handsome amnesiac.",
" In 2007 he appeared in \"Still Small Voices\" with Catherine Bell.",
" Humphrey has also appeared in numerous television series."
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" He is the co-showrunner and executive producer of the CBC series X Company which premieres February 18, 2015 on CBC.",
" He also co-created and executive produced \"Flashpoint\" which aired on CBS, CTV, ION Television and networks around the world.",
" The series was awarded the Academy Board of Directors Tribute for Outstanding and Enduring Contribution to Canadian Television, in addition to a Canadian Screen Award (2013) and Gemini Award (2013) for Best Dramatic Series.",
" Ellis and his spouse Stephanie Morgenstern have received Gemini and Writers Guild awards for their writing in the series.",
" He has appeared in television, film and theatre, including the Emmy-award winning \"Dark Oracle\".",
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" He is known as a co-founder of the comedy group \"The Kids in the Hall\", responsible for their eponymous sketch show and the feature-length film \"\".",
" He played Dave Nelson in the sitcom \"NewsRadio\", voiced Flik in \"A Bug's Life\" and hosted the game show \"Celebrity Poker Showdown\"."
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"Ali Badshah (full name Syed Ali Mehdi Rizvi Badshah) is a Canadian actor, writer, producer, director and comedian.",
" Badshah, an observational comedian whose work often draws on his experiences growing up in and around Toronto, has also written and performed for Video on Trial and was an associate producer for MuchMusic.",
" He has written and starred in five televised comedy specials for CBC, CTV, The Comedy Network, MTV and ABC2 Australia.",
" Badshah created, executive produced, wrote, and starred in CBC’s first web comedy series \"Bloody Immigrants\".",
" An alumnus of both The Second City and Yuk Yuk's, he was on the front page of the \"Toronto Star\" as one of the Top Ten People in the country – the only actor/comedian to ever appear on their list – and was featured on the Comedy Network's 'Nubian Disciples Special', with Russell Peters and Dave Chappelle, as part of the “next generation of great Canadian comics.”"
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"Freeloaders is an American ensemble comedy film directed by Dan Rosen and written by Rosen and singer Dave Gibbs.",
" The film is produced by the Broken Lizard comedy troupe and is independently financed.",
" \"Freeloaders\" stars Clifton Collins Jr., Josh Lawson, Kevin Sussman, Zoe Boyle, Nat Faxon, Warren Hutcherson, Jane Seymour, Olivia Munn, Dave Foley and Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz.",
" It follows a group of friends who find their luxurious lifestyle threatened when the rock star they freeload off decides to sell his home."
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"Vinay Virmani (born January 24, 1985) is a Canadian actor.",
" Virmani was born and raised in Toronto.",
" After graduating in business from York University, Virmani studied filmmaking and theatre at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.",
" He wrote and starred in the hockey comedy \"Breakaway\" (dubbed into Hindi as \"Speedy Singhs\"), followed by \"Dr. Cabbie\" (2014), where he was a writer, lead actor and producer.",
" \"Dr. Cabbie\" broke the Canadian record for audience numbers on opening day.",
" He was next seen in \"The Steps\", which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015."
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"Shehzad Sheikh or Shahzad Sheikh is a Pakistani film and television actor and model, known for playing the lead role in the 2015 film \"Karachi Se Lahore\".",
" He also starred in the series \"Annie Ki Ayegi Baraat\", \"Mi Raqsam\", and \"Mere Hamrahi\", and a TV film \"Main Kukkoo Aur woh\".",
" He is the son of well-known actor Javed Sheikh."
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"\"R U Professional\" is a 2009 satirical song by the American indie rock band The Mae Shi, inspired by a July 2008 outburst by actor Christian Bale on the set of \"Terminator Salvation\".",
" Bale was filming with actress Bryce Dallas Howard when he berated director of photography, Shane Hurlbut, for walking into his line of sight.",
" An audio recording of the incident appeared on website TMZ on February 2, 2009.",
" The Mae Shi composed and recorded the song later in the same day, and released it the next day.",
" The group stated that the piece was created to honor Bale.",
" The song parodies Bale by sampling his voice from the 2008 diatribe.",
" The chorus incorporates Bale's use of the word \"professional\" from his flare-up.",
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"Robin Ward (born April 10, 1944) is a Canadian actor and television personality.",
" He is known for hosting a 1980 revival of the American game show \"To Tell the Truth\" and later hosting a Canadian game show called \"Guess What\".",
" He was also an actor on the soap opera \"The Guiding Light\", in addition to having starred in the Canadian-produced 1973-74 science fiction series \"The Starlost\" and served as narrator of the late-1980s revival of \"The Twilight Zone\" for a season replacing Charles Aidman.",
" His film career included roles in many Canadian movies, such as \"Explosion\" (1969), \"Frankenstein on Campus\" (1970, as Victor Frankenstein), \"The Girl in Blue\" (1973) and \"Thrillkill\" (1984)."
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" It contains all of the singles that he had issued up to that point in the United States as a solo artist, with the exception of \"Stand by Me\", which had been released earlier that year.",
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" Its name (pronounced \"apple core\") is a pun.",
" Its chief division is Apple Records, which was launched in the same year.",
" Other divisions included Apple Electronics, Apple Films, Apple Publishing and Apple Retail, whose most notable venture was the ill-fated Apple Boutique, on the corner of Baker Street and Paddington Street in central London.",
" Apple's headquarters in the late 1960s was at the upper floors of 94 Baker Street, after that at 95 Wigmore Street, and subsequently at 3 Savile Row.",
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" The first such multi-artist Apple compilation, it was released on 25 October 2010.",
" Among the artists are Badfinger, Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Billy Preston, Jackie Lomax, Ronnie Spector and Hot Chocolate.",
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" After first working as a car mechanic, he then trained as a photographer and worked for the Gleaner Company.",
" In the early 1970s he began working as a singer with Charles Hannah and The Graduates, and recorded a single for Gussie Clarke, but he realized that he was better suited to production.",
" His early productions between 1973 and 1975 included recordings by Augustus Pablo, who recorded the first single for his Santic record label (the name derived from the nickname of his friend, drummer Carlton \"Santa\" Davis, and \"Atlantic\"), \"Pablo In Dub\", as well as Paul Whiteman, Horace Andy (with whom he had two hits - \"Problems\" and \"Children of Israel\"), Roman Stewart, and Gregory Isaacs.",
" Two of the tracks he produced for Pablo were included on the melodica player's debut album.",
" Chin's recording sessions generally took place at Randy's studio, with Errol Thompson at the mixing desk, and using Pablo as an arranger or keyboard player.",
" Chin also produced Jah Woosh's 1976 album, \"Chalice Blaze\".",
" A mid-1970s compilation of his productions, \"An Even Harder Shade of Black\", was reissued by Pressure Sounds in 1995.",
" The label released a further collection of his work, \"Down Santic Way\", in 2005."
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" It is exclusively a digital download live album, and has not been released on a physical medium.",
" The album included recordings from the band's live performances during a radio interview on FM 101.",
" This was Mizraab’s debut performance at any radio station.",
" The album was recorded and produced by Sharaf Qaisar."
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"RCA Victrola was a budget record label introduced by RCA Victor in the early 1960s to reissue classical recordings originally released on the RCA Victor \"Red Seal\" label.",
" The name \"Victrola\" came from the early console phonographs first marketed by the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1906.",
" Many of RCA Victrola's reissues included recordings from the historic RCA Victor \"Living Stereo\" series first released in 1958, using triple channel stereophonic tapes from as early as 1954.",
" There were also some first stereo releases of recordings that had previously been available only in monaural versions.",
" For several years, Victrola released both stereophonic and monaural versions of many albums."
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"This Way Is My Way is the second studio album by Anne Murray released in 1969 on Capitol Records.",
" Initially the album was only available in Canada, and was later be made available in the U.S after Murray's chart success there in the 1970s.",
" The album included recordings of songs by Eric Andersen, Gene MacLellan and Bob Dylan.",
" A single release of \"Snowbird\" would be issued in the U.S. in 1970, where it would reach the top ten and trigger Murray's career there.",
" The album peaked at No.13 on the Canadian RPM album chart on 20 February 1971."
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"Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.",
" Formed in 1990 after Sony's acquiring of CBS Records, Legacy handles the archives of Sony Music-owned labels Columbia Records, Epic Records, RCA Records, RCA Records Nashville, J Records, Windham Hill Records, Arista, LaFace, Jive, Buddah Records, and Philadelphia International Records.",
" It also handles the catalog of recordings produced by Phil Spector."
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"George Harrison, {'1': \", '2': \", '3': \", '4': \"} (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.",
" Often referred to as \"the quiet Beatle\", Harrison embraced Hinduism and helped broaden the horizons of his fellow bandmates as well as their American audience by incorporating Indian instrumentation in their music.",
" Although most of the Beatles' songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions.",
" His songs for the group included \"Taxman\", \"Within You Without You\", \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\", \"Here Comes the Sun\" and \"Something\", the last of which became the Beatles' second-most covered song."
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"Streets of Death is a 1987 American film.",
" Tommy Kirk had retired from acting when the film was made but the producer made him an offer \"that was hard to refuse.\"",
" He was the only professional actor in the cast."
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"Robert Prescott is an American actor who has starred in various roles in film and on television.",
" He is best known for his role as Kent in the 1985 hit comedy film \"Real Genius\".",
" He also starred in the 1984 comedy film \"Bachelor Party\" as Cole Whittier, and appeared in the 1987 Mel Brooks hit comedy \"Spaceballs\" in a cameo as the Sand Cruiser Driver."
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"Spaceballs is a 1987 American comic science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks.",
" Starring Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, and Rick Moranis, the film also features Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and the voice of Joan Rivers.",
" In addition to Brooks in a supporting role, the film also features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appearances."
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"Black Widow is a 1987 American film noir thriller film starring Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey and Nicol Williamson.",
" Dennis Hopper has a short role at the beginning of the film."
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"Swimming to Cambodia, also known as Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia, is a 1987 American film written by and starring Spalding Gray, and directed by Jonathan Demme.",
" The performance film is of Gray's play and monologue, which centered on such themes as his trip to Southeast Asia to create the role of the U.S. Ambassador's aide in the film \"The Killing Fields\", the Cold War, Cambodia Year Zero, and his search for his \"perfect moment\".",
" The film grossed slightly over $US1 million."
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"Michael Leslie Winslow (born September 6, 1958) is an American actor, beatboxer and comedian billed as the \"Man of 10,000 Sound Effects\" for his ability to make realistic sounds using only his voice.",
" He is best known for his roles in all seven \"Police Academy\" films as Larvelle Jones.",
" He has also appeared in \"Spaceballs\", \"Cheech and Chong's Next Movie\", and commercials for Cadbury and Geico; also appeared on \"The Love Boat\"."
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"George Wyner (born October 20, 1945) is an American film and television actor.",
" Wyner graduated from Syracuse University in 1968 as a drama major, and was an in-demand character actor by the early 1970s.",
" To date, Wyner has made guest appearances in over 100 television series and co-starred in nine.",
" He is probably best known for his role as ADA Bernstein on the series \"Hill Street Blues\".",
" He is also noted for memorable roles in films such as \"Spaceballs\", \"American Pie 2\" and \"Fletch\"."
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"William James \"Bill\" Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor.",
" He made his film debut in the 1986 film \"Ruthless People\", and has since gone on to star in other films, such as \"Spaceballs\" (1987), \"The Accidental Tourist\" (1988), \"While You Were Sleeping\" (1995), \"Casper\" (1995), \"Independence Day\" (1996) and \"Lost Highway\" (1997).",
" He has also appeared regularly on television, usually in films and miniseries, though he also had a starring role in the one-season show \"1600 Penn\".",
" As of late summer 2017, he is in the main cast of USA Network's new eight-episode, murder-mystery limited series \"The Sinner\"."
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"Richard Vincent Van Patten (December 9, 1928 – June 23, 2015) was an American actor, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the ABC television comedy-drama \"Eight Is Enough\"."
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"Video violence also known as Video Violence... When Renting is Not Enough is a 1987 American Independent horror film directed by Gary Cohen.",
" The film is shot with a VHS camera similar to many rental films of the 1980s and early 90s."
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5adbdf77554299438c868cbd | Composer George Frideric Handel played the glockenspiel and was influenced by what composers? | Italian Baroque | bridge | medium | {
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"The keyboard glockenspiel (French: \"jeu de timbre\") or organ glockenspiel is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard.",
" It was first used by George Frideric Handel in the oratorio \"Saul\" (1739).",
" It was also used in the 1739 revivals of his \"Il Trionfo del Tempo\" and \"Acis and Galatea\", and the next year in \"L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato\".",
" Half a century later, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart employed a \"strumento d’acciaio\" in \"The Magic Flute\" (1791) to represent Papageno's magic bells, and this instrument is believed to have been a keyboard glockenspiel.",
" This part is nowadays sometimes taken by a celesta.",
" Maurice Ravel preferred the keyboard version of the instrument because it can play a true ff dynamic for brilliance and iridescence in orchestral climaxes.",
" In the late 20th century, the firm of Bergerault began manufacturing a three-octave (F2–E4) mallet instrument with a damping mechanism operated by a foot pedal, which is capable of dealing with the wide range called for in contemporary scores."
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" 1690–1722) was an Italian alto castrato who sang for the composer George Frideric Handel in the 18th century.",
" He was known by the stage name Valentini.",
" He sang the role of Eustazio at the première of Handel’s \"Rinaldo\", the role of Silvio at the premiere of \"Il pastor fido\", and the role of Egeo at the first performance of \"Teseo\".",
" His powers of singing seem to have been limited and by the time of his Handel roles his voice was declining but he is reputed to have been a fine actor."
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"Gaetano Berenstadt (7 June 1687 – buried 9 December 1734) was an Italian alto castrato who is best remembered for his association with the composer George Frideric Handel.",
" Berenstadt created roles in three of Handel's operas. Berenstadt's parents were German and his father was timpanist to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.",
" By the end of his 27-year-long career Berenstadt had sung in 55 dramatic works, 33 of which were newly composed."
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"George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; born Georg Friedrich Händel ] ; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) [(N.S.) 5 March] – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a naturalised British subject in 1727.",
" He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition."
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"The Handel Music Prize, in German Händel-Preis, is an annual award, instituted in 1956, which is presented by the city of Halle, in Germany, in honour of the celebrated Baroque composer George Frideric Handel.",
" It is awarded, \"for exceptional artistic, academic or politico-cultural services as far as these are connected with the city of Halle's Handel commemoration\".",
" The prize consists of a diploma, a gold and enamel badge, and 10,000 euros in prize money and is presented during the annual Handel Festival, Halle."
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"Armonico Consort is a British company founded in 2001 by conductor (music) and organist Christopher Monks, which specialises in producing performances of Renaissance music and Baroque music.",
" In 2002 the company oversaw the creation of a series of academies designed to provide choral training for schoolchildren.",
" The company’s period musicians and instrumentalists have an international reputation in the field, and its partners and collaborators have included Sir Willard White, Dame Emma Kirkby, and Dame Evelyn Glennie.",
" Armonico Consort is known for its innovative productions, most notably its 2005 production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen and its performances of Mozart’s Magic Flute at the Barbican Centre in London in 2007.",
" In 2012 Armonico Consort’s opera, Too Hot To Handel, featuring the music of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel, attracted highly positive reviews from critics.",
" Choirs from Armonico Consort’s academies will perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2013."
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"The Handel House Museum is a museum in Mayfair, London dedicated to the life and works of the German-born British baroque composer George Frideric Handel, who made his home in London in 1712 and eventually became a British citizen in 1727.",
" Handel was the first occupant of 25 Brook Street, which he rented from 1723 until his death there in 1759.",
" Almost all his works after 1723, amongst them many of his best-known operas, oratorios and ceremonial music, were composed and partially rehearsed in the house, which contained a variety of keyboard instruments, including harpsichords, a clavichord and a small chamber organ."
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"Israel in Egypt (HWV 54) is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel.",
" Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens, who also compiled the biblical texts for Handel's Messiah.",
" It is composed entirely of selected passages from the Old Testament, mainly from Exodus and the Psalms."
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"Handel is a crater on Mercury.",
" It has a diameter of 166 kilometers.",
" Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.",
" Handel is named for the British-German composer George Frideric Handel, who lived from 1685 to 1759."
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"An Act for naturalizing Louis Sekeyhaye, George Frederick Handel, and others (13 Geo.",
" I), later given the short title of Handel's Naturalisation Act 1727, was a 1727 Act of the Parliament of Great Britain with the intent of naturalising and granting British citizenship to German-born composer George Frideric Handel and other foreign citizens."
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"Iron Cross (Burmese: အိုင်းရင်းခရော့စ် ; abbreviated as IC) is a rock band in Myanmar formed by lead guitarist Saw Bwe Hmu.",
" The current line up consists of Chit San Maung (lead guitarist), Khin Maung Thant (bass guitarist), Banyar Naing (keyboards player), and Kha Yan (drummer).",
" Iron Cross played too many studio albums of Myanmar's singers.",
" However, Lay Phyu, Myo Gyi, Ah Nge and Wine Wine are long time relationships with IC who also as part with them.",
" All the four singers are lead vocal of IC's live performance and IC always performs with them."
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"\"Miss Me\" is a song by Swedish-Congolese singer-songwriter Mohombi featuring vocals from Grammy Award-winning American recording artist, actor and entrepreneur Nelly from his debut album \"MoveMeant\".",
" It was released on 28 October 2010 as a Digital download in the United Kingdom.",
" RedOne, AJ Junior, Mohombi, Ilya, Cornell Haynes Jr. and was produced by RedOne.",
" It peaked at number 66 on the UK Singles Chart."
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"Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), known professionally as Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, investor, and occasional actor from St. Louis, Missouri.",
" Nelly embarked on his music career with Midwest hip hop group St. Lunatics, in 1993 and signed to Universal Records in 1999.",
" Under Universal, Nelly began his solo career in the year 2000, with his debut album \"Country Grammar\", of which the title-track was a top ten hit.",
" The album debuted at number three on the \"Billboard\" 200 and went on to peak at number one.",
" \"Country Grammar\" is Nelly's best-selling album to date, selling over 8.4 million copies in the United States.",
" His following album \"Nellyville\", produced the number-one hits \"Hot in Herre\" and \"Dilemma\" (featuring Kelly Rowland).",
" Other singles included \"Work It\" (featuring Justin Timberlake), \"Air Force Ones\" (featuring Murphy Lee and St. Lunatics), \"Pimp Juice\" and \"#1\"."
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"William Hargis Bowman, Jr. (April 21, 1941 – February 22, 2011), better known by his stage name, Beau Dollar, was a soul vocalist and drummer for King Records.",
" He performed on many studio albums for various artists under contract with King, including James Brown.",
" His most prominent work was performed as \"Beau Dollar & The Dapps\" and \"Beau Dollar & The Coins\"."
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"The full discography of rock musician Myles Kennedy consists of eleven studio albums, two concert films, four live albums, two extended plays, and thirteen singles in total, in addition to eleven studio tracks that he has appeared on as a featured artist, one of which was a single.",
" Born in Boston on November 27, 1969, Kennedy is currently a member of the rock band Alter Bridge, with whom he has released four studio albums, two concert films, and several singles.",
" He is also the frontman of Slash's touring group, and with Slash he has released a live album, \"Live in Manchester\", the first of a series of live albums released throughout the summer of 2010, and \"\", another live album released in 2011.",
" In 2012, he released a collaboration studio album with Slash titled \"Apocalyptic Love\", which is billed to Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, as well as the 2014 followup titled \"World on Fire\".",
" With The Mayfield Four, he released two studio albums, two extended plays, and four singles; with Citizen Swing, two studio albums; and with Cosmic Dust, one studio album."
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"M.O. is the seventh studio album by American hip hop recording artist Nelly.",
" The album was released on September 30, 2013, by Republic Records, as the follow up to his sixth album, \"5.0\" (2010).",
" The album is preceded by the release of its lead single, \"Hey Porsche\", released on February 19, 2013, and reached number forty-two on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. \"",
"Get Like Me\", featuring Nicki Minaj and Pharrell, premiered online on June 18, 2013, and was officially released on July 2, 2013, as the album's second single.",
" The album features guest appearances from Nicki Minaj, Pharrell, Future, T.I., Daley, 2 Chainz, Trey Songz, Fabolous, Wiz Khalifa, Florida Georgia Line, Nelly Furtado and Yo Gotti."
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"Toshiki Kadomatsu (角松敏生 , Kadomatsu Toshiki ) (born 12 August 1960) is a Japanese rock/R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and producer.",
" He has released many studio albums, as well as several instrumental and live albums.",
" He studied Philosophy at Nihon University.",
" He has been active since at least 1981 and is still active, having released his most recent album in March 2012.",
" In 1987 he released the hit instrumental album \"SEA IS A LADY\" which charted at #4.",
" He has written and produced music for other artists, including \"You're My Only Shinin' Star\" by Miho Nakayama, which reached #1 on the Oricon weekly charts and stayed there for 18 weeks.",
" He composed the music for the 2002 film \"Shiroi-fune\"."
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"Brandon Hughes (born September 25, 1980), better known by his stage name 6 Tre G is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, and CEO from Fayette, Alabama.",
" He is also the founder and CEO of Mazerati Records.",
" 6 Tre G has released many studio albums Don Mazerati, Boss Muzik, El Trapo and many more."
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"Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American band formed in 1964 that was named after the group's mutual high school gym teacher.",
" The band has released many studio, live, and other albums, along with several singles and video discs."
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"Caleb Vance Haynes Jr. (born February 29, 1928), known as Vance Haynes or C. Vance Haynes Jr., is an archaeologist, geologist and author who specializes in the archaeology of the American Southwest.",
" Haynes \"revolutionized the fields of geoarchaeology and archaeological geology.\"",
" He is known for unearthing and studying artifacts of Paleo-Indians including ones from Sandia Cave in the 1960s, work which helped to establish the timeline of human migration through North America.",
" Haynes coined the term \"black mat\" for a layer of 10,000-year-old swamp soil seen in many North American archaeological studies."
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"Officer training refers to the training that most military officers must complete before acquiring an officer rank.",
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"An army (from Latin \"arma\" \"arms, weapons\" via Old French \"armée\", \"armed\" (feminine)) or ground force is a fighting force that fights primarily on land.",
" In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or state.",
" It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps.",
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"The Central Military Commission (CMC) refers to the parallel national defense organizations of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China: the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, a Party organ under the CPC Central Committee, and the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, a central state organ under the National People's Congress, being the military branch of the national government."
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"The Cyber and Information Space Command (German: \"Kommando Cyber- und Informationsraum\") (Kdo CIR) is the youngest branch of Germany's military the Bundeswehr.",
" The decision to form new military branch was presented by Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on 26 April 2016, with the command becoming operational on 1 April 2017.",
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"The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) (Norwegian: \"Luftforsvaret\" ) is the air force of Norway.",
" It was established as a separate arm of the Norwegian armed forces on 10 November 1944.",
" The RNoAF's peacetime establishment is approximately 1,430 employees (officers, enlisted staff and civilians).",
" 600 personnel also serve their draft period in the RNoAF.",
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"The Ukrainian Airmobile Forces or VDV (from \"Vysokomobil'ni desantni viyska Ukrayiny\", Ukrainian: Високомобільні десантні війська України, ВДВ; High-mobile Airborne Forces of Ukraine) is the military branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.",
" The airmobile forces consist of formations, units and elements of the Army and the Army aviation, trained for combined activities behind the enemy lines.",
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"The Remains of Tom Lehrer is a box set containing all the songs from musical satirist Tom Lehrer's previous albums along with previously unreleased songs and his works featured on the public television show \"The Electric Company\".",
" Some of the songs from his debut album, \"Songs By Tom Lehrer\", were re-recorded for the CD.",
" The box set was released in 2000 and also includes a booklet with an introduction by Dr. Demento, pictures of various album covers and song books, reprints of the Mad magazine, prints of some of his songs, an extensive question-and-answer session and other information."
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"\"I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General\" (often referred to as the \"Major-General's Song\" or \"Modern Major-General's Song\") is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera \"The Pirates of Penzance\".",
" It is perhaps the most famous song in Gilbert and Sullivan's operas.",
" It is sung by Major General Stanley at his first entrance, towards the end of Act I.",
" The song satirises the idea of the \"modern\" educated British Army officer of the latter 19th century.",
" It is one of the most difficult patter songs to perform, due to the fast pace and tongue-twisting nature of the lyrics."
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"Letters from Lehrer is a play written by Canadian playwright Richard Greenblatt, and performed by him at CanStage, from 16 January to 25 February 2006.",
" It follows Tom Lehrer's musical career, the meaning of several of his songs, the politics of the time when he wrote the songs, and Greenblatt's own experiences with Lehrer's music, while playing some of Lehrer's songs intermittently.",
" There are currently no plans for more performances, although low-quality audio files have begun to circulate the net."
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"Revisited is a 1960 album by Tom Lehrer, consisting of live recordings of all the songs from 1953's \"Songs by Tom Lehrer\".",
" The CD reissue of the album contains two additional tracks that Lehrer wrote and performed for the PBS television show \"The Electric Company\" (and produced and conducted by Joe Raposo)."
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"More of Tom Lehrer was the second studio album recorded by musical satirist Tom Lehrer.",
" The LP contains the same songs (in the same sequence) as the live album \"An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer\", which was recorded and released earlier in the same year.",
" The album was recorded and mixed in a single three-hour session at the RCA Studios in New York on July 8, 1959."
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"An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer is an album recorded by Tom Lehrer, the well-known satirist and Harvard lecturer.",
" The recording was made on March 20–21, 1959 in Sanders Theater at Harvard."
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"Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer is a reissue of musical satirist Tom Lehrer's two studio albums (\"Songs by Tom Lehrer\" and \"More of Tom Lehrer\"), combined with other studio sessions and a newly recorded version of \"I Got It From Agnes\".",
" \"Agnes\" was a song from Lehrer's early live repertoire which he \"polished up\" for the Cameron Mackintosh-produced musical revue \"Tom Foolery\" in 1981, but which Lehrer himself never professionally recorded until 1996.",
" The booklet notes include an essay by Dr. Demento and the original sleeve notes from the LP releases."
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" In 2004 it was included into the National Recording Registry"
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"\"The Elements\" is a song by musical humorist and lecturer Tom Lehrer, which recites the names of all the chemical elements known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium.",
" It was written in 1959 and can be found on his albums \"Tom Lehrer in Concert\", \"More of Tom Lehrer\" and \"An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer\".",
" The song is sung to the tune of the Major-General's Song from \"The Pirates of Penzance\" by Gilbert and Sullivan."
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"Best known for the role of Francesco Pazzi in Da Vinci's Demons and work at the National Theatre.",
" - this has included the 2004 revival of the National Theatre production of \"His Dark Materials\", the 2013 Donmar Warehouse production of \"Coriolanus\" playing the tribune Brutus alongside Mark Gatiss and Tom Hiddleston and the premieres of the musical \"Take Flight\" (2007, Menier Theatre) and the Bennett play \"The Habit of Art\" (2010, National Theatre), along with Robespierre in \"Danton's Death\" alongside Toby Stephens (2010, National Theatre) and Don John in a 2011 production of \"Much Ado About Nothing\" alongside David Tennant and Catherine Tate.",
" In 2014 he played an American journalist in \"Ripper Street\"."
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"Gareth Lewis (born 25 January 1973 in London) is an English film director.",
" Lewis' first film was a 2001 short, \"Tears of a Clown\", which he followed in 2006 with a second short \"Normal for Norfolk\" which starred Stephen Campbell Moore and Tim Pigott-Smith.",
" His first full length picture was 2007 release \"The Baker\" (also known as \"Assassin in Love\"), which he directed and wrote.",
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" It premiered on 5 November 2009 at the Lyttelton Theatre at the Royal National Theatre, with the central roles filled by Alex Jennings as Britten and Richard Griffiths as Auden (the latter replacing Michael Gambon, who had to withdraw from the production due to minor ill health).",
" The performance of April 22, 2010 was broadcast to more than 200 cinemas worldwide by NTLive."
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"Pete and Dud: Come Again is a stage play about British \"Beyond the Fringe\" comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, which was written by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde.",
" The comedy-drama had a sellout run at the Assembly Rooms as part of the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was shortlisted for a Fringe First Award by The Scotsman, before moving to London's West End at The Venue in March 2006; this version starred Kevin Bishop as Moore, Tom Goodman-Hill as Cook, Colin Hoult as Jonathan Miller and Fergus Craig as Alan Bennett.",
" It was published in playtext form by Methuen."
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"The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings.",
" It was written by Alan Bennett, and it tells the true story of his interactions with Mary Shepherd, an elderly woman who lived in a dilapidated van on his driveway in London for 15 years.",
" He had previously published the story as a 1989 essay, 1990 book, 1999 stage play, and 2009 radio play on BBC Radio 4.",
" Smith had previously portrayed Shepherd twice: in the 1999 stage play, which earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 2000 Olivier Awards and in the 2009 radio adaptation."
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" It was directed by Nicholas Hytner, who directed the original production at the Royal National Theatre in London, and features the original cast of the play."
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" He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue.",
" He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years.",
" His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue \"Beyond the Fringe\" at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame.",
" He gave up academia, and turned to writing full-time, his first stage play \"Forty Years On\" being produced in 1968."
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" He is best known for his appearances in \"On the Shore of the Wide World\" and as Scripps in Cast B and C of Alan Bennett's \"The History Boys\".",
" working alongside Steven Webb and Matt Smith."
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" His wide-ranging baritone is regarded as among the best male voices of country music, and his innovations, such as propelling the country beat from 2/4 to 4/4, known as the \"Ray Price beat\", helped make country music more popular.",
" Some of his well-known recordings include \"Release Me\", \"Crazy Arms\", \"Heartaches by the Number\", \"For the Good Times\", \"Night Life\", and \"You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me\".",
" He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.",
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" The station primarily serves the Greater Danbury listening area.",
" The station is owned by Townsquare Media and broadcasts from a tower located in Patterson, New York near the Putnam/Dutchess county line.",
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" The music has its roots in earlier subgenres like honky tonk and rockabilly and is characterized by a blend of rock and folk rhythms, country instrumentation and introspective lyrics.",
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"Texas country music (more popularly known just as Texas country or Texas music) is a rapidly growing subgenre of American country music.",
" Texas country is known for fusing traditionalist root sounds (similar to neotraditional country) with the outspoken, care-free views of outlaw country.",
" Texas country blends these subgenres by featuring a \"take it or leave it\" approach, a \"common working man\" theme, and witty undertones.",
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" It was an attempt \"to revive country sales, which had been devastated by the rise of rock 'n' roll.\""
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"Brad Hawkins (born January 13, 1976) is an American actor, country singer, and martial artist, best known for playing Ryan Steele in Saban's action adventure science fantasy series \"VR Troopers\" (1994–1996, and with 92 total episode appearances) and for his role in the 2014 film \"Boyhood\".",
" He also provided the (uncredited) voice of Trey of Triforia, the Gold Ranger in \"Power Rangers Zeo\".",
" In 1999, he starred as Tyler Hart in the CBS miniseries \"\", filmed in Charlotte and Mooresville, NC.",
" Before becoming an actor, he attended and graduated from Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas.",
" He was a country music singer for 3 years in the \"country music capital\", Nashville, Tennessee.",
" His country song \"We Lose\" became a No. 1 video hit on Country Music Television and Great American Country country music television channels.",
" He starred in the slasher film \"Shredder\" in 2003.",
" His most recent acting role was as a motion capture actor for id Software's \"Doom 4\".",
" He also works as a voice actor, often with Funimation, including roles in \"D.Gray-man\" and \"\"."
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" He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Fender Telecaster electric guitar.",
" Nichols is considered one of the founders of the country music subgenre the “Bakersfield Sound,” which includes such notable country artists as Haggard, Buck Owens, Don Rich, ["
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" He was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay colony, the son of Joseph Howe, a tin plate worker of Puritan ancestry, and Rebeccah Hart."
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"Adisadel College, popularly known as \"Adisco\", is an Anglican boys school in Cape Coast, Ghana.",
" Key aspects of the school's administration and curriculum were originally modelled on the English public school system during the colonial era.",
" The present curriculum falls within the Senior High School system in Ghana, with overall oversight by the Ghana Education Service.",
" The word \"Adisco\" is a portmanteau of \"Adisadel\" and \"College\".",
" The school is named after what used to be a small village on the outskirts of the Cape Coast township - Adisadel Village.",
" In recent times, the village has expanded considerably and gradually merged imperceptibly with the main township.",
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" He served briefly as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell."
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" He was ordained in 1944, he began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate at All Saints, Scarborough.",
" He was Chaplain at Adisadel College Gold Coast and then Vice-Principal of Edinburgh Theological College.",
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" It was created on 12 May 1741 for John Howe, who had earlier represented Wiltshire in Parliament.",
" In 1736 he had succeeded to the estates of his cousin Sir Richard Howe, 2nd Baronet (see Howe Baronets and below).",
" He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, John, the second Baron.",
" He served as Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.",
" He was childless and on his death in 1762 the title passed to his younger brother, Henry, the third Baron.",
" He was unmarried and was succeeded by his nephew, John, the fourth Baron.",
" He was the eldest surviving son of Reverend the Honourable Thomas Howe, younger son of the first Baron.",
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" It is a grade II listed building built in the 18th century and is named after a former Judaism scholar and College Chaplain.",
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5a8a5e435542996c9b8d5ec8 | Kevin Quinn starred in a Disney channel series which was a spinoff of what show? | Jessie | bridge | medium | {
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"Kevin Quinn (born January 23, 1958) is a Canadian sportscaster for Sportsnet.",
" Quinn attended the University of Western Ontario and obtained a degree in psychology.",
" Quinn started as an anchor for CKVR Television in Barrie, Ontario, also doing play-by-play for an OHL game every week.",
" Quinn was hired by Sportsnet, and was a co-anchor for \"SportsCentral\".",
" Following Jim Robson's retirement, Quinn started doing play-by-play of Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames games.",
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" Formed in 2005, they gained popularity from their appearances on the Disney Channel television network.",
" They consist of three brothers: Paul Kevin Jonas II, Joseph Adam Jonas, and Nicholas Jerry Jonas.",
" Raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the Jonas Brothers moved to Little Falls, New Jersey in 2005, where they wrote their first record that made its Hollywood release.",
" In the summer of 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie \"Camp Rock\" and its sequel, \"\".",
" They also starred as Kevin, Joe, and Nick Lucas, the band JONAS, in their own Disney Channel series \"JONAS\", which was later re-branded for its second season as \"Jonas L.A.\" The show was eventually cancelled after two seasons.",
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"Piper Joy Curda (born August 16, 1997) is an American actress and singer.",
" She is known for her roles as Jasmine in the Disney Channel series \"I Didn't Do It\", and as Alyssa in the Disney Channel Original Movie \"Teen Beach 2\".",
" Previously Curda appeared in a recurring role in the third season of the Disney Channel series \"A.N.T. Farm\"."
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"Genevieve Knight \"G\" Hannelius (born December 22, 1998) is an American actress and singer.",
" She starred as Avery Jennings in the Disney Channel sitcom \"Dog with a Blog\".",
" Prior to this, she had recurring roles in the Disney Channel series \"Sonny with a Chance\" and \"Good Luck Charlie\".",
" She has also starred in \"Leo Little's Big Show\" and has done voice work as Rosebud in the \"Air Buddies\" films.",
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"Cory in the House is a television show, which aired on the Disney Channel from January 12, 2007, to September 12, 2008, and was a spin-off from the Disney show \"That's So Raven\".",
" The show focuses on Cory Baxter, who moves from San Francisco, California to Washington, D.C. with his father, after Victor Baxter gets a new job in the White House as the official head chef.",
" The series marks a Disney Channel first, as it is the channel's first spin-off.",
" This is also the only Disney Channel spin-off series to be broadcast in standard definition for the entire length of the show.",
" Reruns of the series have not been produced on Disney Channel, or on Disney XD; however they continue to air on the Family channel in Canada.",
" Raven-Symoné guest-starred, reprising her role as Raven Baxter in one episode.",
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"Joseph Adam \"Joe\" Jonas (born August 15, 1989) is an American singer and actor.",
" Jonas first rose to fame as a member of the pop-rock band Jonas Brothers, along with his brothers Kevin and Nick.",
" The band's debut album, \"It's About Time\" (2006), was a commercial failure following a limited release.",
" The group signed with Hollywood Records, and in 2007 released their eponymous second studio album.",
" The album went on to be a commercial success for the group, selling over two million copies in the United States alone.",
" The group became heavily involved with the Disney Channel and later made their film debut in the Disney Channel Original Movie \"Camp Rock\" (2008).",
" The film and its soundtrack became a major hit for the network and helped propel the brothers into further commercial success.",
" Their third studio album, \"A Little Bit Longer\" (2008), became their first to top the \"Billboard\" 200 and went on to become their highest selling album to date.",
" The album's lead single became a top five hit in the United States.",
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" is a musical based on the Disney Channel Original Movie \"High School Musical\", with music and lyrics by Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, Ray and Greg Cham, Drew Seeley, Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn, Andy Dodd, Adam Watts, Bryan Louiselle, David N. Lawrence, Faye Greenberg and Jamie Houston, and a book by David Simpatico.",
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"Elk Garden is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.",
" It is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'.",
" The population was 232 at the 2010 census.",
" Elk Garden High School was consolidated into Keyser High School in 1997.",
" However the Primary School is still in session, offering classes from Pre-Kindergarten through the fifth grade.",
" The school mascot is the Elk Garden Stags.",
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" The population was 812 at the 2010 census.",
" Superior was named after its founders' hometown of Superior, Wisconsin in 1869.",
" The post office was established in 1871 after Mineral County became the site of one of the largest gold strikes that helped settle the West."
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"Larry Crowder is a legislator in the U.S. of State of Colorado.",
" Elected to the Colorado Senate in 2012, he currently represents Senate District 35 which encompasses parts of Pueblo County, and all of Alamosa County, Baca County, Bent County, Conejos County, Costilla County, Crowley County, Custer County, Huerfano County, Kiowa County, Las Animas County, Mineral County, Otero County, Prowers County, Rio Grande County, and Saguache County."
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"Spar City (also Fisher City) is an unincorporated community in Mineral County, Colorado, United States.",
" It lies along an unpaved road southwest of the town of Creede, the county seat of Mineral County.",
" Its elevation is 9,465 feet (2,885 m)."
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"Mineral County Airport (FAA LID: 9S4) is a county-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) southeast of the central business district of Superior, a town in Mineral County, Montana, United States.",
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"Jack Tate is a Republican legislator in the U.S. State of Colorado.",
" He represents Senate District 27 in the Denver Metro Area, which encompasses parts of unincorporated Arapahoe County, the City of Centennial, and the town of Foxfield.",
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"Hawthorne is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mineral County, Nevada, United States.",
" At the 2010 census, the population was 3,269, a decrease since the 2000 census, when it was 3,311.",
" It is the county seat of Mineral County.",
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"State Route 360 (SR 360) is a state highway in the southern portion of Mineral County, Nevada, United States.",
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"Gordon Hendrick (February 16, 1949) is a former Republican member of the Montana Legislature.",
" He was elected to House District 14 which represents the Superior area.",
" Due to Montana's term limits, he was ineligible to run for re-election in 2012.",
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" Originally a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of the Counts of Tyrol, it was inherited by the Counts of Gorizia in 1253 and finally fell to the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1363.",
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"Daniel Mecséry de Tsoor (29 September 1759 – 30 December 1823) commanded the left wing of the Austrian army at the Battle of Raab during the Napoleonic Wars.",
" In the early part of the French Revolutionary Wars, he served as an officer in the 3rd hussar regiment, distinguishing himself at Biberach in 1796 and later rising to command the 10th hussar regiment in 1798.",
" Promoted to general officer in 1800, he led the advance guard at Hohenlinden and the rear guard at Lambach.",
" In 1805 he led his troops at Elchingen.",
" At Eschenau on 20 October 1805 he was seriously injured on his head and bust, his miraculous recovery of the grievous wounds earning him \"the Toughest Headed Hungarian\" nickname.",
" He was elevated in rank to Feldmarschall-Leutnant in 1809.",
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" A nobleman from the House of Kinsky, he began his military service in 1759 and within ten years he commanded an infantry regiment.",
" Ahead of his time, he began a school in his regiment to train officer cadets.",
" As a general officer he led troops in a successful action against Prussia in 1778.",
" A year later he was appointed Inhaber of an infantry regiment and Director of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt; he held both posts during the remainder of his life.",
" In the Flanders Campaign in 1794, he commanded an infantry division against the French.",
" He led an attack column at Tourcoing where he failed to support Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.",
" He was promoted to Feldzeugmeister in September 1794.",
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"Vinko Knežević or Vincent Knesevich de Szent-Helena (30 November 1755 – 11 March 1832) was a Croatian nobleman and general in the Habsburg Monarchy imperial army service.",
" He fought in many battles during the Austro-Turkish War and the French Revolutionary Wars.",
" In 1799 he led a hussar regiment at Cassano, the Trebbia and Novi.",
" He commanded an infantry brigade at Marengo the following year and led Austrian Empire troops in the Tyrol in 1805 and at Graz in 1809.",
" He served in various assignments on the Military Border from 1809 to 1812.",
" From 1802 he lived on his estate Sveta Jelena (\"Szent-Ilona\" in Hungarian, named after Empress St. Helen) in former Zala County, modern-day Međimurje County in northern Croatia.",
" By the end of Napoleonic Wars he retired from military service as a General der Kavallerie in 1815.",
" He became Proprietor of a dragoon regiment in 1809 and held that office until his death in 1832."
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"The Kaiserjäger (officially designated by the Imperial and Royal (\"k.u.k.\") military administration as the \"Tiroler Jäger-Regimenter\" or \"Tyrolean Rifle Regiments\"), were formed in 1895 as four normal infantry regiments within the Common Army of Austria-Hungary.",
" Despite the name \"Tirol\" in its title its members were not just recruited from the crown land of Tyrol (including Vorarlberg) but also from other parts of the monarchy.",
" The regiments were disbanded in 1918 with the end of the k.u.k. monarchy.",
" The word \"Jäger\" (meaning \"hunter\" or \"huntsman\") is a characteristic term used for light infantry or light infantrymen in German-speaking military context."
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"The III Corps of the Grande Armée was the designation of a few military units during the Napoleonic Wars.",
" The III Corps came to prominence between 1805 and 1809 under the command of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout, when it repeatedly scored impressive victories single-handedly or in conjunction with other French forces.",
" Napoleon called it \"\"My tenth legion\"\", in reference to Julius Caesar's finest unit, the X Equestris.",
" Then troops from that Corps took part in many battles in Poland (1807) e.g. Czarnowo, Pultusk, Golymin, Eylau, in Bavaria at Teugen-Hausen, Eckmuhl and in Austria 1809 at Wagram.",
" These troops later were reorganized as I Corps and included French, German/Polish units.",
" It also included the 127th to 129th \"\"régiment d'infanterie de ligne\"\" from the north German countries of Oldenburg, Bremen and Hamburg that were annexed shortly before and thus counted as French."
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"The Siege of Santo Domingo of 1805 was a major battle of the Franco-Haitian War and was fought on March, 1805 at Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue.",
" A force of some 2,000 French troops led by Gen. Marie-Louis Ferrand resisted a siege of three weeks by a force of 21,000 troops of the Haitian Army led by General Jean Jacques Dessalines.",
" The siege lasted until the city received naval support from six French frigates."
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" After Austria's defeat in the War of the Third Coalition the County of Tyrol and the Vorarlberg were ceded to Bavaria in the Fourth Peace of Pressburg on 26 December 1805.",
" Angry at the imposition of Bavarian laws and conscription, the Tyrolese rebelled in support of Austria.",
" During the first week, local irregular forces killed or captured the main Bavarian garrison and also forced a French force to capitulate."
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"The Das Land Südtirol (English: The State of South Tyrol ) is a monthly German-language publication of the \"Südtiroler Landtag\" (South Tyrolian Landtag) in South Tyrol.",
" The journal is published, with the exception of January and August, ten times a year in the first week of the month.",
" Each edition features a several pages long summary of the previous sessions of the assembly.",
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"Octopus: The Best of Syd Barrett, released 29 May 1992, is a one-disc compilation of songs by Syd Barrett.",
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" Directed by John Edginton, the film includes interviews with all the Pink Floyd members - Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright - plus the \"fifth Pink Floyd\", Bob Klose, who left the band in 1965, getting their points of view on the original band founder Syd Barrett.",
" The film includes rare early television appearances of Pink Floyd, and home movies."
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"Nate Albert (born 1970) is an American music executive, songwriter, producer and guitar player.",
" He is currently the Executive Vice President of A&R at Capitol Records a division of Universal Music Group.",
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"Beyond the Wildwood – A Tribute to Syd Barrett is a tribute album consisting of music written by Pink Floyd's original guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter Syd Barrett.",
" The musicians performing on the album are British and American indie rock artists.",
" The songs featured come from Pink Floyd's singles; the albums \"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn\" and \"A Saucerful of Secrets\"; and Barrett's two solo albums: \"The Madcap Laughs\" and \"Barrett\".",
" Although Barrett's productive recording career had only lasted from 1967 though 1970, his music had a great influence on the development of psychedelic rock, alternative rock and indie rock music."
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"Seventh Brings Return: A Tribute to Syd Barrett is a live video by Brazilian psychedelic rock band Violeta de Outono, released by Voiceprint Records in 2009.",
" It was recorded during a show at the Teatro Popular do SESI on July 17, 2006, in which they covered numerous Pink Floyd songs as a tribute to their former lead vocalist and founding member Syd Barrett, as well as a song of his 1970 solo album \"The Madcap Laughs\"."
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"Roger Keith \"Syd\" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English musician, composer, singer-songwriter, and painter.",
" Best known as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band.",
" Barrett was excluded from Pink Floyd in April 1968 after David Gilmour took over as their new guitarist, and was briefly hospitalised amid speculation of mental illness."
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"Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement.",
" Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene.",
" He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others.",
" After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France.",
" His last album was \"The Unfairground\", recorded in New York City, Tucson, and London in 2006.",
" The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: \"Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music.",
" Everything that came after came from them.\""
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" He is a Bolivian drug dealer and the chief supplier of cocaine for Tony Montana.",
" Only when Sosa was felt betrayed did his relationship with Tony Montana end.",
" Sosa is portrayed by Paul Shenar in the film and voiced by Robert Davi in the game.",
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"Frank Lucas (born September 9, 1930) is an American former drug trafficker, who operated in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s.",
" He was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle.",
" Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen, but this claim is denied by his South East Asian associate, Leslie \"Ike\" Atkinson.",
" Rather than hide the drugs in the coffins, they were hidden in the pallets underneath as depicted in the 2007 feature film \"American Gangster\" in which he was played by Denzel Washington, although the film fictionalized elements of Lucas' life for dramatic effect."
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"Walter Douglas (born 1961) is an alleged Scottish drug trafficker and organised crime figure, dubbed the Tartan Pimpernel by the press, who is reportedly one of the richest in the United Kingdom with an estimated worth of £20 million.",
" He was allegedly wanted in at least three countries on drug trafficking and gun running charges as of 2003, and Douglas was reported to have had ties to numerous international criminal organisations in Europe and North America as the head of the Delta crime syndicate.",
" But in fact nothing has ever been proved against Douglas.",
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"Mickey Munday (born June 29, 1945) is an American former drug trafficker and former associate of Colombia's Medellin Cartel during the growth phase in cocaine trafficking, 1975–1985.",
" Munday was featured in the 2006 Rakontur documentary, \"Cocaine Cowboys.\""
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"George Jacob Jung (born August 6, 1942), nicknamed Boston George and El Americano, is a former drug trafficker and smuggler who was a major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s.",
" Jung was a part of the Medellín Cartel, which was responsible for up to 85 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States.",
" He specialized in the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia on a large scale.",
" His life story was portrayed in the biopic \"Blow\" (2001), starring Johnny Depp.",
" Jung was released from prison on June 2, 2014, after serving nearly 20 years for drug-smuggling.",
" On December 6, 2016 Jung was arrested and booked in Sacramento County jail for around a month, due to violating his parole.",
" He was arrested while giving a speech in San Diego."
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"Rafael Cedeño Hernández is an imprisoned Mexican drug trafficker who was a high-level leader of La Familia Michoacana, a drug cartel based in the Mexican state of Michoacán.",
" He was the successor of Alberto Espinoza Barrón, a drug trafficker who was arrested on 31 December 2008 by the Mexican authorities."
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"Rafael Caro Quintero (born October 3, 1952) is a Mexican drug trafficker who founded the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel with Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and other drug traffickers in the 1970s.",
" He is the brother of fellow drug trafficker Miguel Caro Quintero, the founder and former leader of the extinct Sonora Cartel who remains incarcerated."
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"Richard \"Pee Wee\" Kirkland (born May 6, 1945) is a former street basketball player and a former drug trafficker."
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"Héctor Manuel Sauceda Gamboa (died 17 February 2009), commonly referred to by his alias El Karis, was an alleged drug trafficker and high-ranking leader of the Gulf Cartel (Spanish: \"Cártel del Golfo\"), a Mexican drug trafficking organization.",
" He was the brother of the drug lord Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, another high-ranking drug trafficker who worked under the tutelage of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former top leader of the cartel."
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"American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.",
" The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by detective Richie Roberts.",
" The film stars Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in their first lead acting roles together since 1995's \"Virtuosity\".",
" The film also co-stars Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr."
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5a8b560855429950cd6afcba | Who co-authored a 2003 biography of Muhammad Ali along with Don Atyeo, in which chapter on Ali's fight with a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist has been described as "an absolute classic"? | Felix Dennis | bridge | easy | {
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"Tim Witherspoon (born December 27, 1957) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2003.",
" He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the WBC title in 1984, and the WBA title in 1986.",
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"A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold is 2011 autobiography of Indian Olympic Gold medalist Abhinav Bindra.",
" He won the medal in the 10-metre air rifle category, which made him India's first ever individual gold medalist; this victory came after received the seventh rank at the 2004 Athens Olympics.",
" However, due to Bindra's inexperience in writing, he co-authored the book with sportswriter Rohit Brijnath, which took them two years to complete.",
" After it was released on October 20, 2011, at nationwide stores by Hapercollins, Union Sports minister Ajay Maken formally released the book on October 27, 2011, at a function in New Delhi.",
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"Muhammad Ali: The Glory Years is a 2003 biography of Muhammad Ali co-authored by Felix Dennis and Don Atyeo.",
" The book is described as a photo-rich biography focussing on Ali's boxing fights starting from the age of 12 to his retirement.",
" The book is based upon the authors's interviews with Ali, and also interviews with Ali's friends, family, opponents, and trainers.",
" The book's coverage of Ali's boxing matches has been praised while the chapter on Ali's fight with George Foreman has been described as \"an absolute classic.\"",
" According to a review in \"Mint\", the book features \"[s]ports writing at its best.\""
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"George Louis Chuvalo, CM (born September 12, 1937) is a retired Canadian professional boxer who was a five-time Canadian heavyweight champion, and two-time world heavyweight title challenger.",
" Chuvalo, who is considered by many to have one of the best chins in boxing history, was never knocked down in his amateur career or his 93-fight professional career and was ranked #4 on ESPN's greatest chin in boxing history list.",
" Chuvalo lost to Hall of Fame heavyweights such as Floyd Patterson, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, but was credited for his spirited performances.",
" He did defeat top contenders such as Yvon Durelle, Doug Jones, Jerry Quarry and Cleveland Williams.",
" He fought for the world title twice, losing a controversial decision to Ernie Terrell and another decision in his first fight with Ali."
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"Thomas Michael Jager (born October 6, 1964) is an American former competition swimmer.",
" He is five-time Olympic gold medalist in relay events, a two-time World Championship individual gold medalist for the 50-meter freestyle, and a former world record-holder in two events.",
" Jager set the 50-meter freestyle world record on six occasions during his career.",
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"Alfrederick \"Al\" Joyner (born January 19, 1960) is an American former athlete and now coach.",
" He was born in East St. Louis, Illinois.",
" He is the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump.",
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"Cassius Marcellus Clay (November 11, 1912 – February 8, 1990) was an American painter and musician.",
" He was the father of three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali and Rahman Ali, and the grandfather of Laila Ali.",
" He married Odessa Lee O'Grady in the 1930s and worked as a painter and a musician.",
" He was described as \"a handsome, mercurial, noisy, combative failed dreamer\" and a \"hard-drinking, skirt-chasing dandy of a daddy\".",
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"Sebastien N'Guessan Konan is a taekwondo athlete from Côte d'Ivoire.",
" He started Taekwondo at a very young age.",
" He is a two-time Olympic athlete.",
" Sebastien Konan is the athlete who officially represented Côte d'Ivoire for the first time at the Olympic Games in Taekwondo when the sport became an olympic event in Sydney, Australia.",
" Sebastien Konan has won many gold medals in national and international competitions.",
" He was decorated 3 times with the Medal of Honor from the Ministry of Sport and the Chancellor.",
" He was ambassador of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a scholarship bearer.",
" He won the gold medal at the 1999 All-Africa Games in Taekwondo for the first time in Côte d'Ivoire and the gold medal at the 2006 US Taekwondo Open and US National.",
" He is a 4 time gold medalist at the African Taekwondo Championships, a 2 time gold medalist at the World Francophonie Cup, a 15 time National Champion, and a gold medalist in many other international open tournaments."
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"The Rumble in the Jungle was a historic boxing event in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) on October 30, 1974 (at 4:00 am).",
" Held at the 20th of May Stadium (now the Stade Tata Raphaël), it pitted the undefeated world heavyweight champion George Foreman against challenger Muhammad Ali, a former heavyweight champion; the attendance was 60,000.",
" Ali won by knockout, putting Foreman down just before the end of the eighth round.",
" It has been called \"arguably the greatest sporting event of the 20th century\".",
" The event was one of Don King's first ventures as a professional boxing promoter."
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5a7a82365542994f819ef200 | The professional ice hockey league that the Peoria Rivermen are part of is based in what state? | North Carolina | bridge | medium | {
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" Short (born (1973--) 16, 1973 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player.",
" He played with the Dukes of Hamilton, Sudbury Wolves and Guelph Storm.",
" Short attended the University of New Brunswick and played for the Canadian National Team.",
" He was with the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League (AHL) and Hampton Roads Admirals of the ECHL from 1996 to 1998, the Sheffield Steelers and the Manchester Storm of the Ice Hockey Superleague from 1998 to 2002, the Fresno Falcons of the West Coast Hockey League in 2002–03, and the Las Vegas Wranglers and Peoria Rivermen of the ECHL in 2003–04."
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"Shannon Finn (born January 25, 1972) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the International Hockey League and American Hockey League.",
" He also played for the Minnesota Moose, Peoria Rivermen, Fort Wayne Komets, Utah Grizzlies, Milwaukee Admirals, Hershey Bears, Houston Aeros, and Detroit Vipers.",
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"Jean-Guy Andre Trudel (born October 10, 1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger.",
" He played five games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Phoenix Coyotes and the Minnesota Wild.",
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"Justin Fletcher (born 30 March 1983) is a professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Tohoku Free Blades of the Asia League.",
" He previously played with Augsburger Panther in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).",
" He has also played 179 regular-season games in the American Hockey League for the Springfield Falcons, Norfolk Admirals, Rockford IceHogs, and Peoria Rivermen.",
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"Mike Hoffman (born September 20, 1980) is an American former professional ice hockey player.",
" After leaving the University of Connecticut in 2003, he began his first pro season playing with the Worcester IceCats in the AHL and the Peoria Rivermen of the ECHL.",
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"The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies is a textbook and atlas of 35 well studied galaxies (including our Galaxy) authored by Glen Mackie of the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology.",
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"Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus is the foreign branch campus of Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia and is located in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.",
" Established in 2000, Swinburne Sarawak operates as a partnership between the Sarawak State Government and Swinburne Australia.",
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"Professor Matthew Bailes is an astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology and the Director of OzGrav, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery.",
" In 2015 he won an ARC Laureate Fellowship to work on Fast Radio Bursts.",
" He is one of the most active researchers in pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts in the world.",
" His research interests includes the birth, evolution of binary and millisecond pulsars, gravitational waves detection using an array of millisecond pulsars and radio astronomy data processing system design for Fast Radio Burst discovery.",
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"Swinburne Online is the online arm of Swinburne University of Technology which is an Australian university based in Melbourne, Victoria.",
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"Philip Ives Dunne (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965.",
" He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox crafting well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium.",
" Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the \"Hollywood Blacklist\" episode of the 1940s-1950s.",
" He is best known for the films \"How Green Was My Valley\" (1941), \"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir\" (1947), \"The Robe\" (1953) and \"The Agony and the Ecstasy\" (1965)."
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" He directed episodes of a wide variety of U.S. television series from the 1950s through the 1980s, including \"McHale's Navy\", \"The Ghost & Mrs. Muir\", \"Adam-12\", \"The Dukes of Hazzard\", \"H.R. Pufnstuf\", \"Mystery Island\" and \"Rocky Jones, Space Ranger\".",
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" The working title was \"Running Scared\".",
" The title is presumably a humorous variation of the film \"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir\" (1947)."
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" It is one of the \"Big Six\" major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills.",
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" Starting as an arranger and pianist with several notable big bands in the 1940s, he segued into the Hollywood radio scene, working on several nationally-broadcast variety programs.",
" After conducting an Army Air Force Band during World War II, he was hired by Columbia Pictures as a staff pianist and orchestrator.",
" He worked as pianist on several hundred motion pictures, worked with many famous composers orchestrating their soundtrack compositions, and created original compositions of his own in several dozen movies.",
" It was Greeley's hands that performed the piano parts that Tyrone Power mimed in \"The Eddy Duchin Story.\"",
" Concurrent with his work at Columbia Pictures, George Greeley also worked at Capitol Records as music director, pianist, and conductor for many artists such as Gordon MacRae, Jane Powell, Jo Stafford, Frankie Laine, and Doris Day.",
" He was hired in the late 1950s by the newly established Warner Brothers Records.",
" George Greeley arranged, orchestrated and performed as primary artist for a series of hit recordings entitled \"Popular Piano Concertos.\"",
" As music tastes changed in the late 1960s, Greeley had already moved into television, composing themes and music for popular TV series like \"My Favorite Martian,\" \"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,\" \"Nanny and the Professor,\" and \"Small Wonder.\"",
" He performed as featured piano soloist and as guest conductor in concert appearances around the world.",
" George Greeley died from emphysema at age 89 in Los Angeles, California."
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"The Prospect Studios (also known as ABC Television Center [West]) is a lot containing several television studios located at 4151 Prospect Avenue in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the corner of Prospect and Talmadge Street (named in honor of silent screen star Norma Talmadge), just east of Hollywood.",
" For more than 50 years, this facility served as the West Coast headquarters of the American Broadcasting Company before the network moved its main headquarters to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.",
" From 1949 to 1999, ABC-owned Los Angeles television station KABC-TV was also located there.",
" The station moved to a new state-of-the-art facility located on a portion of Disney's Grand Central Creative Campus (GC3) in nearby Glendale, California, in December 1999.",
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"Ghost Stories Live 2014 is the fourth live album and a concert film by the British alternative rock band Coldplay.",
" The album, a live recorded version of the band's sixth studio album \"Ghost Stories\", was released by Parlophone in the United Kingdom on 24 November 2014.",
" A DVD from one of the \"Ghost Stories\" concerts that was filmed at Sony Studios, Los Angeles in March 2014, is included with the Live CD.",
" The performance was previously shown on NBC, however it differs from the TV special as it only includes the performances of the songs from \"Ghost Stories\" and the NBC special only featured 6 songs from \"Ghost Stories\" and the previous hits, \"Clocks,\" \"Viva la Vida,\" and \"Paradise\".",
" According to the band's official website, it was filmed by Grammy Award-nominated director Paul Dugdale, in a custom-built amphitheatre at Sony Studios, Los Angeles, the ground-breaking production sets the band's performance against stunning 360-degree and overhead imagery."
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"Stillwater Cove Regional Park is a regional park north of Jenner, California, U.S.A. that is maintained by the Sonoma County Regional Parks Department.",
" It is located near the mouth of Stockhoff Creek.",
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" It was one of the filming locations for 20th Century Fox's 1947 fantasy film, \"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir\"."
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" Schultz currently hosts a daily primetime weekday show on RT America TV channel based in Washington, D.C., that is part of the RT network.",
" Schultz has hosted a nationally syndicated podcast, \"Ed Schultz News and Commentary\", since 2015 and a nightly television show, \"News with Ed Schultz\", since 2016.",
" He was the host of \"The Ed Show\", a weekday news talk program on MSNBC, and \"The Ed Schultz Show\", a talk radio show, nationally syndicated by Dial Global.",
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" Formerly a radio talk show host with KGO 810 AM in San Francisco, California, Ward served a six-year prison sentence for the online distribution of child pornography.",
" Ward, once billed by KGO as \"The Lion of the Left\" and \"unabashedly liberal,\" was the host of the daily news talk program, \"The Bernie Ward Show,\" and the three-hour program, \"GodTalk\", on Sunday mornings.",
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" He has been a member of The Second City as well as a performer and teacher at iO Theater, formerly known as \"Improv Olympic\".",
" He has appeared in movies such as \"Stranger Than Fiction\", \"The Ice Harvest\", \"No Sleep Till Madison\", \"Get Hard\" and the television show, \"Prison Break\".",
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" Prior to joining the show, Null was known for performing at the iO Theater in Chicago specializing in musical comedy.",
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"Charlotte \"Lola\" Rhodes is a recurring character who exclusively appeared in the \"Gossip Girl\" television adaptation.",
" Created by series producer Joshua Safran, Lola Rhodes is portrayed by actress Ella Rae Peck.",
" The character of Charlotte \"Charlie\" Rhodes was initially introduced in the second half of season four, though this was later revealed to be Ivy Dickens, a struggling actress paid to impersonate her so that her mother, Carol Rhodes, could gain access to Lola's trust fund.",
" Ella Rae Peck later appeared during the second half of the fifth season to portray the role.",
" Lola is the cousin and biological half sister, technically three-quarter sister, of Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) as a result of William van der Woodsen's (William Baldwin) affair with Lily Humphrey's sister, Carol Rhodes (Sheila Kelley)."
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"Nightjohn is a 1996 television movie about a young slave girl who lives a hopeless life on a Southern plantation.",
" Her job is to take care of the white family’s son as well as spitting tobacco on the roses to keep bugs away.",
" Her life is changed when she is taught how to read by a fellow slave.",
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" Her excitement towards reading gets her and her fellow slaves in trouble with their master, Mr. Waller, who prohibits any slave from being able to read.",
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" Her life is captured in her autobiography, \"A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.\"",
" It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education.",
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"Salonia was a Roman slave, and later freedwoman who lived during the mid-2nd century BC, and who was the second wife of Cato the Elder.",
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" She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer.",
" Jacobs wrote an autobiographical novel, \"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\", first serialized in a newspaper and published as a book in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent.",
" It was a reworking of the genres of slave narrative and sentimental novel, and was one of the first books to address the struggle for freedom by female slaves, explore their struggles with sexual harassment abuse, and their effort to protect their roles as women and mothers."
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"Noni Carter (born May 22, 1991) is an American author from Fayetteville, Georgia, whose first book, \"Good Fortune\", was released by Simon & Schuster in January 2010.",
" The young-adult novel is about the life of a slave girl who was snatched from her homeland in Africa in the early 19th century and brought to the United States, where she eventually escaped from a plantation and fled to freedom.",
" Carter, who started attending Harvard University as a freshman in the fall of 2009, is one of the youngest writers signed by Simon & Schuster."
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"Patricia L'Ann Carwell \"Pat\" McKissack (August 9, 1944 – April 7, 2017) was an American children's writer.",
" She was the author of three \"Dear America\" books: \"A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl\", \"Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love\", \"The Great Migration North\", and \"Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl\".",
" She has also written a novel for The Royal Diaries series: \"\".",
" Patricia lived in St. Louis.",
" Her husband, Fredrick McKissack, with whom she co-won the Regina Medal in 1998, died in April 2013 at the age of 73; before marrying her and joining her in writing full-time, he had an accomplished career as a U.S. Marine, a civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and had owned a contracting business in the St. Louis area."
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"The Girl or the Vase (Polish: Wazon czy kobieta ), also known as \"The Presentation of the Slave\", is an 1878 painting by the Polish artist Henryk Siemiradzki.",
" The subject is from ancient Rome and shows a patrician who contemplates on whether he should buy an East Asian vase or a slave girl.",
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"Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl is a 1954 Action-adventure film about a woman who disguises herself as a slave girl in order to try to gain information from Captain Kidd about his hidden treasure.",
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" Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent.",
" The book documents Jacobs' life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children.",
" Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels \"to address race and gender issues.\"",
" She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that female slaves faced on plantations as well as their efforts to practice motherhood and protect their children when their children might be sold away."
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" On American markets, the show is still aired; however, it is now moved to NBA TV beginning with the 2008-09 season.",
" Ahmad Rashād has been the only host of this show and has brought on the show famous NBA athletes and coaches such as Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson, Vince Carter, and many more.",
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" He replaced Ralph Strangis beginning with the 2015-16 season.",
" Until the 2015 Stanley Cup playoffs, he was the No. 2 play-by-play announcer (behind Mike Emrick) for the \"NHL on NBC\" and \"NHL on NBC Sports Network.\"",
" Strader also called games for the \"NHL on Versus\" before Versus changed names to NBC Sports Network (NBCSN).",
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" Other programming from outside producers – such as coverage of the Ironman Triathlon – is also presented on the network through NBC Sports.",
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" Seward is a play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports.",
" In addition to calling various professional and college sports in America, Seward has been “on the mic” for NBC’s Olympic rugby coverage, \"Rugby World Cup\" on NBC, \"Rugby World Cup Sevens\" on NBC Sports Network, Varsity Cup, Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup, FIS Nordic Skiing World Cup, European Figure Skating Championships, FINA Synchronized Swimming World Cup, Vuelta a Espana, Eneco Cycling Tour, Tour of Belgium, Tour of Norway, 4 Days of Dunkirk, Paris Marathon, IBU Biathlon World Championships, Tour de Ski and the Four Hills World Cup ski jumping event.",
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" It was released on September 23, 2006 through A&M Records and the will.i.am Music Group as her first solo album since the break from her band The Black Eyed Peas.",
" The album was recorded between The Black Eyed Peas' tour in 2005, and the songs were written throughout the last eight years that preceded its release.",
" While developing the album, Fergie wanted to create an autobiographical album that would be more intimate between her and the listener.",
" By doing so, the album experiments with different music genres, including pop, hip hop, R&B, reggae, punk rock and soul.",
" Lyrically, \"The Dutchess\" has themes about love and critics, while also dealing with her drug abuse and addiction."
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"Sing A to Z is the tenth album by popular children's entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram, originally released in 1990.",
" This album, like many other Sharon, Lois & Bram albums has been re-released many times.",
" It is rumored that the idea for this album came from Lois when she and Sharon were window shopping and came across an alphabet quilt on display."
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"Real (リアル , Riaru ) is the second studio album from Bright under the Rhythm Zone record label of the Avex Group, released on 24 February 2010.",
" The album came in three versions: a CD+DVD version, a CD only version, and a CD only version with different cover art (only available to the Kinki region of Japan).",
" With the first press of the CD+DVD and CD only versions came a poster.",
" The album sold 4,437 copies in its first week, peaking at #38 on the Oricon charts."
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"Marvelous is Misia's third studio album and first self-produced album, released on April 25, 2001.",
" It sold 881,150 copies in its first week, peaked at #1 for two consecutive weeks, and spent five weeks in the Top 5.",
" The first pressing of the album came in sleeve case packaging.",
" \"Marvelous\" is the 118th best-selling album of all time in Japan.",
" It came in at #8 on the overall yearly chart, however \"Marvelous\" was the second highest selling original album of 2001, behind Hikaru Utada's \"Distance\"."
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"\"You Already Know\" is a song recorded by American singer and rapper Fergie, featuring guest vocals from Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj.",
" It was released on August 25, 2017, alongside promotional single \"Hungry\" as the fourth single from Fergie's second studio album, \"Double Dutchess\" (2017), the same day the album was made available for pre-order.",
" \"You Already Know\" is impacted mainstream and rhythmic radio on September 12, 2017.",
" As of September 2017, \"You Already Know\" moved 23,800 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan."
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"Seven Sisters is the second studio album by Swedish singer-songwriter Meja, released in 1998 by Columbia Records.",
" Again she collaborated with Billy Steinberg, along with her producer Douglas Carr and Jörgen Elofsson.",
" The album came to be her international breakthrough with her massive hit \"All 'bout the Money\".",
" The song was released worldwide and gave her awards such as “Best Album of the Year” “Best selling scandinavial artist” at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and “Best Pop Album” The album also features singles like “Intimacy” and “Pop & Television” The album sold approximately 1 million units worldwide.",
" “All About the Money” was also featured as a soundtrack to the Chevy Chase movie \"Funny Money\" in 2006.",
" The album was produced by Douglas Carr."
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" She is the female vocalist for the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, with whom she has achieved chart success worldwide.",
" Her debut solo album \"The Dutchess\" (2006) was a major commercial success on the charts and spawned three \"Billboard\" Hot 100 number one singles; \"London Bridge\", \"Glamorous\", and \"Big Girls Don't Cry\"."
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" It was released on September 22, 2017.",
" The album is the singer's first to be released under her own imprint, Dutchess Music, in a partnership with Retrofuture Productions and BMG Rights Management, and first since her solo debut, \"The Dutchess\" (2006).",
" Promotion for the album began with the release of the album's first single \"L.A. Love (La La)\" in late 2014. \"",
"M.I.L.F. $\" was released as the second single from the album in July 2016, followed by the release of \"Life Goes On\" in November that same year. \"",
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" \"Double Dutchess\" received mixed reviews from music critics."
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"12 Love Stories is an album released by Japanese rapper Dohzi-T.",
" The album came in 2 versions: CD only and CD+DVD.",
" The CD+DVD (named 12 Love Stories -Sweet Love Box-) was a limited edition containing 2 promotional videos.",
" This was the first album from Dohzi-T to chart in the top 10 on the Oricon Chart and selling over 200,000 copies.",
" All the songs in the album have the same theme: \"love\".",
" This album contains a lot of collaborations with various artists.",
" The album had as single release \"Mō Ichi do...\" which was a long charting hit selling over 80,000 copies.",
" This album is ranked as #55 on the yearly Oricon chart."
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"Mars Audiac Quintet is the third album by the band Stereolab, released in August 1994.",
" Initial releases of the CD came with bonus two-track disk, the double vinyl album came with a 7\".",
" During the recording of the album, guitarist Sean O'Hagan left as a full-time member to form his own group, while keyboardist Katharine Gifford was added."
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5a7c69f25542996dd594b921 | Who died at an earlier date, H. P. Lovecraft or Timothy Leary? | Howard Phillips Lovecraft | comparison | medium | {
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" The experiments began some time in 1960 and lasted until March 1962, when other professors in the Harvard Center for Research in Personality raised concerns about the legitimacy and safety of the experiments in an internal meeting."
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"Leary v. United States, 395 U.S. 6 (1969) , is a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with the constitutionality of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.",
" Timothy Leary, a professor and activist, was arrested for the possession of marijuana in violation of the Marihuana Tax Act.",
" Leary challenged the act on the ground that the act required self-incrimination, which violated the Fifth Amendment.",
" The unanimous opinion of the court was penned by Justice John Marshall Harlan II and declared the Marihuana Tax Act unconstitutional.",
" Thus, Leary's conviction was overturned.",
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"Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.",
" Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment.",
" Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student.",
" Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired in June, the following month.",
" He was fired, for \"failure to keep classroom appointments\", with his pay docked on April 30.",
" National illumination as to the effects of psychedelics did not occur until after the Harvard scandal."
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"The League for Spiritual Discovery was a spiritual organization inspired by the works of Timothy Leary, and strove for legal use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for the purpose of meditation, insight, and spiritual understanding.",
" It was in existence during the mid-to-late 1960s, and eventually closed by Leary.",
" The New York Center for the League of Spiritual Discovery, in existence for around a year, was co-founded by Timothy Leary and Nina Graboi in 1966.",
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"You Can Be Anyone This Time Around is an album by Timothy Leary released in 1970.",
" The disc features three \"raps\" by Leary backed with psychedelic music.",
" The purpose of the album was to raise funds for Leary's political candidacy for Governor of California."
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"H. P. Lovecraft is the debut album by the American psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft and was released in October 1967 by Philips Records.",
" It blended psychedelic and folk rock influences and was marked by the haunting, eerie ambiance of the band's music, which itself was often inspired by the literary works of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, after whom the band had named themselves.",
" Although most of the album comprises interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk songs, it also features the self-penned compositions \"That's How Much I Love You, Baby (More or Less)\", \"The Time Machine\", and arguably the band's best known song, \"The White Ship\".",
" The traditional song \"Wayfaring Stranger\" was released as a single just ahead of the album in September 1967 and \"The White Ship\" was issued shortly after the album appeared, although neither single reached the charts.",
" Like its attendant singles, \"H. P. Lovecraft\" was also somewhat commercially unsuccessful and failed to reach the \"Billboard\" Top LPs chart or the UK Albums Chart, although it did sell reasonably well over time."
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" He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.",
" Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life.",
" Among his most celebrated tales are \"The Call of Cthulhu\" and \"The Shadow over Innsmouth\", both canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos.",
" Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor.",
" He saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself.",
" He subsisted in progressively strained circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time that he died at age 46."
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" In 1967 Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, \"Turn on, tune in, drop out\".",
" It was also the title of his spoken word album \"Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out\" recorded in 1966.",
" On this lengthy album one can hear Leary speaking in a monotone, soft-spoken voice on his views about the world and humanity and describing nature, Indian symbols, \"the meaning of inner life\", the LSD experience, peace and many other issues."
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" The songwriting is credited to band members George Edwards, Dave Michaels, and Tony Cavallari.",
" Acting as the opening song on the second side of their debut LP, \"H. P. Lovecraft\", it was the album's longest track, and an edited version was also released as the band's second single.",
" The name and theme of the song derive directly from author H. P. Lovecraft's short story, \"The White Ship\".",
" Despite its failure to chart nationally, it is widely considered to be H. P. Lovecraft's most accomplished piece, and helped establish the group, who were originally from Chicago, in the West Coast music scene."
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"The New Maverick is a 1978 made-for-TV movie based on the 1957 television series \"Maverick\", with James Garner as Bret Maverick, Charles Frank as newcomer cousin Ben Maverick (son of Beau Maverick), Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, and Susan Sullivan as Poker Alice Ivers.",
" Garner had been 29 years old at the beginning of the original series and was 50 while filming \"The New Maverick\".",
" The TV-movie was a pilot for the series \"Young Maverick\", which featured Frank and only lasted a few episodes.",
" Directed by Hy Averback and written by Juanita Bartlett, the movie was filmed while Garner's series \"The Rockford Files\" was on hiatus.",
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" The show involves a religious cult that swindles the townspeople out of a tract of land and Maverick winds up straightening everything out.",
" The episodes were directed by Leo Penn (father of Sean Penn) and the film is sometimes entitled simply Bret Maverick.",
" The same thing was done with the two-hour series premiere, slightly condensed and marketed to television stations as \"\".",
" The \"Bret Maverick\" television series was a sequel to the 1957 series \"Maverick\", created by Roy Huggins, in which Garner had played the same character two decades earlier."
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" The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series \"Maverick\", catching up with professional poker-player Bret Maverick (James Garner).",
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" The series was a sequel of the 1957 series \"Maverick\", which had starred James Garner as roving gambler Bret Maverick.",
" Charles Frank played Ben Maverick, the son of Bret's first cousin Beau Maverick, making him Bret's first cousin once removed.",
" Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard played his girlfriend Nell, while John Dehner (who appeared in \"Maverick\"'s \"Shady Deal At Sunny Acres\") appeared as a frontier marshal who had arrested Ben's father Beau decades before.",
" The series was cancelled by CBS after six hour-long episodes had been shown, leaving two which were never aired on the network.",
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" Written by series creator Roy Huggins (teleplay) and Douglas Heyes (story) and directed by Leslie H. Martinson, this 1958 second season episode depicts gambler Bret Maverick (James Garner) being swindled by a crooked banker (John Dehner) after depositing the proceeds from a late-night poker game.",
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" The film stars Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick, a card player and con artist collecting money to enter a high-stakes poker game.",
" He is joined in his adventure by Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster), another con artist, and lawman Marshall Zane Cooper (James Garner).",
" The supporting cast features Graham Greene, James Coburn, Alfred Molina and a large number of cameo appearances by Western film actors, country music stars and other actors."
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" Garner was known for prominent roles in films such as \"Sayonara\" (1957) with Marlon Brando, \"Cash McCall\" (1960) with Natalie Wood, \"The Great Escape\" (1963) with Steve McQueen, \"The Thrill of It All\" (1963) with Doris Day, \"Move Over, Darling\" (1963) with Doris Day, \"The Wheeler Dealers\" (1963) with Lee Remick, Paddy Chayevsky's \"The Americanization of Emily\" (1964) with Julie Andrews, \"Hour of the Gun\" (1967), \"Marlowe\" (1969) with Bruce Lee, \"Support Your Local Sheriff!",
"\" (1969) with Walter Brennan, \"Murphy's Romance\" (1985) with Sally Field, \"Sunset\" (1988) with Bruce Willis, \"Maverick\" (1994) with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, \"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood\" (2002), and \"The Notebook\" (2004) with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.",
" His television series credits include portraying Bret Maverick in \"Maverick\" (1957–1962) and \"Bret Maverick\" (1981–1982), Jim Rockford in \"The Rockford Files\" (1974–1980), and Jim Egan in \"8 Simple Rules\" (2003–2005)."
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" He starred in several television series over more than five decades, including such popular roles as Bret Maverick in the 1950s western comedy series \"Maverick\" and Jim Rockford in \"The Rockford Files\", and played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including \"The Great Escape\" (1963) with Steve McQueen, Paddy Chayefsky's \"The Americanization of Emily\" (1964), \"Grand Prix\" (1966), Blake Edwards' \"Victor/Victoria\" (1982), \"Murphy's Romance\" (1985), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, \"Space Cowboys\" (2000) with Clint Eastwood, and \"The Notebook\" (2004)."
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"Mihajlo Obrenov aka miKKa is a Serbian musician, sound engineer and film director.",
" He was the composer and sound engineer for many documentary movies, theater plays and underground bands.",
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" Since 1997, MiKKa is the leading man behind industrial rock band dreDDup.",
" In 2007, he founded the Serbian online music label Crime:Scene Records which is involved only with ex-Yugoslavian dark music.",
" The label itself signed more than 200 artists and organized over 200 happenings.",
" Mikka's main sound work consists of experimentation with sound and exploration of weird ambient noises.",
" His industrial project MRT involves a lot of sound experimentation.",
" Besides music, Mikka is involved into movie making - shooting films and music videos.",
" In 2010, he directed his first science fiction thriller entitled \"Araneum\".",
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" The sequel to the 2002 film \"Spider-Man\", it is the second film in Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics comic book series \"The Amazing Spider-Man\".",
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" He has won two Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for eighteen more in the same category.",
" He has worked on over 150 films since 1980.",
" In addition to the Academy Awards, Nelson has won five BAFTA Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for eight more in the same category.",
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" The name Appietus gained prominence from his signature \"Appietus in the mix\".",
" It was, however, coined from the phrase \"Appiahs' Tools\".",
" He has been the winner of six music industry awards in the 10-year span from the start of his career.",
" He won the Ghana Music Honours 2015 Best Music Producer and Sound Engineer award, Sun Shine Music Awards 2010 Best Sound Engineer award and the UK Ghana Music Awards, Best Sound Engineer in 2008.",
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" He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film \"Gangs of New York\".",
" He has worked on over 80 films since 1983.",
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" He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film \"Diamonds Are Forever\".",
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" The field has been called \"The Best Little Ballpark in Texas (or Anywhere Else)\" by \"Sports Illustrated\" and the \"Yankee Stadium of Texas\" by \"Texas Monthly\" magazine.",
" An estimated 6,000 attended a 1951 exhibition featuring Satchel Paige's St. Louis Browns versus the Chicago White Sox.",
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"The Grove (also known as the Stilley-Young House), located in Jefferson, Texas, is an 1861 historic home that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.",
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" The Grove’s history dates back to the 19th century, when the property was purchased and the house that became known as “The Grove” was built.",
" The Grove has been featured in the television series \"If Walls Could Talk\" on cable channel HGTV and was chosen “as one of the top twelve most haunted houses in America” by \"This Old House\".",
" The Grove was also named as one of the \"eight scariest places in Texas\" by \"Texas Monthly\" magazine.",
" The house was also shown in William Shatner's \"Weird or What?",
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" Founded by R. D. (Dave) Walker, publisher and editor, and aided by key team members Ali Khan, Curtis Lang, and Jan Vanschuyver Walker, the first issue of 116 pages was successfully launched with a 300,000 direct mail charter subscription offer that pulled a response rate of double the industry standard of 2%.",
" The original name was chosen because a d/b/a had already been formed under the name Houston City Magazine by David Crossley and Tom Curtis (although they had not actually published a magazine by this title).",
" A 51% interest in the magazine was purchased by \"Texas Parade\" in 1978, and upon the hiring of Crossley and Curtis it was subsequently re-titled \"Houston City Magazine.\"",
" The magazine was purchased by Francois de Menil in 1979.",
" In 1982 it was purchased by Southwest Media Corporation of Texas, owned by Ray Lee Hunt of Dallas.",
" Southwest Media also owned \"D Magazine\" of Dallas, \"Texas Homes\" and \"Sport Magazine\".",
" In 1987, during a major downturn in Houston's economy, the magazine was sold to \"Texas Monthly,\" who then killed one of their two major competitors (the other being \"D Magazine\" in Dallas).",
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"Texas Monthly Talks was a thirty-minute interview show on public television networks across the state of Texas hosted by Evan Smith, then Editor Emeritus of \"Texas Monthly\" magazine.",
" Produced by \"Dateline NBC\" veteran Lynn Boswell, the show addressed contemporary issues in Texas politics, business and culture.",
" Premiering in February 2003, the show was an original production of KLRU-TV, the PBS station serving Austin and Central Texas.",
" In 2010 the series was succeeded by \"Overheard\", with the same format, host and producer; the renaming was necessary because Smith had resigned his position at the magazine and had become Editor in Chief of the \"Texas Tribune\"."
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" Described by \"Texas Monthly\" as the \"House's most dreaded foe and most welcome ally,\" he was best known for ushering in Senate Bill 7, deregulating Texas energy markets.",
" He is married to former Dallas, Texas mayor Laura Miller, and he was a partner at the Dallas law firms of Baron & Budd, and Diamond & McCarthy.",
" Wolens moved to Dallas firm McKool Smith in 2008.",
" He is Jewish."
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"Neal Morgan (born Lowell O’Neal Morgan, Jr.) was an author, columnist, college and high school football coach, Democratic political activist and academic administrator.",
" Morgan published two books during his lifetime, \"Play It from The Heart\" (published Jun 1, 1999), and \"Karankawa County: Short Stories from a Corner of Texas\" (published Oct 1, 2001).",
" Morgan spent 12 years contributing a weekly column on politics and life to \"the Port Arthur News\", a local newspaper in Port Arthur, Texas.",
" Morgan had a long and manifold coaching career.",
" After a four-year stint as head coach of the Bulldogs at Nederland High School (1972–75), Morgan coached at Howard College in Big Spring, Trinity University in San Antonio, and Sam Houston State University in Huntsville.",
" His first head coaching assignment was at Old Lutcher Stark in Orange.",
" During his time in Orange he gave Wade Phillips his first job in coaching by hiring him as his rookie defensive coordinator.",
" When Morgan noticed the trend of the top athletes going to West Orange, he joined the coaching staff at The University of North Texas in Denton.",
" Morgan has also published multiple articles in \"The Texas Observer\", and \"Texas Monthly magazine\"."
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"The Hill Country Film Festival is a yearly film festival in Fredericksburg, Texas, United States.",
" It was established in 2010.",
" The executive director is Chad Matthews, and it is presented by the Hill Country Film Society, who hold free screenings at the festival and, afterward, monthly.",
" In 2013, \"Texas Monthly\" selected it as a \"quirky, discerning\" pick."
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"Texas Monthly is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas.",
" \"Texas Monthly\" was founded in 1973 by Michael R. Levy and has been published by Emmis Publishing, L.P. since 1998 and now owned by Genesis Park, LP.",
" \"Texas Monthly\" chronicles life in contemporary Texas, writing on politics, the environment, industry, and education.",
" The magazine also covers leisure topics such as music, art, dining, and travel.",
" It is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA)."
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"The Bavarian Mountain Hound (German = \"Bayerischer Gebirgsschweißhund\") is a breed of dog from Germany.",
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" It is a cross between the Bavarian Hound and the Hanover Hound."
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"The Wetterhoun (FCI No.221, translated into English as the Frisian Water Dog) is a breed of dog traditionally used as a hunting dog for hunting small mammals and waterfowl in the province of Fryslan in the Netherlands.",
" The name of the dog comes from the West Frisian \"Wetterhûn\" meaning \"water dog.\"",
" Plural of Wetterhoun is Wetterhounen in Dutch.",
" The breed may also be called the \"Otterhoun\" (not to be confused with the Otterhound) or \"Dutch Spaniel\", although it is not a Spaniel-type dog."
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"The Spanish Water Dog (perro de agua español ) breed dates back several hundred years and has its origins most likely in Turkey from where it was imported into Spain as a general purpose sheepdog and guard.",
" It is also used sometimes as a gundog, and is skilled at retrieval from water.",
" The SWD has strong genetic links to other ancient water breeds such as the Portuguese Water Dog, the French Barbet and the Irish Water Spaniel."
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"The Montenegrin Mountain Hound is a rare dog breed from the mountain regions across the Balkans.",
" Black and tan, with a smooth coat, the Montenegrin Mountain Hound was called \"Black Hound\" in the past.",
" The breed is of the same origin as the other Balkan hounds.",
" He stands 18 to high and weighs 44 to .",
" The breed is used to hunt fox, hare, and small game, occasionally hunting larger animals such as deer or even wild boar."
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"The Moscow Water Dog, also known as the Moscow Diver, Moscow Retriever or Moskovsky Vodolaz, is a little-known dog breed derived from the Newfoundland, Caucasian Shepherd Dog and East European Shepherd.",
" It is now extinct, but was used in the development of the Black Russian Terrier.",
" The Moscow Water Dog was produced only by the Red Star Kennels, the state operated organization chartered to provide working dogs for the armed services."
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"Bakhmull is an Aboriginal Afghan Hound belonging to an ancient group of oriental sighthounds.",
" The Afghan Royal Family were the only humans who possessed this breed.",
" The bakhmull tazi (tazi means \" fast running sighthound\" ) is a long haired variety of sighthounds in Afghanistan.",
" There are two more: Luchak tazi short haired like sloughi and Khalagh tazi with moderate long hair on ears, shoulders, elbows and thighs.Bakhmull tazi has developed in the mountain areas of Mid and Central Asia - ancient Punjab, Paunchala, \"Five river land\".",
" This dog breed roots back presumably in the ancient Indian Harappa( Mohenjo Daro) civilization 2300 - 1700 B.C.",
" If translated from Pashto (Afghan) the word \"bakhmull\" means \"velvet\" due to its incredible silky velvet, long, ivory color hair of the coat, rather abundant and long on the whole body, because it is a mountain oriental sighthound, except the \"saddle\", front parts of four legs and the muzzle.",
" Its color is always fawn, ivory or white with a darker \"saddle\", thus it produces an impression of a fawn (yellowish) dog which coat color is protective khaki that matches sandstone and limestone of the Hindu Kush mountain landscape and deserts.",
" Following colors are not permissible: red, red with white spots, black and black with white spots.",
" Bakhmulls hunt the wild ram, ibex (wild mountain goat), hare, fox, wolf, jackal, wild big cats, in old times leopard, but never birds.",
" They are also good guards; they guard homes and flocks of sheep.",
" They hunt solo, in couples and rarely in packs.",
" Since the 1980s the centre of Bakhmull breeding is in Russia, \"The Blue Dale el Bark Bakhmull\" Moscow, where they are spread all over the former Soviet Republics and various regions.",
" The foundation stock was brought to Russia in the 70s by military men from Afghanistan.",
" Breed Standard for tazi BAKHMULL (aboriginal Afghan Hound) was adopted in Moscow, Russia (since Russia has become the 2nd motherland of bakhmulls) first in 1985 and later after detailed elaboration in 1997 (RFOS-RKF)."
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"The Tweed Water Spaniel, or Tweed Spaniel, is a breed of dog extinct since the 19th century.",
" It is best known for being involved in the early development of the modern Curly Coated Retriever and Golden Retriever breeds of dogs.",
" They were described as a generally brown athletic dogs from the area around Berwick-upon-Tweed near the River Tweed and close to the Scottish Borders.",
" A type of water dog, the breed was not well known outside the local area.",
" This breed may have been created by crossing local water dogs with imported St. John's water dog, another breed which is also now extinct."
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"The Hanover Hound is a breed of dog sometimes referred to as a Hanoverian Hound.",
" It is a hunting and tracking dog descended from bloodhounds of medieval times.",
" It was first introduced into France in the 1980s and is still a very rare breed.",
" It was cross-bred with the Bavarian Hound which gave rise to the Bavarian Mountain Hound."
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"The Mountain Cur is a type of working dog that is bred specifically for treeing and trailing small game, like squirrel and raccoons.",
" They are also used for hunting and baying big game like bear and wild boar as well as being an all-purpose farm dog.",
" Curs are a member of the Hound group, and the Mountain Cur is one of several varieties of cur.",
" It can also be used as a water dog.",
" Mainly bred in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee, it has been registered with the United Kennel Club since 1998.",
" The Mountain Cur Breeder's Association was formed in 1957."
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"Bo (born October 9, 2008) is a pet dog of the Obama family, the former First Family of the United States.",
" Bo is a male Portuguese Water Dog.",
" President Barack Obama and his family were given the dog as a gift after months of speculation about the breed and identity of their future pet.",
" The final choice was made in part because Malia Obama's allergies dictated a need for a hypoallergenic breed.",
" Bo has occasionally been called \"First Dog\".",
" In August 2013, Bo was joined by Sunny, a female dog of the same breed."
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" She has appeared in films such as \"Date Movie\" (2006), \"Click\" (2006), and \"Spring Breakdown\" (2009)."
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"Avani Modi is an Indian model and film actress, a well-known face in Indian movies and theatre plays in Gujarati theatre She made her Bollywood debut in Madhur Bhandarkar's drama film \"Calendar Girls\", which is scheduled to release on 25 September 2015.",
" The movie is based upon the story of five girls and their journey as an annual calendar girl."
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" Miss 1986.",
" Gibson was also chosen to compete (4 out of 3000 auditions chosen in Chicago, Illinois) to compete on ABC-TV modeling show, “Are You Hot?",
"” 2003.",
" Prize monies and scholarships Gibson won through pageantry helped pay for her childhood psychology degree from the University of Washington (1991) and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston Massachusetts, where she obtained her doctorate of Dental Medicine in 1995.",
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"Calendar Girl is the debut solo studio album by Australian recording artist Sophie Monk, released on 5 May 2003 by Warner Music.",
" It debuted at No. 35 March 2003 on the ARIA Albums Chart top 50.",
" The album was mixed with contemporary pop as well as the religious classics tracks \"Pie Jesu\", \"Ave Maria\" (Interlude) and \"Ave Maria\"."
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"The discography of Julie London, an American Jazz artist, consists of twenty nine studio albums, one live album, five compilation albums, two additional albums, and twenty-nine singles.",
" After a moderately successful film career, London signed a recording contract with the newly formed Liberty Records in 1955.",
" Her debut single \"Cry Me a River\" reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1955.",
" In June 1957, it would also peak at number twenty-two on the UK Singles Chart.",
" \"Cry Me a River\" became London's most successful and highest-selling single of her musical career.",
" The single would sell three million copies in total.",
" Her debut studio album \"Julie Is Her Name\" was issued in December 1955 and reached the second position on the Billboard 200 albums chart.",
" London's next three studio releases, \"Lonely Girl\" (1956), \"Calendar Girl\" (1956), and \"About the Blues\" (1957), reached the top-twenty of the Billboard 200 survey as well."
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"Jewel Flowers Evans (22 July 1923 – 6 February 2006) was an American pin-up model best known for her work with Rolf Armstrong as a \"Calendar Girl\" during the 1940s and 1950s."
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"Siddhartha Vijay Mallya (born 7 May 1987), commonly known as Siddharth Mallya and Sid Mallya, is an aspiring actor.",
" He registered with the Screen Actors Guild as \"Sid Mallya\", saying he chose the stage name to try to avoid being typecast in stereotypical roles.",
" He appeared in a sex comedy film entitled \"Brahman Naman\" and was expected in 2015 to appear in another film entitled \"Homecoming\".",
" He has also hosted an online video show, appeared as a guest judge and host on the Kingfisher Calendar Girl selection show, and worked as a model."
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"Cover Me is a 1995 direct-to-video erotic thriller film starring Rick Rossovich, Courtney Taylor, Paul Sorvino, Stephen Nichols, Elliott Gould and Corbin Bernsen.",
" It was produced in conjunction with the Orion Interactive CD-ROM game \"Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders\".",
" The plot involves a serial killer preying on the models of a Los Angeles adult magazine and Holly Jacobson (Taylor) a former policewoman, must stop him by disguising herself as a nude model in order to lure him out."
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"Matsuri Mizuguchi (水口 まつり , Mizuguchi Matsuri , born October 28, 1986 in Yamagata Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress who started her career in 2007.",
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"Yoshiko Horie (Japanese: 堀江 由子 , Hepburn: Horie Yoshiko , born September 20, 1976) , known by her stage name Yui Horie (堀江 由衣 , Horie Yui ) , is a Japanese voice actress and singer, affiliated with VIMS and Starchild.",
" She has been affectionately nicknamed \"\"Hocchan\"\" (ほっちゃん ) by her Japanese fans.",
" She debuted as a voice actress in 1997, releasing her debut single \"\"My best friend\"\" on .",
" Since then, she has been involved in excess of 350 productions in addition to promotional material, concert performances, as well as charting several albums and singles.",
" She won the award for Best Supporting Voice Actress in the 4th Seiyu Awards."
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"Sandra Marie Fox (born July 13, 1963) is an American voice actress, singer and dancer, who has had numerous roles in various animated cartoon, anime and video games.",
" She portrayed the live-action Betty Boop and has provided her voice for Universal Studios and King Features Syndicate for much of their promotional activities and related media and merchandise since 1991.",
" She began voice acting on various animated shows such as \"The Simpsons\", \"King of the Hill\" and \"Futurama\".",
" Her first major roles in anime were as Kyoko in the Animaze dub of \"Akira\" and Lady Aska in \"Magic Knight Rayearth\".",
" Other anime characters include Mina and Momiji in \"Naruto\", Sumomo in \"Chobits\", Tachikoma in \"\", and Paiway in \"Vandread\".",
" In video game franchises, she provides the English voice of Mistral and A-20 in the \".",
"hack\" series, Peashy in \"Hyperdimension Neptunia\", and Flonne in \"Disgaea\".",
" In cartoons, she voices Harmony in \"Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi\" and Mipsy Mipson in \"As Told by Ginger\".",
" In 2014, she was announced as the voice of Chibiusa a.k.a. Black Lady in the Viz Media dubs of \"Sailor Moon\"."
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"King of the Hill is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that ran from January 12, 1997 to September 13, 2009 on Fox.",
" It centers on the Hills, a middle-class American family in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas.",
" It attempts to maintain a realistic approach, seeking humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of everyday life."
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"Tiggy (born 1970 as Charlotte Vigel) is a Danish bubblegum/Eurodance artist.",
" She is perhaps best known for her remix of the Sandy Fox song \"Freckles\" in \"\", originally the English version of the song \"Sobakasu\" by Judy and Mary from the anime \"Rurouni Kenshin\" and she's also popular in parts of Southeast Asia with the song \"Why\"."
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"Yukari Tamura (田村 ゆかり , Tamura Yukari , born February 27, 1976 in Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with Amuleto, formerly Arts Vision and I'm Enterprise.",
" Affectionately called Yukarin by her fans, she is also known for her high-pitched voice and interest in Lolita fashion.",
" She debuted as a voice actress in 1997, releasing her debut single \"Yūki o Kudasai\" on March 26, 1997.",
" Several of her releases have been used as opening and ending themes for anime series, while some have reached the Oricon top 100 singles and album charts.",
" Her role as Nanoha Takamachi in the \"Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha\" series contributed to a rise in her popularity, as several of her singles (\"Little Wish: Lyrical Step\", \"Spiritual Garden\", \"Hoshizora no Spica\", \"Beautiful Amulet\") were used as the ending themes for the franchise's anime adaptations.",
" Besides \"Nanoha\", she voices the title characters Haruka Minazuki / Red Angel in \"Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel\", Ringo Kinoshita in \"No-Rin\", Yamada in \"B Gata H Kei\", and Kaoru Tsunashi in \"I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying\".",
" Other major voice roles in anime include Ranpha Franboise in \"Galaxy Angel\", Mai Kawasumi in \"Kanon\", Mei Sunohara in \"Clannad\", and Saku Tōyama in \"Tantei Opera Milky Holmes\", Rika Furude in \"Higurashi When They Cry\", and Tenten in \"Naruto\".",
" In video games, besides the ones that were adapted into anime, she voices Talim in \"Soulcalibur\" and Myao in \"Marl Kingdom\".",
" In tokusatsu, she is known for her voice role as Navi in 35th Super Sentai Series, \"Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger\"."
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"Minori Chihara (茅原 実里 , Chihara Minori , born November 18) is a Japanese voice actress and singer who has had roles in several anime series.",
" As a voice actress she is under the agency Avex Planning & Development, she is well known as voice actress for her role as Yuki Nagato in \"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya\" and Leon in \"The iDOLM@STER\", while in her musical career, she has been signed under King Records and is currently with Lantis.",
" She was born in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi and was raised in Saitama.",
" She is affectionately referred to as Minorin (みのりん ) by her fans."
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"Mela Lee is an American voice actress and singer in the Los Angeles area.",
" She first got into voice acting when she auditioned for \"Vampire Princess Miyu\", but the director had her read for \"Saint Tail\", and she was cast as the title character Meimi Haneoka, whom assumes the secret identity of Saint Tail.",
" She would later land the vampire role of Yuki Cross in the \"Vampire Knight series\" and Rin Tosaka, the heroine of the \"Fate/stay night\" series.",
" Outside of voice acting, Lee has been involved in a band called Magnolia Memoir where she composes the music and lyrics.",
" She and fellow voice actress Erica Lindbeck host their own web series called \"Lindbeck and Lee\" with local voice actor guests.",
" She has reprised her role of Rin in \".\""
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"Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子 , Tanaka Atsuko , born November 14, 1962 in Maebashi, Gunma) is a Japanese voice actress associated with Mausu Promotion (formerly Ezaki Productions).",
" Her most-known voice role is Motoko Kusanagi in the \"Ghost in the Shell\" film and franchise.",
" She also voices Caster in the \"Fate/stay night\", Lisa Lisa in \"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure\", Claudette in \"Queen's Blade\", Francis Midford in \"Black Butler\", and Karura in \"Utawarerumono\".",
" In video games, she voices title characters Lara Croft in the Japanese dub of the \"Tomb Raider\" games, and Bayonetta in the \"\" film adaptation and \"Bayonetta 2\".",
" She studied with the in voice training in 1991.",
" In 2012, a Biglobe poll named her the voice actress with the sexiest voice."
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"Maaya Uchida (内田 真礼 , Uchida Maaya , born December 27, 1989 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer who works for I'm Enterprise.",
" Uchida completed her studies in narration school during 2009.",
" Upon graduation, she made her debut as a voice actress in the OVA Boku, Otari-man as an office employee.",
" In April 2010, she signed to voice talent agency I'm Enterprise.",
" In February 2014, she won the Best New Actress Award in the 8th Seiyu Awards.",
" She debuted as a singer under Pony Canyon with the song Soushou no Innocence, which is produced by Tomita Akihiro.",
" Her younger brother is Yūma Uchida, who is also a voice actor working in the same company.",
" She made television appearances, including in \"Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger\" with the role of Hakase Hiroyo."
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" This two-parter was directed by Quentin Tarantino and was aired on May 19, 2005.",
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" It was first broadcast January 10, 1969, on NBC and repeated August 12, 1969.",
" It was written by Oliver Crawford, based on a story by Gene L. Coon (writing under his pen name \"Lee Cronin\") and directed by Jud Taylor.",
" The script evolved from an outline by Barry Trivers for a possible first season episode called \"A Portrait in Black and White\".",
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" Seven of the 13 episodes featured a guest host and a team of comedy impressionists known as The Kopykats (Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, Joe Baker, Marilyn Michaels, George Kirby, and Fred Travalena, with single appearances by Charlie Callas, Will Jordan, and Peter Goodwright).",
" Guest hosts included Steve Lawrence, Orson Welles, Ed Sullivan, Raymond Burr, Robert Young, Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis.",
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" Originally titled \"The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace\", it began as a midseason replacement for \"The Jerry Lewis Show\", another variety show, which had lasted only three months.",
" It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse (where Lewis' series had originated, temporarily renamed \"The Jerry Lewis Theater\" from September through December 1963) on Vine Street, which was renamed the Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood.",
" A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the \"Billboard Girl\", who placed the names of the acts on a placard (similar to that of a vaudeville house)."
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" He had a prominent role as the Magician, in David Lynch's \"Mulholland Drive\" and produced \"I Don't Know Jack\", about the life and mysterious death of \"Eraserhead\" star Jack Nance.",
" His feature directorial debut was for the film \"7 Year ZigZag\" (uniquely told entirely in rhyme and original swing and jazz).",
" He was also the voice for DC Comics character Professor Hugo Strange in \"The Batman\" animated series, replacing Frank Gorshin after Gorshin's death.",
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"Really Raquel was a prime-time variety show adapted from Raquel Welch's 1973 live night club show.",
" The special showcased Welch's talents as a singer, dancer and comedian, pitting her in a variety of skits with the Krofft Puppets, who were the only guest stars (which was highly unusual for a television variety special).",
" Some Krofft sites list the title of the special as \"Raquel Welch in the World of Sid and Marty Krofft\".",
" The show aired on CBS on March 8, 1974."
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"Hi Summer was a British television variety show made by London Weekend Television and shown on UK television in 1977 by ITV, the oldest commercial network in the UK.",
" A total of eight episodes were made and featured a cast that included Leslie Crowther, Lena Zavaroni, Carl Wayne, Pearly Gates, Anna Dawson, Derek Griffiths, Chris Quinten and Stephanie Lawrence.",
" This travelling variety show featured sketches, topical comedy and musical numbers that were recorded both in studio and on location (Stratford upon Avon, Crystal Palace, Knebworth House among others).",
" The theme tune was composed by Lynsey de Paul, and sung by Carl Wayne and was released as a single.",
" De Paul's theme was later re-used on commercials for \"TVTimes\"."
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"Frank John Gorshin, Jr. (April 5, 1933 – May 17, 2005) was an American character actor, impressionist, and comedian.",
" He was perhaps best known as an impressionist, with many guest appearances on \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" and \"Tonight Starring Steve Allen\".",
" His most famous acting role was as the Riddler on the live-action television series \"Batman\"."
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"Maya & Marty was an American television variety show that premiered on NBC on May 31, 2016 and lasted one season.",
" The series was co-hosted by comedians Maya Rudolph and Martin Short, and produced by Lorne Michaels.",
" The show features various comedy sketches, musical performances, and celebrity guests."
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"Her work, including both short fiction and essays, has been published in venues such as \"Lightspeed\", \"Uncanny Magazine\", and \"Strange Horizons\".",
" Her novelette, \"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead\" was a finalist for the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and the 2016 Locus Award for Best Novelette, and was included in \"The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2016.\"",
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" In this story, the Earthsea realm, which was later made famous by \"A Wizard of Earthsea\", was first introduced.",
" Along with the story \"The Rule of Names\", this story conveys Le Guin's initial concepts for the Earthsea realm, most importantly its places and physical manifestation, but not the characters appearing in the novels."
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"\"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas\" is a 1973 plotless, short, descriptive work of philosophical fiction, though popularly classified as a short story, by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin.",
" With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child."
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"The Hugo Award for Best Short Story is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.",
" The short story award is available for works of fiction of fewer than 7,500 words; awards are also given out for pieces of longer lengths in the novelette, novella, and novel categories.",
" The Hugo Awards have been described as \"a fine showcase for speculative fiction\" and \"the best known literary award for science fiction writing\"."
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" Earthsea became the setting for a further six books, beginning with \"A Wizard of Earthsea\", first published in 1968, and continuing with \"The Tombs of Atuan\", \"The Farthest Shore\", \"Tehanu\", \"Tales from Earthsea\" and \"The Other Wind\".",
" Also set in the universe of Earthsea are seven short stories by Le Guin, two of which, \"The Word of Unbinding\" and \"The Rule of Names\", are only in her collection of short stories \"The Wind's Twelve Quarters\".",
" The rest are found in her book \"Tales from Earthsea\".",
" Collectively, the series is simply known as \"Earthsea\"."
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" This story and \"The Word of Unbinding\" convey Le Guin's initial concepts for the Earthsea realm, most importantly its places and physical manifestation, but not most of the characters appearing in the novels, other than the dragon Yevaud.",
" Both stories also help explain the underpinnings of the Earthsea realm, in particular the importance of true names to magic."
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"The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, named after a line from A. E. Housman's \"A Shropshire Lad\" and first published by Harper & Row in 1975.",
" Described by Le Guin as a retrospective, it collects 17 previously published stories, four of which were the germ of novels she was to write later: \"The Word of Unbinding\" and \"The Rule of Names\" gave Le Guin the place that was to become Earthsea; \"Semley's Necklace\" was first published as \"Dowry of the Angyar\" in 1964 and then as the Prologue of the novel \"Rocannon's World\" in 1966; \"Winter's King\" is about the inhabitants of the planet Winter, as is Le Guin's later novel \"The Left Hand of Darkness\".",
" Most of the other stories are also connected to Le Guin's novels.",
" The story \"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas\" won the Hugo Award in 1974, while \"The Day Before the Revolution\" won the Locus and Nebula Awards in 1975."
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"Earthsea is a series of fantasy books by the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, and the name of their setting, a world of islands surrounded by an uncharted ocean.",
" Starting with a short story, \"The Word of Unbinding\" in 1964, there are six Earthsea books, beginning with \"A Wizard of Earthsea\" in 1968, and continuing with \"The Tombs of Atuan\", \"The Farthest Shore\", \"Tehanu\", and \"The Other Wind\".",
" There are eight short stories, all but \"The Daughter of Odren\" now collected in \"The Wind's Twelve Quarters\" and \"Tales from Earthsea\"."
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"The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.",
" The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine \"Amazing Stories\", and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award.",
" It has been described as \"a fine showcase for speculative fiction\" and \"the best known literary award for science fiction writing\".",
" The Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story is given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories told in graphic form and published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.",
" The Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story has been awarded annually since 2009.",
" It was started then with the requirement that it would only continue as an official award if approved again by the World Science Fiction Society after that year.",
" It was, and was again awarded in 2010; it was ratified as a permanent category after the 2012 awards."
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"The Minnesota Vikings season was the franchise's 22nd season in the National Football League.",
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" However, a players strike cancelled 7 of the team's 16 games, and each NFL team was only allowed to play 9 games.",
" The Vikings would win their opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before losing the next week to the Buffalo Bills, a game in which they had a 19-0 lead before the Bills pulled off a miraculous comeback to win 23-22.",
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" The show features contestants participating in challenges that test their baking and decorating skills.",
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" The series premiered Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 10:30 p.m. on Record."
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" Like the previous season, this season was set at the Carlo's Bake Shop facility at Lackawanna Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.",
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" Unlike other previous seasons, the teams competed in teams of two.",
" Other changes from the previous seasons include the addition of Jacques Torres and Bobbie Lloyd as judges, the addition of the final showdown, and the opportunity to work at Buddy's Las Vegas cake shop.",
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"Club Deportivo Utiel is a football team based in Utiel in the autonomous community of Valencian Community.",
" Founded in 1945, the team plays in Tercera División – Group 6.",
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"Club Deportivo Aguilar is a football team based in Aguilar de Campoo in the autonomous community of Castile and León.",
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" The group is composed of nine members: Roh Ji-sun, Song Ha-young, Lee Sae-rom, Lee Chae-young, Lee Na-gyung, Park Ji-won, Lee Seo-yeon, Baek Ji-heon and Jang Gyu-ri.",
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" The group consisted of Minkyung, Youngjoo, Yoojin and Yeonkyung.",
" They debuted on November 12, 2012 with their first single album \"Good To Seeya\" featuring the title track \"Be With You\".",
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" Their success on both pop and dance charts have earned them a listing in \"The Guinness Book of Records\" as the all-female group with the most chart entries in the world.",
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" It was released by RCA Records as the album's third single on 18 April 2014.",
" The track was written and produced by French duo SoFly and Nius and American rapper Snob Scrilla, with additional songwriting by Cassie Davis and Yoan Chirescu, and additional production by Baby.",
" \"Welcome to the Jungle\" was one of the first songs recorded by Neon Jungle and served as the inspiration for their band name.",
" It features a rap by group members Amira McCarthy and Jessica Plummer.",
" It is an uptempo electronic dance music-electropop song with a \"club-friendly\" urban sound and \"faint traces\" of dancehall and reggae.",
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" The group is composed of ten members: Nayoung, Roa, Yuha, Eunwoo, Rena, Kyulkyung, Yehana, Sungyeon, Xiyeon and Kyla.",
" Most of them appeared on the television show \"Produce 101\" and, as the prize for becoming two of the top contestants, Nayoung and Kyulkyung went on to debut as part of the project girl group I.O.I, before reuniting with the other members to debut as Pristin on March 21, 2017, with the first mini album \"Hi!",
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" Their debut album, \"One Touch\", was released in the UK through London Records on 27 November 2000.",
" The album achieved moderate success, peaking at number 26 in April 2001 and eventually being certified Gold.",
" In 2001, Donaghy departed the group amid rumours of a rift with Buchanan and the group were dropped by their record label.",
" With the introduction of Heidi Range, former member of fellow English girl group Atomic Kitten, the group began to experience a higher level of commercial success whilst keeping the critical acclaim they had achieved with their debut album.",
" They released three studio albums before Buena announced her departure in December 2005, leading to Amelle Berrabah being brought in to replace her.",
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" In September 2009, after 11 years in the Sugababes, Buchanan, the final original member, was replaced by former UK Eurovision entry Jade Ewen.",
" Range, Berrabah and Ewen released the group's seventh studio album, \"Sweet 7\", in 2010, after which they signed to RCA Records, before announcing an indefinite hiatus in 2011.",
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"4Ten (Hangul:포텐, formerly POTEN), commonly stylized as 4TEN, is a South Korean girl group formed by Jungle Entertainment in 2014.",
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"D.Holic (Hangul: 디홀릭) was a South Korean girl group formed by Star Road Entertainment (formerly H.Mate Entertainment) in 2014 with five members.",
" Nine left the group in August 2015, due to personal reasons, and was replaced by new member, Hwajung.",
" In July 2016, it was revealed through teasers that Danbee and Duri had decided to leave the group, new member, EJ, was added to the line-up.",
" In February 2017, it was confirmed through a performance that members Hami and Hwajung had departed from the group.",
" They were temporary replaced with new members, Nayoung and Youjin, although they never officially made their debut.",
" In July 2017, EJ announced that she would be leaving the group to pursue a modelling career.",
" The group informally disbanded after the departure of all but one member, with the aim of re-debuting the remaining member, Rena, into a new girl group within a year.",
" The group has released one mini-album: \"Chewy\" (2015) and three single albums: \"D.Holic Dark With Dignity\" (2014), \"Murphy & Sally\" (2015), and \"Color Me Rad\" (2016)."
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" It also reached no. 1 on the Top Heatseekers chart and no. 21 on the Top Independent Albums chart.",
" The album was recorded at the band's home studio while Joe Duplantier produced it.",
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" It documents the making of the album of the same name in Mehrangarh Fort in Rajasthan, India, by the Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, English composer and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, Indian ensemble the Rajasthan Express, and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.",
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" Working alongside John Leckie, he co-produced five tracks on Muse's acclaimed debut album \"Showbiz\".",
" During his time as chief engineer at The Airfield Studios in Cornwall and during regular stints at the nearby Sawmills Studios and air studios in London he has assisted some highly respected and regarded producers, including the afore mentioned John Leckie as well as John Cornfield, Sam Williams and Chris Allison.",
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" Released to commemorate Trojan Records' 40th anniversary, it collects Greenwood's favorite reggae and dub tracks released on the label.",
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" \"The Bends\" marked the beginning of a shift in aesthetics and themes for the band, with greater use of keyboards and more abrasive guitar tracks, while balancing them with subtler ones.",
" The introspective grunge-influenced style of their debut album \"Pablo Honey\" (1993) evolved into more multi-layered rock with cryptic lyrics and larger ideas, as the band and its lead singer and songwriter Thom Yorke reacted against the rigours of their near-constant world tours."
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" Recorded during the same sessions for the band's previous album \"Kid A\" (2000) with producer Nigel Godrich, the album incorporates similar influences of electronic music, 20th century classical music, jazz and krautrock.",
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" It is the third longest interstate in the United States, behind Interstate 80 and Interstate 90.",
" Much of the western part of I-40, from Oklahoma City to Barstow, parallels or overlays the historic U.S. Route 66, east of Oklahoma City the route generally parallels U.S. Route 64 and U.S. Route 70.",
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" It connects northbound to U.S. Highway 77 to suburban Edmond and southbound at Interstate 44 on to Interstate 35 and the I-40 Crosstown Expressway near downtown Oklahoma City.",
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" It runs north from Interstate 25 to Interstate 70.",
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" Even though both termini are in Kansas City, it passes through other towns and cities.",
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" From there, the highway heads generally northeast through the southeastern sections of Topeka.",
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" Locsin was a contract artist of GMA Network up to early 2007 until she transferred to its rival network, ABS-CBN.",
" She then starred as Lyka in the television series \"Lobo\", which earned her an International Emmy Award nomination for best performance.",
" She later on starred in blockbuster films \"In The Name Of Love\" and \"One More Try\" for which she garnered critical acclaim for both performances.",
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" Activation of the task force is accomplished by the State of Utah, or FEMA for rapid deployment of the Task Force, modular or single US&R resources.",
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" It was formed in 1921 and served during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, with the Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the Iraq War, in the War in Afghanistan and in Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.",
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" The name was originally given to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade during its 2009-10 for Operation Enduring Freedom as part of Regional Command South.",
" It is also the name used by the 1st Marine Division and 2nd Marine Division during their deployments to Afghanistan.",
" Task Force Leatherneck is commanded by Brigadier General Lawrence D. Nicholson with the command element at Camp Leatherneck.",
" The task force took over the battlespace from Special Purpose MAGTF-Afghanistan on May 29, 2009.",
" In July 2009, Task Force Leatherneck participated in Operation Strike of the Sword (Operation Khanjar), the largest Marine Corps operation since the Battle of Fallujah, and then in February 2010 an even larger battle, the largest of the Afghan Campaign, Operation Moshtarak (Operation Together)."
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" Townsend served with the 82nd Airborne Division, the 7th Infantry Division, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 78th Infantry Division, and the 10th Mountain Division.",
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" In another report released a year later, the task force released an update saying that at least nine states and cities in the United States had adopted the task force's recommendations.",
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" Following the publication of the report in January 1993, Task Force chairman Rep. Lee H. Hamilton published an editorial in \"The New York Times\" summarising the Task Force conclusion that \"there was virtually no credible evidence to support the accusations.\""
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"Our Live Album Is Better than Your Live Album is a 2-disc live album by ska-punk band Reel Big Fish composed of both an extended length Reel Big Fish live set list, and a DVD of a March 2006 live show that also includes documentary footage on the band.",
" The DVD portion was directed by Jonathan London, who previously directed the music video for their song \"Don't Start A Band\".",
" Previews of the album can be heard on Reel Big Fish's MySpace.",
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" Despite the death of Alex Harvey in 1982, this album features Max Maxwell on vocals, and also sees the return of Hugh McKenna to the band.",
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"Wiser for the Time is the fifth live album by American southern rock band The Black Crowes, released on March 18, 2013.",
" This marks their return from hiatus and is the first Black Crowes live album since \"Warpaint Live\" in 2009.",
" Recorded during a five-night run in New York City (NYC) in their supporting tour for the 2010 album \"Croweology\" and released as vinyl or download.",
" It includes live recordings (15 acoustic & 11 electric) from the band's 2010 NYC performances and four covers: \"Hot Burrito #1\" and \"Hot Burrito #2\" from The Flying Burrito Brothers, Little Feat's \"Willin\" and Bob Dylan's \"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You\"."
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" The album is an edited recording of the band's headline performance at Glastonbury CND Festival '87.",
" It was first released as a live album in 1992.",
" The live album charted at number thirty-three on the UK Albums Chart and was certified as Silver (60,000 units sold) by the BPI.",
" The live album received mixed reviews and was first released as a LP, CD and Cassette in February 1992.",
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" Additionally, by the time \"Live It Up\" was released, various bootlegs of Johansen's first band, the New York Dolls, were being heavily traded (an official live album would eventually be released in 1984).",
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" It also features a commemorative plaque outside the stadium to honor each Mobilian enshrined at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.",
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" Aaron held the MLB record for career home runs for 33 years, and he still holds several MLB offensive records.",
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"The 1994 Atlanta Braves season was the Braves' 124th in existence and their 29th in Atlanta.",
" After trading the two-sport athlete Deion Sanders, experts predicted that the Atlanta Braves were going to have their worst season since 1935.",
" The Braves' records reflect just how successful that year was, although it was curtailed due to the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike.",
" The Braves played a total of 114 games; they won 68 and lost 46.",
" The Braves finished their 1994 season with a winning percentage .596, ranking the Braves 2nd overall in the MLB, although they were six games behind the Montreal Expos in the NL East."
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"\"A Leela of Her Own\" is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series \"Futurama\".",
" The episode is an homage to \"A League of Their Own\".",
" It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 7, 2002.",
" Bob Uecker provided the voice of himself, Tom Kenny provided the voice of Abner Doubledeal, and Hank Aaron guest starred as himself and Hank Aaron XXIV."
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"West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium, referred to as \"Municipal Stadium\", located at 755 Hank Aaron Drive, was a ballpark in West Palm Beach, Florida and the long-time spring training home for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves and Montreal Expos.",
" The Braves played spring training games at the stadium from 1963 to 1997, while the Expos played there from 1969 to 1972 and from 1981 to 1997."
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"The 1973 Atlanta Braves season was the eighth season in Atlanta along with the 103rd season as a franchise overall.",
" The highlight of the season was Hank Aaron finishing the season just one home run short of Babe Ruth as baseball's all-time home run king.",
" The 1973 Atlanta Braves were the first team to boast three 40 home run hitters.",
" They were Aaron, Darrell Evans, and Davey Johnson."
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"The Atlanta Braves, a current Major League Baseball franchise, originated in Boston, Massachusetts.",
" This article details the history of the Boston Braves, from 1871 to 1952, after which they moved to Milwaukee to become the Milwaukee Braves, and then eventually to Atlanta, to become the Atlanta Braves.",
" The Boston Franchise played at South End Grounds from 1871 to 1914 and at Braves Field from 1915 to 1952.",
" Braves Field is now Nickerson Field of Boston University.",
" The franchise, from Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta, is the oldest continuous professional baseball franchise."
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"Construction began on February 1, 1968, and was completed at a cost of less than $50 million.",
" On June 30, 1970, the Reds hosted the Atlanta Braves in their grand opening, with Hank Aaron hitting the first ever home run at Riverfront.",
" Two weeks later on July 14, 1970, Riverfront hosted the 1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.",
" This game is best remembered for the often-replayed collision at home plate between Reds star Pete Rose and catcher Ray Fosse of the Cleveland Indians."
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5ab55435554299488d4d9939 | Robinson's Onion grows in Ferry County in a specific state; what is the capital of that state? | Olympia | bridge | medium | {
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"Republic is a city in Ferry County, Washington, United States.",
" The population was 1,073 at the 2010 census, a 12.5% increase over the 2000 Census.",
" It is the county seat of Ferry County."
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"Ferry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.",
" As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,551, making it the fourth-least populous county in Washington.",
" The county seat and largest city is Republic.",
" The county was created out of Stevens County on February 21, 1899 and is named for Elisha P. Ferry, the state's first governor."
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"Keller Ferry (occasionally called Clark Ferry), is a ferry crossing on Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake in the US state of Washington.",
" The crossing connects the northern and southern segments of State Route 21, between The Colville Indian Reservation in Ferry County and Clark in Lincoln County.",
" The ferry run has been in operation since the 1890s and under state control since 1930.",
" During that time, five vessels have served the crossing, including the Martha S., which operated from 1948 to 2013, and the current ferry, the M/V \"Sanpoil\"."
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"Washington ( ), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.",
" Named after George Washington, the first President of the United States, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 in accordance with the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute.",
" It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889.",
" Olympia is the state capital.",
" Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the capital of the U.S., which is often shortened to Washington."
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"Allium robinsonii, the Columbia River onion or Robinson's onion, is a rare plant species native to the US States of Washington and Oregon, although some studies suggest that the Oregon populations may now be extinct.",
" The species has been reported from 5 counties in Washington (Ferry, Yakima, Grant, Franklin and Benton) and 5 in Oregon (Umatilla, Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman and Wasco).",
" It is found in sand and gravel deposits along the lower Columbia River and some of its tributaries, usually at elevations less than 200 m.",
" The species is also cultivated as an ornamental in other regions, including in Europe."
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"Abies milleri, an extinct species of fir known from fossil remains found in deposits from the early Eocene Ypresian stage (around 49.5 mya) in Washington State, USA, is the oldest confirmed record for the fir genus.",
" The species was described from 81 fossil specimens collected from Burke Museum site number A0307 in Ferry County, Washington.",
" The holotype specimen, number # \"UWBM 31299\", and the eleven paratype specimens are currently deposited in the collections of the Burke Museum in Seattle, where they were studied and described by Howard E. Schorn and Wesley C. Wehr.",
" Schorn and Wehr published their 1986 type description for \"A. milleri\" in the \"Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History\", Volume 1.",
" The specific epithet, \"milleri\", was coined in honor of Charles N. Miller Jr for his contributions to the study and understanding of the conifer family Pinaceae.",
" The studied specimens were excavated from the Tom Thumb Tuff member of the Klondike Mountain Formation in the city of Republic."
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"Ferry is a ghost town in Ferry County, Washington, United States.",
" Ferry was founded during the late 1890s.",
" The town was located to the west of Vulcan Mountain.",
" Ferry was a ramshackle collection of crude log homes and false front buildings to support the mining boom in the area.",
" By 1910 insurance fires took their toll and before long Ferry had passed into oblivion.",
" Today little remains of the town."
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"Allium campanulatum is a species of wild onion known by the common name dusky onion or Sierra onion.",
" This is a flowering plant native to the western United States from southeastern Washington and northern Oregon to southern California, and western Nevada.",
" The dusky onion grows in foothills and mountains, especially in dry areas, such as chaparral habitats."
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"The Ferry County Carousel is an operational wooden carousel located three miles (5 km) east of the town of Republic, Washington on the Ferry County Fairgrounds.",
" This carousel features 24 horses in two rows and is fitted with a jumping mechanism.",
" The Ferry County Carousel is one of only seven classic wooden carousels in Washington state and possibly the oldest."
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"Danville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Ferry County, Washington, United States.",
" Danville is located on Washington State Route 21 near the Canada–United States border, 31 mi north-northeast of Republic, the Ferry County seat.",
" Danville has a post office with ZIP code 99121.",
" The population at the 2010 census was 34."
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5ae628845542995703ce8b31 | What year was Rush's album released containing the track "The Twilight Zone"? | 1976 | bridge | medium | {
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"\"The Encounter\" is episode 151 of the American television series \"The Twilight Zone\".",
" First broadcast on May 1, 1964, its racial overtones caused it to be withheld from syndication in the U.S. On January 3, 2016, the episode was finally reaired as part of Syfy's annual \"Twilight Zone\" New's Year Eve marathon."
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"\"The Twilight Zone\" is the third track on Rush's album \"2112\".",
" It was the last track written and recorded for the album.",
" It was the first single to be released from \"2112\".",
" As with most Rush songs, the lyrics are written by Neil Peart, and the music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.",
" It is based on two episodes of \"The Twilight Zone\": \"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?",
"\" (first verse) and \"Stopover in a Quiet Town\" (second verse).",
" Rush had dedicated their previous album, \"Caress of Steel\", to the memory of \"The Twilight Zone\" creator Rod Serling."
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"Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed by bassist Steve Harris in 1975.",
" The band's first album, 1980's \"Iron Maiden\", was written primarily by Harris, with vocalist Paul Di'Anno co-writing two tracks and guitarist Dave Murray contributing \"Charlotte the Harlot\".",
" The 1981 follow-up, \"Killers\", was written almost entirely by the bassist, with frontman Di'Anno contributing only to the title track, \"Killers\" (the North American bonus track \"Twilight Zone\" was credited to Harris and Murray).",
" Bruce Dickinson replaced Di'Anno after the release of \"Killers\", although he did not contribute any songwriting to \"The Number of the Beast\", released in 1982, which featured three songs co-written by guitarist Adrian Smith.",
" \"The Number of the Beast\" also spawned Iron Maiden's first UK Singles Chart top ten in the form of \"Run to the Hills\", which charted at number seven on its release.",
" It was not until 1983's \"Piece of Mind\" that the songwriting process became a more varied and collaborative approach, with just four of its nine tracks being credited solely to Harris, two to Dickinson and Smith, one to Harris and Murray, one to Dickinson alone, and one to Harris, Dickinson, and Smith.",
" The Dickinson and Smith-penned \"Flight of Icarus\" was the first Iron Maiden single to chart in the United States, reaching number eight on the \"Billboard\" Mainstream Rock chart."
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"\"Twilight Zone\" is a 1982 hit by Dutch band Golden Earring.",
" It was written by the band's guitarist George Kooymans, who got the inspiration from a book by Robert Ludlum, \"The Bourne Identity\".",
" \"Twilight Zone\" appears on their 1982 album \"Cut\" and pays tribute to the 1960s television series \"The Twilight Zone\".",
" It spent more than half a year (27 weeks) on the U.S. Pop charts.",
" It was the group's sole Top 10 Pop single on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and hit No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Album Tracks chart, the band's only No. 1 hit in America."
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"Mission: Impossible III – Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album for the 2006 film \"\", composed by Michael Giacchino.",
" Unlike the previous two films in the series, there was no album released containing the film's contemporary music."
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"\"Slam\" / \"Out Here\" is the fifth single by Australian drum and bass collective Pendulum.",
" It was released on 19 September 2005 by independent label Breakbeat Kaos, and was their third release with the label.",
" It peaked number 34 on the UK Singles Chart.",
" Both songs have been included on their CD release of \"Hold Your Colour\" in July 2005.",
" \"Slam\", as well as the \"Prelude\" track from \"Hold Your Colour\", samples a Rod Serling introduction from the American TV show \"The Twilight Zone\".",
" Similar samples are read aloud in the Headhunterz song \"Rock Civilization\".",
" When the song is performed live with the full band, the first minute and a half is cut out and replaced by part of the Metallica song, \"Master Of Puppets\".",
" However, when the song was played in DJ Sets prior to 2006, the track \"Prelude\" was played before it as Slam was always the first track played."
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"Mirage was a heavy metal band which was formed in 1983 from the ashes of two Welsh Rock/ Metal bands: 'Rough Justice' and 'Exit'.",
" The band were based in the valleys of South East Wales, UK.",
" Its members were Richard Morgan (aka \"Wretch) on vocals, Richard Price on guitar, Carl Skinner on bass and Gerry Turner on drums.",
" In 1984, they released one track 'Blind Fury' on a compilation album produced by local record company 'Notepad Productions'.",
" This came to the attention of Malc Macmillan, author of the Encyclopaedia of New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWoBHM) who described their track 'Blind Fury' as \"truly one of the classic tracks of the entire NWoBHM genre\" The rare Notepad Productions VOLUME I album remains highly sought after by collectors - featured in Record Collector Magazine in January 2015.",
" The band has enjoyed some recent attention from High Roller Records who have re-released the band's tracks Blind Fury/ Twilight Zone on black and white vinyl.",
" The cover features Richard Price's original 1979 Fender Stratocaster guitar alongside a Turner family artefact from World War II."
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"2112 (pronounced \"\"twenty-one twelve\"\") is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush.",
" Released on 1 April 1976, it features the seven-part title suite composed by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, with lyrics written by Neil Peart telling a dystopian story set in the year 2112.",
" It is sometimes described as a concept album although the songs on the second side are unrelated to the suite.",
" Rush repeated this arrangement on the 1978 album \"Hemispheres\"."
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"As Time Goes By is an album released containing songs by American pop duo Carpenters.",
" It was initially released in Japan on August 1, 2001.",
" An international release was originally to follow soon thereafter, but the release of the album generated copyright discrepancies among several publishers.",
" These discrepancies were not resolved until late 2003, delaying the album's international date of release until April 13, 2004."
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"The Movie Album is a 2003 studio album released by Barbra Streisand, consisting of 12 songs newly recorded by Streisand, all previously featured in film soundtracks.",
" It reached the top five of \"Billboard\"' s album chart and was immediately certified Gold (for US sales of over 500,000 copies).",
" In the US, a limited edition was released containing a bonus DVD with music videos for \"Wild Is the Wind\" and \"I'm in the Mood for Love\", as well as song commentaries by Barbra Streisand."
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5ae5fd865542996de7b71ab6 | Adrienne Maloof was a businesswoman who is part of a family from what city? | Las Vegas, Nevada | bridge | hard | {
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"Benvenida Abrabanel (died 1560) was a philanthropist and businesswoman born in Naples, the daughter of Joseph Abrabanel.",
" Her family was originally from Spain; when the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, the Abrabanels left for Naples.",
" She was the tutor to Eleonora de' Medici.",
" She married her first cousin Samuel Abrabanel.",
" The government of Naples forced the Jewish people out of the city in 1541; she moved with her husband to Ferrara.",
" In Ferrara, Abrabanel hosted salons in her home.",
" Her husband died in 1547; Abrabanel took over the business he had run.",
" She also donated money to the poor Jews in the city.",
" She died in 1560."
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"Magdalena Matte Lecaros (born August 13, 1950) is a Chilean civil engineer, businesswoman and politician.",
" She is member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) and was part of Chile's Ministry of Housing and Urban Development under Chile's current President Sebastián Piñera for the term of 2010-2014.",
" She is a member of the Matte family."
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"George Joseph Maloof Jr. (born September 2, 1964) is an American entrepreneur and businessman.",
" He is the former owner of the Sacramento Kings, the former owner of the now defunct Sacramento Monarchs, and minority owner of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas with his brothers Gavin Maloof, Joe Maloof, Phil Maloof and sister Adrienne Maloof.",
" He is part of the Maloof Family."
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"The Maloof Money Cup was an annual skateboarding competition for amateur and professional skateboarders founded by Joe and Gavin Maloof of the Maloof family.",
" The events were held in four cities: Costa Mesa, CA (Orange County) in 2008, 2009, 2010; New York City in 2010 and 2011; Washington, DC in 2011, and in Kimberley, South Africa in 2011 and 2012.",
" The aim of the competition was to raise awareness of skateboarding and to encourage participation in skateboarding events and activities.",
" Organizers also aim to contribute new skateboarding infrastructure and boost retail activity in those areas where events are held."
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"Linda Chen (; also known as Linda Chen Mock Hock or Linda Chen Mong Hock 1929-2002) was a Chinese-born, Singaporean linguist, writer, feminist and businesswoman.",
" Having immigrated from China as a young child, Chen learned Chinese, English, and Malay and used her linguistic talent to write a Malay-Chinese dictionary that became widely used to teach Malay in the 1950s and 1960s.",
" During her student days, she became active in the anti-colonial and women's rights movement.",
" Because of her activism and heritage, she was seen as a threat and a ring-leader of communist infiltration into the country.",
" Despite her denials that she was not a communist, she was arrested in 1956 and jailed for 20 months, detained and kept under surveillance for four years between 1959 and 1963, and rearrested in 1963 as part of Operation Coldstore.",
" After her release from prison, she lived in London for four years and then returned to Singapore, where she managed her family's multi-national book store until her death."
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"Adrienne Maloof (born September 4, 1961) is an American businesswoman, television personality, shoe designer and co-owner of the various business holdings of Maloof Companies, which include a 2% stake in the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada; Maloof Productions, Maloof Music and the annual Maloof Money Cup skateboarding event."
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"Juan Rivera is an American singer and actor of Mexican heritage.",
" He is part of one of the most prominent families, leading in regional Mexican music in the United States.",
" His family includes singers, Jenni Rivera, Lupillo Rivera, Chiquis Rivera, and businesswoman Rosie Rivera.",
".",
" His songs \"El Ser Equivocado\" and \" La Lampara\" ranked on the Billboard Latin charts."
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"Susan \"Dee\" Haslam is an American businesswoman, and the CEO and executive producer of the RIVR Media Companies.",
" Dee is the owner of the Cleveland Browns, along with her husband, Jimmy Haslam.",
" She is also part of the family ownership group of the Travel Center company Pilot Flying J."
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"The Maloof family is a prominent American family based in Las Vegas, Nevada, who are owners of numerous business properties in the Western United States.",
" The origin of the family name is Maalouf and is of Lebanese descent via their paternal grandfather."
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"Ofelia Manibog Samar-Sy, M.D., FPCP is a Filipino physician in Internal medicine and Cardiology, medical educator, researcher, businesswoman, and socio-civic leader, who is also deeply involved in humanitarian enterprises.",
" Medical Director of Ibalong Medical Center in Legazpi City, Albay, in May 2014 she was additionally appointed Dean, College of Medicine of Bicol Christian College, also in Legazpi City.",
" Her support of urban poor housing, education, family education, and good governance are revealed in her many medical-related and socio-civic activities.",
" She has led various medical missions, relief distributions, feeding programs, and gift-giving activities as President of Ibalong Medical Center Foundation, as a volunteer, as president of Pinoy Power Bicol Coalition, Inc., and as President of Albay Medical Society.",
" In addition to acting as a lecturer, speaker, moderator, and chairman, Samar-Sy also chairs many symposia, conventions, and scientific meetings."
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5a7a945f55429941d65f26c7 | What is the birthday of the man who asked Andrés Thomas "Why would you even throw him a strike?" | April 2, 1945 | bridge | medium | {
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"The 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1974–75 season.",
" The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.",
" Under the direction of head coach Johnny Orr, the team finished second in the Big Ten Conference.",
" The team earned the second of four consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament invitations.",
" Joe Johnson and C. J. Kupec served as team captains and shared team MVP honors.",
" John Robinson led the Big Ten in field goal percentage with a 60.3% average in conference games, while Kupec led the conference in free throw percentage with an 88.0%.",
" As a team, they led the conference in free throw percentage as well with a 75.8%.",
" The team began the season ranked seventeenth, peaked at eleventh, and finished the season in nineteenth in the Associated Press Top Twenty Poll.",
" It was ranked for a total of eight of nineteen weeks during the season.",
" The team ended the season unranked in the final UPI Coaches' Poll.",
" Kupec was selected as an All-American.",
" The team's 74.4% free throw percentage was a school record that lasted 11 seasons.",
" On January 2, 1975, Kupec went 14 for 14 in free throw attempts against Illinois which continues to be a school single-game record for most without a miss, surpassing Craig Dill's total of 12.",
" The team set a school single-season free throw percentage record of 74.4% that would last until 1986."
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"In baseball, a pitchout is a ball that is intentionally thrown high and outside of the strike zone with the purpose of preventing a stolen base, thwarting a hit and run, or to prevent a run-scoring play on a suicide squeeze play.",
" The pitcher delivers the ball in such a manner for it to be unhittable and in a position where the catcher can quickly leap to his feet to catch it.",
" A well-thrown pitchout will allow the catcher to receive the ball standing up as opposed to his usual squat, giving him a better line to throw to a base without the pitcher or the batter obstructing his vision or aim.",
" Moreover, it is easier to throw a ball with more force from a standing position than it is from a squat, which is why most catchers leap to their feet when attempting to throw out a base stealer.",
" A pitchout is a type of intentional ball, but differs in that a pitchout is thrown harder to give the catcher the most time to throw out the base runner."
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"Walter Harrison (\"Ben\") Plucknett (April 13, 1954 in Beatrice, Nebraska – November 17, 2002 in Essex, Missouri) was an American track and field athlete, known primarily for the discus throw.",
" Plucknett qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott.",
" He did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.",
" In 1981, he broke the existing world record with a throw of 233'7\", and broke the record again with a throw of 72.34 m (237'4\") on July 7, 1981.",
" However, on July 13, 1981, the International Association of Athletics Federations banned Plucknett from further competition after he had tested positive for anabolic steroid use, and the records were removed.",
" Even though he was stripped of his World Record breaking throws the IAAF still recognizes his throw of 71.32m (233' 11.87\") thrown on June 4, 1983, in Eugene, Oregon as the current North American record.",
" He died of a brain aneurysm on his farm."
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"Grey aliens, also referred to as \"Alien Greys\", \"Greys\", \"Grays\" and \"Roswell Greys\", are supposed extraterrestrial beings whose existence is discussed in ufological, paranormal, and New Age communities, and who are named for their unique skin color.",
" Forty-three percent of all reported alien encounters in the United States describe Grey aliens.",
" Such claims vary in every respect including their nature, origins (ETs, extradimensionals, time travelers, or machines), moral dispositions, intentions, and physical appearances (even varying in their eponymous skin color).",
" A composite description derived from overlap in claims would have Greys as small-bodied beings with smooth grey-colored skin, enlarged hairless head and large black eyes."
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"The Venus Throw was the highest roll in the Ancient Roman gambling game of \"tali\" (knucklebones).",
" The game was played with four 4-sided rectangular dice numbered I, III, IV and VI, usually made from sheep's or goat's knucklebones.",
" In a Venus Throw, each \"talus\" landed on a different side, yielding as a score of 14.",
" A gambler would either throw the \"tali\" from his or her hand, or from a small box, (called a \"fritillus\").",
" Thirty-five different throws were possible.",
" While the Venus throw was the highest, the Vulture throw (all aces) — also known as the Dog throw — was the lowest.",
" The Venus throw could be used to designate the master of the revels."
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"Andrés Pérez Thomas (born November 10, 1963) is a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as a shortstop for the Atlanta Braves from 1985-1990.",
" He batted and threw right-handed.",
" Thomas brought a power bat to the shortstop position for the Braves (13 HR each in 1988 and 1989); however, he struck out quite a bit (95 K's in 1988) and walked only 59 times in five seasons.",
" His free-swinging prompted then-Braves' broadcaster Don Sutton to ask hypothetically during games, \"Why would you even throw him a strike?\"",
" He was also an erratic fielder, leading all NL shortstops with 29 errors in 1988."
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"Donald Howard Sutton (born April 2, 1945) is an American former professional baseball player.",
" He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher.",
" He played for 23 total major league seasons as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and California Angels.",
" He won a total of 324 games, 58 of them shutouts and five of them one-hitters, and he is seventh on baseball's all-time strikeout list with 3,574."
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"Strike and dip refer to the orientation or \"attitude\" of a geologic feature.",
" The \"strike line\" of a bed, fault, or other planar feature, is a line representing the intersection of that feature with a horizontal plane.",
" On a geologic map, this is represented with a short straight line segment oriented parallel to the strike line.",
" \"Strike\" (or strike angle) can be given as either a quadrant compass bearing of the strike line (N25°E for example) or in terms of east or west of true north or south, a single three digit number representing the azimuth, where the lower number is usually given (where the example of N25°E would simply be 025), or the azimuth number followed by the degree sign (example of N25°E would be 025°)."
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"Grande sonnerie (French, meaning 'grand strike') is a complication in a mechanical watch or clock which combines a quarter striking mechanism with a repeater.",
" On every quarter-hour it strikes the number of quarter hours audibly on a gong, and then the number of hours since the last hour on a second gong.",
" For instance, in a 3 weight Vienna regulator wall clock, at 6:15 it would strike once on a high pitched gong, then strike six times on a lower pitched gong.",
" At 6:30 it would strike twice on the high pitched gong, then six times on the lower pitched gong.",
" At 6:45 three times on the high pitched gong, then six times on the lower pitched gong, and at 7:00 it would strike four times on the high pitched gong, then seven times on the lower pitched gong.",
" You will always know the exact time every fifteen minutes just by listening to the striking.",
" These types of striking clocks are mostly found as French Carriage Clocks, or German three weight Vienna regulators.",
" In addition they can strike the quarters and hours on demand, by activating a repeating mechanism at the push of a button, or the pull of a string.",
" The term is sometimes used erroneously for a mere quarter striking mechanism."
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"Generally accepted as the first general strike in the United States, the 1877 St. Louis general strike grew out of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.",
" The general strike was largely organized by the Knights of Labor and the Marxist-leaning Workingmen's Party, the main radical political party of the era.",
" When the railroad strike reached East St. Louis, Illinois in July 1877, the St. Louis Workingman's Party led a group of approximately 500 people across the river in an act of solidarity with the nearly 1,000 workers on strike.",
" The party transformed, through speeches and organization, an initial strike among railroad workers into a strike by thousands of workers in several industries for the eight-hour day and a ban on child labor.",
" One speaker was noted to say, At another large rally a black man spoke for those who worked on the steamboats and levees.",
" He asked, \"Will you stand to us regardless of color?\"",
" The crowd shouted back, \"We will!\""
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5adcb30f5542994734353770 | When did the Soviet composer of French language title L'amour des trois oranges die? | 5 March 1953 | bridge | medium | {
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"Advanced Placement French Language and Culture (also known as AP French Lang, AP French Language or AP French) is a course offered by the College Board to high school students in the United States as an opportunity to earn placement credit for a college-level French course.",
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" Enrollment requirements for AP French Language differ from school to school, but students wishing to enter it should have a good command of French grammar and vocabulary as well as prior experience in listening, reading, speaking, and writing French and a holistic cultural knowledge of francophone regions.",
" The AP French Language and Culture exam underwent a change beginning in May 2012 designed to better test interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication skills."
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"Jean de Venette, or Jean Fillons ( 1307 – 1370 ) was a French Carmelite friar, from Venette, Oise, who became the Prior of the Carmelite monastery in the Place Maubert, Paris, and was a Provincial Superior of France from 1341 to 1366.",
" He is the author of \"L'Histoire des Trois Maries\", a long French poem on the legend of the Three Marys, giving his name at the start of the text, and has since 1735 been also regarded as the author of an anonymous Latin chronicle of the period of the Hundred Years War between England and France.",
" In recent decades it has been questioned whether these were in fact the same author, although it seems that both were Carmelites.",
" Other historians see no reason to create an extra author, but recent French publications tend to refer to the \"Chronique dite de Jean de Venette\" (\"Chronicle said to be by Jean de Venette\").",
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"Le \"Livre de l’Espérance\", (The Book of Hope) also called the \"Consolation des Trois Vertus\" or the \"Livre de l’Exile\", was written by the French poet and statesman Alain Chartier.",
" Begun in 1429, the work was not yet complete by the author's death in 1430.",
" It is a lengthy dream vision and allegory of political, theological and poetic significance written in both verse and prose Middle French.",
" Modeled on the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, instead of finding consolation through Dame Philosophy, it is the three Christian virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity, who offer solace."
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"The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33, also known by its French language title L'amour des trois oranges (Russian: Любовь к трём апельсинам , \"Lyubov' k tryom apel'sinam\"), is a satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev.",
" Its French libretto was based on the Italian play \"L'amore delle tre melarance\" by Carlo Gozzi.",
" The opera premiered at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on 30 December 1921."
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"Living on the Edge (full title Living on the Edge, the Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc also known by its French language title L'extrême frontière, l'oeuvre poétique de Gérald Leblanc) is a 2005 documentary film by Canadian director of Acadian origin Rodrigue Jean.",
" In this documentary, Rodrigue Jean pays tribute to his Acadian roots, focussing on the poetry of Gérald Leblanc."
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"The Arboretum Curie, also known as the Arboretum du Col des Trois Soeurs, is a small arboretum located at 1470 metres altitude in the Col des Trois Soeurs near La Panouse, Lozère, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.",
" It was created circa 1975 to study conifers suitable for reforestation, and according to Arbez et al., now contains 77 taxa (primarily conifers)."
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"The Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières (before January 2017: \"Communauté de communes du Pays des Trois Rivières\") is a federation of municipalities (\"communauté de communes\") in the Aisne \"département\" and in the Hauts-de-France \"region\" of France."
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"The Hôtel des Trois Couronnes is a hotel in Vevey, Switzerland.",
" It was built in 1842 on the ruins of the \"Belles Truches\" castle, built in 1376 (1).",
" This building once destroyed left the place to a hotel built by Philippe Franel and inaugurated on May 3, 1842 (3) under the name \"Hôtel Monnet\" (3), the name of its owner back then.",
" Gabriel Monnet named it \"Trois Couronnes\" because he owned an inn of the same name, also situated on Vevey's Rue du Simplon (4)."
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"Francophone literature is literature written in the French language.",
" The existence of a plurality of literatures in the French language has been recognised, although the autonomy of these literatures is less defined than the plurality of literatures written in the English language.",
" Writings in the French language from Belgium, Canada and Switzerland were recognised as belonging to distinct traditions long before writings from colonial territories of France.",
" Writing in French by Africans was formerly classified as \"colonial literature\" and discussed as part of colonial studies for its ethnographical interest, rather than studied for its literary merit.",
" Any texts in French from the colonies and territories that were considered to have merit were subsumed under the classification of French literature.",
" The nature and importance of Francophone literature in various territories of the former French Empire depends on the concentration of French settlers, the length of time spent in colonial status, and how developed indigenous languages were as literary languages.",
" It was only following the Second World War that a distinction started to be made in literary studies and anthologies between French literature and other writing in French.",
" In 1960 Maurice Bémol published \"Essai sur l'orientation des littératures de langue française au XXe siècle\"; the plural in the title emphasised the study's new approach of examining the level of autonomy of the languages."
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"Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ( ; Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев , \"Sergej Sergejevič Prokofjev\" ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.",
" As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.",
" His works include such widely heard works as the March from \"The Love for Three Oranges,\" the suite \"Lieutenant Kijé\", the ballet \"Romeo and Juliet\" – from which \"Dance of the Knights\" is taken – and \"Peter and the Wolf.\"",
" Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas."
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5a82071f5542990a1d231f16 | Svetlana Germanovna Parkhomenko, is a retired Soviet and Russian tennis player and tennis coach, she's the bronze medalist in women's and mixed doubles, in which titled event that took place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between July 1 and 12, 1983? | 1983 Summer Universiade | bridge | easy | {
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"Zoja Rudnova (19 August 1946 - 12 March 2014) is a former female table tennis player from Soviet Union.",
" From 1964 to 1976 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.",
" She was twice European champion in women singles, three time European champion with the USSR team, once in women doubles and four times in mixed doubles.",
" She was the first woman ever to become an absolute European champion in 1970 winning all four possible gold medals (singles, team, doubles, mixed doubles) - great feat which has only been repeated once since."
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"Svetlana Germanovna Parkhomenko (\"Светлана Германовна Паркхоменко\" , née Cherneva, \"Чернева\" ; born October 8, 1962) is a retired Soviet and Russian tennis player and tennis coach.",
" She was a winner of the Soviet singles tennis championships in 1985 and 9 times Soviet champion in women's doubles and mixed doubles.",
" On the international level, she was the winner of the 1983 European amateur championships in women's and mixed doubles, bronze medalist of the 1983 Universiade in women's and mixed doubles, and winner of 8 WTA doubles tournaments.",
" Parkhomenko is the recipient of 1988 WTA Sportsmanship Award."
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"Anne Guerrant, also known as Mona Anne Guerrant, was an American professional tennis player from 1971–1980.",
" She ranked as high as #11 in the world in singles in 1976 and was the winner of four singles titles in Portland, South Florida, and in Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand.",
" She won many doubles titles on the pro tour with several different partners including Ann Kiyomura and Kerry Reid with whom she won the Australian Open doubles title in 1977.",
" She was a women's doubles and mixed doubles standout in World Team Tennis and was part of the #1 women's doubles team in the League with Billie Jean King in 1975 and the #1 mixed doubles team with Ross Case in 1978.",
" Anne retired from the pro tour in 1980, and since then she has also won one world and fourteen age group National Singles Championships as of 2016.",
" She is a retired real estate entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and author of \"How to Be Richer Than Your Parents,\" a book about finances for high schoolers and young adults."
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"Joo Sae-Hyuk (] ; born 20 January 1980) is a South Korean table tennis player who has revolutionized the way players think about the defensive style.",
" As a singles player, he was a silver medalist at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships, a bronze medalist at the 2011 Table Tennis World Cup, and a bronze medalist at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games.",
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"Vera Igorevna Zvonareva (Russian: Ве́ра И́горевна Звонарёва ; ] ; born 7 September 1984) is a Russian professional tennis player.",
" She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000.",
" Her career high is world No. 2 by the WTA.",
" Zvonareva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the finals of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and 2010 US Open.",
" She also was a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.",
" In doubles, she has won four Grand Slam titles.",
" Two of the titles came in women's doubles, the first one at the 2006 US Open, partnering Nathalie Dechy, and the other at the 2012 Australian Open, partnering Svetlana Kuznetsova.",
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"Zina Lynna Garrison (born November 16, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.",
" During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist and singles bronze medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games.",
" She is currently coaching Taylor Townsend."
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"The 1983 Summer Universiade, also known as the 1983 World University Games or XII Summer Universiade, took place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between July 1 and 12, 1983.",
" Over 2400 athletes from 73 countries participated.",
" It was the first time Canada hosted these Games.",
" Edmonton also hosted the 1978 Commonwealth Games."
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"Vladimir Viktorovich Korotkov (born 23 April 1948, Moscow) is a retired Soviet tennis player who won three Junior Grand Slam tournaments, Wimbledon Juniors in 1964, 1965 and French Juniors in 1965.",
" He also won (with Zaiga Jansone) the mixed doubles at the 1968 Summer Olympics where tennis was a \"demonstration sport\".",
" He won the men's doubles event at the 1973 Summer Universiade and the 1977 USSR singles championship.",
" Since 1981 and till his retirement in 1996 Korotkov was coaching at several sports clubs."
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"Zaiga Jansone-Ivanova (born (1951--)24 1951 ) is a former Soviet Latvian tennis player and tennis coach.",
" She was a five-time Soviet champion in women's doubles, 1973 Summer Universiade champion in women's doubles (all with Olga Morozova) and winner of the exhibition tennis event of 1968 Olympics in mixed doubles (with (Vladimir Korotkov)."
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"Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko-Stepanova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко ; ] ; born 25 January 1987) is a Russian tennis player.",
" Kirilenko won the 2002 U.S. Open Girls' Singles and won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open.",
" She has reached three Grand Slam singles quarterfinals, at the 2010 Australian Open the 2012 Wimbledon Championships and the 2013 French Open.",
" In doubles, she has reached two Grand Slam doubles finals, at the 2011 Australian Open and the 2012 French Open, won the 2012 WTA Tour Championships and was a bronze medalist at the 2012 London Olympics.",
" In June 2013, Kirilenko reached her career high ranking of World No. 10."
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"As of June 2017, Nigerian recording artist Wizkid has received a total of 43 awards from 157 nominations.",
" He is the recipient of two BET Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, two iHeartRadio Music Awards, one MTV Europe Music Awards, four MTV Africa Music Awards, one iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards,two SoundCity MVP Awards, one African Pride Award, two MOBO Award, six The Headies Awards, two Channel O Music Video Awards, six Nigeria Entertainment Awards, two Ghana Music Awards, two Dynamix All Youth Awards, two City People Entertainment Awards, and a Future Award.",
" In addition, he has been nominated five times at the MTV Europe Music Awards, three times at the American Music Awards, once at the Grammy Awards, as well as four times at the World Music Awards."
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"The American Video Awards (19831987) was an annual music video award show taped for distribution to television.",
" \"The\" \"First Annual American Video Awards\" was hosted by radio personality Casey Kasem, and Kasem continued in his role as emcee of the show in succeeding years.",
" The first (1983), second (1984) and third (April 1985) shows were syndicated to television channels across the country.",
" \"The Fourth Annual American Video Awards\" (November 1985), however, was taped for broadcast on ABC to be aired during prime time, the first time that a video awards show was shown on prime time network television.",
" The fifth (1987) show again aired in syndication.",
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"Channel O Africa Music Video Awards, once known as Spirit of Africa Music Video Awards, are Pan-African music awards organised by South Africa -based Channel O television channel.",
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"Kylie Kristen Jenner (born August 10, 1997) is an American reality television personality, model, entrepreneur, socialite, and social media personality.",
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"John \"JP\" Poliquin (born August 24, 1986, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian music video, commercial and feature film director.",
" He has directed music videos for bands such as Hedley, Finger Eleven, Mother Mother, and Carly Rae Jepsen, and his music video work has been nominated for awards at the Juno Awards, the MuchMusic Video Awards, the East Coast Music Association Awards, the PEI Music Awards, and the Leo Awards.",
" His video for Hedley \"Anything\" won Video of the Year, Pop Video of the Year and Your Fave Video at the 2014 MuchMusic Video Awards."
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"Emily Kai Bock (born 1983 or 1984) is a Canadian writer and director.",
" She has directed music videos for Arcade Fire, Lorde, Grizzly Bear, and Grimes.",
" She won the 2014 Prism Prize for her video for the Arcade Fire song Afterlife and was nominated for Director of the Year at the 2014 Much Music Video Awards.",
" Her film \"A Funeral for Lightning\" was included in the list of \"Canada's Top Ten\" shorts of 2016, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF."
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"The Revolution is the debut studio album by Canadian rapper, Belly which was released on June 5, 2007 in Canada on Capital Prophets Records Inc..",
" The album became a commercial success a month after its release, when it was certified gold by the CRIA for shipping over 50,000 copies.",
" The lead single \"Pressure\" won Best MuchVibe video at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards and also peaked at #10 on the Canadian Singles Chart.",
" Also the album won the Rap Recording of the Year at the 2008 Juno Awards.",
" All videos for the singles received heavy rotation on Much Music.",
" In April 2008 for the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards, \"Ridin'\" was nominated for 4 MMVAs and won 1 of them for best rap video.",
" \"I'm the Man\" was also nominated for 1 MMVA making Belly the only artist that year to be nominated in 5 categories."
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"Andrew Robert Kiefer (May 25, 1832 – May 1, 1904) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born at Marienborn, Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany; he attended school in Mainz; immigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1855; inspector and collector of the wharf in 1857; engaged in mercantile pursuits; enrolling clerk of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1859 and 1860; entered the Union Army as captain of the Second Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, on July 8, 1861, and served until July 18, 1863, when he was compelled to resign on account of ill health; commissioned by Governor Swift colonel of the Thirty-first Regiment of State militia in 1863; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1864; was engaged in the wholesale mercantile business 1865 – 1878 and in 1880 became interested in real estate; clerk of the district courts of Ramsey County 1878 – 1883; unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of St. Paul in 1890; elected as a Republican to the 53rd and 54th congresses, (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for reelection in 1896; mayor of St. Paul in 1898; at the time of his death was the Republican candidate for city controller; died in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota; interment in Oakland Cemetery."
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"Henry Rines (June 9, 1872 in Orsa, Sweden – October 5, 1950) was a Minnesota Republican politician, Minnesota State Treasurer, and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.",
" Rines, a newspaper publisher, emigrated as a child from Sweden.",
" He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1906.",
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" He was elected as State Treasurer in 1916, a position he held for two terms."
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"Amos Coggswell (1825 in New Hampshire – 1892 in Steele County, Minnesota) was a Minnesota politician, a member of both the Republican and Democratic parties, and a former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.",
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" He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1858, and became the second house speaker in 1859."
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"Pamela J. Myhra (born 1957) is a Minnesota politician and served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives during the 87th and 88th legislative sessions.",
" A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, she represented portions of Dakota and Scott counties in the southern Twin Cities metropolitan area.",
" During her first term representing Minnesota House District 40A; January 4, 2011 to January 7, 2013; Myhra served as a member of the Capital Investment, Education Finance, Education Policy and Tax committees.",
" During her second term representing Minnesota House District 56A; January 8, 2013 to January 5, 2015; Myhra served as the minority lead member on the Early Childhood and Youth Development Policy committee and as a member of the Education Finance and Tax committees.",
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"Minnesota's 3rd congressional district encompasses the suburbs of Hennepin County to the north, west, and south of Minneapolis.",
" With blue collar Brooklyn Park and Coon Rapids to the north, middle-income Bloomington to the south, and higher-income Eden Prairie, Edina, Maple Grove, Plymouth, Minnetrista, and Wayzata to the West, it features a mixed characteristic.",
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" Babcock, a physician, came to Minnesota in 1879.",
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" He served three terms, his last as speaker.",
" Babcock died in 1906."
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"Lawrence Henry Johnson (1861 in Germany – 1947) was a Minnesota Republican politician and a Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.",
" Johnson, a bridge contractor and engineer, came to Minnesota in 1884, and was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1900.",
" He served five terms, serving as speaker from 1907 to 1909.",
" Johnson died in 1947."
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"Arlan Ingehart Stangeland (February 8, 1930 – July 2, 2013) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota.",
" As a Republican, Stangeland served on the Barnesville, Minnesota school board (1976–1977) and as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1966–1975) before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as the representative from Minnesota's 7th congressional district in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Bergland.",
" Stangeland served in the 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses, (February 22, 1977 – January 3, 1991).",
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"Erik Philip Paulsen (born May 14, 1965) is an American politician serving in the United States House of Representatives for Minnesota 's 3 congressional district since 2009.",
" A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1995 to 2009 and as Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007.",
" His district in the western part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area includes Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina, Minnetonka, Maple Grove, Plymouth and Wayzata."
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"Howard H. Dunn (1867 in Minnesota – 1942) was a Minnesota Republican politician and a Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.",
" Dunn served as city attorney for Fairmont, Minnesota, and was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1896.",
" He served only one term in the Senate, but was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1910, where he was immediately selected to serve as speaker, a position he held until 1913.",
" Dunn died in 1942."
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"\"Stephen, Stephen\" is a song by American rock band, The Apples in Stereo.",
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" It originally premiered on July 21, 1996, and is currently the longest-running series original program on Comedy Central."
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"Stephen Tyrone Colbert ( , ; born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, television host, actor, and writer.",
" He is best known for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program \"The Colbert Report\" from 2005 to 2014, and hosting the CBS talk program \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\" beginning in September 2015."
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"The Chaser's War on Everything is an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC1.",
" It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series.",
" The cast perform sketches mocking social and political issues, and often feature comedic publicity stunts.",
" The series is produced by the Australian satirical group, The Chaser, consisting of Chris Taylor, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen, and Chas Licciardello.",
" Fellow Chaser members Dominic Knight and Charles Firth are not part of the regular on-screen cast.",
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"The Miller Research Fellows program is the central program of the Adolph C. and Mary Sprague Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science on the University of California Berkeley campus.",
" The program constitutes the support of Research Fellows - a group of the world’s most brilliant young scientists.",
" Each year, eight to ten Miller Research Fellows are chosen from hundreds of nominations in all areas of science on the basis the promise of their scientific research.",
" The Fellowships are three-year appointments, during which the young scientists launch their careers, being mentored by Berkeley’s faculty and making use of the facilities at the university.",
" A few Fellows stay on as new Berkeley faculty.",
" Most move on to contribute to faculty positions at other reputed institutions around the world.",
" Other comparable programs are the Harvard Junior Fellows and the Junior Fellowship Program at the University of Cambridge.",
" To date, there have been over 500 Miller Fellows from all areas of science since the inception of the program in 1960.",
" Carl Sagan was among the first group of Fellows in the program.",
" Along with the Miller Fellows, the Miller Institute also supports Miller Professorships for selected Berkeley faculty, Miller Visiting Professorships, and Miller Senior Fellows.",
" In all, the Institute has supported more than 1000 scientists, including eight Nobel Prize winners, nine Fields Medalists and dozens of National Academy of Science members."
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"Steven K. Tsuchida is an American film and television director.",
" He has directed episodes of \"The Sarah Silverman Program\", \"Younger\", \"Community\", and the award-winning short film \"A Ninja Pays Half My Rent\".",
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"Splatter Theatre was the first show for The Annoyance Theatre.",
" The show was first performed at the Cabaret Metro, on October 31, 1987 and directed by Mick Napier.",
" Performers involved in the original production included Joe Bill, Marguerite Hammersley, Doug Hartzell, Kim Howard Johnson, Kaluah, Richard Laible, Geoffrey Lantz, David MacNerland, Jill Meyerhoff, Brett Paisel, David Pasquesi, Lyn Pusztai, David Razowsky, Al Rose, Barry Saltzman, Tim Slagle, Faith Soloway, Ellen Stoneking, Elizabeth Trask, Eric Waddel, and Harlan Wallach."
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"Carrott's Lib is a British satirical comedy series broadcast between 9 October 1982 and 30 December 1983.",
" It starred Jasper Carrott and a cast of many comedians.",
" The show was not just a satirical comedy, it was also a sketch show with many comedians of the future, most famously Chris Barrie (\"Red Dwarf\", \"The Brittas Empire\") & Jan Ravens (\"Dead Ringers\", \"Spitting Image\").",
" Unlike most comedy series it was broadcast live, albeit with some pre-recorded elements."
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"Jordan Klepper (born March 9, 1979) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor and television host.",
" He is best known for being a correspondent on \"The Daily Show\" for 170 episodes between 2014-2017, and after his departure therefrom for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program \"The Opposition with Jordan Klepper\" beginning in the fall of 2017."
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"Mick Napier (born December 12, 1962) is an American director, actor, teacher and author living in Chicago.",
" He is the founder and artistic director of the Annoyance Theatre and an award-winning director at The Second City.",
" He has directed Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Horatio Sanz, Nia Vardalos, Andy Richter, Jeff Garlin, and David Sedaris, amongst others."
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"David Belton is a director, writer, and film producer.",
" His experiences as a BBC reporter covering the 1994 Rwandan Genocide led him to write the original story and produce the film \"Shooting Dogs\", directed by Michael Caton-Jones, which dramatizes the events at the Ecole Technique Officielle.",
" It was retitled \"Beyond the Gates\" for its 2007 U.S. release.",
" He has directed documentaries (for the BBC, \"Simon Schama's Power of Art\", \"The Silent War\") and drama-documentaries and documentaries for PBS (\"God in America\" and \"The Amish\") and dramas for the BBC (\"Ten Days to War\").",
" His book, \"When the Hills Ask for Your Blood\" was published in January 2014 by Doubleday."
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"Marcel Trillat (born 4 April 1940) is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker.",
" A communist, he directed many documentaries about the living conditions of workers, women and immigrants in France.",
" He also did documentaries about French government's response to the Algerian War and the Gulf War and, more recently, religious cults and public hospitals.",
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" He was a director of France Télévisions, France's public television broadcaster, for five years."
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"Cecil William Holmes (23 June 1921 – 24 August 1994) was a New Zealand-born film director and writer.",
" He was born in Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.",
" He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and British Royal Navy during World War II before turning to filmmaking.",
" He made a number of documentaries for the New Zealand National Film Unit then moved to Australia, where he directed several feature films and a number of documentaries for the Commonwealth Film Unit."
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"War/Dance is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and produced by Shine Global's Susan MacLaury, a professor at Kean University, and Albie Hecht.",
" It was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and received the Emmy Award for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography in 2010."
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"Ron Kelly (born June 11, 1929 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.",
" He began his career with the CBC film unit, directing many short and documentary films between 1952 and 1964.",
" He traveled to France, Spain and Mexico producing and directing documentaries independently from 1956 to 1958.",
" From 1959 to 1962 he studied at Pinewood Studios, England, on a Canadian Arts Council fellowship and while there produced and directed documentaries for the BBC, CBC and National Office of Film, UK.",
" In 1967 he co-wrote and directed the feature film Waiting for Caroline, as a commemoration of Canada's centennial year.",
" \"Waiting for Caroline\" was distributed internationally by United Artists, Hollywood.",
" In Hollywood in 1968, Kelly directed for Twentieth Century Fox Studios and Disney Studio.",
" In 1970 he returned to Canada, writing, directing and producing dramas and documentaries for the NFB and CBC.",
" His most recent film is \"Victims of Victims\" (2004), a documentary exploration of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."
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"Marina Kamen (aka MARINA), is a Director/Producer/Casting Director/Vocalist/Choreographer & Musician best known for her music in the advertising industry & fitness/health/dance music communities and has a large online catalogue of workout music, treadmill workouts and audio workouts including 50 albums, 450 Original Songs and 1,200 Online Musical Audio Programs.",
" Marina's EBook entitled \"I'mSteppin' Out!\"",
"…confessions of a Food-a-Holic has sold around the globe for the past 15 years and is available on Iamplifi, Audible and on Amazon.",
" Kamen won the 2005 People's Choice Award in Podcasting .",
" MARINA's High-nrg Fitness Brand includes Radio and Television Broadcasts, Music, albums, and a Live Show currently playing in NYC called MARINA's High-nrg Fitness LIVE!",
"…an Interactive Musical Theatre WORKOUT Experience.",
" MARINA's lifelong work merging the worlds of vocalisation and dance has brought her to work with Celebrity artists including Patti Labelle, Carnie Wilson, James Earl Jones, Mandy Patinkin, Gloria Gaynor, Britney Spears, Liza Minnelli and countless others.",
" In 1987, Kamen and her husband, Roy Kamen, opened Kamen Entertainment Group, Inc.",
" Kamen's credits in Radio and television advertising have included thousands of campaigns working for Starburst, PopTarts, Mercedes, Exxon Mobile, CocaCola, Dairy Queen, and Febreeze in the 1990s, in 2004, Marina Diretcted, Produced, Cast & Choreographed Britney Spears' Twister Dance Rave Global Television Campaign for Hasbro.",
" Kamen also Cast, Directed,Choreographed & Produced Television spots for Jenga Tetris & Bop It.",
" Kamen performs a series of live performance concerts around the country.",
" In the late 90s, it seemed impossible because she had three young children and was over 215 pounds.",
" Nonetheless, Kamen started to write and produce music aimed at the dance market.",
" High energy shows won awards, such as her \"Silent Night\" performance at Webster Hall in New York City.",
" Kamen taught aerobics classes in the 70's and 80's, and through her performances she began using dance music to drive her workout routines.",
" By singing, dancing, and eating well-portioned meals, she lost over 100 pounds.",
" Kamen released her debut album, \"Um-Lotty-Da\" in 1997.",
" Kamen quickly earned a reputation in the New York City club scene.",
" Her albums and performances garnered the attention of the Dance Organization of America.",
" This committee steered Kamen towards positions as a director and choreographer for Atlantic Records, Columbia Records, The Naras Foundation which Hosts The Grammy Awards.By the year 2000, Kamen had combined her previous experiences and started to sell her fitness music within the fitness community.",
" With her innovative approach and inspirational message, Kamen became a well-known persona in the world of Musical Fitness.",
" Kamen has produced material and live presentations for clients including QVC/Direct, Dynamix, Equinox Gyms, Jazzercise, Strive Enterprise with Bill Kazmier (ESPN), and Jackie Chan's CableFlex.",
" She has appeared on British TV on \"Reborn in the USA,\" produced and televised from New York City by the producers of \"American Idol.\"",
" Kamen has been covered in the NY Times, Daily News and Family Circle Magazine.",
" She can be seen on programing from The Discovery Health Network, PBS and Nickelodeon (The N), ShopNBC, The Tyra Banks Show & ABC NEWS.",
" Marina is also Hosting a Web Broadcast show entitled \"MARINA's High-nrg Fitness Musical Health Talk\" at http://www.musicalhealthtalk.com.",
" Ms. Kamen attended The Manhattan School of Music & Interlochen Arts Academy majoring in voice, violin, and composition.",
" Marina trained in dance with The American Ballet Theatre, Luigi & Frank Hatchett.",
" Marina also thanks her longtime friend in dance Francis Roach for his openness and dance talent over the years in addition to carrying out the teachings of dance Icon Luigi.",
" His work has helped to train thousands of dancers around the world."
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"Traceroute is a 2016 Austrian/American documentary film directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner.",
" The autobiographical documentary and road movie deals with the history, politics and impact of nerd culture.",
" Grenzfurthner calls his film a \"personal journey into the uncharted depths of nerd culture, a realm full of dangers, creatures and more or less precarious working conditions\", an attempt to \"chase the ghosts of nerddom's past, present and future.\"",
" The film was co-produced by art group monochrom and Reisenbauer Film.",
" It features music by Kasson Crooker, Hans Nieswandt, and many others."
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"Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an American film and television director and producer.",
" His credits include \"NYPD Blue\", \"ER\", \"24\", \"Alias\", \"The Shield\", \"Deadwood\", and the documentaries \"An Inconvenient Truth\", \"The Road We've Traveled\", \"Waiting for 'Superman'\" and \"He Named Me Malala\".",
" Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (\"An Inconvenient Truth\", \"It Might Get Loud\", and \"Waiting for ′Superman′\")."
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"Wayne Coles-Janess is an Australian producer, writer and director of drama and documentary film and TV programs.",
" Based in Melbourne, Australia, he has produced documentaries about frontier places in the country.",
" He has also made some documentaries in several international locations, including during times of war."
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"Allucquére Rosanne \"Sandy\" Stone (born c. 1936) is an American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist.",
" She is currently Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.",
" Concurrently she is Wolfgang Kohler Professor of Media and Performance at the European Graduate School EGS, senior artist at the Banff Centre, and Humanities Research Institute Fellow at the University of California, Irvine.",
" Stone has worked in and written about film, music, experimental neurology, writing, engineering, and computer programming.",
" Stone is transgender and is considered a founder of the academic discipline of transgender studies.",
" She has been profiled in \"ArtForum\", \"Wired\", \"Mondo 2000,\" and other publications, and been interviewed for documentaries like Traceroute."
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"Youngstown and Austintown Railroad is a short-line railroad that exists just west of Youngstown, Ohio, United States.",
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" The YARR is essentially two former Erie branch Lines.",
" The line come together at M&T Jct.",
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" The lines are very short and they service the steel industry in Youngstown.",
" For years the largest customer on the YARR was Youngstown Steel Door and United Freezer Storage.",
" The first operator of the YARR was Jerry Jacobson.",
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"Huntington Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in the village of Barboursville in Cabell County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.",
" The largest mall in West Virginia, it opened in 1981 and features more than 150 retailers.",
" Anchor stores include JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and Dick's Sporting Goods, with one anchor space currently being renovated for HomeGoods and TJ Maxx.",
" Other major tenants including Books-A-Million, and Old Navy.",
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"Northeast Ohio refers to the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Ohio.",
" The region contains six Metropolitan Statistical Areas: Cleveland–Elyria; Akron; Canton–Massillon; Youngstown–Warren–Boardman; Mansfield, and Sandusky, along with six Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Ashland, Ashtabula, New Philadelphia–Dover, Norwalk, Salem, and Wooster.",
" Most of the region, with the exception of the Youngstown–Warren–Boardman and Mansfield metropolitan areas, is also part of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area and media market, while Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties form part of the Youngstown–Warren CSA and media market with Mercer County, Pennsylvania.",
" Northeast Ohio also includes most of the area known historically as the Connecticut Western Reserve.",
" In 2011, the Intelligent Community Forum ranked Northeast Ohio as a global Smart 21 Communities list.",
" It has the highest concentration of Hungarian Americans in the United States."
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" In 1929, Joe Cambria purchased the Hagerstown Hubs.",
" In 1931, Hagerstown was playing in the Class C Middle Atlantic League, and Cambria moved the team, first to Parkersburg, West Virginia, and later that summer to Youngstown, where they played as the Youngstown Tubers.",
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"The following are notable or famous people who were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Youngstown, Ohio.",
" Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County.",
" The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately 65 mi southeast of Cleveland and 61 mi northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.",
" Youngstown has its own metropolitan area, but the Pittsburgh Tri-State and Greater Cleveland influence the region.",
" Youngstown lies 10 mi west of the Pennsylvania state line, midway between New York City and Chicago."
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"The Mayor of Youngstown is the chief executive of the government of the city of Youngstown, Ohio.",
" The term of office for the mayor and members of Youngstown City Council is four years.",
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" Youngstown has traditionally been led by Democratic mayors."
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"Upper Valley Mall is a shopping mall located in Springfield, Ohio northeast of Dayton.",
" Built in 1971 by the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. from Youngstown, the mall features one anchor store and offers four sit down restaurants.",
" The Upper Valley Mall is located on the city's west side just off US-68.",
" The mall was owned by Simon Property Group, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based company.",
" It is currently owned by Urban Retail Properties.",
" The Upper Valley Mall contains 267466 sqft .",
" of floor space, with Sears as the only independently owned anchor store."
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"The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company, based in Youngstown, Ohio, was an American steel manufacturer.",
" Officially, the company was created on November 23, 1900, when Articles of Incorporation of the Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company were filed with the Ohio Secretary of State at Columbus.",
" It acquired the Mark Manufacturing Company in 1923.",
" Youngstown Sheet and Tube remained in business until 1977.",
" It reopened in 2014 as a small business promoting economic redevelopment of Youngstown."
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"One of the smaller interurban railways in the state of Ohio was the Youngstown and Ohio River Railroad, or Y&OR.",
" Along with the Youngstown and Southern Railway, the Y&OR formed a traction link between Youngstown, Ohio and the Ohio River at East Liverpool.",
" It served several coal mines in the area and was distinguished by the unusual feat of electrifying a section of a steam railroad, the Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad, as part of a trackage rights agreement.",
" The Y&OR operated for 24 years."
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"Books-A-Million, Inc., also known as BAM!",
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" Stores range in size from 4,000 to 30,000 square feet and sell books, magazines, collectibles, toys, technology, and gifts.",
" Most Books-A-Million stores feature \"Joe Muggs\" cafés - a coffee and espresso bar."
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5ae61be055429929b0807ace | Meirchion Gul was a King of which Brittonic-speaking region of Northern England and Southern Scotland? | Rheged | bridge | medium | {
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" Most of the items are placed in the \"Hen Ogledd\" or \"Old North\", the Brittonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and Northern England; some early manuscripts refer to the whole list specifically as treasures \"that were in the North\".",
" The number of treasures is always given as thirteen, but some later versions list different items, replacing or combining entries to maintain the number.",
" Later versions also supplement the plain list with explanatory comments about each treasure."
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"The title King of the Britons (Latin \"Rex Britannorum\") was used (often retrospectively) to refer to the most powerful ruler among the Celtic Britons, both before and after the period of Roman Britain up until the Norman conquest of England.",
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"Strath of the River Clyde\"), originally Cumbric: Ystrad Clud or Alclud (and Strath-Clota in Anglo-Saxon), was one of the early medieval kingdoms of the Britons in \"Hen Ogledd\" (\"the Old North\"), the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and northern England.",
" The kingdom developed during the post-Roman period.",
" It is also known as Alt Clut, a Brittonic term for Dumbarton Castle, the medieval capital of the region.",
" It may have had its origins with the Brythonic Damnonii people of Ptolemy's \"Geography\"."
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"Coel (Old Welsh: \"Coil\") or Coel Hen (\"Coel the Old\") is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages.",
" Early Welsh tradition knew of a \"Coel Hen\" (Coel the Old), a \"circa\" Fourth Century CE leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in the Hen Ogledd (\"the Old North\"), the Brittonic-speaking part of northern England and southern Scotland.",
" Later medieval legend told of a Coel, apparently derived from Coel Hen, who was the father of Saint Helena and the grandfather of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great.",
" Other similarly named characters may be confused or conflated with the Welsh Coel.",
" The legendary \"King Coel\" is sometimes supposed to be the historical basis for the popular nursery rhyme \"Old King Cole\", but this is unlikely."
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" It is recorded in several poetic and bardic sources, although its borders are not described in any of them.",
" Some modern scholars have suggested that it included what is now Cumbria in North West England and possibly extended into Lancashire and Scotland.",
" In some sources, Rheged is intimately associated with the king Urien Rheged and his family.",
" Its inhabitants spoke Cumbric, a Brittonic dialect closely related to Old Welsh."
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"The Borders Railway connects the city of Edinburgh with Galashiels and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders.",
" The railway follows most of the alignment of the northern part of the Waverley Route, a former double-track line in southern Scotland and northern England that ran between Edinburgh and Carlisle.",
" That line was controversially closed in 1969, as part of the Beeching cuts, leaving the Borders region without any access to the National Rail network.",
" Following the closure, a campaign to revive the Waverley Route emerged.",
" Discussion on reopening the northern part of the line came to a head during the early 2000s.",
" Following deliberations in the Scottish Parliament, the Waverley Railway (Scotland) Act 2006 received Royal Assent in June 2006.",
" The project was renamed the \"Borders Railway\" in August 2008, and building works began in November 2012.",
" Passenger service on the line began on 6 September 2015, whilst an official opening by Queen Elizabeth II took place on 9 September."
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" It is attested in a number of manuscripts, the earliest being NLW, Peniarth MS 45, which has been dated to the late 13th century.",
" The text may have been composed in the 12th century.",
" The historicity of much of the information is spurious or in doubt.",
" Although certain parts are in agreement with the earlier Harleian genealogies, the text represents a substantial revision seeking to integrate the branches of many rulers and heroes who are prominent in other traditions, such as the Rheged prince Llywarch Hen."
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"The Acklington Dyke is an igneous intrusion which extends from northwest of Hawick in southern Scotland east-southeastwards through the Borders region towards the North Sea coast of Northumberland in northern England.",
"The dyke is associated with volcanism which took place at the Isle of Mull igneous centre in western Scotland during the early Palaeogene Period at a time of regional crustal tension associated with the opening of the north Atlantic Ocean and which resulted in the intrusion of innumerable dykes.",
" The similar Cleveland Dyke has been dated to 55.8+/- 0.9 Ma.",
" The dyke is composed of tholeiitic microgabbro and basaltThough generally thinner, it is up to 30 m wide in places.",
" It is one of the most significant of a swarm of such intrusions associated with the Mull centre which extend southeastwards through this region, the others being the Cleveland Dyke and the Blyth and Sunderland subswarms of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.",
" They are grouped as part of the Mull Dyke Swarm which in turn is a part of the North Britain Palaeogene Dyke Suite"
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"Urien , often referred to as Urien Rheged or Uriens, was a late 6th-century king of Rheged, an early British kingdom of the \"Hen Ogledd\" (northern England and southern Scotland).",
" His power and his victories, including the battles of Gwen Ystrad and Alt Clut Ford, are celebrated in the praise poems to him by Taliesin, preserved in the \"Book of Taliesin\".",
" He became the \"King Urien of Gorre\" of later Arthurian legend and his son Owain mab Urien was later known as Ywain."
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5ae33ac15542992e3233c327 | A character named Lance Rocke appeared in a 1970 film co-written by Russ Meyer and what other person? | Roger Ebert | bridge | medium | {
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" The movie features Alaina Capri and Meyer regulars Babette Bardot and Jack Moran.",
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" Of his many film and television appearances he is best known for his performance as gigolo Lance Rocke in Russ Meyer's 1970 cult classic \"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls\".",
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" It was Meyer's return to self-financed projects, following the end of his brief deal at 20th Century Fox.",
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"John LaZar (born May 22, 1946) is an American actor of both stage and screen, best remembered for his lead role as Ronnie 'Z-man' Barzell in the 1970s Russ Meyer film \"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls\" (1970), co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert."
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5ac143535542991316484aac | The 1983–84 New York Knicks season included the retired basketball player at small forward who played a total of how many seasons? | 14 | bridge | medium | {
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"The 2011–12 New York Knicks season was the 66th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).",
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" Notable events of the season included coach Mike D'Antoni's resignation, the surge in popularity of 23-year-old point guard Jeremy Lin during a seven-game winning streak (Linsanity), and the Knicks winning their first playoff game since 2001 against the Miami Heat, snapping an NBA-record 13-game playoff losing streak."
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" The Knicks finished third in the Eastern Division with a 54–28 regular season record, and qualified for the NBA Playoffs for the third straight year.",
" In the first round of the playoffs, New York defeated the Baltimore Bullets in a four-game sweep to earn a berth in the Eastern Division Finals.",
" The Knicks lost the division finals to the eventual NBA champion Boston Celtics in six games.",
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" During the offseason, the Knicks acquired Jamal Crawford from the Chicago Bulls.",
" Early in the season, the team released Shandon Anderson after he had played one game; Anderson later joined the Miami Heat as a free agent.",
" The Knicks played around .500 with a 16–13 start, but then lost 16 of their next 18 games.",
" Head coach Lenny Wilkins resigned after a 17–22 start, and was replaced by assistant Herb Williams for the remainder of the season.",
" The Knicks then lost nine straight games between March and April, finishing fourth place in the Atlantic Division with a 33–49 record, and failing to qualify for the NBA Playoffs.",
" In his first full season with the Knicks, Stephon Marbury led the team with 21.7 points, 8.1 assists and 1.5 steals per game.",
" Following the season, Larry Brown was hired as coach and Allan Houston retired."
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"Sylvester \"Sly\" Williams (born January 26, 1958) is a retired American basketball player.",
" Born in New Haven, Connecticut.",
" In 1979 he was drafter 21st overall by the New York Knicks and he played parts of seven seasons in the NBA with the New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics, appearing in 305 regular season games and seven in the playoffs.",
" In 1985 he signed for the Celtics, but was released on 2 December 1985 after a number of personal issues.",
" The Celtics went on to win the 1986 NBA Finals in his absence.",
" As a member of the Knicks, Williams was the last player to wear No. 33 before Patrick Ewing."
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"John Sylvester Newman, Jr. (born November 28, 1963) is an American retired professional basketball player.",
" A 6' 7\" and 210 lb shooting guard/small forward, Newman starred at the University of Richmond, before going on to play in the National Basketball Association.",
" In his 16 seasons (1986–2002) in the NBA, he was a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, Charlotte Hornets, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, and Dallas Mavericks."
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"Jerry Alan West (born May 28, 1938) is an American retired basketball player who played his entire professional career for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).",
" His nicknames included Mr. Clutch, for his ability to make a big play in a clutch situation, such as his famous buzzer-beating 60-foot shot that tied Game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals against the New York Knicks; The Logo, in reference to his silhouette being incorporated into the NBA logo; Mr. Outside, in reference to his perimeter play with the Los Angeles Lakers; and Zeke from Cabin Creek, for the creek near his birthplace of Chelyan, West Virginia.",
" West played the small forward position early in his career, and he was a standout at East Bank High School and at West Virginia University, where he led the Mountaineers to the 1959 NCAA championship game.",
" He earned the NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player honor despite the loss.",
" He then embarked on a 14-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and was the co-captain of the 1960 U.S. Olympic gold medal team, a squad that was inducted as a unit into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010."
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"The 1948–49 New York Knicks season was the third season for the team in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA).",
" The Knicks had a 32–28 record in 1948–49 and finished second in the Eastern Division, six games behind the Washington Capitols.",
" New York qualified for the playoffs, and defeated the Baltimore Bullets 2–1 in a best-of-three series to earn a place in the Eastern Division Finals.",
" In the division championship series, the Knicks lost to the Capitols, two games to one.",
" Before the 1949–50 season, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the NBA."
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"The 1983–84 New York Knicks season was the 38th season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA).",
" In the regular season, the Knicks had a 47–35 record, and qualified for the NBA Playoffs as the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference.",
" New York was led by small forward Bernard King, who averaged 26.3 points per game (PPG) in the regular season and 34.8 PPG in the playoffs.",
" In early 1984, King scored 50 points in consecutive games, against the San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks."
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"Shandon Rodriguez Anderson (born December 31, 1973) is an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1996 to 2006.",
" Growing up in Atlanta, Anderson attended the University of Georgia and played for four teams during his ten-year NBA career after being drafted by the Utah Jazz in 1996: the Jazz, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks, and Miami Heat.",
" He played the shooting guard and small forward positions."
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"Bernard King (born December 4, 1956) is an American retired professional basketball player at the small forward position in the National Basketball Association (NBA).",
" He played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks and the Washington Bullets.",
" He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013.",
" His younger brother, Albert, has also played in the NBA during his career."
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"Casey Patrick Kelly (born October 4, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the San Francisco Giants organization.",
" He was a first-round draft choice, 30th overall, in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft by the Boston Red Sox.",
" He was the top minor league prospect in the Red Sox organization when he was acquired by the San Diego Padres after the 2010 season, along with three other prospects, in exchange for All-Star player Adrian Gonzalez.",
" He made his major league debut with San Diego in 2012, but underwent Tommy John surgery the following year.",
" He was traded to Atlanta after the 2015 season."
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"On December 4, 1990, the Padres traded second baseman Roberto Alomar and outfielder Joe Carter to the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for first baseman Fred McGriff and shortstop Tony Fernández.",
" Blue Jays GM Pat Gillick and Padres GM Joe McIlvaine originally talked about just trading Joe Carter for Fred McGriff.",
" The Padres were losing Jack Clark and needed a new first baseman.",
" The Blue Jays had John Olerud ready to take over at first base but were losing outfielder George Bell.",
" Gillick decided to up the ante by trying to get Roberto Alomar.",
" Gillick figured that with Garry Templeton in the twilight of his career, Fernández would be an adequate replacement.",
" Alomar feuded with Padres manager Greg Riddoch and the thinking was that Bip Roberts and Joey Cora could platoon at second base.",
" Alomar and Carter would go on to help the Toronto Blue Jays win the 1992 World Series and 1993 World Series."
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"John Edward Roskos (born November 19, 1974) is a former Major League Baseball player who played for three seasons.",
" He played for the Florida Marlins from 1998 to 1999 and the San Diego Padres in 2000.",
" Over his major league career, he played six games as an outfielder, three as a first baseman, and one as a catcher.",
" Over his professional career, he played 266 games as a first baseman, 206 as a catcher, and 151 as an outfielder.",
" Currently he is employed by the Rio Rancho Police Department in New Mexico as a Police officer."
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"Luis Iván Cruz (born May 3, 1968 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico) is a retired Major League Baseball first baseman.",
" He played during four seasons at the major league level for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals.",
" He was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 28th round of the 1989 amateur draft.",
" Cruz played his first professional season with their Class-A (Short Season) Niagara Falls Rapids in , and his last with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Central League in .",
" He played his last affiliated season with St. Louis and their Triple-A Memphis Redbirds in , in which he won the Joe Bauman Home Run Award.",
" In 2008, he entered his first of two seasons as manager of the U.S. Military All-Stars/Heroes of the Diamond and the Latin Stars \"Red, White and Blue Tour\" posting consecutive winning seasons.",
" Under Cruz’s tutelage, over 25 players were offered scholarships or professional contracts.",
" In 2010, he made his affiliated debut as the manager of the Peoria Padres, the Rookie Short Season A-ball affiliate of the San Diego Padres."
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"Napoleon \"Chance\" Cummings (June 8, 1892 – April 22, 1974) was an American baseball first baseman and second baseman in the Negro leagues.",
" He played from 1916 to 1928, mostly with the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants.",
" He began his career in Jacksonville, Florida with the Duval Giants and moved with the team to Atlantic City, New Jersey to become one of the original Bacharach Giants from 1916 to 1918.",
" He returned to the Bacharach Giants from 1923 to 1928 and was part of the team when they won Eastern Colored League pennants in 1926 and 1927.",
" His nickname, \"Chance,\" came from being compared to the Chicago Cubs' first baseman, Frank Chance."
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"\"Who's on First?\"",
" is a comedy routine made famous by Abbott and Costello.",
" The premise of the sketch is that Abbott is identifying the players on a baseball team for Costello, but their names and nicknames can be interpreted as non-responsive answers to Costello's questions.",
" For example, the first baseman is named \"Who\"; thus, the utterance \"Who's on first\" is ambiguous between the question (\"Which person is the first baseman?\")",
" and the answer (\"The name of the first baseman is 'Who)."
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"Anthony Vincent Rizzo (born August 8, 1989) is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB).",
" He is a three-time All-Star.",
" Rizzo was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the sixth round of the 2007 MLB draft and became a top minor league prospect in the Red Sox organization.",
" He was traded to the San Diego Padres after the 2010 season along with three other prospects in exchange for All-Star first baseman Adrian Gonzalez.",
" After being traded to the Cubs in 2012, he developed into an All-Star player."
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"Frederick Stanley McGriff (born October 31, 1963) is an American former professional baseball first baseman, who played for six Major League Baseball (MLB) teams from 1986 through 2004.",
" A power-hitting first baseman, he became a five-time All-Star and led both leagues in home runs in separate years – the American League in 1989 and the National League in 1992.",
" McGriff finished his career with 493 home runs, tied with Hall of Fame player Lou Gehrig, and only seven homers away from joining the 500 home run club.",
" He won a World Series title as a first baseman with the Atlanta Braves in 1995.",
" He currently works in the Atlanta Braves' front office as Special Assistant to Baseball Operations."
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"Clifford Earl Torgeson (January 1, 1924 – November 8, 1990) was an American Major League Baseball player from Snohomish, Washington.",
" A first baseman, he played on five teams for 15 years, from 1947 through 1961.",
" He was known by his middle name, Earl, and his nickname was \"The Earl of Snohomish\", a nickname originally owned by baseball hall of famer, Earl Averill, also from Torgeson's hometown.",
" In 1950, Torgeson led the National League (NL) with 120 runs scored and in 1957, he led the American League (AL) with a .999 fielding average as first baseman."
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"Adrián González Savín (born May 8, 1982), also known by his nicknames A-Gon and Titán, is an American-born Mexican professional baseball first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB)."
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5a7c731555429935c91b51bb | Who was born earlier, Gerina Dunwich or Erich Maria Remarque? | Erich Maria Remarque | comparison | medium | {
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"Three Comrades (German: \"Drei Kameraden\" ) is a novel first published in 1936 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.",
" It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War's French-German front.",
" He shares these experiences with Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz, his two comrades with whom he runs an auto-repair shop in late 1920s Berlin (probably).",
" Remarque wrote the novel in exile and it was first published in Dutch translation as \"Drie kameraden\", with English translation following soon in \"Good Housekeeping\" from January to March 1937 and in the book form in the same year.",
" First German language edition was published in 1938 by exile publisher \"Querido\" in Amsterdam, but the novel was published in Germany only in 1951."
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"Tony Robert Judt, FBA ( ; 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was a British historian, essayist, and university professor who specialized in European history.",
" Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute.",
" He was a frequent contributor to the \"New York Review of Books\".",
" In 1996 Judt was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy."
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"Robert Shvarc (10 December 1932 – 25 April 2003) born in Sarajevo of Bosnia, 10 December 1932, is a Hebrew and Albanian, recognized as one of the best translators from German of the 20th century and beginning of new millennium, writer and poet.",
" His parents were respectively mother from Elbasan and father an Hebrew from Austria and lived in Shkodra, Albania.",
" There Robert Shvarc grew up as a lover of Albanian mother's language and is the first who brought for the Albanian reader some masterpieces of literature as the novels of Gabriel García Márquez, Erich Maria Remarque, Lion Feuchtwanger, dramas of Bertolt Brecht; books of poetry from Goethe, Schiller and Heine.",
" Also Shvarc translated in German best books of many Albanian poets and writers."
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"Ragnar Kvam (18 November 1917 – 15 February 2006) was a Norwegian journalist, novelist, translator and literary critic.",
" He was born in Tønsberg and grew up in Drammen.",
" After the Second World War he was journalist in the newspaper \"Fremtiden\", and the Norwegian News Agency.",
" He made his literary debut in 1950 with the novel \"Alle vil hjem\".",
" Among his other novels are \"De herjede menn\" from 1953, \"Den store stillheten\" from 1964, and \"Krystallnatten\" from 1970.",
" He translated many books into Norwegian language, including works by George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, C. P. Snow and Erich Maria Remarque."
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"Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German"
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"Gerina Dunwich (born December 27, 1959, Illinois, United States) is a professional astrologer, occult historian, and New Age author, best known for her books on Wicca and various occult subjects.",
" She is also involved in paranormal research and is the founder of the Paranormal Animal Research Group, which investigates cases of alleged hauntings by animal spirits."
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"Mary J. Carruthers (born January 15, 1941) is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature and Professor of English, emerita, at New York University.",
" She also teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi."
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"The Night in Lisbon (German: \"Die Nacht von Lissabon\" ) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque published in 1962.",
" It revolves around the plight of two German refugees in the opening months of World War II.",
" One of the refugees relates their story during the course of a single night in Lisbon in 1942.",
" The story he recounts is mainly a romantic one, and also contains a lot of action with arrests, escapes and near-misses.",
" The novel is realistic, Remarque was himself a German refugee (although the novel is fictional and only loosely based on the experience of Remarque 's friend, novelist Hans Habe), and provides insight into refugee life in Europe during the early days of the war.",
" The book completed what was known as Remarque’s \"emigre trilogy\" along with \"Flotsam\" and \"Arch of Triumph\".",
" It was Remarque's last completed work."
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"Hotel Principe di Savoia, or simply referred to as The Principe, is a five-star hotel in Milan, Italy.",
" The hotel has long become one of Milan's Landmarks.",
" Founded by the name of \"Principe e Savoia\" in 1927, a time when Milan had already established its position as financial center of the country, it soon became a home for businessmen.",
" With time, celebrities of all kinds chose The Principe for their Italian stays: Edward VIII, Erich Maria Remarque, Aristotle Onassis, Evita Peron, Maria Callas; and in recent years Madonna, David Beckham and George Clooney, among others."
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"August Perk (October 25, 1897, Lohne / Lingen, Germany; – May 12, 1945, Braunschweig, Germany) was a German Resistance fighter against the National Socialism.",
" His brief friendship with Erich Maria Remarque influenced Remarque's novel \"All Quiet on the Western Front\"."
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"Spring Fine Art Exhibition of Leningrad artists (Leningrad, 1954) (Russian: \"\"Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1954 года\"\" ) become one of the largest Soviet Art Exhibition of 1954 and one of the first Art Exhibitions after Stalin death.",
" The Exhibition took place in Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls on Bolshaya Morskaya st. 38."
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"Teddy Lo is a Hong Kong and New York-based LED artist known for his work in the \"tech-art\" scene.",
" He has held exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Asia.",
" Lo studied advertising design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he began exploring the use of light-emitting diodes in art; he relocated to New York City after his graduation in 2001.",
" He began his career in the advertising industry, and at the same time pursue art using LED as his medium In 2003, Lo held his first solo art exhibition, Morphology, in New York City.",
" He was named in Lighting magazine's \"Who's Who of Lighting 2004\", for his contribution to the lighting industry.",
" Since then, Lo has held solo exhibitions in various locations, including Russell Simmons' Art for Life in NYC, Luminale in Frankfurt, the 2006 National Day Singapore Expo at The Esplanade and Microwave's \"A-Glow-Glow\" outdoor Media Art Exhibition at Hong Kong Museum of Art, Miaimi Art Basel and Burniningman Festival in Nevada.",
" His work is also featured in “Legacy and Creations – Ink Art vs Ink Art and Art vs Art” at Hong Kong Museum of Art, I Light Marina Bay in Singapore and “Transmutation” in New York."
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"The Marx Lounge is an art exhibition by the Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar.",
" It was first presented at the Liverpool Biennial art exhibition in England in 2010 and was later shown at the Biennial again in 2016.",
" The exhibit has subsequently been presented at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam's SMBA space and the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC).",
" For the exhibition a large space was transformed into a red reading room with sofas, reading lamps and a large reading table on which a large collection of books was installed."
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"The Degenerate Art Exhibition (German: \"Die Ausstellung \"Entartete Kunst\"\" ) was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937.",
" The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition.",
" The day before the exhibition started, Hitler delivered a speech declaring \"merciless war\" on cultural disintegration, attacking \"chatterboxes, dilettantes and art swindlers\".",
" Degenerate art was defined as works that \"insult German feeling, or destroy or confuse natural form or simply reveal an absence of adequate manual and artistic skill\".",
" One million people attended the exhibition in its first six weeks.",
" A U.S. critic commented \"there are probably plenty of people—art lovers—in Boston, who will side with Hitler in this particular purge\"."
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"The Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung (FBK), the “Free Berlin Art Exhibition” in Berlin (Germany), was “unique in its structure”.",
" For 24 years, from 1971 to 1995, it was the only non-juried art exhibition of its size in Europe.",
" It opened after the \"Große Berliner Kunstausstellung\", the “Grand Berlin Art Exhibition”, a juried art exhibition, had closed its doors.",
" Supported by the Senate of Berlin, an association, called the \"Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung\" was registered in 1970 with the goal to organize annual exhibitions.",
" Hans-Joachim Zeidler became chairperson of this association for the first four years, followed by Ernst Leonhardt (Artist).",
" During the association's last four years, Karin Rech took over the leadership."
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"Tove Marika Jansson (] ; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.",
" Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and then Paris.",
" Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943.",
" At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other purposes.",
" She continued to work as an artist for the rest of her life, alongside her writing."
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"The Star Art Exhibition took place on September 27, 1979 when a group of avant-garde and self-taught (not trained in the Academy) Chinese artists staged an unpermitted exhibition on the railings of the China Art Gallery after being denied an official exhibition space.",
" The group is called Star Art Group(Xingxing) which used formerly banned western style, from Post-impressionism to Abstract Expressionism to challenge both aesthetic convention and political authority: their exhibition was closed by the police and they post a notice on Democracy Walls.",
" In November, Beihai Park Beijing, the group held their first formal exhibition: Star Art Exhibition (Xingxing huazhan), which includes 163 works by 23 nonprofessional artists.",
" Star Art exhibition was a milestone in China's contemporary art."
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"Comet in Moominland (Swedish: \"Kometjakten\" / \"Mumintrollet på kometjakt\" / \"Kometen kommer\") is the second in Tove Jansson's series of Moomin books.",
" Published in 1946, it marks the first appearance of several main characters, like Snufkin and the Snork Maiden."
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"Hong Lei (; born 1960) is one of the leading artists in the era of China's New Photography movement in the 1990s.",
" He was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu in 1960 and graduated from Nanjing University of the Arts in 1987.",
" In 1992, he went to the China Central Academy of Fine Arts to pursue advanced studies in printmaking.",
" Inspired by his early art experience in Yuan Ming Yuan and learning from traditional Chinese paintings, he returned to Changzhou and soon started to use photography as a way of art representation since 1996.",
" His renowned works include \"Autumn in the Forbidden City\" (1997), \"Chinese Landscape\" (1998), \"After Liang Kai's (Song Dynasty) Masterpiece Sakyamuni Coming Out of Retirement\" (1998), \"I Dreamt that I was Hung Upside Down to Listen to Huizong Play the Zither with Chairman Mao\" (2004) and \"Nothing to Hide\" (2008), among others.",
" Apart from his success in digital photos, he started to photograph black and white Shan shui landscapes as an ongoing experimental project since 2000 to rethink Chinese traditional aesthetics.",
" In recent years, he has also explored the various boundaries and possibilities of photography by painting his own photos on silk, as well as video & installation works.",
" His selected solo and group exhibitions include \"Recontres d' Arles: Arles Phototography Festival\" (Arles, France, 2003), \"Alors, La Chine?",
", Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition\" (Pompidou Centre, Paris, 2003), \"Seven Worthies\" (solo exhibition, Beijing, 2007), \"Seasons\" (solo exhibition, Beijing, New York, 2008), 2011 Chengdu Biennale, \"Mi Lou\" (solo exhibition, Beijing, 2012) and \"Perfume This is Not\" (solo exhibition, Shanghai, 2012).",
" Now he lives and works in Changzhou and Shanghai."
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"The exhibition \"New Painting of Common Objects\" at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1962 was the first museum survey of American pop art.",
" The eight artists included were: Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Andy Warhol, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Edward Ruscha, Joe Goode and Wayne Thiebaud.",
" It was curated by Walter Hopps, who had given Andy Warhol his first solo show at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles the previous year.",
" The show helped the pop art movement gain critical acceptance, preceding the Guggenheim Museum's 1963 pop art exhibition \"Six Painters and the Object\", curated by Lawrence Alloway."
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"In mathematics, Ratner's theorems are a group of major theorems in ergodic theory concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces proved by Marina Ratner around 1990.",
" The theorems grew out of Ratner's earlier work on horocycle flows.",
" The study of the dynamics of unipotent flows played a decisive role in the proof of the Oppenheim conjecture by Grigory Margulis.",
" Ratner's theorems have guided key advances in the understanding of the dynamics of unipotent flows.",
" Their later generalizations provide ways to both sharpen the results and extend the theory to the setting of arbitrary semisimple algebraic groups over a local field."
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"In mathematics, the multiplicative ergodic theorem, or Oseledets theorem provides the theoretical background for computation of Lyapunov exponents of a nonlinear dynamical system.",
" It was proved by Valery Oseledets (also spelled \"Oseledec\") in 1965 and reported at the International Mathematical Congress in Moscow in 1966.",
" A conceptually different proof of the multiplicative ergodic theorem was found by M. S. Raghunathan.",
" The theorem has been extended to semisimple Lie groups by V. A. Kaimanovich and further generalized in the works of David Ruelle, Grigory Margulis, Anders Karlsson, and François Ledrappier."
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"Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров ), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff or Aleksandrov (7 May 1896 – 16 November 1982), was a Soviet mathematician.",
" He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology."
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"In the mathematical field of topology, the Alexandroff extension is a way to extend a noncompact topological space by adjoining a single point in such a way that the resulting space is compact.",
" It is named for the Russian mathematician Pavel Alexandrov."
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"Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn (Па́вел Самуи́лович Урысо́н ) (February 3, 1898 – August 17, 1924) was a Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma, both of which are fundamental results in topology.",
" His name is also commemorated in the terms Urysohn universal space, Fréchet–Urysohn space, Menger–Urysohn dimension and Urysohn integral equation.",
" He and Pavel Alexandrov formulated the modern definition of compactness in 1923."
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"The napkin folding problem is a problem in geometry and the mathematics of paper folding that explores whether folding a square or a rectangular napkin can increase its perimeter.",
" The problem is known under several names, including the Margulis napkin problem, suggesting it is due to Grigory Margulis, and the Arnold's rouble problem referring to Vladimir Arnold and the folding of a Russian ruble bank note.",
" Some versions of the problem were solved by Robert J. Lang, Svetlana Krat, Alexey S. Tarasov, and Ivan Yaschenko.",
" One form of the problem remains open."
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"In differential geometry, a subfield of mathematics, the Margulis lemma (named after Grigory Margulis) is a result about discrete subgroups of isometries of a non-positively curved Riemannian manifolds (e.g. the hyperbolic n-space).",
" Roughly, it states that within a fixed radius, usually called the Margulis constant, the structure of the orbits of such a group cannot be too complicated.",
" More precisely, within this radius around a point all points in its orbit are in fact in the orbit of a nilpotent subgroup (in fact a bounded finite number of such)."
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"Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Маргу́лис , first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Grigory; born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation.",
" He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978 and a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, becoming the seventh mathematician to receive both prizes.",
" In 1991, he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is currently the Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics."
],
[
"In topology, the nerve of an open covering is a construction of an abstract simplicial complex from an open covering of a topological space \"X\" that captures many of the interesting topological properties in an algorithmic or combinatorial way.",
" It was introduced by Pavel Alexandrov.",
" and now has many variants and generalisations, among them the Čech nerve of a cover, which in turn is generalised by hypercoverings."
],
[
"In mathematics, in the theory of discrete groups, superrigidity is a concept designed to show how a linear representation ρ of a discrete group Γ inside an algebraic group \"G\" can, under some circumstances, be as good as a representation of \"G\" itself.",
" That this phenomenon happens for certain broadly defined classes of lattices inside semisimple groups was the discovery of Grigory Margulis, who proved some fundamental results in this direction."
]
]
} |
5ab970155542996be20204ee | Did The Threepenny Opera and Macbeth have the same writers? | no | comparison | medium | {
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"The Threepenny Opera",
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"Macbeth (opera)"
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"title": [
"Complex seeing",
"Threepenny Novel",
"The Threepenny Opera",
"Alan Cumming",
"Macbeth (opera)",
"Michael Moody",
"Joel Thome",
"Tacoma Opera",
"The Threepenny Opera (1931 film)",
"Pirate Jenny"
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[
"The English term Complex Seeing is taken from Bertolt Brecht's writing on theatre and opera.",
" First found in Brecht's notes to the \"Threepenny Opera\", a subsequently edited and updated version was published.",
" This text can be found in English translation as \"The Literarization of Theatre\" from 1931, in Brecht on Theatre, where the key passage on complex seeing reads:"
],
[
"ThreePenny Novel is a 1934 novel by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht, first published in Amsterdam by in 1934 as \"Dreigroschenroman \".",
" It is similar in structure to his more famous \"The Threepenny Opera\" and features several of the same characters such as Macheath, together with a general anti-capitalist focus and a didactic technique that is often associated with the dramatist.",
" It is a novel that has been the focus of much critical attention and that is often described as both a continuation and a variation of the themes and motifs of Brecht's other work that focuses on alienation and on the communication of a social message.",
" It can be seen alternatively as a careful development of the detective novel genre and as scathing criticism of the Brecht's own social conditions and the economic practices of German businesses and banks in the middle of the 20th century."
],
[
"The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper ) is a \"play with music\" by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann, adapted from John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, \"The Beggar's Opera\", with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling.",
" Although Hauptmann produced 80 to 90 percent of the text, Brecht suppressed this and assumed sole credit, and is usually listed as sole author in printed versions."
],
[
"Alan Cumming, OBE (born 27 January 1965), is a Scottish-American actor, singer/performer, author, and activist who has appeared in numerous films, television shows, and plays.",
" His London stage appearances include \"Hamlet\", the Maniac in \"Accidental Death of an Anarchist\" (for which he received an Olivier Award), the lead in \"Bent\", and the National Theatre of Scotland's \"The Bacchae\".",
" On Broadway, he has appeared in \"The Threepenny Opera\", as the master of ceremonies in \"Cabaret\" (for which he won a Tony Award), \"Design for Living\" and a one-man adaptation of \"Macbeth\".",
" His best-known film roles include his performances in \"Emma\", \"GoldenEye\", the \"Spy Kids\" trilogy, \"Son of the Mask,\" and \"X2\".",
" Cumming also introduces \"Masterpiece Mystery!",
"\" for PBS and appeared on \"The Good Wife\", for which he has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Satellite Award.",
" A filming of his Las Vegas cabaret show, \"Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs\", aired on PBS stations in November 2016."
],
[
"Macbeth (] ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name."
],
[
"Michael Moody, General Manager and co-founder of The Grange Festival.",
" Having worked with Australian Opera, Garsington and Wexford opera festivals, he then co-founded (with Wasfi Kani) both Grange Park Opera and Nevill Holt festivals.",
" He has been involved with the Pimlico Opera prison project since 1996 and directed \"The Threepenny Opera -\" HMP Winchester, \"West Side Story -\" HMP Winchester and Wandsworth, \"Guys and Dolls\" - Wormwood Scrubs, \"Chicago\" - HMP Bronzefield, \"Les Miserables\" - HMP Wandsworth and Erlestoke, \"Sugar -\" HMP Send, \"Sister Act\" - HMP Bronzefield and \"Our House\" with Suggs at HMP Isis."
],
[
"Joel Thome (born in Detroit, Michigan) is the conductor and artistic director of Orchestra of Our Time.",
" A Grammy Award recipient, Thome has been acclaimed internationally as an accomplished conductor and composer of classical and contemporary orchestral music, as well as a strikingly effective conductor of opera and other music/theater works.",
" His conducting credits include many prominent and international orchestras.",
" He has worked with such noted artists as pianists Vladimir Feltsman and Lorin Hollander, violinist Jaime Laredo, Metropolitan Opera singers Florence Quivar and Roberta Alexander.",
" His modern opera performances include the Weill/Brecht Threepenny Opera with the Opera Company of Boston and the Thomson/Stein Four Saints in Three Acts at Carnegie Hall."
],
[
"Tacoma Opera is a professional opera company located in Tacoma, WA and is a member of OPERA America.",
" The company presents two to three operas a year.",
" The 2015-16 season includes \"Don Giovanni\", \"Die Fledermaus\", and \"The Threepenny Opera\"."
],
[
"The Threepenny Opera (German: Die 3 Groschen-Oper ) is a 1931 German musical film directed by G. W. Pabst.",
" It was produced by Seymour Nebenzal's Nero-Film for Tonbild-Syndikat AG (Tobis), Berlin and Warner Bros.",
" Pictures GmbH, Berlin.",
" The film is loosely based on the 1928 musical theatre success \"The Threepenny Opera\" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.",
" As was usual in the early sound film era, Pabst also directed a French language version of the film, \"L'Opéra de quat'sous\", with some variation of plot details (the French title literally translates as \"the four penny opera\").",
" A planned English version was not made.",
" The two existing versions were released by The Criterion Collection on home video."
],
[
"\"Pirate Jenny\" (German: \"Seeräuber-Jenny \") is a well-known song from \"The Threepenny Opera\" by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht.",
" The English lyrics are by Marc Blitzstein.",
" It is probably the second most famous song in the opera, after \"Mack the Knife\"."
]
]
} |
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