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small islet in the Atlantic Ocean and the most southerly point of Ireland. It lies 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) southwest of Cape Clear Island and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from County Cork on the Irish mainland.[1]
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Fastnet
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was the Chief Executive Officer of the Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne based Northern Rock bank, one of the first victims of the so-called subprime mortgage crisis.
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Adam Apple Garth
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April 22, 1922 - January 5, 1979) was a highly influential American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader. His compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music and blues while sometimes drawing on elements of Third Stream, free jazz, and classical music. Angry man of jazz
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charles mingus
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September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967),[1] was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and was later at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions during his career, and appeared as a sideman on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
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john coltrane
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born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 - May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions).[1] wrote and arranged for such bandleaders as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others.
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Mary Lou Williams
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best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award, after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.
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Herbie Hancock
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was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young.[1] Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists".[1] went on to perform in bebop, cool jazz and third stream, but is perhaps best known for popularizing bossa nova, as in the worldwide hit single "The Girl from Ipanema" (1964).
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Stan Getz
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means literally "new trend" (Portuguese
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Bossa nova
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The building is located just north of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine and is the center of the Company's consolidated West Coast operations-and was nicknamed "The House That Nat Built"
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Capitol records
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is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular
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Chanson
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best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), and the films Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949).
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Jean Cocteau
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His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens.[1]
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Jean genet
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Founded black panthers Two people |
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One of her best known novels is Gigi, the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same title
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Colette
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roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature") is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Other notable members have included novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, poets Oskar Pastior, Jean Lescure and poet/mathematician Jacques Roubaud.
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Oulipo
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John Birks... October 21, 1917 - January 6, 1993)
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Dizzy Gillespie instrument
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Trumpet
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Charlie Parker instrument
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Saxophone
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style of jazz characterized by a fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and sometimes references to the melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s.
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Bebop
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Keith Jarrett instrument
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Piano
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began to perform around Chicago, scat singing and improvising his own lyrics. He recorded a demo in the early 1990s and was signed by Blue Note Records, releasing a total of six albums with the label. He has been nominated for ten Grammy Awards, winning Best Vocal Jazz Album for Dedicated to You (2009) on the Concord Jazz label.
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Kurt elling
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had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Straight, No Chaser" "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't".
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Thelonious monk
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He was renowned for his distinctive style in suits, hats, and sunglasses. He was also noted for an idiosyncratic habit observed at times during performances: while the other musicians in the band continued playing, he would stop, stand up from the keyboard, and dance for a few moments before returning to the piano.
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Thelonious monk
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has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Wynton marsalis
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experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording "Pick Up Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, "World's Fair" in 13/4, and "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He was also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.
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Dave Brubeck
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students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Little rock crisis
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Duke Ellington first name
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Edward
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wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, with many of his extant works having become standards.
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Duke Ellington
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French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Honore de Balzac
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Apart from Elizabeth I, the unpopular king is our only post-1066 adult monarch never to marry.
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William ii
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Sherlock adversary in A Scandal in Bohemia and referred to as "the woman".
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Irene Adler
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subject of the portrait Lady with an Ermine
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Cecilia gallerani
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the most likely recipient of his mysterious "Immortal Beloved" letter.
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Josephine brunsvik
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remains the only US leader never to marry
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James Buchanan
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does propose several times - to icy blonde Lady Florence Craye (who tells him "your Aunt Agatha... called you a spineless invertebrate and advised me strongly not to marry you"), American millionaire's daughter Pauline Stoker, scarily sporty Honoria Glossop, soppy romantic Madeline Bassett and reckless redhead Bobbie Wickham
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Bertie Wooster
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Surely the greatest spinster in all English literature is Rhoda Nunn, the heroine of George Gissing's 1893 novel,
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The odd women
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A good time was had by all" itself became a catch phrase, still occasionally used to this day. said she got the phrase from parish magazines, where descriptions of church picnics often included this phrase.[8] This saying has become so familiar that it is recognised even by those who are unaware of its origin. Variations appear in pop culture, including Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite by the Beatles.
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Stevie smith
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poetry collections include Book of Matches (1993) and The Dead Sea Poems (1995). He has written two novels, Little Green Man (2001) and The White Stuff (2004), as well as All Points North (1998), a collection of essays on Northern England. He produced a dramatised version of Homer's Odyssey and a collection of poetry entitled Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid (which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize), both of which were published in July 2006.
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Simon armitage
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4 January 1878 - 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom.
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Augustus john
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The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent movie star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen, with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, her devoted servant.
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Sunset boulevard
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I'm ready for my close up said by what character in which film
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Norma Desmond sunset boulevard
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1913-1980), clever, witty and frequently underrated as a writer, often fell for unsuitable (gay) men, but she never married, living instead with her sister Hilary in a succession of London flats and then in an Oxfordshire cottage: as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography records, together "they passed much time in parish work and keen social observations". Her novels — the first, Some Tame Gazelle, was published in 1950 — reflect this life to a degree. But they're more subversive than they seem. Her "excellent women" would rather remain spinsters than submit to the limitations imposed by pompous husbands.
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Barbara pym
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Having been forced to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth eight years previously, she will shortly get a second chance in the marriage stakes, an opportunity born of her courage and constancy.
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Anne Elliott persuasion
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Boboli gardens where
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Florence
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is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) New York City linear park built in Manhattan on an elevated section of a disused New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line.[1]
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High line
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American film director and screenwriter. He is known for the coming of age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), the romantic drama film trilogy Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013); the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003), the rotoscope animated Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006). From 2002 to 2014, he filmed Boyhood (2014), a passion project over twelve years.
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Richard linklater
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I'm ready for my close up said by what character in which film
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Sunset boulevard
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Currency nakfa
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Eritrea
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president Isaias Afwerki
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Eritrea
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World athletics championships where
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Beijing
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Actor comedian with cerebral Palsy
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Francesca Martinez
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born April 19, 1979)[1] is an American actress. She rose to prominence in 2000 for playing Penny Lane in Almost Famous, for which she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played Cassandra July in the musical comedy-drama TV series Glee.
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Kate Hudson
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Current and last master of queens music
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Judith weir Peter maxwell Davies
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His other films include the surrealistic science fantasy comedy The Science of Sleep (2006), the comedy-drama Be Kind Rewind (2008), the superhero action comedy The Green Hornet (2011), the drama The We and the I (2012), and the romantic drama Mood Indigo (2013).
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Michel gondry
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Female musician one half of moloko
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Roisin Murphy
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Nba team 'nets'
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Brooklyn
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Mlb team 'tigers'
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Detroit
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American Revolutionary War years
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1775-83
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consists of an emblem on a field of red, with a strip of blue on the fly. The emblem in the middle consists of three stars on a blue circle.
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Tennessee
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Simpsons first year
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1991
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Medical term fainting
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Syncope
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Zeus seduced who disguised as swan
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Leda
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Largest city Connecticut
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Bridge port
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Kardashian mother
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Kris Jenner
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Wrote shopaholic series
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Sophie kinsella
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Kelvin name
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William Thompson
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Giza pyramids in honour of who
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Khufu
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Fictional priest by g k Chesterton
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Father brown
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Pinball wizard which rock opera
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Tommy
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Glengarry glen Ross which playwright
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David Mamet
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Dahomey country
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Benin
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Woman in black sequel
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Angel of death
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Strings on a guitar
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6
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Largest city delaware
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Wilmington
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Largest city Florida
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Jacksonville
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the largest city by area in the contiguous United States
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Jacksonville
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Largest city Kansas
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Wichita
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Largest city Kentucky
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Louisville
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Largest city Maine
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Portland
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Largest city Maryland
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Baltimore
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Largest city Minnesota
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Minneapolis
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Largest city Missouri
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Kansas City
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Largest city Montana
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Billings
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Largest city Nebraska
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Omaha
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Largest city New Hampshire
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Manchester
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Largest city New Mexico
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Albuquerque
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Largest city North Carolina
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Charlotte
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Largest city North Dakota
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Fargo
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Largest city South Dakota
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Sioux Falls
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Largest city Tennessee
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Memphis
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Largest city Vermont
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Burlington
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Largest city Virginia
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Virginia beach
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Largest city Wisconsin
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Milwaukee
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Belgium pm
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Charles Michel
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Banksy bemusement park
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Dismaland
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2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. This film is about an underappreciated boxing trainer, the mistakes that haunt him from his past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur boxer (the film's title character) achieve her dream of becoming a professional.
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Million dollar baby
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made her film debut in a minor role for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, before she made her breakout lead role in the fourth installment of the The Karate Kid franchise, The Next Karate Kid in 1994. On television, she was cast as part of the main cast in the eighth season of the drama series Beverly Hills 90210 as single mother Carly Reynolds from 1997 to 1998. garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in the 1999 biographical independent film Boys Don't Cry, which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama.
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Hilary swank
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1999 American independent romantic drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Andy Bienen. The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a trans man
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Boys don't cry
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won eight acting awards and gained serious critical and commercial recognition for her first mainstream role in the critically lauded Boys Don't Cry, for which she also received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress. continued acting in mostly independent art house films, such as American Psycho (2000), Party Monster (2003), and Dogville (2003). Her role in the art house film The Brown Bunny (2003) caused significant controversy because of a scene in which she performs unsimulated fellatio. Her films since then have included Melinda and Melinda (2004), Manderlay (2005), Zodiac (2007), and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009).
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Chloe sevigny
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based on the Yasushi Akimoto novel Chakushin Ari. The film was released in North America on January 4, 2008 and was directed by Eric Valette and written by Andrew Klavan. The film, starring Shannyn Sossamon, was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Despite being a moderate box office success, the film was panned by film critics often regarding it as the weakest J-horror remake to be released.
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One missed call
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Wrote book a beautiful mind
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Sylvia nasar
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made his directorial debut with the 1977 comedy Grand Theft Auto and left Happy Days in 1980 to focus on directing. His films include the science-fiction/fantasy film Cocoon (1985), the historical docudrama Apollo 13 (1995), the musical fantasy comedy How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
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Ron Howard
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Narrator and creator of arrested development
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Ron Howard
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released on 28 October 2011, is based on the premise that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford is the real author of the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare.[25] According to Emmerich, "It's an historical thriller because it's about who will succeed Queen Elizabeth and the struggle of the people who want to have a hand in it.
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Anonymous
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First feature length animated film
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Snow White
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Opening line you'd better not tell nobody but God
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The color purple
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124 was spiteful opening line
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Beloved
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Truth universally acknowledged single man fortune wife
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Pride and prejudice
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice
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The great gatsby
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First animated film nominated best picture Oscar
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Beauty and the beast
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Research in motion ltd now called
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Blackberry
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American competition swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.
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Johnny Weissmuller
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began her career performing on Broadway at age nineteen. She gained international visibility and critical acclaim for film roles which continued into her seventies and eighties. Her later work included performances in Rosemary's Baby (1968), Harold and Maude (1971), and the Clint Eastwood films Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980
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Ruth Gordon
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1989 American drama war film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay was written by Kevin Jarre, based on the personal letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the novel One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard (reissued in 1990 after the movie), and Lay This Laurel (1973), Lincoln Kirstein's compilation of photos of the monument to the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on Boston Common.
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Glory
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the adult voice of Simba in The Lion King (1994), and Leo Bloom in the Hollywood and Broadway productions of The Producers.
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Matthew broderick
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Nicknamed The Mexican Spitfire by the media, personal life was as colorful as her screen persona. She had several highly publicized romances and a stormy marriage to actor Johnny Weissmuller. In December 1944, died of intentional overdose of Seconal. Her death, and the circumstances surrounding it, have been the subject of speculation and controversy.
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Lupe velez
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With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty and was referred to as "The King of Hollywood",
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Douglas Fairbanks
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He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, the private life of Don Juan
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Clark gable first name
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William
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won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934),[2] and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
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Clark gable
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Josephine Dillon (m. 1924; div. 1930)Maria Langham (m. 1931; div. 1939)Carole Lombard (m. 1939; wid. 1942)Sylvia Ashley (m. 1949; div. 1952)Kay Williams (m. 1955; his death 1960)
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Clark gable
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No Man of Her Own (1932) and George Raft in Bolero (1934), where her dance skills were praised. After roles in successful films such as Twentieth Century (1934), Hands Across the Table (1935), which was the first of four comedies made with Fred MacMurray, The Princess Comes Across (1936), My Man Godfrey (1936), which won her an Academy Award nomination opposite Powell, Swing High, Swing Low (1937), and Nothing Sacred (1937)
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Carole lombard
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(August 10June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress, and a major Hollywood star from 1925 through 1942.[2] Her early films cast her as a spunky ingenue, but in the Pre-Code film era, she played sexually liberated women. She excelled in drama, in comedy, and in period roles. She gave well-received performances in adaptations of Noel Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won once, for her performance in the 1930 film The Divorcee.
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Norma shearer
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1934
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was a Romanian American actor.[1] A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar, and as Rocco in Key Largo. Other memorable roles include insurance investigator Barton Keyes in the film noir Double Indemnity, Dathan (adversary of Moses) in The Ten Commandments, and his final performance as Sol Roth in the science-fiction story Soylent Green.[
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Edward g Robinson
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During the early 1940s, she established herself as a leading actress in such films as Johnny Eager (1941), Honky Tonk (1941), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), and Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). She appeared in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and her reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Her popularity continued through the 1950s, in such films as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Lana turner
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the only actresses ever to receive an Academy Award for acting without having been nominated previously.
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Maureen Ohara myrna loy
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Jezebel husband
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Ahab
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Tricked into marrying Leah instead of Rachel
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Jacob
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Wife of nabal and David
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Abigail
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Abraham and hagar's son
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Ishmael
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She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Mogambo (1953). She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters (1947), Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), On the Beach (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (1974), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976).
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Ava Gardner
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Born harlean carpenter
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Jean Harlow
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born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 - January 16, 1942)
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Carole Lombard
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Alloy with Mercury
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Amalgam
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Copper zinc
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copper tin
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Iron copper, silicon?
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Aluminum (94%), copper (4.5-5%), magnesium (0.5-1.5%), manganese (0.5-1.5%). Automobile and aircraft body parts, military equipment
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Duralumin
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Iron (50%+), aluminum (8-12%), nickel (15-25%), cobalt (5-40%), plus other metals such as copper and titanium. Magnets in loudspeakers and pickups in electric guitars.
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Alnico
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Alloy mainly copper tin and zinc and phosphorus
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Gun metal
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Magnesium aluminium nuclear reactors
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Magnox
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Pewter made of
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Tin copper lead antimony
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Solder made of
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Iron carbon
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Cobalt (67%), chromium (28%), tungsten (4%), nickel (1%).
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Stellite
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Sterling silver other element
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Copper
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Gold (75%), palladium (17%), silver (4%), copper (4%)
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White gold
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Bismuth (50%), lead (26.7%), tin (13.3%), cadmium (10%).
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Woods metal
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Nickel (50-55%), titanium (45-50%).
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Nitinol
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became a leading lady for MGM, starring in a string of hit films including Red Dust (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935) and Suzy (1936). Among her frequent co-stars were William Powell, Spencer Tracy and, in six films, Clark Gable.
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Jean Harlow
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Jean Harlow died aged 26 during filming of what
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Saratoga
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Polanski apartment trilogy
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repulsion, rosemarys baby, the tenant
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Spencer Tracy middle name
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Bonaventure
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His career flourishe with a series of hit films, and in 1937 and 1938 he won consecutive Oscars for Captains Courageous and Boys Town. By the 1940s, was one of the studio's top stars. In 1942, he appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, beginning a popular partnership that produced nine movies over 25 years.
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Spencer Tracy
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Among the subjects covered in his films were racism (in The Defiant Ones and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), nuclear war (in On the Beach), greed (in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), creationism vs. evolution (in Inherit the Wind) and the causes and effects of fascism (in Judgement at Nuremberg). His other notable films included High Noon (1952, as producer), The Caine Mutiny (1954, as producer), and Ship of Fools (1965).
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Stanley Kramer
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major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashie Hammett. was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times: for The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), and Life with Father (1947).
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William Powell
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born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1904
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Joan Crawford
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of Hollywood's mos prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labelled "Box Office Poison". But her career gradually improved in the early 1940s, and she made a major comeback in 1945 by starring in Mildred Pierce, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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joan crawford
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Her next release, I'm No Angel (1933), paired her with Grant again. I'm No Angel was also a financial success, and was the most successful film of her entire movie career.[48] By 1933, was the eighth-largest U.S. box office draw in the United States[49] and, by 1935, the second-highest paid person in the United States (after William Randolph Hearst)
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Mae West
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His life story was the main inspiration for the development of the lead character in Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.
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William Randolph Hearst
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had starring roles in Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express (1932) and Desire (1936).
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marlene dietrich
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Greta Garbo last name
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gustafsson
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She also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for both Anna Karenina (1935) and Camille (1936)
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Greta garbo
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MGM marketers enticed the public with the catch-phrase "Garbo talks!"
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Anna Christie
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Plattsburgh, New York, U.S. Born Gladys Georgianna Greene October 17, 1900
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Jean Arthur
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had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), films that championed the "everyday heroine". was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943).
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Jean Arthur
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Gary cooper first name
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Frank
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portrayed a new type of hero—a champion of the common man—in films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). In the post-war years, he portrayed more mature characters at odds with the world in films such as The Fountainhead (1949) and High Noon (1952).
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Gary copper
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Wrote novel the Virginian
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Owen wister
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May 30, 1896 - December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959).
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Howard Hawks
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Played the Virginian on tv
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James drury
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American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Gun smoke
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The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, and stands as the United States' longest-running prime time, live-action drama with 635 episodes.
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Gun smoke
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Cary grant birth name
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Archibald leach
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and dramaticroles;his best-known films include Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade (1963).
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Cary grant
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Bette Davis First name
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Ruth
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was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
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Bette Davis
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longest-running American scripted primetime television series.
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Simpsons
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The show is set around the 1860s and it centers on the Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series stars Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts (who left after six seasons), and later David Canary and Mitch Vogel.
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bonanza
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Ranch in bonanza
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Ponderosa
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1981 psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a rabid dog. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982,[1] and was made into a film in 1983.
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Cujo
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Founded by Hoppus, guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Scott Raynor, the band emerged from the Southern California punk scene of the early 1990s and first gained notoriety for high-energy live shows and irreverent lyrical toilet humor.
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blink 182
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1976 war film and black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. It depicts French colonists at war with the Germans in West Africa during World War I, and is set in one of the then German colonies; either Togoland or Kamerun. The film adopts a strong antimilitaristic point of view, and is noteworthy for ridiculing the French side even more harshly than their German counterparts.
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Black and white in colour
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Ranch in bonanza
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Ponderosa
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sixth largest lake by volume in the United States at 122,160,280 acre·ft (150,682,490 dam3), behind the five Great Lakes.
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Tahoe
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Jerome Silberman
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Gene wilder
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known for his portrayal of Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and for his four films with Richard Pryor: Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and Another You (1991).
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Gene wilser
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Plays baby in dirty dancing
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jennifer grey
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Frances houseman character
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baby in dirty dancing
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At 1,943 feet (592 m), the lake is the deepest in the United States, and the seventh[3] or ninth deepest in the world, depending on whether average or maximum depth is measured.[4]
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Crater laks
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Evil stepmother name in Cinderella
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Lady tremaine
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2015 oscars what number
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87
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only Academy Award winning actor to ever sell an Oscar.
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harold russell
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Second largest lake in England by surface area
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rutland water
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Island in Loch Ness
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Cherry island
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sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is on the A82 road, 21 kilometres (13 mi) south-west of Inverness and 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the village of Drumnadrochit.
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Urquhart
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second largest lake in the English Lake District, being approximately nine miles (14.5 kilometres) long and 0.75 miles (1,200 m) wide with a maximum depth of slightly more than 60 metres (197 ft).
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Ullswater
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forms the border between the ancient counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
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Ullswater
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Three films won 11 oscars
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Ben hur, titanic, return of the king
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Two films 14 Oscar nominations
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All about eve, Titanic
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Plays Young Frankenstein
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Gene wilder
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The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter an ambitious young fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships. George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Barbara Bates, Gary Merrill, and Thelma Ritter also appear, and the film provided one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest important roles.
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All about eve
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Played eve in all about eve
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Anne Baxter
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Most oscars won by a male
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Walt Disney, 22
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Most competitive Oscar awards won by a person who is still living
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Alan menken
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Most awards won by a country for Best Foreign Language Film
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Italy
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Most nominations received by a country for Best Foreign Language Film
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France
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Two foreign-language films have won four Academy Awards:
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Fanny and Alexander, crouching tiger hidden dragon
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October 28, 1897 - October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, starting with The Heiress (1949) and ending with The Sting (1973).
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Edith head
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- July26,1960) waan Irish American art director and production designer for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. He is credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette in
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Cedric gibbons
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1982 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden in the 1900s. It was originally conceived as a four-part TV movie and cut in that version, spanning 312 minutes; a 188-minute cut version was created later for cinematic release, although this version was in fact the one to be released first. The TV version has since been released as a one-part film, and both versions have been shown in theaters throughout the world. The 312-minute cut of the film ranks it among one of the longest cinematic films in history.
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Fanny and alexander
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Val mcdiarmid initial book series
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Lindsay Gordon
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Asias richest man
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Wang jianlin
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the oldest script to be discovered in Europe. It first appears in Crete from around 1375BC and was only deciphered in the mid 20th century.
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Linear B
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9/11 dust lady dies
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Marcy borders
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an exhibition from the Saatchi Gallery that opened in September 1997 at the Royal Academy in London.
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Sensation yba
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A series of detailed life-sized waxworks, incorporating the artists own appearance, features the artist assuming various poses as different characters, including Sid Vicious, Jean-Paul Marat and the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
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Gavin Turk
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Austria chancellor
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Werner faymann
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Germany foreign minister
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Frank Walter steinmeier
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major trading classification of sweet light crude oil that serves as a major benchmark price for purchases of oil worldwide. This grade is described as light because of its relatively low density, and sweet because of its low sulfur content.
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Brent crude
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Kubrick first Hollywood film
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The killing
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1961 Western, is the only film directed by actor Marlon Brando. The picture was originally planned to be directed by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay by Sam Peckinpah, but studio disputes led to their replacement by Brando and Guy Trosper. Brando portrays the lead character Rio, and Karl Malden plays his partner "Dad" Longworth.
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One eyed jacks
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1957 American anti-war film[2] by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb.[3] Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack. Dax attempts to defend them against a charge of cowardice in a court-martial.
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Paths of glory
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Starred as bad teacher
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Cameron Diaz
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was a tax on box office receipts in the United Kingdom, intended to support the British film industry and named for. It was established in 1957 and terminated in 1985.
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Eady levy
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Head of the civil service
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Jeremy heywood
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Previous head civil service
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Bob kerslake
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Peter capaldi number doctor
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was the most wanted man in Baghdad. He was known among his bosses inside Islamic State as "the planner" - the man responsible for dispatching suicide bombers to attack mosques, universities, checkpoints and market places across the Iraqi capital.
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Abu abdullah
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Ben affleck brother
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Casey
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Gwyneth Paltrow father
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Bruce
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Dick van dyke nrother
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Jerry
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soon became known for her deadpan comedy roles in films such as The Good Girl (2002), The New Guy (2002), Elf (2003), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Failure to Launch (2006), Yes Man (2008), and (500) Days of Summer (2009).[1][2][3] She also received acclaim for her dramatic turns in films Manic (2001), All the Real Girls (2003), Winter Passing (2005) and Bridge to Terabithia (2007).[4][5] She has played Jessica Day on the Fox sitcom New Girl since 2011, for which she has received an Emmy Award nomination and three Golden Globe Award nominations.
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Zooey deschanel
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2009 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, and produced by Mark Waters. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel,
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500 days of summer
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American alternative rock band, formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997.[6] The band comprises Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar, piano), Nick Harmer (bass) and Jason McGerr (drums).
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Death cab for cutie
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Their third album, 2001's The Photo Album, gave the band their first charting single, and the release of the group's fourth album Transatlanticism, in 2003, gained the band mainstream critical and commercial success. After signing with Atlantic Records, released their fifth album and major-label debut Plans in 2005, which received platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Death cab for cutie
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Jeff bridges father
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Lloyd
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Jeff bridges brother
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Beau
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Musée des Beaux Arts", "Refugee Blues", "The Unknown Citizen", and "September 1, 1939
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W h Auden
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R v. Penguin Books Ltd[1] was the public prosecution at the Old Bailey of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act 1959[2] for the publication of
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Lady chatterleys lover
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The poem is featured prominently in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral. W h Auden
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Funeral blues stop all the clocks
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Country invaded Poland with Germany and Russia
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Slovakia
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was a false flag operation by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio statio
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gleiwitz
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Soviet se professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.
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Semyon Timoshenko
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Plays Gavin in Stacey
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Matthew Horne
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Plays Stacey in Gavin and
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Joanna pagw
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codenamed Eureka[1]) was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.
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Tehran conference
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outlined the Allied position against Japan during World War II and made decisions about postwar Asia. The meeting was attended by President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin did not attend the conference because his meeting with Chiang could have caused friction between the Soviet Union and Japan.
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Cairo conference
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are an archipelago of 64 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait between China and Taiwan. The largest city is Magong, located on the largest island
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Penghu
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center of science, culture, industry, business, trade, and transportation in Upper Silesia and southern Poland, and the main city in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region.
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Katowice
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The offensive was a joint operation of the Soviet Western Front and Kalinin Front coordinated by Georgy Zhukov. The offensive was one in a series of particularly bloody engagements collectively known in Soviet and Russian histories as the Battles of Rzhev, which occurred near Rzhev, Sychevka and Vyazma between January 1942 and March 1943. The battles became known as the "Rzhev meat grinder" ("Ржевская мясорубка") for their huge losses, particularly on the Soviet side. For many years they were relegated to a footnote in Soviet military history.
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Operation mars
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is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia. Today, it is the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
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Wroclaw
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11 December 1882 - 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function
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max born
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1895, Vichuga - December 5, 1977) was a Russian career officer in the Red Army who was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. He was the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces and Deputy Minister of Defense during World War II, as well as Minister of Defense from 1949 to 1953. A
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Aleksandr vasilevsky
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were the decisive engagement of the undeclared Soviet-Japanese border conflicts fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the Empire of Japan in 1939. The conflict was named after the river
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Khalkhin gol
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Lady chatterleys lover name
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Oliver mellors
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Lady chatterleys name
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Constance
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but after disappointment with the performance of the SDP in the 1983 election he resigned as SDP leader.
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Roy Jenkins
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, hesseveral majo posts in Harold Wilson's First Government. As Home Secretary from 1965-1967, he sought to build what he described as "a civilised society", with measures such as the effective abolition in Britain of capital punishment and theatre censorship, the decriminalisation of homosexuality, relaxing of divorce law, suspension of birching and the legalisation of abortion. As Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1967-1970, he pursued a tight fiscal policy. On 8 July 1970,[1] he was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, but resigned in 1972 because he supported entry to the Common Market, while the party opposed it.
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Roy Jenkins
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was a British judge and former barrister. He is most famous for leading the prosecution of Penguin Books in the obscenity trial in 1960 following the publication of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. His much quoted remark in his opening statement as to whether the novel was something "you would even wish your wife or servants to read" is often cited as representing the extent to which the British 'Establishment' had fallen out of touch with popular opinion at the time.[
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Mervyn Griffith Jones
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Liberal leader sdp liberal alliance
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David steel
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who had been a Labour government minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan between 1974 and 1979), took over as SDP leader after the 1983 General Election. He was more sceptical about close relations with the Liberals than his predecessor Roy Jenkins, and favoured retaining the party's distinct identity.
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David owen
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Scotland Tory mp
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David mundell
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Scotland labour mp
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Ian Murray
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formed by Eazy-E, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, Arabian Prince and MC Ren.
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Nwa
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Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen.
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Lemon jelly
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Nba team plays at American Airlines arena
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Miami heat
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Nba team play their home games at the palace
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Detroit pistons
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born January 9, 1965) is a retired American basketball player. The shortest player ever to play in the National Basketball Association, the 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
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Muggsy bogues
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blocked more shots than he scored points, making him the only NBA player ever to do so. He is second all-time in NBA history in terms of average blocked shots per game, and ranks 15th on the career blocks list.. Joint tallest ever
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Manute bol
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retired Romanian professional basketball player. At 7 feet 7 inches (2.31 m), he is one of the two tallest players in NBA history, along with Sudanese player Manute Bol. He is the tallest man in Romania and second tallest living person in the European Union
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Gheorghe muresan
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English actor and former basketball player. He is the tallest British-born man and the tallest man in the European Union at 7 ft 7.56 in (232.6 cm) in height and among the 25 tallest men in the World.[1][2]
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Neil fingleton
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Home run scores all four runs at once
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Grand slam
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logo of the Cleveland Indians, a Major League Baseball team. The logo is a cartoon caricature of a Native American face. It has drawn criticism from some sportswriters, religious groups, and Native Americans, but remains popular among fans of the Cleveland Indians. The team considered replacing the logo in 1993,[1][2] but it was ultimately retained.[3
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Chief wahoo
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New York Yankees manager
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Joe girardi
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Dodge city state
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Kansas
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Racist tintin book
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Tintin in the Congo
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Postman pat village
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Greendale
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are the world's largest monkeys. Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man that "no other member in the whole class of mammals is coloured in so extraordinary a manner as the adult male
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Mandrill
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