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highest active volcano in the world at 6,893 m (22,615 ft).
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Ojos del salado
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Pakistan western province
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Balochistan
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Pakistan South East province
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Sindh
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Pakistan East province
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Punjab
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Prime minister of Portugal
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Pedro Passos coelho
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began on 16 January 2013, when al-Qaeda-linked terrorists affiliated with a brigade led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar took expat hostages at the Tigantourine gas facility
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In amenas
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Germany's vice-chancellor and head of the country's Social Democratic party
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Sigmar Gabriel
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Old Iranian police force
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Savak
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was a dominant thalassocratic city-state based on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which influenced much of Southeast Asia.
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Srivijaya
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population of indigenous Muslims in the Philippines, forming the largest non-Catholic[1] group in the country, and comprising about 5% of the total Philippine population.[2]
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Moros
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Egyptian army officer who planned and participated in the assassination of Egypt's third president, Anwar Sadat, during the annual 6th October victory parade on 6 October 1981
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Khalid islambouli
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who conquered all other Warring States and united China in 221 BC.[4] Rather than maintain the title of king borne by the Shang and Zhou rulers, he ruled as the First Emperor
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Qin shi huang
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Filipino nationalist, novelist, poet, ophthalmologist, journalist, and revolutionary. He is widely considered one of the greatest heroes of the Philippines.[6] He was the author of Noli Me Tángere,[7] El Filibusterismo,[8] and a number of poems and essays. He was executed on December 30, 1896, by a squad of Filipino soldiers of the Spanish Army.[9][10]
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Jose rizal
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General lost Singapore to Japan
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Arthur Percival
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Which country government previously tshogdu
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Bhutan
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Flood where in China 1887
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Yellow river
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longtime practitioner of "urine therapy," spoke to Dan Rather on 60 Minutes about the benefits of drinking urine.[17][18] Indian PM
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Morarji desai
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ninth monarch of the Chakri Dynasty. Having reigned since 9 June 1946, he is the world's longest-serving current head of state and the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history, serving for 69 years, 1 day.[1]
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Rama 9
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was the first queen in Sri Lankan history to have wielded meaningful power and authority. As well as the first female head of state in Asia.
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Anula
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Part of Russia used to be China
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Tuva
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Unlikely pair performed bohemian rhapsody 1992 aids
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Axl rose, Elton john
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American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. The band consists of Jared Leto (lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards), Shannon Leto (drums, percussion) and Tomo Miličević (lead guitar, bass, violin, keyboards, other instruments).
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30 seconds to mars
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American singer, songwriter, musician and composer, who is sometimes referred to as "The Genius".[2][3]
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Ray Charles
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His final album, Genius Loves Company, was released two months after his death, and consists of duets with various admirers and contemporaries: B.B. King, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, Gladys Knight, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Norah Jones and Johnny Mathis. The album won eight Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album, Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Here We Go Again" with Norah Jones,
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Ray Charles
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Played guitar on fade in out oasis song
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Johnny depp
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Had hit truly in 1982
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Lionel Richie
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Olivia Newton john grandfather physicist
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Max born
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Māori language greeting which has entered New Zealand English. It means literally "be well/healthy"
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Kia ora
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Upolu and Savai'i main islands
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Samoa
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called "Navigator Islands" by European explorers before the 20th century
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Samoa
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The largest and most populous island is Tutuila, with the Manuʻa Islands, Rose Atoll, and Swains Island also included
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American Samoa
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third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait.
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Stewart Island rakiura
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Smallest population Africa
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Seychelles
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Channel Islands usa off which state
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California
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waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that is the northern part of Baffin Bay where it meets the Lincoln Sea.
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Nares strait
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marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean.[1][2][4] It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea.
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Baffin bay
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northern arm of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Nunavut, Canada's Baffin Island. To the north is Baffin Bay.
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Davis strait
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The sea is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast. It connects to the north with Baffin Bay through the Davis Strait.[3] It has been described as a marginal sea of the Atlantic.
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Labrador Sea
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Gulf st Vincent where
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South Australia
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quantum mechanical principle that states that two identical fermions (particles with half-integer spin) cannot occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.
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Pauli exclusion principle
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July 21, 1924 - February 24, 2006) was an American comedic actor best known for a 1968 film The Shakiest Gun in the West as Jesse W. Haywood and for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, a role in which he earned five Emmy Awards. He also played landlord Ralph Furley on the 1970s and 1980s television sitcom Three's Company
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Don knotts
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is a 1946 American spy thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation. First Bergman grant film
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Notorious
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Dirty Harry last name
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Callahan
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Dirty Harry gun
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.44 magnum
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Played einar in 1958 Vikings film
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Kirk Douglas
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was a legendary Norse ruler, king, and hero from the Viking Age described in Old Norse poetry and several sagas. In this tradition,was the scourge of France and England and the father of many renowned sons, including Ivar the Boneless, Björn Ironside, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, and Ubba.
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Ragnar lodbrok
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was a coalition of Norse warriors, originating from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, who came together under a unified command to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in AD 865.
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Great heathen army
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born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 - September 29, 2010
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Tony Curtis
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However, by the time he starred in Houdini (1953) with his wife Janet Leigh, "his first clear success," notes critic David Thomson, his acting had progressed immensely.[1][2] He won his first serious recognition as a skilled dramatic actor in Sweet Smell of Success (1957) with co-star Burt Lancaster. The following year he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in another drama, The Defiant Ones (1958). then gave what could arguably be called his best performance: three interrelated roles in the comedy Some Like It Hot (1959
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Tony curtis
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After achieving much success in the United Kingdom (he was the top box office attraction there in 1944 and 1945), he made the transition to the United States and became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, starring in iconic films such as: The Desert Fox, A Star Is Born, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Lolita, North by Northwest, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Bigger Than Life, Julius Caesar, Georgy Girl, The Deadly Affair, The Boys from Brazil, The Verdict, Murder By Decree, and Salem's Lot.
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James mason
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She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991).
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Jessica Tandy
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January 31, 1937 -January 19, 2008) was an American actress and voice actress.[1] After beginning her career in the theatre, she began appearing in films in the early 1960s, such as Rome Adventure (1962) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). She later appeared in various television productions, often in guest roles, and played Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 until 1978, receiving several Emmy Award nominations for her work. She continued acting until 2004, four years before her death.
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Suzanne pleshette
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is a construction worker best known as the seventh and last husband (but eighth marriage) of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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Larry fortensky
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Calvera antagonist magnificent seven played by
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Eli wallach
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Added to iron to make steel
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Carbon
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First iPod released year
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2001
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Thomas Edison employee and rival
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Nikola tesla
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Galileo invented what as well as telescope
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Thermometer
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Babbage computer called
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Difference engine
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Sputnik 1 year
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1957
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How did Edison propose to his wife
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Morse code
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Newton year birth
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1643
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Invented telephone before Alexander graham bell?
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Elisha gray
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Planet nearest earth
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Venus
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Approximate age of earth
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4.5bn
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Number of bones in each hand
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27
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How many new cells created by human body every second
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25 million
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Kennedy space centre what state
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Florida
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geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pleistocene
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geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene[1] (at 11,700 calendar years BP)[2] and continues to the present.
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Holocene
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divided into two epochs: the Pleistocene (2.588 million years ago to 11.7 thousand years ago) and the Holocene (11.7 thousand years ago to today).[1]
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Quaternary
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the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and covering the period from 65 million years ago to present day.
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Cenozoic era
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geologic period and system in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) Geologic Timescale starting 23.03 million years ago and ending 2.58 million years ago. The second period in the Cenozoic Era, it follows the Paleogene Period and is succeeded by the Quaternary Period.
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Neogene
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Most common surname in Ireland
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Murphy
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18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by
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Pierre de laclos
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The film was directed by Stephen Frears.[1] The performances of Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer, the cinematography of Philippe Rousselot, the costume design by James Acheson, and the screenplay by Christopher Hampton, garnered critical acclaim. Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick and Peter Capaldi appeared in supporting roles, as did young relatively unknown actors Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman.
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Dangerous liaisons
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Wrote king solomons mines
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H rider haggard
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fictional character and the protagonist in Washington Irving's short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", first published in 1820.
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Ichabod crane
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Wrote the legend of sleepy hollow
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Washington Irving
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has more native speakers (nearly a billion) than any other language.
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Mandarin Chinese
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It is the only remnant of the Pomeranian language. It is close to standard Polish with influence from Low German and the extinct Polabian and Old Prussian.[8]
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Kashubian
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the southeastern peninsular extension of the Apulia (Puglia) region into the Mediterranean Sea, in southeastern-most Italy. It is a sub-peninsula of the Italian Peninsula, sometimes described as the "heel" of the Italian "boot".
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Salento
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Directed goodfellas and shutter island
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Scorsese
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Since 1999, she has voiced Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy.
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Mila kunis
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Her performance as Lily in the psychological horror film Black Swan (2010) gained her worldwide accolades, including receiving the Premio Marcello Mastroianni for Best Young Actor or Actress at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, and nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Mila kunis
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1981 comedy film written and directed by Steve Gordon. The film stars Dudley Moore
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Arthur
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Voices marge simpson
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Julie kavner
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Irish tourism campaign 2013
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The gathering
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doughy, white bread bun (roll) speciality; particularly associated with Waterford, Ireland.[1] Its currently made in Waterford and County Kilkenny[2][3] and was historically made in Wexford.[4
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Blaa
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Voices Bart Simpson
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Nancy Cartwright
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Voices Lisa Simpson
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Yeardley smith
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he is the second best-selling solo albums artist in the United States of all time ahead of Elvis Presley (second to the Beatles) with 135 million units sold.[
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Garth brooks
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Irish athlete who specialises in boxing. Boxing and training with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, she is the current Irish, European, World and Olympic Champion in the 60 kg division.
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Katie Taylor
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He provides voices for numerous characters, including Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny Leonard, Principal Skinner, Otto Mann and Rainier Wolfcastle.
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Harry shearer
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playingMoe Szyslak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson and numerous others.
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Hank azaria
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2008 Americromantic comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Stoller and starring Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis and Russell Brand. The film, which was written by Segel and co-produced by Judd Apatow, was released by Universal Studios.
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Forgetting sarah Marshall
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U.S. Vice President 1981-9
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George h w bush
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What was big willie in ww1
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Tank
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Young American scientist made nuclear reactor at 14
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Taylor Wilson
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Photography time when sky is blue
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Magic hour
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notation system for recording and analyzing human movement that was created by
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Labanotation
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Hokusai famous wave painting
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The great wave off kanagawa
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artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized speed, technology, youth and violence and objects such as the car, the aeroplane and the industrial city. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere.
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Futurism
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Its key figures were the Italians Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, Antonio Sant'Elia, Bruno Munari, Benedetta Cappa and Luigi Russolo, the Russians Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Igor Severyanin, David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and the Portuguese Almada Negreiros.
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Futurism
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Made art work 'rotary with glass plate'
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Marcel duchamp
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His distaste for industrial waste, cars and rubbish eventually turned into an art form. He creates tiny works of art by painting chewing gum stuck to the pavement. Initially, his work garnered him unwanted attention from the authorities, but because he is not defacing private property but merely painting rubbish, he was found to be breaking no law.
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Ben wilson
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They cut the illustrations to Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense (1862); Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. They also produced independent ventures, most notably The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (London: Routledge, 1864), illustrated by Millais, and contributed humorous cartoons to magazines such as Fun, which George and Edward acquired in 1865.
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Dalziel brothers
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include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella
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minimalism
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Jimmy Carter Vice President
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Walter mondale
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Gerald ford vice p
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Nelson rockefeller
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Lyndon Johnson vp
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Hubert Humphrey
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Truman vp after gap of four years
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Alben Barkley
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Vice President 1933-41
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John nance garner
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Vice President 1941-45 before Truman
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Henry Wallace
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Lincoln vp 61-65
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hannibal hamlin
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Third vp after Adams and Jefferson, first to not be president
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Aaron burr
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served as the 39th Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973, under President Richard Nixon.
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Spiro Agnew
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Lost to Clinton in 96
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Bob dole
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She was the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party.
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Geraldine Ferraro
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Lost to Nixon in 72
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George McGovern
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Lost to Nixon in 68
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Hubert Humphrey
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Lost to lbj in 64
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Barry Goldwater
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Lost to Eisenhower 52 and 56
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adlai stevenson
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the only major-party nominee for President who never held major elected or appointive office or high military rank. Lost to Roosevelt in 1940
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Wendell Willkie
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went on to name his solo label Dark Horse Records, and to release both an album and a song named "Dark Horse."
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George Harrison
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A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Jewish
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Joe Lieberman
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Process for extracting nitrogen from air
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Haber Bosch
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Only country in Africa not in African Union
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Morocco
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Berber people with a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle. They are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa.[2][3]
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tuareg
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longest river lying wholly within Zambia at about 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) long.[
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Kafue
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Joined Metallica in making the album s&m
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San Francisco symphony orchestra
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Released the blueprint album 9/11
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Jay z
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founded in 1981 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels
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Run dmc
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Metallica drummer
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Lars ulrich
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Irish film director, film producer and music video director. He is best known for directing the films Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Coneheads (1993) and the innovative music videos for a-ha's "Take on Me" and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean".
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Steve Barron
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Fifth radio head member after thom Yorke, green woods, Phil selway
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Ed o'brien
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Metallica vocalist
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James hetfield
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Soft cell was mark almond and who
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David ball
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A-ha vocalist
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Morten harket
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Michael Jackson won 8 Grammies for thriller and 9th for what spoken word
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Et
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Only surviving bee gee
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Barry gibb
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In European countries, she is also widely known for her Eurovision Song Contest winning entry "Boom Bang-a-Bang" and in the UK for her first hit "Shout", which was performed at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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lulu
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born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, 3 November 1948
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Lulu
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On 20 May 2012, Gibb died at the age of 62 from liver and kidney failure brought on by colorectal cancer.
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Robin
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Gibb brother died 2003
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Maurice
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Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War, which she described as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers," and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.[4] She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. In 2004 she was voted the greatest black Briton.[5]
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Mary seacole
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born 4 June 1927) is an English actor, known for his roles in British television sitcoms playing Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Ben Parkinson in Butterflies and Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By.
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Geoffrey Palmer
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Private eye crossword setter
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Cyclops
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The story concerns a middle-aged middle manager who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.
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The Fall and rise of Reginald Perrin
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First ever U.S. president to make a foreign trip
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T Roosevelt to Panama Canal 1906
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weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. It is one of the world's oldest and best known general medical journals,[1] and has been described as one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world.[ founded in 1823 by Thomas wakley
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The lancet
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Painted Christ of Saint John on the cross
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salvador dali
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American television sitcom starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a perky, mid-level bureaucrat
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Parks and recreation
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She is known for voicing Bessie Higgenbottom in the 2008-2011 Nickelodeon series, The Mighty B! and Homily Clock from the English dub of The Secret World of Arrietty.
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Amy poehler
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interdisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.[1] It was ranked the world's most cited scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports, is ascribed an impact factor of approximately 42.4, and is widely regarded as one of the few remaining academic journals that publishes original research across a wide range of scientific fields
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Nature
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Mainly is remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, Catholic emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro-French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox.[4]
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Edmund Burke
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lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).[5] After they formed under the name Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish.[6] Will Champion joined as a drummer, backing vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, completing the line-up. Manager Phil Harvey is often considered an unofficial fifth member.[7]
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Coldplay
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First astronomer royal
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John flamsteed
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Painted the sleeping gypsy
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Henri Rousseau
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U2 drummer
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Larry Mullen junior
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wrote the Broadway musical "Chess" in 1980.
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Bjorn ulvaeus and benny andersson
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Film composer Titanic died plane crash
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James Horner
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Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright. Band
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Pink floyd
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The group currently comprises Tim Rice-Oxley (piano, synthesisers, backing vocals), Richard Hughes (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Jesse Quin (bass guitar, acoustic/electric guitar, backing vocals) and Tom Chaplin (lead vocals, acoustic/electric guitar). Their original line-up included founder and guitarist Dominic Scott,
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Keane
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immediately achieved mainstream, international success with the release of their debut album, Hopes and Fears
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Keane
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Odins 8 legged horse
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Sleipnir
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served as the Attorney General of the United States, from 1993 to 2001.[1] She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11, 1993. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General and the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.
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Janet Reno
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April 6, 1929)[1] is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings (and one more for his Lifetime Achievement).
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Andre Previn
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Norwegian-born Swedish pop and jazz singer. Born in Norway to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Sweden and was a member of the Swedish group ABBA[1] between 1972 and 1982
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Frida lyngstad
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Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. For the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! he worked also as an executive producer. Since 2001 he is active with his own band the... Married to Frida
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Benny andersson
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She achieved success in Sweden after the release of her debut album in 1968, and reached international stardom as a member of the pop group ABBA, which has sold over 370 million albums and singles worldwide,[2][3] making them one of the best-selling music artists in history and the seventh best-selling band in history.
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Agnetha faltskog
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Swedish songwriter,producer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-82), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. He co-produced the film Mamma Mia! with fellow ABBA member and close friend
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Bjorn ulvaeus
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abnormal alignment of the eyes; the condition of having a squint.
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strabismus
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Eurythmics guy with Annie Lennox
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Dave a Stewart
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With a total of eight Brit Awards, including Best British Female Artist six times, has won more than any other female artist. She has also been named the "Brits Champion of Champions".
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Annie Lennox
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David Fryman (guitar), Tony Bowers (bass), Fritz McIntyre (keyboards and vocals), Tim Kellett (brass and live backing vocals) and Chris Joyce (drums). Bowers and Joyce had both previously been members of post-punk bands The Durutti Column and The Mothmen; Kellett had also been a member of The Durutti Column, though not at the same time as Bowers and Joyce.
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Simply red
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formed in July 1967 in London when Peter Green left the British blues band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Green had replaced guitarist Eric Clapton in the Bluesbreakers, and received critical acclaim for his work on their album A Hard Road.
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Fleetwood mac
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Stevie nicks boyfriend guitarist fleet wood mac
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Lindsay Buckingham
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Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar), and Tony McCarroll (drums, percussion).
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Oasis
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John illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion).
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Dire straits
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So Far Away, "Walk of Life", "Private Investigations", "Romeo and Juliet", "Tunnel of Love", and "Telegraph Road". |
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St chads cathedral where in England
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birmingham
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Smallest royal park in London
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green park
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Wrote the Prague cemetery 2010
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umberto eco
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James blunt big album
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Back to bedlam
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1976 American action thriller film written, directed, scored and edited by John Carpenter. It stars Austin Stoker as a police officer who defends against an attack by a relentless criminal gang, along with Darwin Joston as a convicted murderer who helps him. Laurie Zimmer and Tony Burton co-star as other defenders
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Assault on precinct 13
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The band's commercial breakthrough was the 1997 album Urban Hymns, one of the best-selling albums in UK Chart history.
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The verve
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Meat loaf name
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Marvin lee aday
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Scissor sisters female vocalist
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Ana matronic
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Kings of Leon singer
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Caleb
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Kings of Leon drums
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Nathan
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Kings of Leon bass guitarist
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Jared
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Kings of Leon lead guitar
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Matthew (cousin)
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The band's fifth album, Come Around Sundown, was released on October 18, 2010. Their sixth album, Mechanical Bull, was released on September 24, 2013.
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Kings of Leon
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Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds. 1978 sold millions
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jeff wayne
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Corrs lead singer
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Andrea
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Corrs violin
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Sharon
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Corrs drums
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Caroline
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Corrs bloke
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Jim
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Talk on Corners, their most successful album to date, reached multi-platinum status in Australia, and in the UK it was the highest selling album of 1998. The band is one of only a handful of acts who have held the top two positions simultaneously in the UK album charts, with Talk on Corners at number one and Forgiven, Not Forgotten at number two.
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The corrs
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attained international success with her debut album No Angel (1999). It sold over 21 million copies worldwide,[3] and won several awards, including the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act, two NRJ Awards for Best New Act and Best Album, and two Brit Awards for Best British Female and Best Album. Her next album, Life for Rent (2003), continued her success
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Dido
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Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong
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Dido
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Detective created by Jeffrey deaver
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Lincoln rhyme
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Actress played ally mcbeal married to Harrison ford
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Calista flockhart
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Designed walkie talkie building
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Rafael vinoly
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The largest living reptile specifically
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Saltwater crocodile
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English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.[1] His life and career overlapped William Shakespeare's.
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John Webster
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Italian whey cheese made from sheep (or cow, goat, or Italian water buffalo) milk whey left over from the production of cheese.means cooked twice
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Ricotta
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former international rugby union footballer who played hooker for Ireland, the Lions, Garryowen, Harlequins and Munster. He was nicknamed 'The Raging Potato' because of his bald head. He was also known as 'Uncle Fester' due to his resemblance to a character in The Addams Family
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keith wood
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born 28 April 1968),[1] is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist, dancer, DJ and house producer. He is a member of English pop-group Take That and a judge on the German reality talent show Got to Dance.
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Howard Donald
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Sporty spice name
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melanie chisholm
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He is generally credited with orchestrating the purchase of Manhattan Island for the Dutch from the Native Americans called the Lenape, which later became the city of New Amsterdam, modern-day New York City, which was the core of the Dutch colony of New Netherland and the later British colony of New York.
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Peter Minuit
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gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself:
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Draupnir
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First British man in space
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Michael foale
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Lee child novels hero
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Jack reacher
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Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward.
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Bananarama
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Cathedrals St Andrew, machar, mary
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Aberdeen
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Can't pay won't pay, the pope and the witch plays by
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Dario fo
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East Germany ruler
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Erich honecker
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Designed cheese grater
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Richard rogers
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fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian of the family Gavialidae, native to the Indian Subcontinent.
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Gharial
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1979 American thriller film directed by Walter Hill and based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name. In it, a New York City gang must return to their home turf after they are framed for the murder of a respected gang leader. It was released in the United States on February 9, 1979. After reports of vandalism and violence, Paramount temporarily halted their advertising campaign and released theater owners from their obligation to show the film.
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The Warriors
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American actress and film producer. She gained recognition for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller drama series Alias, which aired for five seasons from 2001 to 2006. Married to ben affleck
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Jennifer garner
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former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal over the same distance at the 1988 Olympic Games. She was also a two-time gold medallist over the distance at the Commonwealth Games, as well as winning the 1992 World Half Marathon Championships, 1991 New York City Marathon, 1992 Tokyo Marathon and 1996 London Marathon.
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Liz McColgan
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born 10 June 1942) is a Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster, best known as the host of Granada Television's popular game show The Krypton Factor for its original 18-year run (1977-1995). From 1997 to 2011, he was the chief anchorman for the BBC regional news programme North West Tonight.
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Gordon burns
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senior officer in the British Army, who is most notable for commanding the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign.
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Ian Hamilton
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Zelda sayre married to which author
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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co-founded the punk rock band The Damned, originally playing bass before switching to guitar. He embarked on a solo career during the 1980s, following a UK number one hit with his cover of "Happy Talk". Real name Raymond burns
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Captain sensible
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lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James
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The damned
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They were the first punk rock band from the United Kingdom to release a single, "New Rose" (1976),[
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The damned
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The band briefly broke up after Music for Pleasure (1977), the follow up to their debut album, was critically dismissed.[7] They quickly reformed without Brian James, and would release Machine Gun Etiquette (1979).[8] By the 1980s, they evolved into one of the forerunners of the gothic rock genre.[9] That decade they released four studio albums, The Black Album (1980), Strawberries (1982), Phantasmagoria (1985), and Anything (1986).
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The damned
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insecticidal action was discovered by the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939. It was then used in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.
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Ddt
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Wrote silent spring about ddt
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Rachel Carson
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UK highest temperature and where
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38.5 faversham Kent
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The play concerns a group of seven-year-olds playing in the Forest of Dean one summer afternoon in 1943. It ends abruptly when the character Donald is burned to death partly as a result of the other children's actions. Perhaps the most striking feature of the play is that, although the characters are children, they are played by adult actors.
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Blue remembered hills
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In the mid-1930s, Arthur and Joan Parker (Bob Hoskins and Gemma Craven) are an incompatible married couple living in the London suburbs. Arthur, a travelling sheet music salesman, is a passionate man who is frustrated by his wife's repressed nature. On a car journey to the Gloucester area he picks up 'the accordion man', a vagrant (Kenneth Colley)
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Pennies from heaven
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Originally intended for broadcast as an episode of the Play for Today series, it remained untransmitted until 1987. The play, featuring Denholm Elliott, was made into a film version (released in 1982) co-starring Sting. The play features a middle-aged middle-class couple living in a north London suburb whose life has been catastrophically affected by a hit-and-run accident which has left their beautiful undergraduate daughter totally dependent upon them, but their lives are dramatically changed by the arrival of a mysterious young stranger.
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Brimstone and treacle
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BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, which stars Michael Gambon and was directed by Jon Amiel. The six episodes were "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter" and "Who Done It".writer with disease
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The singing detective
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Pitbull real name
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Armando perez
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Man tried to kidnap princess anne
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Ian ball
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also released "Timber" in October 2013 from his EP album Meltdown and was a global hit, reaching number one in many countries and making it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart for a total of 20 number-one positions worldwide. The song has charted worldwide making it his second one to do so. He performed the song in different award show including the 2013 American Music Awards, in which he was the host.
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Pitbull
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1971 film set in Australia, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg (credited as Lucien John) and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay,
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Walkabout
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American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary.
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Ambrose bierce
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Cart with two wheels and a seat for the driver only but usually without a body, generally pulled by horses or dogs, and is used for harness races.
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Sulky
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(5 May 1904 - 10 November 1986) was an English jockey. He was the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times and is often considered the world's greatest ever jockey.[1][2][3] He remains the only jockey to have been knighted.
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Gordon Richards
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guitarist Nick McCabe, bass guitarist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. The guitarist and keyboard player Simon Tong became a member at a later date.
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the verve
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Old San Francisco baseball ground
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Candlestick park
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started and won four Super Bowls and was the first player ever to have been named Super Bowl Most Valuable Player three times. He also holds Super Bowl career records for most passes without an interception (122 in 4 games) and the all-time highest quarterback rating of 127.8.
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Joe Montana
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Joe Montana played for which two teams
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Sam Francisco 49ers Kansas City Chiefs
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