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The red carpet at the 81st Academy Awards Ceremony, 2009

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent movie awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. In 1927, shortly after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was incorporated, a dinner was held in the Crystal Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to discuss the goals of the new organization. One of those goals was to find a method of honoring outstanding achievements, thereby encouraging higher levels of quality in all areas of motion picture production.

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The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Hieronymus Bosch

Nephilim are supernatural beings, specifically the offspring of human women and “sons of God” (proposed to be giants or proto humans), who appear significantly in the Book of Genesis and are mentioned also in other biblical texts and in some non-canonical Jewish writings. Others consider the Nephilim, in contrast, to be the offspring of human men descended from Seth and human women descended from Cain. Both interpretations say that the lustful breeding of the Nephilim was one of the provocations for the Great Flood at the time of Noah.

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The printing and distribution center of The Washington Times

The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as a broadsheet in Washington, D.C., the paper covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on American politics. Its slogan is "America's Newspaper." One of the first broadsheets in the United States to adopt color photography, The Washington Times daily edition is distributed throughout the District of Columbia and sections of Maryland and Virginia. A weekly tabloid edition aimed at a national audience is also published. Politically conservative, The Washington Times offers a needed alternative to The Washington Post which was previously the only major newspaper published in Washington DC.

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Aachen Cathedral in Germany, built by Charlemagne and his burial site, is the oldest cathedral in Northern Europe (source: Aachen Cathedral)

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