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  • – July 29, 1983) was a Aragonese Spanish film director, writer, and sometime ... Luis Buñuel was born in Calanda, Teruel in the province of Aragón ...
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  • Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, born Eugene Louis Vidal, (October 3, 1925 – ... his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...
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  • Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of ... In 1978, the Wildlife Conservation Society began working in the nation ...
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  • September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly ... M. Abell, Strauss disclosed that he had read the work of the Swedish mystic ...
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  • who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcoholic ... By the end of the 1920s, Capone had gained the attention of the Federal ...
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  • Major general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces ... Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ...
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  • The uncertainty principle, sometimes called the Heisenberg uncertainty ... Thus, in quantum physics, the outcome of even an ideal measurement ...
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  • engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first television; ... Baird's work was part of the great advance in technology that ...
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  • was an influential and important figure in the development of sports journalism. In 1922 Rice became the first play-by-play announcer carried live ...
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  • Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, May 17, 1866 – Paris, July 1 ... there appears to have been a brief period in the late 1880s during which he ...
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  • John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Order of the British Empire (January 3, ... Tolkien used fantasy in the same way fabulists have used folk and ...
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  • B.B. King, born Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015) ... King had a a large number of hits in the R&B market in the 1950s ...
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  • especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during ... Thomas' sensationalized reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence ...
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  • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming ... Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace ...
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  • a Turkish army officer and statesman. He was the founder and until 1934, the ... Atatürk was born in the city of Thessaloníki (Turkish: Selânik ...
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  • in New York City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...
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  • States businessman and political figure, and the father of President John F ... He served briefly as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ...
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  • was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential ... Marino Crescent—then as now called "The Crescent"—in Clontarf, ...
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  • symbolic and allegoric themes that draw the viewer into the same state ... Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, the art critic W ...
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  • The America’s Cup is the most famous and most prestigious regatta ... During the year of the first World's Fair, American boatbuilders ...
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  • by Vietnamese artists, from ancient times to the present. Vietnamese art has ... The golden age of Vietnamese art occurred during the Ly dynasty (1010 ...
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  • A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound ... By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon. In the United ...
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  • and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciati ... of novels and short stories set between World War I and World War II that ...
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  • Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... several major offensives along this front. The attacks employed massive artillery ...
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  • and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his ... itself not in his literary style, but in the themes of his stories, which ...
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  • she was noted for her many contributions to the entertainment industry. She ... A staple panelist of American game shows, dubbed "the first lady ...
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  • Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...
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  • Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire DBE ... Her appeal is so large that Christie is often cited, by the Guinness ...
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  • Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Martinique ... In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ...
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  • Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... The term broadcast was coined by early radio engineers from the mid ...
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  • [[image:Robert_F._Kennedy_1964.jpg|thumb|right|Robert F. Kennedy in ... Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June ...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the ... and almost mystical love of nature. Like the Arts and Crafts Movement, ...
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  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written ... It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl ...
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  • and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology ... Campbell's recognition of the universality of human stories allows ...
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  • 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a ... Cobb also received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural ...
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  • was a Catalan Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of ... in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region close to the French ...
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  • The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... musical score, and memorable characters, The Wizard of Oz was considered ...
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  • Several railways had been built in the mountainous regions of India ... The collective designation refers to the current project by the Indian ...
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  • Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services ... successful appearances as a contestant on the radio quiz show Information ...
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  • The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur ... or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ...
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  • Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ... reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late ninteenth and early twentieth ...
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  • The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great ... Most Armenians, Russians, and West Europeans believe that the massacres ...
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  • Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...
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  • cultural anthropologist, a pioneer of the feminist movement in America ... her Anglican Christianity and an emphasis on the importance of early childhood ...
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  • of Bengali poetry. He is popularly known as the Bidrohi Kobi — Rebel Poet ... with theatrical groups. After a stint in the British Indian Army, Nazrul ...
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  • The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located ... Covering almost two million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth ...
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  • superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular such ... and an American cultural icon.Les Daniels. Superman: The Complete ...
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  • 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...
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  • and mathematician, working mostly in the twentieth century. He and ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...
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  • Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) (Born Malcolm Little; ... #039;s shortcomings and hypocrisies, he made the majority understand that maintaining ...
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