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Mexican president |
Enrique Pena nieto |
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Maine two letter code |
Me |
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Queen of Denmark |
Margrethe ii |
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Berlin blockade years |
1948–9 |
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Rugby league ground jungle |
Castle ford tigers |
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–ness place name meaning |
Promontory, headland |
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Clan killed in glencoe massacre |
Mcdonald |
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administrative capital of Fife containing both the Fife Council and Police Scotland Fife Division headquarters. New town |
Glenrothes |
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area of the English Channel situated in the southwest of England between Start Bay in the west and Portland in the east. The counties of Devon and Dorset front onto the bay. |
Lyme bay |
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was the seat of Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh Parliament in 1404,[3] and as such claims to be the "ancient capital of Wales" |
Machynlleth |
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Aberystwyth county |
Ceredigion |
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Gioconda meaning |
Light hearted woman |
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paintings over a period of time developed as a distinct school of Indian painting. 19th century Bengal |
Kalighat |
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1498–1499) is a world–famous work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhère |
Pieta |
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Michelangelo last name |
Buonarroti |
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Japanese candy craft artistry. An artist takes multi–colored taffy and, using his hands and other tools such as tweezers and scissors, creates a sculpture. |
Amezaiku |
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December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance |
Masaccio |
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Japanese flower arranging |
Ikebana |
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American artist. She achieved recognition for her carefully inexact repetitions of other artists' works that prefigured appropriation |
Elaine sturtevant |
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intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching.[ copper or zinc plate |
Aquatint |
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Keith lemon creator |
Leigh Francis |
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Festival of Britain sculpture |
Skylon |
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Carried out Oklahoma bombings with mcveigh |
Terry Nichols |
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Waco cult leader |
David koresh, branch davidians |
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was the site of a deadly confrontation and siege in northern Idaho in 1992 between Randy Weaver, his family and his friend Kevin Harris, and agents of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It resulted in the death of Weaver's son Sammy, his wife Vicki, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan. |
Ruby ridge |
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the name of a long–running popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak. popularized low–cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapsho |
Brownie |
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First cl final |
Marseille bt Milan |
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2nd smallest city uj |
St asaph |
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Number of London boroughs |
32 plus city of London |
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large out–of–town shopping centre located in West Thurrock, in the borough of Thurrock, Essex just beyond the eastern boundary of Greater London |
Lakeside |
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out of town shopping centre in Stone (postally Greenhithe), Kent, England, outside the M25 Orbital motorway, 17.8 miles (28.6 km) east south–east of London's centre |
Bluewater |
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Cead mile failte means |
Hundred thousand welcomes |
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1670 – 25 March 1738) was a blind early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. |
Turlough o'carolan |
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He first appeared on the BBC's TV drama Ballykissangel in 1998 and made his film debut in the Tim Roth–directed drama The War Zone a year later[1] and was discovered by Hollywood when Joel Schumacher cast him in the lead in his war drama Tigerland (2000). He then starred in Schumacher's psychological thriller Phone Booth (2002) and the American thrillers S.W.A.T. and The Recruit (both 2003), establishing his international box–office appeal. During that time, he also appeared in Steven Spielberg’s sci–fi thriller Minority Report (2002) and as the villain Bullseye in the Daredevil superhero movie (2003). |
Colin Farrell |
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Samantha mumba 2000 hit |
Gotta tell you |
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1927 German expressionist epic science fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. The film was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou, and starred Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein–Rogge. A silent film, it was produced by Erich Pommer in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film A.G.. It is regarded as a pioneering work of science fiction genre in movies, being among the first feature length movies of the genre. |
Metropolis |
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co–founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk and served as its CEO. He also co–founded Palantir, of which he is chairman. serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with $700 million in assets under management; a managing partner in Founders Fund, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets under management; co–founder and investment committee chair of Mithril Capital Management; and co–founder and chairman of Valar Ventures.[4][5][6] He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social–networking site, with a 10.2% stake acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the company's board of directors. |
Peter thiel |
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American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur. graduated from UCLA with a combined law and MBA degree in 1981, then began work in Washington, D.C., first in the field of communication satellite law, and eventually in life sciences projects like the Human Genome Project. She is the founder and CEO of United Therapeutics Corp. and the highest–paid female executive in the United States.[5] She is also the creator of GeoStar and Sirius Radio. |
Martine rothblatt |
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Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for 24 years, and a former British government Cabinet minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18–month prison sentence, of which he served seven months. He is currently president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide. |
Jonathan Aitken |
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American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur. graduated from UCLA with a combined law and MBA degree in 1981, then began work in Washington, D.C., first in the field of communication satellite law, and eventually in life sciences projects like the Human Genome Project. She is the founder and CEO of United Therapeutics Corp. and the highest–paid female executive in the United States.[5] She is also the creator of GeoStar and Sirius Radio. |
Martine rothblatt |
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Duke of Cornwall before prince Charles |
Edward 8 |
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ruling royal house in Middle Age Scandinavia and England. Its most famous king was Cnut the Great, |
Knytlinga |
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Ode to joy symphony number |
9th |
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Erik satie first number opus |
62 |
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fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. Schickele developed a five–decade–long career, performing the "discovered" works of the "only forgotten son" of the Bach family |
Pdq Bach |
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play by Helmina von Chézy, which is primarily remembered for the incidental music which Franz Schubert composed for it. Music and play premiered in Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 December 1823. |
Rosamunde |
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was made a prisoner of war, during which time he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ("Quartet for the end of time") for the four available instruments—piano, violin, cello and clarinet. |
Olivier Messiaen |
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Wv in classical music catalogue stands for |
Werk verzeichnis |
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Four sea interludes which opera |
Peter grimes |
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experienced triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13), which possibly began in 1908 with the composition of the thirteenth song of the song cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten Op. 15 (Stuckenschmidt 1977, 96). Moses und Aron was originally spelled Moses und Aaron, but when he realised this contained 13 letters, he changed it[citation needed]. His superstitious nature may have triggered his death. According to friend Katia Mann, he feared he would die during a year that was a multiple of 13 |
Arnold Schoenberg |
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(1 May 1899 – 30 July 1968), was an Icelandic composer, pianist, conductor and writer on music. |
Jon leifs |
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Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, to be rooted in fact, and several of the characters are modelled after Ibsen's own family, notably his parents Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. He was also generally inspired by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's collection of Norwegian fairy tales, published in 1845 (Huldre–Eventyr og Folkesagn). |
Peer gynt |
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Bizet first name |
George |
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Ban on love Wagner opera based on what Shakespeare play |
Measure for measure |
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loosely translated as "insistence on truth" or holding onto truth[1] or truth force, is a particular philosophy and practice within the broader overall category generally known as nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. The term was coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi |
Satyagraha |
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leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement who, as the Director of Direct Action and Director of Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) initiated, strategized, directed, and developed SCLC's three major successes of the era:[1][2] the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement, and the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement. |
James bevel |
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It reflects his despair over his increasing deafness and his desire to overcome his physical and emotional ailments to complete his artistic destiny. Beethoven kept the document hidden among his private papers for the rest of his life, and probably never showed it to anyone. It was discovered in March 1827, after Beethoven's death, by Anton Schindler and Stephan von Breuning, who had it published the following October. |
Heiligenstadt testament |
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Beethoven violin sonata no. 9 name |
Kreutzer |
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John cage imaginary landscape no 4 made using |
Radios |
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born 28 February 1953, Sääminki, Finland) is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist and composer |
Osmo vanska |
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5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 35 years. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, and he was a dominant figure in European classical music from the 1960s until his death.[1] Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate he was the top–selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records.[2] |
Herbert von karajan |
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born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian pianist, poet and author. [1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time.[2] |
Alfred brendel |
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Afghan girl photographer |
Steve McCurry |
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Afghan girl name |
Sharbat gula |
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He has been principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic since 2002, and plans to leave his position at the end of his current contract, in 2018. |
Simon rattle |
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last words were: "The sadness will last forever." |
Van gogh |
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public sculpture by Indian–born British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. |
Cloud gate |
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December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter and the husband of Frida Kahlo. His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art |
Diego Rivera |
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June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American–born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" and even the "Creole Goddess |
Josephine baker |
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November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.[ |
Isamu Noguchi |
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best known for his painting Flag (1954–55), which he painted after having a dream of the American flag. His work is often described as a Neo–Dadaist, as opposed to pop art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture |
Jasper johns |
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Plays by picasso |
Desire caught by the tail, the four little girls |
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Dutch name for neo plasticism |
De Stijl |
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Moon greatest eccentricity |
Nereid |
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known for 90s crime thrillers Heat and Kiss the Girls as well as her current role in the Divergent series, |
Ashley judd |
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the deputy director of the Prado museum in Madrid, has been appointed as the new director of the National Gallery. |
Gabriele finaldi |
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has broken streaming records on Spotify. Tracks from the follow up to Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City notched up 9.6m streams on the album’s first full day of release, more than any other LP has recorded in the streaming service’s seven–year existence. This beats the previous record holder, Michael Bublé’s Christmas, which garnered 9.5m streams on Christmas Eve in 2014 |
Kendrick Lamar to pimp a butterfly |
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Tesla chief executive |
Elon musk |
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newly crowned winner of the Romantic novel of the year for her YA love story Struck |
Joss Stirling |
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Netanyahu party |
Likud |
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Israeli opposition leader |
Isaac herzog |
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Broadcaster lied about murdering lover |
Ray gosling |
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Japanese competitive eater |
Takeru kobayashi |
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Ship rescued titanic |
Carpathia |
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two–escudo or 32–real gold coin, weighing 6.77 grams (0.218 troy ounces) |
Doubloon |
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Native Americans historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota |
Arapaho |
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called the Apsáalooke in their own Siouan language, or variants including Absaroka, are Native Americans, who in historical times lived in the Yellowstone River valley, which extends from present–day Wyoming, through Montana and into North Dakota, where it joins the Missouri River. |
Crow |
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Country left eu. 1985 |
Greenland |
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sometimes referred to as the CIA's mind control program — was the code name given to an illegal and clandestine program of experiments on human subjects, designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual to force confessions through mind control. |
Mkultra |
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Mexican businessman who was President of Mexico from 1 December 2000, to 30 November 2006 under the National Action Party (PAN). He is also the Co–President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.[ |
Vicente fox |
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Wrote morte d arthur |
Thomas Malory |
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Iron curtain ends |
Trieste stettin |
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Magnetic elements other than iron |
Nickel cobalt |
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Varicella known as |
Chicken pox |
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26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was an English cellist. At a young age, she achieved enduring mainstream popularity unusual for a classical performer. Despite her short career, she is regarded as one of the more uniquely talented cellists of the second half of the twentieth century. |
Jacqueline du pre |
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known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl–Marx–Stadt) |
Chemnitz |
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handmade bobbin lace named after the city in France , in a tradition dating from the 17th century,[2][3] though the most famous are silk laces introduced in the 18th century. |
Chantilly |
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prehistoric monument in County Meath, Ireland, located about one kilometre north of the River Boyne.[2] It was built during the Neolithic period around 3200 BC,[3][4] making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. |
Newgrange |
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international theatre, dance, music and circus festival. Over the course of its history, this long–standing event, which will take place for the thirty–fifth time in 2011, has become not only the major summer attraction in Barcelona, but also a reference on the European performing arts calendar. |
Festival grec |
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lies on the border of Albania and Montenegro, the largest lake in the Balkan Peninsula. |
Scutari skadar |
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one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. The forest is home to 800 European bison, Europe's heaviest land animal |
Bialowieza forest |
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2014 pink floyd album |
The endless river |
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February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright.[1] She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry,[2] and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century. |
Edna millay |
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May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.[1] His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality |
Walt Whitman |
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Highwayman 1906 poem by |
Alfred noyes |
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called "the three fountains" and "the three crowns". Italian poets |
Dante Petrarch bocaccio |
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often called the "Father of Humanism".[1] In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on his works |
Petrarch |
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Black mountain college poets where |
North Carolina |
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one–act play written by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1902. It was first performed on 2 April of that year and first published in the October number of Samhain. The play centers on the 1798 Rebellion. The play is startlingly nationalistic, encouraging in its last pages that young men sacrifice their lives |
Kathleen ni houlihan |
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1925) is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot's poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned most with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot despised: compare "Gerontion"), the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, and, as some critics argue, Eliot's own failed marriage (Vivienne Eliot might have been having an affair with Bertrand Russell).[1] The poem is divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines of which the last four are "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th–century poet writing in English". |
The hollow men |
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Muse of epic poetry |
Calliope |
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verse mock–heroic satire written by John Dryden. It is a direct attack on Thomas Shadwell, another prominent poet of the time. |
Mac flecknoe |
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28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and a Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse. |
Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic who was a major figure of the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. His best–known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and the unfinished 120–section epic, The Cantos (1917–69). |
Ezra pound |
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Its self titled magazine has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million people each week, including over 18 million men.[2] It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. Its swimsuit issue, which has been published since 1964, is now an annual publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos and calendars |
Sports illustrated |
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character created by American writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. |
Raggedy Ann |
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American relationship counselor, lecturer and author. In 1969, he began a nine–year association with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before beginning his career as an author and personal relationship counselor. In 1992 he published the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus |
John gray |
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He may be known best as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 horror novel that has been adapted for the screen four times, although six more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as major motion pictures: The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes and Button, Button |
Richard matheson |
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High heart rate scientific word |
Tachycardia |
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infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Borrelia type.[ |
Lyme disease |
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is the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska and is located above the Arctic Circle.[ |
Barrow |
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Wrote q&a |
Vikas swarup |
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Lake Victoria three countries |
Tanzania Kenya Uganda |
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Lake tanganyika four countries description |
Between drc and Tanzania, Zambia Bottom Burundi top |
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Lake Albert two countries |
Drc Uganda |
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Lake nyasa countries |
Malawi Mozambique Tanzania |
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Stubbs painting national gallery |
Whistle jacket |
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Chuck Yeager plane plus nickname |
Bell X1, glamorous glennis |
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Brides head revisited narrator |
Charles Ryder |
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Brides head revisited owns brides head |
Sebastian flyte |
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Carole king musical |
Beautiful |
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Owns Bulls eye in Oliver Twist |
Bill sikes |
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won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (Best Actress) and The Poseidon Adventure (Best Supporting Actress). She also appeared in such films as The Big Knife, A Double Life, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter and Alfie. |
Shelley winters |
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born 21 December 1969) is a French–American actress, film director, screenwriter, and singer–songwriter. She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa (1990), Voyager (1991), Three Colors: White (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), Before Sunset (2004), 2 Days in Paris (2007), and Before Midnight (2013). She has been nominated for three César Awards, two Online Film Critics Society Awards, and two Academy Awards. After moving to the United States in 1990, she became an American citizen in 2001.[1][ |
Julie delpy |
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Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett, |
A room with a view |
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Hasselhoff song |
Looking for freedom |
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American punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1984.[2] Formed under the name Manic Subsidal, the band consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dexter Holland, lead guitarist Kevin "Noodles" Wasserman, bassist Greg K. and drummer Pete Parada |
The offspring |
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1993 American biopic film directed by Brian Gibson, loosely based on the life of Tina Turner. It stars Angela Bassett as Tina Turner and Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner. |
What's love got to do with it |
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City named Gorky |
Nizhny Novgorod |
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largest and most voluminous Icelandic ice cap, and one of the largest in area in Europe. It is located in the south–east of the island, covering more than 8 percent of the country.[ |
Vatnajokull |
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On 9 October 1963, a massive landslide caused a tsunami in the lake, the overtopping of the dam, and around 2,000 deaths. This event occurred when the designers ignored the geological instability of Monte Toc on the southern side of the basin. Warning signs and negative appraisals during the early stages of filling were disregarded, and the attempt to safely control the landslide into the lake created a 250 metre (820 ft)[1] megatsunami (ten times higher than predicted) that brought massive flooding and destruction to the Piave valley below, wiping out several villages completely. |
Vajont |
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Islands in Galway bay |
Aran |
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Hungarian music festival |
Sziget |
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Erik the red last name |
Thorvaldsson |
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Man in the iron mask name |
Eustache dauger |
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First capital of Kingdom of Italy |
Turin |
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2nd capital kingdom of Italy |
Florence |
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tunnel remains an important link in the connection between Rome and Paris, via Turin and Chambéry. |
Frejus tunnel |
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Italian scholar and explorer from the Republic of Venice. He traveled with the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew by order of the King Charles I of Spain on their voyage to the Indies. During the expedition, he served as Magellan's assistant and kept an accurate journal which later assisted him in translating the Cebuano language. It is the first recorded document concerning this language |
Antonio pigafetta |
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historical country in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic and one of the historical Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. |
Moravia |
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Florence airport named after |
Amerigo vespucci |
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Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian. He is widely celebrated for saving tens of thousands[5] of Jews in Nazi–occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from Hungarian Fascists and the Nazis during the later stages of World War II. |
Raoul Wallenberg |
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Charlemagne sword |
Joyeuse |
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Slovak politician and, briefly, leader of Czechoslovakia (1968–1969). He attempted to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring but he was forced to resign following Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Later, after the overthrow of the government in 1989, he was Chairman of the federal Czechoslovak parliament. |
Alexander dubcek |
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. A hardline supporter of Stalinism[citation needed] before and after the death of the Soviet leader, |
Antonin novotny |
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fourth Secretary–General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. |
Kurt Waldheim |
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Peruvian un Secretary General |
Javier Perez de cuellar |
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Ship found Mary Celeste |
Dei gratia |
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July 1, 1952) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and singer. He was an original "Not Ready For Prime Time Player" (cast member of Saturday Night Live), an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters, and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. Best supporting actor nominated driving miss daisy |
Dan aykroyd |