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The Hobbit, Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling any further than his pantry or his cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when t... |
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Hindenburg Crash, Zeppelin Disaster
LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. It and its sister-ship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II were the largest aircraft ever built. In its second year of service, it was destro... |
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Guernica, Picasso
“Guernica, the oldest town of the Basque provinces and the center of their cultural traditions, was almost completely destroyed by the rebels in an air attack yesterday a... |
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Ridley Scott, Director
Scott began his feature film directing career with The Duellists, which brought him the Jury Prize at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. His second film was the breakthrough... |
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Philip Glass, American Composer
Philip Glass is an Academy Award-nominated American composer. His music is frequently described as minimalist, though he prefers the term theatre music. He is considered... |
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Saddam Hussein
USATODAY.com - The Iraqi president, born in 1937 and orphaned at a young age, lashed out against the government in his early twenties and took control of Iraq in 1979.... |
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Paul Verhoeven, Director
Verhoeven moved into fictional filmmaking with a popular Dutch TV series (Floris), in which he first cast an unknown Rutger Hauer, before making his first theatrical feat... |
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Karl Lagerfeld, Fashion Designer
"Kaiser Karl", as he is known in the fashion press, was born to a wealthy Swedish businessman and his German wife in Hamburg, in 1938. It seems that his destiny was mappe... |
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Lynn Margulis, Scientist
Margulis realized that life’s most important division was not plants versus animals. Instead, the great divide came between bacteria and all other organisms—protoctists,... |
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War of the Worlds Broadcast, Welles
The original radio broadcast of Orson Welles' famous radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a... |
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Finnegans Wake, Joyce
Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1937, and it was published in its entirety as Finnegans Wake in 1939. Th... |
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MIDS Timeline of Network History
From the beginning of networked time to the present. The Internet is a household word... |
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BBC News, On This Day
On This Day is a showcase of some of the most significant as well as some of the quirkier stories broadcast by BBC News since 1950 and now including a new World War II se... |
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Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor
Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He is the developer and founder of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepr... |
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The Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Awards are given annually, during a formal ceremony and dinner, telecast to more than 150 countries worldwide, to recognize outstanding achievements in t... |
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