Entertainment, the Glossary
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.[1]
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551 relations: A cappella, Aboriginal Australians, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Accession day, Acoustics, Acrobatics, Acropolis, Adventure game, Alauddin Khalji, Alcázar of Toledo, Alfred Jacob Miller, Allegory, Altamont Free Concert, American Civil War, Amplifier, Amusement, Amusement park, Analog recording, Ancient Egypt, Arabian Nights (1974 film), Archery, Aristocracy (class), Aristotle, Arthur Sullivan, Artificial intelligence, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Attention, Audience, Audiobook, Auditorium, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Babur, Backgammon, Ball, Ball (dance event), Ball pit, Ballroom dance, Bamboo, Banquet, Banqueting House, Barcode, Barn dance, Baroque, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Bear-baiting, Belly dance, Bhangra (dance), Big Ben, Big business, ... Expand index (501 more) »
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A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
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Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.
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Accession day
An accession day is usually the anniversary of the date on which a monarch or executive takes office.
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Acoustics
Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.
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Acrobatics
Acrobatics is the performance of human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination. Entertainment and Acrobatics are performing arts.
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Acropolis
An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense.
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Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.
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Alauddin Khalji
Alauddin Khalji (علاء الدین خلجی), born Ali Gurshasp, was a ruler from the Khalji dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent.
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Alcázar of Toledo
The Alcázar of Toledo (Alcázar de Toledo) is a stone fortification located in the highest part of Toledo, Spain.
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Alfred Jacob Miller
Alfred Jacob Miller (January 2, 1810 – June 26, 1874) was an American artist best known for his paintings of trappers and Native Americans in the fur trade of the western United States.
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Allegory
As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
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Altamont Free Concert
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
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Amusement
Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or animal actively maintains the experience, and is associated with enjoyment, happiness, laughter and pleasure.
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Amusement park
An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.
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Analog recording
Analog recording is a category of techniques used for the recording of analog signals.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Arabian Nights (1974 film)
Arabian Nights is a 1974 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Archery
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.
Aristocracy (class)
The aristocracy is historically associated with a "hereditary" or a "ruling" social class.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
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Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards
The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) is an international cultural initiative overseen by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and headquartered in Australia, sometimes called "Asia-Pacific Oscars".
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Attention
Attention or focus, is the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli.
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Audience
An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called "readers"), theatre, music (in which they are called "listeners"), video games (in which they are called "players"), or academics in any medium.
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Audiobook
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.
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Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances.
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Auguste and Louis Lumière
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers.
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Babur
Babur (14 February 148326 December 1530; born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent.
Backgammon
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards.
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Ball
A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but can sometimes be ovoid) with several uses.
Ball (dance event)
A ball is a formal dance event often characterised by a banquet followed by a social dance.
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Ball pit
A ball pit (originally called a ball crawl, also known as a ball pool or ball pond) is a padded box or pool filled with small colorful hollow plastic balls generally no larger than in diameter.
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Ballroom dance
Ballroom dance is a set of European partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects.
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Bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.
Banquet
A banquet is a formal large meal where a number of people consume food together.
Banqueting House
The Banqueting House, on Whitehall in the City of Westminster, central London, is the grandest and best-known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting houses, constructed for elaborate entertaining.
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Barcode
A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form.
Barn dance
A barn dance is any kind of dance involving traditional or folk music with traditional dancing, occasionally held in a barn, but, these days, much more likely to be in any suitable building.
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Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
Bartholomeus van der Helst
Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613 – buried 16 December 1670) was a Dutch painter.
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Bayreuth Festspielhaus
The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre (Bayreuther Festspielhaus) is an opera house north of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works.
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Bear-baiting
Bear-baiting is a blood sport in which a chained bear and one or more dogs are forced to fight one another.
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Belly dance
Belly dance (oriental dance) is a Middle Eastern dance that originated in Egypt, which features movements of the hips and torso.
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Bhangra (dance)
Bhangra is a type of traditional folk dance of Punjab area of the Indian subcontinent.
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Big Ben
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England.
Big business
Big business involves large-scale corporate-controlled financial or business activities.
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Bingo (American version)
In the United States and Canada, bingo is a game of chance in which each player matches the numbers printed in different arrangements on cards.
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Blind man's buff
Blind man's buff or blind man's bluff is a variant of tag in which the player who is "It" is blindfolded.
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Blood sport
A blood sport or bloodsport is a category of sport or entertainment that involves bloodshed.
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Board game
Board games are tabletop games that typically use.
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Bocuse d'Or
The Bocuse d'Or (the Concours mondial de la cuisine, World Cooking Contest) is a biennial world chef championship.
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Boduberu
Boduberu (Dhivehi: ބޮޑުބެރު) is similar to some of the songs and dances found in east and south west Africa.
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Bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling).
Bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport.
Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin.
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Brothel
A brothel, bordello, bawdy house, ranch, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.
Bullfighting
Bullfighting is a physical contest that involves a bullfighter attempting to subdue, immobilize, or kill a bull, usually according to a set of rules, guidelines, or cultural expectations.
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Burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. Entertainment and burlesque are performing arts.
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Business model
A business model describes how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value,Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, and 470 practitioners from 45 countries, self-published, 2010 in economic, social, cultural or other contexts.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Camel racing
Camel racing is a racing sport in which jockeys riding on camels compete against each other to finish a set number of laps around a circular racetrack.
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Camino de Santiago
The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana,; O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St.
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Camping
Camping is a form of outdoor recreation or outdoor education involving overnight stays with a basic temporary shelter such as a tent.
Can-can
The can-can (also spelled cancan as in the original French /kɑ̃kɑ̃/) is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular music-hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day.
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.
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Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast Castle (Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now Ghana) by European traders.
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Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon composite, or just carbon, are extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastics that contain carbon fibers.
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Card game
A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary).
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Caricature
A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon).
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Carthage
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.
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Cartoon
A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style.
Cassette tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
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Cavalcade
A cavalcade is a procession or parade on horseback, or a mass distance ride by a company of riders.
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Cavalleria rusticana
Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga.
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Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker and actor.
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Ceremony
A ceremony is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.
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Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
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Charles V of France
Charles V (21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380), called the Wise (le Sage; Sapiens), was King of France from 1364 to his death in 1380.
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
Children's Games (Bruegel)
Children's Games is an oil-on-panel by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1560.
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Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival (see also § Names) is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.
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Choir
A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.
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Choreography
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. Entertainment and Choreography are performing arts.
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Cinema of Europe
Cinema of Europe refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Europe.
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Cinema of France
The cinema of France comprises the film industry and its film productions, whether made within the nation of France or by French film production companies abroad.
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Cinema of Germany
The film industry in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century.
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Cinema of Italy
The cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors.
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Cinema of Spain
The art of motion-picture making within Spain or by Spanish filmmakers abroad is collectively known as Spanish Cinema.
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Cinema of the United Kingdom
The oldest known surviving film (from 1888) was shot in the United Kingdom as well as early colour films.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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Circus
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. Entertainment and circus are performing arts.
Clown
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms. Entertainment and clown are performing arts.
Cockfight
Cockfighting is a blood sport involving domesticated roosters as the combatants.
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Cockroach racing
Cockroach racing is a club gambling activity which started in 1982 at the Story Bridge Hotel in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Cocoanut Grove fire
The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people.
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Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
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Coldstream Guards
The Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army.
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Colosseum
The Colosseum (Colosseo) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum.
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Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information.
Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
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Commoner
A commoner, also known as the common man, commoners, the common people or the masses, was in earlier use an ordinary person in a community or nation who did not have any significant social status, especially a member of neither royalty, nobility, nor any part of the aristocracy.
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Company
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective.
Competitive dance
Competitive dance is a popular, widespread sport in which competitors perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles—such as acro, ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, modern, musical theatre, tap, and improv—before a common group of judges.
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Computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games.
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Concert
A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.
Contract bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck.
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Cooking
Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe.
Country dance
A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets.
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Creation myth
A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
Cricket World Cup
The Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup) is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket.
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Croquet
Croquet is a sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
Crowd collapses and crushes
Crowd collapses and crowd crushes are catastrophic incidents that can occur when a body of people becomes dangerously overcrowded.
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Crowd surfing
Crowd surfing is the process in which a person is passed overhead from person to person (often during a concert), transferring the person from one part of the venue to another.
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Cultural imperialism
Cultural imperialism (also cultural colonialism) comprises the cultural dimensions of imperialism.
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Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.
Dahomey
The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904.
Dance
Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Entertainment and Dance are performing arts.
Dark ride
A dark ride or ghost train is an indoor amusement ride on which passengers aboard guided vehicles travel through specially lit scenes that typically contain animation, sound, music and special effects.
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Dashavatara
The Dashavatara (दशावतार) are the ten primary avatars of Vishnu, a principal Hindu god.
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Data storage
Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.
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Decapitation
Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body.
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Delos
Delos (Δήλος; Δῆλος, Δᾶλος), is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago.
Delphi
Delphi, in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world.
Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives.
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Digital recording
In digital recording, an audio or video signal is converted into a stream of discrete numbers representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, or chroma and luminance values for video.
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Dinner theater
Dinner theater (sometimes called dinner and a show) is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged play or musical.
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Dionysian Mysteries
The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the individual to return to a natural state.
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Dog fighting
Dog fighting is a type of blood sport that turns game and fighting dogs against each other in a physical fight, often to the death, for the purposes of gambling or entertainment to the spectators.
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Dolphinarium
A dolphinarium is an aquarium for dolphins.
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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Entertainment and Drama are performing arts.
Durbar (court)
Durbar is a Persian-derived term (from darbār) referring to the noble court of a king or ruler or a formal meeting where the king held all discussions regarding the state.
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Dwarfism
Dwarfism is a condition wherein an organism is exceptionally small, and mostly occurs in the animal kingdom.
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Ecclesiology
In Christian theology, ecclesiology is the study of the Church, the origins of Christianity, its relationship to Jesus, its role in salvation, its polity, its discipline, its eschatology, and its leadership.
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Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Educational entertainment
Educational entertainment, also referred to by the portmanteau edutainment, is media designed to educate through entertainment.
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Edwin Mellen Press
The Edwin Mellen Press, sometimes stylised as Mellen Press, is an academic publisher.
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Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
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Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. Entertainment and Entertainment are Concepts in aesthetics, main topic articles and performing arts.
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Entertainment law
Entertainment law, also referred to as media law, is legal services provided to the entertainment industry. Entertainment and entertainment law are performing arts.
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Ephesus
Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia.
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Escapism
Escapism is mental diversion from unpleasant aspects of daily life, typically through activities involving imagination or entertainment.
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Escapology
Escapology is the practice of escaping from restraints or other traps.
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Exposition Universelle (1878)
The Exposition Universelle of 1878, better known in English as the 1878 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 1 May to 10 November 1878, to celebrate the recovery of France after the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War.
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Fair
A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities.
Family entertainment center
A family entertainment center (FEC) in the entertainment industry, also known as an indoor amusement park, family amusement center, family fun center, soft play, or simply fun center, is a small amusement park marketed towards families with small children to teenagers, often entirely indoors. Entertainment and family entertainment center are performing arts.
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Fandom
A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest.
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.
Farce
Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.
Fencing
Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting.
Festa del Redentore
The Festa del Redentore is an event held in Venice the third Sunday of July where fireworks play an important role.
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Festival
A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures.
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FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
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Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.
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Film industry
The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.
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Fireworks
Fireworks are low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.
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Flamingo, Vantaa
Jumbo- Flamingo Shopping Centre is the biggest shopping and entertainment centre in the Nordic countries.
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Flea circus
A flea circus is a circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged to perform circus acts within a small housing. Entertainment and flea circus are performing arts.
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Fly system
A fly system, or theatrical rigging system, is a system of ropes, pulleys, counterweights and related devices within a theater that enables a stage crew to fly (hoist) quickly, quietly and safely components such as curtains, lights, scenery, stage effects and, sometimes, people.
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Flypast
A flypast is a ceremonial or honorific flight by an aircraft or group of aircraft.
Folk dance
A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Folly
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
Font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.
Fox hunting
Fox hunting is a traditional activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, normally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds.
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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry (born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer.
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Fraxinus
Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.
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Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
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Freestyle wrestling
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling.
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Fun
Fun is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment".
G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924) was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century.
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Gaffer (occupation)
In film and television crews, the gaffer or chief lighting technician is the head electrician, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design) of the lighting plan for a production.
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Game
A game is a structured type of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool.
Gamelan
Gamelan (ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀, ᮌᮙᮨᮜᮔ᮪, ᬕᬫᭂᬮᬦ᭄) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.
Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi (ISO), also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chavithi or Vinayagar Chaturthi, is a Hindu festival that tributes Hindu deity Ganesha.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.
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George IV
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830.
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Giza pyramid complex
The Giza pyramid complex (also called the Giza necropolis) in Egypt is home to the Great Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of Menkaure, along with their associated pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx.
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Gladiator
A gladiator (gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.
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Go (game)
# Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to capture more territory than the opponent by fencing off empty space.
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Goryeo
Goryeo (Hanja: 高麗) was a Korean state founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until the establishment of Joseon in 1392.
Gratification
Gratification is the pleasurable emotional reaction of happiness in response to a fulfillment of a desire or goal.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Greyhound racing
Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track.
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (lead,, commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao (Biscay), Spain.
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Hajj
Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.
Haka
Haka (singular haka, in both Māori and English) are a variety of ceremonial dances in Māori culture.
Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.
Handheld game console
A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers.
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Hanged, drawn and quartered
To be hanged, drawn and quartered became a statutory penalty for men convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England from 1352 under King Edward III (1327–1377), although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272).
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Hanging
Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.
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Harlequinade
Harlequinade is an English comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts".
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Harry Houdini
Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known as Harry Houdini, was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts.
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Harry Potter (character)
Harry James Potter is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling.
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Hash House Harriers
The Hash House Harriers (HHH or H3) is an international group of non-competitive running social clubs.
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Hausa people
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.
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Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (also known as Hai Eb'n Yockdan) is an Arabic philosophical novel and an allegorical tale written by Ibn Tufail (– 1185) in the early 12th century in Al-Andalus.
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Hazel
Hazels are plants of the genus Corylus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Hermeticism
Hermeticism or Hermetism is a philosophical and religious system based on the purported teachings of Hermes Trismegistus (a Hellenistic conflation of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth).
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Hickory
Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes around 18 species.
Hide-and-seek
Hide-and-seek (sometimes known as hide-and-go-seek) is a popular children's game in which at least two players (usually at least three) conceal themselves in a set environment, to be found by one or more seekers.
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Highland dance
Highland dance or Highland dancing (dannsa Gàidhealach) is a style of competitive dancing developed in the Scottish Highlands in the 19th and 20th centuries, in the context of competitions at public events such as the Highland games.
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Hillsborough disaster
The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989.
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Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
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History of film
The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.
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History of skiing
Skiing, or traveling over snow on skis, has a history of at least eight millennia.
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History of surfing
The riding of waves has likely existed since humans began swimming in the ocean.
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History of video games
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes.
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Holi
Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring.
Holy Week procession
A Holy Week procession is a public ritual march of clergy and penitents which takes place during Holy Week in Christian countries, especially those with a Catholic culture.
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Home cinema
A home cinema, also called a home theater or theater room, is a home entertainment audio-visual system that seeks to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood using consumer electronics-grade video and audio equipment and is set up in a room or backyard of a private home.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
Hong Kong handover ceremony
The handover ceremony of Hong Kong in 1997 officially marked the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the People's Republic of China.
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Hopscotch
Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object.
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Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.
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Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
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Hunting
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
Illuminated manuscript
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.
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Imagination
Imagination is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
Impresario
An impresario (from Italian impresa, 'an enterprise or undertaking') is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role in stage arts that is similar to that of a film or television producer.
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Influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market
Following the introduction of the IBM Personal Computer, or IBM PC, many other personal computer architectures became extinct within just a few years.
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Information Age
The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.
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Infotainment
Infotainment (a portmanteau of information and entertainment), also called soft news as a way to distinguish it from serious journalism or hard news, is a type of media, usually television or online, that provides a combination of information and entertainment.
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Insight
Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect within a particular context.
Insult
An insult is an expression, statement, or behavior that is often deliberately disrespectful, offensive, scornful, or derogatory towards an individual or a group.
Interest (emotion)
Interest is a feeling or emotion that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process.
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International Children's Festival
The International Children’s Festival is a fair that showcases international cultures.
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International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Irish dance
Irish dance refers to the traditional dance forms that originate in Ireland, including both solo and group dance forms, for social, competitive, and performance purposes.
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Irony
Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jean Fouquet
Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist.
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Jean Piaget
Jean William Fritz Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development.
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Jester
A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.
Joke
A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally.
Journey to the West
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.
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Jousting
Jousting is a medieval and renaissance martial game or hastilude between two combatants either on horse or on foot.
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Juggling
Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.
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Jules Léotard
Jules Léotard (1 August 183816 August 1870) was a French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze.
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
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Jumping
Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah or Qabalah (קַבָּלָה|Qabbālā|reception, tradition) is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism.
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Karol Szymanowski
Karol Maciej Szymanowski (3 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist.
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Komnenos
The House of Komnenos (pl. Komnenoi; Κομνηνός, pl. Κομνηνοί), Latinized as Comnenus (pl. Comneni), was a Byzantine Greek noble family who ruled the Byzantine Empire in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Kumbh Mela
Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism, On February 4, 2019, Kumbh Mela witnessed the largest public gathering.
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Kyphosis
Kyphosis is an abnormally excessive convex curvature of the spine as it occurs in the thoracic and sacral regions.
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Laser tag
Laser tag is a recreational shooting sport where participants use infrared-emitting light guns to tag designated targets.
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Lego
Lego (stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.
Leisure
Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time.
Lewiston, New York
Lewiston is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States.
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Limerick (poetry)
A limerick is a form of verse that appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century.
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Lin Shuangwen rebellion
The Lin Shuangwen rebellion occurred in 17871788 in Taiwan under the rule of the Qing dynasty.
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Line of sight
The line of sight, also known as visual axis or sightline (also sight line), is an imaginary line between a viewer/observer/spectator's eye(s) and a subject of interest, or their relative direction.
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List of amusement rides
Amusement rides, sometimes called carnival rides, are mechanical devices or structures that move people to create fun and enjoyment.
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List of ball games
This is a list of ball games and ball sports that include a ball as a key element in the activity, usually for scoring points.
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List of best-selling books
This page provides lists of best-selling books and book series to date and in any language.
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List of children's games
This is a list of games that are played by children.
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List of emperors of the Mughal Empire
The emperors of the Mughal Empire, styled the Emperors of Hindustan, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty (House of Babur), ruled over the empire from its inception in 1526 to its dissolution in 1857.
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List of entertainer occupations
An entertainer is someone who provides entertainment in various different forms.
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List of narrative techniques
A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses—in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging.
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List of One Thousand and One Nights characters
This is a list of characters in One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights), the classic, medieval collection of Middle-Eastern folk tales.
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Lord Mayor's Show
The Lord Mayor's Show is one of the best-known annual events in London as well as one of the longest-established, dating back to the 13th century.
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Lord of Misrule
In England, the Lord of Misrule – known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots – was an officer appointed by lot during Christmastide to preside over the Feast of Fools.
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Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
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Louise Labé
Louise Charlin Perrin Labé, (1522 – 25 April 1566), also identified as La Belle Cordière (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a French poet of the Renaissance born in Lyon, the daughter of wealthy ropemaker Pierre Charly and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet.
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LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.
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Maasai people
The Maasai (Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region.
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Magic (illusion)
Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close-up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. Entertainment and magic (illusion) are performing arts.
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Magician (fantasy)
A magician, also known as an archimage, mage, magus, magic-user, spellcaster, enchanter/enchantress, sorcerer/sorceress, warlock, witch, or wizard, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Maharaja
Maharaja (also spelled Maharajah or Maharaj) was a princely or royal title used by some Hindu monarchs since the ancient times.
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Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.
Manipulation (psychology)
In psychology, manipulation is defined as subterfuge designed to influence or control another, usually in an underhanded manner which facilitates one's personal aims.
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Maracanã Stadium
Maracanã Stadium (Estádio do Maracanã), officially named Jornalist Mário Filho Stadium (Portuguese: Estádio Jornalista Mario Filho), is an association football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Marble (toy)
A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate.
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Marketing
Marketing is the act of satisfying and retaining customers.
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Masque
The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant).
Mass games
Mass games or mass gymnastics are a form of performing arts or gymnastics in which large numbers of performers take part in a highly regimented performance that emphasizes group dynamics rather than individual prowess.
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Matter of Britain
The Matter of Britain (matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.
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Maya civilization
The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.
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Meaning of life
The meaning of life pertains to the inherent significance or philosophical meaning of living (or existence in general).
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Melbourne Cup
The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse.
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Melodrama
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a very strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization.
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Merlin
Merlin (Myrddin, Merdhyn, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a magician, with several other main roles.
Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig (born 2 June 1945), typically referred to as Leunig (his signature on his cartoons), is an Australian cartoonist.
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Millennium
A millennium is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a '''kiloannum''' (ka), or kiloyear (ky).
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Mime artist
A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor"), is a person who uses mime (also called pantomime outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.
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Miniaturization
Miniaturization (Br.Eng.: miniaturisation) is the trend to manufacture ever-smaller mechanical, optical, and electronic products and devices.
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Minstrel
A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe.
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Minstrel show
The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.
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Mirza (name)
Mirza (or; میرزا) is a name of Persian origin.
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Monologue
In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.
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Monopoly (game)
Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.
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Morris dance
Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance.
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Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr (МHАТ) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
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Motor skill
A motor skill is a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task.
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Motorcade
A motorcade, or autocade, is a procession of motor vehicles.
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Multiplex (movie theater)
A multiplex is a movie theater complex with multiple screens or auditoriums within a single complex.
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Murray Roston
Murray (Meir) Roston (מאיר רוסטון; born 1928) is an Israeli Emeritus professor of English Literature at Bar-Ilan University.
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Museology
Museology (also called museum studies or museum science) is the study of museums.
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Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Entertainment and Music are performing arts.
Music festival
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or holiday.
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Music for the Royal Fireworks
The Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) is a suite in D major for wind instruments composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749.
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Music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.
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Napoleonic era
The Napoleonic era is a period in the history of France and Europe.
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Nautch
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Nawab
Nawab (Balochi, Pashto: نواب; نواب; নবাব/নওয়াব; नवाब; Punjabi: ਨਵਾਬ; Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, is a royal title indicating a sovereign ruler, often of a South Asian state, in many ways comparable to the western title of Prince.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Neologism
In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.
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Newgate Prison
Newgate Prison was a prison at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey Street just inside the City of London, England, originally at the site of Newgate, a gate in the Roman London Wall.
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Noah (2014 film)
Noah is a 2014 American epic biblical drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ari Handel.
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Noh
is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century.
Nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact (oculesics), body language (kinesics), social distance (proxemics), touch (haptics), voice (paralanguage), physical environments/appearance, and use of objects.
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Obscenity
An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time.
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Observational comedy
Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life.
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Obsolescence
Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state.
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Odyssey
The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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One-line joke
A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line.
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Online game
An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or any other computer network available.
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Online video platform
An online video platform (OVP) enables users to upload, convert, store, and play back video content on the Internet, often via a private server structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue.
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Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Entertainment and Opera are performing arts.
Operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera.
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Orality
Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population.
Origin myth
An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world.
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Outline of entertainment
The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to entertainment and the entertainment industry: Entertainment is any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time, and may also provide fun, enjoyment, and laughter.
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Overtone singing
Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, polyphonic overtone singing, or diphonic singing, is a set of singing techniques in which the vocalist manipulates the resonances of the vocal tract to arouse the perception of additional separate notes beyond the fundamental frequency that is being produced.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Paintball
Paintball is a competitive team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules called paintballs that break upon impact.
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Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.
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Palace of Whitehall
The Palace of Whitehall – also spelled White Hall – at Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones's Banqueting House of 1622, were destroyed by fire.
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Palais Garnier
The italic (Garnier Palace), also known as italic (Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102.
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Pantomime
Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.
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Parade
A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats, or sometimes large balloons.
Paris Métro
The Paris Métro (Métro de Paris; short for Métropolitain), operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (RATP), is a rapid transit system in the Paris metropolitan area, France.
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Party
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion.
Pathé
Pathé (styled as PATHÉ!) is a French major film production and distribution company, owning a number of cinema chains through its subsidiary Pathé Cinémas and television networks across Europe.
Pathé News
Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries from 1910 to 1970 in the United Kingdom.
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Patronage
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.
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Peace of Münster
The Peace of Münster was a treaty between the Lords States General of the Seven United Netherlands and the Spanish Crown, the terms of which were agreed on 30 January 1648.
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Peanuts
Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz.
Performance
A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. Entertainment and performance are performing arts.
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Performance poetry
Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience.
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Performing arts education
Education in the performing arts is a key part of many primary and secondary education curricula and is also available as a specialisation at the tertiary level. Entertainment and performing arts education are performing arts.
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Pergamon
Pergamon or Pergamum (or; Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.
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Personification
Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person.
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Phar Lap
Phar Lap (4 October 1926 – 5 April 1932) was a New Zealand-born champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse.
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Pharaoh
Pharaoh (Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ|Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: Parʿō) is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE.
Philip Astley
Philip Astley (8 January 1742 – 20 October 1814) was an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus".
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Philosophical methodology
In its most common sense, philosophical methodology is the field of inquiry studying the methods used to do philosophy.
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Phonograph
A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.
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Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre and members of the scientific community.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (– 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.
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Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas.
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Piggyback (transportation)
Piggyback transportation refers to the transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else.
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Pilgrim
A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place.
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
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Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Play (activity)
Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment.
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Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading. Entertainment and play (theatre) are performing arts.
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Playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs.
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Pleasure
Pleasure is experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of something.
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Poker
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules.
Pole vault
Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar.
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Political cartoon
A political cartoon, also known as an editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion.
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Procession
A procession is an organized body of people walking in a formal or ceremonial manner.
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Psychologist
A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior.
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Pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.
Public humiliation
Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place.
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Pun
A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
Punch and Judy
Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr.
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Punjab States Agency
The Punjab States Agency was an agency of the British Raj.
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Puppet
A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. Entertainment and puppet are performing arts.
Puppeteer
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object called a puppet to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. Entertainment and puppeteer are performing arts.
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Pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics is the science and craft of creating such things as fireworks, safety matches, oxygen candles, explosive bolts and other fasteners, parts of automotive airbags, as well as gas-pressure blasting in mining, quarrying, and demolition.
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Qianlong Emperor
The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 17117 February 1799), also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, personal name Hongli, was the fifth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
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Quadrille
The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.
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Racing
In sports, racing is a competition of speed, in which competitors try to complete a given task in the shortest amount of time.
Radio comedy
Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve variety show, sitcom elements, sketches, and various types of comedy found in other media.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
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Reading
Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch.
Recorder (musical instrument)
The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes.
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Recreation
Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.
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Recreational drug use
Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to induce an altered state of consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other casual purpose or pastime.
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Red Square (disambiguation)
Red Square is a city square in Moscow.
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Reel
A reel is a tool used to store elongated and flexible objects (e.g. yarns/cords, ribbons, cables, hoses, etc.) by wrapping the material around a cylindrical core known as a spool.
Religious festival
A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion.
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Remix
A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.
Revolutionary opera
In People's Republic of China (1949–), revolutionary operas or model operas (Simplified Chinese: yangban xi, 样板戏) were a series of shows planned and engineered during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) by Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
Ridable miniature railway
A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol engines, live steam or electric motors).
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Rio Carnival
The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro) is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets.
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Roast goose
Roast goose is cooking goose meat using dry heat with hot air enveloping it evenly on all sides.
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Rock festival
A rock festival is an open-air rock concert featuring many different performers, typically spread over two or three days and having a campsite and other amenities and forms of entertainment provided at the venue.
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Roller coaster
A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride employing a form of elevated railroad track that carries passengers on a train through tight turns, steep slopes, and other elements usually designed to produce a thrilling experience.
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Roman circus
A Roman circus (from the Latin word that means "circle") was a large open-air venue used mainly for chariot races, although sometimes serving other purposes.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Roman triumph
The Roman triumph (triumphus) was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the success of a military commander who had led Roman forces to victory in the service of the state or, in some historical traditions, one who had successfully completed a foreign war.
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Royal court
A royal court, often called simply a court when the royal context is clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure.
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Royal entry
The ceremonies and festivities accompanying a formal entry by a ruler or his/her representative into a city in the Middle Ages and early modern period in Europe were known as the royal entry, triumphal entry, or Joyous Entry.
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Rubik's Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.
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Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.
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Saga
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.
Sagas of Icelanders
The sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also known as family sagas, are a subgenre, or text group, of Icelandic sagas.
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Sahle Selassie
Sahle Selassie (Amharic: ሣህለ ሥላሴ, 1795 – 22 October 1847) was the King of Shewa from 1813 to 1847.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Entertainment and Satire are performing arts.
Saturnalia
Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through 19 December.
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Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude ("harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
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Scheherazade
Scheherazade is a major character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.
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Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights).
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Scottish Highlands
The Highlands (the Hielands; a' Ghàidhealtachd) is a historical region of Scotland.
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SeaWorld
SeaWorld is an American theme park chain with headquarters in Orlando, Florida.
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Security guard
A security guard (also known as a security inspector, security officer, factory guard, or protective agent) is a person employed by a government or private party to protect the employing party's assets (property, people, equipment, money, etc.) from a variety of hazards (such as crime, waste, damages, unsafe worker behavior, etc.) by enforcing preventative measures.
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Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.
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Senet
Senet or senat (i; cf. Coptic ⲥⲓⲛⲉ, 'passing, afternoon') is a board game from ancient Egypt that consists of ten or more pawns on a 30-square playing board.
Sex industry
The sex industry (also called the sex trade) consists of businesses that either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment.
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Shahnameh
The Shahnameh (lit), also transliterated Shahnama, is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran.
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Shakespearean comedy
In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works.
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
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Shéhérazade (Ravel)
Shéhérazade is the title of two works by the French composer Maurice Ravel.
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Showmanship (performing)
Showmanship, concerning artistic performing such as in Theatre, is the skill of performing in such a manner that will appeal to an audience or aid in conveying the performance's essential theme or message.
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Slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.
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Snake Indians
Snake Indians is a collective name given to the Northern Paiute, Bannock, and Shoshone Native American tribes.
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Soap bubble
A soap bubble (commonly referred to as simply a bubble) is an extremely thin film of soap or detergent and water enclosing air that forms a hollow sphere with an iridescent surface.
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Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general.
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Social entertainment are forms of entertainment that involve attending public venues, but do not involve significant physical activity, such as spectator sports or going to the theatre.
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Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.
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Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola (– 16 November 1625), also known as Sophonisba Angussola or Sophonisba Anguisciola, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family.
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Solo (music)
In music, a solo (alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.
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Solo dance
A solo dance is a dance done by an individual dancing alone, as opposed to couples dancing together but independently of others dancing at the same time, if any, and as opposed to groups of people dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Spa
A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths.
Special effect
Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.
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Spectacle
In general, spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates.
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Spectator sport
A spectator sport is a sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its competitions.
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Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game. Entertainment and Sport are main topic articles.
Stagecraft
Stagecraft is a technical aspect of theatrical, film, and video production.
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StarCraft
StarCraft is a military science fiction media franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney and owned by Blizzard Entertainment.
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Stilts
Stilts are poles, posts or pillars that allow a person or structure to stand at a height above the ground.
Stoning
Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma.
Storytelling
Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics or embellishment. Entertainment and Storytelling are performing arts.
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Street organ
A street organ (orgue de rue or) played by an organ grinder is a French automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street.
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Street performance
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. Entertainment and Street performance are performing arts.
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Street theatre
Street theatre is a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience.
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Strip club
A strip club is a venue where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic dances.
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Striptease
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. Entertainment and striptease are performing arts.
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Stunt performer
A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career.
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Subjective well-being
Subjective well-being (SWB) is a self-reported measure of well-being, typically obtained by questionnaire.
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Sudoku
Sudoku (digit-single; originally called Number Place) is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle.
Sumo
is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).
Superhero
A superhero or superheroine is a stock character who typically possesses ''superpowers'' or abilities beyond those of ordinary people, is frequently costumed concealing their identity, and fits the role of the hero; typically using their powers to help the world become a better place, or dedicating themselves to protecting the public and fighting crime.
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Superman
Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Swing (dance)
Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era".
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Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, spanning Sydney Harbour from the central business district (CBD) to the North Shore.
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Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Tablet computer
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.
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Teasing
Teasing has multiple meanings and uses.
Teatro Colón
The Teatro Colón (Columbus Theatre) is a historic opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Technological convergence
Technological convergence is the tendency for technologies that were originally unrelated to become more closely integrated and even unified as they develop and advance.
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Television content rating system
Television content rating systems are systems for evaluating the content and reporting the suitability of television programmes for minors.
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Television show
A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.
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Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila, OCD (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 15154 or 15 October 1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.
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Théophile Emmanuel Duverger
Théophile Emmanuel Duverger (17 March 1821, in Bordeaux – 25 August 1898, in Écouen) was a French painter.
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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The Dreaming
The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.
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The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-war, political satire, and black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams.
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The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie is a 2014 live action-animated adventure comedy film co-produced by Warner Animation Group, Village Roadshow Pictures, Lego System A/S, Vertigo Entertainment, and Lin Pictures, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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The Magic of Scheherazade
The Magic of Scheherazade is an action-adventure/role-playing video game (RPG) developed and released by Culture Brain for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
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The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.
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The O2
The O2 (formerly known as the Millennium Dome) is a large entertainment district on the Greenwich peninsula in South East London, England, including an indoor arena, a music club, a Cineworld cinema, an exhibition space, piazzas, bars, restaurants, and a guided tour to the top of the O2.
The Peanuts Movie
The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie) is a 2015 American animated comedy film based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
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The Station nightclub fire
The Station nightclub fire occurred on the evening of February 20, 2003, at The Station, a nightclub and hard rock music venue located at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230.
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a 2011 British documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over 900 minutes.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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The Tale of Genji
, also known as Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century.
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Theater (structure)
A theater, or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts, and musical concerts are presented.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. Entertainment and Theatre are performing arts.
Theatre in the round
A theatre in the round, arena theatre, or central staging is a space for theatre in which the audience surrounds the stage.
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Thebes, Egypt
Thebes (طيبة, Θῆβαι, Thēbai), known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset (Arabic: وسط), was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about south of the Mediterranean.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman.
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Tiger hunting
Tiger hunting is the capture and killing of tigers.
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Tiltyard
A tiltyard (or tilt yard or tilt-yard) was an enclosed courtyard for jousting.
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Time zone
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.
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Tosa Mitsuoki
was a Japanese painter.
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Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race held primarily in France.
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Tournament
A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game.
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Trapeze
A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes, metal straps, or chains, from a ceiling support.
Trooping the Colour
Trooping the Colour is a ceremonial event performed every year on Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom, by regiments of Household Division, to celebrate the official birthday of the British sovereign.
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Troubadour
A troubadour (trobador archaically: -->) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350).
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Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he was likely a son of Akhenaten, thought to be the KV55 mummy. His mother was identified through DNA testing as The Younger Lady buried in KV35; she was a full sister of her husband.
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Twist (dance)
The twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music.
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United States presidential inauguration
Between 73 and 79 days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office.
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Vantaa
Vantaa (Vanda) is a city in Finland.
Vatican City
Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.
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Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
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Village green
A village green is a common open area within a village or other settlement.
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Visual effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
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Voyeurism
Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions of a private nature.
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War
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.
War of the Austrian Succession
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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Warrior
A warrior is a guardian specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracy, class, or caste.
Water ride
Water rides are amusement rides that are set over water.
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Wayang
(translit) is a traditional form of puppet theatre play originating from the Indonesian island of Java.
Westminster Hall
Westminster Hall is a large medieval great hall which is part of the Palace of Westminster in London, England.
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Whist
Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.
William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.
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William Caxton
William Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat and writer.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.
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William McGonagall
William McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet and public performer.
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William McKinley
William McKinley (January 29, 1843September 14, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 25th president of the United States from 1897 until his assassination in 1901.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Wit
Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny.
World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Xala
Xala (Wolof for "temporary sexual impotence") is a 1975 Senegalese satirical comedy film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène, an adaptation of Sembène's 1973 novel of the same name.
Zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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2002 Bali bombings
A series of bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment
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