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1. 891 relations: A cappella, A Thousand Clowns, Aaron Burr, Abraham Lincoln, Absolutely Fabulous, Academy Awards, Adam's Rib, Adlai Stevenson I, Adlai Stevenson II, Aetna, African Americans, Al Capone, Aladdin (1992 Disney film), Alaska, Albert Spalding, Alice in Wonderland (1933 film), All About Eve, All My Children, All That Jazz (film), All the President's Men, Allan Pinkerton, Ally McBeal, Amelia Earhart, American Basketball Association, American Broadcasting Company, American Civil War, American Football League, American League, Anaheim Ducks, Andrew Jackson, Angel (1999 TV series), Animal House, Anita O'Day, Anton Cermak, Apollo 13 (film), Apollo 17, ARCO, Arena Football League, Arizona Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Armageddon (1998 film), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Falcons, Aurora, Illinois, Babe Ruth, Babylon 5, Back to the Future, Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Ravens, ... Expand index (841 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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A Thousand Clowns

A Thousand Clowns is a 1965 American comedy-drama film directed by Fred Coe and starring Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, and Barry Gordon.

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Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, businessman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous (often shortened to Ab Fab) is a British television sitcom based on the French and Saunders sketch "Modern Mother and Daughter", created by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib is a 1949 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.

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Adlai Stevenson I

Adlai Ewing Stevenson I (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) was an American politician who served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 under President Grover Cleveland.

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Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.

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Aetna

Aetna Inc.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.

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Aladdin (1992 Disney film)

Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution under Walt Disney Pictures.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Albert Spalding

Albert Goodwill Spalding (September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915) was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of the Spalding sporting goods company.

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Alice in Wonderland (1933 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 American pre-Code fantasy film adapted from the novels by Lewis Carroll.

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All About Eve

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

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All My Children

All My Children (often shortened to AMC) is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.

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All That Jazz (film)

All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider.

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All the President's Men

All the President's Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists who investigated the June 1972 break-in at the Watergate Office Building and the resultant political scandal for The Washington Post.

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Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819Mackay (1997), p. 20; August 25 was the date of his baptism, which many sources incorrectly give as his birthdate. – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.

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Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy drama television series created by David E. Kelley and produced by David E. Kelley Productions and 20th Century Fox Television for Fox.

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Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer.

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American Basketball Association

The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a men's professional basketball major league from 1967 to 1976.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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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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The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference.

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American League

The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is the younger of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada.

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Anaheim Ducks

The Anaheim Ducks are a professional ice hockey team based in Anaheim, California.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Angel (1999 TV series)

Angel is an American supernatural television series, a spinoff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Animal House

National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller.

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Anita O'Day

Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer".

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Anton Cermak

Anton Joseph Cermak (May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933) was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from April 7, 1931, until his death in 1933.

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Apollo 13 (film)

Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan.

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Apollo 17

Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit.

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ARCO

ARCO is a brand of gasoline stations owned by Marathon Petroleum.

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The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States.

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Arizona Cardinals

The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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Arizona Diamondbacks

The Arizona Diamondbacks (colloquially the D-backs) are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Armageddon (1998 film)

Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures.

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.

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Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Atlanta Falcons

The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta.

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Aurora, Illinois

Aurora is a city in northeastern Illinois, United States.

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Babe Ruth

George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.

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Babylon 5

Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd.

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale.

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Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles (also known as the O's) are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore.

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Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Batman

Batman is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Batman & Robin (film)

Batman & Robin is a 1997 American superhero film based on the DC Comics characters Batman and Robin by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.

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Batman Forever

Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger.

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Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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Battle of the Little Bighorn

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.

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Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)

Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".

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Berwyn, Illinois

Berwyn is a suburban city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, coterminous with Berwyn Township, which was formed in 1908 after breaking off from Cicero Township.

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Bettendorf, Iowa

Bettendorf is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Betty Robinson

Elizabeth R. Schwartz (née Robinson; August 23, 1911 – May 18, 1999) was an American athlete and winner of the first Olympic 100 metres for women.

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Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210 (often referred to by its short title, 90210) is an American teen drama television series created by Darren Star and produced by Aaron Spelling under his production company Spelling Television.

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Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Bill Murray

William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian, known for his deadpan delivery in roles ranging from studio comedies to independent dramas.

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Black Hawk War

The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.

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Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

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Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States.

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Bo Diddley

Ellas Otha Bates (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.

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Bob Fosse

Robert Louis Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director.

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Bob Newhart

George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024) was an American comedian and actor.

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Bobby Hull

Robert Marvin Hull (January 3, 1939 – January 30, 2023) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

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Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.

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Boise State University

Boise State University (BSU) is a public research university in Boise, Idaho.

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Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston.

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Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Boy Meets World

Boy Meets World is an American coming-of-age sitcom created by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly that aired on ABC for seven seasons between September1993 and May2000.

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Boy Scouts of America

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Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer while attempting to marry for money.

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Breaking Away

Breaking Away is a 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich.

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Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Murray (born October 31, 1945), known professionally by his stage name as Brian Doyle-Murray, is an American actor and screenwriter.

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Broadcast News (film)

Broadcast News is a 1987 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks.

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Broadway Melody of 1936

Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935.

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Brooklyn Nets

The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.

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Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Buffalo Sabres

The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman.

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Cairo, Illinois

Cairo (sometimes) is the southernmost city in Illinois and the county seat of Alexander County.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Calista Flockhart

Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an American actress.

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The Canadian Football League (CFL; Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada.

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Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for 29 years, from 1955 to 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.

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Carl Rogers

Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor.

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Carlinville, Illinois

Carlinville is a city and the county seat of Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.

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Carolina Panthers

The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Carter Harrison Jr.

Carter Henry Harrison IV (April 23, 1860 – December 25, 1953) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician who served a total of five terms as mayor of Chicago (1897–1905 and 1911–1915) but failed in his attempt to become his party's presidential nominee in 1904.

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Carter Harrison Sr.

Carter Henry Harrison Sr. (February 15, 1825October 28, 1893) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1879 until 1887 and from 1893 until his assassination.

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Cary Grant

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor.

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Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.

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Cast Away

Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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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 G. Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under Calvin Coolidge.

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator and military officer.

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Charles MacArthur

Charles Gordon MacArthur (November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story.

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Charles Yerkes

Charles Tyson Yerkes Jr. (June 25, 1837 – December 29, 1905) was an American financier.

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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.

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Cheers

Cheers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 30, 1982 to May 20, 1993 for 11 seasons and 275 episodes.

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Chester Gould

Chester Gould (November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.

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Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago.

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Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago.

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Chicago Bulls

The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago.

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Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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Chick Hearn

Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn (November 27, 1916 – August 5, 2002) was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association for 41 years, as well as the team's assistant general manager for seven years beginning in 1972.

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Children of a Lesser God (film)

Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines from a screenplay written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff and based on Medoff's 1979 play of the same name.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Chinatown (1974 film)

Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne.

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Chris Farley

Christopher Crosby Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American comedian and actor.

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Chrysler

FCA US, LLC, doing business as Stellantis North America and known historically as Chrysler, is one of the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

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Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati.

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Cincinnati Reds

The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati.

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.

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City Lights

City Lights is a 1931 American synchronized sound romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin.

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Clara Bow

Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland.

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Cleveland Cavaliers

The Cleveland Cavaliers, often referred to as the Cavs, are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland.

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Cleveland Guardians

The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.

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Clue (film)

Clue is a 1985 American black comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name.

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Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Colorado Avalanche

The Colorado Avalanche (colloquially known as the Avs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Coming Home (1978 film)

Coming Home is a 1978 American romantic war drama film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay written by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones with story by Nancy Dowd.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Cook County, Illinois

Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.

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Crossfire (film)

Crossfire is a 1947 American film noir drama film starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan which deals with the theme of antisemitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement.

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Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles.

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Cy Young Award

The Cy Young Award is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL).

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Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Dallas (1978 TV series)

Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991.

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Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Dallas Mavericks

The Dallas Mavericks (often referred to as the Mavs) are an American professional basketball team based in Dallas.

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Dan Castellaneta

Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an American actor and writer.

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Dan Quayle

James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) is an American retired politician who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush.

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Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his 1985 play Les Liaisons dangereuses, itself adapted from the 1782 French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

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Daniel Burnham

Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer.

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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst.

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Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 American fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from the Darby O'Gill stories of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh.

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Darling (1965 film)

Darling is a 1965 British romantic drama film directed by John Schlesinger from a screenplay written by Frederic Raphael.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Davenport, Iowa

Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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David Boies

David Boies (born March 11, 1941) is an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.

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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author.

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Daytona 500

The Daytona 500 is a NASCAR Cup Series motor race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Denise Richards

Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and television personality.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Denny McLain

Dennis Dale McLain (born March 29, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Denver Broncos

The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver.

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Denver Nuggets

The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver.

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Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again is a 1939 American Western comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart.

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Detour (1945 film)

Detour is a 1945 American independent film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage.

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Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit.

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Detroit Pistons

The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit.

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Detroit Red Wings

The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit.

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Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit.

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Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould.

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Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)

The Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) is a military decoration of the United States Army that is presented to soldiers who have distinguished themselves by exceptionally meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Spike Lee.

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Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand.

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Don Siegel

Donald Siegel (October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991) was an American film and television director and producer.

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Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) was an American politician, government official and businessman who served as secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under president Gerald Ford, and again from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.

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Dont Look Back

Look Back is a 1967 American documentary film directed by D. A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in England.

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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American crime thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written with Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom.

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Dressed to Kill (1980 film)

Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American erotic psychological thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen.

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Duck Soup (1933 film)

Duck Soup is a 1933 American pre-Code musical black comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby (with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin) and directed by Leo McCarey.

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Dune (1984 film)

Dune is a 1984 American epic space opera film written and directed by David Lynch and based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel Dune.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Dwight L. Moody

Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 26, 1899), also known as D. L.

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East St. Louis, Illinois

East St.

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Edgar Bergen

Edgar John Bergen (born Edgar John Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.

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Edward Gorey

Edward St.

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Edwin Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer.

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El Paso, Texas

El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.

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Emma Abbott

Emma Abbott (December 9, 1850 – January 5, 1891) was an American operatic soprano and impresario known for her pure, clear voice of great flexibility and volume.

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Emmett Tyrrell

Robert Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (born December 14, 1943) is an American conservative magazine editor, book author and columnist.

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Enola Gay

The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.

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Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.

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Enron

Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas.

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Equestrianism

Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, 'horseman', 'horse'), commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Errol Flynn

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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ESPN

ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

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Eugene V. Debs

Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.

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Evanston, Illinois

Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan.

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Everett Dirksen

Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician.

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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury.

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Fantasia (1940 film)

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen.

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Fargo (1996 film)

Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen.

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Fashion Police

Fashion Police is an American television series that premiered on September 10, 2010, on E!.

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Father of the Bride (1950 film)

Father of the Bride is a 1950 American romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli from a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Edward Streeter.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Ferguson Jenkins

Ferguson Arthur "Fergie" Jenkins CM (born December 13, 1942) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher and coach.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes.

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Fibber McGee and Molly

Fibber McGee and Molly (1935–1959) was a longtime husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.

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Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905.

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Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams is a 1989 American sports fantasy drama film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Canadian novelist W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe.

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First Lady of the United States

First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) is the title held by the hostess of the White House, usually the wife of the president of the United States, concurrent with the president's term in office.

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Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film directed by Bob Rafelson, written by Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce) and Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite.

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Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth.

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Fort Dearborn

Fort Dearborn was a United States fort, first built in 1803 beside the Chicago River, in what is now Chicago, Illinois.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Francis Fukuyama

Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar, and writer.

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Frank Drake

Frank Donald Drake (May 28, 1930 – September 2, 2022) was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Frasier

Frasier is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004.

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Fred MacMurray

Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor.

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Fred Savage

Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an American actor and director.

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French Open

The French Open (Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year.

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Friends

Friends is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons.

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From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones.

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Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford.

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Fullerton, California

Fullerton is a city located in northern Orange County, California, United States.

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Galesburg, Illinois

Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States.

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Gary Coleman

Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor, known as a high profile child star of the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Gary, Indiana

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States.

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Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor.

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Gene Rayburn

Gene Rayburn (born Eugene Peter Jeljenic; December 22, 1917 – November 29, 1999) was an American radio and television personality.

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General Motors

General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling 1947 novel of the same title.

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George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.

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George Gobel

George Leslie Goebel (May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991) was an American humorist, actor, and comedian.

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George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker BushAfter the 1990s, he became more commonly known as George H. W. Bush, "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush the Elder" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd U.S. president from 2001 to 2009; previously, he was usually referred to simply as George Bush.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.

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George Pullman

George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist.

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George Stevens

George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's deadliest battle.

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Giant (1956 film)

Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film directed by George Stevens, from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel.

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Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, writer, and activist.

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Ginger Lynn

Ginger Lynn Allen (born December 14, 1962) is an American pornographic actress and model who was a premier adult-entertainment star of the 1980s.

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Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Golden State Warriors

The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco.

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Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

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Gosford Park

Gosford Park is a 2001 satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes.

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Governor of California

The governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Governor of Michigan

The governor of Michigan is the head of government, and chief executive of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

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Great Chicago Fire

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871.

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Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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Green Party of the United States

The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States.

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.

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Groundhog Day (film)

Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Harold Ramis from a screenplay by him and Danny Rubin.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

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Gurnee, Illinois

Gurnee is a village and suburb in Lake County, Illinois, United States.

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Hamming code

In computer science and telecommunication, Hamming codes are a family of linear error-correcting codes.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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Harold Washington

Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor.

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Havana, Illinois

Havana is a city and the county seat of Mason County, Illinois, United States.

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Heat (1995 film)

Heat is a 1995 American crime film written and directed by Michael Mann.

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Heathers

Heathers is a 1989 American teen black comedy film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts.

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Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1954.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.

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High Noon

High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper.

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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and featuring Ralph Bellamy and Gene Lockhart.

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Hockey Hall of Fame

The Hockey Hall of Fame (Temple de la renommée du hockey) is a museum and hall of fame located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Hoosiers (film)

Hoosiers (released in some countries as Best Shot) is a 1986 American sports drama film written by Angelo Pizzo and directed by David Anspaugh in his feature directorial debut.

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Houston Astros

The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston.

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How the West Was Won (film)

How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway (who directs three out of the five chapters involving the same family), John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb, and narrated by Spencer Tracy.

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Howard Keel

Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919November 7, 2004), professionally Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer known for his rich bass-baritone singing voice.

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Hugh Hefner

Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher.

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Hyman G. Rickover

Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was an admiral in the United States Navy.

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I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons.

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Ice skating

Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Idaho

Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indiana Pacers

The Indiana Pacers are an American professional basketball team based in Indianapolis.

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Indianapolis Colts

The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis.

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Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905.

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International Boxing Hall of Fame

The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF), located in Canastota, New York, honors boxers, trainers and other contributors to the sport worldwide.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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International trade

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science-fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.

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Iowa State University

Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra.

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Jack Benny

Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing the violin on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film.

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Jack Lemmon

John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor.

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Jack Ruby

Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; March 25, 1911January 3, 1967) was an American nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald was accused of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Jacksonville Jaguars

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Jailhouse Rock (film)

Jailhouse Rock is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor and Jennifer Holden.

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James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was an American politician who served as the 20th president of the United States from March 1881 until his assassination in September that year.

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James Madison

James Madison (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.

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James Tobin

James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities.

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James Watson

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

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Jane Byrne

Jane Margaret Byrne (née Burke; May 24, 1933November 14, 2014) was an American politician who served as the 50th mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979, until April 29, 1983.

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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (Lemott, later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent.

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Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American sports comedy-drama film directed and written by Cameron Crowe.

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JFK (film)

JFK is a 1991 American epic political thriller film written and directed by Oliver Stone.

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Jim O'Rourke (musician)

Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician, instrumentalist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Jimmy Rogers

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924December 19, 1997) was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s.

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John Ashcroft

John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former politician who served as the United States Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2005.

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John B. Anderson

John Bayard Anderson (February 15, 1922 – December 3, 2017) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 16th congressional district from 1961 to 1981.

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John Bardeen

John Bardeen; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

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John Belushi

John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor and musician.

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John Coughlin (alderman)

John Joseph Coughlin (August 15, 1860 – November 11, 1938), known as "Bathhouse John" or "the Bath", was an American politician who served as alderman of Chicago's 1st ward from 1892 until his death.

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John Dewey

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer.

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John Dillinger

John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster during the Great Depression.

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John G. Avildsen

John Guilbert Avildsen (December 21, 1935 – June 16, 2017) was an American film director.

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John Hancock Center

The John Hancock Center is a 100-story, 1,128-foot supertall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois.

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John Hay

John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century.

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John Hughes (filmmaker)

John Wilden Hughes Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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John Kinzie

John Kinzie (December 23, 1763 – June 6, 1828) was a fur trader from Quebec who first operated in Detroit and what became the Northwest Territory of the United States.

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John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois.

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John Wentworth (Illinois politician)

John Wentworth (March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888), nicknamed Long John, was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, publisher of an extensive Wentworth family genealogy, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives, both before and after his service as mayor.

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Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller (born Johann Peter Weißmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was a Austro-Hungarian-born - American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor.

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Joliet, Illinois

Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, southwest of Chicago.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is an allegorical fable in novella form written by American author Richard Bach and illustrated with black-and-white photographs shot by Russell Munson.

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Joseph Gurney Cannon

Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.

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Joseph Medill

Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician.

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Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.

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Judo

is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian.

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Juneau, Alaska

Juneau (Dzánti K'ihéeni), officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alaska, located in the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kansas City Royals

The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis (November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death.

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Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby is an American Grade I stakes race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Keyboardist

A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments.

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Keystone Cops

The Keystone Cops (often spelled "Keystone Kops") are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917.

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Kid Ory

Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) was an American jazz composer, trombonist and bandleader.

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King Oliver

Joseph Nathan "King" Oliver (December 19, 1881 – April 8/10, 1938) was an American jazz cornet player and bandleader.

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Kinky Friedman

Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (November 1, 1944 – June 27, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist for Texas Monthly, who styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

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Kirby Puckett

Kirby Puckett (March 14, 1960 – March 6, 2006) was an American professional baseball player.

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Kiss Me Deadly

Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, and Wesley Addy.

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Knute Rockne

Knute Kenneth Rockne (/kəˈnuːt/ ''kə-NOOT'', though commonly pronounced; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was an American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.

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Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak, is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography.

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Koko (gorilla)

Hanabiko, nicknamed "Koko" (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) was a female western lowland gorilla.

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L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series.

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Larry Gelbart

Larry Simon Gelbart (February 25, 1928 – September 11, 2009) was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the television series M*A*S*H, and as co-writer of the Broadway musicals A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and City of Angels.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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LaSalle, Illinois

LaSalle or La Salle is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, located at the intersection of Interstates 39 and 80.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Lea DeLaria

Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 American drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the semi-autobiographical 1990 novel of the same name by John O'Brien.

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Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.

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Lehigh University

Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

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Lenny (film)

Lenny is a 1974 American biographical drama film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse.

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Lewistown, Illinois

Lewistown is a city and the county seat of Fulton County, Illinois, United States.

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Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial that honors the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

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Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County.

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Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.

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Lions Clubs International

Lions Clubs International, is an international service organization, currently headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, U.S., it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members (including the youth wing Leo) in more than 200 countries and geographic areas around the world.

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List of governors of Florida

The governor of Florida is the head of government of the U.S. state of Florida and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Liz Phair

Elizabeth Clark Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.

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Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is an American animated franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It began as a series of short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, along with its partner series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.

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Los Angeles Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.

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Louis Jolliet

Louis Jolliet (September 21, 1645after May 1700) was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America.

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Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism." He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

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Macomb, Illinois

Macomb is a city in and the county seat of McDonough County, Illinois, United States.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award

The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) award given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League.

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Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award

In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is given annually to two outstanding rookie players, one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL), as voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).

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Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States.

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Mandy Patinkin

Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer, known for his work in musical theatre, television, and film.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.

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Margo Howard

Margo Howard (née Lederer; born March 15, 1940) is an American writer and former advice columnist.

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Marion County, Illinois

Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Marion, Illinois

The city of Marion is the county seat of Williamson County, Illinois, United States.

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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker.

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Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Match Game

Match Game is an American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962 and has been revived several times over the course of the last six decades.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mattel

Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in Los Angeles by Harold Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Ruth and Elliot Handler in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.

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MCI Inc.

MCI, Inc. (formerly WorldCom and MCI WorldCom) was a telecommunications company.

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Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St.

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Meigs Field

Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport (pronounced, formerly) was a single-runway airport in Chicago that was in operation from 1948 to 2003, when it was bulldozed overnight by then-mayor Richard M. Daley.

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Memphis Grizzlies

The Memphis Grizzlies (referred to locally as the Grizz) are an American professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Miami Dolphins

The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Greater Miami area.

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Miami Heat

The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team based in Miami.

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Miami Marlins

The Miami Marlins are an American professional baseball team based in Miami.

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Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker.

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Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman and former professional basketball player.

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Michael Kenna (politician)

Michael Kenna (August 20, 1857 – October 9, 1946), also known as "Hinky Dink", was an American politician who served as alderman of Chicago's 1st Ward from 1897 to 1923 and again from 1939 to 1943.

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Michael Mann

Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, and producer, best known for his stylized crime dramas.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Mid-American Conference

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois.

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Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.

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Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director.

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Mike Royko

Michael Royko Jr. (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Milwaukee Brewers

The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee.

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Milwaukee Bucks

The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team in Milwaukee.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Minnesota Timberwolves

The Minnesota Timberwolves, often referred to as the Wolves, are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis.

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Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis.

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Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis.

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Minority Report (film)

Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".

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Miss Congeniality (film)

Miss Congeniality is a 2000 American action comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, written by Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, and Caryn Lucas, and produced by and starring Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart, a tomboy agent who is asked by the FBI to go undercover as a contestant when a terrorist threatens to bomb the Miss United States pageant.

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Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)

Mission: Impossible is an American espionage television series that aired on CBS from September 1966 to March 1973, which was financed and filmed by Desilu Productions.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Monopoly (game)

Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.

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Monsanto

The Monsanto Company was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

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Montreal Canadiens

The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling Canadiens is always used instead of Canadians.

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Montreal Expos

The Montreal Expos (Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal.

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Moonstruck

Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley.

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Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Mount Carmel, Illinois

For other uses, see Mount Carmel (disambiguation) Mount Carmel is a city in and the county seat of Wabash County, Illinois, United States.

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Mount Prospect, Illinois

Mount Prospect is a village in Elk Grove and Wheeling Townships in Cook County, Illinois, about northwest of downtown Chicago, and approximately 4 miles north of O'Hare International Airport.

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Mount Vernon, Illinois

Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Illinois, United States.

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr.

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Mr. T

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist.

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Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), formerly known as the Museum of Science and Industry, is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.

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My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (abbreviated as MST3K) is an American science fiction comedy film review television series created by Joel Hodgson.

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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew is a fictional character appearing in several mystery book series, movies, video games, and a TV show as a teenage amateur sleuth.

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Nancy Reagan

Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress who was the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, as the second wife of President Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States.

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Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and author.

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Naperville, Illinois

Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing.

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Nashville (film)

Nashville is a 1975 American satirical musical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Robert Altman.

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Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National League (baseball)

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league.

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National Security Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Network (1976 film)

Network is a 1976 American satirical black comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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Neville Brand

Lawrence Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992) was an American soldier and actor.

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New England Patriots

The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans.

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New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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New York Jets

The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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New York Knicks

The New York Knickerbockers, shortened and more commonly referred to as the New York Knicks, are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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New York Mets

The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.

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New York Rangers

The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City.

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New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Newhart

Newhart is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from October 25, 1982, to May 21, 1990, with a total of 184 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons.

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NewsRadio

NewsRadio is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from March 21, 1995, to May 4, 1999, focusing on the work lives of the staff of a New York City AM news radio station.

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Nichelle Nichols

Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal of Uhura in Star Trek and its film sequels was groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television.

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Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra is a 1971 British epic historical drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, from a screenplay by James Goldman and Edward Bond based on Robert K. Massie's 1967 book of the same name.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.

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North by Northwest

North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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North Dakota

North Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.

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Northern Canada

Northern Canada (Nord du Canada), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Nyota Uhura

Nyota Uhura, or simply Uhura, is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.

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Oak Brook, Illinois

Oak Brook is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.

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Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the Oakland A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.

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Office Space

Office Space is a 1999 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge.

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Olney, Illinois

Olney is the county seat in Richland County, Illinois.

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Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach was one of five beach landing sectors of the amphibious assault component of Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg.

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Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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Ordinary People

Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford in his feature directorial debut.

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Orlando Magic

The Orlando Magic are an American professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.

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Out for Justice

Out for Justice is a 1991 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by John Flynn and co-produced by and starring Steven Seagal as Gino Felino, a veteran police detective who sets out to avenge his partner Bobby's murder by killing Richie, the trigger-happy, drug-addicted mafioso culprit.

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Out of the Past

Out of the Past (billed in the United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 American film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas.

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Oz (TV series)

Oz is an American prison drama television series set at a fictional men's prison created and principally written by Tom Fontana.

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Palatine, Illinois

Palatine is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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PARC (company)

SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California.

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Party leaders of the United States Senate

The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and people of the party leadership of the United States Senate.

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Passions

Passions is an American television soap opera that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1999, to September 7, 2007, and on DirecTV's The 101 Network from September 17, 2007, to August 7, 2008.

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Patti Smith

Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author and photographer whose 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement.

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Patton (film)

Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II.

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Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954) is a member of the Hearst family and granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst.

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Paul Wertico

Paul Wertico (born January 5, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American drummer.

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Peabody Awards

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media.

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Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Philadelphia 76ers

The Philadelphia 76ers, also known colloquially as the Sixers, are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

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Philadelphia Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia.

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Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist.

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Phoenix Suns

The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Picnic (1955 film)

Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in CinemaScope.

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Pinkerton (detective agency)

Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

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Pittsburgh Pirates

The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh.

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Pittsburgh Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh.

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Platoon (film)

Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Pluto

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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Pony Express

The Pony Express was an American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders between Missouri and California.

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Portland Trail Blazers

The Portland Trail Blazers (colloquially known as the Blazers) are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Premier League

The Premier League is the highest level of the English football league system.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States, alongside the Congressional Gold Medal.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 American black comedy crime film directed by John Huston, starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner as two highly skilled mob assassins who, after falling in love, are hired to kill each other.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Psycho (1960 film)

Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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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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Puerto Rico

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer in the United States who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Purdue University

Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.

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Quack Pack

Quack Pack is an American animated sitcom produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, featuring Donald Duck and his nephews.

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Quarterback

The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football.

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Quincy, Illinois

Quincy is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Illinois, United States, located on the Mississippi River.

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R. Kelly

Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), known as R. Kelly, is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Rachel, Rachel

Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 American drama film produced and directed by Paul Newman and starring his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the title role and co-starring Estelle Parsons and James Olson.

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Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer therapy to either kill or control the growth of malignant cells.

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Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine (often abbreviated as RATM or shortened to Rage) was an American rock band formed in 1991 in Los Angeles, California.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

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Ransom, Illinois

Ransom is a village in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.

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Raquel Welch

Jo Raquel Welch (September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.

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Raymond Hood

Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an American architect who worked in the Neo-Gothic and Art Deco styles.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.

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REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon (originally stylized as R.E.O. Speedwagon), or simply REO, is an American rock band from Champaign, Illinois.

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Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film that is a sequel to Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It is the third installment in the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga".

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Richard Bach

Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer.

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Richard Hamming

Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications.

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Richard J. Daley

Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Chicago from 1955, and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953, until his death.

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Richard M. Daley

Richard Michael Daley (born April 24, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 54th mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 to 2011.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Rickey Henderson

Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson (born December 25, 1958) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 25 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four separate tenures with his original team, the Oakland Athletics.

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Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country (released internationally as Guns in the Afternoon) is a 1962 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Mariette Hartley.

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Ring Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre.

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Ring Lardner Jr.

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter.

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Rio Bravo (film)

Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond.

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Robert Andrews Millikan

Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

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Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.

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Rock Island, Illinois

Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is a city in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States.

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Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942) is an American musician, best known for being the frontman and leader of the Byrds.

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Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Roseanne

Roseanne is an American television sitcom created by Matt Williams that originally aired on ABC from October 18, 1988, to May 20, 1997, and briefly revived from March 27, 2018, to May 22, 2018.

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Rosemont, Illinois

Rosemont is a village in Cook County, Illinois, located immediately northwest of Chicago.

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Rough Riders

The Rough Riders was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat.

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (often simply referred to as Laugh-In) is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for six seasons from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network.

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Rube Foster

Andrew "Rube" Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues.

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Sam Cooke

Samuel Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer and songwriter.

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Sammy Sosa

Samuel Peralta Sosa (born November 12, 1968) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball right fielder.

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San Antonio Spurs

The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Diego Padres

The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego.

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San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco.

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Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood.

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was an American writer.

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Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.

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Scam

A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.

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Scent of a Woman (1992 film)

Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a short-term job near Thanksgiving as a companion/assistant to a retired Army lieutenant colonel who is blind, depressed, and irritable.

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scopes trial

The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

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Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle.

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Second City Television

Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV and later known as SCTV Network and SCTV Channel, is a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran intermittently between 1976 and 1984.

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Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of 180 episodes.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 American musical film, directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Gene de Paul, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and choreography by Michael Kidd.

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Sex and the City

Sex and the City is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO.

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Shane (film)

Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin.

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Shel Silverstein

Sheldon Allan Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer, poet, cartoonist, singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright.

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Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film starring and directed by Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, and Joseph A. Mitchell.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949) is an American actress.

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Sleeping car

The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City and formed in 1981.

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South Bend, Indiana

South Bend is a city in and the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.

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South Dakota

South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.

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Special Olympics

Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954.

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Springfield, Illinois

Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County.

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St. Louis

St.

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Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup (La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer and based on the television series Star Trek.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his biographies of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

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Steve Allen

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television and radio personality, comedian, musician, composer, writer, and actor.

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Steve Goodman

Steven Benjamin Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago.

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Stolen base

In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base unaided by other actions and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner.

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Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges.

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Sunset Boulevard (film)

Sunset Boulevard (styled in the main title on-screen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett.

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Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the annual league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States.

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Super Bowl I

The first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (known retroactively as Super BowlI and referred to in contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl) was an American football game played on January 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.

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Super Bowl II

The second AFL–NFL World Championship Game (known retroactively as Super Bowl II) was an American football game played on January 14, 1968, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

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Super Bowl XX

Super Bowl XX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1985 season.

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Super Bowl XXI

Super Bowl XXI was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1986 season.

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Super Bowl XXIX

Super Bowl XXIX was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion San Diego Chargers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1994 season.

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Super Bowl XXXI

Super Bowl XXXI was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1996 season.

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Super Bowl XXXVI

Super Bowl XXXVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion St. Louis Rams and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2001 season.

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Taekwondo

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving punching and kicking techniques.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Tampico, Illinois

Tampico is a village located in Tampico Township, Whiteside County, Illinois, United States next to Rock Falls and Sterling, Illinois.

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Taxi (TV series)

Taxi is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1978, to May 6, 1982, and on NBC from September 30, 1982, to June 15, 1983.

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Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Tennessee Titans

The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker.

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Texaco

Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas Rangers (baseball)

The Texas Rangers are an American professional baseball team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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The A-Team

The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from January 23, 1983 to March 8, 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit.

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The Abyss

The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn.

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The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (founder, slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

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The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom television series that was aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons—159 in black and white and 90 in color.

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The Apartment

The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond.

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The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St.

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The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971.

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The Big Country

The Big Country is a 1958 American epic Western film directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, and Burl Ives.

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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe.

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The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating as original cast members of Saturday Night Live.

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The Bob Newhart Show

The Bob Newhart Show is an American sitcom television series produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978, with a total of 142 half-hour episodes over six seasons.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC.

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The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American indie teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964.

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The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)

The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American military trial film directed by Edward Dmytryk, produced by Stanley Kramer, and starring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Robert Francis, and Fred MacMurray.

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The Craft (film)

The Craft is a 1996 American teen supernatural horror film directed by Andrew Fleming from a screenplay by Peter Filardi and Fleming and a story by Filardi.

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The Day After

The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network.

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The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after fighting in the Vietnam War.

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The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore.

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The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers were an American rock duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.

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The French Connection (film)

The French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noirSilver & Ward 1992 action thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey.

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The Godfather Part III

The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo.

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The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Hunt Stromberg.

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The Greatest Show on Earth (film)

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Illustrated Man

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury.

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The Insider (film)

The Insider is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a screenplay adapted by Eric Roth and Mann based on Marie Brenner's 1996 Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

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The Jerry Springer Show

Jerry Springer, commonly referred to as The Jerry Springer Show, is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Jerry Springer.

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The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid is a 1984 American martial arts drama film written by Robert Mark Kamen and directed by John G. Avildsen.

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The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

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The Larry Sanders Show

The Larry Sanders Show is an American television sitcom set in the office and studio of a fictional late-night talk show.

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The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from the semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry.

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film starring Gary Cooper, directed by Henry Hathaway, and written by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, and Achmed Abdullah.

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The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.

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The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges.

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also known simply as Mary Tyler Moore) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress Mary Tyler Moore.

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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 Miracle of Morgan's Creek

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes, with Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell.

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The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom created by Bernard Slade, which was broadcast in the United States from September 25, 1970, to March 23, 1974, on ABC.

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The Patriot (2000 film)

The Patriot is a 2000 American epic historical drama war film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Robert Rodat.

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The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides is a 1991 American romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Barbra Streisand, from a screenplay written by Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston, based on Conroy's 1986 novel of the same name.

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The Princess Bride (film)

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Robin Wright.

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The Producers (1967 film)

The Producers is a 1967 American satirical black comedy film.

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The Right Stuff (film)

The Right Stuff is a 1983 American epic historical drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman and based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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The Searchers

The Searchers is a 1956 American epic Western film directed by John Ford and written by Frank S. Nugent, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May.

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The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by Lee Majors.

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The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

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The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins (or simply Smashing Pumpkins) is an American alternative rock band from Chicago.

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The Supremes

The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

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The Tall T

The Tall T is a 1957 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, and Maureen O'Sullivan.

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The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group from Detroit, Michigan, who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s to mid 1970s.

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The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Thin Red Line (1998 film)

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second film adaptation of the 1962 novel by James Jones, following the 1964 film. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, it portrays U.S.

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The Thing (1982 film)

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.

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The Third Man

The Third Man is a 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.

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The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has been broadcast on NBC since 1954.

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The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.

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The Verdict

The Verdict is a 1982 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, adapted from Barry Reed's 1980 novel of the same name.

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The Wachowskis

Lana Wachowski (born Larry Wachowski; June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (born Andy Wachowski; December 29, 1967) are American film and television directors, writers and producers.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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The Waltons

The Waltons is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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The West Wing

The West Wing is an American political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006.

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The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates.

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The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years is an American coming-of-age comedy television series created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Thelma & Louise

Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri.

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Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American writer, comedian, actress, and producer.

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Titanic (1997 film)

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron.

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Toastmasters International

Toastmasters International (TI) is a US-headquartered nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping people develop communication, public speaking, and leadership skills.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor.

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Tony Awards

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tootsie

Tootsie is a 1982 American satirical romantic comedy film directed by Sydney Pollack from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal and a story by Gelbart and Don McGuire.

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Toronto Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto.

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Toronto Raptors

The Toronto Raptors are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Toronto.

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Total Recall (1990 film)

Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, with a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, and Gary Goldman.

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Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film.

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Toy Story

Toy Story is a 1995 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

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Tress MacNeille

Teressa Claire MacNeille (born June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress, who has contributed to voice over work with credits including voicing Dot Warner on the animated television series Animaniacs and its revival, Babs Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures, Chip and Gadget Hackwrench on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and Daisy Duck in various Disney media since 1999.

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Tribune Tower

The Tribune Tower is a, 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Tucson, Arizona

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Twin Peaks

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Twinkie

A Twinkie is an American snack cake, described as "golden sponge cake with a creamy filling".

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Under Siege

Under Siege is a 1992 American action thriller film directed by Andrew Davis, written by J. F. Lawton, and starring Steven Seagal as a former Navy SEAL who must intercept a group of mercenaries, led by Tommy Lee Jones, after they commandeer the U.S. Navy battleship.

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Unforgiven

Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood.

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Unidentified flying object

An unidentified flying object (UFO), or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP), is any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.

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United Airlines Flight 93

United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

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United States Attorney General

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United States Congress

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The United States Military Academy (USMA), also referred to metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York.

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United States Navy SEALs

The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command.

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United States Postmaster General

The United States postmaster general (PMG) is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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United States Secretary of Agriculture

The United States secretary of agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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United States Secretary of Commerce

The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet.

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United States Secretary of Energy

The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession.

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United States Secretary of Labor

The United States secretary of labor is a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and as the head of the United States Department of Labor, controls the department, and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.

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United States Secretary of State

The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.

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United States Secretary of the Interior

The United States secretary of the interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.

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United States Secretary of the Navy

The secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department within the United States Department of Defense.

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United States Secretary of the Treasury

The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Secretary of Transportation

The United States secretary of transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation.

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United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

The United States secretary of veterans affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits, health care, and national veterans' memorials and cemeteries.

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Universe Championships

The Universe Championships are annual worldwide bodybuilding events organised by the British National Amateur Body-Builders' Association (NABBA).

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame (ND), is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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US Open (tennis)

The US Open Tennis Championships, commonly called the US Open, is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York.

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Utah Jazz

The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Vertigo (film)

Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Vice President of the United States

The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.

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Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands (Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog is a 1997 American political satire black comedy film produced and directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro.

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Wall Street (1987 film)

Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen.

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Wally Pipp

Walter Clement "Wally" Pipp Sr. (February 17, 1893 – January 11, 1965) was an American professional baseball player.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.

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Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect.

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Washington Capitals

The Washington Capitals (colloquially known as the Caps) are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. The Capitals compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference and are owned by Ted Leonsis through Monumental Sports & Entertainment.

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Washington Commanders

The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Washington Wizards

The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.

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Waukegan, Illinois

Waukegan is the most populous city in and the county seat of Lake County, Illinois, United States.

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Wayne's World (film)

Wayne's World is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris.

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Weather Underground

The Weather Underground was a far-left Marxist militant organization first active in 1969, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Wheaton, Illinois

Wheaton is a city in and the county seat of DuPage County, Illinois, United States.

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When Harry Met Sally...

When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron.

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White Zombie (band)

White Zombie was an American heavy metal band that formed in 1985.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman.

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Wilco

Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago.

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Will County, Illinois

Will County is a county in the northeastern part of the state of Illinois.

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William A. Dembski

William Albert Dembski (born July 18, 1960) is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian.

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William B. Ogden

William Butler Ogden (June 15, 1805 – August 3, 1877) was an American politician and railroad executive who served as the first Mayor of Chicago.

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William Christopher

William Christopher (October 20, 1932 December 31, 2016) was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1965 to 1968 and Father John Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H from 1972 to 1983 and its spinoff AfterMASH from 1983 to 1985.

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William Goldman

William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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William Hale Thompson

William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.

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William Holden

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.

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William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, orator, and politician.

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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 Schutz

William Schutz (December 19, 1925 – November 9, 2002) was an American psychologist.

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William Shockley

William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist.

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Willie Dixon

William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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Willis Tower

The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States.

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Wilmette, Illinois

Wilmette is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Wimbledon Championships

The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year is a 1942 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

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Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league based in the United States.

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Working Girl

Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Kevin Wade, and starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, and Melanie Griffith.

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World Bank Group

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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X (American band)

X is an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Zion, Illinois

Zion is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States.

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1920 Summer Olympics

The 1920 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; Spelen van de VIIe Olympiade; Spiele der VII.) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (Anvers 1920; Dutch and German: Antwerpen 1920), were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.

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1924 Summer Olympics

The 1924 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France.

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1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics (Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (Spelen van de IXe Olympiade), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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1932 Summer Olympics

The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as (Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held during the worldwide Great Depression, with some nations not traveling to Los Angeles as a result; 37 countries competed, compared to the 46 at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, and even then-U.S.

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1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics (Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (Spiele der XI.) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.

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1948 Summer Olympics

The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom.

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1952 Summer Olympics

The 1952 Summer Olympics (Kesäolympialaiset 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (XV olympiadin kisat), and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.

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1952 Winter Olympics

The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games (De 6.; Dei 6.) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, was a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 1952 in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

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1956 Summer Olympics

The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956.

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1960 Summer Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics (Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 (Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy.

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1964 Summer Olympics

The, officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.

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1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics (Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad (Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (México 1968), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico.

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1972 Summer Olympics

The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad and officially branded as Munich 1972 (München 1972), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.

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1976 Summer Olympics

The 1976 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad (Jeux de la XXIe Olympiade) and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (Montréal 1976), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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1984 Summer Olympics

The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad and officially branded as Seoul 1988, were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.

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1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympics (Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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1992 Winter Olympics

The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games (XVIes Jeux Olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Albertville '92 (Arpitan: Arbèrtvile '92), was a winter multi-sport event held from 8 to 23 February 1992 in and around Albertville, France.

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1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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1998 Winter Olympics

The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (長野1998), were a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, with some events taking place in the nearby mountain communities of Hakuba, Karuizawa, Nozawa Onsen, and Yamanouchi.

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2000 Summer Olympics

The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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2002 Winter Olympics

The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: Tit'-so-pi 2002; Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: Soónkahni 2002), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from February 8 to 24, 2002, in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics (2006 Olimpiadi invernali), officially the XX Olympic Winter Games (XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February in Turin, Italy.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.

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24 (TV series)

24 is an American action drama television series created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for Fox.

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See also

Lists of people from Illinois

• Chicago Women's Hall of Fame
• Illinois Miss Basketball
• Illinois Mr. Basketball
• List of Illinois suffragists
• List of LGBT people from Chicago
• List of commandants of the Illinois Country
• List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Illinois
• List of first women lawyers and judges in Illinois
• List of people from Arlington Heights, Illinois
• List of people from Aurora, Illinois
• List of people from Barrington, Illinois
• List of people from Belleville, Illinois
• List of people from Bloomington, Illinois
• List of people from Cairo, Illinois
• List of people from Carbondale, Illinois
• List of people from Champaign, Illinois
• List of people from Chicago
• List of people from Danville, Illinois
• List of people from Decatur, Illinois
• List of people from East St. Louis, Illinois
• List of people from Elgin, Illinois
• List of people from Elmhurst, Illinois
• List of people from Evanston, Illinois
• List of people from Galena, Illinois
• List of people from Galesburg, Illinois
• List of people from Glen Ellyn, Illinois
• List of people from Harvey, Illinois
• List of people from Highland Park, Illinois
• List of people from Hinsdale, Illinois
• List of people from Illinois
• List of people from Jacksonville, Illinois
• List of people from Joliet, Illinois
• List of people from Kankakee, Illinois
• List of people from Lake Forest, Illinois
• List of people from Naperville, Illinois
• List of people from Oak Park, Illinois
• List of people from Ottawa, Illinois
• List of people from Park Forest, Illinois
• List of people from Park Ridge, Illinois
• List of people from Peoria, Illinois
• List of people from Quincy, Illinois
• List of people from Rockford, Illinois
• List of people from Springfield, Illinois
• List of people from Urbana, Illinois
• List of people from Waukegan, Illinois
• List of people from Wheaton, Illinois
• List of people from Wilmette, Illinois

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Also known as People of Illinois.

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Dembski, William B. 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