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| Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two acts) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The opera has achieved great popularity and become an international staple. According to Opera America, it is the most frequently performed opera in the United States. Madama_Butterfly | |
| Fidel Castro Fidel_Castro | |
| Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the current Mayor of New York City. He was listed as the eighth-richest American, with a net worth of US $16 billion, in the Forbes 400 on Sept. 17, 2008, making him the richest resident of New York City, ahead of David H. Michael_Bloomberg | |
| Shakespeare authorship question The Shakespeare authorship question is the ongoing debate, first recorded in the early 18th century, about whether the works attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon were actually written by another writer, or a group of writers. Among the numerous candidates that have been proposed, major claimants have included Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, William Stanley (6th Earl of Derby), and Edward de Vere (17th Earl of Oxford), who, since first being proposed in the 1920s, has remained the most prevalent alternate authorship candidate. Shakespeare_authorship_question | |
| Colin Powell Talk:Colin_Powell | |
| Harold Washington Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922American lawyer and politician who became the first African American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987. Harold_Washington | |
| Kurdish language Kurdish (KurdishKurdî or کوردی) is the language spoken by Kurds in western Asia. Unlike many other languages it does not have a single standardized linguistic entity with the status of an official or state language. On the contrary, it is a continuum of closely related dialects that are spoken in a large geographic area spanning several national states, in some of these states forming one, or several, regional substandards (e.g., Kurmanji in Turkey; Sorani in northern Iraq). Kurdish_language | |
| Magnolia Magnolia | |
| United States presidential election, 1968 The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial United States presidential election. It was a wrenching national experience, conducted against a backdrop that included the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. United_States_presidential_election,_1968 | |
| All the King's Men All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1946. The novel's title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men. It was adapted for film in 1949 and 2006; the 1949 version won the Academy Award for Best Picture. All_the_King's_Men | |
| Charles M. Schulz Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip. Charles_M._Schulz | |
| Everleigh Club Everleigh Club was a high-class brothel which operated in Chicago, Illinois from February 1900 until October 1911. It was owned and operated by Ada and Minna Everleigh. Everleigh_Club | |
| Eunice Kennedy Shriver Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (born July 10, 1921) is a member of the Kennedy family and helped to found the Special Olympics in the 1960s as a national event. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.A., she is the fifth of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy (née Fitzgerald). Eunice_Kennedy_Shriver | |
| Superhero superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is "a fictional character of unprecedented powers dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes—ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas—have dominated American comic books and crossed over into other media. Superhero | |
| Gender identity disorder Gender identity disorder (GID) is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists and physicians to describe persons who experience significant gender dysphoria (discontent with the biological sex they were born with). It is a psychiatric classification and describes the attributes related to transsexuality, transgender identity, and transvestism. It is the diagnostic classification most commonly applied to transsexuals. Gender_identity_disorder | |
| Communitarianism Communitarianism, as a group of related but distinct philosophies, began in the late 20th century, opposing in its opinion exalted forms of individualism while advocating phenomena such as civil society. Not necessarily hostile to social liberalism or even social democracy, communitarianism emphasizes the need to balance individual rights and interests with that of the community as a whole, and that individual people (or citizens) are shaped by the cultures and values of their communities. Communitarianism | |
| Axis of evil Axis_of_evil | |
| Great white shark The great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, also known as great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is an exceptionally large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching lengths of more than and weighing up to , the great white shark is arguably the world's largest known predatory fish. It is the only surviving species of its genus, Carcharodon. Great_white_shark | |
| John McCain John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election.McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. John_McCain | |
| Fatal familial insomnia Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. The dominant gene responsible has been found in just 50 families worldwide; if only one parent has the gene, the offspring have a 50% chance of inheriting it and developing the disease. The disease's genesis and the patient's progression into complete sleeplessness is untreatable, and ultimately fatal. Fatal_familial_insomnia | |
| Psychosurgery For the Tourniquet album, refer to Psycho Surgery.Psychosurgery is a subset of neurosurgery (surgery of the brain) intended to modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes in cognition, with the intent to treat or alleviate severe mental illness. Psychosurgery | |
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and largely funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting. Historically, 15% to 20% of the aggregate revenues of all public broadcasting stations have been funded from Federal sources, principally through CPB. Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting | |
| Electroconvulsive therapy Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a well established, albeit controversial, psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Today, ECT is most often used as a treatment for severe major depression which has not responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment of mania (often in bipolar disorder), catatonia, schizophrenia and other disorders. Electroconvulsive_therapy | |
| National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR) is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to 797 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, signed into law by President Lyndon B. National_Public_Radio | |
| Cluedo Cluedo (; Clue in North America) is a deduction board game originally published by Waddingtons in Leeds, United Kingdom in 1949. It was devised by Anthony E. Pratt, a solicitor's clerk and part-time clown from Birmingham, England. It is now published by the United States game and toy company Hasbro, which acquired its U.S. Cluedo | |
| Invention An invention is a new configuration, composition of matter, device, or process. Some inventions are based on pre-existing models or ideas. Other inventions are radical breakthroughs which may extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience. Inventions that become common in usage are innovations, and may be a major breakthroughs, minor in their impact, or with an effect in between these two extremes. Invention | |
| The Phantom Edit The Phantom Edit is a fan edit of the movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, removing elements of the original film that were widely criticized. The purpose of the edit, according to creator Mike J. Nichols, was to make a much stronger version of The Phantom Menace based on the previous execution and philosophies of film storytelling and editing of George Lucas. The_Phantom_Edit | |
| Pluto Pluto | |
| One-child policy one-child policy (; literally "policy of birth planning") is the population control policy of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese government refers to it under the official translation of family planning policy. It officially restricts the number of children married urban couples can have to one, although it allows exemptions for several cases, including rural couples, ethnic minorities, and parents without any siblings themselves. One-child_policy | |
| Dream Dreams are a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is known as oneirology. Dream | |
| Tether propulsion Tether propulsion systems are proposals to use long, very strong cables (known as tethers) to change the velocity of spacecraft. The tethers may be used to initiate launch, complete launch, or alter the orbit of a spacecraft. Spaceflight using this form of spacecraft propulsion may be significantly less expensive than spaceflight using rocket engines.Some current tether designs use crystalline plastics such as ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, aramid or carbon fiber. Tether_propulsion | |
| Water tower Water_tower | |
| The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie.The Wind in the Willows was in its thirty-first printing when then-famous playwright, A. A. Milne, who loved it, adapted a part of it for stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. The_Wind_in_the_Willows | |
| Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 Austrian-American journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Billy_Wilder | |
| Ali G Ali G (AKA Alistair Leslie Graham) is a satirical fictional character invented and played by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Originally appearing on Channel 4's Eleven O'Clock show, Ali G was the title character of Channel 4's Da Ali G Show, original episodes of which aired on HBO in 2003-2004, and was the title character of the film Ali G Indahouse. Sacha Baron Cohen's character Ali G, alongside his Borat character, has been retired. Ali_G | |
| Sacha Baron Cohen Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English comedian, writer, and Golden Globe-winning actor most noted for his comic characters Ali G (an inner city youth chav from suburban Staines), Borat Sagdiyev (a Kazakh reporter), and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). Sacha_Baron_Cohen | |
| Lobotomy lobotomy (Greek:Lobe of brain, tomospsychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek leukosprefrontal cortex. Lobotomies have now fallen out of use, as doctors use various drugs and psychological therapies to treat mental health issues. Lobotomies were used mainly from the 1930s to 1950s to treat a wide range of severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders, as well as people who were considered a nuisance by demonstrating behavior characterized as, for example, "moodiness" or "youthful defiance". Lobotomy | |
| Henry Fonda Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. Henry_Fonda | |
| Nightmare A nightmare is a dream which causes a strong unpleasant emotional response from the sleeper, typically fear or horror, being in situations of extreme danger, or the sensations of pain, bad events, falling, drowning or death. Such dreams can be related to physical causes such as a high fever, turned faced down on a pillow during sleep (most often in the case of drowning nightmares), or psychological ones such as psychological trauma or stress in the sleeper's life, or can have no apparent cause. Nightmare | |
| Globalization Globalization (globalisation) is a term for the process by which local, regional or national phenomena become integrated on a global scale.Globalization is often used to refer to economic globalizationtrade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology. Globalization | |
| Caesarean section Caesarean section (or Cesarean section in American English), also known as C-section or Caesar, is a surgical procedure in which incisions are made through a mother's abdomen (laparotomy) and uterus (hysterotomy) to deliver one or more babies. It is usually performed when a vaginal delivery would put the baby's or mother's life or health at risk, although in recent times it has been also performed upon request for childbirths that could otherwise have been natural. Caesarean_section | |
| Colocation centre A colocation centre (collocation center) ("colo") or carrier hotel is a type of data centre where multiple customers locate network, server and storage gear and interconnect to a variety of telecommunications and other network service provider(s) with a minimum of cost and complexity. Most network access point facilities provide colocation. Colocation_centre | |
| James T. Kirk James_T._Kirk | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(TV_series) | |
| Hugo Chávez Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías () (born July 28, 1954) is the President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chávez promotes a political doctrine of participatory democracy, socialism and Latin American and Caribbean cooperation. He is also a critic of neoliberalism, globalization, and United States foreign policy.A career military officer, Chávez founded the left-wing Fifth Republic Movement after orchestrating a failed 1992 coup d'état against former President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Hugo_Chávez | |
| Lobbying Lobbying is the practice of influencing decisions made by government (in groups or individually). Lobbyists are articulating their interest in governments decisions by lobbying. They are also known to be assisting others to express their viewpoints on the decision making process. Lobbying | |
| Dan Aykroyd Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian- American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. Dan_Aykroyd | |
| San Francisco The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. San_Francisco | |
| Pat Robertson Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment Inc., Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University. Pat_Robertson | |
| Lust Lust (or lechery) is an inordinate craving for sexual intercourse often to the point of assuming a self-indulgent, and sometimes violent character. Lust, or an immoderate desire for the flesh of another (outside of matrimony), is considered a sin, or impure act, in the three major Abrahamic religions. Lust |
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