| Neil Peart Neil Ellwood Peart () OC, (born September 12, 1952) is a Canadian musician and author. He is best-known as the drummer and lyricist for the rock band Rush.Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Canada (now part of St. Catharines) working the occasional odd job. Neil_Peart
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| Steam engine steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines (heat engines using boiling water to produce mechanical motion) have a long history, going back at least 2000 years. Early devices were not practical power producers, but more advanced designs producing usable power have become a major source of mechanical power over the last 300 years, enabling the industrial revolution, beginning with applications for mine water removal using vacuum engines. Steam_engine
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| Codex Seraphinianus The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing. Codex_Seraphinianus
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| Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous short story A Christmas Carol. It was the first animated holiday special ever produced specifically for television, and the only one until Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was first shown in December 1964. It later became the first episode of a TV series entitled The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, in which the Mr. Magoo character became an actor in dramatizations of various well-known stories. Mister_Magoo's_Christmas_Carol
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| Screen Actors Guild The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks toThe Guild was founded in 1933 in an effort to eliminate exploitation of actors in Hollywood who were being forced into oppressive multi-year contracts with the major movie studios that did not include restrictions on work hours or minimum rest periods, and often had clauses that automatically renewed at the studios' discretion. Screen_Actors_Guild
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| Chess endgame In chess, the endgame (or end game or ending) refers to the stage of the game when there are few pieces left on the board.The line between middlegame and endgame is often not clear, and may occur gradually or with the quick exchange of a few pairs of pieces. Chess_endgame
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| Risk-aware consensual kink Risk-Aware Consensual Kink (RACK, also Risk-Accepted Consensual Kink) is an acronym used by some of the BDSM community to describe themselves and their philosophies. It specifies that any activity between fully informed consenting adults is acceptable. Risk-aware_consensual_kink
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| Androgyny Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words ανήρ (anér, meaning man) and γυνή (gyné, meaning woman) that can refer to either of two related concepts about gender:masculine and feminine characteristics, as in fashion statements; or the balance of "anima and animus" in psychoanalytic theory. Androgyny
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| The Low End Theory The Low End Theory is the second album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on September 24, 1991 through Jive Records. With the pairing of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg's lyrics, at turns socially charged, abstract and concretely grounded in reality, with groovy jazz samples, the album includes guests Brand Nubian, Diamond D and Leaders of the New School, the original rap group of Busta Rhymes. The_Low_End_Theory
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| Joshua Waitzkin Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4 1976, New York City) is a chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994.He began playing the game at the age of six, having discovered it while wandering through Washington Square Park in New York City. Joshua_Waitzkin
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| Lie A lie (also called prevarication), is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others, often with the further intention to maintain a secret or reputation, protect someone's feelings or to avoid a punishment. Lie
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| Dita Von Teese Dita Von Teese (born September 28, 1972 in Rochester, Michigan) is an American burlesque artist, model and actress. Dita_Von_Teese
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| Queercore Queercore is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of punk. It is distinguished by a discontent with society in general and a complete disaproval of the gay and lesbian community and its "oppressive agenda." Queercore expresses itself in DIY style through zines, music, writing, art and film.As a musical genre, it may be distinguished by lyrics exploring themes of prejudice and dealing with issues such as sexual identity, gender identity and the rights of the individual; more generally bands offer a critique of society endemic to their position within it, sometimes in a light-hearted way, sometimes seriously. Queercore
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| List of winter festivals This is an incomplete list of festivals and holidays that take place during the winter in the northern hemisphere, especially those commemorating the season. Many festivals of light take place in this period since the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere is the Winter Solstice.Holidays are listed in chronological order under each heading. List_of_winter_festivals
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