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Kylie Minogue
KYLIE MINOGUE Born: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 1968 Genre: Rock, Pop Best-selling album since 1990: Light Years (2001) Hit songs since 1990: "Better the Devil You Know," "Spinning Around," "Can't Get You Out of My Head" Kylie Minogue has managed to retain her status as an international pop... Read more |
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Barter Theatre
Barter Theatre (Abingdon, Virginia). In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, unemployed actor Robert Porterfield conceived the idea of establishing a theatre where impecunious playgoers could pay for tickets with foodstuffs in lieu of cash. A year later he opened his playhouse in Southwest... Read more |
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George Washington De Long
George Washington De Long , 1844-81, American arctic explorer, b. New York City, grad. Annapolis, 1865. In 1873 he was assigned to the Juniata, which was sent to the arctic to search for C. F. Hall 's expedition on the Polaris. In 1879, backed by the younger James Gordon Bennett and under the... Read more |
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Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett JohanssonNovember 22, 1984 • New York, New YorkActressWith her tousled blonde hair, full lips, and porcelain complexion, twenty-year-old Scarlett Johansson has become one of the hottest talents in Hollywood. In the mid-2000s her luminous features graced the cover of every fashion magazine,... Read more |
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Cepheid variables
Cepheid variables , class of variable stars that brighten and dim in an extremely regular fashion. The periods of the fluctuations (the time to complete one cycle from bright to dim and back to bright) last several days, although they range from 1 to 50 days. These stars are important because the... Read more |
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lottery
lottery scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g., the distribution of property among heirs.... Read more |
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Cibola
CIBOLA CIBOLA, an Indian name for the villages of the Zuni in what is now western New Mexico, rumored in the early sixteenth century to be fabulously wealthy. In 1539 the Spanish dispatched an expedition under Friar Marcos de Niza, guided by a Moorish man named Esteban. Esteban went ahead but was... Read more |
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Summer
summer the warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February. Recorded from Old English (in form sumor), the word is of Germanic origin, and is ultimately related to Sanskrit samā ‘year’.Summer... Read more |
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TICKE Y BOO-HOO: Sell-outs leave fans at agencies' mercy.(Features)
...fans weep. Tickets for all the...events of the year have been...internet ticket touts. The...pounds 97 tickets for the bash...pop pixie Kylie Minogue, Billy Connolly...There are no tickets left for...match ... |
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Music: V- V- V-Voooom!; Catch a dose of festival fever as V2001 turns up the...
...discomfort. This year, with Michael...the last 30 years. At V2001...funksters Red Hot Chili Peppers...for you, Kylie Minogue is playing...tomorrow. Day ticket pounds 38.50, weekend ticket ... |
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AIN'T CALF HOT MUN!(Features)
...week. The 22-year-old law student...decision to go ahead with silicone...High Street like Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell...currently in her final year at Cardiff University...dress, pounds 50 Green print dress...Tuesday from ... |