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Miss Universe 1977
Miss Universe 1977, the 26th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 16 July 1977 at the National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad and Tobago was crowned by Rina Messinger of Israel at the end of the event.
Miss Universe was then owned by Gulf+Western Industr... | {
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1882 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1882.
Events
January 2 – Oscar Wilde arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour sponsored by Richard D'Oyly Carte. He poses for iconic photographs in Napoleon Sarony's Manhattan studio.
April 9 – English poet and... | {
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F.I.S.Co.
F.I.S.Co.,(Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo) is an international festival that showcases examples of the convergence taking place across the contemporary arts (dance, theatre, performance, visual and plastic arts). F.I.S.Co. is conceived and created by Xing a cultural network based in ... | {
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1936 in art
The year 1936 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
February 15 – Exhibition Abstract and Concrete, curated by Nicolete Gray, opens at 41 St Giles', Oxford, prior to touring England. It is the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in the country.
May 27 – b... | {
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Jersey Shore Music Festival
The Jersey Shore Music Festival is an annual free-admission music event. Formally known as The Seaside Music Festival from 2008-2012. The first Jersey Shore Music Festival took place on May 17 and 18, 2013 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. The first annual event featured more than 240 bands i... | {
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1960 in science
The year 1960 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
August 11 – The return capsule of the U.S. Discoverer 13 Corona mission is successfully recovered from the Pacific Ocean, the first time any man-made object has been recovered succe... | {
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American Cinema Editors Awards 2011
61st ACE Eddie Awards
February 19, 2011
Feature Film (Dramatic):
The Social Network
Feature Film (Comedy or Musical):
Alice in Wonderland
The 61st American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards, which were presented on Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, honored the ... | {
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Anthony Grafton
Anthony Thomas Grafton (born 1950) is an American historian of early modern Europe and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize. From January 2011 to January 2012, he served as th... | {
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (season 4)
The fourth and final season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered on The CW on October 12, 2018 and ran for 18 episodes until April 5, 2019. The season stars Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch, a distraught young woman, dealing with the consequences of pleading guilty to attempted murder at the en... | {
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (season 4)
The fourth and final season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered on The CW on October 12, 2018 and ran for 18 episodes until April 5, 2019. The season stars Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch, a distraught young woman, dealing with the consequences of pleading guilty to attempted murder at the en... | {
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New Democratic Party candidates in the 2004 Canadian federal election
The New Democratic Party ran a full slate of candidates in the 2004 federal election and elected nineteen members to become the fourth largest party in parliament.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Avalon: Michael Kehoe
Bonavista—Exploits: Samuel McLean
Hu... | {
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Germany–Sweden relations
The relation between Germany and Sweden has a long historical background. The relationship is characterized by exchanges between the neighboring countries of the Baltic Sea in the 14th century.
Both countries are members of the European Union, United Nations, Organization for Security and Co-o... | {
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Rollen Stewart
Rollen Fredrick Stewart (born February 23, 1944), also known as Rock'n Rollen and Rainbow Man, is a man who was a fixture in American sports culture best known for wearing a rainbow-colored afro-style wig and, later, holding up signs reading "John 3:16" at stadium sporting events around the United State... | {
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1995 Toronto International Film Festival
The 20th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 7 and September 16, 1995. The Confessional by Robert Lepage was selected as the opening film and Devil In A Blue Dress by Carl Franklin was selected as the closing film.... | {
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Anna Maria Bunn
Anna Maria Bunn (1808–1889) was the anonymous author of The Guardian: a Tale (by an Australian) (1838), the first novel published on mainland Australia and the first in the continent by a woman. Bunn’s authorship was only established after an historian found a copy of the book in which her son had note... | {
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Anna Valentina Murch
Anna Valentina Murch (1948–2014) was a Scottish artist who studied at the Royal College of Art. Based in San Francisco, she was known for her award-winning public art installations.
Early life and career
Born in Scotland in 1948 to Lt. Cdr. Norman Robins Murch, RN, and Valentina Gardikova.
Gradu... | {
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Paul Bloodgood
Paul Bloodgood (1960 – May 4, 2018) was an artist and gallery owner who played an iconoclastic role in the New York art world for multiple decades. Bloodgood produced predominantly abstract paintings often relating to the works of earlier artists from Jackson Pollock to Paul Cézanne. He co-founded the ... | {
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Tracy Flick
Tracy Enid Flick is a fictional character who is the subject of the 1998 novel Election by Tom Perrotta and portrayed by Reese Witherspoon in the 1999 film adaptation of the same title. Tracy is a smart, ambitious high school student, whose quest to win a school election is nearly derailed by her own ruthl... | {
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1993 in the United States
Events from the year 1993 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) (until January 20), Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) (starting January 20)
Vice President: Dan Quayle (R-Indiana) (until January 20), Al Gore (D-Tennessee) (starting January 20)
... | {
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Ansel Wong
Ansel Wong (born 4 October 1945) is a Trinidadian cultural and political activist, who has been influential in many organisations particularly in the black community in the UK, where he has been based since the 1960s. He is the former Chair of the Notting Hill Carnival Board and founder of Elimu Mas Band. H... | {
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1928 in art
The year 1928 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
January 7 – The Tate Gallery, London, is flooded by the River Thames.
March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).
August – Ben Nicholson and Kit Wood visit St. Ives... | {
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Anna V. Jefferson
Anna V. Jefferson (May 7, 1926 – June 24, 2011) was an American politician from New York. She was the first African-American woman state senator in New York, in office from 1983 to 1984.
Life
She was born on May 7, 1926, in Columbia, South Carolina, the daughter of Maxie Jefferson and Viola Wallace ... | {
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Smith College Museum of Art
The Smith College Museum of Art (abbreviated SCMA), connected with the well-known Smith College, is a prominent art museum in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is considered to be one of the most impressive college museums in the country. The museum is best known for its remarkable compilatio... | {
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Touch the Sun (Australian TV series)
Touch the Sun is a series of television films commissioned by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1988 as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. It may have been intended that seven feature-length episodes were produced, one for each State, plus the Norther... | {
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1907 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1907.
Specific locations
1907 in Norwegian music
Events
May 27 – Bach House (Eisenach) opens in what is at this time believed to be the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, the first museum devoted to a single composer.
General Porf... | {
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96.7 FM
The following radio stations broadcast on FM frequency 96.7 MHz:
Argentina
Armonía in San Juan, San Juan
Cadena Space in Córdoba, Córdoba
LRI731 Centenario in Capitán Bermúdez, Santa Fe
Expedito in Joaquin V. González, Salta
Fortaleza de Jesús in Ingeniero Juárez, Formosa
Glaciar Argentino in Rosario, ... | {
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Michael Blum (artist)
Michael Blum (born 1966 in Jerusalem) is an artist using a variety of media, ranging from photography and video to books, installations, objects, text, printed matter.
He studied history at Paris University, photography at Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France, and later spent 2 year... | {
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Animal husbandry in Pakistan
Being a country that has a largely rural and agriculture-based industry, animal husbandry plays an important role in the economy of Pakistan and is a major source of livelihood for many farmers. It is estimated that there are between 30 and 35 million people in Pakistan's current labour fo... | {
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Ernesto Juan Castellanos
Ernesto Juan Castellanos is a Cuban freelance author, translator, educator, journalist, producer, filmmaker, and researcher who currently lives and works in Miami. Before moving to Florida in late 2011, Ernesto was a fixture in the Havana cultural scene, serving as the Cuban producer for conce... | {
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Noël Lee
Noël Lee (December 25, 1924 – July 15, 2013) was an American classical pianist and composer.
Born in 1924 in Nanjing, China, Lee studied music in Lafayette, Indiana, then attended Harvard University, studying with Walter Piston, Irving Fine, and Tillman Merritt and was also a student at the Longy School of M... | {
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Glenn D. Lowry
Glenn David Lowry (born September 28, 1954) is an American art historian and director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 1995. His initiatives there include strengthening MoMA's contemporary art program and guiding a $900 million capital campaign for the renovation, expansion, and... | {
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