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| x Seven Samurai |
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Budo |
Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese film co-written, edited and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film takes place in Warring States Period Japan (around 1587/1588). It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire...
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| x Ronin |
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Samurai |
Ronin is a comic book limited series published between 1983 and 1984, by DC Comics. The series was written and drawn by Frank Miller with artwork painted by Lynn Varley. It takes place in a dystopic near-future New York in which a ronin is...
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| x Katana |
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Samurai |
A Japanese sword, or nihontō (日本刀 or にほんとう, lit. Japanese sword), is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan. These are categorised in several types according to size and method of manufacture. The most commonly known type is the katana,...
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| x Miyamoto Musashi |
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Samurai |
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵) (c. 1584–June 13 (Japanese calendar: May 19), 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke, or by his Buddhist name Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman and samurai famed for his duels and distinctive style....
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| x Le Samouraï |
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Samurai |
Le Samouraï (English title The Samurai) is a 1967 French minimalist crime drama/thriller film directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville. The film's protagonist Jef Costello is played by Alain Delon.
The story follows a perfectionist free...
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| x Thinking Machines |
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Frank Herbert |
The thinking machines are fictional intelligent machines from Frank Herbert's Dune universe. The human crusade against such artificial intelligence — known as the Butlerian Jihad — is an epic turning point in the back-story of the Dune universe. The...
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| x Max Rockatansky |
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Mel Gibson |
"Mad" Max Rockatansky, sometimes referred to as The Road Warrior, is the main character from director George Miller's Mad Max (franchise), appearing in the films Mad Max, Mad Max 2, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Max was played by actor Mel Gibson....
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| x Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan |
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was written, produced by, and stars the British comedian Sacha...
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| x Keith Henson |
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Scientology |
Howard Keith Henson (born 1942) is an American electrical engineer and writer on life extension, cryonics, memetics and evolutionary psychology.
In 1975, he and his then-wife Carolyn Meinel founded the L5 Society, which promoted space colonization...
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| x Kelo v. City of New London |
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Eminent domain |
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. The case arose from...
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| x Tokyo Express |
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World War II |
The Tokyo Express was the name given by Allied forces to the use of Imperial Japanese Navy ships at night to deliver personnel, supplies, and equipment to Japanese forces operating in and around New Guinea and the Solomon Islands during the Pacific...
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| x Christopher Langton | Artificial life |
Christopher Langton (1949- ) is an American computer scientist and one of the founders of the field of artificial life. He coined the term in the late 1980s when he organized the first "International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of...
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Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Qazaqstan, pronounced [qɑzɑqstɑ́n]; Russian: Казахстан [kəzɐxˈstan]), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is an Asian country which is ranked as the ninth largest country in the world. It is also the world's largest...
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| x Hello Kitty |
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Cute |
Hello Kitty (ハローキティ, Harō Kiti), is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. Designed by Ikuko Shimizu, the first product, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974, and in the United States in 1976.
The character is...
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| x Tribble |
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Cute |
Tribbles are fictional animals in the Star Trek universe who first appeared in the episode titled "The Trouble With Tribbles". They are depicted as small, soft, and gentle, and as producing a soothing purring sound. These traits are said to endear...
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| x Koala |
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Cute |
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a thickset arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae.
The koala is found in coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia, from near...
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| x Borat |
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Funny |
Borat Sagdiyev (Kazakh/Russian: Борат Сагдиев) (Titular name: "Воядт" Transliterated: "Voyadt") (born 17 February 1972) was a fictional character created and portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen. He is the eponymous protagonist of the movie Borat:...
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| x Steve Martin |
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Funny |
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer. He was raised in Southern California in a Baptist family, where his early influences were working at Disneyland...
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| x Jonathan Winters |
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Funny |
Jonathan Harshman Winters III (born November 11, 1925) is an American comedian and actor.
Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore (née Rodgers), a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He is...
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| x Knock-knock joke | Funny |
The knock-knock joke is a type of joke, probably the best-known format of the pun, and is a time-honoured "call and answer" exercise.
It is a roleplay exercise, with a punster and a recipient of wit.
The standard format has five lines:
Knock-knock...
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| x Pyroflatulence |
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Funny |
Fart lighting, variously referred to as fart-burning, blue-darting, blue flame, blue angel, flatus ignition, and pyroflatulence, is the practice of setting fire to the gases produced by human flatulence, often producing a blue hue. Other colors of...
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| x Kitten |
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Cute |
A kitten (Old English diminutive of cat) is a juvenile domesticated cat (Felis catus) that is not yet fully-grown.
The young of big cats are called cubs rather than kittens. Either term may be used for the young of smaller wild felids such as...
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| x Child |
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Cute |
A child (plural: children) is a human between the stages of birth and puberty. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. "Child" may also describe a relationship with a...
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| x Dartmouth College |
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Ivy League |
Dartmouth College (pronounced /ˈdɑrtməθ/) is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Incorporated as "Trustees of Dartmouth College," it is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded...
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| x Cornell University |
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Ivy League |
Cornell University (pronounced /kɔrˈnɛl/) is a private university located in Ithaca, New York, USA, that is a member of the Ivy League.
Cornell was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White as a coeducational, non-sectarian...
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| x Princeton University |
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Ivy League |
Princeton University is a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges.
Princeton University has traditionally...
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| x University of Pennsylvania |
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Ivy League |
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and is one of several...
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| x Harvard University |
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Ivy League |
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the...
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| x Brown University |
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Ivy League |
Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence...
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| x Columbia University |
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Ivy League |
Columbia University in the City of New York (commonly known as Columbia University) is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of...
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| x Yale University |
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Ivy League |
The Yale Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the Yale University. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, and twenty one in men's golf.
The...
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| x University of California, Berkeley |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley, and UC Berkeley) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the...
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| x Stanford University |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university was founded in 1885 by United States Senator and former...
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| x University of Southern California |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal) is a private, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA...
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| x University of California, Los Angeles |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was founded in 1919 and is the second-oldest general-purpose...
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| x University of Washington |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
University of Washington (UW, commonly pronounced UDub) was founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. UW is the largest university in the northwestern United States and one of the oldest public...
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| x Washington State University |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
Washington State University (WSU, commonly pronounced Wazzu) is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university...
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| x University of Oregon |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
The University of Oregon (UO) is a public, coeducational research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The second oldest public university in the state, UO was founded in 1876, and graduated its first class two years later. The University of...
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| x Oregon State University |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
Oregon State University (OSU) is a coeducational, public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees and a multitude of research opportunities. There are over...
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| x University of Arizona |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
The University of Arizona (also referred to as UA, U of A, or Arizona) is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university...
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| x Arizona State University |
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Pacific Ten Conference |
Arizona State University (also referred to as ASU, or Arizona State) is the largest public research university in the United States under a single administration, with total student enrollment of 68,064 as of fall 2009. ASU is spread across four...
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| x University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Big Ten Conference |
The University of Illlinois at Urbana-Champaign is a coeducational research university in the state of Illinois in the United States. It is the oldest and largest campus in the University of Illinois System. The university comprises 18 Colleges that...
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| x Indiana University Bloomington |
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Big Ten Conference |
Indiana University is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. It is also known as Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, or simply IU, and is located in Bloomington, Indiana.
Indiana University is among the top 100 universities in...
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| x University of Iowa |
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Big Ten Conference |
The University of Iowa (also known as U of I, UI, or just Iowa) is a public research university located in Iowa City, Iowa. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. The university...
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| x University of Michigan |
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Big Ten Conference |
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M, UM, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university located in the state of Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university, the flagship campus of the University of...
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| x Michigan State University |
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Big Ten Conference |
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862...
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| x University of Minnesota |
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Big Ten Conference |
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (known locally as the U of M or the U) is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system...
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| x Northwestern University |
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Big Ten Conference |
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university located primarily in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern is a comprehensive research institution consisting of eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools and colleges: the Judd...
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| x Ohio State University |
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Big Ten Conference |
The Ohio State University (OSU) is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the second largest university campus in the United States. Ohio State is currently ranked...
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| x Pennsylvania State University |
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Big Ten Conference |
The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related, land-grant, space grant public research university located in the University Park area and within State College and College Township in Pennsylvania, United States....
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| x Purdue University |
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Big Ten Conference |
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six campuses within the Purdue University System. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking...
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| x University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Big Ten Conference |
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison, Madison, or Wisconsin) is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became...
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| x National Book Award for Poetry | National Book Award |
The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens. No award for poetry was given 1985-90.
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| x Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Pulitzer Prize |
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.
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| x Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
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Pulitzer Prize |
The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.
This list is based on the website for the Pulitzer...
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| x Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Pulitzer Prize |
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.
From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect...
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| x Pulitzer Prize for History | Pulitzer Prize |
The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or...
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| x Pulitzer Prize for Music |
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Pulitzer Prize |
The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year. This was eventually converted into a full-fledged prize: "For a...
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| x Pulitzer Prize for Commentary | Pulitzer Prize |
The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary has been awarded since 1970. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award.
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