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| United States Constitution |
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Constitution | USS Constitution |
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1787, and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of ...
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| Martin Luther King, Sr. | Person | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. (December 19, 1899 November 11, 1984), born as Michael King and later known as "Daddy King", was a Baptist minister, an advocate for social justice, an early civil rights leader and the father of Martin Luther King,...
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| Martin Luther |
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Person | Martin Luther King, Sr. |
Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German monk, theologian, university professor, Father of Protestantism, and church reformer whose ideas influenced the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western civilization....
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Person | Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site |
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently...
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| Deceased Person | Martin Luther King Day | |||
| Influence Node | Martin Luther King Bridge | |||
| Musical Artist | Martin Luther King III | |||
| Author | Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial | |||
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| Florence |
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City/Town | Florence Nightingale |
Florence (Italian: Firenze, Florentia and Fiorenza) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany, and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of approximately 364,779.
The city lies on the...
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| Florence Nightingale |
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Person | Florence Nightingale Museum |
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (in her own pronunciation ; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering nurse, writer, and noted statistician.
Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper...
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| Deceased Person | USS Florence Nightingale | |||
| Influence Node | Florence Nightingale David | |||
| Namesake | Florence Nightingale Effect | |||
| NNDB Person | Florence Nightingale | |||
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| Amelia Bloomer |
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Person | Bloomers |
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818—December 30, 1894) was an American women's rights and temperance advocate. She created the "Loose Bloomer" for women's comfort.
Bloomer came from a family of modest means and received only a few years of formal...
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| Deceased Person | Amelia Bloomer Project | |||
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| James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan |
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Person | Cardigan |
Lieutenant General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, KCB (16 October, 1797 – 28 March, 1868) commanded the Light Brigade of the British Army during the Crimean War.
James Brudenell was born in Hambleden, Buckinghamshire and brought up...
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| Roald Dahl |
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Film writer | Roald Dahl Plass |
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novel, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian parents, who rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world...
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| Person | Roald Dahl Children's Gallery | |||
| Author | Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre | |||
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| Roald Amundsen |
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Person | Roald Dahl |
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , (July 16, 1872 – c. June 18, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar region. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He was also the first person to reach both the...
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| Deceased Person | Amundsen Sea | |||
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| T'Pau |
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Fictional Character | T'Pau |
T'Pau is a Vulcan who appears in the original ''Star Trek'' and Star Trek: Enterprise. Celia Lovsky played the character in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Amok Time", while Kara Zediker portrayed T'Pau in the 2004 Enterprise episodes "Awakening" and ...
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| Linus Torvalds |
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Person | Linux |
Linus Benedict Torvalds (; ; born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux operating system, and now...
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| They Might Be Giants |
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Film | They Might Be Giants |
They Might Be Giants is a 1971 film based on the Broadway play of the same name (both written by James Goldman) starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward.
Justin Playfair (Scott) is a millionaire who retreats into fantasy after the death of his...
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| Alexander the Great |
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Person | Alexandria |
Alexander the Great (Greek: or , Megas Alexandros; July 20, 356 BC June 10 or June 11, 323 BC), also known as Alexander III of Macedon (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Γ' ο Μακεδών) was an ancient Greek king (basileus) of Macedon (336–323 BC). He was one of the...
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| Deceased Person | Alexandria Eschate | |||
| Influence Node | Iskandariya | |||
| Art Subject | Alexandria Asiana | |||
| Person Or Being In Fiction | Alexandria in Ariana | |||
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| Julius Caesar |
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Person | July |
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Gaius Julius Caesar ( in Classical Latin, and later ; conventionally in English), July 13, 100 BC – March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the...
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| Durand Durand | Fictional Character | Duran Duran | ||
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| Thor |
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Deity | Thursday |
Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Germanic paganism and its subset Norse paganism. The god is also recorded in Old English as Þunor, Old Saxon as Thunaer, as Old Dutch and Old High German: Donar, all of which are...
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| Romulus and Remus |
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Person | Rome |
Romulus (c. 771 BC–c. 717 BC) and Remus (c. 771 BC–c. 753 BC) are the traditional founders of Rome, appearing in Roman mythology as the twin sons of the priestess Rhea Silvia, fathered by the god of war, Mars. According to the tradition recorded as...
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| Deceased Person | French ship Romulus | |||
| Roman mythology | Romulus | |||
| Doug Anthony |
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Person | Doug Anthony All Stars |
John Douglas Anthony, AC, CH (born 31 December 1929), was an Australian politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 1971 to 1972 and from 1975 to 1983 and leader of the Country Party from 1971 to 1984.
Anthony was born in Murwillumbah in northern...
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| Cirith Ungol |
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Fictional Setting | Cirith Ungol |
Cirith Ungol is a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth in his fantasy work The Lord of the Rings. The name is Sindarin for Spider's Cleft, or Pass of the Spider; it is the pass through the western mountains of Mordor...
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| Monty Python |
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Musical Artist | Python |
Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the six creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. A total of 45 episodes were made over four series ...
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| Matmos | Fictional Setting | Matmos |
Matmos is a seething lake of evil slime beneath the city Sogo, in the film Barbarella.
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| The Velvet Underground | Book | The Velvet Underground |
The Velvet Underground is a paperback by journalist Michael Leigh that reports on sexual paraphilia in the USA, published in September, 1963.
Cover text: Here is an incredible book. It will shock and amaze you. But as a documentary on the sexual...
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| Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl |
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Film | Xiu Xiu |
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl is a 1998 Chinese film directed by actress Joan Chen based during the 1970s in People's Republic of China, during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by Mao for political reasons.
The...
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| Parable of the Pearl |
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Perl |
The Parable of the Pearl or the Pearl of Great Price is a parable told by Jesus in explaining the value of the Kingdom of Heaven, according to Matthew . Other uses of this title refer to this parable.
From the Gospel of Matthew (KJV):From the ...
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| Mos Eisley | Fictional Setting | Eisley |
Mos Eisley is a spaceport town on the planet Tatooine in the fictional Star Wars universe. In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi described Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." It is also the home of the Mos Eisley...
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| Orodruin |
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Fictional Setting | Amon Amarth |
Orodruin, or Mount Doom, is a fictional volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe. Located in the heart of the black land of Mordor and approximately 4,500 feet (1.4 km) high, it is the site where the One Ring was originally forged by the...
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| Ephel Dúath | Fictional Setting | Ephel Duath |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, the Ephel Dúath or Mountains of Shadow are a range of mountains that guard Mordor's western and southern borders. Their Sindarin name means literally "outer fences of dark shadow". They meet the...
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| Narnia |
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Fictional Setting | Narnia |
Narnia is a fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as the primary location for his series of seven fantasy novels for children, The Chronicles of Narnia. The world is so called after the country of Narnia, in which much of the action of the Chronicles...
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| Gorgoroth | Fictional Setting | Gorgoroth |
Gorgoroth, also called the Plateau of Gorgoroth, is a place in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. It is a plateau in north-western Mordor in the midst of which stands the volcanic Mount Doom. To the northeast of Mount Doom upon a...
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| Eudora Welty |
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Person | Eudora |
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13 1909 – July 23 2001) was an award-winning American author and photographer who wrote about the American South.
Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and lived a significant portion of her life in the city's Belhaven...
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| H. P. Lovecraft |
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Film writer | H. P. Lovecraft |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was a American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is...
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| Person | H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society | |||