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Janet Farrar (born Janet Owen on June 24, 1950) is a British teacher and author of books on Wicca and Neopaganism. Along with her two husbands, Stewart Farrar and Gavin Bone, Farrar has published "some of the most influential books on modern Witchcraft to date"[1]. According to George Knowles, "some seventy five percent of Wiccans both in the Republic and North of Ireland can trace their roots back to the Farrar's [sic]"Including:

• Janet Farrar - Life
• Janet Farrar - Bibliography
• Janet Farrar - With Stewart Farrar
• Janet Farrar - With Stewart Farrar and Gavin Bone
• Janet Farrar - With Virginia Russell
• Janet Farrar - With Gavin Bone
• Janet Farrar - Notes and references

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David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950) is an American actor and musician who starred in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1974. He is the son of Irish Catholic actor Jack Cassidy and actress Evelyn Ward, who was of English Protestant descent. Prior to The Partridge Family, Cassidy appeared on Marcus Welby, M.D., The Mod Squad, Bonanza, and Ironside. When he started working on The Partridge Family nobody knew that he could sing, until Cassidy himself broug ...

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• David Cassidy - Discography Solo
• David Cassidy - Discography The Partridge Family
• David Cassidy - Filmography

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William Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an Academy Award winning American actor. Born in Washington, D.C., William Hurt is the stepson of Henry Luce III (the son of the founder of Time Magazine). Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was the Vice President of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several of the school plays. His high school yearbook predicted, "With characteristics such as these, you might even see him on Broadway." Hurt attended Tufts University and studied theology, but turned inste ...

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• William Hurt - Select Filmography
• William Hurt - External link

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Barry Sheene MBE (September 11, 1950 - March 10, 2003) was a legendary British motorcycle racer, winning several British and World Championships. He became the British 125 cc champion aged just 20, and finished second in the World Championships for that class a year later. A spectacular crash at Daytona in 1975 threatened to end his career, breaking his left thigh, right arm, collarbone and two ribs, yet he recovered and was racing again shortly afterwards. In 1976 he won five Grands Prix, bringing him the World C ...

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However, in 1998 the KMT, faced with no other credible candidates, did field him to challenge the then-incumbent Taipei mayor, Chen Shui-bian of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who was seeking re-election. His perceived honest and clean-cut image (and baby face appearance), as well as his Mainlander Chinese background in a city with a relatively high percentage of Mainlanders helped him win over Chen. In the 2000 Presidential Election, Ma remained loyal to the Kuomintang and supported its candidate Lien Chan over James Soo ...

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Ma Ying-jeou, Ma Ying-jeou - Personal background, Ma Ying-jeou - Rise in politics, Ma Ying-jeou - Mayorship, Ma Ying-jeou - Election to KMT Chairmanship, Ma Ying-jeou - Three-in-one election Dec 3 2005, Ma Ying-jeou - Personal

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Malcolm Blight played 179 games for the Kangaroos between 1974 and 1982 after being recruited from the Woodville Football Club in the SANFL. He was a member of the Kangaroos' Premiership sides in 1975 and 1977, and in 1978 won both the Brownlow Medal and the Syd Barker Medal for being the best and fairest player in the League and for North Melbourne respectively. Blight was a prolific goalkicker, known for his long goals and ability to kick the torpedo punt, finishing with 444 goals for his career. In 1982, Blight won the Coleman Medal for leading the VFL in goalkicking, and led the Kangaro ...

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Malcolm Blight, Malcolm Blight - AFL career, Malcolm Blight - Post playing career, Malcolm Blight - Coaching career, Malcolm Blight - Recognition, Malcolm Blight - Commentator

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Michael Whelan was born in Culver City, California, the son of William and Nancy Whelan. As a child, he had a nomadic existence, moving nearly every other year due to the demands of his father's aerospace industry career. He grew up in Colorado, several cities along the California coast, and in New Mexico (near the White Sands Proving Ground). Whelan's time near White Sands proved a lasting influence; in a 2000 interview, he noted that he couldn't "deny that living near to missile launching sites and Air Force bases had an impact. It was always thrilling to watch them go up.. ...

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Michael Whelan, Michael Whelan - Biography, Michael Whelan - Honors, Michael Whelan - Art collections, Michael Whelan - Other references

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The focus of Vassanji's work is the situation of Indians in East Africa. As a secondary theme, members of this community (like himself) later undergo a second migration to Europe, Canada, or the United Sates. Vassanji examines how the lives of his characters are affected by these migrations: "[the Indian diaspora] is very important...once I went to the US, suddenly the Indian connection became very important: the sense of origins, trying to understand the roots of India that we had inside us" (Kanaganayakam, p. 21). Vassanji looks at the rel ...

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M.G. Vassanji, M.G. Vassanji - Published work, M.G. Vassanji - Themes, M.G. Vassanji - Awards and honours, M.G. Vassanji - Reference, M.G. Vassanji - External link

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Ivan Hlinka was one of the greatest hockey players in Czechoslovak and Czech history. He was a big center and played a similar style as Phil Esposito, slamming in shots from the slot. Hlinka began to play ice-hockey very young. When he was six years old, he already played in a youth team in Litvínov. He played in Czechoslovak league for the first time when he was 16. At the age of 20, he became a captain of Litvínov team and played in the Czechoslovak national team for the first time. He played 256 games as a member of the Czechoslovak national team and scored 132 goals in international games. He also played in 544 game ...

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Ivan Hlinka, Ivan Hlinka - Playing career, Ivan Hlinka - Coaching career, Ivan Hlinka - Hlinka's death, Ivan Hlinka - Awards, Ivan Hlinka - Records, Ivan Hlinka - Career playing statistics, Ivan Hlinka - Career coaching statistics, Ivan Hlinka - Quotes about Hlinka, Ivan Hlinka - Quotes of Hlinka, Ivan Hlinka - External link

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Born in Quebec City, Gauthier was not one of the Bloc's better-known MPs but, after Lucien Bouchard resigned to become Premier of Quebec, Gauthier won the Bloc Québécois leadership election of 1996, defeating Francine Lalonde. The vote was conducted among members of the party's directorate rather than by all members of the party, and this hurt Gauthier's legitimacy. His lack of profile resulted in some opposition parties mocking Gauthier as being the "faceless leader" of the opposition, as he was largely a political unknown i ...

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Michel Gauthier, Michel Gauthier - Biography

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Orchestra Stories of Tonari no TOTORO, Original Edition ENCORE, Original Edition a string quartet"QUARTET" Piano Stories There are also numerous television and cinema soundtracks created by Joe Hisaishi which were never released for sale. Joe Hisaishi's catalogue has also been extensively bootlegged by Taiwan's popular bootleg labels EverAnime and Son May; none of the titles which are bootlegged are even out of print. ...

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Joe Hisaishi, Joe Hisaishi - Discography, Joe Hisaishi - DVDs, Joe Hisaishi - Scores released by Zen-On Music Company Ltd., Joe Hisaishi - External link

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Livnat was first elected to the Knesset in 1992 and served, among other duties, as Chairperson of the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women, the Subcommittee on Laws of Personal Status and the Parliamentary Committee for Investigating Murder of Women by their Spouses. After Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1996, Livnat was appointed as Minister of Communications. During her term, she attempted to increase competition in the Israeli communications sector by weakening and privatizing Bezeq ...

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Limor Livnat, Limor Livnat - Political Career, Limor Livnat - Personal Views

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Following his dismissal from Green Bay, Rhodes took over as the defensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins and then the Denver Broncos. After the 2002 season, Rhodes was reunited with Holmgren when he became the defensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks, where he has remained ever since. In September 2005, Rhodes was hospitalized for dizziness and tests later revealed that he had suffered from a mild stroke. [1] ...

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Ray Rhodes, Ray Rhodes - Playing years, Ray Rhodes - Assistant Coach Pt. 1, Ray Rhodes - Head Coach, Ray Rhodes - Assistant Coach Pt. 2, Ray Rhodes - Sources

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In 1976, McCallum won a seat in the Wisconsin State Senate. McCallum won the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 1982, but lost in the general election to incumbent William Proxmire. In 1986, McCallum ran for Lieutenant Governor on the Republican ticket with Tommy Thompson running for Governor. They served together for over a decade. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Thompson to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, making McCallum acting governor of Wisconsin. McCallum then selected State Senator Margaret Farrow of Pew ...

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Scott McCallum, Scott McCallum - Early life, Scott McCallum - Political career, Scott McCallum - Family, Scott McCallum - Electoral History

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Born in West Point, New York in 1950 to an affluent yet politically liberal former Military Academy football assistant coach and his wife, Mesereau graduated from Phillips Academy in 1969 and earned a 1973 bachelor's degree from Harvard University while both an active member of the Harvard boxing and football teams and as a Vietnam War protester. After a year in Washington D.C. as a Capitol Hill staffer, he earned a 1975 Master's Degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of California Hast ...

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Thomas Mesereau, Thomas Mesereau - Education and early career, Thomas Mesereau - The Robert Blake murder trial, Thomas Mesereau - The 2005 Michael Jackson child molestation trial, Thomas Mesereau - Legal service to the community, Thomas Mesereau - Private life, Thomas Mesereau - Trivia, Thomas Mesereau - Footnotes

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Wappel's social conservatism has caused him to be increasingly marginalized in the Liberal Party since 1993 (for example, he continues to regularly present anti-abortion petitions to Parliament). He was a vocal opponent of his government's plan to extend anti-discrimination protection to homosexuals in 1994, claiming that "Homosexuality is statistically abnormal, it's physically abnormal and it's morally immoral".[23] Some politicians and journalis ...

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Tom Wappel, Tom Wappel - 1988 election, Tom Wappel - Leadership candidate, Tom Wappel - Opposition MP, Tom Wappel - Government MP, Tom Wappel - External link, Tom Wappel - Electoral record, Tom Wappel - Notes and sources

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There he worked with Taylor on a large-scale survey for pulsars using the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. It was this work that led to the discovery of the first binary pulsar. In 1974, Hulse and Taylor discover binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 which is made up of a pulsar and black companion star. Neutron star rotation emits impulses extremely regular and stable in the radio wave region and is nearby condensed material body gravitation (non-detectable in the visible field). Hulse, Taylor, and other colleagues have used this first binar ...

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Russell Alan Hulse, Russell Alan Hulse - Early years, Russell Alan Hulse - Middle years, Russell Alan Hulse - Later years, Russell Alan Hulse - External link

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There he worked with Taylor on a large-scale survey for pulsars using the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. It was this work that led to the discovery of the first binary pulsar. In 1974, Hulse and Taylor discovered binary pulsar PSR B1913+16, which is made up of a pulsar and black companion star. Neutron star rotation emits impulses that are extremely regular and stable in the radio wave region and is nearby condensed material body gravitation (non-detectable in the visible field). Hulse, Taylor, and other colleagues have used this ...

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Russell Alan Hulse, Russell Alan Hulse - Early years, Russell Alan Hulse - Middle years, Russell Alan Hulse - Later years, Russell Alan Hulse - External link

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Solo albums Poirt An Phiobaire (1983) Ná Keen Affair (1997) Paddy Keenan and Paddy Glackin Doublin' (1978) Paddy Keenan and Tommy O'Sullivan The Long Grazing Acre (2004) ...

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Paddy Keenan, Paddy Keenan - The early years, Paddy Keenan - The dustbin and the Beatles, Paddy Keenan - A not-for-profit band, Paddy Keenan - A solo career, Paddy Keenan - Discography, Paddy Keenan - Sound Sample

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Gerald Brisco - Amateur career. Gerald Brisco grew up with five siblings and an absent father in Oklahoma. He followed his brother, the legendary Jack Brisco, into sport wrestling, and was eventually awarded an athletics scholarship to Oklahoma State after winning two AAU tournaments. During the spring break of 1968, Brisco was in Missouri with Jack, and was asked to substitute for his brother's injured tag team partner despite his lack of professional training. After Brisco contracted hepatitis and injured his knee, he decided to drop out of college and b ...

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Gerald Brisco, Gerald Brisco - Career, Gerald Brisco - Amateur career, Gerald Brisco - Professional career, Gerald Brisco - Profile, Gerald Brisco - Championships and accomplishments, Gerald Brisco - Championship succession, Gerald Brisco - External link

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