Céline Marie Claudette Dion, OC, OQ (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian Grammy, Juno, and Oscar award-winning pop singer and songwriter. Dion became an adolescent star in Francophone Canada after her manager and future husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home in order to finance her career. She also gained recognition in parts of Europe and Asia by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, and established a foothold in the Anglophone music market with the release of her first English albu ...

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• Céline Dion - Biography
• Céline Dion - Childhood and career beginnings
• Céline Dion - 1990–1992: Career breakthrough
• Céline Dion - 1993–1996: Popularity established
• Céline Dion - 1997–1999: Worldwide success
• Céline Dion - 2000–2002: Career break
• Céline Dion - 2002–2003: Return to Music
• Céline Dion - 2003: 1 Fille & 4 Types
• Céline Dion - 2003–present: A New Day...Live in Las Vegas
• Céline Dion - Image
• Céline Dion - Other activities
• Céline Dion - Selected discography
• Céline Dion - Anglophone albums
• Céline Dion - Francophone albums
• Céline Dion - Notes

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This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). 1979 (MCMLXXIX) is a common year starting on Monday. 1979 - Events. 1979 energy crisis - occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution January 1 - United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "International Year of the Child." Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. January 1 - Sino-American relations: United States and ...

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• 1979 - February
• 1979 - March
• 1979 - April
• 1979 - May
• 1979 - June
• 1979 - July
• 1979 - August
• 1979 - September
• 1979 - October
• 1979 - November
• 1979 - December
• 1979 - Unknown dates
• 1979 - Births
• 1979 - Deaths
• 1979 - January-March
• 1979 - April-September
• 1979 - October-December
• 1979 - Fictional
• 1979 - Nobel Prizes
• 1979 - Templeton Prize

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1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. [1] 1989 - Events. January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola January 10 - Assistant Austra ...

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• 1989 - Events
• 1989 - February
• 1989 - March
• 1989 - April
• 1989 - May
• 1989 - June
• 1989 - July
• 1989 - August
• 1989 - September
• 1989 - October
• 1989 - November
• 1989 - December
• 1989 - Unknown Dates
• 1989 - Births
• 1989 - Deaths
• 1989 - January
• 1989 - February
• 1989 - March
• 1989 - April
• 1989 - May
• 1989 - June
• 1989 - July
• 1989 - August
• 1989 - September
• 1989 - October
• 1989 - November
• 1989 - December
• 1989 - Nobel Prizes
• 1989 - Templeton Prize
• 1989 - Right Livelihood Award

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The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of democracy, globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the Gulf War; popularization of Personal Computers and the Internet, leading to the .com boom. ...

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• 1990s - Technology
• 1990s - Science
• 1990s - War, peace, and politics
• 1990s - Economics
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• 1990s - Other significant events
• 1990s - People
• 1990s - World leaders
• 1990s - Entertainers
• 1990s - Films
• 1990s - Books & Literature
• 1990s - Sports figures

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Corey Haim - Early success. Haim first broke into mainstream acting playing the role of Larry in the Canadian family oriented comedy television series, The Edison Twins, which ran from 1982 through until 1986. Haim made his first theatrical appearance in the 1984 film, Firstborn, which also starred now well-known actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr. In 1985, Haim appeared in minor roles in Secret Admirer and Murphy's Romance (as Sally Field's son), and starred in th ...

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Corey Haim, Corey Haim - Early life, Corey Haim - Career, Corey Haim - Early success, Corey Haim - Teenage idol, Corey Haim - Career decline, Corey Haim - Current status, Corey Haim - Selected filmography, Corey Haim - Notes

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Seymour Cray began working in the computing field in 1950 when he joined Engineering Research Associates (ERA) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. There, he helped to create the ERA 1103, regarded as the first successful scientific computer. ERA eventually became part of UNIVAC, and started to be phased out. He left the company in 1960, a few years after some former ERA employees set up Control Data Corporation (CDC). He eventually set up a lab at his home in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, about 85 miles to the east. Cray left CDC in 1972 to form his own company, Cray Research, with research and development facilities in Chippewa Falls bu ...

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Cray Inc., Cray Inc. - The Cray Research years, Cray Inc. - The SGI years, Cray Inc. - Current status of Cray Inc., Cray Inc. - Financial troubles, Cray Inc. - Trivia, Cray Inc. - Computers

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The Canadian Football League (CFL; French: Ligue canadienne de football) is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football. It is considered to be the highest level of play in Canadian football. The league's top trophy, the Grey Cup, was donated by Governor General Earl Grey in 1909 to the team winning the Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada. Both the trophy and the championship game have become known as the Grey Cup. Since 1954, when the Ontario Rugby Football Union stopp ...

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• Canadian Football League - History
• Canadian Football League - Early history
• Canadian Football League - Attempts at expansion into the United States
• Canadian Football League - Popularity
• Canadian Football League - CFL vs. NFL Comparisons
• Canadian Football League - Format
• Canadian Football League - Teams
• Canadian Football League - Defunct teams
• Canadian Football League - CFL Commissioners/Presidents

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Cable and Wireless (LSE: CW.) is a British telecommunications company. In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications, merged into C&W in 1997). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, although their cable assets were sold to NTL in 2000. Cable & Wireless - History. Cable and Wireless traces its history back to a number of British telegraph companies founded in the 1860s, ...

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• Cable & Wireless - History
• Cable & Wireless - Current and historical markets
• Cable & Wireless - Recent events timeline
• Cable & Wireless - External link

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Burt Reynolds (born Burton Leon Reynolds February 11, 1936 in Waycross, Georgia) is an American actor. He may be best remembered as the "Bandit" in the 1977 hit film Smokey and the Bandit. Burt Reynolds - Biography. Reynolds was born to a half-Cherokee Indian father and a mother of Anglo-Saxon descent. After graduating from Palm Beach High School in Palm Beach, Florida, Reynolds attended Florida State University on a college football scholarship, becoming an all-star Southern Conference halfba ...

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• Burt Reynolds - Biography
• Burt Reynolds - Filmography
• Burt Reynolds - TV work

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Charles Ingram is an ex-British Army Major who made headlines in the United Kingdom when he cheated on the television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Despite later being convicted of conspiracy and deception, Ingram maintains he did not cheat. The show was recorded on September 10, 2001. Ingram won the £1,000,000 prize, but the payout was suspended when he was accused of cheating by having an accomplice (Tecwen Whittock) cough when he read out the correct answer. Following a trial at Southwark Crown Court lasting a ...

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Casa Loma, meaning "House on the Hill" is a Toronto tourist attraction. It was once the home of financier Sir Henry Mill Pellatt. It is on Austin Terrace, at the south end of Spadina Road on an escarpment above Davenport Road. Davenport runs along the bottom of the escarpment which was the shoreline of Lake Iroquois, the predecessor of Lake Ontario. Casa Loma has a superb view down the escarpme ...

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Brian Lenihan (November 17, 1930 - November 1, 1995) was a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician. In a long and distinguished political career he served as Minister for Justice (1964-1968), Minister for Education (1968-1969), Minister for Transport & Power (1969-1973), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973, 1979-1981 & 1987-1989), Minister for Forestry & Fisheries (1977-1979), Minister for Agriculture (1982) and Minister for Defence (1989-1990). Lenihan was a Senator in Seanad Éireann on two occasions (1957-1961 and 1973-1977 ...

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• Brian Lenihan - Minister for Education
• Brian Lenihan - Foreign Minister then loses Dáil seat
• Brian Lenihan - Opposition to then implementation of the Anglo-Irish Agreement
• Brian Lenihan - Liver Transplant
• Brian Lenihan - Presidential candidate
• Brian Lenihan - Challenge of John Wilson
• Brian Lenihan - The Lenihan tape
• Brian Lenihan - 'On mature recollection'
• Brian Lenihan - Padraig Flynn's attack on Mary Robinson
• Brian Lenihan - Out of Government
• Brian Lenihan - Death
• Brian Lenihan - Overview and Legacy
• Brian Lenihan - Brian Lenihan Memorial Lecture
• Brian Lenihan - Footnotes
• Brian Lenihan - Quotes
• Brian Lenihan - Additional Reading
• Brian Lenihan - Political Career

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This article is about the mid-20th century North American airline, not to be confused with the late 20th-century Capitol Air Lines. A different "Capital Airlines," formerly Brown Air International, operated in the United Kingdom 1983–1990. It is also the name of a charter and air ambulance service in Kenya. Capital Airlines was an airline serving the eastern United States which was merged into United Airlines in 1961. Its primary hubs were National Airport near Washington, DC and Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburg ...

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• Capital Airlines - History
• Capital Airlines - Predecessors
• Capital Airlines - Pennsylvania Central Airlines
• Capital Airlines - Capital's last decade

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Canada This article is part of the series: Politics of Canada Executive The Crown (Queen Elizabeth II) Governor General (Michaëlle Jean) Prime Minister (Paul Martin) Cabinet Legislative Parliament Senate Speaker of the Senate Government Leader in the Senate Opposition Leader in the Senate Canadian Senate divisi ...

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• Parliament of Canada - History
• Parliament of Canada - Composition
• Parliament of Canada - Procedure
• Parliament of Canada - Term
• Parliament of Canada - Legislative functions
• Parliament of Canada - Relationship with the Government
• Parliament of Canada - Powers
• Parliament of Canada - Privileges

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AstroTurf is a registered trademark of Textile Management Associates, applied to a particular kind of artificial turf. The term is sometimes used as a generic description of any kind of artificial turf. AstroTurf was invented in 1965 by employees of Monsanto and patented in 1967 under the name "Chemgrass." It was renamed AstroTurf after its first well-publicised use at the Houston Astrodome baseball stadium. The advantage of AstroTurf over grass turf is quite evident: an artificial turf requires minimal maintenance. It i ...

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At the Circus is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film in which they save a circus from bankruptcy. It is notable for Groucho Marx's classic rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady." Its co-stars include Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden, and Kenny Baker. Buster Keaton worked on the film as a gag man. His career was on the downside and he was forced to work for scale. His complex and sometimes belabored gags (recalled in the book Groucho, Harpo, Chico and sometimes Zeppo) did not work well with the Marx Brothers' ...

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The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known of the low-carbohydrate diets. It was created by Dr. Robert Atkins (1930-2003) and popularized in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Atkins updated some of his ideas, but remained faithful to the original concepts. The Atkins franchise (i.e., the business formed to provide products serving peopl ...

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• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Nature of the diet
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Phases
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Induction
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Ongoing weight loss
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Pre-maintenance
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Lifetime maintenance
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Popularity
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Criticism
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Views in favor of the diet
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Misconceptions about the diet
• Atkins Nutritional Approach - Reference

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The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark RI) was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, THE ROCK. Its ancestor, the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, was incorporated on February 7, 1851 and operated its first train on October 10, 1852. Once an acquisition target of the Union Pacific Railroad, the company went into receivership for its third and final bankruptcy in 1975. Attempts to reorganize failed, and the ICC o ...

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• Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Territory
• Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Passenger trains
• Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Song

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Asbestos (a misapplication of Latin: asbestos "quicklime" from Greek ἄσβεστος: a-, "not"; sbestos, "extinguishable") describes any of a group of fibrous metamorphic minerals of the hydrous magnesium silicate variety. The name is derived for its historical use in lamp wicks; the resistance of asbestos to fire has long been exploited for a variety of purposes. It was used in fabrics such as Egyptian burial cloths and Charlemagne's tablecloth, which, according to legend, he threw in a fire to clean. Asbestos occurs naturally in many forms (see ...

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• Asbestos - Types of asbestos
• Asbestos - Uses
• Asbestos - Serpentine group
• Asbestos - Amphibole group
• Asbestos - Asbestos-related diseases
• Asbestos - Asbestosis and cancer
• Asbestos - Other asbestos-related diseases
• Asbestos - Litigation
• Asbestos - Removal of asbestos
• Asbestos - Controversy

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Arrow Dynamics was a roller coaster design company based in Clearfield, Utah. In 2002, it went into bankruptcy and was acquired by S&S Power, another theme park ride designer. They constructed the world's first tubular steel track roller coaster, the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland. Not long before going bankrupt, they also constructed X, the first 4th-dimension roller coaster in the world, located at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It was one of the last roller coasters ever built by them. Some other works by Arrow are Gemini at Ceda

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