Chennai's culture reflects its diverse population. The city is known for its classical dance shows and Hindu temples. Every December, Chennai holds a five week-long Music Season, which has been described as one of the world's largest cultural events. The Music Season encompasses performances (kutcheries) of traditional Carnatic music by hundreds of artists in and around the city. Chennai is also known for the classical Indian dance, the Bharatanatyam, which is also the official dance of Tamil Nadu. An important cultural centre for Bharatanatyam is Ka ...

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Chennai, Chennai - History, Chennai - Geography, Chennai - Climate, Chennai - Layout, Chennai - Administration, Chennai - Economy, Chennai - Demographics, Chennai - Culture, Chennai - Tourism, Chennai - Transport, Chennai - Media, Chennai - Education, Chennai - Sports

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Castro is an atheist and has not been a practicing Roman Catholic since his childhood. Pope John XXIII excommunicated Castro on January 3, 1962 on the basis of a 1949 decree by Pope Pius XII forbidding Catholics from supporting communist governments. For Castro, who had previously renounced his Catholic faith, this was an event of very little consequence, nor was it expected to be otherwise. It was primarily aimed at underm ...

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Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro - Early life, Fidel Castro - Attack on Moncada Barracks, Fidel Castro - Life as a guerilla, Fidel Castro - Early years in power, Fidel Castro - Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro - October Crisis, Fidel Castro - Relations with the outside world, Fidel Castro - Remaining as president, Fidel Castro - Criticisms of the United States, Fidel Castro - Religion, Fidel Castro - Human rights in Cuba, Fidel Castro - Popular image, Fidel Castro - Family and health, Fidel Castro - Castro in arts

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In the UK Virgin Mobile was launched as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator in November 1999, and has over 5 million customers. Virgin Mobile - Costs. Standard tariff 15p a minute for the first 5 minutes of calls each day, and then 5p a minute after that to all standard UK calls, and calls to other Virgin phones. To other mobile networks, the rate is 35p per minute. As with all other UK operators, calls are free to receive. SMS messages are 3p to other Virgin pho ...

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Virgin Mobile, Virgin Mobile - Virgin Mobile UK, Virgin Mobile - Costs, Virgin Mobile - Virgin Mobile USA, Virgin Mobile - Costs, Virgin Mobile - Text messages, Virgin Mobile - Wireless data, Virgin Mobile - List of phones, Virgin Mobile - Virgin Mobile Australia, Virgin Mobile - Costs, Virgin Mobile - Virgin Mobile Canada, Virgin Mobile - Costs, Virgin Mobile - Wireless data, Virgin Mobile - List of phones

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The first official UPN network programming was the series Star Trek: Voyager. Other early UPN programs included the action show Nowhere Man starring Bruce Greenwood, the action show Marker starring Richard Grieco, the action comedy Legend starring Richard Dean Anderson, the science-fiction themed action show, The Sentinel, and Moesha, a sitcom starring Brandy Norwood. After Voyager's 7-season run came to an end, UPN began broadcasting the newest Star Trek spin-off, Star Trek: ...

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UPN, UPN - History, UPN - Programming, UPN - Children's Programming, UPN - Television movies, UPN - Notes

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A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term generally applies to plants at least 6 m (20 ft) high at maturity and, more importantly, having secondary branches supported on a single main stem or trunk (see shrub for comparison). Compared with most other plant forms, trees are long-lived. A few species of trees grow to 100 m tall, an ...

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• Tree - Classifications
• Tree - Morphology
• Tree - Champion trees
• Tree - Major tree genera
• Tree - Flowering plants Magnoliophyta; angiosperms
• Tree - Conifers Pinophyta; softwood trees
• Tree - Ginkgos Ginkgophyta
• Tree - Cycads Cycadophyta
• Tree - Ferns Pterophyta
• Tree - Life stages
• Tree - Bibliography

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During the series, George had a number of recurring fears and obsessions, including baseball, pretending to be financially successful, contracting lupus, and trying to seduce Marisa Tomei behind his fiancée’s back. George's professional life was unstable. He was unable to remain in any job for any great length of time before making an embarrassing blunder and getting fired. Over the course of the series, he worked for the New York Yankees, an industrial smoothing company, and countless other places. He was fired from his job at Pen ...

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George Costanza, George Costanza - Life, George Costanza - Pseudonyms, George Costanza - George Costanza moments, George Costanza - Jobs held by George Costanza, George Costanza - Jobs George Constanza falsely claimed to hold, George Costanza - Pop Culture

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Some educators criticized the show when it debuted, feeling that it would only worsen children's attention spans. This concern still exists today, although there is no conclusive proof of this being the case, even after more than 35 seasons of televised shows. In a letter to the Boston Globe, Boston University professor of education Frank Garfunkel commented "If what people want is for their children to memorize numbers and letters without regard to their meaning or use -- without regard to the differences between children, the ...

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Sesame Street, Sesame Street - Overview, Sesame Street - History of the show, Sesame Street - Broadcast history, Sesame Street - Ratings, Sesame Street - Characters, Sesame Street - The Muppets, Sesame Street - The humans, Sesame Street - Cast and crew, Sesame Street - Regional variations of the show, Sesame Street - Research, Sesame Street - Healthy Habits for Life, Sesame Street - Elmo's effect on the series, Sesame Street - Merchandising, Sesame Street - Internationally, Sesame Street - Movies videos and specials, Sesame Street - Television specials and telefilms, Sesame Street - Feature films, Sesame Street - Videos, Sesame Street - Criticism, Sesame Street - Rumors, Sesame Street - Trivia, Sesame Street - Notes

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Fish, seafood and meat are prominent parts of any traditional Danish dish. Fish consumption is still high, although it has dropped in recent years. The most commonly eaten fish and seafood are: Cod (torsk), a common white fish in general food preparation (baked, steamed, fried). It is also dried (klipfisk). Prices have risen in recent years, making this once-favorite fish drop down the list. It has mainly been replaced by other white fish, such as haddock and ling. Langoustine (jomfruhummer)< ...

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Cuisine of Denmark, Cuisine of Denmark - Influence from abroad, Cuisine of Denmark - Eating out, Cuisine of Denmark - Breakfast Morgenmad, Cuisine of Denmark - Lunch Frokost, Cuisine of Denmark - Pålæg and smørrebrød, Cuisine of Denmark - Det kolde bord, Cuisine of Denmark - Christmas lunch the Julefrokost, Cuisine of Denmark - Dinner Aftensmad, Cuisine of Denmark - Welcome drink, Cuisine of Denmark - Appetizer, Cuisine of Denmark - Soups, Cuisine of Denmark - Main dishes Hovedretter, Cuisine of Denmark - Traditional main course dishes, Cuisine of Denmark - Vegetables salads, Cuisine of Denmark - The indispensable potato, Cuisine of Denmark - Sauces and condiments, Cuisine of Denmark - Dairy products and eggs, Cuisine of Denmark - Seasonings and herbs, Cuisine of Denmark - Fruit, Cuisine of Denmark - Drinks, Cuisine of Denmark - Desserts, Cuisine of Denmark - Baked goods, Cuisine of Denmark - Confections, Cuisine of Denmark - The new Danish cuisine

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A tree is a plant form and trees occur in many different orders and families of plants. Trees thus show a wide variety of growth form, leaf type and shape, bark characteristics, reproductive structures, etc. The earliest trees were tree ferns and horsetails, which grew in vast forests in the Carboniferous Period; tree ferns still survive, but the only surviving horsetails are not of tree form. Later, in the Triassic Period, conifers, ginkgos, cycads and other gymnosperms appeared, and subsequently flowering plants in the Cretaceous Pe ...

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Tree, Tree - Classifications, Tree - Morphology, Tree - Champion trees, Tree - Major tree genera, Tree - Flowering plants Magnoliophyta; angiosperms, Tree - Conifers Pinophyta; softwood trees, Tree - Ginkgos Ginkgophyta, Tree - Cycads Cycadophyta, Tree - Ferns Pterophyta, Tree - Life stages, Tree - Bibliography

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The cuatro of Venezuela has four single nylon strings, tuned from low to high A,D, F#, B. It is similar in shape and tuning to the 'ukulele, but their character and playing technique are vastly different. It is tuned in a similar fashion to the traditional D tuning of the 'ukulele, but the D and F# are an octave higher. Consequently, the same fingering can be used to shape the chords, but it produces a different inversion of each chord ...

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Cuatro, Cuatro - The Venezuelan Cuatro, Cuatro - History, Cuatro - Playing, Cuatro - Tuning, Cuatro - The 'venezuelan' cuatro in other countries, Cuatro - Some famous venezuelan cuatro players, Cuatro - The Cuatros of Puerto Rico, Cuatro - The 4-string Cuatro Antiguo, Cuatro - The 8-String Southern Cuatro, Cuatro - The 10-String The Cuatro Moderno, Cuatro - Cuatros shapes and sizes

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For a full listing of albums and singles, see Jackson 5 discography. The Jackson 5 - Top Ten US and UK singles. The following singles reached the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Singles Chart, or #1 on the Billboard R&B singles chart: (all Motown releases) (all CBS releases) The Jackson 5 - Albums. (all Motown releases) 1969: Diana Ross Presents the Jackson ...

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The Jackson 5, The Jackson 5 - History, The Jackson 5 - Early career, The Jackson 5 - Influences, The Jackson 5 - Joining Motown, The Jackson 5 - Jackson 5 discovery credit discrepancy, The Jackson 5 - Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5, The Jackson 5 - Popularization and franchise expansion, The Jackson 5 - Relationships and marriages, The Jackson 5 - Decline, The Jackson 5 - The move to CBS Records, The Jackson 5 - The 1980s and Michael's solo career, The Jackson 5 - Post-history and followers, The Jackson 5 - Miniseries, The Jackson 5 - Personnel, The Jackson 5 - Members, The Jackson 5 - Band personnel, The Jackson 5 - Discography, The Jackson 5 - Top Ten US and UK singles, The Jackson 5 - Albums, The Jackson 5 - Notes

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Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living at the time of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837 - 1901) in particular, and to the moral climate of Great Britain throughout the 19th century in general. It is not tied to this historical period and can describe any set of values that espouses sexual repression, low tolerance of crime, and a strong social ethic. Historians now regard the Victorian era as a time of many contradictions. A plethora of social movements concerned with improving public morals co-exis ...

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• Victorian morality - Historical background
• Victorian morality - Victorian morality
• Victorian morality - Notes

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Dickens' writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery — he calls one character the "Noble Refrigerator" — are wickedly funny. Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens' flights of fancy which can sum up situations better than any simple description. The characters are among the most memorable in English literature — certainly their names are. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin, Mrs Gamp ...

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Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens - Life, Charles Dickens - Literary style, Charles Dickens - Legacy, Charles Dickens - Adaptations of Dickens readings, Charles Dickens - Dickens museums and festivals, Charles Dickens - Bibliography, Charles Dickens - Major novels, Charles Dickens - Selected other books, Charles Dickens - Short stories, Charles Dickens - Essays, Charles Dickens - Articles

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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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The culture of Ethiopia is very multi-faceted. Among many traditions, respect (especially of one's elders) is very important. In Ethiopian culture it is customary to rise up out of one's seat or give up one's bed for an older friend or family member, even if they may be just a year older. Culture of Ethiopia - Art. Culture of Ethiopia - Music. Main article: Music of Ethiopia Cuisine of Ethiopia, Music of Ethiopia, Islam in Ethiopia, ...

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• Culture of Ethiopia - Art
• Culture of Ethiopia - Music
• Culture of Ethiopia - Clothing
• Culture of Ethiopia - Cuisine
• Culture of Ethiopia - Sports
• Culture of Ethiopia - Media
• Culture of Ethiopia - Language
• Culture of Ethiopia - Religion
• Culture of Ethiopia - Notes

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Robertson Davies - Early life. Growing up, Davies was surrounded by books and language. His father, Senator William Rupert Davies, was a newspaperman, and both his parents were voracious readers. He, in turn, read everything he could. He also participated in theatrical productions as a child, where he developed a lifelong interest in drama. He attended Upper Canada College in Toronto from 1926 to 1932 and then studied at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 1932 until 1935. At Queen's he was enroll ...

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Robertson Davies, Robertson Davies - Biography, Robertson Davies - Early life, Robertson Davies - Middle years, Robertson Davies - The 1960s, Robertson Davies - The 1970s, Robertson Davies - The 1980s and 1990s, Robertson Davies - Awards and recognition, Robertson Davies - Bibliography, Robertson Davies - Essays, Robertson Davies - Novels, Robertson Davies - Short stories, Robertson Davies - Plays, Robertson Davies - Libretto, Robertson Davies - Letters, Robertson Davies - Collections

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In the Wiccan form of neopaganism, a Sabbat is one of the eight major seasonal festivals which make up the Wheel of the Year. These include the solstices and equinoxes, and four additional festivals sometimes referred to as the "cross-quarter days". The word derives from Old English "sabat", from Old French "sabbat", from Latin "sabbatum", from Greek "sabbaton" (or sa`baton), from Hebrew "shabbat" - to cease or rest - the same roots as "Sabbath (christian)" or "Shabbat (judaism)". See also "sabbath". The word appears in the wri ...

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• Sabbat neopaganism - Cross-quarter points on the Gregorian and astrological calendars

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Cornwall - Language. The Cornish language is closely related to Welsh and Breton, and less so to Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx. It continued as a living Celtic language until 1777 and the death of Dolly Pentreath, the last person thought to have used only the Cornish language (although this is disputed on a number of counts). The publication of Henry Jenner's "Handbook of the Cornish Language" in 1904 caused a resurgence of interest in the Cornish language. The subsequent revival gathered pace during the twentieth ...

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Cornwall, Cornwall - History, Cornwall - Physical geography, Cornwall - Politics, Cornwall - Flag, Cornwall - Demographics, Cornwall - Economy, Cornwall - Tourism, Cornwall - Industry, Cornwall - Culture, Cornwall - Language, Cornwall - Cornish studies and literary references, Cornwall - Religion, Cornwall - Music and festivals, Cornwall - Sports and games, Cornwall - Food, Cornwall - Settlements, Cornwall - Transport, Cornwall - Places of interest

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VH-1's popularity and clearance (number of cable systems carrying the channel) was minimal until the fledgling network was acquired by Viacom (along with MTV, Nickelodeon, and Showtime) and placed into the MTV Networks stable. In 1994, in a bid to make itself more noticeable, VH-1 started to market itself as the "new VH1: Music First," and dropping the hyphen from its official name, and introduced its new "Big 1" logo. It altered its format slightly from adult contemporary (AC) to adult top 40, now including musicians such as Ace of Base, Me ...

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VH1, VH1 - Overview, VH1 - Sister Channels, VH1 - International Channels, VH1 - VH1 Australia, VH1 - VH1 Brazil, VH1 - VH1 Europe, VH1 - VH-1 Germany, VH1 - VH1 India, VH1 - VH1 Latin America, VH1 - VH1 UK, VH1 - VH1 Indonesia, VH1 - VH1 Thailand, VH1 - Popular VH1 Programs

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Walpurgis Night (Valborgsmässoafton in Swedish, Vappu in Finnish, Volbriöö in Estonian, Valpurģu nakts or Valpurģi in Latvian, Walpurgisnacht in German) is a holiday celebrated on April 30 or May 1, in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Germany. Walpurgis Night - Origins. The festival is named after Saint Walburga (known in Scandinavia as "Valborg"; alternative forms are "Walpurgis", "Wealdburg", or "Valderburger"), born in Wessex in 710 a niece of Saint Boni ...

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• Walpurgis Night - Origins
• Walpurgis Night - Germany
• Walpurgis Night - Sweden and Finland
• Walpurgis Night - References in modern culture

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Family Guy often includes references to pop culture. The following television series and movies, and even a video game, have been referenced on the series: The A-Team According to Jim The Age of Innocence ALF Alien vs. Predator All in the Family Airport 1975 Andy Capp The Bachelorette Back to the Future Batman TV Series Behind the Music Ben-Hur Beverly Hills 90210 Bewitched Bewitche ...

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Family Guy, Family Guy - Characters, Family Guy - Structural and comedic approach, Family Guy - Episodes, Family Guy - The film, Family Guy - Opening song, Family Guy - Pop Culture References, Family Guy - History, Family Guy - Creation, Family Guy - Initial run, Family Guy - Revival efforts, Family Guy - Return to television, Family Guy - Controversy, Family Guy - Family Guy vs. The Simpsons, Family Guy - Other peers and critics, Family Guy - DVDs, Family Guy - Region 1, Family Guy - Region 2, Family Guy - Region 4, Family Guy - Trivia, Family Guy - Technical details, Family Guy - Podcast

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Taylor was born in Birmingham, England. He was a shy boy who attended Catholic school, wore glasses (due to a severe myopia over -10 dioptres), enjoyed James Bond movies, and played wargames with model soldiers. In his early teen years he discovered music, choosing Roxy Music as his favourite band, and before long was collecting records and teaching himself to play guitar. His first band was called Shock Treatment. Nigel ...

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Nigel John Taylor, Nigel John Taylor - History, Nigel John Taylor - 1978-1997: Duran Duran, Nigel John Taylor - 1997-2001: Solo career, Nigel John Taylor - 2001 and beyond: Duran Duran reunited, Nigel John Taylor - Discography, Nigel John Taylor - Film credits

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