The University of Kansas (often referred to as just KU or Kansas) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. The University was founded in 1865 by the citizens of Lawrence, under a charter from the Kansas Legislature, with the assistance of a donation of 40 acres (160,000 m²) of land on Mount Oread in Lawrence from former Kansas Governor Charles Robinson and his wife Sara and a monetary gift from philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence. In the Fall 2003, the University enrolled 29,272 students. The total faculty head count was 2,1 ...

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24 is a current U.S. television action/drama series, produced by the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide. It is named 24 because the action on the show ostensibly occurs in "real time", with each season covering the events of one day in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). The show also follows Jack's colleagues at the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles, as well as the actions of both various terrorists and the White House. Every episode in a season covers the events of one hour in that day (henc ...

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• 24 television - Season 2
• 24 television - Season 3
• 24 television - Season 4
• 24 television - Season 5
• 24 television - Behind-the-scenes information
• 24 television - General trivia
• 24 television - Fan phone
• 24 television - Main cast
• 24 television - Broadcasters
• 24 television - DVD releases
• 24 television - Region 1
• 24 television - Region 2
• 24 television - Region 3

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Cheers was a long-running American situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles and Les Charles. The show premiered on September 30, 1982 and was nearly canceled during its first season when it ranked dead last in ratings[1]. However Cheers eventually became one of the most popular shows on TV in the ...

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• Cheers - Awards
• Cheers - Critical reactions
• Cheers - Plot
• Cheers - Romance
• Cheers - Social issues in Cheers
• Cheers - Cheers owners
• Cheers - Other recurring themes
• Cheers - Spinoffs and Crossovers
• Cheers - Syndication and home video
• Cheers - Post-Cheers
• Cheers - Outside the bar

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Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1963, in Chicago, Illinois of Danish, Irish and Native American descent) is an Academy Award nominated actress and an alumna of New Trier High School. Audiences first caught a glimpse of Madsen as Princess Irulan in David Lynch's science fiction epic Dune (1984). Madsen first became popular with audiences in 1986 with her portrayal of a Catholic school girl who fell in love with a boy from a prison camp in Duncan Gibbons' Fire with Fire. Madsen's other noted film appearances inc ...

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William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an actor, writer and musical performer who gained fame for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written three books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of the Star Trek franchise. He has since worked as a writer, producer, director, musician, bestselling author, an ...

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• William Shatner - Memorable quotes
• William Shatner - Filmography
• William Shatner - Television Work
• William Shatner - Books
• William Shatner - Fiction
• William Shatner - Nonfiction
• William Shatner - Albums

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Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known by her stage name, Whoopi Goldberg (born November 13, 1955 in New York City — although many sources indicate 1949), is a well-known American movie actress, comedian, and singer. Although her father was a Protestant preacher, Goldberg says that her family is of mixed religious heritage - including Catholic, Buddhist and Jewish ancestry, hailing from a "West Indian" immigrant community. Whoopi Goldberg - Background. After succeeding as a stand-up comedian in the San ...

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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and highly successful science popularizer. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for his popular science books and the award-winning television series Cosmos, which he co-wrote and presented. He also wrote the novel Contact on which the 1997 film of the same name starring Jodie Foster was based. In his works, he frequently advocated the scientific method. < ...

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• Carl Sagan - Personality
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• Carl Sagan - Related books and media

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The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as "City") is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. It is also the oldest of City University's twenty institutions of higher learning. City College's campus is on a hill overlooking Harlem; its neo-Gothic campus was mostly desig ...

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• City College of New York - Politics Government and Sociology
• City College of New York - The Arts
• City College of New York - Science and Technology
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• City College of New York - Footnotes

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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) is the first of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was produced by former Warner Bros. and UPA animator Bill Melendez. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Synopsis. A Charlie Brown Christmas features Charlie Brown's search for meaning in the Christmas holiday. He starts the special seeking to understand why he always ends up depressed around the holidays. On the advice of Lucy, he gets involv ...

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• A Charlie Brown Christmas - Sequels

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ATN-7 is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The license, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of Fairfax, was one of the first four licenses (two in Sydney, two in Melbourne) to be issued for commercial television stations in Australia. It began broadcasting on 2 December 1956. The station formed an affiliation with GTV-9 Melbourne in 1957, in order to share content. In 1963, Frank Packer ended up owning both GTV-9 and TCN-9, so as a result the sta ...

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• ATN-7 - First Australian Company to Receive Emmy Awards
• ATN-7 - Relocation

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Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American musician best known for his song parodies of contemporary radio hits. His lyrics depend largely on the satirizing of popular culture including television, movies, food, music, and news stories. Yankovic's work earned him three gold and five platinum records in the U.S., one platinum DVD of music videos, and three Grammy awards. [1] Though parodies earned him his fame, Al has recorded a greater number of humorous songs with original tunes. Some of these pi ...

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• "Weird Al" Yankovic - Special Projects
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Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger) (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an extremely popular Jewish American comedian, whose career spanned vaudeville, radio, television, and film, but who made his biggest mark in television. His greatest success was as the headliner for Texaco Star Theater on NBC from 1948 to June 14, 1955 (also known as the Buick-Berle Show when Buick became its sponsor in 1953). Berle was originally one of several rotating hosts for the program, but was selected as the permanent emcee in the fall of 1948 ...

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This is a list of television-related events in 2000. 1999 in film 2000 in film 2001 in film 1999 in home video 2000 in home video 2001 in home video 1999 in television 2000 in television 2001 in television 2000 in television - Events. January 17 - Robin Givens replaces Mother Love as host of the talk show Forgive or Forget. January - Ta ...

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Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet and photographer best known for playing the character Spock in the Star Trek television and movie series. Leonard Nimoy - Life. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Nimoy spent much of his early career in the 1950s doing small parts in B-movies and in TV shows such as Dragnet. Nimoy served in the U.S. Army Reserve, receiving final discharge in November, 1955 as a Sergeant. Accord ...

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Peanuts was a syndicated daily comic strip written and drawn by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950 to February 13, 2000. The strip was one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 40 languages. ...

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Second in career home runs (714) First in career slugging percentage (.690) Third in career runs scored (2174) Second in career runs batted in (2213) Third in career base on balls (2062) Set single season record with 60 home runs (now is fifth all-time) Led American League in home runs 12 times Led American League in slugging percentage 13 times Led American League in runs scored 8 times Led American League in runs batted in 6 times AL MVP ...

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• Babe Ruth - Ruth the Yankee
• Babe Ruth - Impact on Baseball
• Babe Ruth - Increased Attendance
• Babe Ruth - Beginning of the live ball era
• Babe Ruth - The Greatest Season Ever
• Babe Ruth - Troubled season
• Babe Ruth - The House That Ruth Built
• Babe Ruth - The Bellyache Heard Around the World
• Babe Ruth - Return to the top
• Babe Ruth - 1927: A Team for the Ages
• Babe Ruth - 1928: Repeat
• Babe Ruth - Personal life
• Babe Ruth - Personality
• Babe Ruth - Marital separation and the death of first wife
• Babe Ruth - New marriage
• Babe Ruth - 1929–31
• Babe Ruth - Last Glory: The Called Shot
• Babe Ruth - Decline and end with Yankees
• Babe Ruth - Return to Boston
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• Babe Ruth - Illness
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• Babe Ruth - Statistics
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• Babe Ruth - The Home Run Asterisk

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Russo became political in the early 1990s when he produced and starred in a video entitled Mad As Hell in which he criticized NAFTA, The War On Drugs, the concept of a National Identity Card, and government regulation of alternative medicine. Russo ran for governor of Nevada as a Republican in 1998, coming in second in the party primary with 26% of the vote against three opponents. He then endorsed the Democratic candidate, Las Vegas mayor Jan Laverty Jones, over his primary opponent Kenny Guinn. Guinn won the general election. ...

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Researchers questioning the official account of 9/11 - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a media critic and human rights activist. He is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD). He is also a former Researcher at the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). In that capacity, his work was cited in various media outlets, including the Associated Press, The Guardian, The Independent, the Jewish Chronicle, and the London Jewish News. [1]. His bo ...

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When the Comedy Store opened in London in 1979, Sayle responded to an advert for 'would-be comedians' and became its first compere. In 1980 he was seen at the Edinburgh Festival by comedy producer Martin Lewis, producer of The Secret Policeman's Balls shows and films who became his manager and mentor. Under Lewis' management Sayle became the leading performer at the new "Comic Strip" club. He also secured his own radio series for London's Capital Radio "Alexei Sayle And The Fish People" (1981) for which he won a Sony Radio Awar ...

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The first part, Millennium Approaches, was commissioned and performed at its world premiere in May 1991 by the Eureka Theatre Company of San Francisco, directed by David Esbjornson. It was developed by the playwright with the Mark Taper Forum of Los Angeles, with which he has a long association. It debuted in London in a Royal National Theatre production directed by Declan Donnellan in January 1992, which ran for a year. The second part, Perestroika, was still being developed as Millennium Approaches was being per ...

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Angels in America, Angels in America - Production history, Angels in America - Story, Angels in America - HBO miniseries, Angels in America - Awards and critical reception, Angels in America - Millennium Approaches, Angels in America - Perestroika, Angels in America - Quotes, Angels in America - External link

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The plot for Arrested Development revolves around the members of the Bluth family, who generally lead excessive lifestyles. At the center of the show is the relatively honorable Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), who strives to do the right thing and keep his family together, despite their materialism, selfishness and manipulation. His teenage son, George Michael (Michael Cera), has the same qualities of decency, but feels a constant pressure to live up to his father's expectations, and is reluctantly willing to follow his father's plans, ...

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