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Francine Smith (née Ling; formerly Dawson) (born September 26, 1971) is a fictional character on the animated television series American Dad!. She is the wife of the title character Stan Smith and the mother of  Hayley and Steve.

Francine is voiced by Wendy Schaal. She was adopted by Asian parents when her wealthy parents abandon her at an airport because she was too young to travel in first-class.

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Hayley Dreamsmasher Smith (born August 8, 1987) is a character from the animated television series American Dad!. She is voiced by Rachael MacFarlane, the younger sister of one of the series co-creators, Seth MacFarlane.

Hayley, along with her father Stan, was one of the first two characters that were thought of and created for the series. 

During the series, Hayley's storylines is usually about her liberal opinions clashing with her father's staunch conservative beliefs, and her on-again-off-again relationship with boyfriend Jeff Fischer, whom she later marries in the show's sixth season.

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Klaus Heissler is a fictional goldfish of the animated series American Dad!. He was created by Seth MacFarlane. He is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker in a German accent. 

Klaus was once an East German Olympic ski-jumper until his mind was transferred into the body of a goldfish during the 1986 Winter Olympics by the CIA to prevent him from winning the gold medal, leaving him trapped in the goldfish's body. Ironically, Klaus started out on the series as a bully for his harsh criticism, but now he is the one being bullied by the family.

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Steven Anita "Steve" Smith (born July 13, 1991) is a fictional character in the animated television series American Dad!. He is voiced by Scott Grimes. He is Stan and Francine Smith's only son and Hayley's younger brother as well as the youngest of the series' six main characters.

Steve's original design was much geekier and gawky and he was voiced by Ricky Blitt. Halfway through production, Grimes replaced the design of the character used by Blitt. Steve was made to be more attractive, so he would be less comparable to Neil Goldman from Family Guy.

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Roger David Smith is a fictional character in the animated sitcom American Dad!. He is voiced by Seth MacFarlane. The character was created and designed by MacFarlane. Roger is hundreds of years old. He is a grey space alien living with the Smith family. Roger's design is inspired by E. T. the alien in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Having lived on Earth since 1947, Roger came to live with the Smiths after rescuing main character Stan Smith at Area 51 four years before to the beginning of the series. Roger is known for dressing-up in many personas, so that his identity as an alien cant be known. He sometimes dresses-up as famous people.

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Ravenna is a city in Portage County, Ohio, United States. The population was 11,771 at the 2000 Census and 11,724 at the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Portage County. It is named for the city of Ravenna, Italy.

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Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; 18 December 1917 – 4 February 2005) was an American movie, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and social activist. He was known for his role as Yar in the 2000 animated movie Dinosaur. He was married to actress Ruby Dee.

Davis died in Miami, Florida from heart disease, aged 87.
Filmography 
 No Way Out (1950) as John Brooks (uncredited)
 Fourteen Hours (1951) as Cab Driver (uncredited)
 The Joe Louis Story (1953) as Bob (uncredited)
 Gone Are the Days! (aka Purlie Victorious) (1963) as Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson
 The Cardinal (1963) as Father Gillis
 Shock Treatment (1964) as Capshaw
 The Hill (1965) as Jacko King
 A Man Called Adam (1966) as Nelson Davis
 Silent Revolution (1967)
 The Scalphunters (1968) as Joseph Lee
 Sam Whiskey (1969) as Jed Hooker
 Slaves (1969) as Luke
 Wattstax (1973) as Himself (uncredited)
 Let's Do It Again (1975) as Elder Johnson
 Countdown at Kusini (1976) as Ernest Motapo
 Hot Stuff (1979) as Captain John Geiberger
 Benjamin Banneker: The Man Who Loved the Stars (1979)
 Harry & Son (1984) as Raymond
 The House of God (1984) as Dr. Sanders
 Avenging Angel (1985) as Captain Harry Moradian
 School Daze (1988) as Coach Odom
 Do the Right Thing (1989) as Da Mayor
 Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) as Marshall
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991, Documentary) as Himself
 Jungle Fever (1991) as The Good Reverend Doctor Purify
 Gladiator (1992) as Noah
 Malcolm X (1992) as Eulogy Performer (voice)
 Cop and a Half (1993) as Detective in Squad Room (uncredited)
 Grumpy Old Men (1993) as Chuck
 The Client (1994) as Harry Roosevelt
 Get on the Bus (1996) as Jeremiah
 I'm Not Rappaport (1996) as Midge Carter
 4 Little Girls (1997, Documentary) as Himself - Actor and Playwright
 Dr. Dolittle (1998) as Archer Dolittle
 Alyson's Closet (1998, Short) as Postman Extraordinaire
 The Unfinished Journey (1999, Documentary, Short) as Narration (voice)
 The Gospel According to Mr. Allen (2000, Documentary) as Narrator
 Dinosaur (2000) as Yar (voice)
 Here's to Life! (2000) as Duncan Cox
 Voice of the Voiceless (2001, Documentary) as Himself
 Why Can't We Be a Family Again? (2002, Documentary, Short) as Narrator (voice)
 Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) as Jack
 Unchained Memories (2003, Documentary) as Reader #6
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003, Documentary) as Himself
 Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003, Documentary) as Himself
 BAADASSSSS! (2003) as Granddad
 She Hate Me (2004) as Judge Buchanan
 Proud (2004) as Lorenzo DuFau
 A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho (2005, Documentary)
   Experimenter (2015) Ossie Davis is played by Dennis Dexter Haysbert.
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Clinch County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia.  It was created on February 14, 1850. It was named in honor of Duncan Lamont Clinch.  As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,749.  The county seat is Homerville.

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Homerville is a city in Clinch County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 2,344 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Clinch County, Georgia.

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Homerville is an unincorporated community in central Homer Township, Medina County, Ohio, United States. Its zip code is 44235.

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Peter "Petey" Williams III (born August 26, 1982) is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his time working with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). During his time there, he was the captain of Team Canada and was a two time TNA X Division Champion. Williams is known by the nickname "The Canadian Destroyer" because of his front flip piledriver finishing move of the same name.

Williams is a member of the band The High Crusade. He plays the guitar and harmonica with fellow wrestlers Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin as well as their friends Adam Tatro and Chris Plumb. They released their debut album, It's Not What You Think, on September 7, 2010.
Championships
Alliance Championship Wrestling
ACW Junior Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Border City Wrestling
BCW Can-Am Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Bobby Roode)
BCW Can-Am Television Championship (one time)
CLASH Wrestling
CLASH Championship (one time)
East Coast Wrestling Association
Super 8 Tournament (2005)
Elite Wrestling Revolution
EWR Heavyweight Championship (two times)
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Lucha Libre USA
LLUSA Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Jon Rekon)
New Korea Pro Wrestling Association
NKPWA Junior Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA Upstate
NWA Upstate No Limits Championship (one time)
Prime Time Wrestling
PTW Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked #23 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2005.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
TNA X Division Championship (two times)
Feast or Fired (2007 – World Heavyweight Championship contract)
Finisher of the Year (2004–2006) (Canadian Destroyer)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Best Wrestling Maneuver (2004, 2005) (Canadian Destroyer)
Rookie of the Year (2004)
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Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American author, comedian and actor. He played Captain Locke in the movie Operation Mad Ball. He also played Harry Foster Malone in It Happened to Jane.

Kovacs was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He was married to actress Edie Adams from 1954 until his death. He died from injuries from in a car accident in Los Angeles.

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Lucile Watson (May 27, 1879 – June 24, 1962) was a Canadian actress. She played the Lady Margaret Cronin in Waterloo Bridge (1940). She also played Fanny Farrelly in the movie Watch on the Rhine

The actress was born in Quebec City. She died after a heart attack in New York City.

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In mathematics, a Cauchy sequence is a sequence where the distance between any two elements of the sequence decreases as the sequence progresses. Cauchy sequences are named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Islamic State, (IS) is a Wahhabi jihadist militant and terrorist group. In Arabic it is often called "Daesh". It operates in Libya, Nigeria, Syria and a small part of northern Iraq. It is influenced by the Wahhabi Sect of Islam. It claims the status of independent state for the territories under its control in Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, and Syria. It is opposed to Shiism and has been described as "Shiaphobic".

The group was started in the early years of the Iraq War and associated itself with Al-Qaeda in 2004. ISIL was composed of different insurgent groups. Its aim was to establish a caliphate in the Sunni majority regions of Iraq, later expanding this to include Syria. In February 2014, after an eight-month power struggle, Al-Qaeda  cut all ties with ISIL.
ISIL is millenarianist, meaning it believes that society is going to change a lot, and everything we know will end soon. The group recruits new members by promising them sex slaves or cheap marriages.

Fighting 
At the height of the Iraq War, ISIL was in the Iraqi provinces of Al Anbar, Ninawa, Kirkuk, most of Salah ad Din, parts of Babil, Diyala and Baghdad. It claimed Baqubah as its capital. In the ongoing Syrian Civil War, the group has a large presence in the Syrian governorates of Ar-Raqqa, Idlib and Aleppo.

The group has attacked government and military targets. It has claimed responsibility for attacks that killed thousands of Iraqi civilians.  During the time coalition forces were present in Iraq, the group suffered some setbacks. By 2012, it was thought to have regained most of its strength and more than doubled the number of its members to about 2,500.
In 2013, a letter and an audio recording of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, was leaked to Al Jazeera. In it, al-Zawahiri disbanded the Syrian faction of ISIL. The group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, opposed this ruling on the basis of Islamic law. The group has since continued to operate in Syria. Starting in April 2013, it made rapid military gains in large parts of Northern Syria, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described them as "the strongest group". They have sought publicity by releasing videos of the decapitation (beheading) of journalists and other prisoners of war mainly done by member Jihadi John.  He was killed in November 2015.
Worldwide Caliphate 
In June 2014, it announced a worldwide caliphate. In 2014, ISIL successfully fought in a large-scale offensive in Iraq. After this offensive, ISIL is reported to have seized control of most of Mosul, the second biggest city in Iraq, its surrounding Nineveh province, and the city of Fallujah. In the spring of 2015 ISIL fought for control of Tikrit, the administrative center of the Salah ad Din Governorate.

In spring of 2016 the Army of Iraq took back Fallujah.  At the end of 2016 the army took back Ramadi in Al Anbar Province, and in early 2017 Iraqi government forces retook Mosul. In October, Raqqa, the former headquarters, fell.

Film 
The 2014 film The Blue Man, which is related to The New York Times article titled "Uncovering Iraq's Horrors in Desert Graves" written by John F. Burns, also mentions mass killings of Shia Muslims by the Islamic State between 2003 to 2006.

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The Orpheum is a theatre and music venue. It is located on 884 Granville Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Orpheum is a part of the Vancouver Civic Theatres group of live performance venues along with the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and Vancouver Playhouse. It was opened on November 7, 1927 as a vaudeville house although they had their first show the day before. When it opened in 1927, The Orpheum was the biggest theatre in Canada, had three thousand seats and cost $1.25 million to build. When vaudeville was slowing down from its popularity, the Orpheum found new owners in Famous Players and became mainly a movie house but hosted live events every now and then.

In 1973, Famous Players wanted to turn the place into a multiplex because of economic reasons. There was a "Save the Orpheum" public protest that was launched, which Jack Benny flew in to help with. The Orpheum was then saved.
It is the home of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The Orpheum was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on November 15, 1979.

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Multiroom is a type of business found South Korea. People rent multirooms as a place were they can do many things. They sing, watch movies, play Nintendo Wii games and similar activities using the electronics in these rooms. Multirooms usually cost between 10,000-15,000 won per hour to rent. Each room has food and drinks. The food often include pretzels, toast, ice cream and cereal. The drinks include coffee, soda and tea. People can bring their own food. Multirooms are popular with teenagers in Korea. This is because of the low prices and range of activities. Multirooms are used by teenagers and adults.

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Louise Beavers (March 8, 1900 – October 26, 1962) was an African-American actress. She acted in movies and television. She appeared in dozens of movies between the 1920s and 1960. She played Delilah in Imitation of Life (1934). She also played Stella in Shadow of the Thin Man.

Beavers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She died following a heart attack in Los Angeles, aged 60.

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Toussaint L'Ouverture (c. 1743–1803) was the leader of the Haitian Revolution.  Toussaint L’Ouverture started his military career as a leader of the 1791 slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue, which was a French colony.  When he did this he was a free black man (not a slave). Toussaint built and led a large army.  His army gradually took control over the whole island (also the Spanish part called Santo Domingo).  When he had power for years, he tried to improve the security and economy on Saint-Domingue.  He also restored the plantation system, by using paid workers.

Early life 
Little is known for sure about Toussaint L’Ouverture’s early life, because sources disagree.  The first records of his life were from his son, Isaac L’Ouverture. Most histories say Toussaint’s father was Gaou Guinou, who was a son of King Arrada.  King Arrada, also called Great Arrada, was the king of what is now Benin.  His mother was Gaou Guinou’s second wife.
Most sources tell us that Toussaint L’Ouverture was born on the plantation of Bréda at Haute de Cap in Saint Domingue.  His birthdate is unknown.  All Saints' Day is likely, because his name "Toussaint" means "all saints'" in French.  When the Haitian Revolution started he was probably about 50 years old. Different sources give birth dates from 1739 until 1746. When he was a child he was small and weak. But as an adult he was known by his great stamina and horse-riding skills.

Education 
Most sources tell us that Toussaint was well-educated by his godfather, Pierre Baptiste. By age 20 he could speak three languages, French, Creole and some Latin. He also had a knowledge of medicinal plants.

Marriage and children 
Toussaint married Suzanne Simone Baptiste in 1782. Suzanne was probably his cousin. People think that he had 16 children, and that 11 of them had already died before he did himself. His oldest son was adopted. The two sons born out of his marriage with Suzanne were Isaac and Saint-Jean.
Slavery, freedom and working life 
Toussaint was known for being a slave until the start of the Revolution. He was free at the age of 33.
When he was free, he became wealthier and began to have more property. He made a good amount of money in the Revolution and he was the owner of several properties.

Religion and spirituality 
During his life Toussaint L’Ouverture was considered to be a Roman Catholic.  The Vodou spirituality was also often used on the Bréda plantation. It was combined with Catholicism.  It is not known if Toussaint had anything to do with these religions and spiritualties.  When he was the ruler of Saint-Domingue, he said he did not.

L'ouverture was a Freemason.  The historians thought this, because he used a Masonic symbol in his signature.
Haitian revolution 
Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) was the world's biggest sugar producer and provided sugar for many countries. It had more than 800 sugar plantations. With a few rich families and 500,000 African slaves on Haiti, the slaves totally outnumbered everyone else. To stop the slaves from revolting and taking the power, the French people used terrible methods to keep the slaves powerless.

The Haitian Revolution began when the French people who owned the plantations wanted independence. But the slaves wanted something else; they wanted freedom. In 1791, about 100,00 slaves revolted. They burned all the sugarcane in the fields and killed hundreds of slave owners. In this early stage, Toussaint L’Ouverture did not join yet. But after some weeks, he took his family to the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo to keep them safe and helped the supervisors of the plantation of Bréda to leave the island, if we believe surviving documents.
Toussaint L’Ouverture was one of the leaders of the rebellion. He took part in talks about strategy. He had contact with the Spanish people who supported the rebellion, because they provided food to the slaves who were in revolt. In 1801 he moved to Santo Domingo and took control of the territory.  He freed the slaves and wrote a constitution for Santo Domingo.

When Napoleon Bonaparte took power in France, he took back the rich sugar plantations on Saint-Domingue. In January of the year 1802, French soldiers landed in Saint-Domingue in order to get rid of Toussaint L’Ouverture. When Napoleon Bonaparte told Toussaint that he wanted Saint-Domingue back, Toussaint said that he would get it back if he would end slavery on Saint-Domingue forever. Napoleon agreed and took Toussaint with him to Paris to discuss the deal further.
Despite the deal, the French people later accused L'Ouverture of planning another revolt against the plantation owners.  He was sent to jail in the French Alps. The jail was called Fort-de-Joux. Ten months after he was sent to jail, on the 7th of April 1803, Toussaint died.

After his death, slavery in Haiti was started again, but was never to be the same. Toussaint had left an impression about slavery, and the slaves continued to fight the rich French plantation owners in a brutal way. This resulted in another revolution. Toussaint’s General, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, took up Toussaint's job in the revolution after he died. Dessalines became the first Emperor of Haiti. Later in the revolt he was attacked and he died.

But before Dessalines died, yellow fever killed thousands of French people trying to calm the revolt in Haiti. On January 1, 1804, Saint-Domingue was renamed Haiti and was declared independent by Dessalines. In this way, Haiti became the first black republic in the world.

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Diana Barrymore (March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960) was an American stage and movie actress. She was the stepdaughter of Dolores Costello. She was the aunt of the actress Drew Barrymore. She played Leslie Stafford in the movie Nightmare (1942). She played Anne Partridge in Eagle Squadron.

Diana Barrymore was born in New York City. She died there from an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol.

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1921 births
1960 deaths
Walter and Tandoori (also known as Walter or Walter's World) is a Canadian animated children’s series created by Sylvain Viau and by Image Entertainment Corporation. The show has 104 episodes running from 2009-2010

Plot
The series centres on Walter, an inventor and fix-it specialist, and his friend Tandoori, a hyperactive chicken, who live together in the village of Trois-Montagnes (in the French version) or Hart's Landing (in the English version), and embark on various adventures designed to teach children about the environment and ecology

Characters
Walter: Walter is a likeable man with a youthful temperament. He loves to play, acts on instinct, and has child-like control of his impulses.
Tandoori Walter’s sidekick, Tandoori is a hyper-active chicken with an Indian accent that often gets the pair into crazy predicaments.

Walter and Tandoori's Christmas
Main Article: Walter & Tandoori's Christmas
A 2011 Christmas themed Thriectal Production running of 85 Minutes in November 2011 The Movie is Image Entertainment Corporation Inc. First Film and Thriectal Film. The Film is distributed by Alivance Film. 
The film also received a limited theatrical release outside of Canada, including a screening at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur in September 2012 and a brief run in Los Angeles in December of that year in an unsuccessful attempt to garner an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.

Episodes
Main Article: List of Walter & Tandoori Episodes

Walter & Tandoori series produced a number of 104 episodes that were each 13 minutes long produced by Image Entertainmet Corporation Inc..

Broadcast
The series has since aired on a number of other broadcast networks, including Ici Radio-Canada Télé, Télé-Québec, Vrak.TV and Cartoon Network Latin America.

Awards
The Series won a Prix Gémeaux for Best Animated Program or Series in 2011.

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Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), also called Mama Cass, was an American singer. She was a member of the musical group The Mamas & the Papas. She released five solo albums after the group split.

Elliot was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She died in London, England from a heart attack.

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Francis Matthews (2 September 1927 – 14 June 2014) was a British movie and television actor. He was best known for playing Paul Temple in the BBC series Paul Temple and for voicing Captain Scarlet in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.

He died on 14 June 2014 at the age of 86.

Filmography

 Bhowani Junction (1956)
 Small Hotel (1957)
 The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
 I Only Arsked! (1958)
 The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
 Corridors of Blood (1958)
 Sentenced for Life (1960)
 The Hellfire Club (1961)
 The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961)
 The Lamp in Assassin Mews (1962)
 Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
 A Stitch in Time (1963)
 The Beauty Jungle (1964)
 Murder Ahoy (1964)
 The Intelligence Men (1965)
 Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
 Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966)
 That Riviera Touch (1966)
 Just Like a Woman (1967)
 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–68)
 Crossplot (1969)
 Paul Temple (TV; 1969–71)
 Taste of Excitement (1970)
 Five Women for the Killer (1974)
 Do Not Disturb (1999)

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Gig Harbor is the name of both a bay on Puget Sound and a city on its shore in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 7,126 at the 2010 census.

Cities in Washington (state)
"Torn" is a song covered by Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia from her debut album  Left of the Middle.
Imbruglia get for track a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, losing to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On".

Music video 
The music video, directed by Alison Maclean shows Natalie Imbruglia singing along with the song are interspersed with footage of her and Jeremy Sheffield engaging in a romantically conversation. These couple of scenes turn out to be B-roll footage. During the last chorus, the apartment walls start wobbling and the crew comes to dismantle it. Natalie Imbruglia begins to dance during the finishing guitar solo as her "world" crumbles around her.

The video of the song was rated the second best video of all time by MTV Italy.
Chart performance (Sale) 
The physical single of Imbruglia's version of the song has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, including more than 1 million copies in the UK alone. In the UK, it is the 85th biggest selling single of all time. The track peaked at #2 for three weeks, being held off the top spot by Aqua's "Barbie Girl" and then dropped to #4. As a result, the song is the second biggest-selling single in history not to have topped the UK Singles Chart. On 24 September 2007, Natalie Imbruglia's version of the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at #70, on the strength of digital sales after her greatest hits album was released. In the Flanders region of Belgium, the single peaked at a number one for 7 weeks and charted for 22 weeks.

As of 2011, "Torn" holds the record for most played song on Australian radio since 1990, played more than 300,500 times since its 1998 release.

In the United States, the song peaked at #1 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart for 11 consecutive weeks.
In 2003, "Torn" was declared the No. 1 Best Pop Song on a top 10 list, part of a larger collection of songs by Q magazine in their special edition 1001 Best Songs Ever. Billboard ranked "Torn" the No. 26 Best Pop Song based only on pop radio charts compiled between 1992–2012.

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Maureen Connolly (September 17, 1934 – June 21, 1969) was an American tennis player. She won nine Grand Slam singles titles in the 1950s. In 1953, she became the first woman to win all four Grand Slam titles in the same year.

Connolly was born in San Diego, California. She had to retire from tennis at age 19 because she was injured in a horseback riding accident. She was married to Norman Brinker from 1955 until her death. The couple had two daughters. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1966. It spread to her stomach. She died in of the disease in Dallas aged thirty-four.

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Nellie Elizabeth McCalla (also Irish McCalla; December 25, 1928 – February 1, 2002) was an American actress and artist. She was best known for playing the title character in Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. She also played Marie Baron in The Beat Generation.

She was born in Pawnee City, Nebraska. She died from a stroke and brain tumors, age 73.

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Barbara Ann Stuart (née McNeese; January 3, 1930 – May 15, 2011) was an American actress. She played Marianne Danzig in Our Family Honor. She also played Alice in Pete and Gladys

Early years
Stuart was born Barbara Ann McNeese in Paris, Illinois, which is the seat of Edgar County in eastern Illinois.

Death
On May 15, 2011, Stuart died in St. George, Utah, at the age of 81. She was survived by a brother and three stepchildren.

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Silvana Mangano (21 April 1930 – 16 December 1989) was an Italian actress. She was born in Rome to an English mother and an Italian father. She played Silvana in Bitter Rice. She also played the title character in Anna (1951).

Mangano was born in Rome. She was married to Dino De Laurentiis from 1949 until they divorced in 1988. She died from lung cancer in Madrid, age fifty-nine.

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TeenNick is an American pay television channel. The channel broadcast programs for teenagers. It is named after the "TEENick" block on Nickelodeon. TEENick started in 2001. TeenNick replaced Nick GaS and The N programming block on Noggin.

Programming block
The TEENick block first broadcast on March 4, 2001. It lasted until February 1, 2009. The block aired on Sunday nights from 6 to 9 p.m. ET/PT. In 2005, it was rebroadcast on Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. ET/PT. It replaced the SNICK block that started in 1992. Saturday night editions were broadcast as "TEENick Saturday Night" until 2007. At that time, the name was changed to "TEENick" for both broadcasts. The first host was Nick Cannon. The next host was Jason Everhart, also known as "J. Boogie".
 
A block also aired on January 16, 2007 until May 12, 2007. It returned on March 1, 2008. The block included shows such as  All That, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Unfabulous, Mr. Meaty, Zoey 101, and H2O: Just Add Water.
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Mary Downing Sheldon Barnes (September 15, 1850 – August 27, 1898) was a historian and teacher from the United States. She taught her students how to use primary sources and problem-solving to do their research in college. Anna Strunsky was inspired by Sheldon's work.

Early life
Mary Downing Sheldon was born in Oswego, New York. She had four siblings. She was the oldest of them all. Her mother was named Frances Stiles. Her father was Edward Austin Sheldon. Her father founded Oswego State Normal and Training School. Sheldon would go to school there. She graduated in 1869. She worked there as a teacher for two years. She then went to school at the University of Michigan. She graduated in 1876 with a degree in classics. She went back to Oswego State Normal and Training School where she taught for two years. She taught history, Latin, botany, and Greek. She stopped work at Oswego and started working at Wellesley College in 1876. She worked there for two and a half years. She used case methods in her teaching. She quit working there in 1879 because she was sick and also had problems with the people who worked there. After she quit, she relaxed so she would feel better, and then traveled for fun. In 1882, she went back to work at Oswego
. She wrote a book while she was there, called Studies in General History. It was published in 1885.
Teaching and writing career

On August 6, 1885, Sheldon got married. She married a man named Earl Barnes. She met him when he was a student of hers, and he was 11 years younger than her. He became the head of the education department at Stanford University in 1981. Sheldon moved with him and also worked at Stanford. She researched and taught classes about the History of Europe and the Pacific Slope areas. Sheldon and Barnes wrote a book together in 1891. It was called Studies in American History. They also wrote another book in 1896, together. She wrote another book of her own, too. It was called Studies of Historical Method, and taught readers about historical method. In 1897, Sheldon and Barnes quit working at Stanford. They traveled to Europe and wrote while they were there.

Death and afterwards
On August 27, 1898, Sheldon died of heart disease in London. The teaching and writing that she did about research and historical method is considered ahead of its time. The work that she did helped improve history textbooks that are used today. In 1985 and 1986, papers, writings and other materials owned by Sheldon and Barnes were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College by Betty Barnes, the daughter-in-law of Earl Barnes, and his second wife, Anna Koehler Barnes.

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The Jessie Street National Women's Library is a library which has books, music, photographs, and more about women's history in Australia. It is located in the city of Ultimo in New South Wales. It was founded in 1989 so that it would be easier to find books and sources about women, as sources about women's history are harder to find than other types of history. It is named after Jessie Street, an Australian suffragette. People who donated money to start the library, called patrons, are Laurence Street, who is Jessie Street's son, Elizabeth Evatt, Judith Wright, and Oodgeroo Noonuccal. The library has a collection of books, papers, writings, recordings, and more, related to women's organizations, famous Australian women, and more.

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A vehicle fire (or car fire) is an uncontrolled burning of an automobile. It is one of the most common causes of property damage by fire.

Motor vehicles have quite a few flammable parts and liquids, including gasoline and oil. They also have parts that can start fires, including air bag detonators and hot exhaust systems.

Some car fires are arson. 

Fire
Raymond Lee Fox, Sr. (May 28, 1916 – June 15, 2014) was an American engine builder, NASCAR car owner and NASCAR engine inspector. His cars won fourteen NASCAR Grand National (now Sprint Cup) events and sixteen pole positions.

He was inducted in many halls of fame, including the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.

Fox died died on June 15, 2014 of pneumonia at Daytona Beach, Florida, aged 98.

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Ray Fox...Sly in the Stock Car Forest (2006); ; Carbon Press

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Ningali Cullen (1942-2012) was an Aboriginal activist. She was also the co-chair of the National Sorry Day Committee.

Early life
She was born in Ooldea, South Australia in 1942. When she was four years old, she was taken away from her family, with her brother and a sister. Cullen and her brother were taken to the Koonibba Lutheran Mission Home near Ceduna, South Australia. She went to school at Concordia College. She was the first female Aboriginal student who had ever gone there.

Working as a nurse

After she graduated college from Concordia, she became a nurse. She worked at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, and other places. She moved to Port Augusta in 1964. She saw a lot of discrimination against Aboriginal people when she worked in hospitals. It made her very angry. She married Lawrie Kinnear while she was a nurse. She had three children with Kinnear.

Working as an activist
It had been a very long time since she had seen her mother, May Cobby. She found out where her mother was living and she visited her. In 1965, Cobby disappeared. She was taken while waiting at a restaurant with her daughter Mabel, who was the only child out of the four who was not taken from her when they were little. The police were called by the staff who worked at the restaurant. The police were asked to ask May and Mabel to leave the area. Mabel was arrested and May was left at the restaurant. Cullen asked for information on her mother's arrest and the police refused to give her any information. No one could find May.

Cullen became an activist after her mother disappeared. She worked to get more healthcare for Aboriginal people. She also helped people to stop using drugs and alcohol. She worked for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) in 1990. In 1992, she moved to Canberra, where she worked in healthcare for ATSIC.
She did a lot of work with organizations helping to locate people who were missing from the Aboriginal communities. She helped found National Sorry Day and was a member of the Stolen Generation. She worked with families and people involved in that group.

Later life and death

In 2003, Cullen married for a second time. She married a man named Derick Cullen. She died on May 10, 2012.

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Robert Lebeck (21 March 1929 – 14 June 2014) was an award-winning German photojournalist. Lebeck was born in Berlin. He became well known in 1960 after his report on the independence of the Congo "Afrika im Jahre Null" ("Africa in Year Zero"). This included a photo of an African boy standing next to the steel scabbard of Belgian King Baudouin. That picture remains his "calling card".

Lebeck died in Berlin, Germany, aged 85.

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María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón (; born 4 February 1931), better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón or Isabel Perón, is a former President of Argentina. She was the third wife of the former President, Juan Perón. 

During her husband's third term as president from 1973 to 1974, Isabel served as both vice president and First Lady. Following her husband's death in office in 1974, Isabel served as president from 1 July 1974 to 24 March 1976.

She was arrested near her home in Spain on 12 January 2007 over the forced disappearance of an activist in February 1976.

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Roberto Eduardo Viola (October 13, 1924 – September 30, 1994) was an Argentine military officer. He briefly served as president of Argentina from March 29 to December 11, 1981 as a military dictatorship. Viola found his maneuvering space greatly reduced, and was ousted by a military coup in December 1981.

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Carlos Alberto Lacoste (February 2, 1929 – June 24, 2004) was an Argentine navy vice-admiral and politician. He briefly served as interim President of Argentina for ten days from December 11 to December 21 1981.

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Knott's Berry Farm is a theme park in Buena Park, California that is owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company. Since the theme park was purchased by Cedar Fair, the number of people who visited the park has increased. According to the 2013 Global Attractions Attendance Report, Knott's Berry Farm is the 13th most visited theme park in North America. The park has 40 rides, including roller coasters, family rides, children's rides, water rides, and historical rides, and there are plans to make the park bigger in the future.
The theme park sits on what used to be a berry farm that was built by Walter Knott, Cordelia Knott, and their family. Starting around 1920, the family started selling berries, berry preserves, and pies from a roadside stand along a highway. In 1934, the Knotts started selling fried chicken dinners inside a tea room that is on the farm. They later built shops and other attractions to entertain visitors. In 1940, Walter Knott built a ghost town on the farm, and added other attractions over many  years. In 1968, Knott's Berry Farm started to charge people to visit the park. In 1983, the park added Camp Snoopy.

In the 1990s, the Knott children sold the family business after Walter and Cordelia Knott died. The theme park was sold to Cedar Fair and the food business was sold to ConAgra Foods, which was later sold to The J.M. Smucker Company.

Cedar Fair continued to make the park bigger in 1999 by adding Knott's Soak City. They also added more rides to Knott's Berry Farm.

History

Origin
History

Origin

The idea of an amusement park really picked up in the 1950s when Walter Knott opened a "summer-long county fair". In 1968, for the first time, an admission price was required to get into the park, originally set at 25 cents. The Calico log ride was added in 1969. On April 12, 1974, Cordelia Knott died, and Walter turned his attention toward political causes.
Sky Tower was built to support two attractions, the Parachute Sky Jump (now closed) and the Sky Cabin. Parachute Sky Jump boarded one or two standing riders looking forward to the thrill of the drop into baskets beneath a faux parachute canopy. From the top, eight arms supported the vertical cable tracks of wire rope which lifted the baskets. The Sky Cabin ringed the support pole with a single floor of seats that is surrounded behind windows. The Sky Cabin ring revolves slowly as it rises to the top and back offering a pleasantly changing view. Sky Cabin is very sensitive to weather and passenger motion, such as walking, which is not allowed during the trip. During winds 25 mph+ or rain it is closed. When built, Sky Tower was the tallest structure in Orange County (a distinction now held by nearby WindSeeker.) The illuminated "K" in logo script atop the Sky Tower was designated a landmark which prevented Knott's plan of changing the foundation to support WindSeeker.
Corkscrew debuted in 1975 as the first modern-day roller coaster to perform a 360-degree inverting element, twice. It was designed by Arrow Development. Corkscrew is still operating to this day, but was sold and moved in 1989 to Silverwood in Athol, Idaho. Montezooma's Revenge was later opened in 1978 and remains in operation at Knott's Berry Farm.

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Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (15 July 1926 12 January 2003) was an Argentine general and politician. He served as President of Argentina from 22 December 1981 to 18 June 1982. This was during the last military dictatorship (known officially as the National Reorganization Process). He was removed from power soon after the British retook the Falkland Islands, whose invasion he had ordered.

Early life 
Galtieri was born in the Buenos Aires area.  He entered the Argentine Army, and studied engineering.  He was a skilled engineer, and he rose quickly through the ranks of the Argentine military. In 1975, he became the head of the Engineering Corps of the army. 

When Jorge Rafael Videla took power a year later, Galtieri supported him. Videla was a brutal dictator, and thousands of people were murdered under his rule.

Presidency 
In 1981, Videla stepped down.  Galtieri took power late that year after removing Roberto Viola in a coup d'état. Although not as brutal as Videla, he continued the "Dirty War."
The United States supported Galtieri. He was a strong anti-communist.  Because of this, the United States saw Argentina as an ally against the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

Soon after Galtieri took power, the Argentine economy was about to fall apart. Inflation, the rate at which new money is put into the economy, was as high as 130%. Unemployment was very high, and the state oil company lost six billion dollars in a matter of months.  This is the worst loss of money any corporation has had in all of history. 

Galtieri allowed people to disagree with him more than the leaders who came before him.  Protests against his dictatorship became common.

Invasion of the Falkland Islands 

By 1982, Galtieri's popularity was low.  He wanted more people to support him.  He also wanted to increase Argentine patriotism. For many years, Argentina had said the Falkland Islands (a British territory) was actually theirs. The British did not see Argentina as a war threat, and didn't heavily defend the islands.
With Jorge Anaya, one of the other members of the junta, Galtieri thought of a plan to take over the islands. Galtieri ordered the Argentine military to invade the islands. After bombarding the capital city, Port Stanley, Argentina forced the British Governor of the islands, Rex Hunt, to surrender.

Galtieri became very popular after the invasion, and huge celebrations were held in Buenos Aires. His regime seemed to be very strong. But Galtieri had badly misread what British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would do. He also believed he would have the support of the United States. However, the United States (and most of the world) supported Britain. 

The British sent their armed forces to the islands. After heavy fighting, the British defeated Argentina in June. Within days, the Argentine army turned on Galtieri, and he was removed from power.
After the Presidency 
Afterwards, Galtieri was put on trial for crimes against humanity. Although one report wanted him to be executed, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison. In 1989, he was pardoned. 

After leaving prison, Galtieri lived in a suburb of Buenos Aires. Never a rich man, he lived modestly for the rest of his life. Galtieri died from a heart attack caused by surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. He was 76 years old. 

Today, Galtieri is commonly viewed as a very incompetent dictator.  He is often blamed for Argentina losing the Falklands War.

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Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (12 March 1927 – 31 March 2009) was an Argentine lawyer, politician and statesman. He served as the President of Argentina from December 10, 1983, to July 8, 1989.

Alfonsín was the first democratically elected president of Argentina following the military government known as the National Reorganization Process. He was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in 1985, among numerous other such recognitions.

Alfonsín died from lung cancer in Buenos Aires, aged 82.

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