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A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or anything like those.

In the United States
For over a century, local boards were responsible for public education funding, standards, instruction, and results. To a extent is still true. At their height in the 1930s, there were as many as 127,500 boards. Some rural states had more school board members than teachers. Such boards looked over school systems serving agrarian and industrial economies.

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A school district is a special-purpose district that runs local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.

United States
In the U.S, public schools belong to school districts. They are governed by school boards.

School districts in the Midwest and West often cross city borders. School districts in New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions tend to stay inside of city, township, and/or county boundaries.

References

More reading
 Yan, Wenfan (Indiana University of Pennsylvania). "A Comparison of Rural School Districts" ( ). The Center for Rural Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania General Assembly. September 2006.
 "How Small Is Too Small? An Analysis of School District Consolidation" ( ). Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) (Fiscal and policy advisor of the California Legislature). May 2, 2011.

More websites
 2002 Census of Governments
 U.S. School Districts Online

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John William McCormack (December 21, 1891 – November 22, 1980) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Democrat. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1928 through 1971. He was the 45th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1962 until his 1971 retirement.

McCormack died of pneumonia in a Dedham, Massachusetts nursing home on November 22, 1980 at the age of 88.

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Special districts (also known as special service districts, special district governments, limited purpose entities,  or special-purpose districts in the United States) are independent, special-purpose governmental units that exist separately from local governments such as county, municipal, and township governments. They have a lot of independence in their administration and funding. They are created to do a single task or a many similar tasks. The U.S. Census Bureau says that school districts aren't special district governments.  In 2007, the U.S. had more than 37,000 special district governments.

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 Friedman, L. M. A history of American law. (3rd). Simon & Schuster: New York. 2005.
 Krane, D., Rigos, P. N., and Hill, M. B. Home rule in America: A fifty-state handbook. CQ Press. 2001.
 Mergent's Municipal and Government Manual
 Zimmerman, J. F. The New England town meeting. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1997.
Other websites
 A Citizen's Guide to Special Districts in California 
 California Special Districts Association
 U.S. Census Bureau
  U.S. Census Bureau/Governments Organization/Volume 1
  Government Accounting Standards Board
  2006 Government Finance and Employment Classification Manual, U.S. Census Bureau
 2007 Governments Integrated Directory, U.S. Census Bureau
  IRS tax-exempt bond information 
  Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington 
  Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Special District Accountability Program
 State and Local Government Review - current and past issues
 Bloomberg News
 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Special Districts (HBO)

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Joseph William Martin Jr. (November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968) was an American politician. He was the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and 1953 to 1955. He represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 through 1967. He was the only Republican become Speaker in a sixty-four year period from 1931 to 1995.

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North Attleborough, alternatively spelled North Attleboro, is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 28,712 at the 2010 United States Census.

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Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Roane County, Tennessee, United States. This city is thirty-six miles southwest of Knoxville. It had a population of 5,934 at the 2010 United States census.

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Stanley Stair (October 1900 – April 2008) was the last British West Indies Regiment veteran.  He enlisted into the Infantry in 1918. At the end of the war he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. 

He died in Animal Hill, Lucea, Jamaica, in April 2008 at the age of 107.

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James Robertson (May 18, 1938 – September 7, 2019) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1994 until his retirement in June 2010. Robertson also was on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2002 until December 2005, when he resigned from that court in protest against warrantless wiretapping. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Robertson died on September 7, 2019 at the age of 81, in Washington, D.C. from heart failure.

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Henri de Contenson  (4 March 1926 – 8 September 2019) was a French archaeologist. He was the Research Director at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research. He was born in Paris. He was Assistant Director of archaeological digs in the Middle East from 1951 to 1976. 

de Contenson died in Paris on 8 September 2019 at the age of 93.

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Sander "Sandy" Vanocur (; born Alexander Vinocur, January 8, 1928 – September 16, 2019) was an American television journalist and actor. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He focused on national electoral politics. After leaving NBC in 1971, Vanocur worked for PBS and as a television writer for The Washington Post. He joined ABC News in 1977 and worked there until 1991.

Vanocur hosted two of the History Channel's primetime series: Movies in Time and History's Business. His work at NBC earned him a place on the Nixon administration's "enemies list". He played himself in the 1994 television movie Without Warning.

Vanocur died in Santa Barbara, California on September 16, 2019 from dementia-related problems at the age of 91.

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Cynthia Cockburn (1934 – 12 September 2019) was a British academic, feminist journalist, and peace activist. She was active in the international women's peace movement. Cockburn was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London and honorary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick.

Cockburn was widely published in academic journals, including in Feminist Review, Gender & Development, Journal of Classical Sociology, Peace in Process.

Cockburn died on 13 September 2019 of thyroid cancer at her London home at the age of 85.

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Dennis Edwards (19 January 1937 –  13 September 2019) was an English professional footballer. He played as an inside forward in the Football League.

He played for Charlton Athletic, for whom he made over 170 appearances. He also played league football for Portsmouth, Brentford and Aldershot. He was a goalscorer in non-league football for Slough Town and Wycombe Wanderers. He  capped by England at amateur level.

Edwards died on 13 September 2019 in Denmead, Portsmouth at the age of 82.

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Denmead is a village in Hampshire near Portsmouth, England. It is part of the City of Winchester district. At the 2011 Census the population had increased to 6,736.

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Hallmark Cards, Inc. is a private, family-owned American company in Kansas City, Missouri. It was created in 1910 by Joyce Hall. Hallmark is the oldest and biggest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Employees
Worldwide, Hallmark has over 27,000 employees; 20,000 of them work in the United States. About 5,600 of them are full-time employees. About 2,700 Hallmark employees work at the Kansas City headquarters.

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Ye Xuanping (; 20 December 1924 – 17 September 2019) was a Chinese politician. He was Mayor of Guangzhou from 1985 to 1991 and Governor of Guangdong from 1985 to 1991. Ye was born in Meixian, Guangdong. Ye was a strong supporter of Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening policy. 

Ye died on 17 September 2019 in Guangdong at the age of 94.

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Roane County is a county of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,404. Its county seat is Kingston. Roane County is included in the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Oz is a multiparadigm programming language, developed in the Programming Systems Lab at Université catholique de Louvain, for programming language education. It has a canonical textbook: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. Oz was first designed by Gert Smolka and his students in 1991.

Programming languages
INX Media case is the alleged money laundering case. Former finance minister of India, his son and owners of INX media are main accused in this alleged scam. When P Chidambaram was the finance minister of India then INX Media received fund of ₹305 crore (3050 million) while they were just allowed to receive only ₹4.62 crore (46 million).

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In finance and economics, a monetary authority is the organization which controls the money supply of a currency. Their goal is to control inflation, interest rates, real GDP or the unemployment rate. With its monetary tools, a monetary authority is able to effectively influence the development of short-term interest rates for that currency. However, they can also influence other things which control the cost and availability of money.

A monetary authority is usually a central bank or currency board. Central banks usually have a some independence from the government and its political decisions. However, depending on the political set-up, governments can sometimes have almost total control over monetary policy if they are allowed to influence or control their central bank.

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The money supply (or money stock) is the total value of money available in an economy at a point of time. There are many ways to define "money". Normal measures usually include currency in circulation and demand deposits. Each country’s central bank may use its own definitions of what they consider to be money for its purposes.

Money supply data is recorded and published. It is done usually by the government or the central bank of the country. Public and private sector analysts look at changes in the money supply. This is because they believe that changes affect the price level of securities, inflation, the exchange rates and the business cycle.

Empirical measures in the United States Federal Reserve System
Money is used as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and as a ready store of value.
The different types of money are typically classified as "M"s. The "M"s usually range from M0 (narrowest) to M3 (broadest) but which "M"s are actually focused on in policy formulation depends on the country's central bank.  The typical layout for each of the "M"s is as follows:
: In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, M0 includes bank reserves, so M0 is referred to as the monetary base, or narrow money.
 MB: is referred to as the monetary base or total currency. This is the base from which other forms of money (like checking deposits, listed below) are created and is traditionally the most liquid measure of the money supply.
 M1: Bank reserves are not included in M1.
 M2: Represents M1 and "close substitutes" for M1. M2 is a broader classification of money than M1. M2 is a key economic indicator used to forecast inflation.
 M3: M2 plus large and long-term deposits. Since 2006, M3 is no longer published by the US central bank. However, there are still estimates produced by various private institutions.
 MZM: Money with zero maturity. It measures the supply of financial assets redeemable at par on demand. Velocity of MZM is historically a relatively accurate predictor of inflation.
The ratio of a pair of these measures, most often M2 / M0, is called an (actual, empirical) money multiplier.

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 Aggregate Reserves Of Depository Institutions And The Monetary Base (H.3)
 Historical H.3 releases
 Money Stock Measures (H.6)
 U.S. MZM magnitude and velocity, used as a predictor of inflation
 Data on Monetary Aggregates in Australia
 Monetary Statistics on Hong Kong Monetary Authority
 Monetary Survey from People's Bank of China

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Monetary policy is the policy used by the monetary authority of a country that controls either the interest rate that can be paid on very short-term borrowing or the money supply. They often target inflation or the interest rate to help make price stability and general trust in the currency.

Other goals of a monetary policy are usually to help make the gross domestic product more stable, to get and keep low unemployment, and to have predictable exchange rates with other currencies.

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 Bank for International Settlements
 US Federal Reserve
 CentralBankNews.info
 European Central Bank

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Sir Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling  (born 26 February 1934), known as Frank Bowling, is a Guyana-born British artist. His paintings relate to Abstract expressionism, Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.

Bowling now spends part of each year between London and New York, where he has studios.

Bowling's paintings have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States and are included in major private and corporate collections worldwide. 

His work can also be seen in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  and Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as the Tate Gallery in London.

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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was a Frenchman who invented the earliest known sound recording device known as the Phonautograph. He was born in Paris in 1817 he’s profession was printing and book selling. He died in 1879.

Discovery of the Sounds 
In 2008, a group of researchers discovered the phonautogram that was recorded on 9 April 1860. It is a French folk song called Au Clair de la lune. Scientists believe that the person singing the song was Scott de Martinville the inventor him self. The audio discovery became the oldest recorded sound of a person.

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Ady Barkan (born December 18, 1983) is an American lawyer and progressive activist. He is the co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC and is an organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy. Ady became known when he told then-U.S. Senator Jeff Flake on a plane back in 2017 asking him to "be a hero" and vote no on the tax bill.

Barkan was diagnosed with terminal ALS in 2016.

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Graeme C. Gibson  (9 August 1934 – 18 September 2019) was a Canadian novelist. He was a Member of the Order of Canada (1992). He was one of the organizers of the Writer's Union of Canada (chair, 1974–75). He was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada.

Gibson was in a partnership with fellow Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood from 1973 until his death.

In April 2017, Gibson was diagnosed with dementia. He died on 18 September 2019 in a hospital in London, England at the age of 85.

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Anthony Paul "Tony" Mills (7 July 1962  – 18 September 2019) was an English rock singer. He was best known for his work with Shy and TNT. Mills was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England.

In April 2019, Mills announced that he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. He died on 18 September 2019 at the age of 57.

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Shyam Ramsay (17 May 1952 – 18 September 2019) was an Indian movie director, producer and screenwriter. He was one of the seven Ramsay Brothers. He was active during the 1970s and the 1980s. He was known for directing horror movies such as Darwaza, Purana Mandir and Veerana. Ramsay wrote the screenplay for Zee Horror Show

Ramsay was born in Bombay. He died on 18 September 2019 from pneumonia at the age of 67.

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Blue Beetle is the name of three fictional superheroes who appear in DC Comics. They bought the rights to the character in 1983, using the name for three distinct characters over the years. 

The third Blue Beetle, created by DC Comics, is Jaime Reyes, a teenager who discovered that the original Blue Beetle scarab morphed into a battle suit allowing him to fight crime and travel in space.

A movie about Blue Beetle will be released in 2023 by Warner Bros. with Xolo Maridueña playing the main character.

Other websites
 Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett) (archived from the original December 4, 2011) and Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) (archived from the original December 4, 2011) at Don Markstein's Toonopedia.
 Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett) and Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) at the International Catalogue of Superheroes

DC Comics superheroes
Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. It was created by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner. The character made his first appearance in Infinite Crisis #3 (February 2006).

Jaime Reyes is the third character to become Blue Beetle. He was revealed to be alien in origin. Though only a teenager, Reyes quickly forms a working relationship with Kord's former teammate and best friend Booster Gold and is added into the Teen Titans.

Xolo Maridueña will play Reyes in the DC Extended Universe movie Blue Beetle (2023).

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The Teen Titans are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The members are teenage superheroes, many of whom have acted as sidekicks to DC's premier superheroes in the Justice League. The original team later becomes known as the Titans when the members age out of their teenage years. The team was formed by Robin (Dick Grayson). Known members include: Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, Raven and Cyborg.

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Raven is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a special insert in DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980). She was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez. She is a known member of the superhero team Teen Titans. 

The character also goes by the alias Rachel Roth as a false civilian name.

Raven has appeared in numerous cartoon television shows and movies, including as one of the Teen Titans in Cartoon Network's eponymous series, voiced by Tara Strong. Rachel Roth makes her live adaptation debut in the DC Universe series Titans, played by Teagan Croft.

Other websites
 Titans Tower: Raven 

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Beast Boy (Garfield "Gar" Logan) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He was created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Bob Brown. He is a shapeshifter (changes his body form) to any animal he chooses. The character first appeared in The Doom Patrol #99 (November 1965). He is a known member of the Teen Titans.

Beast Boy has appeared in many cartoon television shows and movies, including as one of the Teen Titans in Cartoon Network's eponymous series, voiced by Greg Cipes and appeared on Titans, played by Ryan Potter. Beast Boy also appears in Teen Titans Go!

Other websites
 Titans Tower: Beast Boy 
 DC Comics official origin page for Beast Boy.
 Top 10 Alternate Versions Of Beast Boy. 

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Starfire (Princess Koriand'r) is a fictional superheroine appearing in books published by DC Comics. She made her first appearance in  DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980). She was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez.

History 
The name "Starfire" first appeared in a DC Comic in the story "The Answer Man of Space", in Mystery in Space #73, February 1962, written by Gardner F. Fox.

In 2013, Starfire placed 21st on IGN's "Top 25 Heroes of DC Comics".

Starfire has appeared in many cartoon television shows and movies, including as a member of the Teen Titans in Cartoon Network's eponymous series, voiced by Hynden Walch. She also appears in the DC Universe series Titans, played by Anna Diop.

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Solomon Grundy is a fictional supervillain in DC Comics and an antihero in the DC Animated Universe. He was seen as a murder victim brought back to life as a mega zombie. He is named after the 19th century nursery rhyme "Solomon Grundy".

Grundy was first seen as an enemy of comic book hero Green Lantern, but has since become a known enemy for many superheroes such as Superman, Batman, the Green Lantern, and The Flash.

Other websites
Solomon Grundy  at The Watchtower, a Justice League fan site
Solomon Grundy another Grundy bio

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Reverse-Flash is a name used by many fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
A known version of the character is Edward Clariss (also known as the Rival and Rival Flash) first appeared in Flash Comics #104 (February 1949), and was created by John Broome and Joe Kubert. Another well-known version is Eobard Thawne.

The character's design is the complete opposite of The Flash with a yellow suit and red flash design.

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Brainiac is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Alongside, Lex Luthor, he is seen as a top enemy of Superman and the  Justice League.

Brainiac is seen as an extraterrestrial cyborg or android. He is responsible for shrinking and stealing Kandor, the capital city of Superman's home planet Krypton. 

His name is a portmanteau of the words brain and maniac. In 2009, Brainiac was ranked as IGN's 17th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.

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Killer Frost is a name used by several fictional female supervillains and superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics: Crystal Frost, Louise Lincoln and Caitlin Snow. She is a known villain towards the superhero Firestorm.

In television shows and video games, she is voiced by Jennifer Hale. Danielle Panabaker plays the character on the shared DC Arrowverse shows, where she is a main character on the television series The Flash.

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Firestorm is the name of many fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein were the first incarnation in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man  1 (March 1978) and were created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom. 

Firestorm is featured in the CW's Arrowverse, played by Robbie Amell, Victor Garber, and Franz Drameh.

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Celtic punk is punk rock mixed with traditional Celtic music. 

Celtic punk bands often play covers of traditional Irish, Welsh or Scottish folk and political songs. They will often make original songs too. Common themes in Celtic punk music include politics, Celtic culture and identity, heritage, religion, drinking and working class pride.

The genre became popular in the 1980s by The Pogues. The Pogues are a band of London Irish punk musicians in London. They celebrated their Irish heritage.

The term Celtic punk is usually used to describe bands who base their music in Irish or Scottish traditional music. It is considered part of the more general folk punk genre. However, folk punk is usually used for bands that use English, American and other forms of folk music as inspiration. 

The usual Celtic punk band includes a rock instrument as well as traditional instruments such as bagpipes, fiddle, tin whistle, accordion, mandolin, and banjo. Like Celtic rock, Celtic punk is a form of Celtic fusion.

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Deadshot (Floyd Lawton) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. It was created by David Vern Reed, Lew Schwartz, and Bob Kane. The character made his first appearance in Batman #59 (June–July 1950). Deadshot is a villain of the superhero Batman. He is seen as a supervillain, though he is sometimes depicted as an antihero.

IGN's ranked Deadshot as the 43rd Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time in 2009. In the live-action 2016 movie Suicide Squad, he was played by Will Smith.

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Captain Boomerang (George "Digger" Harkness) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character is an enemy of both the Barry Allen and Wally West versions of The Flash. It was created by writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino. Captain Boomerang first appeared in The Flash #117 (December 1960). He has also been a known member of the Suicide Squad since its second iteration.

Digger Harkness is portrayed in the Arrowverse live-action DC television shows by Nick E. Tarabay, and by Jai Courtney in the 2016 Suicide Squad movie and returned in the sequel set in the DC Extended Universe.

Other websites
 "Captain Boomerang" Arrowverse Wiki.

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King Shark (Nanaue) is a fictional supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Karl Kesel and artist Tom Grummett. It made a brief cameo in Superboy #0 (October 1994) before making his first full appearance in Superboy #9 (November 1994).

King Shark appears on the Arrowverse television series The Flash with Dan Payne. The character will make his cinematic debut in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad sequel in 2021 with his voice provided by comedian Steve Agee.

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Tall Girl is a 2019 American teen romantic comedy film. It was directed by Nzingha Stewart, from a screenplay by Sam Wolfson. It stars Ava Michelle, Griffin Gluck, Sabrina Carpenter, Paris Berelc, Luke Eisner, Clara Wilsey, Anjelika Washington, Rico Paris, Angela Kinsey, and Steve Zahn. It was released by Netflix on September 13, 2019. A sequel to the film was released on February 11, 2022.

Plot 
Jodi Kreyman is 16 and  tall. She has been tall for her age since she was three, which has made her insecure her whole life. Students continually ask Jodi, "how's the weather up there?". In contrast, Jodi's older sister Harper is of average height and a multiple beauty pageant winner. Jack Dunkleman, a life-long friend, frequently asks her out, but she is reluctant, partly because he's much shorter than her.
Stig Mohlin, a Swedish foreign exchange student, joins Jodi's class, and she is immediately interested, along with most girls in her school. However, Kimmy Stitcher, her bully, starts showing him around. Dunkleman is distressed to learn that Stig will be staying at his house as the host family. Jodi asks Harper for help getting Stig to notice her. Harper and their mother help her with a complete makeover.

Kimmy and Schnipper prank call Jodi, pretending to be Stig and asking her to homecoming. To Fareeda's frustration, Jodi hides in the bathroom to avoid Kimmy. Stumbling across Stig playing the piano, he encourages her to play, and they sing the duet "I've Never Been in Love Before" from the musical Guys and Dolls.
Meanwhile, another girl—Liz—asks Dunkleman on a date. Schnipper is now interested in Jodi, so he gets Kimmy to ask her to join them for an escape room; Jodi ditches a concert with Fareeda to go. In the escape room, they kiss in couples: Jodi and Schnipper, Kimmy and Stig, and Dunkleman and Liz, until Jodi gets frustrated and leaves. Jealous, Stig talks to Jodi and agrees to go on a date to Harper's pageant competition. Harper wins, but Stig does not turn up. At Dunkleman's party, Stig explains that he lost track of time helping Dunkleman set up.

Dunkleman rejects Liz when she asks him to the homecoming dance. He gives Jodi platform heels to apologize for being a bad friend. Jodi is sent a video from after she left the party. Stig pretended that Jodi had an unrequited love for him. Standing up for Jodi, Dunkleman first called him out. Then he had a fistfight with Schnipper.
At the homecoming dance, Kimmy and Stig are crowned Homecoming Queen and King, but he breaks up with her. Jodi arrives in the high heels Dunkleman gave her and made a speech expressing newfound confidence in herself. Stig asks Jodi out, but she rejects him. She talks to Dunkleman: he reveals the reason he always carries a milk crate. He stands on it and leans in to kiss her.

Cast
Ava Michelle as Jodi Kreyman, a very tall, self-conscious 16-year-old 
 Griffin Gluck as Jack Dunkleman, Jodi's lifelong friend, who becomes her boyfriend at the very end of the film.
 Luke Eisner as Stig Mohlin, a Swedish exchange student
 Clara Wilsey as Kimmy Stitcher, Jodi's bully, and the antagonist of the film.
 Sabrina Carpenter as Harper Kreyman, Jodi's older sister
 Paris Berelc as Liz, a friend of Kimmy's
 Rico Paris as Schnipper, who has also tormented Jodi for years
 Anjelika Washington as Fareeda, Jodi's best friend.
 Angela Kinsey as Helaine Kreyman, Harper and Jodi's mother
 Steve Zahn as Richie Kreyman, Harper and Jodi's father
 Milena Rivero as 10 year old Kimmy Stitcher 
 Bria Condon as Crystal Spitz
 Shane Guilbeau as Bob Brickman
 Christina Moses as Nina Dunkleman, Jack's mother.
 Andrew Brodeur as Will
 Jason Rogel as Dr. Sager
 Gralen Bryant Banks as Principal O'Sullivan
 Kelly Murtagh as Ms. Novey
 Chima Chekwa as Maison Voodoo Presenter
 Kerry Cahill as Gina, a Tip Toppers member.
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The Red Hood is an alias used by multiple fictional characters and a criminal organization in comic books published by DC Comics. 

Jason Todd is the most widely known character to use this persona, and he becomes the Red Hood identity in the main DC Comics continuity. Joker had also assumed the character's identity.

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Lobo is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The Lobo character was created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen. He first appeared in Omega Men #3 (June 1983). Lobo is an alien born on the utopian planet of Czarnia. He works as an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter.

Portrayals
Lobo was voiced by Brad Garrett, Greg Eagles, Kevin Michael Richardson, David Sobolov and John DiMaggio in cartoons and video games.

Other websites
 Lobo's secret origin  on DC Comics.com
 ROM image of the unreleased Lobo video game for Genesis

DC Comics characters
DC Comics aliens
Fictional characters introduced in 1983
Mister Mxyzptlk ( , ), sometimes called Mxy, is a fictional impish character who appears in DC Comics' Superman comic books, sometimes as a supervillain and other times as an antihero.

Mr. Mxyzptlk was created to appear in Superman #30 (September / October 1944), in the story "The Mysterious Mr. Mxyzptlk", by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Ira Yarborough.
He is usually presented as a trickster, in the classical mythological sense, in that he possesses reality warping powers with which he enjoys tormenting Superman in a cartoonish way. In most of his appearances in DC Comics, he can be stopped only by tricking him into saying or spelling his own name backwards (Kltpzyxm - "kel-tip-zix-um"), which will return him to his home in the 5th dimension and keep him there for a minimum of ninety days. However, this specific limitation of the character has been eliminated since the Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot, upon which the character leaves only when he willingly agrees to do so after meeting some conditions he sets, such as having Superman succeed in getting Mxyzptlk to paint his own face blue.
The character appeared in live-action by Howie Mandel in the 1993 television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. The character renamed Mikhail Mxyzptlk also appeared in the television series Smallville played by Trent Ford. Mxyzptlk appears in the television series Supergirl played by Peter Gadiot in the second season and by Thomas Lennon in the fifth season.

In 2009, Mister Mxyzptlk was ranked as IGN's 76th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.

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The Suicide Squad is a fictional supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first version of the Suicide Squad debuted in The Brave and the Bold #25 (September 1959) and the second and modern version, created by John Ostrander. One of the two teams saves the world from a threatening race of savages.

The team was formed by Amanda Waller. Members of the group are: Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Enchantress, Harley Quinn, Katana and Killer Croc.

In 2016, a movie version of the group was made.  Another movie, The Suicide Squad, was released in 2021.

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Birds of Prey is the name of many American comic book series, miniseries, and special editions published by DC Comics since 1996. The group was created by Black Canary and Barbara Gordon. The group is initially based in Gotham City and later operates in Metropolis.

The series was created by Jordan B. Gorfinkel and originally written by Chuck Dixon. Gail Simone scripted the comic from issue #56 to #108.

In 2020, a movie of the comic group was made.

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Amanda Blake Waller is a fictional main character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Legends #1 in 1986, and was created by John Ostrander, Len Wein, and John Byrne. 

Amanda Waller is a villain and sometimes ally to the superheroes of the DC Universe. She created the anti-hero group Suicide Squad.

Waller is played by Viola Davis in the live-action DC Extended Universe movie Suicide Squad. Davis will return to portray the role in the sequel.

Other websites
Amanda Waller's "official blog" (via archive.org)
DCU Guide: Amanda Waller 
Comic Book Awards Almanac

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The Enchantress is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She was created by Bob Haney and Howard Purcell. The character made her first appearance in Strange Adventures #187 (April 1966).

The character, whose real name is June Moone, is seen as an antihero. She appears in the fifth volume of the Suicide Squad comic series, in which she is a regular member of the team and a romantic interest of Killer Croc. 

The Enchantress was played by Cara Delevingne in the 2016 movie Suicide Squad, which is part of the DC Extended Universe.

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Katana () is a fictional superheroine that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. 

First appearing in 1983, Katana is a samurai warrior whose skill with a sword allows her to fight for justice as a superhero. 

Her tragic backstory includes the death of her husband, Maseo, whose soul becomes trapped in her blade, the Soultaker. 

Katana has been seen in many DC Comics superhero teams, including the Justice League and the Birds of Prey, but is most commonly seen with the team known as the Outsiders, a team of heroes hand-picked by Batman.

In the 2016 movie Suicide Squad, the character is played by actress Karen Fukuhara, which is part of the DC Extended Universe.

Other websites
Cosmic Teams: Katana

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Karen Fukuhara (born February 10, 1992) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Katana in the 2016 DC superhero movie Suicide Squad and as The Female in the 2019 Amazon Prime original series The Boys. 

She is also known for voicing the character Glimmer in the Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

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Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock. It is also a type of Celtic fusion which uses Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into rock music. It has been popular since the early 1970s. It was an important foundation for developing of very successful mainstream Celtic bands and popular musical performers. It was also important for creating other types of music genres. It is important keeping and defining regional and national identities and in fostering a pan-Celtic culture. It has also helped to introduce those cultures to other people.

Definition
The style of music is the combination of traditional Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton musical forms with rock music.

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There are 3 Legend of Zelda games for the Philips CD-i, a badly received video games console. All of them are critically panned across many magazines.

History 
After a failed CD-ROM add-on with Philips, Philips got an agreement to use Nintendo characters. This led to the creation of 4 games, 3 of which are Zelda games. The other is Hotel Mario.

Games 
 Link: The Faces of Evil
 Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
 Zelda's Adventure

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The Legend of Zelda games
Jessica Jaymes (March 8, 1979 – September 17, 2019) was an American pornographic actress. She was known for being Hustlers first contract model and the "Hustler Honey of the Year" in 2004 and the August 2008 Penthouse Pet of the Month. She was born in Anchorage, Alaska.

Her career began in 2002. Jaymes played a small role in two episodes of the television series Weeds in 2006 and 2007, and made appearances on various reality shows such as VH1's Celebrity Rehab Sober House and HBO's Vivid Valley as well as The Howard Stern Show.

Jaymes was found dead at her home in San Fernando Valley, California on September 17, 2019 at the age of 40. The cause of death is currently unknown.

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Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine published by Larry Flynt in the United States. It was introduced in 1974. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter. The magazine grew to a peak circulation of around 3 million. It has since dropped to about 500,000. It shows explicit views of the female genitalia, becoming one of the first major US-based magazines to do so. It is seen as a rival to the modest publications like Playboy.

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Ethan Avram Berkowitz (born February 4, 1962) is an American lawyer, radio personality, businessman and politician. He was the Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska from 2015 until 2020.

From 1997 to 2007, he was the Alaska State Representative for District 26 as a member of the Democratic Party.

Berkowitz was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2006, for Alaska's at-large congressional district in 2008 and for Governor in 2010.

He was elected mayor of Anchorage in 2015 and reelected in 2018.

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Folk punk (also known as rogue folk) is a combination of folk music and punk rock. It became popular in the early 1980s by The Pogues in Britain, and by Violent Femmes in the United States. Folk punk got some mainstream success in the 1980s. In more recent years, its subgenres Celtic punk and Gypsy punk have gotten some commercial success.

Characteristics
Folk punk includes Celtic punk, gypsy punk, riot folk, anti-folk, alt. country, crusty punk, acoustic punk, gutter punk, indie punk, lo-fi punk and many more. Folk punk is linked with DIY punk scenes, and bands often perform in house venues as well as more traditional areas.

Folk punk musicians may play their own songs in the style of punk rock, but using some folk instruments, such as mandolins, accordions, banjos or violins. Folk punk has a history of progressive and leftist political views. Songs often have topics like race, class, feminism, animal rights, queerness and anarchism.

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is a Japanese video game composer and musician. He works for Sega. He is known for his music in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series. He is also the songwriter and lead guitarist for the band Crush 40. Crush 40 has also created songs to many Sonic games.

Biography
Senoue was born on August 2, 1970 in Matsushima, Miyagi, Japan. He started playing piano at the age of three. He moved to Panama when he was 12 years old. In Panama, he became dedicated to rock music after being watching MTV. He started to teach himself to play the electric guitar when he was 15 years old. He created his first original band recording when he was 17 years old.

He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a degree in economics in 1993. After that, Senoue sent demo tapes to Namco and Sega. Sega hired him. His first project with Sega was on Dark Wizard. He arranged a medley of the game's music for its staff roll.

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Electronic rock is a music genre that is a combination of rock music and electronic music. It has instruments often found in both genres. It started in late 1960s, when rock bands such as the Doors, Pink Floyd, Yes, and the Moody Blues started using the Moog synthesizer into their music. Sampling and tape manipulation would also become common with the genre. Electronic rock acts usually combine things from other music styles, including punk rock, industrial rock, hip hop, techno, and synthpop. It has helped create subgenres such as indietronica, dance-punk, and electroclash. Since the late 2000s, electronic rock has become more popular.

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The Moody Blues are  an English rock band. They were created in Birmingham in 1964. At first, the band had keyboardist Mike Pinder, multi-instrumentalist Ray Thomas, guitarist Denny Laine, drummer Graeme Edge, and bassist Clint Warwick. The group came became famous for their rhythm and blues music. They made some changes in musicians but settled on a line-up of Pinder, Thomas, Edge, guitarist Justin Hayward, and bassist John Lodge, who stayed together for most of the band's "classic era" into the early 1970s.
Their second album, Days of Future Passed, which was released in 1967, was a combination of rock with classical music. This made the band early creators in the development of art rock and progressive rock. It has been described as a "landmark" and "one of the first successful concept albums". The group toured a lot in the early 1970s. Then, they took a long break from 1974 until 1977. Founder Mike Pinder left the group a year after they re-formed. He was replaced by Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz in 1978.  In the following decade they took on a more synth-pop sound. They created The Other Side of Life in 1986. This made them the first band to earn each of its first three top 10 singles in the United States in a different decade. Health problems led to a smaller role for founder Ray Thomas throughout the 1980s. However, he made more music after Moraz left in 1991. Thomas left the band in 2002. The band's most recent album was December (2003), a collection of Christmas music
. They continued to tour throughout the first decade of the 2000s. They still regroup for some events, one-off concerts, short tours, and cruises.
The Moody Blues' most successful songs include "Go Now", "Nights in White Satin", "Tuesday Afternoon", "Question", and "Your Wildest Dreams". The band has sold 70 million albums worldwide. This includes 18 platinum and gold LPs. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.

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M (— M – A City Searches for a Murderer) is a 1931 German drama-thriller movie. It was directed by Fritz Lang, and it starred Peter Lorre. The film was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou. It was the director's first sound film.

The film focuses on the actions of a serial killer of children and the manhunt for him. The police and the criminal underworld do the manhunt. Now considered a classic, the film was deemed by Lang to be his magnum opus.

Release
M was shown in Berlin on 11 May 1931 at the UFA-Palast am Zoo in a version that was 117 minutes long.

The film later was released in the U.S. in April 1933 by Foremco Pictures.

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 The Restoration of M (2003) from TLEFilms.com
The Mark of M an essay by Stanley Kauffmann at the Criterion Collection 
 M Photographs and literature
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Flogging Molly is an Irish–American Celtic punk band. It is led by Irish vocalist Dave King. They are signed to their own record label, Borstal Beat Records.

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Studio albums
 Swagger (2000)
 Drunken Lullabies (2002)
 Within a Mile of Home (2004)
 Float (2008)
 Speed of Darkness (2011)
 Life Is Good (2017)

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Interview with Dave King in the Irish Independent
Interview with Bob Schmidt in 2007
Burning Stars Interview with Flogging Molly – 2006 
Flogging Molly Music Videos-Interviews-Live Performance  at Roxwel

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