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Brian Griffin is one of the main characters in the American animated TV sitcom, Family Guy.

He is at least a 10-year-old pet dog of the Griffin family. He shows many human behaviours (he can walk upright, drink, smoke, and speak English) but he still shows many behaviours associated with dogs, such as fetching a ball, fearing the vacuum cleaner and barking at squirrels.

It is hinted that Lois and Brian were married for a length of time.

He is the only Family Guy character to have appeared in every episode of the series. In a 2004 interview, Seth MacFarlane (the show's creator) revealed that Brian is his favorite character.

In the 12th season episode, "Life of Brian", he gets hit by a car and dies later at the veterinarian. Before he dies, he thanked the Griffins for giving him a wonderful life and that he loves them all. He was soon brought back to life in the Christmas special "Christmas Guy".

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Gina Lollobrigida was an Italian actress. She was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. She mostly acted in Italian movies. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Italian American Foundation in 2008.

In the mid-1980s, she starred in the television series Falcon Crest. The role was first offered to Sophia Loren, who turned it down. A rivalry with Loren was often reported in the press. Lollobrigida said in a 2015 interview that "Loren and her press agent started this 'rivalry'" and that Lollobrigida was bored of it.

In 2013, Lollobrigida sold her jewelry collection through Sotheby's. She donated the nearly $5 million to benefit stem cell therapy.

Lollobrigida died in Rome on January 16, 2023 at the age of 95.

Awards and nominations
Lollobrigida won three David di Donatello, two Nastro d'Argento and six Bambi Awards. She was nominated three times for the Golden Globe and won one in 1961 as World Film Favourite – Female. She was nominated once for a BAFTA.
In 1985, she was nominated as an officier of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Jack Lang because of her achievements in photography and sculpture.

She was awarded the Légion d'honneur by then French president François Mitterrand.

On 16 October 1999, Gina Lollobrigida was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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2023 deaths
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Gina [ jee-nuh ] is a female name with Italian origin. Gina is a well-liked name for newborn girls with a fascinating history and significance. This name originated from Italy and is a diminutive form of Regina, which translates to "queen" in Latin. Additionally, Gina is a truncation of Georgina, which means "farmer" in Greek. This name is very popular for girls in several countries. The name is shorthand for the name Regina. Celebrities with the name include Gina Gershon and Gina Lollobrigida.

People 

 Gina Gershon, American actress
 Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician

 Gina Obedapo Iyashere, British comedian
 Gina Haspel, American intelligence officer

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Given names
Mayra Arduini (born October 4, 1993) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. She was a member of the band College 11.

References

Other websites
www.college11.com

1993 births
Living people
Brazilian singer-songwriters
Kasabian is a British rock band. It was formed by Tom Meighan (singer), Sergio Pizzorno (backing vocal and guitar), bassist Chris Edwards and guitarist Chris Karloff in 1997. Then it was called Saracuse. Ian Matthews and Jay Mehler joined the band after the departure of Chris Karloff in 2006. Jay joined Liam Gallagher's band Beady Eye in 2013 and was replaced by Tim Carter. They have recorded four albums, Kasabian, Empire, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum and Velociraptor!, and are working on the fifth.

They mostly get their inspiration from Primal Scream. They got a lot of influence from the Stone Roses. They use a little electro sound joined with a bass groove mixed in a rock template.

Discography

Albums
Kasabian (2004)
Empire (2006)
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009)
Velociraptor! (2011)
48:13 (2014)
 For Crying Out Loud (2017)
 The Alchemist's Euphoria (2022)

Other websites

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English rock bands
Organisations based in Leicester
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Trope is a term for a figure of speech.  The term has evolved to identify an overused theme or device.  A trope may mean a convention, a plot trick, a setup, a narrative structure and a character type all at the same time.

List of types
In rhetoric, there are many types of tropes.
This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.
 Allegory 
 Antithesis
 Hyperbole
 Irony 
 Metaphor 
 Metonymy 
 Oxymoron
 Synecdoche

References

Other websites
 "Tropes" at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Figures of speech
Rhetoric
Geraldine Fitzgerald (November 24, 1913 around Dublin, Ireland-July 17, 2005 near New York City) was an Irish-American actress who acted in many movies and television programs. She starred in critically acclaimed movies like Wuthering Heights and Dark Victory; she also performed on television series, such as Cagney & Lacey. Fitzgerald died due to Alzheimer's in New York.

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 Portrait of Geraldine Fitzgerald c. 1936  by George Hurrell.
 Portrait of Geraldine Fitzgerald c. 1939  by George Hurrell.
 Independent's obituary 
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2005 deaths
In chemistry, a leaving group is an atom or molecule that leaves another molecule during a reaction. This reaction can be for example a nucleophilic substitution. In this case the leaving group gets a pair of electrons. Some leaving groups are better than others. This is because some atoms or molecules like getting extra electrons. The halides are a good example of good leaving groups.

The type of leaving group can change the type of reaction that happens. For example, bad leaving groups make an SN1 reaction more difficult, while they make an SN2 reaction easier.

Chemical reactions
Anita Louise Barone (born September 25, 1964) is an American actress. She is best known for her role of Georgia Jones in the Disney Channel TV series Shake It Up.

Filmography

Movies 

The Rosary Murders (1987)
Ricohet (1991)
The Takeover (1995)
Just Friends (1996)
Running Time (1997)
Just Write (1997)
Dream With the Fishes (1997)
Santa's Little Helper (1999)
The Sex Monster (1999)
Buttleman (2002)
One Last Ride (2003)

TV 
Friends (1994)
 The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995-2006)
 Daddio (2000-2002)
The War at Home (2005-2008)
Shake It Up (2010-presente)

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1964 births
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from St. Louis, Missouri
Living people
A sigma bond (σ bond) is a type of chemical bond. It is the strongest one of the covalent type. In a sigma bond, the atomic orbitals from two atoms which are nearby go one on top of each other. This is different from a pi bond where they touch sideways. This is why a sigma bond is stronger. Sigma bonds can involve s, p, d or f orbitals. They must however be of the right symmetry to be able to form the bond.

Since the σ bond is strong, the bonding orbital is low in energy. This also means that the antibonding orbital σ* is high in energy.

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is the national bicameral legislature of Japan. The National Diet Building is in Nagatachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo.

It is made up of the House of Representatives (lower house) and the House of Councillors (upper house).  The members of both houses of the Diet are directly elected. The Diet selects the Prime Minister.

History
The Diet was first convened as the Imperial Diet in 1889.

In 1947, the Diet took its current form.

Gallery

Related pages
 Bicameralism
 History of Japan
 National Diet Library
 Parliamentary system

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 National Diet Library website 

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Japan
Japan
1880s establishments in Japan
Lena Dunham (born May 13, 1986, New York City) is an American actress. She works mainly in television programs. She created and stars in the television series Girls. She has won several Golden Globe Awards for this.

Personal life
Dunham studied creative writing at Oberlin College. She often talks about this in her work. In 2012, Dunham she started dating Jack Antonoff. She is a feminist.

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American television actors
Actors from New York (state)
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1986 births
Living people
Jillian Leigh Murray (born June 4, 1984 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. She acts in independent movies. She acted as Heather in An American Carol. She also starred in other movies.

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Leatherface is a fictional character in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie series. He appeared in all seven movies and is often portrayed as either the main or secondary antagonist or sometimes even the tragic villain protagonist. He uses a chainsaw to attack his victims somewhere in his ranch in Texas. He wears a mask made out from human skin and usually eats the remains. Because he wears the skin mask he is called Leatherface. He was played by Icelandic-born American actor Gunnar Hansen. He has appeared as a guest fighter in Mortal Kombat X alongside Jason Voorhees, The Predator, and The Alien.

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Gorton's of Gloucester is a company that makes fishsticks and other frozen seafood in the United States. It has been based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, since 1849.

American food companies
Companies based in Massachusetts
1849 establishments in the United States
1840s establishments in Massachusetts
Michael Myers is an American fictional character from the Halloween movie series. He first appeared in John Carpenter's Halloween. Myers only kills on Halloween day in Haddonfield, Illinois.

He first killed his sister on Halloween night of 1963 and since then he was searching to kill his last living family member, Cynthia "Laurie Strode" Myers. He was sent to a mental hospital, but during his transportation to another mental hospital, he escaped when the truck was attacked. After Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Which was the only movie he did not appear) he was searching to kill Laurie's daughter.

His psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Loomis is trying to save Michael's victims and stop Michael from killing. Myers appeared in 9 Halloween movies. He was played by many different actors throughout the series.

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Other websites
 Halloween: Nightdance  scribe Stefan Hutchinson interviewed at ComiXology.com
 Official site of the Halloween series
Fictional American people
Fictional characters introduced in 1978
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Mothra is a kaiju, a type of fictional monster who first appeared in the book series The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Takehiko Fukunaga, Shinichiro Nakamura, and Yoshie Hotta. The first movie she appeared in was Mothra.
Movie appearances 
 Mothra (1961)
 Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
 Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966)
 Destroy All Monsters (1968)
 Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) (stock footage)
 Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
 Monster Planet Of Godzilla (1994)
 Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla (1994; also as "Fairy Mothra")
 Rebirth of Mothra (1996; also as "Mothra Leo")
 Godzilla Island (1997)
 Rebirth of Mothra II (1997; as "Mothra Leo", "Rainbow Mothra", and "Aqua Mothra")
 Rebirth of Mothra III (1998; as "Rainbow Mothra", "Light Speed Mothra", "Armor Mothra", and "Eternal Mothra")
 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
 Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) (stock footage)
 Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
 Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
 ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Monsters
Fictional characters introduced in 1961
Godzilla
Bradley Raymond is an American film director.  He has directed different movies including Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, The Lion King 1½ and Tinker Bell.

Filmography

Storyboard
 Thumbelina (1994)
 A Troll in Central Park (1994)

Animators
 Cats Don't Dance (1997)

Directors
 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
 Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) (segment "Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas")
 The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)
 The Lion King 1½ (2004)
 Tinker Bell (2008)
 Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010)
 Pixie Hollow Games (2011) (TV movie)

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Living people
American movie directors
1960 births
American animators
Elizabeth Montgomery (April 18, 1933—May 18, 1995) was an American actress . She acted in movies and television programs. Her father was actor Robert Montgomery. She starred as Samantha Stephens in the sitcom Bewitched. She played Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden. She had other roles besides these.

Montgomery was born in Los Angeles. She died from colorectal cancer in Beverly Hills, California.

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Actors from Hollywood
American movie actors
American television actors
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles County, California
Deaths from colorectal cancer
1933 births
1995 deaths
The name Elizabeth is a female given name. It is pronounced [ ih-liz-uh-buhth ] . Elizabeth  can be traced back to the Greek designation, Elisabet, a variation of the Hebrew theonym, Elisheva, signifying "God is my oath". This name was ranked #14 on the US Popular Names in 2021. There are many variants of it worldwide. It was the 10th most popular in the United States, and among the top 50 in England and Wales.

People 
Famous people with the name include Elizabeth Taylor, Queen Elizabeth II and Elizabeth Arden.

In the New Testament, Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist and the wife of Zechariah. (Gospel of Luke chapter 1)

Elizabeth can be spelt Elisabeth, and can be shortened to Liz, Lizzie, Lisette, Lilly, Libby, Eliza, Beth and Lisa.

 Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
 Elizabeth Hurley, English actress and model (born 1965)

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The name Josephine [ joh-zuh-feen, -suh- ] is a female given name. Josephine is a timeless name that has been well-liked for hundreds of years. It is the feminine version of the name Joseph and has a meaning of "God will increase" or "may Jehovah add/give increase." There are many variants. The name is a female version of Joseph (which is a Hebrew version of Yosef). There are many celebrities with the name Josephine and related forms, although the name is only marginally popular in the United States.

People 

 Josephine Baker, American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
 Josephine Butlerm, British feminist and social reformer fighting to end child prostitution
 Josephine Hull, American stage and film actress (1877-1957)

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Ramnagar () is a town and subdistrict of Udhampur District in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Towns in Jammu and Kashmir
Tehsils of Udhampur
Angkuna Kulyuru is an Aboriginal Australian artist. She is perhaps best known for her batik and printing works. She also does weaving, basketry, and carved wooden sculptures (). Her batik designs display the fluid, abstract style that is distinctive to Ernabella Arts. There is no specific meanings to her designs, but they are inspired by the natural environment.
Kulyuru's works have been shown in many exhibitions since the 1980s. One of her early batik works was chosen as a finalist for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 1987. It was bought by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Other examples of her work are held in the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia, and the National Museum of Australia. An example of one of her weaving work, a jug made out of palm leaves, is in the British Museum.

References

Other websites
Angkuna Kulyuru at Prints and Printmaking

1943 births
Living people
Australian sculptors
Australian printmakers
Woodworkers
Artists from South Australia
Indigenous Australian artists
Pitjantjatjara
Textile artists
Weavers
Maureen Paula O'Sullivan (17 May 1911 – 23 June 1998) was an Irish actress best known for playing Jane in the Tarzan series of films starring Johnny Weissmüller.

Early life
O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland in 1911. She is the daughter of Mary Lovatt (nee Fraser) and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in the Connaught Rangers who served in World War I. Aside from Irish, she had some English and Scottish ancestry.

Acting career
She acted in movies which were mostly released prior to 1984. She also performed in stage shows.

Personal life
She was the mother of seven children. Stephanie and Mia Farrow are actresses.

Death
Maureen died in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 23, 1998 due to complications of heart issues and surgery.

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1911 births
1998 deaths
Eldridge Wayne Coleman (June 7, 1943 – May 17, 2023) was an American professional wrestler. He was of part Arkansas Cherokee descent. Graham was best known for his highly dramatic and charismatic style of wrestling. He created the style while working with The World Wide/World Wrestling Federation under the ring name, "Superstar" Billy Graham. He was also an amateur fine artist. Graham was widely acknowledged as the person who changed modern American pro wrestling by combining it with bodybuilding. Many modern professional wrestlers have a bodybuilders' physique. Before wrestling, Graham played 5 games with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

During the steroid allegations involving WWE owner Vince McMahon in 1992, Graham went on The Phil Donahue Show. On  the program, he said that he commonly used steroids. He blamed the WWF for his addiction. The drugs were not illegal in the 1970s. This caused problems between Graham and McMahon. They lasted for over ten years.
WWE Hall of Fame
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 by Triple H. In 2011, it was reported that he wanted his name removed from the WWE Hall of Fame after he was upset that Abdullah the Butcher was also made a member of the Hall of Fame.

Death
Graham was hospitalized in January 2023 because of an ear and skull infection. In April, he was treated for kidney, heart and lung problems. Graham died on May 17, 2023 while on life-support at a Phoenix, Arizona hospital of multiple organ failure, aged 79.

Championships
Graham held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Championship Wrestling from Florida
NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (two times)
NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Ox Baker)
NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Florida version) (one time)
Continental Wrestling Association
CWA World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
International Pro Wrestling
IWA World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA Big Time Wrestling
NWA Brass Knuckles Championship (Texas version) (three times)
NWA Mid-Pacific Promotions
NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA San Francisco
NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version) (two times) (with Pat Patterson)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (1973)
PWI Match of the Year (1977) (vs. Bruno Sammartino on April 30)
PWI Match of the Year (1978) (vs. Bob Backlund on February 20)
PWI ranked him #277 of the best 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003.
Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
Class of 2009
Class of 2009
World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2004)
WWWF Championship (one time)
Slammy Award for Hulk Hogan Real American (1987)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Best Pro Wrestling Book (2006) (with Keith Greenberg)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
References

Other websites
Official website 
Billy Graham's Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame profile
Billy Graham's WWE Hall of Fame profile

1943 births
American professional wrestlers
Former WWE wrestlers
2023 deaths
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Montreal Alouettes players
Sportspeople from Phoenix, Arizona
WWE Hall of Fame
Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen (January 7, 1911 – December 22, 1995) was an American actress. She was originally a dancer. McQueen first appeared on screen in 1939, as "Prissy", Scarlett O'Hara's maid in the movie Gone with the Wind. She continued as an actress in movies through the 1940s, then moving to television acting in the 1950s.

Early life
Butterfly was born Thelma McQueen in Tampa, Florida. She was planning to become a nurse until a high-school teacher suggested that she try acting.  McQueen studied with Janet Collins and went on to dance with the Venezuela Jones Negro Youth Group.  Around this time she received the nickname "Butterfly" because of her constantly moving hands in the Butterfly Ballet in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She had always hated her birth name, and later legally changed her name to Butterfly McQueen. She performed with the dance troupe of Katherine Dunham. She made her professional debut in George Abbott's Brown Sugar.
Career
McQueen's first on-screen credited role was "Prissy", the young maid in Gone with the Wind. McQueen did not enjoy playing the part and felt it was demeaning to African Americans.

She also played a small part as a sales assistant in The Women (1939). She also played "Butterfly", Rochester's niece and Mary Livingstone's maid in the Jack Benny radio program, for a time during World War II. She appeared in a small role in Mildred Pierce (1945) and played a supporting role in Duel in the Sun (1946). By 1947, she had grown tired of the ethnic stereotypes she was required to play. She then ended her movie career.

From 1950 until 1952 she played "Oriole", another racially stereotyped role, on the television series Beulah. In a lighter moment, she appeared in an episode of The Dating Game in 1969.
Offers for acting roles began to decline around this time, and she devoted herself to other pursuits including political study; she received a bachelor's degree in political science from City College of New York in 1975. In 1979 McQueen won a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance as Aunt Thelma, a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special episode "The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody." She had one more role of substance in the 1986 movie The Mosquito Coast.

Personal life
McQueen never married or had any children. She lived in New York in the summer months and in Augusta, Georgia during the winter.

In July 1983, a jury awarded McQueen US$60,000 in a judgment stemming from a lawsuit she filed against two bus-terminal security guards. McQueen sued for harassment after she claimed the security guards accused her of being a pickpocket and a vagrant while she was at a bus terminal in April 1979.
Death
McQueen died at age 84 on December 22, 1995 at Augusta Regional Medical Center in Augusta. She died from burns she had gotten when a kerosene heater she tried to light malfunctioned and burst into flames.

A lifelong atheist, she donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.

Filmography

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 Butterfly McQueen

American atheists
American radio actors
American stage actors
American television actors
Actors from Tampa, Florida
1911 births
1995 deaths
Emmy Award winning actors
In cricket, a googly is a type of way the ball is bowled. A googly is bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. It is occasionally called a Bosie (or Bosey) after its inventor Bernard Bosanquet.

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Sports words
Brittany Ann Daniel (born March 17, 1976) is an American actress. She works mostly in television programs. She and her twin sister Cynthia performed in many venues using the "twin gimmick." She played Jessica Wakefield in the teen sit-com Sweet Valley High. When she Sweet Valley program ended, Cynthia decided to leave acting in favor of a career as a photographer and Brittany decide to keep right on acting. She played Kelly Pitts in the comedy-drama television series The Game. 

Brittany Daniel was born in Gainesville, Florida.

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1976 births
Living people
Richard Graham Michael Morris (born 1948) is a British neuroscientist. He is known for developing the Morris water navigation task. This is one of the most-widely used learning tests for rodents. He is also known for investigating how the hippocampus works. He is the director of the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems (Edinburgh) He is also the Wolfson Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1997. Morris was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007.

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British neuroscientists
1948 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
The name Brittany [brit-n-ee] is a female name of French and Latin origins. It came from Brittany, a region of France.Brittany is a Celtic name that originates from the ancient region of Britain. This feminine name signifies "from Britain" or "from the land of the Britons". It is widely used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This name was first used in America in the very early 1970s. It was used the most during the 1990s.This name was ranked #934 on the US Popular Names in 2021. 

The name comes from the word Britannia, a 2nd-century Roman goddess.
People
 Brittany Bock, American soccer player
 Brittany Byrnes, actress
 Brittany Curran, actress
 Brittany Daniel, actress
 Brittany Finamore, actress
 Brittney Griner (born 1990), American basketball player
 Brittany Hensel, sister to Abigail Hensel; the two are dicephalic conjoined twins
 Brittany Jackson, basketball player
 Brittany Lincicome (born 1985), American golfer
 Brittany McConnell, child actress
 Brittany Murphy (1977–2009), American actress
 Brittany Perrineau, actress and former model
 Brittany Petros, actress
 Brittany Snow, actress
 Brittany Timko, Canadian soccer player
 Brittany Tiplady, actress
 Brittany Underwood, actress
 Brittany Allen , Canadian actress
 Brittany Furlan, American comedian

Animals
 Brittany spaniel, a breed of dog
 French Brittany (dog)

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Given names
Filibuster, also known as talking out a bill, is  a tactic of parliamentary procedure.

History
The term "filibuster" comes from the French word "flibustier," meaning "pillaging pirate."  In terms of parliamentary procedure, the word was not used until the 19th century However, the use of long speeches as a delaying tactic is part of the history of the Roman Senate. For example, Cato the Younger is known for using filibuster tactics to block Julius Caesar's rise to power.
Timeline
1841: The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate starts on February 18 and ends on March 11
 1853: The term "filibuster" is first recorded in the Congressional Record
 1874: Joseph Gillis Biggar delay the passage of Irish coercion acts by making long speeches in the British House of Commons to  
 1880:  The long speeches of Charles Stewart Parnell in the UK House of Commons blocked debate on anything else; and the tactic forced Parliament to take the issue of Irish self-government
 1917: The US Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters
 1919: A filibuster in the US Senate held up a vote on the Treaty of Versailles
 1957: US Senator Strom Thurmond holds record for the longest filibuster. His 24-hour, 18-minute speech on August 28-29 was against a civil rights bill.
 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the US Senate
1983: British Member of Parliament John Golding talked for over 11 hours to delay the British Telecommunications Bill
 2011: A filibuster about Canada Post by the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the House of Commons of Canada started on June 23 and ended on June 25, 2011.
 2013: Chuck Hagel, the president's defense secretary nominee was filibustered after a cloture motion (the vote that ends the filibuster) failed 58-40.
United States 
In the United States, current rules in the Senate require all Senators to be allowed to deliver a speech for as long as they want. Voting cannot begin until all Senators finish giving their speeches. A filibuster allows a senator to block a bill by speaking on behalf of the bill for too long on purpose so it would not be brought to a vote. To pass a bill, the Senate only needs at least 50 votes (out of 100) in support of the bill. To end a filibuster will require cloture which requires 60 votes (out of 100) in support. A cloture would allow the bill to be voted on because it forces all debates to end.
To get around the filibuster, the Senate may choose to include a provision of the bill through a reconciliation bill. A reconciliation bill bans filibusters and only requires 50 votes (out of 100) for it to pass. In 2013, the Senate Democrats changed the rules to ban filibusters for confirming the President's nominee for courts other than the Supreme Court. In 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell added Supreme Court nominations to the ban on filibusters in order to confirm Neil Gorsuch (appointed by Donald Trump) to the Supreme Court with only 50 votes. 

Supporters of the filibuster argue it protects the minority from having no say in the bill. However, critics claim it gives the minority too much power by blocking any legislation. 

In 2021, the Democratic Party introduced legislation that would eliminate the filibuster that could be passed with only a majority vote. However, Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema said they are opposed to modifying the filibuster.

References
References

Other websites
 "Filibuster and Cloture" at United States Senate

Parliamentary procedure
The High Court of Balochistan is the highest judicial institution of Balochistan, Pakistan. The court is formally known as High Court of Balochistan. It is situated at the provincial capital Quetta.

Organizations based in Pakistan
Steven William Moffat  (; born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer and producer. He is the writer and director of Doctor Who. Moffat is also the director, creator, and ruiner of Sherlock. He has written three series for both of his projects. He created several iconic monsters, including the Weeping Angels. He has won four BAFTA Awards.

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BAFTA Award winning writers
British screenwriters
British television producers
Emmy Award winners
1961 births
Living people
Writers from Paisley, Renfrewshire
The Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus), is a species of gecko. It is only native to the island of Madagascar. It was first described in 1888 by George Albert Boulenger.

They look a lot like a dead leaf. Its veins are showing and look just like the veins on a leaf. Its tail looks like it has been rotted or nibbled by insects. They are mostly mottled brown. They have small brown dots on their underside, which helps people tell them apart from other species. It may also be known as the eyelash leaf tailed gecko or the fantastic leaf tailed gecko.

Area
Satanic leaf-tailed geckos are native to the central and northern tropical forests of Madagascar. They climb on the trees and bushes. Satanic leaf-tailed geckos are found only in the mountainous rainforests in the southern two-thirds of Madagascar. They are found at the base of trees distinguishing itself as leaf litter.
Size and weight
They weigh about 10 to 30 grams. Adults are normally about 3-6 centimeters long including their tail, but sometimes they can be up to 9 centimeters long.

Diet
The geckos eat different kinds of insects, flies, worms, and spiders. They can eat large insects because of their big mouth.

References

Lizards
Reptiles of Africa
The Northern pygmy owl (Glaucidium gnoma) is a small owl native to North and Central America.

Description
The Northern pygmy owl is small and has a long tail. It has shiny yellow eyes, yellow feet, and small tuffs of fur with its ears. Its feathers are a reddish brown speckled with white. Like all of the members of its family, it has fake eye spots that are black and outlined in white on the back of its neck. The Northern Pygmy Owl's stomach is white with black stripes. The Northern Pygmy Owl tends to perch in a diagonal position rather than an upright position.
Breeding
Northern pygmy owls nest and breed in evergreen-filled forests and woodlands with variety. They normally mate in Spring. They prefer to live in tree cavities or old woodpeckers' holes. They do not add anything to their nest. The mothers keep three or four eggs warm. But she waits for all of the eggs to be laid before she starts incubating. That is an inimitable trait of northern American owls. While the female owl takes care of the eggs, the male consistently brings food for them. After the eggs hatch, the mother takes care of them for about one week. The baby owls will gain the ability to fly in about twenty-seven to twenty-eight days.
Habitat
Northern pygmy owls are widespread across North America. They usually live in the scattered areas with less trees, rather than large parts of land with lots of unbroken trees. Northern pygmy owls are most active during the dawn or the dusk. Northern pygmy owls can also be seen in the daytime, when the weather is overcast. They like to perch on conifer or small trees, or in a snag. When they perch, they bob their head up and down, and flick their tails, and hold their tails to one side.

Diet
One third of the pygmy owls' diet are rodents, large insects, and small birds. Northern pygmy owls are very aggressive hunters, so fast that they can catch their prey in flight.

References 
NeotropicalBirds. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, n.d. Web. 8 Nov. 2012.
Bird Web . Seattle Audubon Society, n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012.
Crane, S. 2002. "Sciurus griseus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed December 13, 2012.

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Birds of North America
Emily Margaret Watson OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She was born in Islington, London. She acted in Breaking the Waves, Hilary and Jackie, Cradle will Rock and Angela's Ashes and Oranges and Sunshine. Her television roles include the title character in Appropriate Adult, for which she won a BAFTA Award.

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The name Emily [ em-uh-lee ] is a female given name. It comes from the Roman name Aemilia. It is very popular in the English-speaking world. There are many famous people with the name Emily. Emily has been a popular name for baby girls for centuries and has been used in various cultures, each with its own interpretation. The name Emily is believed to have originated from the Latin name Aemilia, which meant "rival" or "emulating." During the Roman era, it was a common name among the aristocracy and was later adopted by the English. The name Emily has been associated with several meanings, with one of the most popular being "industrious" or "hardworking." This significance is rooted in the Latin word "aemulus," which means "rival" or "emulating." In ancient Rome, girls born into affluent families were given the name Aemilia, indicating the expectation that they would be diligent and hardworking. This name was ranked #21 on the US Popular Female Names in 2021.
It is also the name of a song on Joanna Newsom's album Ys.

The name has been used for Atlantic hurricanes.

People 

 Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski，American model and actress
 Emily Dickinson，American poet

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Conor Maynard (born 21 November 1992) is an English singer. He comes from Brighton. His first album, Contrast, was a large success: it went top of the UK charts. He had four singles from that album: Can't Say No, Vegas Girl, Turn Around and "Animal". They all reached the top 10 in the UK charts. They also did well in Scotland, Ireland, and other countries.

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Emma [ em-uh ] is a female given name. It comes from the Germanic word ermen (which means universal or whole). 

The name is very popular for females in the English-speaking world. It became popular in the United States in the mid to late 20th century. This name was one of the most popular for 2008. 

It is the feminine version of the name "Emmanuel", which is derived from the Hebrew name "Immanuel" that means "God is with us". 

Additionally, the name Emma is linked to the Latin word "emere", which means "to purchase" or "to obtain".

People 
 Emma Thompson, English actress and writer
 Emma Watson, English actress and activist (born 1990)
 Emma Stone, American actress
 Emma Tate, British actress
 Emma Lazarus, American poet (1849–1887)
 Emma Watkins, Australian musician
 Emma Roberts, American actress (born 1991)
 Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian
 Emma Caulfield, American actress
 Emma Raducanu, British tennis player

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Mason may refer to:

 A craftsman who works with (masonry)
 Stone mason, a craftsman in the stonemasonry industry
 A bricklayer, a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork
 A Freemason
Lilyan Tashman was an American stage, silent movie, and early "talkie" actress. She was born in New York City. She won notice as a vaudevillian in the Zeigfield Follies. Her first movie was Experience in 1921. This was followed by many others. She often played the bitchy "other woman". Tashman was a lesbian and looked for sex with other women in public restrooms.  She had a long term affair with Greta Garbo. She married vaudevillian Al Lee and, later, openly gay actor Edmund Lowe. Their parties were the talk and the scandal of early Hollywood. Tashman died of cancer in 1934. Her last film, Frankie and Johnny, was released after her death in 1936.

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The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) is a competition, exhibition and award held each year for visual arts in Australia. It is one of the most important art awards in Australia. It was first created in 1984 by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Telstra has sponsored the event since 1992, so it is often known as the Telstra Award.

The competition is open to all adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. It features artists from all over Australia. Its goal is to show the best indigenous art in the country. The works can be in any media, including paintings (on bark, canvas and paper), prints, sculpture, textiles, weaving, ceramics, glass, photography, digital media and video.

The first prize of AU$40,000 is awarded to the work considered the best in the show. Smaller prizes of AU$4,000 each are awarded in four categories.

List of winners

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Hanlon's razor is a saying that reads:

In simpler words: some bad things happen not because of people having bad intentions, but because they did not think it through properly.

The quotation is attributed to Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, US. According to his friend Joseph Bigler, Hanlon first used it as part of something he wrote for a compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law. The compilation book was published in 1980 titled Murphy's Law Book Two, More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong. The name was inspired by Occam's razor.
There are many similar sayings. One example is "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."  Something similar has been attributed to science fiction author Robert Heinlein’s short story "Logic of Empire" in 1941 (“I would say that you have fallen into the commonest fallacy of all in dealing with social and economic subjects-the "devil theory".'Huh?' 'You have attributed conditions of villainy that simply result from stupidity.”).  The phrase has also been erroneously attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Hulk may refer to:

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The Incredible Hulk - the character
Hulk the 2003 movie staring Eric Bana
 The Incredible Hulk, the 2008 sequel to Hulk
 The Incredible Hulk 
 the TV series

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Hulk - Brazilian footballer
Hulk Hogan (born 1953) - American semi-retired professional wrestler
Andrea Louise Martin is an American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian. She is best known for her work in the television series SCTV and Great News. She has been in movies such as Black Christmas (1974), Wag the Dog (1997), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) and Little Italy (2018). She has also been in the animated moviesAnastasia (1997), The Rugrats Movie (1998) and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001).

Martin has been also acted on stage. She has won Tony Awards for both My Favorite Year and the 2013 version of Pippin. Martin has been on Broadway in Candide, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Young Frankenstein, Exit the King, and Act One. She has gotten five nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. This is more than any other actress. She got her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2016 version of Noises Off.
She also starred as Carol Wendelson on the NBC sitcom Great News, and as Marilyn Kessler in the Hulu series Difficult People.

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A santon ("little saint") is small, hand painted, terra cotta figurine manufactured in Provençal. These figurines represent characters in the "nativity scene" such as the Holy Family and the Magi. Also represented are traditional characters from 19th century French village life such as the scissors sharpener, the fishwife, the chestnut seller, and the miller. Santons had their origin in the days of the French Revolution when revolutionists forbade large nativity scenes. The production of santons today is a family affair with parents teaching the craft to their children. Santon makers gather in Marseille and other places during the Christmas season to display and sell their products.

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Aldo Moro (September 23, 1916 – May 9, 1978) was an Italian politician who was the 38th Prime Minister of Italy from December 4, 1963 through June 24, 1968. He was also the Italian Minister of Justice, the Italian Minister of Education, and the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. His political career would last from 1963 from 1974. He was a Roman Catholic.

Moro was born on September 23, 1916 in Maglie, Apulia, Italy. He studied at the University of Bari and at Sapienza University of Rome. Moro was  married and had 4 children.

He was kidnapped on March 16, 1978 by the Red Brigades (BR), a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization. On May 9, 1978, the Red Brigades said that Moro would go free so they sent him to a car. As he began to enter the car, he was shot and killed after 55 days of captivity, aged 61. In fact, Pope Paul VI "offered himself in exchange … for Aldo Moro …".

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 Banca dati della memoria: Moro's letters and +
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 Buongiorno, notte, 2003 film about the kidnapping
 Piazza Delle Cinque Lune, 2003 film about the kidnapping
 Italian document March 2, 1987 

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Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Clooney (born January 13, 1934) is an American journalist, anchorman, and television host. He is the brother of Rosemary Clooney and the father of George Clooney. He is also the father of Adelia Clooney.

Clooney was born on January 13, 1934 in Maysville, Kentucky. His parents had German, Irish, and English ancestry. His career would begin in California during the 1960s. Later he moved to Lexington, Kentucky and to Cleveland, Ohio. Clooney was married to Nina Bruce Warren since 1959. They had two children. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.

Clooney ran to be part of the United States House of Representatives for Kentucky for the Democrat Party in 2004. He ran against Ken Lucas. Clooney lost 44% to 54%.

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Hope is a city in Arkansas. It is the birthplace of former Arkansas governors Bill Clinton, who was later U.S. President, and former Governor Mike Huckabee, who unsuccessful ran for the Republican nomination in 2008 and 2016. According to the 2020 United States Census its population is 8,952.

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Ellen Burstyn (December 7, 1932, Detroit) is an American actress who stars on the stage and in television programs and movies. She performed as Kate Bartok in the NBC television series The Doctors; her movies include Requiem for a Dream, a movie in which she performed as a drug addicted mom.

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Sleeping Dogs is an action-adventure video game. It was developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix. It was released on 14 August 2012. The game is set in Hong Kong and focuses on an undercover operation to infiltrate the Triads (an underground society). The main character in the game (who the player controls) is Wei Shen. He was sent away to the United States to become a police officer and then decided to come back to Hong Kong to stop the Sun On Yee shipping company who do many illegal things. This game consist of three major parts: cops, traids, and face.

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Katherine "Kate" Mulgrew (born April 29, 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American actress. She works on stage and in movies and television programs. She starred in Star Trek: Voyager and Orange Is the New Black. She acted in Throw Momma from the Train. She has worked in other television programs and movies.

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Warren Harding Barfield, Jr. (born May 4, 1979) is an American singer of Christian music.

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Ellen Katherine Pompeo (November 10, 1969) is an American actress. She works mostly in television shows. She portrayed the character Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy. She also does other television work. She was born in Everett, Massachusetts. She married producer Chris Ivery in 2007.

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