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Eddie is a 1996 sports comedy movie that was produced by Mark Burg and David Permut and was directed by Steve Rash.

Plot
The plot of the movie is about Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) who wins a chance to be an honorary head coach of the New York Knicks and trys to turn around a struggling Knicks team.

Cast 
Whoopi Goldberg as Edwina 'Eddie' Franklin
Frank Langella as William 'Wild Bill' Burgess
Dennis Farina as Coach John Bailey
Richard Jenkins as Carl Zimmer
Lisa Ann Walter as Claudine
John Salley as Nate Wilson
Mark Jackson as Darren (Preacher) Taylor
Malik Sealy as Stacy Patton
Dwayne Schintzius as Ivan Radmonovich
Rick Fox as Terry Hastings

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Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DBE (9 December 1915 in Jarotschin in Prussia - 3 August 2006 in Schruns, Austria) was a German-British soprano. She was one of the most famous opera singers of the 20th century as well as a famous recitalist.  She was particularly known for singing the music of Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, and Wolf.

Early life
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was born in Jarotschin in the province of Posen in Prussia. Schwarzkopf showed an interest in music from an early age. She first sang in an opera in 1928 when she took the part of Eurydice in a school production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1934, Schwarzkopf started to study in Berlin Hochschule für Musik, then she changed teachers and started working with the coloratura soprano Maria Ivogün as well as with Ivogün's husband, the pianist Michael Raucheisen.
Early career 
Schwarzkopf gave her first professional performance at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 15 April 1938, as the Second Flower Maiden (First Group) in Act II of Richard Wagner's Parsifal. She sang in Berlin for four years, during which time she joined the Nazi Party.  Because of this she was later not allowed to appear in the United States. 

In 1942, she was invited to sing with the Vienna State Opera, where her roles included Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Musetta and later Mimì in Puccini's La bohème and Violetta in Verdi's La traviata.
Career after the war 
In 1945, Schwarzkopf was given Austrian citizenship so that she would be allowed to sing in the Vienna State Opera.  In 1947 and 1948, Schwarzkopf appeared on tour with the Vienna State Opera at London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden on 16 September 1947 as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni and at La Scala on 28 December 1948, as the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which became one of her most famous roles.

From that time on she was invited to sing all over the world, including at La Scala, Milan and the San Francisco Opera.
In March 1946, Schwarzkopf had been invited to audition for Walter Legge.  Legge was a man who produced classical music recordings in Britain.  He had founded the Philharmonia Orchestra. Legge asked Schwarzkopf to sing Hugo Wolf's lied Wer rief dich denn?.  He thought she was so good that he gave her an exclusive contract with EMI. They worked a lot together, and they were married on 19 October 1953 in Epsom, Surrey; Schwarzkopf now had British citizenship because of her marriage to an Englishman. 

In the 1960s, when Schwarzkopf sang in operas she nearly always sang one of her  five favourite operatic roles: Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Countess Madeleine in Strauss's Capriccio, and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.   She was also good at singing Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff. On the EMI label she made several "champagne operetta" recordings like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow and Johann Strauss II's The Gypsy Baron.
Schwarzkopf's last operatic performance was as the Marschallin on 31 December 1971, in the theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels. For the next several years, she only sang in lieder recitals. 

On 17 March 1979, Walter Legge had a serious heart attack. His doctors told him to rest, but instead of resting he went to Schwarzkopf's last recital two days later in Zurich. Three days later, he died. 

After retiring, Schwarzkopf taught and gave master classes around the world, especially at the Juilliard School in New York City. She was well known for being an extremely strict teacher who stopped her pupils to criticize every little bit of detail.   After living in Switzerland for many years, she went to live in Vorarlberg, Austria.

She was made a doctor of music by the University of Cambridge in 1976, and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1992.  She received many other awards.
Schwarzkopf died in her sleep during the night of 2–3 August 2006 at her home in the village of Schruns, in Vorarlberg, western Austria, aged 90.

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The New York and New Jersey campaign was a series of battles between the British forces and the Continental Army that decided who would take control of New York City and the U.S. state of New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War and were mostly British victories. One British purpose was to finish smashing the Rebel army after the Battle of Long Island. The battles happened near the end of 1776. The Continentals won the two small battles of Trenton and Princeton at the end of the campaign, and spent the winter in Morristown, New Jersey. The British controlled the area for most of the rest of the war. 

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"Amish Paradise" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio. It was released in 1996 on the album Bad Hair Day.

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"Gump" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Lump" by The Presidents of the United States of America. It was released on the album Bad Hair Day in 1996. The song is a humorous retelling of the movie Forrest Gump.

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"Spy Hard" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a comedic song in the style of spy songs such as James Bond. It was used in the movie of the same name.

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Malt is cereal grain that is sprouted and then dried by hot air. It is sometimes used in brewing and the manufacture of malt vinegar. Malt is high in sugar because when the grain sprouts, much of its starch changes to sugar.  If the malt is dried with fire, it can have a smoky flavor.  The sugar from the malt can be fermented into beer and whisky.

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The Liberal Party of Canada () is a political party in Canada. The party is considered to be centre to centre-left. The party was the Official Opposition after it lost the 2006 election, until the NDP became the Official Opposition in 2011. They won the election in 2015.

The current party leader is the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Provincial and territorial parties
Every provinces and one territory in Canada have its own Liberal Party. However, only the parties in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are part of the federal Liberal Party. Some of the other provincial parties might have very similar political ideologies but they are different political parties. These parties might have different members and different funding.

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The Christogram IHS is a monogram symbolizing Jesus Christ.

From Greek it is an abbreviation of the name ΙΗΣΟΥΣ (Jesus).

In Eastern Orthodox Church the Christogram is composed with letters X, P, I and X arranged into the cross. They are the first letters of one from two words in Greek language: Christ and Jesus Christ.

In the Western culture there exist the compositions: "IHS" and also "IHC" being the first letters (iota-eta-sigma) of the name Jesus in Greek alphabet: ΙΗΣΟΥΣ (Ίησοῦς or ΙΗϹΟΥϹ with lunated sigma). The abbreviation in form "IHS" appeared in first time on the coins of Justinian II on the turn of the 7th and 8th centuries.
The order of Jesuits, in other words the Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu), adopted IHS as its fixed emblem - the symbol in 17th century. There appeared also Latin interpretations of the abbreviation IHS, among others:
 Iesus Humilis Societas - Humble Society of Jesus,
 Iesus Hominum Salvator - Jesus, Savior of men,
and also:
 In hoc signo vinces- By this sign you shall conquer.

These developed inscriptions were most likely formed because in the Middle Ages people mistakenly read the letter E as H. 

According to a legend, this inscription with the cross was seen by emperor Constantine the Great in his sleep before the battle against Maxentius in 312 on the Ponte Milvio.

Commentators unfriendly to the Catholic Church sometimes interpret the abbreviation IHS as derived from the solar idols of the Egyptian mythology: Isis, Horus and Seth. Nevertheless, present scientific knowledge does not confirm such interpretations.

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The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama movie directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning  1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth movie as a director, and marked a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become known. It was also the first movie directed by Spielberg for which John Williams did not compose the music. It stars Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Rae Dawn Chong, Willard Pugh, and Adolph Caesar in his final roles.

Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, the movie tells the story of an young African American girl named Celie Harris and shows the problems African American women faced during the early 20th century, including domestic violence, incest, pedophilia, poverty, racism, and sexism. Celie is changed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female friends.
The movie was a box office success, grossing $142 million against a budget of $15 million. The movie received positive reviews from critics, receiving praise for its acting, direction, screenplay, musical score, and production values; but it was also criticized by some critics for being "over-sentimental" and "stereotypical." The movie was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, without winning any; it also received four Golden Globe Award nominations, with Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Actress in a Drama. Steven Spielberg did not receive an Academy Award nomination for his directing, but did receive a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and a Golden Globe nomination. The movie was later included in Roger Ebert's book series The Great Movies.
Cast 
 Whoopi Goldberg as Celie Harris Johnson
 Danny Glover as Mr. Albert Johnson
 Oprah Winfrey as Sofia
 Margaret Avery as Shug Avery
 Akosua Busia as Nettie Harris
 Adolph Caesar as Old Mister
 Willard Pugh as Harpo Johnson
 Rae Dawn Chong as Squeak
 Larry Fishburne as Swain
 Dana Ivey as Miss Millie
 Leon Rippy as Store Clerk
 Bennet Guillory as Grady
 James Tillis as Henry "Buster" Broadnax
 Desreta Jackson as Young Celie Harris
 Leonard Jackson as Alphonso "Pa" Harris
 Howard Starr as Young Harpo Johnson
 Lelo Masamba as Olivia Johnson
Awards 
The Color Purple was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. Notably, Spielberg was not nominated for his direction. It won none of the Academy Awards.  This tied the record set by 1977's The Turning Point for the most Oscar nominations without a single win.
Academy Awards nominations
Best Picture
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Actress in a Leading Role; Whoopi Goldberg 
Best Actress in a Supporting Role; Margaret Avery 
Best Actress in a Supporting Role; Oprah Winfrey 
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration; J. Michael Riva, Bo Welch, Linda DeScenna
Best Cinematography; Allen Daviau 
Best Costume Design; Aggie Guerard Rodgers 
Best Makeup; Ken Chase 
Best Music, Original Score
Best Original Song ("Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)")

The Color Purple was nominated for five Golden Globes, including Best Picture (Drama), Best Director for Spielberg, and Best Supporting Actress for Winfrey. Its only win went to Goldberg for Best Actress (Drama).
Menno Meyjes was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Spielberg received the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Motion Picture Director, his first.

The movie was shown at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival as a non-competing title.

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Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy movie. It was produced by Robert De Niro, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal and Nancy Tenenbaum and was directed by Jay Roach. Meet the Parents is a remake of the 1992 movie of the same name. There were two sequels to Meet the Parents. The first sequel was Meet the Fockers, which was released in 2004. The second sequel was Little Fockers, which was released in 2010.

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Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes
Ben Stiller as Gaylord "Greg" Focker
Blythe Danner as Dina Byrnes
Teri Polo as Pam Byrnes
James Rebhorn as Dr. Larry Banks
Jon Abrahams as Denny Byrnes
Phyllis George as Linda Banks
Kali Rocha as Flight Attendant
Thomas McCarthy as Dr. Robert "Bob" Banks
Nicole DeHuff as Deborah "Debbie" Byrnes
Owen Wilson as Kevin Rawley

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American teen comedy movie set in Chicago, Illinois. It was produced by John Hughes and Tom Jacobson and was directed by Hughes. It was very successful at the box office and has since become a cult classic.

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Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller
Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye
Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson
Jeffrey Jones as Edward R. Rooney, Dean of Students
Jennifer Grey as Jeanie Bueller
Lyman Ward as Tom Bueller
Cindy Pickett as Katie Bueller
Edie McClurg as Grace the secretary
Ben Stein as the Economics teacher
Del Close as the English teacher
Charlie Sheen as Garth Volbeck, the teenage boy in police station
Richard Edson as the Parking Garage Attendant
Kristy Swanson as Simone Adamlee the Economics Student
Johnathan Schmock as the snooty waiter
Virginia Capers as Nurse Florence Sparrow
TV show
There was a TV show on NBC in 1990 called Ferris Bueller, which was a prequel to the movie. Charlie Schlatter played Ferris Bueller; Jennifer Aniston played his sister and also featuring Samantha Robson in her first starring role. The Bueller family lived in Los Angeles instead of Chicago.

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Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter. He was a British citizen, but was born, and spent most of his life, in France. Sisley is known for his Impressionist landscapes painted en plein air, that is, outdoors. He never went into portrait painting and continued in the impressionist style all his career.

Among his most important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton Court, painted in 1874, and various paintings showing places in or near Moret-sur-Loing.

Biography
Sisley was born in Paris to rich English parents. His father William Sisley was in the silk business, and his mother Felicia Sell enjoyed music. In 1857, at the age of 18, Sisley was sent to London to study for a career in business, but he gave it up after four years and returned to Paris. In 1862 he studied at the atelier of Swiss artist Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, where he met Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
In 1897 Sisley and his partner visited Wales and were married in Cardiff Register Office on 5 August. They stayed at Penarth, where he painted at least six pictures of the sea and the cliffs. In mid-August they moved to the Osborne Hotel on the Gower Peninsula, where he painted at least eleven oil-paintings in and around Rotherslade Bay. They returned to France in October. This was Sisley's last trip to England. The National Museum of Wales in Cardiff now has two of his Welsh paintings.

In 1898 he applied for French citizenship but was refused. He made a second application supported by a police report. He became ill before the application was accepted, with Sisley remaining English until his death. The painter died of throat cancer in Moret-sur-Loing at the age of 59, just a few months after the death of his wife.
Work
Sisley's first works are lost. His earliest known work is Lane near a Small Town. This is believed to have been painted around 1864. His first landscape paintings are sad and gloomy, coloured with dark browns, greens, and pale blues. They were often painted at Marly and Saint-Cloud. No one knows if Sisley's knew the paintings of J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, which he may have seen in London. These artists have been suggested as an influence on his development as an Impressionist painter, as well as Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Among the Impressionists Sisley has been overshadowed by Monet. Sisley's work very similar to that of Camille Pissarro. Described by art historian Robert Rosenblum as having "almost a generic character, an impersonal textbook idea of a perfect Impressionist painting", his work strongly creates atmosphere and his skies are always very impressive. His concentration on landscape subjects was the most consistent of any of the Impressionists.
Among Sisley's best-known works are Street in Moret and Sand Heaps, and The Bridge at Moret-sur-Loing shown at Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Allée des peupliers de Moret (The Lane of Poplars at Moret) has been stolen three times from the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice. The first time was in 1978 when on loan in Marseille, but it was found a few days later in the city's sewers. It was stolen again in 1998 and the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years along with two friends. It was stolen again in August 2007. On 4 June 2008, the French National Police found it and three other stolen paintings inside a van in Marseille.

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Denvir, B. (2000). The Chronicle of Impressionism: An Intimate DIary of the Lives and World of the Great Artists. London: Thames & Hudson. OCLC 43339405
Poulet, A. L., & Murphy, A. R. (1979). Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: The Museum. 
Reed, Nicholas, (2008). Sisley on the Thames and the Welsh Coast. Lilburne Press. 
Rosenblum, Robert (1989). Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. 
Turner, J. (2000). From Monet to Cézanne: late 19th-century French artists. Grove Art. New York: St Martin's Press.

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 The Impressionists at Biography (from archive.org)

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Anthoxanthum, the vernal grasses, is a large genus of true grass with a wide distribution. A. odoratum is a common species of acidic grassland and bogs in northern Europe.

The genus Hierochloe is included in Anthoxanthum by some. Hierochloe is a genus or subgenus known generally as sweetgrass. These are perennial rhizomatous grasses found in temperate regions in the Northern Hemisphere. These erect green grasses are known for their sweet scent. They bear panicle inflorescences with rounded grass grain fruits.

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An inflorescence is a flowering stem. The term is most used for a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem. An inflorescence is the reproductive portion of a plant; each plant bears its flowers in a specific pattern.

Whereas gymnosperms are mostly wind-pollinated, flowering plants are mostly pollinated by insects. There are some exceptions to this, for instance grasses are wind-pollinated. However, as a general rule, flowering plants rely on animals for their pollination.

Most flowers are pollinated by animals, usually insects. To be pollinated, a flower needs to be seen. Most insects have good colour vision, including vision in the ultra-violet (which humans do not have).
That is the reason many flowers have attractive colours.
Sometimes there is just a close bunch of flowers (e.g. Antirrhinum) on a spike. Sometimes the inflorescence is so tight it looks like one single flower. What you see as a single daisy is actually made of several hundred tiny flowers packed together. This kind of inflorescence is called a pseudanthium ("false flower").

Advantages 
The advantages of the inflorescence mode is all about reproduction compared to a single primitive flower of the Magnolia type.

Numbers There may be dozens or even hundreds of flowers in an inflorescence, with many seeds or fruits for each flowering.
Pollination Increased pollination is an important bonus. Massing flowers together makes them more visible to pollinating insects and birds.
Seed or fruit dispersal Dispersal by wind or animals is improved by having the flowers at the top end of a stem.

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Wilhelm Troll: Die Infloreszenzen; Erster Band. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1964
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Donald Adamson (born 30 March 1939 at Culcheth, Lancashire) is a British historian, philosophical writer and literary critic.

He is the author of Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God (1995), a book detailing the  concept of the existence of God and a study of Pascal’s Wager.

Adamson has written on French history, and histories of the City of London, a ducal family, travel, finance, and art.  He also wrote about the novels of Honoré de Balzac. He has translated many short stories of Guy de Maupassant into English.  
 
Adamson aids the cause of museums and libraries in the UK.  From 1983 to 1992 he served as a Justice of the Peace for the City of London.

Adamson studied at the University of Oxford. He taught at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, as well as Paris and London Universities. He also is a member of a Cambridge College where he conducts research.
2012-13 Donald Adamson was Master of the Curriers’ Company, a London Livery Company. He established a Curriers' Co. biennial award for graduates of British universities to write an essay on the history of London, as well as sixteen annual prizes in mathematics and history for pupils aged 14 to 15 at four London Academies.

Fellowships and honours 
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Chevalier, Ordre des Palmes académiques
Knight of Justice, Order of St John of Jerusalem
Service Medal, Order of St John (with Bar)
Cross of Merit, Order Pro Merito Melitensi

JP for the City of London, later Cornwall.

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Hesperornis  is an extinct genus of flightless aquatic birds that lived during the Upper Cretaceous (89–65 million years ago).

Hesperornis was an important early find in the history of avian paleontology. It was discovered by the paleontologist O.C. Marsh in the late 19th century Bone Wars.  

Famous locations for Hesperornis are the Upper Cretaceous marine limestones from Kansas and the marine shales from Canada. The genus probably had a Holarctic distribution.

Anatomy and life style 

Hesperornis was a large bird, reaching up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) in length. It had virtually no wings, and swam with its powerful hind legs. 

Like many other Mesozoic birds such as Ichthyornis, Hesperornis had teeth in its beak which were used to hold prey (most likely fish).
Hesperornis hunted in the waters of such contemporary shelf seas as the North American Inland Sea, the Turgai Strait and the prehistoric North Sea, which then were subtropical to tropical waters, much warmer than today. They probably fed mainly on fish, maybe also crustaceans, cephalopods and mollusks, as do the diving seabirds of today. Their teeth were helpful in dealing with slippery or hard-shelled prey.

On land, Hesperornis species may or may not have been able to walk. They certainly could not stand upright like penguins as in the early reconstructions. Their legs attached far at the back and sideways, with even the lower leg being tightly attached to the body (see photo of skeleton). Thus, they were limited to a clumsy hobble at best on land and would have been more nimble if they moved by sliding on their belly or galumphing. The leg skeleton of Hesperornis was so thoroughly adapted to diving that their mode on land, and their egg-laying and parental care, is a matter of speculation.
Young Hesperornis grew fairly quickly and continuously to adulthood, as is the case in modern birds. More young birds are known from the fossil record of the more northerly sites than from those further south. This suggests that at least some species were migratory like today's penguins, which swim polewards in the summer.

Hesperornis was preyed upon by large marine carnivores such as mosasaurs. A Tylosaurus specimen contains the bones of a Hesperornis in its gut area.

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The Nissan Primera was an automobile produced by Nissan. It replaced the Nissan Bluebird in 1990 and was produced in three generations produced until 2006. The first generation was made from 1990 to 1996. The second generation was made from late 1996 to early 2002 with a facelift in 1999 for European markets. The third generation was made from late 2001 to 2006 and was effectively replaced with the Qashqai crossover model in early 2007. It was also offered in the US market as the Infiniti G20 sold over two generations with only a sedan model available coming from the factory in Japan between the 1991 and 2002 model years. It is available as a 4-door sedan, 5-door hatchback and 5-door station wagon bodystyles with 4-cylinder petrol and diesel engines. The model was produced in Japan and the UK.

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Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.

Schulz died of colorectal cancer in Santa Rosa, California.

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The Littlest Hobo was a Canadian children's show directed by Charles R. Rondeau. It was based on a movie and is about a German Shepherd that wanders from town to town, helping people in need. The TV series ran from 1963-1965 and was later revived by CTV from 1979-1985.

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Lucas Robin "Luke" Ridnour (born February 13, 1981 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) is an American basketball player that currently plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the NBA. He went to University of Oregon for college where he played for the Oregon Ducks basketball team. Ridnour has also played with the Seattle SuperSonics from 2003-2007 and the Milwaukee Bucks from 2008-2010.

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Binge eatingis a disease characterized by episodes of compulsive overeating. 

It has the following characteristics:
People eat too much. This is known as overeating. When this happens, they often lose control, and cannot stop.
Very often, they eat more food than other people in the same time.
People feel very painful and distraught while they eat or after eating.
People want to make up the consequences of binge eating by some inappropriate and unhealthy ways.

The vicious cycle of binge eating

It can make people feel satisfied for a while, but after that, they will feel guilty and they will regret eating so much. People overeat to feel better, but they actually feel worse, and go back to overeating for relief, forming a vicious cycle.
Other characteristics:
If binge eating becomes a pattern, this is an eating disorder. People who suffer from this have a high risk of weight gain. They may feel ashamed of their eating habits and become depressed. People who binge and then purge, (usually by vomiting), have a different eating disorder called bulimia. People with anorexia may also binge and purge.

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Conway Twitty (born Harold Lloyd Jenkins; September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993) was an American country music singer.

Twitty held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until 2006 when George Strait broke his record.

Twitty is a former member of the Grand Ole Opry and was inducted into the Country Music and the Rockabilly Halls of Fame.

He died on June 5, 1993 at Cox House Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, as a result of abdominal aortic aneurysm.

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A matchbox is a box that contains safety matches. Usually, they are made of wooden sticks or cardboard. 

ContainersThe roaring, blinding flames lie undisturbed in an enchanted sleep. The disguised flames lay enclosed and protected in a rectangular enclosure and they wait, like a dying plant desperate for a drop of water, for the moment when they will awaken from their sleep and sizzle to life.
A matchbox is an object we use and see in our everyday life. Therefore we may take its value and importance for granted. But fire is no ordinary discovery. It can perhaps be called ancient mans greatest discovery.

A matchstick is a thin, smooth slice of wood, delicately cut into a rectangular stick. The tip of this stick however, is covered with a charcoal like black substance. This is the resting place of the birth of the flames. These flames will only awaken from their deep slumber when they are scratched along the side of their rectangular enclosure.
The matchstick scratches itself along the side of the matchbox in a swift movement and then all at once, as if by magic, a mesmerizing flam of crimson yellow and blood red appears. The flame is not tame and will not stay obediently at the tip of the matchstick. It slowly and threateningly makes its way down the thin slice of wood until eventually it reaches the end of the stick where it meets its fate. All too soon, the flame disappears as quickly as it appeared, leaving no trace that it ever existed.

In a traditional fairy tale, the sleeping princess is locked away in an eerie and irksome tower of a castle in a land far away from civilization.  In a similar manner the matches are forever locked away in a dismal prison- a cardboard box. This prison can range in all shapes and sizes just like in a fairy tale.  However, no matter what the size, what the shape, its properties are still the same.
The smell of a match box remains a mystery to all for it has to particular smell. The mystery of the fell of the matchsticks has been uncovered. The wooden stick is smooth but the black tip is a sharp contrast for it is rough.

The matchbox has clearly found its place in our lives. Its importance is unimaginable and we are ignorant creatures if we fail to recognize this.
The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) (french:Commandement des forces d'opérations spéciales du Canada) is the branch of the Canadian Forces responsible for special operations. 

The command is composed of four units : 
 Joint Task Force 2
 Canadian Special Operations Regiment
 427th Special Operations Aviation Squadron
 Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit

Military of Canada
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.

January
January 1 - Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician.
 January 1 - Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart failure.
 January 2 - Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor, cancer.
 January 2 - Anne Francis, 80, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
 January 2 - Richard Winters, 92, American paratrooper.
 January 4 - Salmaan Taseer, 46, Pakistani politician, Governor of the Punjab, shot.
 January 4 - Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter, liver failure.
 January 4 - Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, Tunisian fruit seller and figure in the Arab world uprising, suicide by burning.
 January 4 - Dick King-Smith, 88, British writer.
 January 6 - Gary Mason, 48, British, boxer, road accident.
 January 8 - John Roll, 63, American judge, shot.
 January 9 - Peter Yates, 81, British movie director.
 January 10 - John Dye, 47, American actor.
 January 10 - Margaret Whiting, 86, American singer.
 January 13 - Charles Muscat, 48, Maltese footballer.
 January 14 - Mississippi Winn, 113, American supercentenarian.
January 15 - Nat Lofthouse, 85, English footballer.
 January 15 - Susannah York, 72, British actress, bone cancer.
 January 16 - Steve Prestwich, 56, Australian musician, brain tumour.
 January 17 - Don Kirshner, 76, American music producer, heart failure.
 January 18 - Sargent Shriver, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 January 21 - Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer.
 January 23 - Jack LaLanne, 96, American physical fitness and nutrition expert, respiratory failure from pneumonia.
 January 24 - Bernd Eichinger, 61, German movie producer and director, heart attack.
 January 24 - Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician.
 January 27 - Charlie Callas, 83,  American comedian, natural causes.
 January 29 - Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.
 January 30 - John Barry, 77, British composer, heart attack.
 January 31 - Eunice Sanborn, 114, American, world's second-oldest person at the time of her death.
February 3 - Édouard Glissant, 82, French writer.
 February 3 - Maria Schneider, 58, French actress, cancer.
 February 4 - Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti.
 February 4 - Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress.
 February 5 - Brian Jacques, 71, British writer, heart attack.
 February 6 - Josefa Iloilo, 90, 3rd President of Fiji.
 February 6 - Gary Moore, 58, Northern Irish musician.
 February 8 - Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian water polo player, basketball player and coach.
 February 11 - Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and writer.
 February 11 - Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper.
 February 12 - Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, aortic aneurysm.
 February 12 - Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.
 February 13 - Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower.
 February 14 - George Shearing, 91, British-American jazz pianist.
 February 17 - Perry Moore, 39, American writer and movie producer.
February 19 - Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, former Mayor of Berlin.
 February 19 - Ollie Matson, 80, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, respiratory failure.
 February 23 - Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement.
 February 24 - Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator, heart attack.
 February 26 - Arnost Lustig, 84, Czech writer, cancer.
 February 27 - Necmettin Erbakan, 84, former Prime Minister of Turkey.
 February 27 - Frank Buckles, 110, American soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran, natural causes.
 February 28 - Jane Russell, 89, American actress, respiratory related illness.
 February 28 - Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.
March 2 - Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, shot.
 March 2 - Thor Vilhjalmsson, 85, Icelandic writer.
 March 3 - Allan Louisy, 94, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.
 March 4 - Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister, multiple organ failure.
 March 4 - Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist, co-winner of 1984 Nobel Prize for Physics.
 March 4 - Johnny Preston, 71, American singer, heart failure.
 March 5 - Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-Cuban biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara.
 March 6 - Jan Popluhar, 75, Slovakian footballer.
 March 8 - Mike Starr, 44, American bassist for the band Alice in Chains (body found on this date).
 March 11 - Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and movie composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes.
 March 13 - Owsley Stanley, 76, American-Australian LSD producer, Grateful Dead sound engineer, automobile accident in Queensland, Australia.
March 15 - Nate Dogg, 41, American musician.
 March 17 - Michael Gough, 94, British actor.
 March 18 - Warren Christopher, 85, 63rd United States Secretary of State, complications from kidney and bladder cancer.
 March 18 - Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Passy, 90, Monegasque princess.
 March 18 - Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), cancer.
 March 19 - Knut, 4, world famous polar bear.
 March 21 - Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Soviet gymnast, after long illness.
 March 21 - Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician.
 March 23 - Elizabeth Taylor, 79, English-American actress, congestive heart failure.
 March 26 - Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American lawyer, politician and Vice Presidential candidate.
 March 26 - Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British writer, lung cancer.
 March 26 - Paul Baran, 84, American internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.
 March 27 - Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes.
 March 27 - Farley Granger, 85, American actor, natural causes.
March 29 - Robert Tear, 72, Welsh tenor and conductor.
 March 29 - Jose Alencar, 79, Brazilian Vice President.
 March 30 - Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian movie actress and singer.
April 2 - Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach.
 April 5 - Ange-Felix Patasse, 74, former President of the Central African Republic.
 April 5 - Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American physician and Nobel Prize winner.
 April 7 - Bruce Cowan, 85, Australian politician.
 April 9 - Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer.
 April 9 - Sidney Lumet, 86, American movie director and theatre director, lymphoma.
 April 13 - Buster Martin, 97 or 104, French-British marathon runner.
 April 14 - Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man.
 April 14 - William Lipscomb, 91, American winner of 1976 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, pneumonia and complications from a fall.
 April 15 - Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, murdered.
 April 17 - Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian nobleman, titular Maharaja of Jaipur.
 April 18 - Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman, bicycle accident.
 April 18 - William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician and former Governor of Maryland.
April 19 - Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon runner, cancer.
 April 19 - Elisabeth Sladen, 63, British actress, cancer.
 April 20 - Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and moviemaker, mortar attack.
 April 20 - Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack.
 April 21 - Harold Garfinkel, 93, American sociologist.
 April 23 - John Sullivan, 64, British television writer, viral pneumonia.
 April 23 - Norio Ogha, 81, Japanese businessman, developer of the CD.
 April 24 - Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, multiple organ failure.
 April 25 - Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet.
 April 25 - Poly Styrene, 53, British musician, breast cancer.
 April 26 - Phoebe Snow, 58 or 60, American singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
 April 26 - Lynn Hauldren, 89, American pitchman, the Empire Man for Empire Today, natural causes.
 April 27 - David Wilkerson, 79, American pastor, evangelist and author, car accident.
 April 28 - Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountain climber, climbing accident.
May 1 - Henry Cooper, 76, British heavyweight boxer.
 May 1 - Osama bin Laden, 54, al-Qaeda leader, killed by U.S. forces.
 May 2 - Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.
 May 3 - Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor, illness.
 May 5 - Claude Choules, 110, Anglo-Australian World War I veteran, last living combat veteran.
 May 7 - Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.
 May 7 - Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer and industrialist, suicide by gunshot.
 May 7 - Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize winner.
 May 8 - Cornell Dupree, 68, American Jazz and R&B guitarist.
 May 9 - Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race accident.
 May 9 - Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, Bolivia's only female President.
 May 13 - Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian ice hockey player.
 May 15 - Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan marathon runner, fall from balcony.
 May 16 - Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor.
 May 17 - Harmon Killebrew, 74, American baseball player, esophageal cancer.
May 19 - Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish Taoiseach, after short illness.
 May 20 - Randy Savage, 58, American pro wrestler, heart attack and car accident.
 May 21 - Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor, liver cancer.
 May 23 - Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.
 May 23 - Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by a car.
 May 25 - Leonora Carrington, 94, British-Mexican painter and novelist.
 May 27 - Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player, heart attack.
 May 27 - Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor, overdose.
 May 27 - Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet and rap musician.
 May 29 - Sergei Bagapsh, 62, President of Abkhazia, complications after lung surgery.
 May 29 - Ferenc Madl, 80, former President of Hungary.
 May 29 - Bill Clements, 94, former Governor of Texas.
 May 30 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
 May 31 - Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.
May 31 - Andy Robustelli, 85, American football player and NFL Hall of fame member, complications of recent bladder surgery.
 May 31 - Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, stroke.
June 1 - Haleh Sahabi, 54, Iranian humanitarian and activist, heart attack.
 June 3 - Jack Kevorkian, 83, American physician and Assisted suicide activist.
 June 3 - James Arness, 88, American actor, natural causes.
 June 4 - Lawrence Eagleburger, 80, American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State, pneumonia.
 June 4 - Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, American writer, natural causes.
 June 7 - Jorge Semprún, 87, Spanish writer and politician.
 June 9 - M. F. Husain, 95, Indian artist, heart attack.
 June 11 - Kurt Nielsen, 80, Danish tennis player.
 June 11 - Seth Putnam, 43, American musician, heart attack.
 June 11 - Eliyahu M. Goldratt, 64, Israeli physicist, after short illness.
 June 14 - Peter Schamoni, 77, German movie director and producer.
 June 18 - Frederick Chiluba, 68, second President of Zambia.
 June 18 - Ulrich Biesinger, 77, German footballer.
 June 18 - Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian Human rights activist, after long illness.
June 18 - Clarence Clemons, 69, American musician and actor, stroke.
 June 20 - Ryan Dunn, 34, American television personality and daredevil, car accident.
 June 21 - Maria Gomes Valentim, 114, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest person.
 June 23 - Gene Colan, 84, American comic book artist.
 June 23 - Dennis Marshall, 25, Costa Rican footballer, car accident.
 June 23 - Peter Falk, 83, American actor.
 June 25 - Margaret Tyzack, 79, British actress, after short illness.
 June 26 - Jan van Beveren, 63, Dutch footballer and coach.
 June 27 - Elaine Stewart, 81, American actress, after long illness.
 June 28 - Michael Wenning, 75, American minister, led Ronald Reagan's state funeral, leukemia and kidney failure.
 June 30 - Georg Sterzinsky, 75, German cardinal.
July 2 - Itamar Franco, 81, 33rd President of Brazil, complications from leukemia.
 July 3 - Anna Massey, 73, British actress, cancer.
 July 4 - Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, natural causes.
 July 5 - Mika Myllyla, 41, Finnish cross-country skier.
 July 5 - Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer.
 July 8 - Betty Ford, 93, former First Lady of the United States and founder of the Betty Ford Center.
 July 9 - Michael Burston (Wurzel), 61, English musician (Motorhead).
 July 10 - Roland Petit, 87, French choreographer.
 July 11 - Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-American astronomer.
 July 12 - Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer. 
 July 17 - Juan Maria Bordaberry, 83, former President of Uruguay, after long illness.
 July 17 - Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese footballer, renal pelvic cancer.
 July 20 - Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.
 July 21 - Kazimierz Świątek, 96, former Catholic Cardinal of Belarus.
July 23 - Nguyen Cao Ky, 80, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister.
 July 23 - Amy Winehouse, 27, English singer-songwriter, alcohol poisoning.
 July 23 - John Shalikashvili, 75, American General, former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 July 23 - Robert Ettinger, 92, American academic.
 July 24 - Virgilio Noe, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 July 24 - Dan Peek, 60, American singer.
 July 25 - Mihalis Kakogiannis, 89, Cypriot movie director and producer.
 July 25 - Jeret Peterson, 29, American freestyle skier and Olympic silver medal winner, self-inflicted gunshot.
 July 26 - Margaret Olley, 88, Australian artist.
 July 26 - Sakyo Komatsu, 80, Japanese science fiction writer.
 July 27 - Agota Kristof, 75, Hungarian writer.
 July 28 - Abdul Fatah Younis, 67, Libyan rebel leader and government official, shot.
 July 30 - Millangoda Raja, 70, Sri Lankan elephant.
 July 30 - Mario Echandi Jimenez, 96, 47th President of Costa Rica, pneumonia.