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What was the Lady with an Ermine
Leonardo 's fingerprints have been found in the surface of the paint , indicating he used his fingers to blend his delicate brushstrokes .
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
Episode titles are often taken from quotes made by the racers .
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Double Your Money ( Shanghai , China ) " – " Phil Keoghan "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Long Hair , Do n't Care ( Surabaya , Indonesia ) " – " Jaymes "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" There 's No Crying in Baseball ( Bangil , Indonesia ) " – " Brittany "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Funky Monkey ( Dhaka , Bangladesh ) " – " Abbie "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Chill Out , Freak ( Dhaka , Bangladesh ) " – " Natalie "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Get Your Sexy On ( Istanbul , Turkey ) " – " Nadiya "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Off to See the Wizard ( Moscow , Russia ) " – " James "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" We Was Robbed ( Moscow , Russia ) " – " James "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Fishy Kiss ( Amsterdam , Netherlands ) " – " Nadiya "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Not a Well - Rounded Athlete ( Mallorca , Spain ) " – " James "
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Who was the start of The Amazing Race 21 Episode " We Was Robbed " ?
" Take Down That Million ( Loire Valley , France & New York City , New York ) " – " Trey "
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How did William McKinley die ?
The 25th President of the United States , William McKinley , was shot and fatally wounded on September 6 , 1901 , inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo , New York .
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How did William McKinley die ?
McKinley was shaking hands with the public when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz , an anarchist .
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How did William McKinley die ?
The President died on September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds .
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How did William McKinley die ?
McKinley had been elected for a second term in 1900 .
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How did William McKinley die ?
He enjoyed meeting the public , and was reluctant to accept the security available to his office .
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How did William McKinley die ?
The Secretary to the President , George B. Cortelyou , feared an assassination attempt would take place during a visit to the Temple of Music , and twice took it off the schedule .
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How did William McKinley die ?
McKinley restored it each time .
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How did William McKinley die ?
Czolgosz had lost his job during the economic Panic of 1893 and turned to anarchism , a political philosophy whose adherents had recently killed foreign leaders .
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How did William McKinley die ?
Regarding McKinley as a symbol of oppression , Czolgosz felt it was his duty as an anarchist to kill him .
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How did William McKinley die ?
Unable to get near McKinley during the earlier part of the presidential visit , Czolgosz shot McKinley twice as the President reached to shake his hand in the reception line at the temple .
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How did William McKinley die ?
One bullet grazed McKinley ; the other entered his abdomen and was never found .
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How did William McKinley die ?
McKinley initially appeared to be recovering , but took a turn for the worse on September 13 as his wounds became gangrenous , and died early the next morning ; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him .
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How did William McKinley die ?
After McKinley 's murder , for which Czolgosz was put to death in the electric chair , the United States Congress passed legislation to officially charge the Secret Service with the responsibility for protecting the president .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
Several types of RNA can downregulate gene expression by being complementary to a part of an mRNA or a gene 's DNA .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
MicroRNAs ( miRNA ; 21-22 nt ) are found in eukaryotes and act through RNA interference ( RNAi ) , where an effector complex of miRNA and enzymes can cleave complementary mRNA , block the mRNA from being translated , or accelerate its degradation .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
While small interfering RNAs ( siRNA ; 20-25 nt ) are often produced by breakdown of viral RNA , there are also endogenous sources of siRNAs .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
siRNAs act through RNA interference in a fashion similar to miRNAs .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
Some miRNAs and siRNAs can cause genes they target to be methylated , thereby decreasing or increasing transcription of those genes .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
Animals have Piwi - interacting RNAs ( piRNA ; 29-30 nt ) that are active in germline cells and are thought to be a defense against transposons and play a role in gametogenesis .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
Many prokaryotes have CRISPR RNAs , a regulatory system similar to RNA interference .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
Antisense RNAs are widespread ; most downregulate a gene , but a few are activators of transcription .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
One way antisense RNA can act is by binding to an mRNA , forming double - stranded RNA that is enzymatically degraded .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
There are many long noncoding RNAs that regulate genes in eukaryotes , one such RNA is Xist , which coats one X chromosome in female mammals and inactivates it .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
An mRNA may contain regulatory elements itself , such as riboswitches , in the 5 ' untranslated region or 3 ' untranslated region ; these cis-regulatory elements regulate the activity of that mRNA .
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How can antisense RNA bind to mRNA ?
The untranslated regions can also contain elements that regulate other genes .
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How long is the director 's cut of Das Boot ?
150 minutes ( 1981 , 1982 ) Theatrical
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How long is the director 's cut of Das Boot ?
209 minutes ( 1981 ) unreleased
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How long is the director 's cut of Das Boot ?
300 minutes ( 1984 , 1988 ) BBC mini-series
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How long is the director 's cut of Das Boot ?
208 minutes ( 1997 ) Director 's Cut
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How long is the director 's cut of Das Boot ?
293 minutes ( 2004 ) " Das Boot : The Original Uncut Version "
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Both Paul Gauguin ( 1848–1903 ) and Paul Cézanne ( 1839–1906 ) were accorded major posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris between 1903 and 1907 , and both were important influences on Picasso and instrumental to his creation of " Les Demoiselles . "
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
According to the English art historian , collector and author of " The Cubist Epoch " , Douglas Cooper , both of those artists were particularly influential to the formation of Cubism and especially important to the paintings of Picasso during 1906 and 1907 . Cooper goes on to say however " Les Demoiselles " is often e...
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
He explains ,
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
The " Demoiselles " is generally referred to as the first Cubist picture .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
This is an exaggeration , for although it was a major first step towards Cubism it is not yet Cubist .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
The disruptive , expressionist element in it is even contrary to the spirit of Cubism , which looked at the world in a detached , realistic spirit .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Nevertheless , the " Demoiselles " is the logical picture to take as the starting point for Cubism , because it marks the birth of a new pictorial idiom , because in it Picasso violently overturned established conventions and because all that followed grew out of it .
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Although not well known to the general public prior to 1906 , Cézanne 's reputation was highly regarded in avant - garde circles , as evidenced by Ambroise Vollard 's interest in showing and collecting his work , and by Leo Stein 's interest .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Picasso was familiar with much of Cézanne 's work that he saw at Vollard 's gallery and at the Stein 's .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
After Cézanne died in 1906 , his paintings were exhibited in Paris in a large scale museum - like retrospective in September 1907 .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
The 1907 Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne greatly impacted the direction that the avant - garde in Paris took , lending credence to his position as one of the most influential artists of the 19th century and to the advent of Cubism .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
The 1907 Cézanne exhibition was enormously influential in establishing Cézanne as an important painter whose ideas were particularly resonant especially to young artists in Paris .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Both Picasso and Braque found the inspiration for their proto-Cubist works in Paul Cézanne , who said to observe and learn to see and treat nature as if it were composed of basic shapes like " cubes , spheres , cylinders , and cones . "
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Cézanne 's explorations of geometric simplification and optical phenomena inspired Picasso , Braque , Metzinger , Gleizes , Delaunay , Le Fauconnier , Gris and others to experiment with ever more complex multiple views of the same subject , and , eventually to the fracturing of form .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Cézanne thus sparked one of the most revolutionary areas of artistic enquiry of the 20th century , one which was to affect profoundly the development of modern art .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Picasso drew each of the figures in " Les Demoiselles " differently .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
The woman pulling the curtain on the far right is rendered with heavy paint .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Composed of sharp geometric shapes , her head is the most strictly cubist of all five .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
The heads of the crouching figure underwent at least two revisions from an Iberian figure to its current state .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
Much of the critical debate that has taken place over the years centers on attempting to account for this multiplicity of styles within the work .
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How many revisions did the heads of the crouching figure undergo ?
The dominant understanding for over five decades , espoused most notably by Alfred Barr , the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and organizer of major career retrospectives for the artist , has been that it can be interpreted as evidence of a transitional period in Picasso 's art , an effort t...
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What is pho ?
Reviews of 19th and 20th century Indochinese literature have found that pho entered the mainstream sometime in the 1910s .
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What is pho ?
Georges Dumoutier 's extensive 1907 account of Vietnamese cuisine omits any mention of pho , while Nguyễn Công Hoan recalls its sale by street vendors in 1913 .
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What is pho ?
A 1931 dictionary is the first to define ' as a soup : " from the word ' .
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What is pho ?
A dish consisting of small slices of rice cake boiled with beef .
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What is pho ?
" Possibly the earliest English - language reference to pho was in the book " Recipes of All Nations " , edited by Countess Morphy in 1935 : In the book , pho is described as " an Annamese soup held in high esteem ... made with beef , a veal bone , onions , a bayleaf , salt , and pepper , and a small teaspoon of " nuoc...
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What is pho ?
" There are two prevailing theories on the origin of the word "" and , by extension , the dish itself .
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What is pho ?
As author Nguyễn Dư notes , both questions are significant to Vietnamese identity .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
McG signed on to direct as the first two films were among his favorites , and he had even cast Robert Patrick ( who played the T-1000 ) in his films .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
Though he was initially unsure about " flogging a dead horse , " he felt the post-apocalyptic setting allowed the film to be different enough so as not to be just an inferior sequel .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
The idea that events in ' and ' altered the future also allowed them to be flexible with their presentation of the futuristic world .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
McG met with the series ' co-creator James Cameron , and , although he neither blessed nor denigrated the project , Cameron told the new director he had faced a similar challenge when following Ridley Scott 's " Alien " with " Aliens " .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
He maintained two elements of the previous films ; that John is an outsider to the authorities , and someone of future importance is being protected , and in this film it is Kyle Reese .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
The first full screenplay for the film was written by "" writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris , who received full screenplay credit .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
Paul Haggis rewrote Brancato and Ferris 's script , and Shawn Ryan made another revision three weeks before filming .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
Jonathan Nolan also wrote on set , which led to McG characterizing his work on the script as the most important ; he chose to contribute to the film after Bale signed on and created Connor 's arc of becoming a leader .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
Anthony E. Zuiker contributed to the script as well .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
So extensive were the rewrites that Alan Dean Foster decided to rewrite the entire novelization after submitting it to his publisher , because the compiled shooting script was very different from the one he was given beforehand .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
In the early script drafts , John was a secondary character .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
Producer James Middleton explained """ was influenced by Jesus Christ , but it was his story .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
Much in that way , this main character will be influenced by John Connor . "
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
The original ending was to have John killed , and his image kept alive by the resistance by grafting his skin onto Marcus ' cybernetic body .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
However , after the ending was leaked on the Internet , Warner Bros. decided to completely change the entire third act of the film .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
McG and Nolan did continue the Christ element of John 's character though , in which he has some followers who believe what he knows about Skynet , and others who do not .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
McG described the film 's theme as " where you draw the line between machines and humans " .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
The friendship between Marcus — who was executed ( for murder ) when humanity still ruled the world — and Kyle Reese illustrates how war and suffering can bring out the best in people , such as when they worked together to survive during the Blitz .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
The title was derived from this second chance given to humanity and to Marcus , in addition to John 's efforts to save humanity from the machines .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
The film 's original title was " Terminator Salvation : The Future Begins " , but this was dropped during filming .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
Throughout writing , the cast and crew would watch scenes from the three films to pick moments to reference or tribute , including " Come with me if you want to live " and " I 'll be back " , which is uttered by John in this film .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
McG found himself having to decide which ideas for references would be included and which would not .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
An opening scene has John fighting a Terminator on a crashed helicopter , which was storyboarded as a homage to the climax of the original film , where his mother Sarah , having broken her leg , is chased by a crippled Terminator .
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Terminator salvation was originally named what ?
McG did this to reflect the skills John learned from her .
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What country is depicted in The Starry Night ?
Starry Night ( ) is a painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh .
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What country is depicted in The Starry Night ?
Painted in June 1889 , it depicts the view outside of his sanitarium room window at Saint - Rémy - de - Provence ( located in southern France ) at night , although it was painted from memory during the day .
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What country is depicted in The Starry Night ?
It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City , part of the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest , since 1941 .
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What country is depicted in The Starry Night ?
The painting is among Van Gogh 's most well - known works and marks a decisive turn towards greater imaginative freedom in his art .
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Who was Dominique De Villepin ?
Criticisms about the evidence used to justify the war notwithstanding , many opponents of military intervention objected , saying that a diplomatic solution would be preferable , and that war should be reserved as a truly last resort .
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