The Oceanides
The Oceanides is a single-movement tone poem for orchestra written in 1913–14 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The piece ...
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Nestor Lakoba
Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba was a communist leader in Abkhazia. He helped establish Bolshevik power in the aftermath of the Russian ...
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Ruby Laffoon
Ruby Laffoon was the 43rd Governor of Kentucky from 1931 to 1935. Dubbed \”the terrible Turk from Madisonville,\” he advocated ...
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O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165
O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Weimar for Trinity ...
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Smallville (season 1)
The first season of Smallville began airing on October 16, 2001, on The WB television network. The season comprises 21 ...
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Paul Kruger
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician. He was one of the ...
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Noye’s Fludde
Noye’s Fludde is a one-act opera by the British composer Benjamin Britten. First performed on 18 June 1958 at that ...
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Nixon in China
Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman. It was ...
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894 – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the ...
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Sesame Workshop
Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett formed the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) in 1966 to produce Sesame Street. The Workshop ...
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