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Picture of Lemmy, lead singer of Motörhead
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The new wave of British heavy metal began in the late 1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Encompassing diverse mainstream and underground styles, the music often infused 1970s heavy metal music with the intensity of punk rock to produce fast and aggressive songs.
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New wave of British heavy metal
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Grand Kartal Hotel
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A fire at a ski resort hotel in Kartalkaya, Turkey, leaves at least 78 people dead and 51 others injured.
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Kartalkaya, Turkey
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A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leaves more than 80 people dead.
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Catatumbo region of Colombia
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A ceasefire agreement suspends the Israel-Hamas war, involving the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
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Two Supreme Court judges are assassinated in a shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran.
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ten-year-old Violet Wong received a gold watch after performing for General Chiang Kai-shek?
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Violet Wong
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Alabama and Clemson played each other in the championship game of the second and third College Football Playoffs?
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an irreverent photograph of Czechoslovak president Klement Gottwald brought a ten-year sentence for the photojournalist Jindřich Marco, who had to serve seven years in uranium mines?
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despite having built a cathedral, Bishop Joseph Crétin said that his diocese did not have one?
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Jerónimo Muñoz"s mastery of Hebrew purportedly caused Jews to assert that Muñoz was himself a Jew?
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an Oregon radio station stayed on the air through a major windstorm even though a tree fell into its studios?
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Lee Kuan Yew stated that "there would have been no clean and green Singapore without Lee Ek Tieng"?
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the 1827 novel A Voyage to the Moon contains the first use of anti-gravity for space travel in science fiction?
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a wardrobe malfunction at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was staged because the host wanted the audience "to wake up a little"?
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Anna Gardner (1816)
Seunghee (1996)
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Mihrimah Sultan (1578)
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Feast day of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Christianity) and Dwynwen (Wales); Tatiana Day (Russia)
1515 – Francis I was crowned king of France
1725 – Privateer Amaro Pargo was declared a hidalgo
1765 – Port Egmont was founded
1890 – Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe
1998 – The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonated a truck bomb at the sacred Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy
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Nellie Bly
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Sir Edwin Landseer
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An oil-on-canvas painting of a red deer stag completed in 1851.
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Commissioned for the Palace of Westminster, widely reproduced and used in advertising. Now in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.
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The Monarch of the Glen
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