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Nex Benedict (January 11, 2008 – February 8, 2024) [1] was a 16-year-old non-binary American high school student who died the day after a physical altercation in the girls' restroom of their [note 1] high school.
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a successful plot to rig The Daily Number, a three-digit game of the Pennsylvania Lottery. All of the balls in the three machines, except those numbered 4 and 6 , were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of those digits.
"(In My) Solitude" is a 1934 composition by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Eddie DeLange and Irving Mills. [1] It has been recorded numerous times and is considered a jazz standard. [1] Ellington reported that he composed it in a recording studio in 20 minutes, as his orchestra had arrived with three pieces to record and required another. [1]
My Salinger Year (also known as My New York Year) is a 2020 drama film written and directed by Philippe Falardeau, based upon the memoir of the same name by Joanna Rakoff. It stars Margaret Qualley , Sigourney Weaver , Douglas Booth , Seána Kerslake , Colm Feore and Brían F. O'Byrne .
Directed by both Usher and music video director Chris Robinson, "My Boo" clip was filmed in New York City. The storyline of the video is a reflection of the song's lyrics. [ 6 ] The footage starts with Usher in a living room watching a video for "Bad Girl", a song from Confessions .
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. Published by Farrar, Straus , it includes " The Lottery " and 24 other stories. This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime.
Borat's performance of "In My Country There Is Problem (Throw the Jew Down the Well)" on an episode of Da Ali G Show [is] a densely packed piece of sociopolitical parody: an incitement to pogrom ("Throw the Jew down the well/So my country can be free/You must grab him by his horns/Then we have a big party") sung by a British Jew disguised as a ...