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  2. Octopus - Wikipedia

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    An octopus ( pl.: octopuses or octopodes [a]) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda ( / ɒkˈtɒpədə /, ok-TOP-ə-də [3] ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, an octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two ...

  3. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, Susan Shentall, as Juliet, was a secretarial student who was discovered by the director in a London pub and was cast for her "pale sweet skin and honey-blonde hair". [207] [l] Stephen Orgel describes Franco Zeffirelli 's 1968 Romeo and Juliet as being "full of beautiful young people, and the camera and the lush technicolour make ...

  4. History of India - Wikipedia

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    The mature Indus civilisation flourished from about 2600 to 1900 BCE, marking the beginning of urban civilisation on the Indian subcontinent. It included cities such as Harappa, Ganweriwal, and Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan, and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, and Lothal in modern-day India.

  5. Battle of the Little Bighorn - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 45°33′54″N 107°25′44″W. Battle of the Little Bighorn. Part of the Great Sioux War of 1876. The Battle of Little Bighorn by Charles Marion Russell. Date. June 25–26, 1876. Location. Near Little Bighorn River, Crow Indian Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana, U.S. 45°33′54″N 107°25′44″W.

  6. Anne Boleyn - Wikipedia

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    Anne Boleyn (/ ˈ b ʊ l ɪ n, b ʊ ˈ l ɪ n /; c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII.The circumstances of her marriage and execution by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation.

  7. American Pie (film series) - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $989.5 million [1] American Pie is a film series consisting of four sex comedy films. American Pie, the first film in the series, was released by Universal Pictures in 1999. The film became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon and gained a cult following among young people. Following American Pie, the second and third films in the ...

  8. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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    The plus sign ( +) and the minus sign ( −) are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively. In addition, + represents the operation of addition, which results in a sum, while − represents subtraction, resulting in a difference. [1] Their use has been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous.

  9. Scarlett Johansson - Wikipedia

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    Scarlett Johansson. Scarlett Ingrid Johansson ( / dʒoʊˈhænsən / [1] born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. The world's highest-paid actress in 2018 and 2019, she has been featured multiple times on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021.