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  2. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    The 29-year-old lawyer, who raced along a Chicago skyscraper corridor without wearing his glasses, crashed through a window and plunged 39 stories to his death, during an early Fourth of July party. Police said portions of the man's body were scattered around the street near the 41-story Prudential Building in the city's downtown area. Several ...

  3. Around the World in Eighty Days - Wikipedia

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    Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £ ...

  4. Around the World in 80 Days (2021 TV series) - Wikipedia

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    RAI. Release. 5 December 2021. ( 2021-12-05) [1] –. present. ( present) Around the World in 80 Days is a historical drama adventure television series based on the 1872 Jules Verne novel of the same name, in which, for a bet, Phileas Fogg travels the world in 80 days by various means both traditional and new. It was commissioned by the ...

  5. Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film) - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $42 million [2] Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure - comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists .

  6. List of accidents and disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Powder magazine in Negro Fort in Spanish Florida exploded during battle with United States forces. 339. 11 September 1905. Japanese battleship Mikasa explosion of magazine (artillery) while at port. 322. 17 July 1944. Port Chicago disaster at Port Chicago, California, United States. 300 (estimate) 25 September 1911.

  7. The Shocking Story of a Commune in the Most Unlikely of Places

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    What he found was stranger-than-fiction horror set inside Manhattan apartments. “You think of communes as being in Vermont or Oregon,” Stille says. “What this group did was attract high ...

  8. Eyes Wide Shut - Wikipedia

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    Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 American erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle ( Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.

  9. Around the World in 80 Days (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    April 16. ( 1989-04-16) –. April 18, 1989. ( 1989-04-18) Around the World in 80 Days is a three-part television miniseries originally broadcast on NBC from April 16 to 18, 1989. [1] The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. [2] The teleplay by John Gay is based on the 1873 Jules Verne novel of the same title.