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  2. La cigale et la fourmi - Wikipedia

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    La cigale et la fourmi (The Grasshopper and the Ant) is a three-act opéra comique, [n 1] with music by Edmond Audran and words by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru. Loosely based on Jean de La Fontaine 's version of Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, the opera shows the lives of two young women, one prudent, like the ant, the other ...

  3. Daily Mail - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper published in London. It was founded in 1896. As of 2020, it was the highest paid circulation newspaper in the UK. [5] Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982, a Scottish edition was launched in 1947, and an Irish edition in 2006.

  4. La (Tarzan) - Wikipedia

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    La is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs 's series of Tarzan novels, the queen and high priestess of Opar, a lost city in the jungles of Africa. [1] Opar is portrayed as a surviving colony of ancient Atlantis in which incredible riches have been stockpiled down through the ages. The city's population exhibits extreme sexual dimorphism caused ...

  5. YouTube Music - Wikipedia

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    YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Google. The service is designed with a user interface that allows users to explore songs and music videos on YouTube based on genres, playlists, and recommendations. In April 2023, the service expanded its offerings to include support ...

  6. Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    Ukraine is the second-largest European country, after Russia. Lying between latitudes 44° and 53° N, and longitudes 22° and 41° E ., it is mostly in the East European Plain. Ukraine covers an area of 603,550 square kilometres (233,030 sq mi), with a coastline of 2,782 kilometres (1,729 mi).

  7. Audrey Hepburn - Wikipedia

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    1929–1938: Family and early childhood. Audrey Kathleen Ruston (later, Hepburn-Ruston [6]) was born on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. [7] She was known to her family as Adriaantje. [8] Hepburn's grandfather, Aarnoud van Heemstra, was the governor of the Dutch colony of Dutch Guiana.

  8. Los Angeles Lakers - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The Lakers play their home games at Crypto.com Arena, an arena shared with the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Sparks ...

  9. Holy Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Holy Roman Empire, [e] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. [19] It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost 1,000 years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.