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  2. Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen - Wikipedia

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    Plot. Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner Pilgrim, a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find targets. However, this time, the hunting season has been unsuccessful, and as they plan to return home, four people request passage to Valparaiso: Mrs. Weldon, the wife of the hunting firm's owner; her five-year-old son, Jack; his old nanny, Nan ...

  3. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.

  4. How Great Thou Art - Wikipedia

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    "How Great Thou Art" is a Christian hymn based on an original Swedish hymn entitled "O Store Gud" written in 1885 by Carl Boberg (1859–1940). The English version of the hymn and its title are a loose translation by the English missionary Stuart K. Hine from 1949.

  5. Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    Background Kennedy Main article: John F. Kennedy Further information: Presidency of John F. Kennedy Kennedy delivering his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University, 1962 In 1960, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, was elected the 35th president of the United States with Lyndon B. Johnson as his vice presidential running mate. Kennedy's tenure saw the height ...

  6. Comic strip - Wikipedia

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    Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as television news relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long "storylines" (with six consecutive (mostly unrelated) strips following a same subject), with longer storylines ...

  7. Lyndon B. Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Johnson on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 's passage. Recorded July 2, 1964. Lyndon Baines Johnson ( / ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

  8. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya - Wikipedia

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    Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.. She began her career writing short stories and plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of pro

  9. News - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Etymology The English word "news" developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of "new". In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German Neues. Similar developments are found in the Slavic languages – namely cognates from Serbo-Croatian novost (from nov, "new"), Czech and Slovak noviny (from nový, "new"), the Polish ...

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