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  2. O Fortuna - Wikipedia

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    It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman and Greek mythology . In 1935–36, "O Fortuna" was set to music by German composer Carl Orff as a part of " Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi ", the opening and closing movement of his cantata Carmina Burana. It was first staged by the Frankfurt Opera on 8 ...

  3. London - Wikipedia

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    London. /  51.50722°N 0.12750°W  / 51.50722; -0.12750. London is the capital and largest city of England, and the United Kingdom, with a population of around 8.8 million, [1] and its metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.8 million.

  4. 2020 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence.

  5. Moon - Wikipedia

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    The usual English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is simply Moon, with a capital M. The noun moon is derived from Old English mōna, which (like all its Germanic cognates) stems from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, which in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis "month" (from earlier *mēnōt, genitive *mēneses) which may be related to the verb "measure" (of time).

  6. Project 2025 - Wikipedia

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    Project 2025 (officially the Presidential Transition Project) is a collection of policy proposals to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government at an unprecedented scale in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. [2] [3] Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit tens of thousands of ...

  7. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    Category. The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or simply "the Web") is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as email and Usenet do.

  8. List of World Series champions - Wikipedia

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    The winning team is traditionally invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States . A total of 119 World Series have been contested through 2023, with the AL champion winning 68 and the NL champion winning 51. The New York Yankees of the AL have played in 40 World Series, winning 27 – the most championship appearances ...

  9. Robert De Niro - Wikipedia

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    Robert Anthony De Niro (/ d ə ˈ n ɪər oʊ / də NEER-roh, Italian: [de ˈniːro]; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese , he is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation.