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  2. Neil Young - Wikipedia

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    Neil Young [14] was born on November 12, 1945, in Toronto. [15][16] His father, Scott Alexander Young (1918–2005), was a journalist and sportswriter who also wrote fiction. [17] His mother, Edna Blow Ragland "Rassy" Young (1918–1990) was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. [18] Although Canadian, his mother had American and French ancestry. [19] Young's parents married in ...

  3. Miles Davis - Wikipedia

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    Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. [1] Born into an upper ...

  4. Ulysses (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialised in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature [3] and a classic of the genre, having been called "a ...

  5. Cher - Wikipedia

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    Cher[b] (/ ʃɛər / ⓘ SHAIR; born Cheryl Sarkisian, [a] May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Dubbed the "Goddess of Pop", she is known for her androgynous contralto voice, bold visual presentation and multifaceted career, while cultivating a screen persona that mirrors her public image by often portraying strong-willed and outspoken women. An influential ...

  6. Sage Stallone - Wikipedia

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    Sage Stallone was born in Los Angeles, California, the elder son and first child of Sasha Czack and actor Sylvester Stallone. He was the brother of Seargeoh "Seth" Stallone, and half-brother of Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet Stallone. He was the nephew of actor and singer Frank Stallone, and grandson of Jackie Stallone. He was the stepson of model and entrepreneur Jennifer Flavin. Stallone ...

  7. Olympic Games - Wikipedia

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    The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques) [a][1] are the world's preeminent international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games, open to both amateur and professional athletes, involves more than 200 teams, each team representing a ...

  8. 2025 Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election - Wikipedia

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    The 2025 Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election was held on 5 June 2025 to elect a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region. [1][2] It was triggered by the death of the incumbent, Christina McKelvie of the Scottish National Party (SNP), on 27 March 2025. [3] The Scottish Labour ...

  9. Pete Seeger - Wikipedia

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    Seeger was born on May 3, 1919, at French Hospital in New York City. [1] His family, which Seeger called "enormously Christian, in the Puritan, Calvinist New England tradition", [2] traced its genealogy back over 200 years. A paternal ancestor, Karl Ludwig Seeger, a physician from Württemberg, Germany, had emigrated to America during the American Revolution and married into the old New ...