| American Airlines Flight 77 |passengers = 58 (including 5 hijackers) American_Airlines_Flight_77
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| Dartmouth College | president = James Edward Wright Dartmouth_College
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| Dave Barry | birthplace = Armonk, New York Dave_Barry
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| John F. Kennedy Talk:John_F._Kennedy
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| John Adams (composer) John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer with strong roots in minimalism. He is best known for his opera Nixon in China (1985–87), recounting Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China. John_Adams_(composer)
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| John Adams (composer) Talk:John_Adams_(composer)
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| Oklahoma City bombing The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 aimed at the U.S. Oklahoma_City_bombing
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| Occidental College Occidental_College
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| Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize, PULL-it-sər,This is the preferred pronunciation according to the Pulitzer website. PYOOL-it-sər is also a common pronunciation (Oxford English Dictionary, Random House, American Heritage dictionaries). Pulitzer_Prize
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| Robert Byrd Robert_Byrd
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| Ray Bradbury | birthplace = Waukegan, Illinois Ray_Bradbury
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| Scott Joplin Scott Joplin (between June 1867 and January 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American musician and composer of ragtime music. He remains the best-known ragtime figure and is regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with James Scott and Joseph Lamb, and also a precursor to Stride Piano. Scott_Joplin
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| University of California, Los Angeles |staff =26,139 University_of_California,_Los_Angeles
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| Duke Ellington Washington, D.C. Duke_Ellington
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| Gödel, Escher, Bach Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter,The Pulitzer Prizes for 1980 described by the author as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll". Hofstadter, cover. Gödel,_Escher,_Bach
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| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction
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| Pulitzer Prize for the Novel The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel was a prize awarded between 1918 and 1947. In 1948, it was replaced by the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Pulitzer_Prize_for_the_Novel
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| Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919. Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry
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| Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, has been awarded since 2000. Before 1968, there was only one photography category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (later renamed breaking news) and feature categories. Pulitzer_Prize_for_Breaking_News_Photography
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| Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama
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| Pulitzer Prize for Criticism The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by Columbia University. Pulitzer_Prize_for_Criticism
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| Adlai Stevenson | birth_place= Los Angeles, California Adlai_Stevenson
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| Falun Gong Falun Gong () or Falun Dafa is a spiritual practice founded in China by Li Hongzhi (李洪志) in 1992. Statement of Professor David Ownby, Unofficial Religions in China: Beyond the Party's Rules, 2005. Falun_Gong
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| Our Town Our Town is a three act play by Thornton Wilder which is, perhaps, the most frequently produced play by an American playwright. The play is set in the fictional community of Grover's Corners, modeled after several New Hampshire towns in the Mount Monadnock region: Jaffrey, Peterborough, Dublin, and others. Our_Town
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| James Meredith | birth_place = Kosciusko, Mississippi James_Meredith
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| Oklahoma! Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. Oklahoma!
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| For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an anti-fascist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls
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| Thelonious Monk | Died = Thelonious_Monk
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| Pulitzer Prize for Music The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year. Pulitzer_Prize_for_Music
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| Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author. Pulitzer_Prize_for_Biography_or_Autobiography
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| East Carolina University |city = Greenville East_Carolina_University
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| W. E. B. Du Bois |birthplace = Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA W._E._B._Du_Bois
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| Loudoun County, Virginia Loudoun County ( "LOUD-un") is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. As of July 2006, the county is estimated to be home to 268,817 people, a 58 percent increase over the 2000 figure of 169,599. Loudoun_County,_Virginia
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| Joseph Ellis Joseph John Ellis (born 1943) is a Professor of History on the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College. His 2000 text, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2001. Joseph_Ellis
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| The Philadelphia Inquirer | chiefeditor = William K. Marimow The_Philadelphia_Inquirer
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| Guns, Germs, and Steel Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
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| For Better or For Worse For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that began in September 1979, and ended the main story on August 30, 2008, with a postscript epilogue the following day. As of September 2008, the strip is re-telling its original story by means of a combination of newly drawn strips and reruns. For_Better_or_For_Worse
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| The Beak of the Finch The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (ISBN 0-679-40003-6) winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. this book on evolutionary biology written for the layperson by Jonathan Weiner in 1994. The_Beak_of_the_Finch
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| The Wall Street Journal The_Wall_Street_Journal
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| Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence. In its first six years (1942-1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International. Pulitzer_Prize_for_International_Reporting
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| Pulitzer Prize for Commentary The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary has been awarded since 1970. The Pulitzer Committee issues an official citation explaining the reasons for the award. Pulitzer_Prize_for_Commentary
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| Thomas Friedman | birth_place = St. Louis Park, Minnesota, U. Thomas_Friedman
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| Richard Powers | birthplace = Evanston, Illinois Richard_Powers
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| Joseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer (English pronunciation: PULL-itser;. The pronunciation PYOO-litser is also common. Joseph_Pulitzer
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| The Village Voice |headquarters = 36 Cooper SquareNew York, NY 10003 The_Village_Voice
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| Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category. Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Non-Fiction
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| Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. Edwin_Arlington_Robinson
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| The Kansas City Star The_Kansas_City_Star
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| Carleton College |president = Robert A. Oden, Ph. Carleton_College
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| Sunday in the Park with George Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat. Sunday_in_the_Park_with_George
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