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Error code: DatasetGenerationCastError Exception: DatasetGenerationCastError Message: An error occurred while generating the dataset All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 1 missing columns ({'id'}) This happened while the json dataset builder was generating data using hf://datasets/kv-fusion/tqa-train-dev/FiD-DPRNeg-tqa-train-evidence.jsonl (at revision 98570096272ef7bf1883cebeb2237745dd85fc95) Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations) Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2013, in _prepare_split_single writer.write_table(table) File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 585, in write_table pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema) File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2302, in table_cast return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema) File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2256, in cast_table_to_schema raise CastError( datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast question: string answers: list<item: string> child 0, item: string answer: string positive_ctxs: list<item: struct<title: string, text: string, score: double, title_score: int64, psg_id: string>> child 0, item: struct<title: string, text: string, score: double, title_score: int64, psg_id: string> child 0, title: string child 1, text: string child 2, score: double child 3, title_score: int64 child 4, psg_id: string positive_ctx: struct<title: string, text: string, score: double, title_score: int64, psg_id: string> child 0, title: string child 1, text: string child 2, score: double child 3, title_score: int64 child 4, psg_id: string evidence: string ctxs: list<item: struct<title: string, text: string, score: double, title_score: int64, psg_id: string, id: string>> child 0, item: struct<title: string, text: string, score: double, title_score: int64, psg_id: string, id: string> child 0, title: string child 1, text: string child 2, score: double child 3, title_score: int64 child 4, psg_id: string child 5, id: string to {'question': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'answers': Sequence(feature=Value(dtype='string', id=None), length=-1, id=None), 'answer': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'positive_ctxs': [{'title': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'text': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'score': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'title_score': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'psg_id': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}], 'positive_ctx': {'title': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'text': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'score': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'title_score': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'psg_id': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}, 'evidence': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'ctxs': [{'title': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'text': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'score': Value(dtype='float64', id=None), 'title_score': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'psg_id': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'id': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}], 'id': Value(dtype='int64', id=None)} because column names don't match During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1396, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder) File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1045, in convert_to_parquet builder.download_and_prepare( File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare self._download_and_prepare( File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs) File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single( File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2015, in _prepare_split_single raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error( datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 1 missing columns ({'id'}) This happened while the json dataset builder was generating data using hf://datasets/kv-fusion/tqa-train-dev/FiD-DPRNeg-tqa-train-evidence.jsonl (at revision 98570096272ef7bf1883cebeb2237745dd85fc95) Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
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"text": "by proclamation. What rights and privileges honorary citizenship bestows, if any, is unclear. According to State Department documents, it does not grant eligibility for United States passports. Despite widespread belief that Lafayette received honorary citizenship of the United States before Churchill, he did not receive honorary citizenship until 2002. Lafayette did become a natural-born citizen during his lifetime. On 28 December 1784, the Maryland General Assembly passed a resolution stating that Lafayette and his male heirs \"forever shall be...natural born Citizens\" of the state. This made him a natural-born citizen of the United States under the Articles of Confederation and",
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"text": "and the rest is currently occupied by the offices of the British Council. The British government was the first nation to build an embassy in the area that would later become known as Embassy Row. Outside the British ambassador's residence stands a statue of Sir Winston Churchill. One of the statue's feet is inside the marked embassy grounds; the other is within the District of Columbia. The embassy's website states that this symbolizes Churchill's Anglo-American parentage (his father was British, his mother American) and his status as an honorary citizen of the United States. The gardens of the ambassador's residence",
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"text": "name of a smaller bay at the eastern side of the basin. On July 10, 1862 he was made a Freeman of the City of London, the motion being proposed by Charles Reed in recognition of his financial contribution to London's poor. He became the first of only two Americans (the other being 34th President and General Dwight D. Eisenhower) to receive the award. On March 16, 1867, he was awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal, an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Harvard University, and an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law by Oxford University. On March 24, 1867, Peabody",
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"text": "of the colony until she died from a stroke in her son's house in London at age 55. Her deputy in Pennsylvania from 1718 till 1727 was Sir William Keith. Penn Family Hannah Penn is one of the few individuals and the first woman granted the status of Honorary Citizen of the United States, awarded her by Presidential Proclamation by an Act of Congress (PL. 98-516) by Ronald Reagan on November 28, 1984. When William Penn was laying out the city of Philadelphia in the early 1680s, he named Callowhill Street in his wife's honor. Similarly, a street in Perkasie,",
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"text": "separatist. In 1994, he received the Freedom Medal from the Roosevelt Institute. On 28 May 2005, the Dalai Lama received the Christmas Humphreys Award from the Buddhist Society in the United Kingdom. On 22 June 2006, he became one of only six people ever to be recognised with Honorary Citizenship by the Governor General of Canada. In February 2007, the Dalai Lama was named \"Presidential Distinguished Professor\" at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; it was the first time that he accepted a university appointment. The Dalai Lama was a 2007 recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award",
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"text": "in a global competition, the Genesis Generation Challenge, to identify young adults' big ideas to better the world. In 2014, Bloomberg was bestowed the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard University in recognition of his public service and leadership in the world of business. On October 6, 2014, Queen Elizabeth II awarded Bloomberg as Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his \"prodigious entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavors, and the many ways in which they have benefited the United Kingdom and the U.K.-U.S. special relationship.\" As Bloomberg is not a citizen of the United Kingdom,",
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"text": "Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown announced that Kennedy had been granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his work in the Northern Ireland peace process, and for his contribution to UK–US relations, although the move caused some controversy in the UK due to his connections with Gerry Adams of the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin. Later in March, a bill reauthorizing and expanding the AmeriCorps program was renamed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act by Senator Hatch in Kennedy's honor. Kennedy threw the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park before the Boston Red Sox",
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"text": "Parliament after Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Considered a rare privilege for a foreign leader, only Reagan, Clinton, Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela, Pope Benedict XVI and Nicolas Sarkozy had done so since the Second World War. (George W. Bush was invited to address Parliament in 2003, but declined.) In 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry remarked \"The relationship between the US and UK has often been described as special or essential and it has been described thus simply because it is. It was before a vote the other day in Parliament and it will be for long after that",
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"text": "Honorary citizenship Honorary citizenship is a status bestowed by a country on a foreign or native individual whom it considers to be especially admirable or otherwise worthy of the distinction. By act of United States Congress and presidential assent, an individual may be named an honorary citizen of the United States. Since 1963, it has been awarded to only eight individuals. Honorary Canadian citizenship requires unanimous approval in both houses of Parliament. The only people to ever receive honorary Canadian citizenship are Raoul Wallenberg posthumously in 1985; Nelson Mandela in 2001; the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso in 2006; Aung",
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"title": "The 500 Most Influential Muslims",
"text": "The highest-ranking American (and highest-ranking convert) at 38th place was Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hanson, founder of the Zaytuna Institute in Berkeley, California. Right after him comes the highest-ranking European, Sheikh Mustafa Cerić, grand mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In total 72 Americans are among the 500, a disproportionately strong showing. Timothy Winter (Abdal Hakim Murad) was the highest ranked British Muslim, in an unspecified position between 51st and 60th, considerably higher than the three other British people who made the list – the Conservative Party chairman Baroness Sayeeda Warsi; the UK's first Muslim life peer, Lord Nazir Ahmed; and Dr",
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"title": "Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.",
"text": "Jr. was killed in action during World War II, age 29, in 1944. He was a leading member of the Democratic Party and of the Irish Catholic community. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Kennedy to be the first chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and he later directed the Maritime Commission. Kennedy served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1938 until late 1940, when he annoyed Roosevelt by his pessimism about Britain's survival. Kennedy was born to a political family in East Boston, Massachusetts. He embarked on a career in business and investing.",
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"text": "Lamb, while attempting to prove that a man, whom his client was accused of shooting, shot himself accidentally), Cordell Hull secretary of state for President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who went to school in Lebanon at the National Normal University), Robert A. Taft, Dewitt Clinton, and Lord Stanley, who later became prime minister of the United Kingdom. Most recently on September 8, 2008 Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates senator John McCain and Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke at the Golden Lamb and on October 13, 2012 Mitt Romney spoke at and toured the hotel. In 1926, Robert Jones, grandfather of Senator",
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"text": "its formation in 1856 and served it over the next decade. His endeavours, along with those of the other principals, were recognised on 16 November 1866 when Lampson was created a baronet. He is said to have been the first former US citizen to have been so honoured. His other appointments included as deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and as one of the trustees of the Peabody Donation Fund. Lampson died at his country seat, Rowfant, in West Sussex and was buried at Worth Church near Crawley. He was married to Jane Sibley, a distant relation of the",
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"text": "Hague. Hague again deputised for Cameron for several sessions in 2006. Prime Minister Cameron's first appointment was Hague as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. He was also accorded the honorary title of First Secretary of State. In his first overseas visit as British Foreign Secretary, Hague met US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, at Washington In August 2010, Hague set out a values-based foreign policy, stating that: \"We cannot have a foreign policy without a conscience. Foreign policy is domestic policy written large. The values we live by at home do not stop at our shores. Human",
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"text": "She was the only First Lady given an honorary seat on the floor of Congress, and the first First Lady (and first American) to respond to a telegraph message. In 1812, James was re-elected. This was the year that the War of 1812 began with Great Britain. After the United States declared war in 1812 and attempted to invade Canada in 1813, a British force attacked Washington in 1814. As it approached and the White House staff hurriedly prepared to flee, Dolley ordered the Stuart painting, a copy of the Lansdowne portrait, to be saved, as she wrote in a",
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"text": "the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, set about creating a national British memorial in his memory. He consulted with Harold Wilson (the Leader of HM's Loyal Opposition), Sir David Ormsby-Gore (British Ambassador to the United States), Dean Rusk (United States Secretary of State) and the Kennedy family. It was agreed that Douglas-Home would establish a committee, chaired by Lord Franks (former British Ambassador to the United States of America), to make recommendations on the form of the memorial to President Kennedy. Following wide consultation, Franks wrote to the Prime Minister to recommend that the memorial should be in two",
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"title": "Mayor of San Francisco",
"text": "D. Phelan, Eugene Schmitz, James Rolph, Elmer Robinson, John F. Shelley, Joseph Alioto, George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein, Frank Jordan, Gavin Newsom, Mark Farrell, and London Breed. Four mayors are foreign-born: Frank McCoppin and P. H. McCarthy (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, present-day Republic of Ireland), Adolph Sutro (Prussia, present-day Germany) and George Christopher (Greece). This list does not include acting mayors, of which there have been many, as an acting mayor is typically appointed by the mayor whenever he or she will be out of the city. The following is a list of congressional, gubernatorial and other offices",
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"text": "everywhere. Forever moving forward, always remembering that it is the things of the spirit that in the end prevail. That caring counts and that where there is no vision the people perish. That hope and faith count and that without charity, there can be nothing good. That having dared to live dangerously, and in believing in the inherent goodness of man, we can stride forward into the unknown with growing confidence.\" In 1947, Winant was only the second (and last) American citizen, after General Dwight Eisenhower, to be made an honorary member of the British Order of Merit. In 1943,",
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"text": "between Britain and the United States. On David Cameron being elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after coalition talks between his Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats concluded on 11 May 2010, President Obama was the first foreign leader to offer his congratulations. Following the conversation Obama said: Foreign Secretary William Hague responded to the President's overture by making Washington his first port of call, commenting: \"We're very happy to accept that description and to agree with that description. The United States is without doubt the most important ally of the United Kingdom.\" Meeting Hillary Clinton, Hague hailed the",
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"title": "Speeches and debates of Ronald Reagan",
"text": "his opponent's attack.\" In the general election Reagan won by a landslide. Reagan was the first American president to address the British Parliament. In a famous address on June 8, 1982 to the British Parliament in the Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster, Reagan said, \"the forward march of freedom and democracy will leave Marxism–Leninism on the ash-heap of history.\" Reagan ran for reelection in 1984. The Democratic nominee was Walter Mondale. Reagan performed poorly in the first debate, but rebounded in the second debate, and confronted questions about his age, quipping, \"I will not make age an issue",
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"text": "recipients have included Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker III, the Margaret Thatcher, and Colin Powell. A second award, the George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service, was established in 1994. Recipients include George F. Kennan, the Cyrus R. Vance, the Paul A. Volcker, Richard C. Holbrooke, John D. Negroponte, and General David H. Petraeus. In 1993 William J. Flynn, chairman and chief executive officer of Mutual of America, became the chairman of the National Committee. When the British and Irish governments issued the Downing Street Declaration at the end of that year, the National Committee under his leadership",
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"text": "by Wallenberg, sponsored a bill making Wallenberg an honorary citizen of the United States, the second person ever to receive this honour. Wallenberg is also an honorary citizen of Canada, Hungary, Australia, and Israel. Israel has designated Wallenberg one of the Righteous Among the Nations. Numerous monuments have been dedicated to him, and streets have been named after him throughout the world. The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States was created in 1981 to \"perpetuate the humanitarian ideals and the nonviolent courage of Raoul Wallenberg.\" It gives the Raoul Wallenberg Award annually to recognize persons who carry out those",
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"text": "organisations that used plain English, and highlighting those that did not. Although the Foot in Mouth award was first made in 1993, a specific acknowledgment was made to a comment by Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States in 1991. The award has been presented 20 times, and only Rhodri Morgan and Boris Johnson have received it more than once. The Welsh politician won in both 1998 and 2005, and made a light-hearted response to his second win, claiming that the first award had \"made [his] name.\" Politicians have been recipients of the award more times than any other",
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"title": "United Kingdom–United States relations",
"text": "bottom line is, is that we don't have a stronger partner anywhere in the world than the United Kingdom.\" President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May are continuing the United Kingdom–United States special relationship. May was the first foreign leader Trump hosted in Washington after taking office, and UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage was the first foreign politician Trump met with after winning the presidential election, when he was still President-elect of the United States. However, Trump was the subject of popular protests in Britain even before he took office, particularly because of his anti-immigration proposals and",
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"title": "David K. E. Bruce",
"text": "1976. The David K.E. Bruce Award was established in 2007 at the American School in London. Bruce wrote a book of biographical essays on the American presidents originally published as \"Seven Pillars of the Republic\" (1936). He later expanded it as \"Revolution to Reconstruction\" (1939) and again revised it as \"Sixteen American Presidents\" (1962). David K. E. Bruce David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (February 12, 1898 – December 5, 1977) was an American diplomat, intelligence officer and politician. He served as Ambassador to France, the Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom, the only American to be all three. Bruce was",
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"title": "Luke Coffey",
"text": "Luke Coffey Luke Coffey (born 1979) is an American political adviser and US Army veteran. Coffey formerly worked as a Special Adviser to Liam Fox, the ex-Secretary of State for Defence in the United Kingdom. He was the first non-UK citizen ever appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron to provide advice to senior British ministers. He is currently the Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, an American conservative think tank. Coffey attended Wentworth Military Academy where he was commissioned in the U.S. Army as a distinguished military graduate of the Reserve",
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"title": "Charles Francis Adams Sr.",
"text": "Charles Francis Adams Sr. Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886) was an American historical editor, writer, politician, and diplomat. He was a son of President John Quincy Adams and grandson of President John Adams, of whom he wrote a major biography. Adams served two terms in the Massachusetts State Senate before running unsuccessfully as vice-presidential candidate for the Free Soil Party in the election of 1848 on a ticket with former President Martin Van Buren. During the Civil War Adams served as the United States Minister to the United Kingdom under Abraham Lincoln, where he",
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"text": "was returned to power with an increased Parliamentary majority and felt empowered to press ahead with the economic readjustments of Thatcherism. A second major effect was a reaffirmation of the special relationship between the US and UK. Both Reagan and Weinberger (his Secretary of Defense) were appointed honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for their help in the campaign, but the more obvious result was the common alignment of Britain and the USA in a more confrontational foreign policy against the Soviet bloc, sometimes known as the Second Cold War. In 2007 the British government",
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"text": "Bob Geldof, Bono and Rudolph Giuliani, while Arsène Wenger and Gérard Houllier are honorary OBEs. Honorary knighthoods arise from Orders of Chivalry rather than as Knights Bachelor as the latter confers no postnominal letters. Recipients of honorary awards who later become subjects of Her Majesty may apply to convert their awards to substantive ones. Examples of this are Marjorie Scardino, American CEO of Pearson PLC, and Yehudi Menuhin, the American-born violinist and conductor. They were granted an honorary damehood and knighthood respectively while still American citizens, and converted them to substantive awards after they assumed British nationality, becoming Dame Marjorie",
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"text": "on their 1974 album, \"War Live\", which includes the group's 1973 song, \"The Cisco Kid\". Duncan Renaldo Renault Renaldo Duncan (April 23, 1904 – September 3, 1980), better known as Duncan Renaldo, was a Romanian-born American actor best remembered for his portrayal of The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950-1956 American TV series, \"The Cisco Kid\". Renaldo told some interviewers that he actually did not know where he was born. The prosecution in his immigration case entered into evidence a copy of a birth certificate forwarded by the Romanian consul stating that he was born in Oancea, Romania",
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"text": "Duncan Renaldo Renault Renaldo Duncan (April 23, 1904 – September 3, 1980), better known as Duncan Renaldo, was a Romanian-born American actor best remembered for his portrayal of The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950-1956 American TV series, \"The Cisco Kid\". Renaldo told some interviewers that he actually did not know where he was born. The prosecution in his immigration case entered into evidence a copy of a birth certificate forwarded by the Romanian consul stating that he was born in Oancea, Romania as \"Vasile Dumitru Cugheanos\", the natural son of Dumitru and Teodora Cugheanos. Renaldo claimed in",
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"text": "for United Artists, four of which he co-produced. For his contributions to the entertainment industry, Renaldo received a star at 1680 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960. Duncan Renaldo filmography Duncan Renaldo (1904–1980) was an American actor of European birth. He was best known in the 1950s United States for his lead role in \"The Cisco Kid\", which co-starred Leo Carrillo as Pancho. The children's television series ran for six years and 156 episodes 1950–1956. He and Carrillo first crossed professional paths in the 1935 film \"Moonlight Murder\". Prior to his television success, Renaldo",
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"text": "Duncan Renaldo filmography Duncan Renaldo (1904–1980) was an American actor of European birth. He was best known in the 1950s United States for his lead role in \"The Cisco Kid\", which co-starred Leo Carrillo as Pancho. The children's television series ran for six years and 156 episodes 1950–1956. He and Carrillo first crossed professional paths in the 1935 film \"Moonlight Murder\". Prior to his television success, Renaldo appeared in 67 feature-length films beginning in the silent era. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired him in 1929 for a silent version of \"The Bridge of San Luis Rey\". Paramount Pictures cast him in five films,",
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"text": "the copyrighted character to profit, albeit minimally, from the character he portrayed on television. The song can also be heard on the live Deep Purple DVD \"Perihelion\" where lead singer Ian Gillan explains briefly what inspired him to write the song. Sublime's 1994 album \"Robbin' the Hood\" features the song \"Cisco Kid\", which includes voice clips from the series. As of 2014, reruns of \"The Cisco Kid\" are only being shown on Heroes & Icons network. The Cisco Kid (TV series) The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, the Cisco",
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"text": "citizenship, falsifying a passport, and perjury, but he eventually was pardoned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and returned to acting. He found minor roles at Republic Studios and other Poverty Row studios until he convinced Republic head Herbert Yates in 1939 to introduce a Latin cowboy into \"The Three Mesquiteers\" series. The character only lasted a year, though, and Renaldo was back to minor roles in B-films, for example \"Tiger Fangs\" (1943). Renaldo did play some roles in mainstream films as well, including in \"Spawn of the North\" (1938) with George Raft, Henry Fonda and John Barrymore; and \"For Whom",
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"text": "has been released on television in the US under the title \"King of the Speedway\". \"Ten Laps to Go\" is available under its original title from budget DVD companies; it is available from Alpha Video on a double-bill with \"Go-Get-'Em, Haines\". Ten Laps to Go Ten Laps to Go (King of the Speedway) is a 1938 American action/drama film directed by Elmer Clifton. The film stars Rex Lease as a champion race car driver, Duncan Renaldo as his rival, and Muriel Evans as the romantic interest. Former silent film star Marie Prevost has a small role in this film, which",
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"text": "title of the series. \"Colt .45\" also featured fictionalizations of actual historical characters including Edwin Booth (brother of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln), Sam Bass, Billy the Kid, Lew Wallace, Judge Roy Bean, Buffalo Bill Cody, Ned Buntline, and Calamity Jane. During this period of time, \"Colt .45\" was one of several ABC/WB western productions, along with \"Cheyenne\", \"Sugarfoot\", \"Lawman\", \"Maverick\" and \"Bronco\". Various series leads occasionally did crossover episodes on some of the other WB programs. One of the most imaginative was the \"Hadley's Hunters\" episode of \"Maverick\", in which Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly)",
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"text": "shows, particularly during the era when westerns were popular. One of the most famous movies is \"Red River\" (1948) directed by Howard Hawks, and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. Like many such films, Red River tended to exaggerate the dangers and disasters of cattle driving. More recently, the movie \"City Slickers\" (1990) was about a guest ranch-based cattle drive. In the 1958 film \"Cowboy\", Glenn Ford stars as a hard-living trail boss with Jack Lemmon as a citified \"tenderfoot\" who joins the drive. The long running TV show \"Rawhide\" (1959–1965), starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood, dealt with drovers",
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"text": "Night Live\", a late-night series which debuted on NBC in November 1975, and has spawned the careers of many popular comedic actors (such as Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Dennis Miller and Will Ferrell). Dramatic series have taken many forms over the years. Westerns such as \"Gunsmoke\" (the longest-running prime time scripted drama series in U.S. television history, having aired from 1955 to 1975) and \"Bonanza\" had experienced their greatest popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. Medical dramas such as \"Marcus Welby, M.D.\", \"St. Elsewhere\", \"ER\", \"House\" and \"Grey's Anatomy\" have endured success; as well as family dramas such as \"The",
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"text": "in 1960, he also appeared as Colonel Lake on \"Death Valley Days\" and on ABC's western \"The Rebel\", starring Nick Adams. Tobey made three guest appearances on \"Perry Mason\", twice in 1960 and once in 1962 as Jack Alvin, a deputy district attorney. On the long-running western series \"Gunsmoke,\" he portrayed a cruel, knife-wielding buffalo hunter, Ben Spadden, in the 1960 episode titled \"The Worm\". Tobey in 1962 also guest-starred on another western series, \"Lawman\", playing the character Duncan Clooney, an engineer who seeks to move a shipment of nitroglycerin through Laramie, Wyoming. When the town is evacuated to allow",
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"text": "Johnny Ringo (TV series) Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, also known as John Peters Ringo or John B. Ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie. This fictional account has Ringo putting aside his gunfighting ways to become the 27-year-old sheriff of fictitious Velardi in the Arizona Territory. Ringo has two deputies: William Charles, Jr., or Cully, played by Mark Goddard and Case",
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"text": "released on May 19, 2015. Bronco (TV series) Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin (the last played by Scott Marlowe). \"Bronco\" premiered in the fall of 1958 when Warner Brothers executives and actor Clint Walker clashed over Walker's contract on the series \"Cheyenne\". Walker had",
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"text": "Bronco (TV series) Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin (the last played by Scott Marlowe). \"Bronco\" premiered in the fall of 1958 when Warner Brothers executives and actor Clint Walker clashed over Walker's contract on the series \"Cheyenne\". Walker had walked out on his show",
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"text": "The Cowboys (TV series) \" The Cowboys \" was a short-lived Western television series based on the 1972 motion picture of the same name starring John Wayne. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network from February 6 to May 8, 1974. The television show starred Jim Davis, Diana Douglas, Moses Gunn, A Martinez, Robert Carradine, and Clay O'Brien. David Dortort, best known for \"Bonanza\" and \"The High Chaparral\", produced the series. The television show, like the movie, followed the exploits of seven boys who worked on a ranch in 1870s New Mexico. \"The Cowboys\" began as an",
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"text": "German Shepherd called Pax. The series was set in New Orleans, but was actually filmed in Los Angeles. Coincidentally, exactly a decade earlier, Franciscus had appeared as insurance investigator Russ Andrews in a 13-week CBS series \"The Investigators\", with James Philbrook as his principal co-star. Both series aired at the same time, Thursday 9 PM (Eastern). Mystery novelist Baynard Kendrick was credited in each episode as the creator of the source material for the series, although his character, Captain Duncan Maclain, had little in common with Longstreet aside from their both being blind private detectives. Bruce Lee appeared in four",
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"text": "who turned it down. Universal hired Dennis Weaver, who was well known as a \"western\" actor from \"Gunsmoke\". The pilot, \"Portrait of a Dead Girl\", aired on February 17, 1970, and established the premise by having McCloud escort a prisoner from New Mexico to New York City, only to become embroiled in solving a complicated murder case. This premise of \"a cowboy in the big city\" was adapted from the 1968 Don Siegel film, \"Coogan's Bluff\", starring Clint Eastwood. Herman Miller, who was responsible for the story of \"Coogan's Bluff\" and co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Riesner and Howard A.",
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"text": "As demand for the Western increased, new stories and stars were introduced. A number of long-running TV Westerns became classics in their own right, such as: \"The Lone Ranger\" (1949-1957), \"The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp\" (1955-1961), \"Gunsmoke\" (1955-1975), \"Maverick\" (1957-1962), \"Have Gun – Will Travel\" (1957-1963), \"Wagon Train\" (1957-1965), \"Sugarfoot\" (1957-1961), \"The Rifleman\" (1958-1963), \"Rawhide\" (1959-1966), \"Bonanza\" (1959-1973), \"The Virginian\" (1962-1971), and \"The Big Valley\" (1965-1969). \"The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp\" was the first Western television series written for adults, premiering four days before \"Gunsmoke\" on September 6, 1955. The peak year for television Westerns was",
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"text": "in Canada on YTV and Canal Famille. The show contains the following short series: The cartoon stars a goat-riding cowboy named Tex Avery (voiced by Billy West) who saves the day and his girl Chastity Knott (voiced by Kathleen Barr) from his outlaw nemesis Sagebrush Sid (voiced by Billy West). Based on Bob Clampett's (a fellow animator at Warner Bros Studios in the 1930s) \"Red Hot Ryder\" from \"Buckaroo Bugs\" (WB 1944). An obnoxious fly named Freddy (voiced by Billy West) bugs an obese billionaire named Amanda Banshee (voiced by Scott McNeil), whose continuous attempts to get rid of him",
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"text": "the line: \"This is the way it happened ... movin' west\", and he closed with the refrain: \"It happened that way ... movin' west.\" \"Frontier\" is similar in scope to its predecessor and longer-lasting syndicated series \"Death Valley Days\", which went through a series of hosts, including Stanley Andrews (known on the program as The Old Ranger), Ronald W. Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. \"Frontier\" ran only a single season but was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. Jack Kelly, who in 1957 launched the role of Bart Maverick in the ABC/Warner Brothers western series \"Maverick\", appeared three times",
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"text": "previous six series is shown. As the sequence ends, Ken wakes up in his arm chair and gives his famous smile at the camera. According to Jim Hill (co-creator), the name 'Boon' was derived as follows: \"\"Originally called 'Anything Legal Considered', we fell foul of the vogue of the main character's name being all or part of the title. Boon had been derived from an American TV series from the 1950s that Bill Stair and I both watched and liked. It was called 'Have Gun – Will Travel' (1957) – a troubleshooting cowboy answered distress calls. He was called Paladin",
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"text": "World\", \"Ned and Stacey\", \"Becker\", \"Veronica's Closet\", \"Two Guys and a Girl\", \"The Drew Carey Show\", \"Wings\", \"The John Larroquette Show\", \"Caroline in the City\", \"Sports Night\", \"Home Improvement\", \"Will & Grace\", \"Married... with Children\", \"Evening Shade\", \"Cosby\", \"Spin City\", \"The Nanny\", \"3rd Rock from the Sun\", \"Suddenly Susan\", \"Cybill\", \"Just Shoot Me!\", \"Everybody Loves Raymond\", and \"Dharma and Greg\" turned TV in new directions and defined the humor of the decade. In early 1993, one of the last westerns ever to air on television was \"Walker, Texas Ranger\", a crime drama which also starred Chuck Norris as the title",
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"text": "Trail\" was an Old West adaptation of \"Gilligan's Island\", complete with the star of the earlier show, Bob Denver. \"Little House on the Prairie\" was set on the frontier in the time period of the western, but was essentially a family drama. \"Kung Fu\" was in the tradition of the itinerant gunfighter westerns, but the main character was a Shaolin monk, the son of an American father and a Chinese mother, who fought only with his formidable martial art skill. \"The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams\" was a family adventure show about a gentle mountain man with an uncanny",
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"text": "Ullman show \"Tracey Takes On\". Dimitri was credited as a writer on the show \"Going Bananas\", a live-action superhero show created by the Hanna-Barbera studios, and also produced and wrote a pilot for a comedy show called \"Roosevelt and Truman\", about a pair of bail bondsmen/security guards with the names Roosevelt and Truman. Richard Dimitri Richard Dimitri (born June 27, 1942) is an American character actor and comedian principally known for his roles as the twin characters of Bertram and Renaldo in the 1975 Mel Brooks-produced television show \"When Things Were Rotten\" and Roman Troy Moronie in the 1984 movie",
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"text": "World \"Superstars\" contests were about $170,000. His best events were the 800 meter/half mile run and chin ups. ABC Sports imposed a rule that three-time champions were no longer invited back. Some believe that the rule was created specifically for Budd and refer to it as the \"Budd rule.\" Budd believed that ABC wanted him removed from the show because he was not well known to the American TV audience. ABC Sports later applied the rule to soccer player Kyle Rote Jr. and speed skater Anne Henning, when each won three U.S. Superstars contests. However, well known hurdler Renaldo Nehemiah",
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"text": "Last Gleaming\" (1977). Erickson appeared frequently on television; he was cast as Dr. Hillyer in \"Consider Her Ways\" (1964) and as Paul White in \"The Monkey's Paw—A Retelling\" (1965) on CBS's \"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour\". However, he is probably best known for \"The High Chaparral\", which aired on NBC from 1967 until 1971. He portrayed a rancher, Big John Cannon, determined to establish a cattle empire in the Arizona Territory while keeping peace with the Apache. Erickson guest-starred in several television series, including \"Rawhide\", \"Bonanza\", \"Gunsmoke\", \"Marcus Welby, M.D.\", \"Medical Center\", \"Cannon\", \"The Rifleman\", \"The Rockford Files\", and the 1977",
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"text": "in the 1962 episode \"Make Me a Place\", with series co-stars Wendell Corey and Jack Ging. He joined friend Martin Milner in a 1962 episode of \"Route 66\" as the character Kamo in the episode \"One Tiger to a Hill.\" Janssen starred in four television series of his own: At the time, the final episode of \"The Fugitive\" held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 percent in August 1967. David Janssen was well liked by everyone, but more loved by his fans. He fit the perfect role",
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"text": "whom he had a daughter. Will Hutchins Will Hutchins (born Marshall Lowell Hutchason; May 5, 1930) is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer from the Oklahoma Territory, Tom Brewster, in sixty-nine episodes of the Warner Bros. Western television series \"Sugarfoot\", which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. Only five episodes aired in 1961, including the series finale on April 17. (The \"Encyclopedia of Television Shows\" erroneously indicates that \"Sugarfoot\" aired from 1957 to 1963.) Hutchins was born in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. As a child, he visited",
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"text": "Rola Show Australian Radio Actor of the Year Award, which included a ticket to London via Los Angeles, but Taylor did not continue on to London. Taylor soon landed roles in television shows such as \"Studio 57\" and the films \"Hell on Frisco Bay\" (1955) and \"Giant\" (1956). In 1955, he guest-starred in the third episode (\"The Argonauts\") of the first hour-long Western television series, \"Cheyenne\", an ABC program starring Clint Walker. Taylor and Edward Andrews played gold seekers Clancy and Duncan, respectively, who are best friends until they strike it rich, only to see Native Americans release their gold",
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"text": "In the late 1960s, Reiner acted in bit roles in several television shows including \"Batman\", \"The Andy Griffith Show\", \"Room 222\", \"Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.\" and \"The Beverly Hillbillies\". He began his career writing for the \"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour\" in 1968 and 1969, with Steve Martin as his writing partner as the two youngest writers on the show. Two years later, Reiner became famous playing Michael Stivic, Archie Bunker's liberal son-in-law, on Norman Lear's 1970s situation comedy \"All in the Family\", which was the most-watched television program in the United States for five seasons (1971–1976). The character's nickname, Meathead, became",
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"text": "Bonanza Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, \"Bonanza\" is NBC's longest-running western, and ranks overall as the second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's \"Gunsmoke\"), and within the top 10 longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set in the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family that live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon and later featured (at",
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"text": "\"The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit\". This brought him to the attention of television producer David Dortort, who immediately recruited him for his television western series \"The High Chaparral\", casting him as Manolito Montoya. Making its debut on American television in September 1967 NBC, it went on to last four seasons and was screened around the world. While on the show, both he and series' lead Cameron Mitchell became household names as the breakout stars of the show. Darrow is the first Latino actor to portray Zorro on television. (José Suárez played Zorro in a 1953 Spanish film.) He starred in",
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"text": "of 1950s and 1960s television Western series leads reprising their roles in quick cameo appearances (Gene Barry as Bat Masterson, Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp, Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, David Carradine as \"Kung Fu\"'s Caine, Chuck Connors as The Rifleman, and so on). A two-DVD set of the complete series was released by Shout! Factory in February 2017. The Westerner (TV series) The Westerner is a highbrow American Western series that aired on NBC from September 30 to December 30, 1960. Created, written and produced by Sam Peckinpah, who also directed some episodes, the",
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"text": "Italian librettist Antonio Ghislanzoni as a basis for his libretto. Giuseppe Verdi was appointed to compose the music. The result was the famous opera, \"Aida\", with its heroic quality, powerful dramatic scenes and its passionate music. Because of delays caused by the Franco-Prussian war, the sets and costumes for the premiere of \"Aida\" could not be transported from Paris in time, and in 1869 the Opera House opened instead with Verdi's \"Rigoletto\", one of Verdi's earlier masterpieces. \"Aida\" would receive its world premiere in Cairo in 1871. Contrary to general belief, \"Aida\" was not commissioned for the inauguration of the",
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"text": "he sailed upriver in the equatorial forest of an unnamed country in Central Africa (which closely resembles the Congo Free State, a large area in Central Africa controlled by King Leopold II of Belgium from 1885-1908). He has been sent there to find Kurtz, the enigmatic and once idealistic ivory trader rumoured to have turned his remote Inner Station into a barbaric fiefdom. Marlow's journey starts in the Company's offices in Europe, where he is given his instructions and a perfunctory medical check, before he departs for Africa. He arrives first at the Downriver Station and encounters the Accountant who",
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"text": "issued. \"Aida\" met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871. The costumes and accessories for the premiere were designed by Auguste Mariette, who also oversaw the design and construction of the sets, which were made in Paris by the Opéra's scene painters Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 1 and 4) and Édouard Desplechin and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (acts 2 and 3), and shipped to Cairo. Although Verdi did not attend the premiere in Cairo, he was most dissatisfied with the fact that the audience consisted of invited dignitaries, politicians and critics, but no members",
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"text": "to cause controversy in 2014 when Zeffirelli protested La Scala's rental of the production to the Astana Opera House in Kazakhstan without his permission. According to Zeffirelli, the move had doomed his production to an \"infamous and brutal\" fate. \"Aida\" continues to be a staple of the standard operatic repertoire. It is frequently performed in the Verona Arena, and is a staple of its renowned opera festival. The libretto does not specify a precise time period, so it is difficult to place the opera more specifically than the Old Kingdom. For the first production, Mariette went to great efforts to",
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"text": "capital city. Verdi's opera \"Rigoletto\" was the first opera performed at the opera house on 1 November 1869. Ismail planned a grander exhibition for his new theatre. After months of delay due to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Verdi's new opera, \"Aida\", received its world premiere at the Khedivial Opera House on 24 December 1871. In the early morning hours of 28 October 1971, the opera house burned to the ground. The all-wooden building was quickly consumed, and only two statues made by Mohamed Hassan survived. After the original opera house was destroyed, Cairo was without an opera house",
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"title": "Il Postino (opera)",
"text": "opera unfolded. The critic for the British magazine \"Opera\" wrote \"The only real problem is that Catán, for some inexplicable reason, keeps the story set in Italy-despite writing the opera in Spanish. [...] Likewise, Skármeta's novel is set not in Italy but on an island off the coast of Chile. Where was the dramaturge during all of this?\" Setting: The fictional Italian island of Cala di Sotto during the 1950s \"Prelude\"<br> Di Cosimo, a politician running for office on the island, sings a nationalist song. Soon after, an announcement is made on the radio stating that Pablo Neruda, a great",
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"title": "After Aida",
"text": "After Aida After Aida (original title: \"Verdi's Messiah\") is a 1985 play-with-music by Julian Mitchell. It is about Giuseppe Verdi, and the pressure put upon him after his attempt to retire from composing. Continued insistent prodding from his friends eventually results in one of his greatest masterpieces, the opera \"Otello\", which premiered in 1887. Brian McMaster, managing director of the Welsh National Opera, commissioned the play, originally as a vehicle for the company's touring season to far-flung Welsh towns with smaller theatres than the average opera house. McMaster initially asked Julian Mitchell, author of the hit play-turned-film \"Another Country\", to",
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"title": "Venetian Cyprus",
"text": "of Lepanto. The fall of Famagusta marked the beginning of the Ottoman period in Cyprus. It is noteworthy to pinpoint that this is the historical setting to Shakespeare's \"Othello\", the play's title character being the commander of the Venetian garrison defending Cyprus against the Ottomans. Venetian Cyprus The island of Cyprus was an overseas possession of the Republic of Venice from 1489, when the independent Kingdom of Cyprus ended, until 1570–71, when the island was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Venice for centuries wanted to control Cyprus and Venetian merchants worked on the island beginning in 1000 AD, when the",
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"title": "Aida",
"text": "terrible fate (Radamès: \"Morir! Si pura e bella\" / To die! So pure and lovely!) and bid farewell to Earth and its sorrows. Above the vault in the temple of Vulcan, Amneris weeps and prays to the goddess Isis. In the vault below, Aida dies in Radamès' arms as the priests, offstage, pray to the god Ftha. (Chorus, Aida, Radamès, Amneris: \"Immenso Ftha\" / Almighty Ptah). The opera has been adapted for motion pictures on several occasions, most notably in a 1953 production which starred Lois Maxwell and Sophia Loren, and a 1987 Swedish production. In both cases, the lead",
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"title": "The English Patient",
"text": "oil onto him and both of them catch fire. He parachutes from the plane and is found severely burned by the Bedouin. The novel ends with Kip learning that the U.S. has bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He departs from Villa San Girolamo, estranged from his white companions. Count Ladislaus de Almásy is the titular character who comes under Hana's care in Italy after being burned unrecognizably in Africa. Although Hungarian by birth, because he has lived without government identification or many verifiable long-term interactions, his accent prompts the authorities around him to perceive an English affiliation and to refer to",
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"title": "861 Aïda",
"text": "0.7. The \"Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link\" derives an albedo of 0.0522 and a diameter of 66.78 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 9.7. This minor planet was named for Aida, the famous Italian opera in four acts by composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), after whom the asteroid 3975 Verdi was named. Naming citation was first mentioned in \"The Names of the Minor Planets\" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). 861 Aïda 861 Aïda, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 65 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 January 1917, by",
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"title": "Shalimar the Clown",
"text": "is left vague. Shalimar receives training from insurgent groups in Afghanistan and the Philippines, and leaves for the USA. He murders Max on the day he resigns as his driver. Shalimar evades the authorities and eventually returns to India's home, with the intention of killing her. The story portrays the paradise that once was Kashmir, and how the politics of the sub-continent ripped apart the lives of those caught in the middle of the battleground. The novel was adapted as an opera, with music by Jack Perla and a libretto by Rajiv Joseph, which premiered at Opera Theater of St.",
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"title": "Trading Places",
"text": "in direct contrast to his own—often draws comparisons to Mark Twain's novel \"The Prince and the Pauper\". First published in 1881, the novel follows the lives of a prince and a beggar—both of them of adolescent age—who use their uncanny resemblance to each other as a premise to switch places temporarily; the prince takes on a life of poverty and misery while the pauper enjoys the lavish luxuries of a royal life. Parallels have also been drawn between \"Trading Places\" and Mozart's 18th century comic opera \"The Marriage of Figaro\" in which a servant (Figaro) foils the plans of his",
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"title": "A Royal Christmas",
"text": "2014. Emily Taylor (Lacey Chabert) is a humble and kindhearted seamstress devoted to her family's business in Philadelphia. She is also in love with her European boyfriend Leo James (Stephen Hagan). As the Christmas season approaches, Leo reveals that he is in fact Prince Leopold, heir to the throne of a small sovereign country called Cordinia, which is loosely based on Monaco (but amalgamates the place names, Corsica and Sardinia). He takes Emily back to his country for the Christmas holidays and introduces her to his mother Isadora, Queen of Cordinia (Jane Seymour), who disapproves of the young American immediately.",
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"text": "pair spent Christmas of 1857 together working on changes. However, Somma insisted that his name be changed on the libretto to \"Tommaso Anoni\". Discussions with the censors eventually resulted in the location being changed to Stettin in Pomerania in Northern Germany, the main character becoming a Duke, and the title becoming \"Una vendetta in domino\". A compromise seemed to have been reached. However, as has been noted, \"Verdi did not begin preparing the skeleton score for \"Una vendetta\" before composer and versifier decided on the Pomeranian setting\" After an arduous journey, Verdi arrived in Naples in January 1858. He brought",
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"title": "Second Mexican Empire",
"text": "from this table was the estimate for the year 1865.\" Today, the Second Mexican Empire is advocated by small far-right groups like the Nationalist Front of Mexico, whose followers believe the Empire to have been a legitimate attempt to deliver Mexico from the hegemony of the United States. They are reported to gather every year at Querétaro, the place where Maximilian and his generals were executed. The 1970 film \"Two Mules for Sister Sara\" was set in Mexico during the years of the Second Mexican Empire. The two main characters, played by Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine, aided a Mexican",
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"title": "History of Cyprus",
"text": "when the last Queen, Catherine Cornaro, was forced to sell the island to Venice. Ottomans started raiding Cyprus immediately afterwards, and captured it in 1571. This is the historical setting to Shakespeare's \"Othello\", the play's title character being the commander of the Venetian garrison defending Cyprus against the Ottomans. The Russo-Turkish War ended the Ottoman control of Cyprus in 1878. Cyprus then came under the control of the British Empire with its conditions set out in the Cyprus Convention. However, sovereignty of the island continued to be maintained by the Ottoman Empire until Great Britain annexed the island unilaterally in",
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"title": "Disney Theatrical Productions",
"text": "the Yard at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater from May 30 to July 28, 2019 as part of its 2018/19 season. King David is a musical, sometimes described as a modern oratorio, with a book and lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Alan Menken. The musical is based on Biblical tales from the Books of Samuel and 1 Chronicles, as well as text from David's Psalms. Aida is a musical based on the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi. It has music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David",
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"title": "Hernani (drama)",
"text": "Romanticists such as Hector Berlioz and Théophile Gautier to combat the opposition of Classicists who recognised the play as a direct attack on their values. It is used to describe the magnitude and elegance of Prince Prospero's masquerade in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, \"The Masque of the Red Death\". Gillenormand in \"Les Misérables\" criticizes \"Hernani\". Giuseppe Verdi's opera \"Ernani\", with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, was based on the play, and first performed in Venice in 1844. Set in a fictitious version of the Spanish court of 1519, it is based on courtly romance and intrigues. Three",
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"title": "Katara (cultural village)",
"text": "and sailed around the Arabian Sea, with the key destinations being Oman and India. The Indian ambassador to Qatar hailed it as a milestone in the countries' bilateral relations A two-day discussion forum for the arts was inaugurated in Katara in 2014. An annual event, the forum features international and local researchers who deliver speeches on topics such as the history of Arab art and Arab art groups. In October 2012, an event featuring Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera Aida was hosted in Katara's amphitheatre. It was the first opera to be held in Qatar. The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra were featured",
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"title": "Gilbert and Sullivan",
"text": "of trade between England and Japan, Japanese imports, art and styles became fashionable in London, making the time ripe for an opera set in Japan. Gilbert said, \"I cannot give you a good reason for our... piece being laid in Japan. It... afforded scope for picturesque treatment, scenery and costume, and I think that the idea of a chief magistrate, who is... judge and actual executioner in one, and yet would not hurt a worm, may perhaps please the public.\" Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert and Sullivan to satirise British politics",
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"title": "Ōmura, Nagasaki",
"text": "one of the first areas of Japan to re-open to foreign contact after the end of the national seclusion policy after the Meiji Restoration. In the opera Madama Butterfly, set in nearby Nagasaki, the place name \"Omara\" in the line \"ed alla damigella Butterfly del quartiere d'Omara Nagasaki\" probably refers to Ōmura. From 1868-1945, Ōmura was host to numerous military facilities as part of the Sasebo Naval District, most notably that of a major air base for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. The former naval base was the location of the squalid \"Ōmura Migrant Detention Center,\" where mainly Korean",
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"title": "Shirin Neshat",
"text": "which celebrated some of the world's most inspiring women. Cindy Sherman was the first person to buy Neshat's work, at Annina Nosei Gallery in 1995. At the 2017 Salzburg Festival Neshat directed Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, with Riccardo Muti as conductor and Anna Netrebko singing the main character. Asked by the festival organizers about the particular challenge for an Iranian woman to stage a play that deals with the threats of political obedience and religion to private life and love, Neshat said \"Sometimes the boundaries between Aida and myself are blurred.\" Shirin Neshat Shirin Neshat (; born 1957) is an",
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"title": "Manifest Destiny 2011",
"text": "and Mohammed renounce violence and attempt to resolve their lives and grievances in a more peaceful manner, but are caught up in the brutal realpolitik of war and the imperial machinations of the American state. The action takes place variously in London, Palestine, Afghanistan, the White House in Washington, D.C., and Camp X-Ray (Guantanamo), and contains both realistic and metaphysical content. To date, the opera has been staged once, at the King's Head Theatre in London in September 2011. Set in the present day or \"near-future\", the complex plot centres on a harrowing journey through the War on Terror by",
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"title": "Giuseppe Verdi",
"text": "Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus \"Va, pensiero\" from his early opera \"Nabucco\" (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi, however, did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera \"Aida\"",
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"title": "Blaxploitation",
"text": "staging of Mozart's opera \"Don Giovanni\" in the manner of a blaxploitation film, set in contemporary Spanish Harlem, with African-American singers portraying the anti-heroes as street-thugs, killing by gunshot rather than with a sword, using recreational drugs, and partying almost naked. It was later released on commercial video and can be seen on YouTube. A 2016 video game, Mafia III, is set in the year 1968 and revolves around Lincoln Clay, a mixed-race African American orphan raised by \"black mob\". After the murder of his surrogate family at the hands of the Italian mafia, Lincoln Clay seeks vengeance on those",
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"title": "La Tosca",
"text": "two for the Japanese theatre and an English burlesque, \"Tra-La-La Tosca\" (all of which premiered in the 1890s) as well as several film versions. \"La Tosca\" is set in Rome on 17 June 1800 following the French victory in the Battle of Marengo. The action takes place over an eighteen-hour period, ending at dawn on 18 June 1800. Its melodramatic plot centers on Floria Tosca, a celebrated opera singer; her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, an artist and Napoleon sympathiser; and Baron Scarpia, Rome's ruthless Regent of Police. By the end of the play, all three are dead. Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi and",
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"title": "The Redundancy of Courage",
"text": "The Redundancy of Courage The Redundancy of Courage is a novel by Timothy Mo published in 1991. It is set in the fictitious country of Danu in Southeast Asia, which is based on East Timor. It is narrated by Adolph Ng, an ethnic Chinese businessman educated in Canada. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Like East Timor, Danu is a former Portuguese colony north of Australia. It is invaded and occupied by its giant neighbour, which is not named, but is based on Indonesia. The people of the occupying country are referred to throughout the book as",
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"title": "Un ballo in maschera",
"text": "Rome, as well as by the political situation in France in January 1858. It became one of the most frustrating experiences of Verdi's career. From the mid-20th century, it has become more common for the setting to revert to its original 18th-century Stockholm location. A re-creation of the original \"Gustavo III\" has been staged in Sweden. A commission by the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in early 1857 led Verdi to begin to oversee the finalization of the libretto (also by Somma) for \"Re Lear\" with the aim of presenting the finished opera during the 1858 carnival season. When this",
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"title": "Eritrea",
"text": "Eritrea Eritrea (; ), officially the State of Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa, with its capital at Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea. The nation has a total area of approximately , and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands. Its toponym \"Eritrea\" is based on the Greek name for the Red Sea ( ), which was first adopted for Italian Eritrea in 1890. Eritrea is",
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"title": "Regieoper",
"text": "Willy Decker's 2005 Salzburg production of Giuseppe Verdi's \"La traviata\", is a fairly tame example of \"Regieoper\". The original story is set in the early 19th century, with opulent sets, and party scenes with both men and women enjoying high society frivolity. Although Violetta is aware of her illness and possible impending death, she mainly concerns herself with flaunting high society rules, and dreaming of a life of bliss with her lover, Rudolfo, in the country. Decker has updated the story to modern times with a set consisting of only a blue wall and a sofa, desk, and a chair.",
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"title": "Maurice Abravanel",
"text": "the Abravanels left Paris for Australia (1934). Maurice had been offered a chance to direct both the Melbourne and the Sydney opera. After a six-week journey through the Suez Canal and across the Indian Ocean, he arrived to be acclaimed as the \"eminent continental conductor.\" He conducted a 13-week season in Melbourne and a two-month season in Sydney with Verdi's \"Aida\" as the opener in both cities and a balanced selection of the standard repertoire, including Puccini, Wagner and Bizet. In mid-spring of 1936, he received an offer from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to come and conduct the",
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"title": "Sami Michael",
"text": "He did however have one request which was to insert one important clause: the defense of minorities. Michael has close relations with many Iraqis, both in Iraq and throughout the world. His novel \"Aida\" (2008) is set in Iraq in the days of Saddam Hussein. Friends from Iraq sent him up-to-date pictures of the country so that Michael could see the Iraq of today. He wrote thereon in the acknowledgements of the novel: \"I will not forget the good people who extended me their help which was priceless, but I am not able to mention their names as it may",
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"title": "Un ballo in maschera",
"text": "Un ballo in maschera Un ballo in maschera \"(A Masked Ball)\" is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text by Antonio Somma was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, \"Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué\". The plot concerns the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden who was killed as the result of a political conspiracy against him. He was shot while attending a masked ball and died of his wounds thirteen days later. It was to take over two years between the time of the commission from",
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"title": "Bel Canto (novel)",
"text": "politicians, over several months. Many of the characters form unbreakable bonds of friendship, while some fall in love. Opera is a centralizing theme on many levels throughout the story; the operatic term \"bel canto\" literally means \"beautiful singing.\" Set in an unspecified South American country, the story begins at a birthday party thrown at the country's vice presidential home in honor of Katsumi Hosokawa, the visiting chairman of a large Japanese company and opera enthusiast. As a not-so-subtle pretext to get Hosokawa to invest in the country, famous American soprano Roxane Coss is scheduled to perform as the highlight of",
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"title": "Crocodile tears",
"text": "the story in \"The Faerie Queene\", writing of the \"cruel crafty\" creature \"which, in false grief, hiding his harmful guile / Doth weep full sore, and sheddeth tender tears. In Henry Purcell's 1688 opera \"Dido and Aeneas\", (librettist Nahum Tate), when Aeneas tells Dido he must abandon her to found Rome on the Italian Peninsula, she proclaims, \"Thus on the fatal banks of Nile, / Weeps the deceitful crocodile.\" While crocodiles can and do generate tears, the tears are not linked to emotion. The fluid from their tear ducts functions to clean and lubricate the eye, and is most prominent",
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"title": "The Tragedy of Mister Morn",
"text": "first published in English by Penguin Classics in 2012. The \"Zvezda\" version of the play, compared with the manuscript given to the Library of Congress by Nabokov in the 1950s, is known to be rife with errors. The story is set in the future, in an unnamed European country. The protagonist of the drama is Morn, a masked king, whose ascent to the throne has brought peace and stability to the country. He falls in love with Midia, the wife of the revolutionary Ganus. Ganus returns to the capital city after escaping from a labour camp. Learning of his wife's",
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"title": "Crusader states",
"text": "Kingdom recovered Famagusta but by then it was too late and in any event, the Venetians had their own designs on the island. Venetian rule over Cyprus lasted for just over 80 years until 1571, when the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Selim II Sarkhosh invaded and captured the entire island. The battle for Cyprus between Venice and the Ottoman Empire was immortalized by William Shakespeare in his play Othello, most of which is set in the port city of Famagusta on the eastern shores of the island. After the Fourth Crusade, the territories of the Byzantine Empire were divided into",
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"title": "Senza sangue",
"text": "is not at all easy for the two singers... [It’s] hard to find the pitch; you have to work it into the voice, unless of course you happen to have perfect pitch, which I don’t.\" The opera is set in the time of a civil war in an unnamed country. A little girl called Nina experiences her family being killed in their home by fighters. Nina herself only survived because she was hiding. One of the murderers had traced her, but she was spared. The following years she spent in a kind of schizophrenic condition. During this time she gradually",
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"title": "Much Ado About Nothing",
"text": "a port on the island of Sicily, which is next to the toe of Italy. Sicily was ruled by Aragon at the time the play was set. The action of the play takes place mainly at the home and on the grounds of Leonato's Estate. Benedick and Beatrice quickly became the main interest of the play, to the point where they are today considered the leading roles, even though their relationship is given equal or lesser weight in the script than Claudio and Hero's situation. Charles II even wrote 'Benedick and Beatrice' beside the title of the play in his",
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"title": "Ancient Greek literature",
"text": "the most popular books ever published in the United States\". George Bernard Shaw's play \"Pygmalion\" is a modern, rationalized retelling of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion. James Joyce's novel \"Ulysses\", heralded by critics as one of the greatest works of modern literature, is a retelling of Homer's \"Odyssey\" set in modern-day Dublin. The mid-twentieth-century British author Mary Renault wrote a number of critically acclaimed novels inspired by ancient Greek literature and mythology, including \"The Last of the Wine\" and \"The King Must Die\". Even in works that do not consciously draw on Graeco-Roman literature, authors often employ concepts and",
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"title": "Alfred (Dvořák)",
"text": "its original German libretto on 17 September 2014, in Prague. The plot of Alfred transpires during wartime between the English and the Danes, sometime during the Middle Ages. It follows the hero, Alfred, on his quest to rescue his love Alvina from the grasp of the Danish leader Harald, and to lead the English to victory. The opera lasts for about 140 minutes. Act 1 – The Camp of the Danes: The opera opens to the Danish camp as they prepare to celebrate a victory over the English. Gothron sits apart from the crowd, unsettled-the night before he dreamed he",
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"title": "Japan's Threepenny Opera",
"text": "Japan's Threepenny Opera The name was derived from Bertold Brecht's \"Threepenny Opera\" and in a way is its variant, in the Japanese setting. The novel is based on actual events. It is set in post-World War II Japan. In the middle of Osaka there are ruins of the Imperial Arsenal demolished by American bombing, full of scrap metal. While the metals are precious in the destroyed economy of Japan, state bureaucracy is extremely slow to recover them. A settlement of outcasts, lumpen proletariat, spontaneously organize themselves into teams, using this circumstance as an opportunity to sneak into the Arsenal and",
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"title": "Otello (Rossini)",
"text": "Otello (Rossini) Otello () is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsa. The work is based on a French adaptation of the story, not Shakespeare's play \"Othello\" as neither Rossini nor his librettist knew the English drama. The opera deviates heavily from Shakespeare's version not only in that it takes place in Venice and not on Cyprus, but also in that the whole dramatic conflict develops in a different manner. The role of Iago is reduced to some degree, and it is much less diabolical than in the original",
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"title": "Italian Social Republic",
"text": "locally produced ones were made. Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1975 film \"Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom\" is an adaptation of Marquis de Sade's \"The 120 Days of Sodom\", set in the Republic of Salò instead of 18th century France. It uses the source material as an allegory; the atrocities in the movie did not actually happen, while most of the choices of milieus, clothing, uniforms, weapons and other details are historically correct. Roberto Benigni's 1997 \"Life is Beautiful\" is also set in the Republic of Salò. Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 \"Novecento\" set his story in Emilia, being at the time",
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"title": "Robert McFerrin",
"text": "\"Faust\" and in \"Iphigénie en Tauride\" by Gluck. That year he also performed as Amonasro in \"Aida\" with the National Negro Opera Company and made his New York City Opera debut, singing the role of Popaloi, a voodoo doctor, in the premiere of William Grant Still's Haitian opera, \"Troubled Island\". In 1950 McFerrin sang the title role in \"Rigoletto\" with the New England Opera. Moving between opera and Broadway, in 1951 he performed in a revival of \"The Green Pastures\", and the following year he sang in \"My Darlin' Aida\", a version of Verdi's \"Aida\" updated to 1861 and set",
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"title": "Le duc d'Albe",
"text": "he would claim a forfeit from the Opéra for its non-production, which was still unfinished, as was the libretto. He left Vienna for the last time on 10 July 1845, but appears to have done nothing about the claim when he arrived in Paris, and his final illness soon claimed him. In 1855, Scribe and Duveyrier's libretto was transferred to Verdi's opera \"Les vêpres siciliennes\", with the setting changed from the Spanish occupation of Flanders in 1573 to the French occupation of Sicily in 1282. In 1881 Matteo Salvi, a former pupil of Donizetti's, completed the opera from Donizetti's notes",
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"title": "Arrival and Departure",
"text": "Orwell called it notable \"for what must be one of the most shocking descriptions of Nazi terrorism that have ever been written.\" Written during the middle of World War II, \"Arrival and Departure\" reflects Koestler's own plight as a Hungarian refugee. Like Koestler, the main character is a former member of the Communist party. He escapes to 'Neutralia', a neutral country based on Portugal, where Koestler himself had gone, and flees from there. (Stephen Spender had supposedly said of Neutralia, \"Names like that should not be allowed in novels!\") Reflecting Koestler's later life relationship with science, and particularly his disagreement",
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"title": "David Henry Hwang",
"text": "Child\", received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in 1996. \"Golden Child\" was later produced in New York City. It won a 1997 Obie Award for playwriting for Hwang's 1996 off-Broadway production. In 1998 it was produced on Broadway, and was nominated that year for a Tony Award for Best Play. In the new millennium, Hwang had two Broadway successes back-to-back. He was asked by director Robert Falls to help co-write the book for the musical \"Aida\" (based upon the opera by Giuseppe Verdi). In an earlier version, it had failed in regional theatre tryouts. Hwang and Falls re-wrote",
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"title": "Chopin (opera)",
"text": "Chopin himself, entirely fictional). In Act II, set in Paris, Elio tells a group of children about the history and struggles of Poland, inspiring Chopin to fly to the piano and write a nocturne. Chopin's new love, Flora, is also present. Act III is set in Majorca, where the real Chopin spent the winter of 1838-9 with George Sand. In this version Chopin is there with Flora and their daughter, who dies after a thunderstorm and is mourned by the local population. In Act IV, Stella arrives in Paris from Poland just in time for Chopin to expire in her",
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"title": "Pole to Pole",
"text": "sulphurous, black mud. At the harbour in Odessa he descends the stairs made famous in the film \"Battleship Potemkin\", then boards a ferry and sails across the Black Sea. While on the ferry, Palin learns of the coup that attempted to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev, which shortly leads to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Arriving by ferry to Istanbul, Turkey, Palin stays at the Pera Palas, where Agatha Christie wrote \"Murder on the Orient Express\" and experiences a turkish bath, getting the full treatment from a large, mostly silent staff member. He checks out a local bazaar, as well as",
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"title": "Aida (1953 film)",
"text": "the role saying “I couldn’t afford to be so proud”.This was Loren's first leading role and her performance was met with critical acclaim for her role as Aida. Aida (1953 film) Aida is a 1953 Italian film version of the opera \"Aida\" by Giuseppe Verdi. It was directed by Clemente Fracassi and produced by Gregor Rabinovitch and Federico Teti. The screenplay was adapted by Fracassi, Carlo Castelli, Anna Gobbi and Giorgio Salviucci from the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. The cinematography was by Piero Portalupi, the production design by Flavio Mogherini and the costume design by Maria De Matteis. The Italian",
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"title": "Deutsche Oper Berlin",
"text": "\"The Magic Flute\". In 1986 the American Berlin Opera Foundation was founded. In April 2001, the Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli died at the podium while conducting Verdi's \"Aida\", at age 54. In September 2006, the Deutsche Oper's \"\" (general manager) Kirsten Harms drew criticism after she cancelled the production of Mozart's opera \"Idomeneo\" by Hans Neuenfels, because of fears that a scene in it featuring the severed heads of Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad would offend Muslims, and that the opera house's security might come under threat if violent protests took place. Critics of the decision include German Ministers and the",
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"title": "Virginia (Mercadante)",
"text": "reigning as an absolute monarch. Deploring the pattern of events in his country, Mercadante selected Alfieri's \"Virginia\" as a means of expressing his criticism of the constitution's suppression. Alfieri's story, set in Ancient Rome, tells the tale of a plebeian revolt, spurred on by the tragic murder of the title heroine by her father, which leads to the founding of the Roman Republic tribunes and the Plebeian Council. Mercadante asked Cammarano, with whom he frequently collaborated, to write the opera's libretto. Cammarano obliged, giving Mercadante a finished libretto in late 1849. Mercadante began composing the opera in December 1849, completing",
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"title": "La traviata",
"text": "La traviata La traviata (, \"The Fallen Woman\") is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on \"La Dame aux Camélias\" (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas \"fils\". The opera was originally titled \"Violetta\", after the main character. It was first performed on 6 March 1853 at the La Fenice opera house in Venice. Piave and Verdi wanted to follow Dumas in giving the opera a contemporary setting, but the authorities at La Fenice insisted that it be set in the past, \"c.",
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"title": "Giuseppe Garibaldi",
"text": "and volunteers from around the world as he launched his Redshirts in July 1860 to invade Sicily and conquer the Kingdom of Naples for annexation to what would finally become the newly-born Kingdom Of Italy with King Victor Emmanuel II. Garibaldi is a major character in two juvenile historical novels by Geoffrey Trease: \"Follow My Black Plume\" and \"A Thousand for Sicily\". They are both closely based on G. M. Trevelyan's accounts, the former set in the Roman Republic. Garibaldi is played by Raf Vallone in the 1952 film \"Red Shirts\", by Renzo Ricci in the 1961 film \"Garibaldi\", and",
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Which Malaysian port is associated with a walking stick? | ["Negeri Bersejarah","Melaka","Malakka","Melacca","Spaceport Malaysia","Melakaa","Mallaca","Negeri H(...TRUNCATED) | Melaka | [{"title":"Walking stick","text":"Asian, made of bamboo, also a riding crop. Such a stick was owned (...TRUNCATED) | {"title":"Malaysian legal history","text":"Malaysian legal history Malaysian legal history has been (...TRUNCATED) | During the realm of the Sultanate, Melaka was an important trading port | [{"title":"Malaysian legal history","text":"Malaysian legal history Malaysian legal history has been(...TRUNCATED) | 6,255 |
In 1932, Edward Elgar recorded his violin concerto, who was the sixteen year old soloist? | ["Menuhin, Yehudi","YEHUDI MENUHIN","Yehudi, Lord Menuhin of Stoke D'abernon Menuhin","Sir Yehudi Me(...TRUNCATED) | Sir Yehudi Menuhin | [{"title":"Violin Concerto (Elgar)","text":"those by Menuhin (1932) and Sammons (1929). Notes Refere(...TRUNCATED) | {"title":"Cello Concerto (Elgar)","text":"its passion as well as a secure technique. Barbirolli hims(...TRUNCATED) | "In 1985 the British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber recorded the concerto with the Royal Philharmonic O(...TRUNCATED) | [{"title":"Cello Concerto (Elgar)","text":"its passion as well as a secure technique. Barbirolli him(...TRUNCATED) | 26,332 |
Which General and commander-in-chief led the 'New Model Army' at the Battle of Naseby in 1645? | ["Thomas Fairfax","Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax","THOMAS FAIRFAX","Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax(...TRUNCATED) | Thomas Fairfax | [{"title":"Battle of Naseby","text":"Battle of Naseby The Battle of Naseby was a decisive engagement(...TRUNCATED) | {"title":"Battle of Naseby","text":"Battle of Naseby The Battle of Naseby was a decisive engagement (...TRUNCATED) | the Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. | [{"title":"Battle of Naseby","text":"Battle of Naseby The Battle of Naseby was a decisive engagement(...TRUNCATED) | 27,814 |
"Who narrated ""March of the Penguins"" and ""The Shawshank Redemption""?" | ["Pitabyte","E'Dena Hines","Morgan Freeman","Morgan freeman","MorganFreeman","Morgan Porterfield Fre(...TRUNCATED) | Morgan Freeman | [{"title":"The Shawshank Redemption","text":"The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is a (...TRUNCATED) | {"title":"The Shawshank Redemption","text":"The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is a 1(...TRUNCATED) | "Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis \"Red\" R(...TRUNCATED) | [{"title":"The Shawshank Redemption","text":"The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is a (...TRUNCATED) | 16,374 |
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