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  2. Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Saudi Arabia, [e] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( KSA ), [f] is a country in West Asia and the Middle East. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2 150 000 km 2 ( 830 000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia and the largest in the Middle East.

  3. Alan Turing - Wikipedia

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    Alan Turing. Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS ( / ˈtjʊərɪŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. [5] Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm ...

  4. Charlie Chaplin - Wikipedia

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    Statue. v. t. e. Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures.

  5. David Attenborough - Wikipedia

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    Sir David Frederick Attenborough (/ ˈ æ t ən b ə r ə /; born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer.He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection, a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth.

  6. De-essing - Wikipedia

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    De-essing is a dynamic audio editing process, only working when the level of the signal in the sibilant range (the ess sound) exceeds a set threshold. De-essing temporarily reduces the level of high- frequency content in the signal when a sibilant ess sound is present. [2] De-essing differs from equalization, which is a static change in level ...

  7. Dune (franchise) - Wikipedia

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    Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001) Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003) Dune (2021) Dune: Part Two (2024) Dune is an American science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert [a] and has continued to add new publications. Dune is frequently described as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.

  8. National Basketball Association - Wikipedia

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    The National Basketball Association ( NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). It is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world. [3]

  9. Salman Rushdie - Wikipedia

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    Salman Rushdie. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL ( / sʌlˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi /; [2] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. [3] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the ...