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  2. The Beach Boys - Wikipedia

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    — Brian Wilson Released in March 1965, The Beach Boys Today! marked the first time the group experimented with the "album-as-art" form. The tracks on side one feature an uptempo sound that contrasts side two, which consists mostly of emotional ballads. Music writer Scott Schinder referenced its "suite-like structure" as an early example of the rock album format being used to make a cohesive ...

  3. Valeri Nichushkin - Wikipedia

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    Valeri Ivanovich Nichushkin ( Russian: Валерий Иванович Ничушкин; born March 4, 1995) is a Russian professional ice hockey right winger for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed " Big Val ", and " the Chu Chu Train ", he was selected by the Dallas Stars in the first round, 10th overall, of ...

  4. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

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    The Dunning–Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability. [2] [3] [4] This is often seen as a cognitive bias, i.e. as a systematic tendency to engage in erroneous forms of thinking and judging. [5] [6] [7] In the case of the Dunning–Kruger effect ...

  5. Kendrick Perkins - Wikipedia

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    Kendrick Le'Dale Perkins (born November 10, 1984) is a former American professional basketball player who is a sports analyst for ESPN.He entered the NBA directly out of high school and played for the Boston Celtics, Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers, and New Orleans Pelicans, winning the NBA Championship in 2008 with the Celtics.

  6. In the Heat of the Night (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1967 film and 1965 novel of the same title that starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs and was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988-May 19, 1992 before moving to CBS, where it aired from October 28, 1992-May 16, 1995.

  7. Dollar sign - Wikipedia

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    The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ( $ or depending on typeface ), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso". The explicitly double-barred sign is called cifrão in ...

  8. List of cities and towns in Germany - Wikipedia

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    North Rhine-Westphalia: 272 cities and towns. Hesse: 191 cities and towns. Saxony: 169 cities and towns. Lower Saxony: 159 cities and towns. Rhineland-Palatinate: 130 cities and towns. Thuringia: 117 cities and towns. Brandenburg: 113 cities and towns. Saxony-Anhalt: 104 cities and towns. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 84 cities and towns, see ...

  9. Ku Klux Klan - Wikipedia

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    Cocoltchos suggests that many of the individuals in Orange County joined the Klan out of that sense of civic activism. The Klan representatives easily won the local election in Anaheim in April 1924. They fired city employees who were known to be Catholic and replaced them with Klan appointees. The new city council tried to enforce Prohibition.