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  2. Brandon Teena - Wikipedia

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    Brandon Teena [note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2] [3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry .

  3. Lana Tisdel - Wikipedia

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    Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]

  4. Boys Don't Cry (1999 film) - Wikipedia

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    Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank), an American trans man who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.

  5. Pine Tree Flag - Wikipedia

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    The Pine Tree Flag (or the An Appeal to Heaven Flag) was one of the flags used during the American Revolution.The flag, which featured a pine tree with the motto "An Appeal to Heaven", or less frequently "An Appeal to God", was originally used by a squadron of six frigates that were commissioned under George Washington's authority as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in October 1775.

  6. John Elliott Tappan - Wikipedia

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    John Elliott Tappan (August 29, 1870 - January 16, 1957) was an American lawyer and businessman from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tappan founded Investors Syndicate in 1894, an investment company which later became Investors Diversified Services (IDS), then American Express Financial Advisors, and is known today as Ameriprise Financial and RiverSource .

  7. John Lott - Wikipedia

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    John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in 2013.

  8. Lottery paradox - Wikipedia

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    Lottery paradox. The lottery paradox [1] arises from Henry E. Kyburg Jr. considering a fair 1,000-ticket lottery that has exactly one winning ticket. If that much is known about the execution of the lottery, it is then rational to accept that some ticket will win. Suppose that an event is considered "very likely" only if the probability of it ...

  9. STV Children's Appeal - Wikipedia

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    An owner of a cat who plays the lottery to raise money for its vet bills donated £400 to the STV Children's Appeal. Ms Campbell, who has retinitis pigmentosa, told STV News: "I just really like Sean Batty and it was easy to change his name."Sean is an exceptionally lucky cat so I give half the winnings to the STV Appeal.