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  2. Ray Combs - Wikipedia

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    Ray Combs. Raymond Neil Combs Jr. (April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the second host of the game show Family Feud in its second run and first revival.

  3. Book censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The court came to the conclusion that, "The First Amendment imposes limitations upon a local school board's" discretion to remove books from high and junior high school libraries. [50] The case was brought to the Supreme Court by five students who challenged their school board's decision to remove nine books from the school's library, after a ...

  4. 1977 Dutch school hostage crisis - Wikipedia

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    On the morning of Monday 23 May 1977, four armed South-Moluccans took 105 children and their five teachers hostage at a primary school in Bovensmilde, Netherlands. At the same time nine others hijacked a train in the nearby De Punt. Both hostage crises lasted for twenty days before being ended by military interventions.

  5. 1977 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    An excursion train pulled by a classic BC Rail steam locomotive visits Oakland, California in 1977. March 9 – Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, D.C., killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.

  6. List of cults of personality - Wikipedia

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    Plaster images and portraits of him were prepared for public distribution, similar to those of Kim Il-sung and Mao Zedong; however, the Vietnamese invasion cut these plans short, but a less extreme version of Pol Pot's cult of personality continued to exist in the areas which were under the control of Khmer Rouge remnants. [14]

  7. Brill Building - Wikipedia

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    March 23, 2010. Reference no. 2387. The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and farther uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood. It was built in 1931 as the Alan E. Lefcourt Building, after the son of its builder Abraham E ...

  8. List of United States high school national records in track ...

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    The list of United States high-school national records in track and field is separated by indoor and outdoor and boys and girls who have set a national record in their respective events. While these records have been compiled for over 100 years, there are varying standards for these records. The National Federation of State High School ...

  9. File:Bombing of Mobil Building in New York City, 1977.jpg

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    English: Aftermath of August 3, 1977 bombing of Mobil Building in New York City, which killed one person. The Puerto Rican nationalist group Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña claimed responsiblity.