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  2. E. Frances White - Wikipedia

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    E. Frances White (born 1949) is an American historian, author and academic serving as Professor Emerita of History and Black Studies at Gallatin School of Individualized Study. From 2005 to 2008 she served as Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs at New York University .

  3. Lolicon - Wikipedia

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    Lolicon is a Japanese abbreviation of "Lolita complex" (ロリータ・コンプレックス, rorīta konpurekkusu), [5] an English-language phrase derived from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita (1955) and introduced to Japan in Russell Trainer's The Lolita Complex (1966, translated 1969), [6] a work of pop psychology in which it is used to denote attraction to pubescent and pre-pubescent girls. [7]

  4. Frances Conroy - Wikipedia

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    Frances Hardman Conroy [1] [2] (born March 15, 1953) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under (2001–2005), for which she won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards , and received four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series .

  5. Frances Tiafoe - Wikipedia

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    Frances Tiafoe Jr. (/ t i ˈ ɑː f oʊ / tee-AH-foh; [2] born January 20, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. He reached his career high at world No. 10 in singles on June 19, 2023, becoming the first Sierra Leonean American and only the third African-American man to be ranked in the top 10 by the ATP , after Arthur Ashe and James ...

  6. Con Funk Shun - Wikipedia

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    Con Funk Shun (formerly known as Project Soul) is an American R&B and funk band from Vallejo, California, formed in 1969. They were influenced by funk progenitors James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone .

  7. All-time Olympic Games medal table - Wikipedia

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    The table does not count revoked medals (e.g., due to doping). A total of 162 current and historical NOCs have earned at least one medal. Medal totals in this table are current through the 2024 Summer Olympics , and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 11 August 2024 are taken into account.

  8. Rayon - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] In 2003, the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) awarded Neal E. Franks their Henry E. Millson Award for Invention for lyocell. [21] In 1966–1968, D. L. Johnson of Eastman Kodak Inc. studied NMMO solutions. In the decade 1969 to 1979, American Enka tried unsuccessfully to commercialize the process ...

  9. Kurtis Conner - Wikipedia

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    Kurtis Matthew Kenneth Conner [P 1] was born at North York General Hospital in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, [P 2] on May 4, 1994. [P 3] [P 4] He grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, [P 5] [P 6] but he later moved back to Toronto. [2]