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One Direction, often shortened to 1D, are an English-Irish pop boy band formed in London in 2010. The group was composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and, until 2015, Zayn Malik. They became one of the best-selling boy groups of all time before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
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Niall James Horan ( NY-ษl HOR-ษn; born 13 September 1993) is an Irish singer-songwriter. He rose to prominence as a member of the boy band One Direction, formed in 2010 on the singing competition The X Factor. The group released five albums and went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
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Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer. Known for his influence in popular culture, showmanship, artistry, and philanthropy, he is a subject of widespread public interest with a vast fanbase. Styles is considered to be among the most successful solo artists who have emerged from a band.
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Naomi Elaine Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is a British fashion model. Beginning her career at the age of eight, Campbell was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. She was the first black woman to appear as a model on the covers of Time and Vogue France.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinฤ Greek: ฮฮปฮตฮฟฯฮฌฯฯฮฑ ฮฮตฮฌ ฮฆฮนฮปฮฟฯฮฌฯฯฯ lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC โ 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
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Katherine Evelyn Anita Cassidy (formerly Cassidy Rodgers; born November 25, 1986) is an American actress. Following several minor television roles, she came to attention as a scream queen after starring in the horror films When a Stranger Calls (2006), as Kelli Presley in Black Christmas (2006) and as Ruby in the third season of the horror series Supernatural (2007โ2008).
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Ashley Cole (born 20 December 1980) is an English football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a left-back, most notably for Arsenal and Chelsea. Cole is considered by many critics and fellow professional players as one of the best defenders of his generation, one of the greatest English players of all time as well as one of the greatest left-backs in the history of the sport.
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Terrifier 3 is a 2024 American Christmas supernatural slasher film written and directed by Damien Leone and starring Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton, Elliott Fullam, Samantha Scaffidi, Antonella Rose, Margaret Anne Florence, and Bryce Johnson. On the days leading up to Christmas, the story follows Sienna Shaw as she attempts to rebuild her life.
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The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an Arabic acronym from Arabic: ุญุฑูุฉ ุงูู ูุงูู ุฉ ุงูุฅุณูุงู ูุฉ, romanized: แธคarakat al-Muqฤwamah al-สพIslฤmiyyah), is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist political organisation with a military wing called the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
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The Substance is a 2024 satirical body horror film written, directed, and co-produced by Coralie Fargeat. It stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid, and follows a fading celebrity who uses a black market drug that temporarily creates a much younger version of herself with unexpected side effects.
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2024 United States presidential election
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose electors to the Electoral College, who will then elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.
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On 17 October 2024, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that Hamas militant and de facto leader Yahya Sinwar was killed the previous day in a gunfight with the 828th Bislamach Brigade in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, according to the IDF and Shin Bet. Tank shells were fired at a booby-trapped building and a drone equipped with a camera was brought in to ensure that it was empty of militants.
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Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), also known by his stage name Diddy, formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, and record executive. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he is credited with the discovery and development of musical artists including the Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, and Usher.
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Thomas Tuchel (German pronunciation: [หtoหmas หtสxlฬฉ]; born 29 August 1973) is a German professional football manager and former player. He will become head coach of the England national team on 1 January 2025. Widely regarded as a forward thinking tactical innovator, Tuchel is considered one of the best managers in the world.
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Joker: Folie ร Deux is a 2024 American jukebox musical psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Loosely based on DC Comics characters, it is the sequel to Joker (2019). Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the Joker, with Lady Gaga as his love interest, Lee Quinzel.
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An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war of the GazaโIsrael conflict since 2008, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. It is the deadliest war for Palestinians in the history of the IsraeliโPalestinian conflict.
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Elon Reeve Musk (; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp. , the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
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YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
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XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is a 2002 American action film directed by Rob Cohen, produced by Neal H. Moritz and written by Rich Wilkes. The first installment in the xXx film series, the film stars Vin Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman, and rebellious athlete-turned-reluctant spy for the National Security Agency.
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Vettaiyan ( transl. Hunter) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by T. J. Gnanavel and produced by Subaskaran Allirajah's Lyca Productions. The film stars Rajinikanth as Athiyan, a senior police officer, who accidentally shoots an innocent person during an encounter killing, while investigating the murder of a teacher.
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James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as member of the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975.
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The Penguin is an American crime drama television miniseries developed by Lauren LeFranc for HBO. Based on the DC Comics character the Penguin, it is a spin-off from the film The Batman (2022) that explores the Penguin's rise to power in Gotham City's criminal underworld. LeFranc serves as the showrunner of the series, which is produced by DC Studios in association with Warner Bros. Television.
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Christy Renea Martin (nรฉe Salters; born June 12, 1968) is an American former professional boxer. Competing from 1989 to 2012, she held the WBC female super welterweight title in 2009. Martin was the first female boxer elected to the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame in 2016, and was also elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2020, which was the first year that women were on the ballot.
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Terrifier is a 2016 American independent slasher film written and directed by Damien Leone. The film stars Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, David Howard Thornton, and Catherine Corcoran. The plot centers on partygoer Tara Heyes (Kanell) and her sister Victoria (Scaffidi), who become targets of the enigmatic serial killer known only as Art the Clown (Thornton) on Halloween night.
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As a solo artist, English singer Liam Payne (1993โ2024) released one studio album, two extended plays (EPs), 14 singles, nine music videos, and one guest appearance. He was musically active from 2017 until his death in 2024. His debut EP, First Time, was released on 24 August 2018 via Capitol Records.
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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Launched in 2022 based on the GPT-3. 5 large language model (LLM), it was later updated to use the GPT-4 architecture. ChatGPT can generate human-like conversational responses and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language.
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Wiccan (William "Billy" Kaplan-Altman) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted as a member of the Young Avengers, a team of teenage superheroes, as well as Strikeforce and New Avengers. Created by writer Allan Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung, the character first appeared in Young Avengers #1 (April 2005).
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Clonazepam, sold under the brand name Klonopin among others, is a benzodiazepine medication used to prevent and treat anxiety disorders, seizures, bipolar mania, agitation associated with psychosis, obsessiveโcompulsive disorder (OCD), and akathisia. It is a long-acting tranquilizer of the benzodiazepine class.
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The Apple Network Server (ANS) was a line of PowerPC-based server computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from February 1996 to April 1997. It was codenamed "Shiner" and originally consisted of two models, the Network Server 500/132 ("Shiner LE", i. e. , "low-end") and the Network Server 700/150 ("Shiner HE", i. e.
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TMZ is a tabloid news organization owned by Fox Corporation. It made its debut on November 8, 2005, as a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures, a division of Warner Bros. , until Time Warner divested AOL in 2009. On September 13, 2021, Fox Corporation acquired TMZ from WarnerMedia for $50 million.
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C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanโATLAS)
C/2023 A3 (TsuchinshanโATLAS) (or Comet TsuchinshanโATLAS or simply Comet A3) is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023. The comet passed perihelion at a distance of 0. 39 AU (58 million km; 36 million mi) on 27 September 2024, when it became visible to the naked eye.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. His father made him president of the family real estate business in 1971.
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Alien: Romulus is a 2024 American science fiction horror film directed by Fede รlvarez and written by รlvarez and Rodo Sayagues. Produced by Scott Free Productions and Brandywine Productions, it is part of the Alien franchise, set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). The film stars Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu.
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Sabrina Elaine Ionescu ( yษ-NESS-kew; born December 6, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks and is considered one of the greatest collegiate players of all time.
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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 โ April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
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The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal union of 50 states and the federal capital district of Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the states of Alaska to the northwest and the archipelagic Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.
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Fascism ( FASH-iz-ษm) is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
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Shohei Ohtani (Japanese: ๅคง่ฐท ็ฟๅนณ, Hepburn: ลtani Shลhei, pronounced [oหtaษฒi ษoหheห]; born July 5, 1994) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher and designated hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "Shotime", he has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Angels and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.
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2020 United States presidential election
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence.
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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is the second season of the American biographical crime drama anthology television series Monster, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix. This season centers on the 1989 murders of Josรฉ (Javier Bardem) and Kitty Menendez (Chloรซ Sevigny), who were killed by their sons, Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch).
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Deadpool & Wolverine is a 2024 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Deadpool and Wolverine. Produced by Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, and 21 Laps Entertainment, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 34th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018).
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Terrifier 2 is a 2022 American supernatural slasher film written, directed, edited and produced by Damien Leone. A sequel to Terrifier (2016), it is the second film centered solely around Art the Clown and third feature-length film to feature the character. It is the second installment in the Terrifier franchise.
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Devara: Part 1 is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language action drama film written and directed by Koratala Siva and jointly produced by Yuvasudha Arts and N. T. R. Arts. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr in dual roles, alongside Saif Ali Khan, Janhvi Kapoor, Prakash Raj, Srikanth and Shine Tom Chacko. The film marks the Telugu cinema debut of Khan and Kapoor.
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Mohammed Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar (Arabic: ู ุญู ุฏ ุฅุจุฑุงููู ุญุณู ุงูุณููุงุฑ; born September 16, 1975) is a Palestinian militant who is the leader of the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, based in the Gaza Strip. His brother was the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and the chairman of its politicial bureau, Yahya Sinwar.
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. xxx (pronounced "dot triple-ecks" or "dot ecks ecks ecks") is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
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Bethany Joy Lenz (born April 2, 1981) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is known for her portrayal of Haley James Scott on The WB / The CW television drama One Tree Hill (2003โ2012). She also starred as Michelle Bauer Santos on the CBS Daytime soap opera Guiding Light (1998โ2000), and is recognized for her music as a solo artist and as a member of the band Everly.
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Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (stylized as EMINฦM), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is credited with popularizing hip hop in Middle America and is regarded as among the greatest rappers of all time. His success is considered to have broken racial barriers to the acceptance of white rappers in popular music.
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Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites; as of August 2024, it was ranked fourth by Semrush, and seventh by Similarweb.
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Changi Airport MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station in Changi, Singapore. The station is the terminus of the Changi Airport branch of the EastโWest Line (EWL); it is operated by SMRT Trains and is built in an eastโwest orientation. The station directly connects to Terminals 2 and 3 of Changi Airport and serves other airport amenities including the retail complex of Jewel.
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Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo (; born 8 January 1987) is an English actress and singer. She gained recognition for starring in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple from 2015 to 2017, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
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The chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau (Arabic: ุฑุฆูุณ ุงูู ูุชุจ ุงูุณูุงุณู ูุญุฑูุฉ ุญู ุงุณ, romanized: Raโฤซs al-Maktab as-Siasi li-แธคarakat แธคamฤs), also known as the chairman of the Hamas Shura Council (Arabic: ุฑุฆูุณ ู ุฌูุณ ุดูุฑู ูุญุฑูุฉ ุญู ุงุณ, romanized: Raโฤซs Majlis Shลซra li-แธคarakat แธคamฤs) from 1987 until 2004, is the overall and de facto leader of Hamas, a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military organisation that is governing most of the Gaza Strip since 2007.
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Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths, is a Torah-commanded holiday celebrated for seven days, beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei. It is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals on which Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Colin Zachary Allred (born April 15, 1983) is an American politician, civil rights lawyer, and former professional football player serving as the U.S. representative from Texas's 32nd congressional district since 2019. The district includes the northeastern corner of Dallas, as well as many of its northeastern suburbs, such as Garland, Richardson, Sachse, Wylie, and the Park Cities.
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Alfredo James Pacino ( pษ-CHEE-noh; Italian: [paหtสiหno]; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Considered one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century, Pacino has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, achieving the Triple Crown of Acting.
