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2025 Canadian federal election
The 2025 Canadian federal election was held on April 28, 2025, to elect members of the House of Commons to the 45th Canadian Parliament. The governor general, Mary Simon, issued the writs of election on March 23, 2025, after accepting a request to dissolve Parliament from the prime minister, Mark Carney. This was the first election to use a new 343-seat electoral map based on the 2021 census.
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Mark Kerr (born December 21, 1968) is an American former wrestler and mixed martial artist. During his MMA career, he was a two-time UFC Heavyweight Tournament Champion, World Vale Tudo Championship tournament winner, and a PRIDE FC competitor. In collegiate wrestling, Kerr was an NCAA Division I champion.
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Mark Joseph Carney (born March 16, 1965) is a Canadian politician and economist who is serving as the 24th prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2025. He has also been the member of Parliament (MP) for Nepean since 2025. Carney was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta.
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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
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Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe. The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan.
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Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana (born 13 July 2007) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best footballers in the world. A product of La Masia, Barcelona's youth academy, Yamal made his first-team debut in 2023, aged 15.
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Weapons is an upcoming American mystery horror film written, produced, and directed by Zach Cregger. It stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. The film follows a small community after 17 kids mysteriously disappear overnight.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. 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 a reference.
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Vaibhav Suryavanshi (born 27 March 2011) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Bihar in domestic cricket and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League. As a left-handed batsman, he made his first-class debut in January 2024. He is the youngest Indian List A debutant and the youngest to debut in the Indian Premier League.
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Andor, also known as Star Wars: Andor and Andor: A Star Wars Story for its second season, is an American science fiction television series created by Tony Gilroy for the streaming service Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise and a prequel to the film Rogue One (2016), which in turn is a prequel to the original Star Wars film (1977).
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Pierre Marcel Poilievre (born June 3, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has been the leader of the Conservative Party since 2022. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for Carleton from 2004 to 2025 and served as Leader of the Opposition from 2022 to 2025. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Poilievre moved to Ottawa in 2000 to work for Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day.
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International Workers' Day, also called Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May. Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the European spring festival of May Day.
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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the American company OpenAI and launched in 2022. It is based on large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o. 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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The Smashing Machine (2025 film)
The Smashing Machine is an upcoming American biographical sports drama film written, directed, co-produced, and edited by Benny Safdie. It stars Dwayne Johnson as former wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr, alongside Emily Blunt as Kerr's then-wife Dawn Staples, with Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten and Oleksandr Usyk in supporting roles. The film is set to be released by A24 on October 3, 2025.
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Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 β 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first pope to be a Jesuit, the first Latin American, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.
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Natalyah Grace Renee Mans (born Natalia "Natasha" Vadymivna Gava (Ukrainian: ΠΠ°ΡΠ°Π»ΡΡ Β«ΠΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΠ°Β» ΠΠ°Π΄ΠΈΠΌΡΠ²Π½Π° ΠΠ°Π²Π°), September 4, 2003; formerly Natalia Lourdes Ciccone and Natalia Grace Barnett) is a Ukrainian-born American with dwarfism, who was adopted by an American family at the age of seven in 2010, but was allegedly abandoned by them one year later.
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2021 Canadian federal election
The 2021 Canadian federal election was held on September 20, 2021, to elect members of the House of Commons to the 44th Canadian Parliament. The writs of election were issued by Governor General Mary Simon on August 15, 2021, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requested the dissolution of parliament for a snap election. Trudeau won a third term as prime minister, his second minority government.
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The 2025 Pahalgam attack was an attack on tourists by five armed terrorists near Pahalgam in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, killing 26 civilians, mostly Hindu males, on 22 April 2025. The incident took place at the tourist spot in Baisaran Valley and is considered the deadliest event of its kind in India since the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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Italian brainrot is a surrealist Internet meme that emerged in early 2025, characterized by absurd photos of AI-generated creatures with pseudo-Italian names. The phenomenon quickly spread across social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, thanks to its combination of synthesized "Italian" voiceovers, grotesque, funny visuals, and nonsensical narrative.
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2025 World Snooker Championship
The 2025 World Snooker Championship (officially the 2025 Halo World Snooker Championship) is a professional snooker tournament that is taking place from 19 April to 5 May 2025 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the 49th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship is being staged at the venue.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in the New York City borough of Queens, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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The Accountant 2 (stylized as The Accountant2) is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Bill Dubuque. It is the sequel to The Accountant (2016). Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and J. K. Simmons reprise their roles from the previous film, with Daniella Pineda joining the cast.
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Jordan Travis (born May 2, 2000) is a former American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals and the Florida State Seminoles, winning ACC Player of the Year in 2023 before being selected by the New York Jets in the fifth round of the 2024 NFL draft.
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (KoinΔ Greek: ΞλΡοΟΞ¬ΟΟΞ± ΞΡά ΦιλοΟΞ¬ΟΟΟ, lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC β 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. 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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The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO. Based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures and causes the collapse of society.
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Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal ( jΙg-MEET SING; born January 2, 1979) is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017 and served as member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South from 2019 to 2025. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2011, representing BramaleaβGoreβMalton until his entry into federal politics.
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Havoc is a 2025 action thriller film written and directed by Gareth Evans. The film stars Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis GuzmΓ‘n, Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker, and is a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom. The film was released by Netflix on April 25, 2025.
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Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI. ; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, German: [ΛjoΛzΙf ΛΚaΛlΙΙͺΜ―s ΛΚatΝ‘sΙͺΕΙ]; 16 April 1927 β 31 December 2022) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.
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A Minecraft Movie is a 2025 American fantasy adventure comedy film based on the 2011 video game Minecraft by Mojang Studios. It was directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, from a story by Allison Schroeder, Bowman, and Palmer. The film stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Hansen.
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't is an upcoming American heist thriller film directed by Ruben Fleischer, from a screenplay by Eric Warren Singer, Seth Grahame-Smith, and Michael Lesslie, and produced by Bobby Cohen and Alex Kurtzman. It is the sequel to Now You See Me (2013) and Now You See Me 2 (2016) and the third installment in the Now You See Me series.
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David Joel Horowitz (January 10, 1939 β April 29, 2025) was an American conservative writer and activist. He was a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left.
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Initial campaign of the Breton Civil War
The initial campaign of the Breton Civil War took place in 1341 when a French royal army intervened in a dynastic dispute between two claimants to the Duchy of Brittany. Brittany was a province of France, but although the dukes of Brittany were vassals of the French kings they governed the duchy as independent rulers. When Duke John III (r.
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YouTube is an American social media and 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, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
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Robert Anthony De Niro ( dΙ NEER-roh, Italian: [de ΛniΛro]; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director, and film producer. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards.
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Shri Thanedar (Marathi: ΰ€Άΰ₯ΰ€°ΰ₯ ΰ€ ΰ€Ύΰ€£ΰ₯ΰ€¦ΰ€Ύΰ€°; TAN-Ι-dar; born February 22, 1955) is an American businessman, author, and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 13th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Thanedar served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023.
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The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 β 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations.
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Until Dawn is a 2025 American survival horror film directed by David F. Sandberg from a screenplay and a story by Gary Dauberman and Blair Butler. It is derived from the 2015 video game published by PlayStation Studios, and is set in the same universe while featuring an original standalone story that expands upon the game's mythology.
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The second season of the American post-apocalyptic drama television series The Last of Us premiered on HBO on April 13, 2025. Based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures and collapses society.
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Estadi OlΓmpic LluΓs Companys
LluΓs Companys Olympic Stadium formerly known as the Estadi de MontjuΓ―c and Estadi OlΓmpic de MontjuΓ―c and also known in English as the Barcelona Olympic Stadium, is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Walpurgis Night (), an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht [zaΕkt valΛpΚΚΙ‘ΙͺsΛnaxt]), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve) and Walpurgisnacht, is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of 30 April and the day of 1 May.
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Michael Leslie Peters (25 February 1959 β 28 April 2025) was a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of the Alarm. After the band broke up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work, before revamping the Alarm in 2000. Additionally, he was co-founder of the Love Hope Strength Foundation.
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Raphael Dias Belloli (born 14 December 1996), known as Raphinha, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Barcelona and the Brazil national team. Raphinha began his career with Brazilian club AvaΓ, before signing for the Portuguese VitΓ³ria de GuimarΓ£es in 2016, where he made his professional debut.
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BeyoncΓ© Giselle Knowles-Carter ( bee-ON-say; nΓ©e Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman. Through her vocal ability, musical versatility, live performances, and culturally important works, she has established herself as one of the most significant artists of the 21st century.
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Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts
Since the Partition of British India in 1947 and subsequent creation of the dominions of India and Pakistan, the two countries have been involved in a number of wars, conflicts, and military standoffs.
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Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian former politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he served as the party's leader from 2013 until his resignation in 2025 and was a member of parliament (MP) for Papineau from 2008 until 2025.
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Christopher Livingstone Eubank (born 8 August 1966) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super-middleweight titles between 1990 and 1995, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.
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Shedeur Deion Sanders ( shΙd-OOR; born February 7, 2002) is an American professional football quarterback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Jackson State Tigers and Colorado Buffaloes, winning the 2021 Jerry Rice Award, 2022 Deacon Jones Trophy and 2024 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
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XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American spy fiction action film series created by Rich Wilkes. It consists of three full-length feature films: XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005) and XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and a short film: The Final Chapter: The Death of Xander Cage. The series has grossed $694 million worldwide.
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Isabella May Ramsey (born September 2003) is an English actor. They are known for their breakthrough role as young noblewoman Lyanna Mormont in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2016β2019) and Ellie in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023βpresent). They received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the latter.
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Good American Family is an American drama limited series based on the adoption by Kristine (Ellen Pompeo) and Michael Barnett (Mark Duplass) of Natalia Grace (Imogen Faith Reid), a child with dwarfism who the Barnetts decide to abandon after she starts to display peculiar behavior, falsely claiming she had been an adult pretending to be a child to justify doing so.
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A proposition is a central concept in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and related fields, often characterized as the primary bearer of truth or falsity. Propositions are also often characterized as the type of object that declarative sentences denote. For instance, the sentence "The sky is blue" denotes the proposition that the sky is blue.
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Tyrese John Haliburton (born February 29, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A point guard, he played college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones and was selected by the Sacramento Kings 12th overall in the 2020 NBA draft.
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Denzel Justus Morris Dumfries (born 18 April 1996) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a right-back or right wing-back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Netherlands national team. Dumfries began his senior career in 2014 at Sparta Rotterdam, helping them gain promotion to the Eredivisie in 2016 as the Eerste Divisie Talent of the Year.
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XXX (stylized as xXx) is a 2002 action video game developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Activision for the Game Boy Advance. Based on the film of the same name, the narrative follows Xander "xXx" Cage, an underground thrill-seeker who is recruited as a spy to stop the evil Anarchy 99 organization before it unleashes an assault on the Earth.
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The New Democratic Party (NDP; French: Nouveau Parti dΓ©mocratique, NPD) is a minor federal political party in Canada. Widely described as social democratic, the party sits at the centre-left to left-wing of the Canadian political spectrum, generally to the left of the Liberal Party. The party was founded in 1961 by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
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Diana Fox Carney (nΓ©e Fox; born 1965) is a British-Canadian economist and climate policy expert who is the spouse of the prime minister of Canada as the wife of Mark Carney, the 24th Prime Minister of Canada since 2025. Specializing in developing nations, she is active in various environmental and social justice causes.
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Philosophy of language refers to the philosophical study of the nature of language. It investigates the relationship between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, the constitution of sentences, concepts, learning, and thought.
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Penn Dayton Badgley (born November 1, 1986) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007β2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix psychological thriller series You (2018β2025). Badgley came to prominence playing Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2000β2001).
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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 β 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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Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 β 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of FΓΌhrer und Reichskanzler in 1934. His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the start of the Second World War.
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The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC; French: Parti libΓ©ral du Canada, PLC) is a federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism, and generally sits at the centre to centre-left of the Canadian political spectrum, with their main rival, the Conservative Party, positioned to their right and the New Democratic Party positioned to their left.
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Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus II; Italian: Giovanni Paolo II; Polish: Jan PaweΕ II; born Karol JΓ³zef WojtyΕa, Polish: [ΛkarΙl ΛjuzΙvβΏvΙjΛtΙ¨wa]; 18 May 1920 β 2 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. In his youth, WojtyΕa dabbled in stage acting.
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantastic Four. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is intended to be the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the second reboot of the Fantastic Four film series.
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2019 Canadian federal election
The 2019 Canadian federal election was held on October 21, 2019. Members of the House of Commons were elected to the 43rd Canadian Parliament. In keeping with the maximum four-year term under a 2007 amendment to the Canada Elections Act, the writs of election for the 2019 election were issued by Governor General Julie Payette on September 11, 2019.
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2025 Australian federal election
The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on Saturday, 3 May 2025 to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate will be contested. The incumbent Labor government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is seeking re-election for a second term.
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JosΓ© Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (Spanish: [xoΛse ΛpeΓ°ΙΎo Ξ²almaΛseΓ°a pasΛkal]; born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. After nearly two decades of taking small roles on stage and television, Pascal had his breakout role as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014).
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Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by the Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. In the game, players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, receiving feedback through colored tiles that indicate correct letters and their placement. A single puzzle is released daily, with all players attempting to solve the same word.
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Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
