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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an American fantasy drama television series created by Ira Parker and George R. R. Martin. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011β2019), it is the third television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise and is an adaptation of the Tales of Dunk and Egg series of novellas, beginning with The Hedge Knight.
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Caleb Williams (born November 18, 2001) is an American professional football quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Following one season of college football with the Oklahoma Sooners, he played for the USC Trojans and won the Heisman Trophy in 2022 after setting single-season school records in passing yards and touchdowns.
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Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are citizens of Denmark. They are thus citizens of the European Union (EU), although Greenland is not part of the EU.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., and often referred to shorthand as MLK Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which protested legalized racial discrimination in federal and state law and civil society.
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Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani (Italian: [valenΛtiΛno Ι‘araΛvaΛni]; 11 May 1932 β 19 January 2026), known mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian fashion designer who founded the Valentino fashion house in 1960. His main lines included Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Valentino Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino.
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It was shot back-to-back with its predecessor 28 Years Later (2025), and serves as the fourth installment overall in the 28 Days Later film series. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry.
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The Africa Cup of Nations, commonly abbreviated as AFCON in English and CAN (from Coupe dβAfrique des Nations) in French, and currently known officially as the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, is the main biennial international men's association football competition in Africa. It is sanctioned by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and was first held in 1957.
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Nicola Anne Peltz Beckham (born Nicola Anne Peltz; January 9, 1995) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Katara in the film The Last Airbender (2010), Bradley Martin in the A&E drama series Bates Motel (2013β2015) and Tessa Yeager in the film Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).
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. xxx 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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The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. 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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Melanie Lyn McGuire (nΓ©e Slate; born October 8, 1972) is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the "suitcase murder". She was sentenced to life in prison on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey.
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Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 β July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defenseβas well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophiesβas a new school of martial arts thought.
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Landman is an American oil television series, created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace and inspired by the podcast series Boomtown, hosted by Wallace. Starring Billy Bob Thornton as a landman for an oil company, the show premiered on November 17, 2024, on Paramount+. In March 2025, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on November 16, 2025.
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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 New York City family, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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Dhurandhar (transl. 'Stalwart') is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Aditya Dhar. Produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, and Lokesh Dhar under Jio Studios and B62 Studios, it stars Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, R. Madhavan, Arjun Rampal, and several other actors.
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Harrison Mevis (born March 27, 2002), nicknamed "the Thiccer Kicker", is an American professional football placekicker for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Missouri Tigers and began his professional career when he was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2024.
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Blue Monday is the name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) by former Cardiff University health psychologist Cliff Arnall in 2005. Arnall is a current member of The British Psychological Society (BPS). It is said by a UK travel company, Sky Travel, to be the most depressing day of the year.
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Heated Rivalry is a Canadian sports romance television series created, written, and directed by Jacob Tierney for Crave. Based on Rachel Reid's Game Changers novel series, it follows two rival professional hockey players, Canadian Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Russian Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), whose on-ice animosity conceals a passionate, secret romance.
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Drake Lee Maye (born August 30, 2002) is an American professional football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, winning the Shaun Alexander Award and ACC Football Player of the Year in 2022 after leading the NCAA in total yards.
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials is a British miniseries based on the 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie. Created and written by Chris Chibnall, and directed by Chris Sweeney, the series stars Mia McKenna-Bruce, Edward Bluemel, Iain Glen, Martin Freeman, and Helena Bonham Carter. It premiered on Netflix on 15 January 2026.
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"XXX" (stylized as "XXX". , pronounced "X-Rated") is a song by American rapper Kendrick Lamar, from his fourth studio album Damn, released on April 14, 2017. The eleventh track on the album (fourth on the Collector's Edition of Damn), the song was written by Lamar, Mike Will Made It, DJ Dahi, Mark Spears a. k. a.
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The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, known in short as the 2025 AFCON or CAN 2025 and for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, was the 35th edition of the biennial Africa Cup of Nations tournament organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). It was the second edition hosted by Morocco after 1988.
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During the second presidency of Donald Trump, the United States has pursued a campaign to annex Greenland, part of the Kingdom of Denmark and whose citizens are also citizens of the European Union (EU). This triggered a confrontation between the United States on one side, and Denmark, the European Union, and several NATO members on the other.
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Marty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Josh Safdie, and written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. TimothΓ©e Chalamet stars in the title role; with Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher in supporting roles. Set in the 1950s, the film is loosely based on American table tennis player Marty Reisman.
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The Night Manager (British TV series)
The Night Manager is a British spy thriller television serial based on the 1993 novel by John le CarrΓ© and adapted by David Farr. The six-part first series, directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, David Harewood and Elizabeth Debicki, began broadcasting on BBC One on 21 February 2016.
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Sean Patrick McVay (born January 24, 1986) is an American professional football coach who is the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He became the youngest NFL head coach in the modern era when he was hired by the Rams in 2017 at the age of 30 years and 353 days.
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Ben Johnson (American football coach)
Benjamin David Johnson (born May 11, 1986) is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). His NFL coaching career began as an assistant with the Miami Dolphins in 2012, coaching quarterbacks, tight ends, and wide receivers.
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2026 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election
The 2026 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election took place on 15 January 2026 to elect members to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, the second largest city in India. Voting lasted one day and the results were released on 16th January. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Maha Yuti alliance secured a simple majority.
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Nelson Peltz (born June 24, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is a founding partner, together with Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden, of Trian Partners, an alternative investment management fund based in New York. He is non-executive chairman of Wendy's Company, Sysco, and The Madison Square Garden Company.
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In association football, the panenka is a technique used while taking a penalty kick in which the taker, instead of kicking the ball to the left or right of the goalkeeper, gives a light touch underneath the ball, causing it to rise and fall within the centre of the goal, deceiving the goalkeeper who will most likely have committed to a dive away from the centre.
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Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web (lit. 'Smuggling: The Smuggler's Web') is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller television series created by Neeraj Pandey for Netflix under the banner of Friday Storytellers. The series stars Emraan Hashmi, Sharad Kelkar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Zoya Afroz, Nandish Sandhu and Anurag Sinha. This series was released on 14 January 2026 on Netflix.
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One Battle After Another is a 2025 American black comedy action thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is loosely based on and inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti (in her film debut).
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Stranger Things is an American television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The second and third seasons followed in October 2017 and July 2019, respectively, and the fourth season was released in two parts in May and July of 2022.
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James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 β April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the assassination, Ray, who had planned on living in exile in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), fled to London and was captured there.
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Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, and singer-songwriter. He received international attention after writing, directing and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Super Bowl LX is an upcoming American football championship game that will be played between the winner of the National Football Conference (NFC) conference championship game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Los Angeles Rams and the winner of the American Football Conference (AFC) championship game between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots, to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2025 season.
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Michael George Vrabel ( VRAY-bΙl; born August 14, 1975) is an American professional football coach and former linebacker who is the head coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Vrabel previously played in the NFL for 14 seasons, most notably with the Patriots. He also served as the head coach of the Tennessee Titans from 2018 to 2023.
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Alison Elizabeth Larter (born February 28, 1976), is an American actress and former model. She portrayed fictional model Allegra Coleman in a 1996 Esquire magazine hoax and took on guest roles on several television shows in the 1990s. Her film debut in Varsity Blues (1999) was followed by a role in the horror film House on Haunted Hill (1999).
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Coleridge Bernard "C. J." Stroud IV (born October 3, 2001) is an American professional football quarterback for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he holds several school records, including most passing yards in a single game with 573, as well as being the first player to throw for six touchdowns three times.
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The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. They are one of two remaining franchises from the NFL founding in 1920, along with the Arizona Cardinals, which also began in Chicago.
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The Housemaid is a 2025 American erotic psychological thriller film produced and directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay by Rebecca Sonnenshine, who adapted the 2022 novel by Freida McFadden. The film stars Sydney Sweeney as a young woman with a troubled past who becomes the live-in housekeeper for a wealthy couple (Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar) whose household hides dark secrets.
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The Board of Peace is an United States-led intergovernmental organization that is nominally purposed to "promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict". The Board was proposed by U.S. president Donald Trump in September 2025 and its establishment was announced by Trump on 15 January 2026.
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Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland
Ever since the 19th century, the United States has made several attempts to obtain the island of Greenland from Denmark. Historically, nearly 40% of the territory of the US was acquired through purchase; notably Alaska and the Louisiana purchase.
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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.
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Jeff Hafley (born April 4, 1979) is an American professional football coach who is the head coach of the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers from 2024 to 2025 and was the head coach at Boston College from 2020 to 2023.
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Senegal national football team
The Senegal national football team (French: Γquipe de football du Senegal), nicknamed Les Lions de la Teranga (meaning: The Lions of Teranga), represents Senegal in men's international association football and is operated by the Senegalese Football Federation.
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2026 Portuguese presidential election
Presidential elections are being held in Portugal in 2026, with a first round on 18 January and a second round scheduled for 8 February 2026. The President of Portugal has a largely ceremonial role, with no executive power, but can veto new laws and dissolve Parliament.
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The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Greater Los Angeles area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team plays its home games at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, which it shares with the Los Angeles Chargers.
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Gregory Bovino (born 1969 or 1970) is an American law enforcement officer who has served as a senior official in the United States Border Patrol since 2019. Bovino graduated from Western Carolina University in 1993 and attended Appalachian State University for graduate school. In 1996, he joined the United States Border Patrol and was assigned to El Paso, Texas.
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Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman. After achieving success as a songwriter for other artists, Parton's debut album, Hello, I'm Dolly, was released in 1967, commencing a career spanning 60 years and 50 studio albums.
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List of highest-grossing Indian films
This ranking lists the highest-grossing Indian films produced by Indian cinema, based on conservative global box office estimates as reported by organisations classified as green by Wikipedia. The figures are not adjusted for inflation. However, there is no official tracking of figures and sources publishing data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates.
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The RajaSaab (titled onscreen as Prabhas's The RajaSaab) is a 2026 Indian Telugu-language fantasy horror comedy film written and directed by Maruthi, and produced by People Media Factory and IVY Entertainment. The film stars Prabhas, alongside Sanjay Dutt, Nidhhi Agerwal, Malavika Mohanan (in her Telugu film debut), Riddhi Kumar and Zarina Wahab.
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Joseph Thuney ( TOO-nee; born November 18, 1992) is an American professional football guard for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the NC State Wolfpack. He was selected by the New England Patriots in the third round (78th overall) in the 2016 NFL draft.
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Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu
Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu (transl. Our Mr. Shankara Vara Prasad) is a 2026 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film written and directed by Anil Ravipudi. The film is produced by Sahu Garapati and Sushmita Konidela.
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The Pitt is an American medical procedural drama television series created by R. Scott Gemmill, and executive produced by John Wells and Noah Wyle. It is Gemmill, Wells and Wyle's second collaboration, having previously worked together on ER. It stars Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Gerran Howell, and Shabana Azeez.
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Braden Peters (born 2005 or 2006), known online as Clavicular, is an American online streamer and influencer. He became known in the mid-2020s on Kick and TikTok for his looksmaxxingβfocused content, which commentators have described as extreme and controversial, particularly for his endorsement of practices such as facial "bone smashing" and using crystal meth to stay lean.
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Teyana Me Shay Jacqueline Taylor (; born December 10, 1990) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, model, dancer, choreographer, and music video director. At age 15, she choreographed the video for "Ring the Alarm" by BeyoncΓ©, and signed a recording contract with the Neptunes' Star Trak Entertainment, an imprint of Interscope Records.
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2026 northeastern Syria offensive
On 13 January 2026, the Syrian transitional government launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria. Initially focused on eastern Aleppo Governorate, around the towns of Deir Hafer and Maskanah, the offensive expanded on 17 January to Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Al-Hasakah Governorates.
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Joshua Patrick Allen (born May 21, 1996) is an American professional football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). A lightly regarded high school prospect, Allen began his college football career with the Reedley Tigers before transferring to the Wyoming Cowboys. His success at Wyoming led to him being selected seventh overall by the Bills in the 2018 NFL draft.
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (TV series)
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is an American television series created by Gaia Violo for the streaming service Paramount+. It is the 12th Star Trek series and part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe.
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Millie Bonnie Bongiovi (nΓ©e Brown; born 19 February 2004), known professionally as Millie Bobby Brown, is a British actress and film producer. She gained international recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016β2025), for which she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
