Mixmag rounded up 20 of the world's most astonishing festivals.
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Ultimately, he quit, but it was the most astonishing moment.
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However, those aren't the most astonishing figures tacked to the Vulcan.
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Most astonishing, he has struck out 102 batters and walked seven.
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Yet, somehow, that was hardly the most astonishing thing to be said.
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In terms of pure spectacle, it's the most astonishing thing he's done.
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The most astonishing thing I found out when I interviewed Woz ... Yeah.
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The human voice is the world's most astonishing instrument, it's often said.
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Most astonishing is how the grandeur of these arches are instantly transformed.
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The most astonishing twist in Cardinal Obando's career was yet to come.
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Not bad for one of the most astonishing achievements in human history.
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The city-state is perhaps the world's most astonishing story of educational improvement.
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But it was the de haut en bas tone that was most astonishing.
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And, perhaps most astonishing of all, he did not suffer any significant brain damage.
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Does this review, which calls it his "most astonishing" novel yet, help you decide?
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Believe it or not, that's not the most astonishing thing in the Elizabeth Holmes story.
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"The [last] preview was the most astonishing theatrical event I ever lived through," said Bufman.
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Most astonishing, Mendelssohn was still in his teens when he wrote his first piano sonata.
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But "Amazing Grace" is one of the most astonishing recordings of any pop musician doing anything.
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What's most astonishing is that this incredible output has occurred without any corresponding increase in farmland. How?
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" Most astonishing "is seeing the Socialist Worker [the SWP's paper] being sold outside and inside the meeting.
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But the last 60 pages are one of the most astonishing feats of writing I've ever read.
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Despite its blizzard of statistics, the book's most astonishing (and telling) declaration is on the first page.
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What's perhaps most astonishing about these historical snapshots is the cavalier devaluation of sharks as biological entities.
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That black rice carries one of FieldTrip's most astonishing achievements, a fast-casual holy grail: perfectly cooked fish.
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We surface in Sugar Bowl, named aptly for its round dome that lets in the most astonishing light.
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Now, archaeologists believe they've found some of the most astonishing evidence of ancient tattooing in the South Pacific.
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What is most astonishing about Turtleneck Man's attitude toward Northern Ireland is that it is no longer controversial.
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It was big enough, in fact, to fill two of the most astonishing television series of the year.
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This is the most astonishing presidential election since at least 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War.
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The mastermind behind Wakanda's most astonishing innovations is none other than a brilliant, cheeky-as-hell teen girl.
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Their eventual rescue, which unfolded over two weeks, was one of the most astonishing stories of the year.
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The most astonishing part of it to me is what happens to those moments with Horatio after his death.
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The Midwestern artist's story is among the most astonishing and hope-inspiring examples of creativity flourishing under improbable circumstances.
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I hope it's part of the movie, because that, to me, was the most astonishing moment in your story.
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Known as Chupeta — slang for "lollipop" — Mr. Ramírez was one of the most astonishing figures to testify so far.
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While there are many fine performances, the most astonishing and nuanced one belongs to the Austrian actor Thiemo Strutzenberger.
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Most astonishing was his misreading of President George W. Bush's June 2002 speech to the West Point Military Academy.
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His hand bitterly but clearly conjures the spider that is the most astonishing image of one speech in the play.
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But the most astonishing thing about it was that this happened in public — at a Weinstein-produced movie, no less.
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The most astonishing passage comes when the baritone answers the phone and accepts the idea of going for a walk.
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This man, this red tie guy, appears to have seen one of the most astonishing things he's ever witnessedin his life.
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Khalik Allah's documentary Black Mother was one of the most astonishing films I saw last year, back during its festival run.
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"All Malaysians should study and dissect the most astonishing interview given by Najib on the 1MDB scandal with Reuters," Lim said.
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Most astonishing, the American government and the Pentagon remain in their cohabited bubble while the American electorate increasingly wants us out.
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The producers of this nature series spent more than 6,000 hours diving underwater for shots of the ocean's most astonishing creatures.
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The Act II narrative in "Walküre" was one of the most astonishing passages of the evening, as both music and drama.
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But perhaps most astonishing is the captain's calm and supremely self-assured persona as he leads El Faro to its doom.
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One of the most astonishing insights is that mothers don't just pass traits to their children — they receive them as well.
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Most astonishing was the return in 1933 of keys belonging to Jay E. Sims of Kinston, N.C. He hadn't simply mislaid them.
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Then, of course, he said that basically right at the moment where we've seen the most astonishing take-off ever since then.
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The most astonishing part of the whole idea is that it's not nearly as crazy, difficult, expensive, or novel as it may sound.
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The most astonishing aspect of the fossil find, however, is its age: 250.6 million years old, according to radiometric dating of nearby rocks.
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The most astonishing work came from Mesoamerica, where the Aztecs used feathers like mosaic pieces, to create intricate tableaux of gods and martyrs.
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Some of the most astonishing footage is Kessler's shots of the Pines engulfed in flame, which open the film and recur throughout it.
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"Most astonishing was being told no by dozens of Twitch influencers who play and promote first-person shooter games for a living," Lunt says.
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Most astonishing is that in discussing postal finances, the author looks for non-existent villains everywhere but entirely misses the elephant in the room.
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If we look at the animal kingdom as a whole, we see that microbes have opened up the most astonishing evolutionary opportunities for animals.
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But it's Subri who was recognized for creating the year's most astonishing scoring moment among a field that also included Neymar and Lionel Messi.
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In perhaps the show's most astonishing moment, Divider uses nearly the full architectural scope of the dome to create something like a three-dimensional wormhole.
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I am firmly of the belief that performers owe us nothing but authentic performance, which can be among the most astonishing acts of intimacy possible.
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What is most astonishing about Pinus longaeva is not the age of any single organism but the collective oldness and otherness of its entire community.
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Then came the most astonishing political result in the country for 61 years, as 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, a former prime minister, defeated Mr Najib.
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One of the most astonishing videos of the fire was captured by a Twitter user around 4:15 AM, showing enormous fireballs rippling toward the sky.
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As it turned out, some of the most astonishing, and troubling, episodes in the long saga of Suzanne Corkin and Henry Molaison were still to come.
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The publication, often referred to as the "bible of German football," called his development "most astonishing" and noted he had suddenly become a consistent goal scorer.
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The Trump machinery then used that action to scare Americans about Clinton, in one of the most astonishing acts of deflection and hypocrisy in American history.
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One year into the study, "the most astonishing finding so far is that the number of people that go hungry has reduced by one-third", Brander said.
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For roughly 223 years, Petrobras — which is Brazil's largest company — engaged in one of the most astonishing corruption schemes ever to be uncovered in a modern democracy.
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This is one of the most astonishing charts on public opinion in 22016, detailing how much power Donald Trump has over the minds of millions of Americans.
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What's perhaps most astonishing is that they never stopped making their work, despite years of disregard: There is something radical about their very stubbornness, their dogged persistence.
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Bulking up the middle class in the cities, and India is about to undergo the most astonishing process of organization ... Since China just did the same thing.
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The most astonishing parts of the film are not footage from the shows — though they are truly incredible — but the piecing together of Lee's unlikely journey to the top.
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CreditCreditVivek Singh for The New York Times PERTH, Australia — For this competition, the most astonishing name on the start list for 212016 meters did not belong to Usain Bolt.
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One of the most astonishing numbers in the show is a castanet solo by the percussionist David (Chupete) Rodriguez, who sits alone, center stage, in a pool of light.
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To the Editor: The most astonishing — and, 50 years into modern feminism, depressing — aspect of this article is that fathers are absent from the discussion, save for one short sentence.
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Although I regard these poems as some of the most astonishing and lucid writing ever delivered to the world, I wonder if I was too interested in despair at that age.
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The emerging world found itself swept along by the most astonishing experience of economic development in history: four decades of near-double-digit annual growth in the world's most populous country.
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The most astonishing sight over the past week may have been a video showing fighters who had surrendered, preferring captivity to martyrdom, in a line stretching more than 250 men long.
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We seem to have come to the end of one of the most astonishing bull runs in stock-market history, and there's very little indication that Fed chair Jay Powell particularly cares.
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Taking the expressive marking "con indifferenza" ("with indifference") to heart, Mr. Bresler played it with out-of-tune apathy of an undermotivated beginner, in what was perhaps the night's most astonishing transformation.
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This "allows us to process one of the oldest material with some of the most astonishing optical, mechanical, and physical properties by state of the art modern 3D printing instruments," Rapp says.
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All of that changed, however, when I took a ride in a McLaren doing supercar things: the Goodwood hill climb this year was the most astonishing, thrilling experience I've had... maybe ever.
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At the height of spring, the most astonishing thing on the menu was a pile of fresh asparagus, blanched and shocked, and set over kefir cream sprinkled with chives and crumbled bresaola.
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The advance, reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature by researchers at Harvard Medical School, is the latest and perhaps most astonishing example of the genome's potential as a vast storage device.
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In one of the most astonishing sequences, Cleo and the family's grandmother, Señora Teresa (Verónica García), watch a student demonstration turn into a police riot through the window of a furniture showroom.
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The idea that he is going to sit there and point fingers at him and of course, Gregg is exactly right, the most astonishing things are the threats that have come from him.
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If you just sold that company or came into some serious cash, you can treat your friend or loved ones to some of the most astonishing fidelity available with the McIntosh MTI100 turntable.
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When he revived, they went together to a drugstore to get a cocktail and in an hour Cosgrove Harden had heard the most astonishing story about himself that a man ever listened to.
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The most astonishing — for the moment, anyway — is a mammoth steel structure, as long as a city block, that seems to float 21½ feet over the ground at Ninth Avenue and 267rd Street.
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One of the most astonishing things about the DEA's pervasive, passive support is the way in which policy discussions deemed "serious" omit drug prohibition from the very problems it is most implicated in.
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Macron's rise — the invention of a successful third party, in a long-stable two-party system, in less than a year — is one of the most astonishing acts of political entrepreneurship in modern history.
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It's also his most astonishing...If Green were writing in his usual register, he'd interrupt Aza's descents into these cognitive spirals — or "light-swallowing wormholes," as she once calls them — with a bit of humor.
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Among the most astonishing and revealing moments in the film are the discussions between Fuyao management and the Chinese workers, who are thousands of miles from home and having to deal with American work practices.
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The scandal has rocked the White House and one of its most astonishing components is that Chief of Staff John Kelly and the White House press shop are still providing conflicting stories about what happened.
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It's a bitter fact that the most astonishing strategic victory by the West in the last century turns out to be the one whose lessons we've never seriously bothered to teach, much less to learn.
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One of the most astonishing moments is the famous "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy," in which — with just the right touch and pedal work — they replicate the mysterious and magical metallic timbre of a celesta.
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By almost any metric, ousting Carper would have been the Democratic left's most astonishing victory of the season, which helped Harris' cash-strapped campaign attract a late outside boost from the progressive Working Families Party.
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So much of Incredibles 2 offers some of the most visually inventive, most astonishing superhero sequences in all of moviemaking, and it's hard to conceive of those losing their punch when all is said and done.
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Perhaps the most astonishing ballot results came from the heart of Trump country, where three deeply conservative states, Idaho, Utah and Nebraska, all voted to expand Medicaid, the government health-insurance programme for the very poor.
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"We grew up near a family of three brothers who are insane college hoops fans," Adam Doster told me, by way of explaining what is certainly the most astonishing DIY fantasy league I have ever seen.
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One by one, beginning Wednesday night and all through Thursday, the pillars of the American athletic landscape toppled, unceremoniously, to the ground, marking one of the most astonishing nights and days in United States sports history.
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"Despite the enormity of the conversation his reporting helped ignite, some of the most astonishing disclosures about what he uncovered are still to come," Little, Brown publisher Reagan Arthur said in a statement at the time.
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Some of the most astonishing creatures on Earth hide deep in rivers and lakes: giant catfish weighing over 22018 pounds, stingrays the length of Volkswagen Beetles, six-foot-long trout that can swallow a mouse whole.
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"Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of the trigger-warning discussion is how little actual empirical work has been done," says Ben Bellet, a graduate student at Harvard leading a first-of-its-kind study assessing their impact.
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Between about 2004 and 2014, Brazil's state-run energy firm Petrobras — the nation's largest company and one of the largest corporations in the world — engaged in one of the most astonishing corruption schemes ever to be uncovered.
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I can't say I'm as taken with crunchy knotweed-rhubarb compote as a topping for a buckwheat cake as Ms. McFarlane seems to be, but the same dessert offers one of the most astonishing ice creams around.
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This late-career renaissance is one of the most astonishing in musical history, and it is the subject of the small but intriguing exhibition "Verdi: Creating 'Otello' and 'Falstaff,'" at the Morgan Library & Museum through Jan. 5.
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The maggots are a bit like caterpillars in that at a certain point in their development they wrap themselves up in a case and go through one of the most astonishing events in the natural world: metamorphosis.
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Between about 2004 and 173, the state-run energy firm Petrobras — which is Brazil's largest company and one of the largest corporations in the world — engaged in one of the most astonishing corruption schemes ever to be uncovered.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Kenya's Sabrina Simader said on Saturday she would be inspired to surprise a few people herself after watching Czech skier Ester Ledecka win one of the most astonishing Winter Olympic races of all time.
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Between about 2004 and 2014, the state-run energy firm Petrobras — which is Brazil's largest company and one of the largest corporations in the world — engaged in one of the most astonishing corruption schemes ever to be uncovered.
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Perhaps most astonishing was the fact that actionable, relevant information that should have been used to positively alter the trajectory of New York City's 1.1 million students was too often under lock and key in separate city agencies.
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We asked the legendary food stylist Susan Spungen to come up with 12 cookies for modern bakers that would be as amazing to look at as they are to eat, and she delivered in the most astonishing way.
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Between about 773 and 2014, the state-run energy firm Petrobras — which is Brazil's largest company and one of the largest corporations in the world — engaged in one of the most astonishing corruption schemes ever to be uncovered.
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There's also Singh's most astonishing feat of paper engineering: With the flip of a die-cut page, a vertical stack of three mustachioed men ("Few") joins 15 other acrobats to create a paper-doll-chain-like human scaffold ("Many").
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I should have had more faith in New York Review Books, a small publisher that is a national treasure, responsible as they are for republishing or translating so many of the most astonishing books over the last two decades.
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As anyone who followed the debacle will tell you, the most astonishing thing about it was not the revelation that trolls will troll—that's a given—but rather that Microsoft somehow didn't anticipate the very real possibility of rampant trolling.
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She tells Broadly that one of the most astonishing things about the way the Department of Health and Human Services went about issuing these rules was that they ignored the "very specific set of procedures" they're required to follow by law.
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The first half, for five performers, shows how Mr. Forsythe is wholly in tune with the way complex ballet steps and reckless shifts of weight can make dancers — most astonishing were Sara Mearns, Devin Alberda and Unity Phelan — playful and brave.
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One of the most astonishing recent examples of the House Judiciary Committee's character assassination involves Republican leaks to conservative news outlets of the closed-door testimony of James Baker, who was the F.B.I.'s general counsel from 2014 to December 2017.
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He reminds us that there was a time when a five-second kinetoscopic record of a man sneezing was just about the most astonishing thing anyone had ever seen; people watched it over and over again, like a nineteenth-century TikTok.
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A Turkish computer hacker pleaded guilty in a U.S. court in March to one of the most astonishing crimes in this category: "Cashing crews" pulled $40 million out of automated teller machines in 24 countries over a 10-hour period.
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Todd has made one of the most astonishing comebacks of recent times, and has just finished the PGA Tour year as the hottest player on the planet, winning two consecutive events before finishing fourth in a bold quest for a rare hat-trick.
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After learning that data from a researcher's personality quiz app had improperly been shared with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook took the company at its word that it had purged user profiles: "That to me was the most astonishing thing," former employee Christopher Wylie told The Guardian.
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Photo: GettyThe Cambridge Analytica scandal around the 2016 U.S. presidential election remains one of the most astonishing revelations of not only the breadth of data social networks collect about us and our friends but how this data can be used to psychologically manipulate us.
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Such was the fate of the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who began his career, in Vienna, as one of the most astonishing child prodigies in musical history and who reached maximum fame writing film scores, in Los Angeles, in the nineteen-thirties and forties.
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Most astonishing, President Trump then went on to cast doubt on the conclusions of his own intelligence community and offer a moral equivalency between Putin -- a former KGB operative who has long worked against America's national security -- and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
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Perhaps most astonishing of all, a chief executive who touts himself as a shrewd businessman, and who ran on a promise of jobs for the middle class and making America great again, seems blind to the damage this will do to America's own economic interests.
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But it was the career of Mr. Philby, who set up MI6's section to spy on the Soviet Union to which he was loyal, that was most astonishing, as he rose to head the very counterintelligence department that should have discovered his treachery.
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What was most astonishing in making this list is the sheer number of athletes who have become fixtures at the top of their sports and just how consistent the world&aposs best competitors have been — some of these stars on their second decade of dominance.
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The most astonishing accomplishment of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. is to catalog this way of thinking in merciless and unsparing detail, to depict exactly how this constant weighing and reckoning of women's market value plays out and justifies itself in men's minds.
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Ms. Richards is the author of "Motherhood, Rescheduled: The New Frontier of Egg Freezing and the Women Who Tried It." The potential for egg freezing to allow women to pause their biological clocks is one of the most astonishing developments of recent fertility science.
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Out of all the things the NFL could sell—and these are some of the most astonishing athletes in the world, playing this violent and magnetic sport better and faster than anyone has ever played it—the NFL sells the itchy baronial pretensions of its owners.
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With co-production from David Wrench (Frank Ocean, The XX, FKA Twigs), Faris Badwan of The Horrors and SOPHIE (who herself has just released one of the most astonishing records of the year so far), this is an album with a multitude of layers to climb inside.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There is, perhaps, a kind of paradox to treasures of antiquity — sometimes the most astonishing wonders of the ancient world have remained so because of a lack of exposure to the tourism that would share them with the modern era.
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That Spieth then went bogey, bogey, quadruple-bogey through 10, 11 and 12 to drop three shots off the pace was one of the most astonishing scenes ever played out at a major championship, and begs the question of how he will handle such a meltdown.
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His most astonishing discovery was that by the time of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Hussein had turned over the day-to-day running of the Iraqi government to his aides and was spending most of his time writing a novel.
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Malick has gone on to make bolder and more radical films, and he made more specific and less hermetic films before it, but The Tree of Life represents a great artist operating at the peak of his abilities, providing some of the most astonishing sequences a camera has ever captured.
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It's not the first time The Handmaid's Tale has eerily dovetailed with current news events, but it might be the most astonishing, both because the scene is so good and because the show's writers had no way of knowing very similar circumstances would be unfolding in the US when the episode aired.
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He had so many stories to tell, but the most astonishing revelation to me was to learn that one of my best friends, a local artist named Le Dinh Sung, had an older brother that we had never known about — a brother who was a high level official on the other side.
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What is most astonishing for the up-to-80-year-old texts on Chaim Soutine (who is currently featured in Chaim Soutine: Flesh at the Jewish Museum) and his work is not how frequently his biography has been retold over the decades, but rather how often it has been changed or transformed in the process.
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Of the many, many remarkable things about the Reckoning — catalyzed by the New York Times and the New Yorker's blockbuster stories on Weinstein in early October — one of the most astonishing has been the ruin that has befallen virtually every man who's weathered allegations of unwanted sexual advances, from badgering, groping, and kissing, to assault and rape.
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Kelly Percival, an attorney with Americans United for Separation of Church and State who filed a lawsuit on behalf of five women last month, told Broadly that one of the most astonishing things about the way HHS went about issuing these rules was that officials ignored the "very specific set of procedures" they're required to follow by law.
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An antislavery Republican candidate for President, Frémont also played a crucial role in what is in retrospect one of the most astonishing parts of the American story: the inclusion of California as part of the United States, and not as the separate, perhaps Spanish-speaking country—the North American Chile—that its geography and history would seem to dictate.
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The reader senses a dedication to honesty in these works, as if in them are the most astonishing, the most haunting of the anecdotes that Chatwin had heard on his travels and, thinking them too improbable for nonfiction, saved them for a realm in which they might be taken more seriously, or might be allowed to chime most loudly.
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While waiting for the results, premature contractions led to a cerclage [ring] to hold this precious pregnancy inside and bedrest for weeks, only to be given the devastating news that the baby whose kicking and rolling was the most astonishing and wonderful experience of my life would suffer excruciating pain upon delivery with absolutely no hope of survival beyond a day or two.
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Even the more fantastical moments in Piccioli's couture collections tend to be defined by a sort of cleanliness, and the quietest details can be the most astonishing: The fine pleats of a simple emerald chiffon skirt are lined with the tiniest of bird feathers; the white cotton shirt he holds out for me to examine is actually hand embroidered throughout in all-white stitching.
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