Here are some of the most astounding stories they shared.
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What's most astounding about Bezos' rise is his recent wealth surge.
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The most astounding part is that none of this matters at all.
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But that wasn't the most astounding revelation that the Dutch investigators turned up.
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Most astounding to me was the serious deliberation he gave to my request.
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But perhaps the most astounding thing about this look is actually how quickly Stiles did it.
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Most astounding is its 385-foot wingspan, the spec that puts Stratolaunch in the history books.
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After achieving her epic 29,000-foot feat, Tabei continued to scale some of the world's most astounding mountains.
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But most astounding is its illogic of requiring a persecutor to vouch for the person he is persecuting.
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What's most astounding about the photos, though, is that little Joey barely stirs as her mom dresses her up mid-nap.
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What's perhaps most astounding is the team's proposed origin for these flooding events, along with the projected size of the waves.
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The most astounding aspect of the report is not just what the numbers are, but where most of the change lies.
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Sikkema Jenkins and Co. is Compelled to present The most Astounding and Important Painting show of the fall Art Show viewing season!
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Perhaps most astounding for the artist, though, was the realization that the flowers had been virtually unharmed when they returned to the surface.
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Over the past 22016 years, New York has seen one of the most astounding drops in homicides and other major crimes in American history.
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Dinosaur feathers and entire birds were found trapped in amberSeveral of this year's most astounding finds came from the same place: the amber mines of Myanmar.
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"This tragedy will always be the most astounding and regrettable thing that has ever happened in my life," Lyle says from California's Mule Creek State Prison.
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Last season, Hornacek said, he believed his guards in Phoenix were quicker and more explosive than Rose — once one of the N.B.A.'s most astounding athletes.
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Hot Jupiters are the most astounding planets in the galaxyThey're big, full of gas, and have a penchant for hanging out way too close to their parents.
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Lillard deserves the bulk of the credit for this, and perhaps the most astounding thing about him this series has been the absence of pessimism or inferiority.
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"She's gorgeous, has the most astounding voice, and even as a young girl, right out of college, had moral authority," said Thomas Schumacher, the president of Disney Theatrical Group.
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Milosevic's neck and torso are the most astounding, appearing to transform from human flesh to a metal pole and spring — all with just a little (ok a lot of) makeup.
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So for two nights in Los Angeles, at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Franklin tended those roots with one of the most astounding performances anybody's ever given of anything.
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And in that ballet's "Fascinatin' Rhythm" solo, Tiler Peck gave (even more than on previous occasions) one of the most astounding performances before the public today: teasing rhythmic brilliance, impish speed and sensational oomph.
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Its white-sand beaches and stunning crystal-clear waters attract tourists from far and wide, while its coral reefs are home to one of the most astounding arrays of sea life in the world.
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Perhaps the most astounding thing of all, though, is the fact that — despite the years of development and painstaking attention to detail that went into its creation — Bugatti only plans to ever build 500 Chirons.
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This is effectively an admission of the GOP's most astounding hypocrisy—an acknowledgment that they faked years of outrage—couched as a broadside against the work of anonymous, diligent government economists who can't defend themselves.
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Perhaps Smoot's most astounding moment in a seemingly endless display of Q&A wizardry, though, was this quick one-liner to take a serious question back down to the level where this AMA deserved to stay.
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The New Negro, as he emerged in the twentieth century, was so narrowly focussed on literary and scholarly accomplishment that he tended, Gates insists, to neglect the most astounding cultural achievement of his own country and kin.
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This unlikely take on the elephant story segued into the show's most astounding moment: an emotionally blindsiding trick that, in its ideal form, will leave a single audience member shocked and quite possibly crying at every performance.
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One of the most astounding qualities of her character is that she is not stripped of sexual desire as the cast-aside wife; she doesn't refuse Tony sexually and it's never given as the reason why he strays.
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In perhaps the single most astounding passage of her campaign memoir What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals a campaign proposal she formulated with staffers but never actually released: a universal basic income for Americans, funded by carbon and financial transaction taxes.
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Most astounding, though, is a group painting called "Towers" (2014) that depicts scenes of various Japanese-American concentration camps, as well as a group portrait of residents of Poston's Block 13 that includes Sakoguchi as a little boy in the front row.
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"Dinesh D'Souza, you have been fighting so hard for free speech so you can write some of the most astounding things I've ever read in my life over the past few decades," Brzezinski said on the MSNBC show, referring to the conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza.
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"Mannahatta" was published in 2009, and its classic, bookly virtues — visual beauty, wit and imagination, all underwritten by deep scholarship — persuasively deliver its most astounding revelation: Manhattan in the 17th century had more ecological communities per acre than Yellowstone, more than most rain forests or coral reefs.
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What is perhaps most astounding about Abercrombie, and lends such depth to her simple canvases, is the tension that she herself embodied: entrenched in the depths of Chicago's dark, turbulent, discriminatory, social and political reality, Abercrombie created the possibility for a daily life that promoted generosity, freedom, and collaboration.
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He didn't know then, but didn't seem as though he would be surprised to discover, that Iceland could defeat England—as, of course, it did, by a come-from-behind score of 2–1, in one of the most astounding upsets in the history of European team sports.
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Perhaps the most astounding aspect of the controversy was that the White House made no secret of the fact that Trump was contemplating the revocation of the clearances for individuals, including former CIA Directors Michael Hayden and John Brennan and ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, because they had criticized him.
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Those specs outrank most custom gaming desktops, including the recently reviewed HP Omen X. [gallery ids="1432629,1432630,1432622,1432620,1432621"] Maybe what is most astounding about the Predator 21 X isn't the specs, but the parts that keep it powered and running; two power supplies, cooled by five system fans and heat mitigation with eight heat pipes.
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By the end of the Middle Ages, Armenian artists were working as far afield as Rome, where an Armenian bishop painted this show's most astounding manuscript: a tale of Alexander the Great that features the Macedonian king's ship swallowed by an enormous brown crab, hooking the sails with its pincers as its mouth gapes.
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"Maybe the most astounding thing came out of Mr. Dershowitz, where he said an elected official always thinks they're acting in the best interest of their constituents or the country, and then presumptively that means that they never are doing anything bad — that they can do whatever they want to do because they believe that they're doing the right thing," Crow said.
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The Dreams That Stuff Is Made of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World is a 2011 book by English physicist Stephen Hawking.
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It was one of the most astounding late season collapses in history, with the seventeen-game turnaround being one of the biggest ever. The Cubs finished 92–70, while the Mets won the National League East and would go on to win the World Series.
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I guarantee the whole thing didn't take him more > than forty-five minutes, and the song itself is ten minutes long. The most > astounding thing I have ever seen in my life. Brett Milano of udiscovermusic.com rated this solo as one of the 100 all-time greatest.
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Sonic Jam received mostly positive reviews. It holds an average score of 77% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of four reviews. The game's 3D environment, "Sonic World", received mixed reviews. Lee Nutter of Sega Saturn Magazine said that it featured "some of the most astounding graphics witnessed on the Saturn", rivalling those of Super Mario 64.
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Claridge was a man of independent means, who in 1841 attended Priessnitz's establishment at Graefenberg along with his wife and daughter. He claimed that his promotion of hydropathy was "completely philanthropic. Having gained my own health and saved the life of my daughter at Graefenberg, and having witnessed most astounding cures there", he wanted to promote this system. Elizabeth died on 24 August 1842.
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Together with Jean Delville, Emile Fabry, Albert Ciamberlani, Emile Vloors and Omer Dierickx, Montald co-founded the group L'art monumental. This group promoted a decorative monumental style connected to architecture. Their most astounding project is the semicircle northern and southern galleries of the Jubelpark Complex. Montald drew six designs for the project, which were realized in mosaic in 1926 by a specialized construction company.
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Jefferson assembled a succeeding library of several thousand volumes. This second library was placed in an auction and purchased in 1829 in order to alleviate his indebtedness. Though Jefferson is recognized most for the breadth of his library, the most astounding characteristic of it is how it was cataloged. While most libraries during this period in American history classified their holdings alphabetically, he chose to catalog his collection by subject.
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Ken's Labyrinth is graphically similar to id Software's Wolfenstein 3D in that the levels were designed using a grid-based plane, resulting in perpendicular walls and textureless floors and ceilings. Arguably its most astounding feature was the existence of interactive sprites and textures, like slot machines. This move towards engines allowing greater interactivity was later elaborated upon by Silverman's Build engine. Ken's Labyrinth was released as freeware on November 16, 1999.
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Human life runs on in its own way and that's how I'm going to treat the roll of events in my works," he once wrote. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary's biographer Semyon Vengerov found in Leskov traits common to Alexander Ostrovsky, Aleksey Pisemsky and Fyodor Dostoevsky. "But the most astounding feature in him is what Turgenev called his 'inventiveness'. Some of Leskov's 5–6 page stories are packed with plotlines that could have filled volumes.
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Single electron transistors turn on and off again every time one electron is added. In an interview, he said that the discovery that a transistor could turn on and off again every time an electron was added to it was one of the most astounding and exciting experiences of his life. His recent research focused on the electronic properties of nanometer-size semiconductor structures and on the physics of high temperature (Tc ) superconductivity.
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The drums were produced from about 600 BCE or earlier until the third century CE; they are one of the culture's most astounding examples of metalworking. The drums, cast in bronze using the lost-wax casting method are up to a meter in height and weigh up to . Đông Sơn drums were apparently both musical instruments and cult objects. They are decorated with geometric patterns, scenes of daily life and war, animals and birds, and boats.
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In the middle of the 1973-74 season, Rick was traded to the Utah Stars, where he joined Ron Boone. For the third straight season, Mount led a different team to the ABA Finals, eventually losing to the New York Nets. According to Charley Rosen, Mount displayed the most astounding exhibition of pure, one-on-none shooting he ever saw. Rosen was invited by the Utah coach, Joe Mullaney, to participate in an intra-squad scrimmage.
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The album was very well received by critics. Ben Schweitzer of RPGFan claimed that "almost every track here is truly a very good, or even a great composition." Issac Engelhorn of Soundtrack Central agreed, claiming it to be the best video soundtrack ever, a sentiment Jon Turner and Nick Melton of Soundtrack Central agreed with. Patrick Gann of RPGFan claimed that the "Dancing Mad" track contained some of the "most astounding music ever created on a keyboard" and highly recommended the soundtrack.
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Alanus' descriptions of the visions and sermons of Dominic, supposed to have been revealed to him in 1460, are, according to Bishop John T. McNicholas O.P., not to be regarded as historical. Some of Alanus' more colorful accounts have been attributed to oratorical imaginings designed to enliven sermons. While granting that Alanus de Rupe was a pious and learned person, Herbert Thurston held that his visions were those of an individual "deluded" and "a victim of the most astounding hallucinations".Thurston, Herbert.
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In principle, Taiwan is currently a liberal and elections based society. Hence social versatility ought to be the standard. Notably, as per an investigation of extra cash in Taiwan by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, families with the most astounding dispensable salaries number 2.6 people, while families with the least discretionary cash flow number 4.7 people. With rising costs of simple commodities and privatization of the training market, economically distraught families will end up in an undeniably hard position to educate their own children.
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One of the most astounding of all OWI operations occurred in Luxembourg. Known as Operation Annie, the United States 12th Army Group ran a secret radio station from 2:00-6:30am every morning from a house in Luxembourg pretending to be loyal Rhinelanders under Nazi occupation. They spoke of Nazi commanders hiding their desperate position from the German public, which caused dissent among Nazi supporters. Further, they led Nazi forces into an Allied trap, and then staged an Allied attack on the Annie Radio office to maintain their cover.
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In July, Blackshirt euphemistically reported that Chesterston was "having a well- deserved rest, on the strict orders of his doctor." Mosley eventually paid for Chesterton to be treated by a neurologist in Germany. Following his return to Britain in April 1937, Chesterton was appointed in June "Director of Publicity and Propaganda", and in August the editor of The Blackshirt. This position provided a pulpit for his increasingly "vituperative" anti-Semitic rhetoric, the magazine promoting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as "the most astounding book ever published".
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After her R. Kelly-produced debut album, Aaliyah worked with Timbaland and Missy Elliott, whose productions were more electronic. Sasha Frere-Jones of The Wire finds Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?" to be Timbaland's "masterpiece" and exemplary of his production's start-stop rhythms, with "big half-second pauses between beats and voices". Keith Harris of Rolling Stone cites "Are You That Somebody?" as "one of '90s R&B;'s most astounding moments". Aaliyah's songs have been said to have "crisp production" and "staccato arrangements" that "extend genre boundaries" while containing "old-school" soul music.
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Thomachan was a Minister in Madhavan's Ministry, but is too incapable a person, to have masterminded the brilliant scheme. The team's most astounding find then follows, with the discovery of the puppet master and the silent partner in the illegal explosive deals of Thomachan. The Director General of Police (DGP) Hariprasad, who administered the investigation from the beginning, was the actual culprit they were after. He was the one who misled the previous investigation, initiated various attempts to murder Bharath (to scare the team away) and played the faithful ally throughout.
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When it comes to the issues connected with her, though, the filmmakers slip and slide around, providing an escape hatch ... for every position and opinion they offer. This makes the movie less polemical than it might have been, and a lot more wishy-washy ... This is too bad, because on other levels Silkwood is a strong and imaginative film. Meryl Streep gives the year's most astounding performance by an actress, adding vigor and complexity to almost every scene with her endlessly inventive portrayal of the eccentric heroine. The supporting players skillfully follow her lead.
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The Mass in B minor is widely regarded as one of the supreme achievements of classical music. Alberto Basso summarizes the work as follows: > The Mass in B minor is the consecration of a whole life: started in 1733 for > "diplomatic" reasons, it was finished in the very last years of Bach's life, > when he had already gone blind. This monumental work is a synthesis of every > stylistic and technical contribution the Cantor of Leipzig made to music. > But it is also the most astounding spiritual encounter between the worlds of > Catholic glorification and the Lutheran cult of the cross.
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Dinky Toy No. 155: Ford Anglia (issued 1961–1966) Truck offerings remained continuously creative including a Simca glass truck with a sheet of "glass" (clear plastic) and a mirror (polished aluminium), a Leyland Octopus flatbed truck complete with realistic chain around the bed, a car carrier with a car carrying trailer, a Dunlop tyre rack full of tyres, a Berliet truck hauling an electrical transformer, and an intricately detailed Brockway bridgelaying truck. One of the most astounding was the Mighty Antar truck hauling a large gold ship's propeller. A wide variety of military vehicles continued under production.
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Investigating the discrepancies in border estimation, Richardson discovered what is now termed the Richardson Effect: the sum of the segments is inversely proportional to the common length of the segments. In effect, the shorter the ruler, the longer the measured border; the Spanish and Portuguese geographers were simply using different-length rulers. The result most astounding to Richardson is that, under certain circumstances, as ℓ approaches zero, the length of the coastline approaches infinity. Richardson had believed, based on Euclidean geometry, that a coastline would approach a fixed length, as do similar estimations of regular geometric figures.
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As Braddock "slipped the blue bathrobe from his pink back, he was the sentimental favorite of a Bowl crowd of 30,000, most of whom had bet their money 8-to-1 against him." Max "undoubtedly paid the penalty for underestimating his challenger beforehand and wasting too much time clowning." At the end of 15 rounds Braddock emerged the victor in a unanimous decision, outpointing Baer 8 rounds to 6 in the "most astounding upset since John L. Sullivan went down before the thrusts of Gentleman Jim Corbett back in the nineties." Braddock took heavy hits from Baer but kept coming at him until he wore Max down.
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1420, is thought to have been either Jan van Eyck or his brother Hubert. According to Georges Hulin de Loo, Hand G's contributions to the Turin-Milan Hours "constitute the most marvelous group of paintings that have ever decorated any book, and, for their period, the most astounding work known to the history of art".Pächt (1999), 179 Jan van Eyck's use of oil as a medium was a significant development, allowing artists far greater manipulation of paint. The 16th- century art historian Giorgio Vasari claimed van Eyck invented the use of oil paint; a claim that, while exaggerated, indicates the extent to which van Eyck helped disseminate the technique.
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Fulton eventually became head of the special effects department at Universal. Fulton followed his early success as special effects supervisor with a number of memorable films, many of them of the horror film genre, including John Ford's Air Mail and The Mummy in 1932. The following year he created some of the most astounding effects of the time in The Invisible Man as well as 1935's Bride of Frankenstein. Between other film projects, he worked on the special effects for three sequels to the successful Invisible Man, and received Academy Award nominations for his work in all three films, as well as the 1940 musical The Boys from Syracuse.
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" The piece was also praised by Andrew Clements of The Guardian, who wrote: Reviewing the United States premiere, Martin Bernheimer of the Financial Times remarked, "The 40-minute Totentanz [...] represents a clever dance of death predicated on harmonic, rhythmic and, occasionally, melodic complexity. The first half emerges essentially raucous, the second predominantly serene (everything, of course, is relative). Adès toys neatly with contrasting images of terror and resignation, manipulating a huge orchestral apparatus with virtuosic clarity amid percussive bombast." David Allen of The New York Times described the work as "a grisly symphony-cantata for two singers and a vast orchestra that is his longest, most ambitious and most astounding orchestral composition yet.
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However, Dural, the robotic final boss, garnered the most attention, due to being made of a metallic surface that reflected the surrounding environment. A playable demo with just two characters, Jacky Bryant and Dural, was shown to a select handful of individuals at the show. Computer and Video Games described the game's demo, also shown at Miami's ACME show in early March 1996, as "the most astounding display of video game graphic muscle ever in the history of this industry." Yu Suzuki said the added characters, Aoi and Taka-Arashi, were inspired in part by a desire to introduce traditional Japanese martial arts to the Virtua Fighter series, which had previously been dominated by Chinese martial arts.
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While there has been a global trend of lower fertility and longer life expectancy, it is first evident in the more developed countries and occurs more rapidly in developing or recently developed countries. One of the most astounding aspects of Japan's elderly population, in particular, is that it is both fast-growing and has one of the highest life expectancies equating to a larger elderly population and an older one. According to the World Health Organization, Japanese people are able to live 75 years without any disabilities and fully healthy compared to other countries. Also, American women usually live to around 81 years and American men 76; but compared to Japan, women live to around 87 years and men to 80 years.
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Il Cinema Ritrovato notes some of the technical innovations that King brought to this early sound picture, writing: > He was never constrained by the [sound-recording] technology at all. Rather, > in an act of experimentation, he made films with continual camera movements, > achieving the most astounding results in Over the Hill, whose opening shots > rank as some of King's most mythic images of country life. There are many > memorable scenes in which camera movement and sound brilliantly complement > each other. The sounds of the mother's sewing machine transition to the > raucous sound of the prison workshop, where the image follows this sonic > suggestion and superimposes the shots of the house and the prison, marking > the breakdown of the guilt-ridden father.
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He never doubted his own artistic development and his subjects, remaining confident in his instinctual choices throughout his life. It was through Theodore Robinson, who was working alternatively in America and France, that he, Twachtman, and Weir kept in close touch with Claude Monet, who was residing in Giverny at the time. The four Americans represented the core of American Impressionism, dedicated to painting what was real for them, what was familiar and close at hand, out-of-doors when possible, and with the immediacy of light and shadow—which though exaggerated and falsely colored at times—makes a purposeful impact or impression. The urban scene provided its own unique atmosphere and light, which Hassam found "capable of the most astounding effects" and as picturesque as any seaside scene.
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Oscar Shumsky started learning the violin at the age of three, and made his concert debut at the age of seven with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, who declared him to be "the most astounding genius I have ever heard". Fritz Kreisler took a special interest in him, and he played Kreisler's own cadenzas to the Beethoven violin concerto to him after learning them by ear. He was a pupil of Leopold Auer from 1925 and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1928 to 1936, continuing his studies with Efrem Zimbalist after Auer's death in 1930. His New York debut was in 1934 and his Vienna debut was in 1936. He played first violin in the Primrose Quartet from 1939, and the same year joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini.
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From April to December 1985, the singer actively promoted the song performing it in 19 French television shows broadcast on TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3, including Patatoès patatorum, Pour le plaisir, Jour J, Paris kiosque, L'Année du Zèbre, La Vie à plein temps, Platine 45, L'Écho des ados, Les Jeux de 20 Heures, Cadence 3, L'Académie des 9, 4C+, Zénith, Hit des clubs, Aujourd'hui la vie, Chanson témoin, Chanson miroir, La Grande Suite, La Clé des champs, C'est encore mieux l'après-midi, Super Platine, Eurexporythmes and Ring parade.Cachin, 2006, p. 182. On these occasions, she performed a choreography which author Erwan Chuberre qualified as one of the "most astounding uncoordinated dance[s]";Chuberre, 2008, p. 46. however, Cachin considered that Farmer was smiling then and appeared more at ease than when she promoted her previous single.
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Pagondas's theretofore unseen employment of tactics in combat set the stage for his fellow Theban Epaminondas's brilliant command at Leuctra (371 BC), considered one of the most astounding tactical victories in the history of warfare. How much Epaminondas learned directly from Pagondas and Delium is lost to history - he was not yet born when the battle was fought, and given Pagondas's age at the battle of Delium it is unlikely the two ever met. Visually, the similarity of their tactics suggests a link, but the 53 year interval raises the question as to whether the use of a deeper phalanx became a staple of Theban tactical lore or had to be reinvented by Epaminondas, perhaps after reading an account of the battle? Furthermore, the tactic of a deeper phalanx had been used by Pelopidas, a compatriot of Epaminondas, at the Battle of Tegyra four years before the Battle of Leuctra.
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Daniil Olegovich Trifonov (; born 5 March 1991) is a Russian pianist and composer. Described by The Globe and Mail as "arguably today's leading classical virtuoso" and by The Times as "without question the most astounding pianist of our age", Trifonov's honors include a Grammy Award win in 2018 and the Gramophone Classical Music Awards' Artist of the Year Award in 2016. The New York Times has noted that "few artists have burst onto the classical music scene in recent years with the incandescence" of Trifonov. He has performed as soloist with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony and the Munich Philharmonic, and has given solo recitals in such venues as Royal Festival Hall, Carnegie Hall, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Berliner Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Concertgebouw, and the Seoul Arts Center.
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3 Tiger 131 was the first intact Tiger tank captured by British forces. A 2012 article in the Daily Mail followed by a book by Noel Botham and Bruce Montague entitled Catch that Tiger claimed that Major Douglas Lidderdale, the engineering officer who oversaw the return of Tiger 131 to England, was responsible for the capture of Tiger 131 as the leader of a secret mission appointed by Winston Churchill to obtain a Tiger for Allied intelligence.Noel Botham and Bruce Montague, Catch That Tiger: Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II, John Blake (2102) Though the account has been considered plausible (if only in light of Churchill's reputation for being "hands on" in his dealings with military affairs during wartime) it has been rejected by The Tank Museum as inaccurate. The story as told in the book contradicts Lidderdale's own letters and papers written in the years before his death, in which he stated that he was not personally present when the Tiger was captured.
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