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The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge that opened its upper level to the public on November 21, 1964. It connects the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City at the Narrows, the reach connecting the relatively protected upper bay with the larger lower bay.
The bridge is named for Italian explorer […]
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Alicia Christian “Jodie” Foster is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, three BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few people to have won all four major motion picture acting awards.
Although Foster’s first acting appearance was at three years […]
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Meg Ryan is an American film actress whose lead roles in four 1990s romantic comedies—When Harry Met Sally…, Sleepless in Seattle, French Kiss and You’ve Got Mail—grossed over $670 million worldwide. In 1995, critic Richard Corliss called her the “the current soul of romantic comedy.
Ryan married actor Dennis Quaid on Valentine’s Day in 1991, […]
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Television Broadcasts Limited commonly known as TVB, was the first over-the-air commercial television station in Hong Kong. Commenced broadcasting on November 19, 1967. With a staff of about 4,500, it is now one of two free-to-air television broadcasters in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival in business, ATV.
TVB is the first free-to-air television broadcaster […]
Henry Agard Wallace was the thirty-third Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945, the eleventh Secretary of Agriculture from 1933 to 1940, and the tenth Secretary of Commerce from 1945 to 1946. In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.
During the 1940 presidential election, a series […]
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties between the Soviet Union and the United States—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control.
There were two rounds of talks and agreements: SALT I and SALT II. SALT II later became START. Negotiations started in Helsinki, Finland, on […]
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Clark Gable was an iconic and legendary American actor. He has been nicknamed “The King of Hollywood.” In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time.
His most famous role was Rhett Butler in the 1939 epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien […]
Venera 3 was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus. It was launched on November 16, 1965 at 04:19 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
The mission of this spacecraft was to land on the Venusian surface. The entry body contained a radio communication system, […]
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USS Gato (SSN-615) was a Thresher-class submarine known as the “Goal Keeper” or the “Black Cat.” She was the second United States Navy ship named after the gato, a species of small catshark found in waters along the west coast of Mexico.
The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General […]
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Michael James Adams was an American aviator and USAF astronaut.
Adams’ seventh X-15 flight, flight 3-65-97, took place on 15 November 1967 in the number Three aircraft. At 10:30 AM on 15 November, the X-15-3 dropped away from underneath the wing of an NB-52B at 45,000 feet over Delamar Dry Lake.
While in powered flight, an electrical […]
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