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Contemporary (1945–present)
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Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress whose career has spanned four decades. She ha…
Damon Hill
Damon Graham Devereux Hill (born 17 September 1960) is a British former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1992 to 1999. Hill won t…
Dark Angel (American TV series)
Dark Angel is an American science fiction action drama television series that aired on Fox from October 3, 2000, to May 3, 2002. Created by James Cameron and Ch…
David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as among the most influential…
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave A…
Eadwig
Eadwig (also Edwy or Eadwig All-Fair, c. 940 – 1 October 959) was King of England from 23 November 955 until his death in 959. He was the elder son of Edmund I…
Eric Bana
Eric Banadinović AM (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana (/ˈbænə/ ⓘ), is an Australian actor and producer. He began his career in the sketch-…
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a Japanese science fantasy anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi which is owned, developed, and published by Square Enix (for…
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy franchise. A co-productio…
Flag of Canada
The national flag of Canada, popularly referred to as the Maple Leaf, consists of a red field with a white square at its centre in the horizontal ratio of 1∶2∶1…
From Russia, with Love (novel)
From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the …
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Western and Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north w…
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American rock band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is currently composed of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Sully Erna, b…
Group (mathematics)
In mathematics, a group is a set with an operation that combines any two elements of the set to produce a third element within the same set and the following co…
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353 as of the 2021 Canadian census, and its census metropolitan ar…
Hitler Diaries
The Hitler Diaries (Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 a…
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first sp…
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, sinc…
INS Vikrant (1961)
INS Vikrant (from Sanskrit vikrānta, "courageous") was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. The ship was laid down as HMS Hercules for the Brit…
Iron Man
Iron Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Co-created by writer and editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieb…
KARE (TV)
KARE (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Twin Cities area. Owned by the…
Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor Khan (pronounced [kəˈriːna kəˈpuːr xɑːn]; née Kapoor; born 21 September 1980) is an Indian actress. She has been known for her leading roles in H…
Kes (Star Trek)
Kes is a fictional character played by Jennifer Lien on the American science-fiction television show Star Trek: Voyager. The series follows the crew of the star…
Khalid al-Mihdhar
Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (Arabic: خالد المحضار, romanized: Khālid al-Miḥḍār; also transliterated as AL Mihdhar; 16 May 1975 – 11 September 2001) wa…