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2. Columbia University - Wikipedia

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   Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private, Ivy League, research university in New York City, United States.Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States and is considered one of the most prestigious ...

3. Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia

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   Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

4. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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   On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of ...

5. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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   Area. 5,500,000 km 2 (2,100,000 sq mi) The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which 5,500,000 km 2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the ...

6. Raycom Sports - Wikipedia

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   Raycom Sports is a Charlotte, North Carolina –based producer of sports television programs owned by Gray Television . It was founded in 1979 by husband and wife, Rick and Dee Ray. In the 1980s, Raycom Sports established a prominent joint venture with Jefferson-Pilot Communications which made them partners on the main Atlantic Coast Conference ...

7. Pandora (service) - Wikipedia

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   Pandora is a subscription-based music streaming service owned by the broadcasting corporation Sirius XM Holdings that is presently based in Oakland, California inside of the United States. The service carries a focus on recommendations based on the "Music Genome Project", which is a means of classifying individual songs by musical traits such ...