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NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY just came up on Jeopardy!, but this article might still be useful
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Some of those terms are so old, I wonder what took them so long.
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BOOKS ABOUT MOVIES

Becky Aikman's book "Off the Cliff" tells the story of the making of this 1991 film
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/thea ... group.html

Blue Man Group Is Bought by Cirque du Soleil

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Volante wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:43 pm https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/thea ... group.html

Blue Man Group Is Bought by Cirque du Soleil

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I wonder if Tobias Bluth is included in the deal.
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"See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth has passed Psy's Gangnam Style as most viewed YouTube video.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40566816
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Liu Xiaobo, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died
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Volante wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:24 am "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth has passed Psy's Gangnam Style as most viewed YouTube video.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40566816
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This news item reminded me of something a little less recent: this year also saw a new record for the most retweeted Twitter post. Whereas the previous record holders were Barack Obama celebrating his 2012 election victory and Ellen DeGeneres taking a star-studded photo at the 2014 Oscars, the record now belongs to a previously unknown teenager who tweeted a screenshot of a conversation with fast food chain Wendy's, in which they told him 18 million retweets would earn him free chicken nuggets for a year. (He did not get 18 million RTs, but Wendy's deemed the new record, some 3.4 million at the time, to be sufficient.)
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Spain's Garbiñe Muguruza has won the women's singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Venus Williams in the final. Muguruza previously won the 2016 French Open final over Serena Williams, making her the first woman to win Grand Slam finals against both Williams sisters.
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In some way, shape or form "Despacito" will have an Archive hit within a year's time: http://www.billboard.com/articles/colum ... tin-bieber

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Jodie Whittaker will be the 13th, and first female, Doctor
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George "(modern) zombies are HIS fault" Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead, et. al., has died
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Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman and Iranian to receive a Fields Medal, has died.
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Volante wrote: Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:20 pm George "(modern) zombies are HIS fault" Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead, et. al., has died
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Martin Landau (who starred in the 1960s TV series Mission: Impossible and won an Academy Award for Ed Wood) has died at 89
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Michael Kors buys Jimmy Choo for $1.2 bil.
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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of amazon.com, has become the wealthiest person in the world for the first time (with a net worth of over $90 billion), knocking Bill Gates to second place.

http://nypost.com/2017/07/27/jeff-bezos ... st-person/
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June Foray, the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and many other characters, died June 26. She was 99 years old.
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hbomb1947 wrote: Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:12 pm Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of amazon.com, has become the wealthiest person in the world for the first time (with a net worth of over $90 billion), knocking Bill Gates to second place.

http://nypost.com/2017/07/27/jeff-bezos ... st-person/
And several hours later, due to the fluctuating price of Amazon stock, Bezos slipped back to no. 2.

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Doing Joe Friday's just the facts: The book, What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton is being published on September 12, 2017
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