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In Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, the pirates' leader is Long John Silver, a cunning and fearsome cook with a buccaneering past.

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In Richard Matheson's science-fiction novel I Am Legend, Robert Neville is the character who survives the pandemic and fights the vampires.

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Louis XIV became King of France at the age of 5, in 1643, on the death of his father, Louis XIII. His mother, Anne of Austria, assumed the regency.

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The eruption of the Tambora in 1815 was the most violent volcanic eruption ever known historically, and above all the most deadly.

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The Volcanoes of Kamchatka is a UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing part of the volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.

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The Monks is an American garage rock band from Gelnhausen, West Germany. Gary Burger, Dave Day, Eddie Shaw, Larry Clark and Roger Johnston were originally five American GIs based in Gelnhausen in 1963. After leaving the army, they stayed in Germany where they formed a band first called The Torquays, then The Monks.

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The work refers to the Old Testament, when Jacob's children appear before their father to explain that his favorite son Joseph died because of a wolf attack.

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Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia, a modern, dynamic city located in the heart of the country, in the Najd desert.

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A Streetcar Named Desire, first performed in 1947, is the work of American playwright Tennessee Williams.

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Billie Holiday first performed Strange Fruit in 1939 at New York's Café Society, marking a turning point in her career and in committed music.

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