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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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Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 American film North By Northwest marked a major turning point in the spy thriller genre.

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The maximum number of athletes allowed to participate in the Summer Olympic Games is set at approximately 10,500, in accordance with the IOC Charter.

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Buck Owens was one of the pioneers of the Bakersfield sound: an allusion to Bakersfield, California the city where he lived and from which he was inspired for what he preferred to call "American music".

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Solomon Burke is a singer of gospel, rhythm and blues, soul and American country. He is, along with Sam Cooke and Ray Charles, one of the pioneers of soul music. His most famous song is Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.

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This is the album Animals, released in 1977 by Pink Floyd, whose cover depicts Battersea Power Station with an inflatable pig floating in the air.

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Ray Charles' song Georgia on My Mind appears on the album The Genius Hits the Road, released in 1960, a classic of American soul music.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a German expressionist and silent film by Robert Wiene released in theatres in 1920.

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Ray Bradbury is the author of the dystopian science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953. This classic explores a future where books are banned and burned.

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The first radiograph in history was taken on December 22, 1895 on the hand of Anna Bertha Röntgen, the wife of Dr. Röntgen, the discoverer of X-rays.

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