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  • 76Futurism — was an art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was its founder and… …

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  • 79kamikaze — /kah mi kah zee/, n. 1. (during World War II) a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, esp. a warship. 2. an airplane used for this …

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  • 80Kathleen Turner — Born Mary Kathleen Turner June 19, 1954 (1954 06 19) (age 57) Springfield, Missouri, U.S. Occu …

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