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"In the United States, Keeping Up with the Kardashians is a prime example of a successful long-running reality television show."

"There are foods that consist of natural sugars, such as fruit."

"There has been a great movement on increasing physical exercise within society."

"Although there have been hundreds of studies on physical exercise and the immune system, there is little direct evidence on its connection to illness."

"Many adaptations of macaroni and cheese have been developed over the past decades, making the dish fun and expressive based on the individual preparing the course."

"Black Codes were part of a larger pattern of Southern whites, who were trying to suppress the new freedom of emancipated African-American slaves, the freedmen."

"Trying to reinvent her image, Clarkson decided to part ways with American Idol management and her second album, Breakaway (2004), featured a pop rock sound."

"After a four-year hiatus that began in 2012, MTV announced that they are bringing the list back with a television special that aired on December 11, 2016 on MTV2."

"Bad Boy Records (also known as Bad Boy Entertainment) is an American record label founded in 1993 by the Sean Combs."

"Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, status in a hierarchy, customary social interaction, and exclusion."

"Nelson was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince was known for his electric work, flamboyant stage presence, extravagant fashion sense and use of makeup, and wide vocal range."

"According to the United States Census Bureau, Miami's metro area is the seventh-most populous and fourth-largest urban area in the U.S., with a population of around 5.5 million."

"In 1890, when her father died and left her his land in Florida, she sold her home in Cleveland, Ohio and relocated to Biscayne Bay."

"Today, Bayfront Park is maintained by the Bayfront Park Management Trust, a limited agency of the city of Miami, Florida."

"Though many animals build things to provide a better environment for themselves, they are not human, hence beaver dams, and the works of Mound-building termites, are thought of as natural."

"It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor; and fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries."

"They can be described as a stochastic process, in combination with the physics governing their generation, growth, propagation, and decay—as well as governing the interdependence between flow quantities such as: the water surface movements, flow velocities and water pressure."

"It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space, other than Earth, where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found."

"In 2008, Cassie made her film debut as Sophie Donovan in the dance film Step Up 2: The Streets, Cassie also sang the lead single "Is It You" to the Step Up soundtrack."

""The Boys" is a song recorded by American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj, also known as Onika Tanya Maraj, and American singer Cassie Ventura."

"Hip-hop music, also called hip-hop  or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s, which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted."

"Many steamboats from the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers were requisitioned by the U.S. government and moved to the Rio Grande during the Mexican War in 1846."

"In 1978, its exports in the world market share was negligible, in 1998 it still had less than 2%, but by 2010, it had a world market share of 10.4% according to the World Trade Organization (WTO), with merchandise export sales of more than $1.5 trillion, the highest in the world.

" In 2013, China overtook the USA and became the world's biggest trading nation in goods with a total for imports and exports valued at US $4.16 trillion for the year.

"The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner opened that the memorial is one of the few beautiful public artefacts in an otherwise "drab" group of towns, and "more moving in its modesty" compared to some of Lutyens' grander designs for municipal war memorials.

"It was upgraded to grade II* in 2015 (on the centenary of the Cape Helles landing), along with two other memorials related to the Gallipoli Campaign; later that year it was recognized as part of a national collection of Lutyens' war memorials.

"European maps continued to show this hypothesised land until Captain James Cook's ships, HMS Resolution and Adventure, crossed the Antarctic Circle on 17 January 1773, in December 1773 and again in January 1774."

"It was not until 31 October 1956, that anyone set foot on the South Pole again; on that day a U.S. Navy group led by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek successfully landed an aircraft there."

"Wilkes was court-martialled on his return, but was acquitted on all charges except that of illegally punishing men in his squadron."

"By the end of May 1811, company employees built Fort Astoria out of bark-covered logs that enclosed a stockade and guns mounted for defense."

"On 1 July 1813, the fort officers of Donald Mackenzie, Duncan McDougall, David Stuart and John Clarke, desiring to abandon the fort agreed to sell the PFC trading stations to the British-owned NWC, "unless the necessary support and supplies arrive with advice from John Jacob Astor of New York, or the Stockholders to continue the trade, the same shall be abandoned as impracticable, as well as unprofitable."

"In 1821, the North West Company was merged into the Hudson's Bay Company, which took ownership of the fort."

"The tribe is now extinct, but evidence of its culture is preserved in museum, historical and archaeological records."

"The songs "Boom Clap" and "Doing It" earned Charlotte Emma Aitchison her first two top-ten singles on the UK Singles Chart as a lead artist; the former reached the top-ten of several charts worldwide."

"In June 2016, the band supported Vote Remain in the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum."

"She commented, "I think about Madonna and how she took all of the great things she achieved and started the label and developed other artists. But there are not enough of those women."

"In 1990, Mariah Carey released Vision of Love as her debut single."

" A journalist from Mirrors Magazine says that "the showmanship on Bruno’s stage was like none other that I’ve ever seen" comparing him to Michael Jackson."

"On 20 July, the English fleet was off Eddystone Rocks, with the Armada upwind to the west."

"On 8 August (18 August New Style), Elizabeth went to Tilbury to encourage her forces, and the next day, per legend, arrived on horseback in her own personal battle armour (and thus showing to the assembled warriors that she was prepared to fight with them in the ensuing battle to her own death)."

"In September 1588, the Armada sailed around Scotland and Ireland into the North Atlantic.

"In the words of Geoffrey Parker, by 1588, "the capital ships of the Elizabethan navy constituted the most powerful battlefleet afloat anywhere in the world".

"ln a prize-winning work published in 1981, the historian J. W. Burrow remarked of Froude that he was a leading promoter of the imperialist excitement of the closing years of the century, but that in the mass of his work even empire took second place to religion."

"Hockey is the most popular winter sport in Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland."

"The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading Ottoman army on 29 May, 1453."

"From the mid-5th century to the early 13th century, Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Europe. It was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times as the home of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and as the guardian of Christendom's holiest relics such as the Crown of Thorns and the True Cross."

"Although the author of the Patria asserts that this wall dated to the time of Byzas, the French researcher Raymond Janin thinks it more likely that it reflects the situation after the city was rebuilt by the Spartan general Pausanias, who conquered the city in 479 BC."

"The seismicity, or seismic activity, of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time."

"A lithosphere (λίθος [lithos] for "rocky", and σφαίρα [sphaira] for "sphere") is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet, or natural satellite, that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties."

"The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, commonly known as air, that surrounds the planet Earth, and is retained by Earth's gravity."

"The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation, from a planet's atmosphere, warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere."

"Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, and its related effects."

"Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented in the instrumental temperature record, which extends back to the mid-19th century, and in paleoclimateproxy records covering thousands of years."

"Thermal inertia of the oceans is a major factor influencing climate commitment, the degree of global warming predicted to eventually result from a step change in climate forcing, such as a fixed increase in the atmospheric concentration of a greenhouse gas."

"Though it is not a widely named law, it is an axiom of thermodynamics that there exist states of thermodynamic equilibrium. The second law of thermodynamics states that when a body of material starts from an equilibrium state, in which, portions of it are held at different states by more or less permeable or impermeable partitions, and a thermodynamic operation removes or makes the partitions more permeable and it is isolated, then it spontaneously reaches its own new state of internal thermodynamic equilibrium, and this is accompanied by an increase in the sum of the entropies of the portions."

"Felt over an area of 200,000 square miles (500,000 square kilometers), the earthquake reached the states of Indiana, Illinois, and possibly Ohio, though the latter reports have been questioned."

"The earthquake's epicenter was near Manhattan, New York and Kansas, Kansas, a town just off the confluence of the Kansas River and the Big Blue River."

"The earthquake's epicenter was near Manhattan and Kansas, a town just off the confluence of the Kansas River and the Big Blue River."

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books."

"Stephen Chbosky (born January 25, 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best-known for writing The New York Times bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), as well as for writing and directing the film version of the same book, starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller."

"A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland."