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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Lin-Manuel_Miranda



Never knew that he was a McArthur Award “genius” or that he had a Pulitzer I will have to look for the one that got a Pulitzer nom but didn’t win (“In the Heights”) just in case it’s as good as “Hamilton” was.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Widows_of_Thursdays



AKA “Las viudas de los jueves” in the original Spanish. It’s a crime drama. No real mention of any notoriety critically though so I probably won’t go to the trouble of watching it



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_religious_movement

An entirely new religion (distinct from the existing “major” religions of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism) so it can’t be merely a new denomination of offshoot of those. Depending on the categorizing authority to be “new” it originated either after 1830 (the Latter Day Saint movement being the first of these “NRMs”) or after the Second World War ended in 1945 with some authorities saying after the 1960s. Some of the more widely known NRMs include the Latter Day Saints (“Mormons”), Unification Church (“Moonies”), the Nation of Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Scientology



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picton_Road,_New_South_Wales

If you find yourself Down Under in Picton, this will get you to Wollongong. (Sorry there really wasn’t anything of much interest here)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Hardy_Eckstorm

A writer, ornithologist and folklorist particularly renowned as an expert of Maine Founded a National Audubon Society chapter at Smith College (in Massachusetts). Made history in 1889 by becoming the first female school superintendent in Maine.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Dancehall_(song)

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