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2019-05-11

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Avengers: Endgame

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Avengers: Endgame is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the direct sequel to Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by An…

Ted Bundy

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Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls be…

List of highest-grossing films

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Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast ri…

Omayra Sánchez

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Chernobyl disaster

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Blue whale

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Detective Pikachu (film)

172,928 views

List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films

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Student of the Year 2

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Pua Magasiva

139,340 views

James Charles

131,712 views

Emilia Clarke

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2022

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Myanmar civil war: Government troops killed 37 unarmed civilians in Mondaingbin.

2013

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Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.

2011

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An earthquake registering Mw 5.1, the worst to hit the region for more than 50 years, struck near Lorca, Spain.

2010

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David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.

2010

Gordon_Brown

Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party after failing to strike a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats.

1998

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India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.

1997

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1981

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