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  2. Art in the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation

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    Calvinists remained steadfastly opposed to art in churches, and suspicious of small printed images of religious subjects, though generally fully accepting secular images in their homes. In turn, the Catholic Counter-Reformation both reacted against and responded to Protestant criticisms of art in Roman Catholicism to produce a more stringent ...

  3. Smoking bans in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    On 16 November 2004, a Public Health white paper proposed a smoking ban in almost all public places in England and Wales.Smoking restrictions would be phased in, with a ban on smoking in NHS and government buildings by 2006, in enclosed public places by 2007, and pubs, bars and restaurants (except pubs not serving food) by the end of 2008.

  4. Man Ray - Wikipedia

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    Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris.He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal.

  5. List of United Kingdom general elections - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the UK House of Commons) since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.

  6. Ray Liotta - Wikipedia

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    Raymond Allen Liotta (Italian:; December 18, 1954 – May 26, 2022) was an American actor and film producer.He first gained attention for his role in the film Something Wild (1986), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.

  7. Ultimate Fighting Championship - Wikipedia

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    He led a campaign to ban the UFC, calling it "human cockfighting", and sent letters to the governors of all 50 US states asking them to ban it. [ 47 ] 36 states enacted laws that banned "no-holds-barred" fighting, including New York, which enacted the ban on the eve of UFC 12 , forcing it to relocate to Dothan, Alabama . [ 48 ]

  8. Film censorship in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The film was rejected over sexual violence being eroticized and images of Susan Hemingway, who was 16 at the time of filming, which were considered potentially indecent (in England and Wales, indecent images of minors are illegal; the relevant age was raised from 16 to 18 by the 2003 Sexual Offences Act, which had been passed by Parliament to ...

  9. List of art media - Wikipedia

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    Arts media are the materials and tools used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art, [1] for example, "pen and ink" where the pen is the tool and the ink is the material. The following lists types of art and the media each uses.