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  2. The Man Who Sold the World (song) - Wikipedia

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    "The Man Who Sold the World" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. The title track of Bowie's third studio album , it was released in November 1970 in the US and in April 1971 in the UK by Mercury Records .

  3. The Well-Tempered Clavier - Wikipedia

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    The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time clavier referred to a variety of keyboard instruments, namely the harpsichord, the clavichord and the organ . The modern German spelling for the collection is Das ...

  4. Cygnus X-1 (song series) - Wikipedia

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    Rush. Terry Brown. "Cygnus X-1" is a two-part song series by Canadian progressive rock band Rush. The first part, "Book I: The Voyage", is the last song on the 1977 album A Farewell to Kings, and the second part, "Book II: Hemispheres", is the first song on the following album, 1978's Hemispheres. Book I is ten minutes and twenty-five seconds ...

  5. List of highest-grossing films - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 1970, tickets cost $1.55 or about $6.68 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars; by 1980, prices had risen to about $2.69, a drop to $5.50 in inflation-adjusted 2004 dollars. [24] Ticket prices have also risen at different rates of inflation around the world, further complicating the process of adjusting worldwide grosses.

  6. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

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    The tape was 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) wide and 0.003 inches (0.076 mm) thick running at 5 feet per second (1.5 m/s) past the recording and reproducing heads. This meant that the length of tape required for a half-hour program was nearly 1.8 miles (2.9 km) and a full reel weighed 55 pounds (25 kg).

  7. Fibonacci sequence - Wikipedia

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    Fibonacci sequence. In mathematics, the Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Numbers that are part of the Fibonacci sequence are known as Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn . The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start the sequence from 1 and 1 or sometimes ...

  8. Mid-credits and post-credits scenes in the Marvel Cinematic ...

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    [1] [2] [3] Avengers: Endgame (2019) also does not feature a post-credits scene, instead having the credits end with the sound of clanging metal first heard in Iron Man. [10] In addition to such scenes attached to films, the MCU has had post-credit scenes in most MCU television series, generally after the final episode of the series.

  9. Power of two - Wikipedia

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    A power of two is a number of the form 2n where n is an integer, that is, the result of exponentiation with number two as the base and integer n as the exponent . Powers of two with non-negative exponents are integers: 20 = 1, 21 = 2, and 2n is two multiplied by itself n times. [ 1][ 2] The first ten powers of 2 for non-negative values of n are: