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Bradley Cooper (born 1975) is an American actor and filmmaker whose films have grossed $13 billion worldwide. After a guest role in Sex and the City, he made his film debut in the comedy Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and played Will Tippin in the television show Alias (2001–2006). He had his breakthrough in The Hangover (2009), which was followed by two sequels. Cooper found more success with Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Hustle (2013), and American Sniper (2014), the last of which he also produced. Cooper wrote, produced, directed, and starred in A Star Is Born (2018). For his part in its soundtrack and its chart-topping lead single " Shallow", he won a BAFTA Award and two Grammys. Cooper continued his filmmaking with Joker (2019), Nightmare Alley (2021) and Maestro (2023), and also starred in the last two. He has received twelve Academy Award nominations. ( This article is part of a featured topic: Bradley Cooper.)

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Onekaka Dam under construction in the late 1920s

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... that Tom Landry led the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League to a record 20 consecutive winning seasons?
... that Jack Biddle was the first and only person to be elected to the Alabama Legislature as a Democratic, Republican, and independent representative?
... that only 130 personnel joined the United States Army's Slavic Legion?
... that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize is the only Nobel Peace Prize ever to have been declined?
... that the 1993 Pacific hurricane season generated more than double the average number of major hurricanes, which have sustained winds of at least 111 mph (179 km/h)?
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Dale Dyke Dam in Sheffield, after its rupture

1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood killed at least 240 people and damaged more than 600 homes, after a crack in the Dale Dike Reservoir (pictured) caused it to fail.
1993 – The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the country's first female attorney general.
2007 – Georgian authorities accused Russia of orchestrating a helicopter attack in the Kodori Valley of the breakaway territory of Abkhazia.
2009 – A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing 16, including himself.

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The 76th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2003 and took place on February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Joe Roth and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the eighth time. He first hosted the 62nd ceremony held in 1990, and had last hosted the 72nd ceremony in 2000. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won a record-tying eleven awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Peter Jackson (pictured). The telecast garnered nearly 44 million viewers in the United States. ( Full list...)

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Cox and Box, also known as The Long-Lost Brothers, is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by F. C. Burnand and music by Arthur Sullivan, based on the 1847 farce Box and Cox by John Maddison Morton. It premiered in 1866 and was Sullivan's first successful comic opera. The story concerns a landlord who lets a room to two lodgers, one who works at night and one who works during the day. When one of them has the day off, they meet each other in the room and tempers flare. Sullivan wrote this piece five years before Thespis, his first opera with W. S. Gilbert. This poster was produced for the first professional production of Cox and Box, which began in 1869 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration in London and ran for 264 performances there. The opera has frequently been used as a curtain raiser for the shorter Gilbert and Sullivan operas and continues to be frequently produced.

Poster credit: Alfred Concanen; restored by Adam Cuerden

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