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  1. Crystal Palace -- Great Exhibition
    The Crystal Palace was a financial success ...; it made a profit of £186,437 when it finally closed. The commissioners of the project knew that the Exhibition would make money, but they did not expect quite this much. The Great Exhibition of 1851 also sported a total visitor count of 6,201,856 at closing.
  2. Gordon Lightfoot -- Recordings
    The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was among Gordon Lightfoot's greatest hits, an unlikely smash about the deaths of 29 men aboard a ship that sank during a storm on Nov. 10, 1975. It's an evocative song that defies description: Haunting yet comforting, wistful yet powerful, mythic yet real.
  3. The Clash -- Music
    What made The Clash members different was their ability to absorb influences and recast them within the punk ethos while constantly using their music as a platform for profound political statements. They infused their music with a raw and spirited energy reminiscent of the earliest days of rock 'n' roll.
  4. Supergrass
    The rest of "Supergrass" is a more textured and somber affair, beginning with its first (and best) track, "Moving." The song starts with a melancholy guitars/strings sweep and Coombes delivering an existential imitation of Radiohead's Thom Yorke. "I've been moving so long," he sighs. "The days all feel the same." Then it suddenly flips into chug-rock mode, and Coombes enthusiastically croons more depressing lyrics: "There's a low, low feeling around me, and a stone-cold feeling inside/I can't stop messing my mind up, or wasting my time ..." Repeat.
  5. Lever -- Levers
    Inphysics, a lever (fromFrenchlever, "to raise", c.f. a levant) is a rigid object that is used with an appropriatefulcrumor pivot point to multiply the mechanical force that can be applied to another object. This is ... termedmechanical advantage, and is one example of theprinciple of moments. A lever is one of the sixsimple machines.
  6. Ed Asner
    Who better than Lou Grant to tell it like it is? Ed Asner is a long-time actor, best known for his role on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Later, he was still Lou Grant on the eponymous Lou Grant. He won Emmys for both shows. That’s amidst a long and storied stage and film career. And outspoken does not begin to describe Asner.
  7. Brussels -- Manneken Pis
    The Brussels Griffon is a small toy dog, usually weighing between 5-15 pounds. He comes in two coats, a smooth coat like a Pug or a Boxer and a rough coat like a Schnauzer. He comes in 4 colors: red which can be from buff color to deep mahogany, belge which has black hairs mixed in with red, solid black and black with tan points. The ears may be cropped or uncropped. The tail is usually, but not always, docked short. The most distinguishing feature of this breed is the face.
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