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• Daijiro Kato
  ==Death== ...s listed as [[brain stem]] [[infarction]]. Many of the MotoGP riders wore black armbands or placed small #74's on their leathers and bikes at the following
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• George Lazenby
  ...d [[Raymond Chow]] to discuss a movie project collapsed, with Lee's sudden death. ...mer commando, expert [[skiing|skier]], expert martial artist with multiple black belts, accomplished [[horse]]man, [[motorcycle racing|motorcycle racer]], c
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• Florence
  ...Guelphs]], who after their victory split in turn into feuding "White" and "Black" factions led respectively by [[Vieri de Cerchi]] and [[Corso Donati]]. (Se Of a population estimated at 80,000 before the [[Black Death]] of [[1348]], about 25,000 are said to have been supported by the city's w
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• Car safety
  Despite technological advances, the death toll of car accidents remains high: about 40,000 people die every year in t A Swedish study found pink cars safest, with black cars most likely to be involved in crashes, and also showed [[Saab]] to be
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• Passive safety
  Despite technological advances, the death toll of car accidents remains high: about 40,000 people die every year in t A Swedish study found pink cars safest, with black cars most likely to be involved in crashes, and also showed [[Saab]] to be
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• Land speed record
  |Survived. His death was in March a year later, trying to re-capture the record from Campbell |October 4, 1983||[[Black Rock Desert]], USA||{{flagiconGBR}} [[Richard Noble]]||''[[Thrust2]]''||[[T
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• Crotone
  ...mpire]]. About 870 it was taken and sacked by the [[Saracen]]s, who put to death the bishop and many people who had taken refuge in the cathedral. Over a h ...l font (12th century) and the ''Madonna di Capo Colonna'', the icon of the Black Madonna which, according to the tradition, was brought from East in the fir
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• Jim Clark
  ...road cars to be replaced with a black badge for a month following Clark's death. The 1968 F1 Drivers' Championship was subsequently won by his Lotus team-m ...ty understanding why other drivers were not as quick as himself. After his death, Clark's father told [[Dan Gurney]] that he was the only driver his son eve
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• The World Is Not Enough
  |Composer:||David Arnold<br>[[Don Black]] ...ny existing route, because all Caspian region pipelines terminate at the [[Black Sea]], requiring that tankers go through the Bosporus; the only alternative
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• Gilles Villeneuve
  ...f the season - in only his fifth season racing cars - and from 1978 to his death in 1982 drove for the Italian team. He won six Grand Prix races in a short ...uve was extremely popular with fans and with many journalists, on whom his death had a profound effect. Since 1982 he has become an iconic figure in the his
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• Daniel Craig
  ...nounced, because Daniel Craig has [[blond]] hair instead of Bond's typical black hair, he was consequently dubbed in the media as "James Blond." [[Roger Moo ...start of the film series, and the first to be born after [[Ian Fleming]]'s death in 1964.
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• James Bond music
  |[[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]]<br>[[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]] |[[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]]<br>[[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]]
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• Automobile safety
  ...ovements in roadway and automobile design have steadily reduced injury and death rates in all [[first world]] countries. Nevertheless, auto collisions are t Work-related roadway crashes are the leading cause of death from traumatic injuries in the U.S. workplace. They accounted for nearly 12
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• Live and Let Die
  ...bly [[afro]] hairstyles, derogatory racial epithets (i.e "''[[honky]]''"), black [[gangsters]], and ''"[[pimpmobile]]s"''. In addition, the white police off ...y]], an actress who starred in several blaxploitation films, including ''[[Black Caesar]]'' and its sequel ''[[Hell Up in Harlem]]''). When the film was fir
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• James Bond Theme
  |John Barry<br />Monty Norman ([[Dr. No (soundtrack)|''Death of Dr. No'']]) * [[Stanley Black]]
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• Genoa
  ...e [[Byzantine Empire]], which opened opportunities of expansion into the [[Black Sea]] and [[Crimea]]. Internal feuds between the powerful families, the [[G ...m the Genoese trading post at [[Caffa]] ([[Theodosia]]) in Crimea, on the Black Sea. Following the economic and population collapse, Genoa adopted the Vene
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• Palermo
  ...uted to Santa Rosalia who, it is believed, freed the city from the [[Black Death]] in 1624. The cave where the bones of Santa Rosalia were discovered, is o
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• Ischia
  ...though there is an argument made for a [[Semitic]] origin in ''I-schra'', "black island". ...island's governance to her brother-in-law, [[Giovanni Torella]]. Upon the death of Alfonso in 1458, they returned the island to the Angevin side. [[Ferdin
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• Diamonds Are Forever
  |Composer:||John Barry <br> [[Don Black]] ...to exit it a few minutes later. Lana Wood, in a memoir she wrote after the death of her sister [[Natalie Wood]], credited her appearance in [[Playboy Magazi
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• MV Agusta
  Following the death of Count Domenico Agusta in 1971 the company declined and by 1980, it stopp ...which included a series of limited production run models, such as the all black paint work SPR model ("Special Production Racing") which was featured in th
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• Siena
  ...ded throughout Sienese territory. Feudal power waned however, and by the death of [[Countess Matilda|Countess Matilda]] in 1115 the Mark of Tuscia which h ...ban society as conceived during that period. Siena was devastated by the [[Black Plague]] of [[1348]] and never recovered its earlier glory, losing out to F
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• Luciano Pavarotti
  ==Death and family== ...na State Opera]] and the [[Salzburg Festival|Salzburg Festival Hall]] flew black flags in mourning. Tributes were published by many opera houses, such as Lo
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• History
  [[Terramare culture]] takes its name from the black earth (terremare) residue of settlement mounds, which have long served the ...ns, and the capital was moved from Mediolanum to Ravenna. In 476, with the death of Romulus Augustus and the return of the imperial ensigns to [[Constantino
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• The Spy Who Loved Me
  ...in a paperback edition in [[Britain]] until several years after Fleming's death (Fleming had, in fact, requested that no paperback ever be published of the ...Smith (2005 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]'' ([[2005 in film|2005]]), ''[[Little Black Book]]'' ([[2004 in film|2004]]), ''[[Lost in Translation]]'' and ''[[Bridg
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• Tony Stewart
  ...dway|Daytona]], when he confronted a Winston Cup official after ignoring a black flag. At the same race, he also got into an incident with a [[reporter]], k ...g a week in which the racing world remembered the fifth anniversary of the death of legend [[Dale Earnhardt]], who died on the final lap of the 2001 [[Dayto
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• Thunderball
  |Composer:||John Barry <br> [[Don Black]] ..., for the first time, in colour rather than in black and white (although a black-and-white version of the sequence would be used in ''Diamonds Are Forever''
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• Never Say Never Again
  ...napped person comes to identify with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to death by her. Or so it seems. ...ion of ''[[Casino Royale (2006 film)|Casino Royale]]'' will also feature a black Leiter). This film also appears to take place in an "alternate universe" in
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• Nigel Mansell
  ...f me died with him. I had lost a member of my family". Following Chapman's death relationships at Lotus became strained, as replacement team manager [[Peter ...|Ferrari]] driver to be personally selected by [[Enzo Ferrari]] before his death in August 1988, an honour Mansell described as "one of the greatest in my e
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• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  ...lower decorations, and the couple exchange professions of love. Suddenly a black Mercedes sedan approaches: Blofeld, in a neck brace, is driving, and Irma B ...giving birth to a daughter who died young and coupling with her husband's death (along with his mistress) in a car accident, Tracy became self-destructive
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• Pagani Zonda
  ...ly to be named for him, the "Fangio F1", but the name was changed upon his death in 1995, renamed after an [[Zonda wind|air current above Argentina]]. ...d a wider front grille. The Pagani Zonda C9 was seen testing with the SL65 Black Series. According to EVO, this new Pagani supercar will feature a M275 AMG
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• Damon Hill
  ...restigious [[Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School]] in [[Hertfordshire]]. The death of his father in a plane crash in 1975 when Damon was only 15&nbsp;years ol ...as his father had done 26 years earlier for [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] after the death of [[Jim Clark]]. Schumacher struggled to second with a gearbox fault, havi
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• Politics
  ...blame the left for bombings carried out by right-wing terrorists. Fascist "black terrorists," such as ''[[Ordine Nuovo]]'' or [[National Vanguard (Italy)|'' ...1984|European elections of 1984]], held barely two days after Berlinguer's death, a passing that likely drew sympathy from many voters. The election of 198
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• 1994 Formula One season
  ...during the [[1968 Spanish Grand Prix]] where he won after [[Jim Clark]]'s death. ...ed to honour his penalty, which resulted in a [[Racing flag#The black flag|black flag]]. He was stripped of his second place behind [[Damon Hill|Hill]], and
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• Milan
  ...the city touched the number of 200,000 inhabitants and during the [[Black Death|Plague]] of [[1349]] Milan was one of the few places in Europe that was unt
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• Goldfinger
  ...andslam briefing). Without interrogating Bond, Goldfinger sentences 007 to death by laser. "Choose your next witticism carefully, Mr. Bond; it may be your l ...after being convinced that Bond is being watched, and his disappearance or death will trigger involvement in the case of a new "00" agent. By his use of the
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• History of Formula One
  ...later Ascari was killed at Monza while testing a sportscar. After Ascari's death, Lancia followed Mercedes out of the category, passing their engines, cars, After Rindt's death the Lotus team had a desultory 1971 season with its two new and inexperienc
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• GoldenEye
  ...with the head of Janus. This turns out to be Trevelyan, who had faked his death at Arkangel. He wants revenge for his [[Betrayal of the Cossacks|Lienz Coss * A few extra seconds of footage of Xenia's death.
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• Medieval cuisine
  ...ally after the terrible blood-letting of the population during the [[Black Death]], was used in considerable quantities in the northern and northwestern reg ...meat and animal products like milk and eggs. It was only after the [[Black Death]] had eradicated up to half of the European population that meat became mor
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• 007 (disambiguation)
  ...numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in [[1964]], further literary adventures were written by [[Kingsley Amis]] ...anded on Fleming's books, adding gadgets from [[Q (James Bond)|Q Branch]], death-defying stunts, and often abandoning the original plotlines for more outlan
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• James Bond
  ...numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in [[1964]], further literary adventures were written by [[Kingsley Amis]] ...anded on Fleming's books, adding gadgets from [[Q (James Bond)|Q Branch]], death-defying stunts, and often abandoning the original plotlines for more outlan
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• List of James Bond vehicles
  ...here the main character purchases one to be like Bond and ''[[The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]]'' (2004) in which [[Geoffrey Rush]], playing [[Peter Sel ...gine to a 4.9&nbsp;L. The Mark II was also grey; however, the interior was black leather. The Mark II Continental is last seen in the novel ''On Her Majesty
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• Tour de France
  ...day. The rider with most points in total gets a white-on-red (instead of a black-on-white) identification number. ...etamine]]s and alcohol were found in Simpson's jersey and bloodstream. His death prompted tour officials to begin a programme of drug testing.
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• Casino Royale (2006 film)
  ...teria as far as the media was concerned. Most notably, [[Colin Salmon]], a black actor best known for playing [[List of James Bond allies#Robinson, Charles| ...nd. Tarantino's proposed version would have been set immediately after the death of Bond's wife [[Tracy Bond|Tracy]] in ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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• The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
  ...Smith (2005 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]'' ([[2005 in film|2005]]), ''[[Little Black Book]]'' ([[2004 in film|2004]]), ''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Tr ...le du Mort, a mountain near the town of [[Chamonix]]. After the mysterious death of Fekkish, SMERSH appears yet again, this time capturing and torturing Bon
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• Michael Schumacher
  ...aking on the formation lap. He then ignored the penalty and the subsequent black flag during the race, for which he was disqualified and later given a two-r ...'s]] record of 65 pole positions that had stood for 12 years after Senna's death. He went on to finish second, behind the [[Renault F1|Renault]] of reigning
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• Die Another Day
  ...and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die]]'' ([[1973 in film|1973]]) due to his death in December of 1999. ...or to Brosnan's era, Bond villains' motivation was seldom explained beyond black-and-white issues of wealth and power.
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• Barcelona
  ...'''Zoo-Barcelona'''] It is located in Parc de la Ciudadella. Prior to his death, this zoo was famous for its albino gorilla "Snowflake". Today this zoo st ...ide many different kinds of rice concoctions) or ''Arr&ograve;s negre'' (''Black Rice''), that takes its colour because is made using squid ink. It's a very
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• Scuderia Ferrari
  ...he [[Lancia]] team's D50 chassis after they had retired following Ascari's Death; Fangio, [[Peter Collins (racing driver)|Peter Collins]], and [[Eugenio Cas ...st]]. In reporting the deal, ''[[F1 Racing]]'' magazine judged it to be a "black day" for the sport, putting non-tobacco funded teams at a disadvantage and
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• Italian literature
  ...the stands at a public tournament collapsed, and the sorrow at her sudden death caused Jacopone to sell all he possessed and give it to the poor. Jacopone ...ed a real woman, named Laura, and celebrated her in her life and after her death in poems full of studied elegance. Petrarch was the first [[Humanism|humani
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• Italian Literature
  ...the stands at a public tournament collapsed, and the sorrow at her sudden death caused Jacopone to sell all he possessed and give it to the poor. Jacopone ...ed a real woman, named Laura, and celebrated her in her life and after her death in poems full of studied elegance. Petrarch was the first [[Humanism|humani
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