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  • Thumbnail for Chuck Close
    Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and...
    62 KB (6,160 words) - 06:43, 5 June 2024
  • Thomas Close FSA (12 February 1796 – 25 January 1881) was an English antiquarian and archaeologist. Thomas Close was born in Manchester on 12 February...
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    Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress. In a career spanning over five decades of screen and stage, she has received numerous accolades...
    125 KB (11,349 words) - 03:13, 12 June 2024
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    Most early filmmakers, such as Thomas Edison, Auguste and Louis Lumière and Georges Méliès, tended not to use close-ups and preferred to frame their...
    10 KB (879 words) - 18:03, 19 March 2024
  • Close Enough is an American adult animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel. Originally intended to air on TBS in 2017, the project faced various delays...
    54 KB (1,961 words) - 03:28, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Close-packing of equal spheres
    generated by the A3 root system. The problem of close-packing of spheres was first mathematically analyzed by Thomas Harriot around 1587, after a question on...
    19 KB (2,429 words) - 01:57, 11 June 2024
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    St. Jude was founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, with help from Lemuel Diggs and Thomas' close friend from Miami, automobile dealer Anthony...
    20 KB (1,986 words) - 15:01, 3 June 2024
  • episodes of Thomas & Friends, Thomas's best friends are Percy and Toby, though he is also close friends with Edward. Later episodes of Thomas & Friends...
    24 KB (2,560 words) - 03:46, 10 June 2024
  • Then Close wanted to do an improv scene where he would play himself and another actor, Dave Thomas, would play the doctor who would tell Close that his...
    24 KB (2,857 words) - 16:40, 15 May 2024
  • singer-songwriter Sasha Close, Australian actress Seamus Close, Northern Ireland politician Sigrid Close, Stanford University professor Thomas Close, English antiquarian...
    1 KB (171 words) - 23:35, 17 January 2024
  • William Taliaferro Close (June 7, 1924 – January 15, 2009) was an American surgeon who played a major role in stemming a 1976 outbreak of the Ebola virus...
    10 KB (1,133 words) - 00:05, 2 June 2024
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss,...
    87 KB (8,509 words) - 21:57, 11 June 2024
  • In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the...
    23 KB (2,978 words) - 13:35, 7 May 2024
  • Get Close is the fourth studio album by rock band the Pretenders, released on 20 October 1986 in the United Kingdom by Real Records and on 4 November...
    16 KB (1,381 words) - 10:31, 9 May 2024
  • Close to the Edge is the fifth studio album by English progressive rock band Yes, released on 8 September 1972 by Atlantic Records. It is their last album...
    49 KB (5,690 words) - 13:56, 29 May 2024
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    Louis Thomas (born April 29, 1993) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and is former World Number One. In 2017, Thomas experienced...
    45 KB (2,789 words) - 22:43, 14 June 2024
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    Thomas Thomson, Collection of Inventories (Edinburgh, 1815), pp. 47, 138-9. John Gloag, A Short Dictionary of Furniture, rev. ed. 1969, s.v. "close stool...
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  • Thumbnail for Vicars' Close, Wells
    have been by William Joy or Thomas Witney his predecessor as master mason of the cathedral. The first parts of the Close to be constructed were this first...
    19 KB (2,093 words) - 15:25, 14 June 2024
  • Too Close to Touch were an American rock band from Lexington, Kentucky, formed in 2013. They swiftly emerged onto the post-hardcore scene. Led by the...
    23 KB (2,198 words) - 06:47, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Chippendale, the younger
    Thereafter he took over his father's business until Thomas Chippendale Jr. was obliged to close the doors on the family business. The company, listed...
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