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  2. Artists United Against Apartheid - Wikipedia

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    Van Zandt became interested in writing a song about Sun City to make parallels with the plight of Native Americans. Danny Schechter, a journalist who was then working with ABC News' 20/20, suggested turning the song into a different kind of "We Are the World", or as Schechter explains, "a song about change not charity, freedom not famine."

  3. Sun City (song) - Wikipedia

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    Van Zandt and Schechter also struggled to get their documentary seen. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) refused to broadcast the non-profit film The Making of Sun City [18] even though it won the International Documentary Association's top honors in 1986. PBS claimed the featured artists were also involved in making the film and were therefore ...

  4. Luminosity function (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    The Schechter luminosity function [5] provides an approximation of the abundance of galaxies in a luminosity interval [+]. The luminosity function has units of a number density n {\displaystyle n} per unit luminosity and is given by a power law with an exponential cut-off at high luminosity

  5. Danny Schechter - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Isaac "Danny" Schechter (June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015) was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid , civil rights , economics, foreign policy , journalistic control and ethics, and medicine.

  6. Sun - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is 1.4 million kilometers (4.643 light-seconds) wide, about 109 times wider than Earth, or four times the Lunar distance, and contains 99.86% of all Solar System mass. The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star that makes up about 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System. [26]

  7. Schecter Guitar Research - Wikipedia

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    Schecter Guitar Research, commonly known simply as Schecter, is an American manufacturing company founded in 1976 by David Schecter, which originally produced only replacement parts for existing guitars from manufacturers such as Fender and Gibson.

  8. In the Sun (Joseph Arthur song) - Wikipedia

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    "In the Sun" is the second single from Joseph Arthur's second studio album Come to Where I'm From, though the song had been performed during his live shows as early as 1996. [ 1 ] Release

  9. Solomon Schechter - Wikipedia

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    Solomon Schechter (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן הכהן שכטר ‎; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism.