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  2. Maksim Mrvica - Wikipedia

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    Biography. Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took piano lessons at the age of nine. [2] Three years later he gave his first concert performance of Haydn 's Piano Concerto in C major. When the Croatian war of independence started in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies.

  3. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator

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    The film begins with a sexologist in his office, talking about the history of sex. Izabela (Eva Ras), an ethnic Hungarian switchboard operator, meets and falls in love with a Sandžak Muslim sanitation inspector named Ahmed (Slobodan Aligrudić), who soon moves into her apartment and has a shower installed. The film then cuts away to a police ...

  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 - Wikipedia

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    The second season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is based on J. R. R. Tolkien 's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings. Set thousands of years before the novel in the Second Age of Middle-earth, the season depicts the rise of the ...

  5. Romani society and culture - Wikipedia

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    e. 1552 woodcut of a Romani family. The Romani people are a distinct ethnic and cultural group of peoples living all across the globe, who share a family of languages and sometimes a traditional nomadic mode of life. [1] Though their exact origins were unclear, [2] recent studies show Kashmir in Northwest India is the most probable point of ...

  6. Vera Kurtić - Wikipedia

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    Vera Kurtić. Vera Kurtić (Serbian: Вера Куртић) is a Romani feminist activist and writer from Serbia, She is the author of the book Džuvljarke: Roma Lesbian Existence, which is the first book to discuss non-heteronormative Roma women's sexuality.

  7. George Borrow - Wikipedia

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    George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel based on personal experiences in Europe. [1] His travels gave him a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, who figure strongly in his work. His best-known books are The Bible in Spain and the novels Lavengro and The Romany Rye, set in his ...

  8. Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) - Wikipedia

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    Paris. Nationality. French Romani. Esmeralda (French: [ɛs.me.ʁɑl.da]), born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo 's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris). She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman).

  9. Stree 2 - Wikipedia

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    Stree 2 grossed ₹9.40 crore from paid previews in select theatres the day before its release, breaking the previous record held by Chennai Express. Released alongside Vedaa and Khel Khel Mein on Independence day, the film went on to gross ₹64.80 crore, marking the second-highest opening day for a Hindi film, behind only Jawan (2023).