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97 relations: Africa, Almeh, Amar Gamal, Amera Eid, American Bellydancer, American Tribal Style Belly Dance, Arab dance, Badia Masabni, Baladi, Burlesque, Cabaret, Castanets, Cinema of Egypt, Cleopatra (1917 film), Dalilah (bellydancer), Dance, Didem (belly dancer), Dina (belly dancer), Edward William Lane, Egypt, Egyptian Arabic, El clon, Fifi Abdou, Film, Flamenco, Francoist Spain, French language, Ghawazi, Giovanna Antonelli, Glossary of belly dance terms, Goth subculture, Gothic belly dance, Gustave Flaubert, Haram, Harem, Hip hop, Hispanophone, Hoochie coochie, Hula hoop, Improvisational Tribal Style, Intolerance (film), Islam, James Bond in film, Juvenal, Karsilamas, Köçek, Little Egypt (dancer), M'alayah, Martial, Mayte Garcia, ..., Middle East, Murilo Benício, Music video, Nadia Gamal, Nagwa Fouad, Naima Akef, Nejla Ateş, Nelly Mazloum, Nickelodeon (movie theater), North India, O Clone, Orientalism, Ottoman Empire, Oud, Persian dance, Phoenicia, Qanun (instrument), Rachel Brice, Raqs sharqi, Riq, Romani people, Romani people in Spain, Romanticism, Ruth St. Denis, Safinaz, Salomé (1923 film), Samia Gamal, Serena Wilson, Shakira, Shantae, Sibel Can, Sol Bloom, Taheyya Kariokka, Telenovela, Terezka Drnzik, The Man with the Golden Gun (film), The Sheik (film), Thomas Edison, Torso, Tribal Fusion, Umayyad conquest of Hispania, Victorian era, WayForward Technologies, World's fair, Zeinat Olwi, Zill, Zoe Jakes. Expand index (47 more) »
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Almeh
Almeh (عالمة, plural عوالم, from Arabic: علم "to know, be learned") was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily, connected to the qayna slave singers of pre-Islamic Arabia.
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Amar Gamal
Amar Gamal (born c. 1975) is a well known Cuban dancer who practices the art of bellydancing.
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Amera Eid
Amera Eid is an Australian bellydancer.
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American Bellydancer
American Bellydancer is a 2005 documentary film directed by Jonathan Brandeis.
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American Tribal Style Belly Dance
American Tribal Style Belly Dance (also known as ATS) is a modern style of belly dance created by FatChanceBellyDance director, Carolena Nericcio-Bohlman.
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Arab dance
Arab folk dances (raqs ʿarabiyy) also referred to as Oriental dance, Middle-Eastern dance and Eastern dance, are the traditional folk dances of the Arabs in Arab world.
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Badia Masabni
Badia Masabni (بديعة مصابني, born Wadiha Masabni وديعة مصابني; 1892-1974), was an actress and belly dancer born to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother, best known for opening a series of influential clubs in Cairo from the 1920s onward.
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Baladi
Baladi (بلدي; relative-adjective "of town", "local", "rural", comparable to English "folk", with a lower-class connotation) can refer to an Egyptian musical style, the folk style of Egyptian bellydance (Raqs Baladi), or the Masmoudi Sogheir rhythm, which is frequently used in baladi music.
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Burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
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Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
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Castanets
Castanets are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Kalo, Moorish, Ottoman, ancient Roman, Italian, Spanish, Sephardic, Swiss, and Portuguese music.
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Cinema of Egypt
The cinema of Egypt refers to the flourishing film industry based in Cairo, the capital of Egypt.
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Cleopatra (1917 film)
Cleopatra is a 1917 American silent historical drama film based on H. Rider Haggard's 1889 novel Cleopatra and the plays Cleopatre by Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou and Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare.
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Dalilah (bellydancer)
Dalilah also Delia Turina (born as Adelaida Angulo Agramunt), (7 July 1936–17 September 2001) was a Spanish oriental dancer.
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Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.
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Didem (belly dancer)
Didem Kınalı (born June 6, 1986) is a Turkish belly dancer, model and singer.
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Dina (belly dancer)
Dina Talaat Sayed Muhammad (دينا طلعت سيد محمد.; born March 27, 1965),; 1964) is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She was named as the "Last Egyptian Dancer" by the American magazine Newsweek. She has a master's degree in Philosophy.
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Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British Orientalist, translator and lexicographer.
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Egypt
Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.
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Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic, locally known as the Egyptian colloquial language or Masri, also spelled Masry, meaning simply "Egyptian", is spoken by most contemporary Egyptians.
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El clon
El Clon (The Clone) is a Spanish-language telenovela released in 2010, produced by the U.S.-based television network Telemundo, the Colombian network Caracol Television and the Brazilian network Globo.
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Fifi Abdou
Fifi Abdouu (فيفى عبده) (born Atiyat Abdul Fattah Ibrahim عطيات عبد الفتاح إبراهيم,; April 26, 1953) is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Flamenco
Flamenco, in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of Southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia.
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Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain (España franquista) or the Franco regime (Régimen de Franco), formally known as the Spanish State (Estado Español), is the period of Spanish history between 1939, when Francisco Franco took control of Spain after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War establishing a dictatorship, and 1975, when Franco died and Prince Juan Carlos was crowned King of Spain.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Ghawazi
The Ghawazi (also ghawazee) dancers of Egypt were a group of female traveling dancers of the Dom people (also known as Nawar).
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Giovanna Antonelli
Giovanna Antonelli Prado (born March 18, 1976) is a Brazilian actress, television host and producer.
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Glossary of belly dance terms
The following are the special concepts and terminology of belly dance.
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Goth subculture
The goth subculture is a music subculture that began in England during the early 1980s, where it developed from the audience of gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk genre.
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Gothic belly dance
Gothic belly dance, also named and separated in substyles as Gothic fusion belly dance, dark fusion belly dance and Gothic tribal fusion, is a recently founded dance art movement, distilled from the influences of Middle Eastern dance, tribal fusion, Goth subculture, and Neopaganism.
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.
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Haram
Haram (حَرَام) is an Arabic term meaning "forbidden".
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Harem
Harem (حريم ḥarīm, "a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family"), also known as zenana in South Asia, properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family and are inaccessible to adult males except for close relations.
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Hip hop
Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.
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Hispanophone
Hispanophone and Hispanosphere are terms used to refer to Spanish-language speakers and the Spanish-speaking world, respectively.
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Hoochie coochie
The hoochie coochie is a catch-all term to describe several sexually provocative belly dance-like dances.
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Hula hoop
A hula hoop is a toy hoop that is twirled around the waist, limbs or neck.
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Improvisational Tribal Style
Improvisational Tribal Style (ITS) belly dance, or ITS, is a combination-based form of Improvisational Tribal Fusion dance.
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Intolerance (film)
Intolerance is a 1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.
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Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
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James Bond in film
The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming.
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Juvenal
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.
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Karsilamas
Karsilamas (From karşılama, in Greek: καρσιλαμάς), is a folk dance spread all over Northwest Turkey and carried to Greece by Greek refugees.
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Köçek
The köçek (plural köçekler in Turkish) was typically a very handsome young male rakkas, or dancer, who usually cross-dressed in feminine attire, and was employed as an entertainer.
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Little Egypt (dancer)
Little Egypt was the stage name for at least three popular belly dancers.
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M'alayah
For the district in Bali see Melaya, Bali The M'alayah (Arabic: معلايه or معلاية / ALA-LC: ma‘alāyah) is a kind of dance common in Eastern Arabia, mostly in the countries of UAE and Oman.
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Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
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Mayte Garcia
Mayte Jannell Garcia (born November 12, 1973) is a dancer, actress and singer, known for her association with Prince and her work with artists including Britney Spears.
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Middle East
The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).
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Murilo Benício
Murilo Benício Ribeiro (born 13 July 1971) is a Brazilian actor.
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Music video
A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.
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Nadia Gamal
Nadia Gamal (نادية جمال) was an Egyptian dancer and actress.
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Nagwa Fouad
Nagwa Fouad (نجوى فؤاد, Arabic:; born 1936) is an Egyptian belly dancer.
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Naima Akef
Naima Akef (نعيمة عاكف,‎; 7 October 1929 – 23 April 1966) was a famous Egyptian belly dancer during the Egyptian cinema's golden age and starred in many films of the time.
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Nejla Ateş
Nejla Ateş (March 7, 1932 - died in Istanbul in 2005) was a Turkish belly dancer and actress, born in Constanța, Romania.
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Nelly Mazloum
Nelly Mazloum (9 June 1929 - 21 February 2003), an Egyptian of Italian and Greek origin, was an actress, choreographer, dancer, and teacher of ballet, modern dance, Egyptian folkloric dance, traditional oriental dance and the creator of the oriental dance technique.
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Nickelodeon (movie theater)
The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures.
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North India
North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India.
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O Clone
O Clone (Portuguese for The Clone) is a Brazilian telenovela that ran on the Rede Globo from 1 October 2001 to 14 June 2002, airing 221 episodes.
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Orientalism
Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures (Eastern world).
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.
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Oud
The oud (عود) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of instruments) with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used in Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi, Arabian, Jewish, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, North African (Chaabi, Classical, and Spanish Andalusian), Somali, and various other forms of Middle Eastern and North African music.
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Persian dance
Persian dance or Iranian dance (Persian:رقص ایرانی) refers to the dance styles indigenous to Iran.
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Phoenicia
Phoenicia (or; from the Φοινίκη, meaning "purple country") was a thalassocratic ancient Semitic civilization that originated in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the west of the Fertile Crescent.
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Qanun (instrument)
The kanun, ganoun or kanoon (qānūn;kanonaki; קָנוֹן, qanon; fa, qānūn; kanun; k’anon; qanun) is a string instrument played either solo, or more often as part of an ensemble, in much of the Middle East, Maghreb, West Africa, Central Asia, and southeastern regions of Europe.
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Rachel Brice
Rachel Brice is a contemporary performer in Tribal Fusion Style Belly Dance based in Portland, Oregon.
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Raqs sharqi
Raqs sharqi (رقص شرقي,; literally "oriental dancing") is the classical Egyptian style of belly dance that developed during the first half of the 20th century.
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Riq
The riq (رق) (also spelled riqq or rik) is a type of tambourine used as a traditional instrument in Arabic music.
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Romani people
The Romani (also spelled Romany), or Roma, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group, living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Sindh regions of modern-day India and Pakistan.
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Romani people in Spain
The Gypsies in Spain, generally known as gitanos, belong to the Iberian Kale group, with smaller populations in Portugal (known as ciganos) and in southern France.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St.
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Safinaz
Sofinar Grigoryan (Ծովինար Գուրյան), also known with her stage name Safinaz (صافيناز), is a Russian Armenian belly dancer famous in the Arab World, particularly in Egypt where she has appeared in several films since 2013.
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Salomé (1923 film)
Salomé is a 1923 silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova.
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Samia Gamal
Samia Gamal (سامية جمال, born as Zaynab Ibrahim Mahfuz, 5 March 1924 – 1 December 1994) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.
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Serena Wilson
Serena Wilson (August 8, 1933 – June 17, 2007), often known just as "Serena", was a well-known dancer, choreographer, and teacher who helped popularize belly dance in the United States.
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Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born 2 February 1977) is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and dancer.
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Shantae
Shantae is a series of platform video games developed by WayForward Technologies, with the first title having originally been distributed by Capcom.
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Sibel Can
Sibel Can (born 1 August 1970) is a Turkish folk pop and classical music singer.
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Sol Bloom
Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870 – March 7, 1949) was an American politician from New York who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago.
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Taheyya Kariokka
Taheyya Kariokka (تحية كاريوكا) also Tahiya Mohamed (born as: Badaweya Mohamed Kareem Al Nirani), (February 22, 1915 – September 20, 1999) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.
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Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of limited-run television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America.
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Terezka Drnzik
Terezka Drnzik is one of the matriarch figures in the Australian bellydancing community, having started the first dedicated bellydance studio in Sydney in 1989.
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The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
The Man with the Golden Gun is a 1974 British spy film, the ninth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
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The Sheik (film)
The Sheik is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by George Melford, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres, and featuring Adolphe Menjou.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
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Torso
The torso or trunk is an anatomical term for the central part of the many animal bodies (including that of the human) from which extend the neck and limbs.
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Tribal Fusion
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance is a modern Western form of belly dance which was created by fusing American Tribal Style belly dance and American Cabaret belly dance.
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Umayyad conquest of Hispania
The Umayyad conquest of Hispania was the initial expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate over Hispania, largely extending from 711 to 788.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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WayForward Technologies
WayForward Technologies, Inc. is an American independent video game developer and publisher based in Valencia, California.
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World's fair
A world's fair, world fair, world expo, universal exposition, or international exposition (sometimes expo or Expo for short) is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations.
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Zeinat Olwi
Zeinat Olwi (زينات علوي) whose stage name was Zurah, (1930-1988) was one of the leading belly dancers in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century.
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Zill
Zills, also zils, or finger cymbals, (from Turkish zil, "cymbals") are small metallic cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performances.
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Zoe Jakes
Zoe Jakes is a prominent belly dancer and founding member of the American experimental world fusion and electronic music group Beats Antique.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belly_dance
