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70 relations: A cappella, Alistair MacLeod, Arnie Patterson, Avro Canada, Bill Clifton, Bono, British Empire, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Cape Breton Island, Cheryl McKay, Coal dust, Coal mine bump, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Cumberland Railway and Coal Company, Damien Dempsey, Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation, Drägerman, Drägerwerk, Earthquake, Ewan MacColl, Georgia (U.S. state), Geothermal heating, Harcourt (publisher), Holt McDougal, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Jekyll Island, Le Vent du Nord, List of Governors of Georgia, Longwall mining, Luke Kelly, Manitoba, Marvin Griffin, Maurice Ruddick, McClelland & Stewart, Melissa Fay Greene, Moncton, Newport Folk Festival, Nova Scotia, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Ottawa, Pauline Scanlon, Peggy Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Pictou County, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Product placement, Queen Victoria, Racial segregation, Richard Brautigan, Robert Stanfield, ..., Room and pillar mining, Roots revival, Sandstone, Shale, Socalled, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Stratum, Suez Crisis, Tanglefoot (band), The Dubliners, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Joshua Tree Tour, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, The Vinyl Cafe, The Walt Disney Company, U2, U2 360° Tour, William Davis Miners' Memorial Day, 7 Up. Expand index (20 more) »
A cappella
A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.
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Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod, (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic.
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Arnie Patterson
Charles Arnold "Arnie" Patterson (2 July 1928 – 9 March 2011) was a Canadian journalist, public relations professional and broadcaster.
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Avro Canada
Avro Canada was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company.
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Bill Clifton
Bill Clifton (born William August Marburg on April 5, 1931) is an American bluegrass musician and singer who is credited with having organized one of the first bluegrass festivals in the United States in 1961.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson, KBE OL (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.
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Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (île du Cap-Breton—formerly Île Royale; Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Breatainn; Unama'kik; or simply Cape Breton, Cape is Latin for "headland" and Breton is Latin for "British") is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Cheryl McKay
Cheryl McKay is an American author and screenwriter, from Los Angeles, California.
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Coal dust
Coal dust is a fine powdered form of coal, which is created by the crushing, grinding, or pulverizing of coal.
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Coal mine bump
A coal mine bump (a bump, a mine bump, a mountain bump, or a rock burst) is a seismic jolt occurring within an underground mine due to the explosive collapse of one or more support pillars,.
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Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Cumberland County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Cumberland Railway and Coal Company
The Cumberland Railway and Coal Company is a defunct Canadian industrial company with interests in coal mines in Springhill, Nova Scotia, and a railway that operated from Springhill Junction to Parrsboro.
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Damien Dempsey
Damien Dempsey (born 1975 in Donaghmede, Dublin) is an Irish singer and songwriter who mixes traditional Irish folk with contemporary lyrics to deliver social commentary on the positive and negative aspects arising from Ireland's Celtic Tiger society. He sings in English, and to a lesser extent in Irish.
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Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation
The Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (also DOSCO) was a Canadian coal mining and steel manufacturing company.
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Drägerman
A Drägermen or Drägerwoman is a common name for a rescue worker in mines.
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Drägerwerk
Drägerwerk AG is a German company based in Lübeck which makes breathing and protection equipment, gas detection and analysis systems, and noninvasive patient monitoring technologies.
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Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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Ewan MacColl
James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was an English folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright and record producer born in Lancashire to Scottish parents.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Geothermal heating
Geothermal heating is the direct use of geothermal energy for heating some applications.
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Harcourt (publisher)
Harcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.
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Holt McDougal
Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in secondary schools.
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Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (1956-os forradalom or 1956-os felkelés), was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956.
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Jekyll Island
Jekyll Island is located off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County.
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Le Vent du Nord
Le Vent du Nord (The North Wind) is a Canadian folk music group from Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in Quebec.
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List of Governors of Georgia
The Governor of Georgia is the head of the executive branch of Georgia's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
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Longwall mining
Longwall mining is a form of underground coal mining where a long wall of coal is mined in a single slice (typically 0.6 – 1.0 m thick).
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Luke Kelly
Luke Kelly (17 November 1940 – 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.
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Marvin Griffin
Samuel Marvin Griffin, Sr. (September 4, 1907 – June 13, 1982) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Maurice Ruddick
Maurice A Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.
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McClelland & Stewart
McClelland & Stewart Limited is a Canadian publishing company.
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Melissa Fay Greene
Melissa Fay Greene (born December 30, 1952) is an American nonfiction author.
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Moncton
Moncton is the largest city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith.
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Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.
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Pauline Scanlon
Pauline Scanlon (born in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland) is a singer of contemporary and traditional Irish music.
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Peggy Seeger
Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American folksinger.
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Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.
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Pictou County
Pictou County is a county in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921) is the husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Product placement
Product placement, also known as embedded marketing, is a marketing technique in which references to specific brands or products are incorporated into another work, such as a film or television program, with specific promotional intent.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
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Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
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Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer.
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Robert Stanfield
Robert Lorne Stanfield, (April 11, 1914 – December 16, 2003) was the 17th Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
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Room and pillar mining
Room and pillar (variant of breast stoping), also called pillar and stall, is a mining system in which the mined material is extracted across a horizontal plane, creating horizontal arrays of rooms and pillars.
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Roots revival
A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Socalled
Joshua Dolgin, better known by his stage name Socalled, is a Canadian rapper and record producer, known for his eclectic mix of hip hop, klezmer, and other styles such as drum & bass and folk music.
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Springhill, Nova Scotia
Springhill is a community located in central Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.
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Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli War, also named the Tripartite Aggression (in the Arab world) and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War (in Israel),Also named: Suez Canal Crisis, Suez War, Suez–Sinai war, Suez Campaign, Sinai Campaign, Operation Musketeer (أزمة السويس /‎ العدوان الثلاثي, "Suez Crisis"/ "the Tripartite Aggression"; Crise du canal de Suez; מבצע קדש "Operation Kadesh", or מלחמת סיני, "Sinai War") was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France.
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Tanglefoot (band)
Tanglefoot was a folk band from Ontario, Canada.
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The Dubliners
The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners.
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The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.
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The Joshua Tree Tour
The Joshua Tree Tour was a concert tour by the Irish rock band U2, which took place during 1987, in support of their album The Joshua Tree.
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Alistair MacLeod.
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The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is Richard Brautigan's seventh poetry publication.
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The Vinyl Cafe
The Vinyl Cafe was an hour-long radio variety show hosted by Stuart McLean that was broadcast on CBC Radio and was syndicated to approximately 80 U.S. public radio stations through Public Radio International.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
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U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.
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U2 360° Tour
The U2 360° Tour was a worldwide concert tour by rock band U2.
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William Davis Miners' Memorial Day
Davis Day, also known as Miners' Memorial Day (and since November 25, 2008, officially as William Davis Miners' Memorial Day) is an annual day of remembrance observed on June 11 in coal mining communities in Nova Scotia, Canada to recognize all miners killed in the province's coal mines.
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7 Up
7 Up (stylized as 7up outside the U.S.) is a brand of lemon-lime-flavored non-caffeinated soft drink.
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