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Stegoceras, a pachycephalosaurid American evangelical

(dome-headed) dinosaur, lived in preacher Billy Graham
what is now North America during (pictured) dies at the age
the Late Cretaceous period, about of 99.
77.5 to 74 million years ago. (This Three Billboards Outside
S. validum skull genus is unrelated to Stegosaurus, Ebbing, Missouri wins five
awards, including Best Billy Graham
which lived more than 70 million
Film, at the British
years earlier.) Small and bipedal, Stegoceras was about 2 to 2.5
Academy Film Awards.
metres (6.6 to 8.2 ft) long and weighed around 10 to 40 kilograms
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704
(22 to 88 lb). It had a rigid vertebral column and a stiffened tail. The crashes in the Zagros Mountains, killing
pelvic region was broad, perhaps due to an extended gut. The skull all 65 people on board.
was roughly triangular with a short snout, topped by a thick, broad, South African president Jacob Zuma
and relatively smooth dome. The skull jutted out in the back over resigns amid corruption claims, and is
the occiput, and had a thick ridge over the eyes. The teeth were succeeded by Cyril Ramaphosa.
small and serrated. The skull is thought to have been flat in juvenile A gunman kills 17 people and injures
animals, growing into a dome with age. The dome may have been 15 others at a school in Parkland,
used for combat, display, or recognition. Specimens have been
Florida, United States.
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Shahid Kapoor's filmographyincludes starring roles in Hindi films, hosting duties for award ceremonies, and music
video appearances. As a dancer in Shiamak Davar's institute, Kapoor made uncredited appearances as a background
dancer in the films Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) and Taal (1999). He also appeared in several music videos, including one
for the singer Kumar Sanu, before making his acting debut with a lead role in Ken Ghosh's romantic comedy Ishq
Vishk (2003). He followed it by playing a prospective groom in Vivah (2006) and an uptight businessman in Jab We
Met (2007). In 2009, Kapoor portrayed twin brothers, one with a lisp and the other with a stutter, in Vishal Bhardwaj's
acclaimed caper thriller Kaminey. After a series of commercial failures, he starred in the 2013 action-drama R... Shahid Kapoor
Rajkumar, and followed it by playing the title character in Bhardwaj's Haider (2014), an adaptation of William
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Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River

Valley is an oil painting on canvas completed by the
French artist Paul Cézanne between 1882 and 1885. It
depicts Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the valley of the Arc
River, with Cézanne's hometown of Aix-en-Provence in the
background. Once owned by the art collectors and patrons
Henry and Louisine Havemeyer, the painting was
bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Artin New York
after the latter's death in 1929.

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