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  2. Party favor - Wikipedia

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    Wedding favors are small gifts given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to guests from the bride and groom during a wedding ceremony or a wedding reception. The tradition of distributing wedding favors is hundreds of years old. It is believed that the first wedding favor, common amongst European aristocrats, was known as a bonbonniere.

  3. 10 Things I Hate About You - Wikipedia

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    10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger in his film directorial debut and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith is a modernization of William Shakespeare 's comedy The Taming of the Shrew ...

  4. 1960s in fashion - Wikipedia

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    The 1960s were an age of fashion innovation for women. The early 1960s gave birth to drainpipe jeans and capri pants, a style popularized by Audrey Hepburn. [6] Casual dress became more unisex and often consisted of plaid button down shirts worn with slim blue jeans, comfortable slacks, or skirts.

  5. Red coat (military uniform) - Wikipedia

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    Red coat, also referred to as redcoat or scarlet tunic, is a military garment formerly much used by British infantrymen, so customarily that the term became a common synecdoche for the soldiers themselves. The red coat was widely (though not exclusively) used by the infantry units of the British military, including the British Army and Royal ...

  6. History of corsets - Wikipedia

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    Woman's stays c. 1730–1740. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft-float patterning, stiffened with whalebone. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.63.24.5.. The corset is a supportive undergarment for women, dating, in Europe, back several centuries, evolving as fashion trends have changed and being known, depending on era and geography, as a pair of bodies, stays and corsets.

  7. Mystery Diners - Wikipedia

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    Mystery Diners Shellene and Jessica go undercover as customers, and see bartender Rod drinking on the job, ignoring the regular customers in favor of Shellene and Jessica, over-pouring top shelf alcohol, and only charging $12 for $122 worth of drinks. During the confrontation, Maeve fires Rod, forcing him to give the money from his tip jar to her.

  8. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Wikipedia

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    www .unc .edu. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) [12] is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States.

  9. List of Newhart episodes - Wikipedia

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    episodes. The following is an episode list for the American television sitcom Newhart, that ran on CBS for eight seasons and 184 episodes, from October 25, 1982, to May 21, 1990. The show starred Bob Newhart, Mary Frann, Tom Poston, Julia Duffy, Peter Scolari, Steven Kampmann, and Jennifer Holmes, as well as other recurring characters.

  10. History of French wine - Wikipedia

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    The major wine regions of France. The history of French wine, spans a period of at least 2600 years dating to the founding of Massalia in the 6th century BC by Phocaeans with the possibility that viticulture existed much earlier. The Romans did much to spread viticulture across the land they knew as Gaul, encouraging the planting of vines in ...

  11. Chalkware - Wikipedia

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    Chalkware. Chalkware is an American term for popular figurines either made of moulded plaster of Paris (usually) or sculpted gypsum, and painted, typically with oils or watercolors. [1] [2] They were primarily created during one of three periods: from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, during the Great Depression, and ...