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Abu Simbel
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Agra
Agra (; , {{lang-ur|) is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India. With a population of 1,686,976 (2010 est.), it is one of the most populous cities in Uttar Pradesh and the 19th most populous in India. Agra can also refer to the administrative district that has its headquarters in Agra city.
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Alhambra, California
Alhambra ( or despite its Spanish pronunciation of ) is a city (incorporated on 11 July 1903) located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, which is approximately eight miles from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 85,804. The city's ZIP Codes are 91801 and 91803 (plus 91802 for P.O. boxes).
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (; Dutch ) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, with an urban population of 1,364,422 and a metropolitan population of 2,158,372. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe, with a population of approximately 6.7 million.
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Angkor Wat
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Antarctica
Antarctica
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Antseranana
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Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
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Atlanta
Atlanta (, ) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. Atlanta had an estimated population of about 540,900 people. Its metropolitan area is the ninth largest in the country, inhabited by more than 5.4 million people. The Atlanta Combined Statistical Area has a population approaching six million, making it the most populous metropolis in the Southeastern United States. Like many areas in the Sun Belt, the Atlanta region has seen explosive growth since about 1976, and it added about 1.1 million residents between 2000 and 2008.
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Auckland
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Auki
Auki is the provincial capital of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. It is situated on the northern end of Langalanga Lagoon on the north-west coast of Malaita Island. There are daily flights between the Solomons capital of Honiara (on Guadalcanal Island) and Auki. There are also regular shipping services between Honiara and Auki.
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Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the fifteenth most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. Austin has a population of 786,382 (2009 U.S. Census estimate). The city is the cultural and economic center of the metropolitan area, with a population of 1,750,224 (2009 U.S. Census estimate), making it the 35th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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Australia
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Bandar Seri Begawan
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Bangkok
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Beijing
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Belize
Belize () (formerly British Honduras), is a democratic constitutional monarchy, and the northernmost Central American nation. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Although Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official language. Belize is bordered by Mexico to its north, by Guatemala to its south and west, and by the Caribbean Sea to the east.
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Berlin
Berlin (; ) is the capital city of Germany and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Area, comprising 5 million people from over 190 nations. Geographically embedded in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's territory is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.
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Bhutan
The Kingdom of Bhutan () (Dzongkha: ; Wylie: '' 'drug yul; Tibetan pinyin: ''), is a small landlocked country in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China . Bhutan is separated from the nearby state of Nepal to the west by the Indian state of Sikkim, and from Bangladesh to the south by West Bengal.
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Bolivia
Bolivia (), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, (, ) is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, and Chile and Peru to the west.
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Boston
Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. Boston city proper had a 2009 estimated population of 645,169, making it the twentieth largest in the country. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
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Botswana
The Republic of Botswana () is a sub Saharan country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" (singular: Motswana). Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966. It has held free and fair democratic elections since independence.
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Boulders Beach
Boulders Beach is a sheltered beach made up of inlets between granite boulders, from which the name originated. It is located in the Cape Peninsula, near Simon's Town towards Cape Point, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is also commonly known as Boulders Bay.
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Brazil
Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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Brisbane
Brisbane () is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has an approximate population of 2 million. A resident of Brisbane is commonly known as a "Brisbanite".
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Brisbane, Australia
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British Columbia
British Columbia (B.C.) (, C.-B.) is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ("Splendour without Diminishment"). Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858. In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.
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Brunei
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Brussels
Brussels (, pronounced ; , pronounced ), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (, Dutch: ), is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in Belgium. It comprises 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels proper, which is the constitutional capital of Belgium, the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
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Buenos Aires
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Cambodia
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (, Dutch: , ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (; ) is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the largest in land area, forming part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. It is the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape, as well as the legislative capital of South Africa, where the National Parliament and many government offices are located. The city is famous for its harbour as well as its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom, including such well-known landmarks as Table Mountain and Cape Point.It is hailed as one of the most beautiful cities in the world as officially recognised by Forbes. National Geographic has also enlisted Cape Town as one of the most iconic cities on the planet and "Places of a Lifetime". Cape Town is also Africa's most popular tourist destination.
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Cape Town Stadium
The Cape Town Stadium (; ) in Cape Town, South Africa is a newly built stadium that was used for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. During the planning stage it was known as the Green Point Stadium, which was the name of the previous stadium on the site, and this name was also used frequently during World Cup media coverage.
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Chicago
Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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Chile
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Christmas Island
The Territory of Christmas Island is a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ENE of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
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Chuuk
Chuuk — formerly Truk, Ruk, Hogoleu, Torres, Ugulat, and Lugulus — is an island group in the south western part of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), along with Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. Chuuk is the most populous of the FSM's states. Geographically, Chuuk is also part of the larger Caroline Islands group. Chuuk means mountain in the Chuukese language and was known mainly as Truk (a mispronunciation of Ruk), until 1990.
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Czech Republic
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Delhi
Delhi, known locally as Dilli (, , {{Lang-ur| '), and by the official name National Capital Territory of Delhi''' (NCT), is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest metropolis by population in India. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with more than 12.25 million inhabitants in the territory and with nearly 22.2 million residents in the National Capital Region urban area (which also includes Noida, Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad). The name Delhi is often also used to include some urban areas near the NCT, as well as to refer to New Delhi, the capital of India, which lies within the metropolis. The NCT is a federally administered union territory.
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Dubai
Dubai ( ; ) is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature.
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Dublin
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Easter Island
Easter Island (, ) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile annexed in 1888, Easter Island is widely famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai (), created by the early Rapanui people. It is a World Heritage Site (as determined by UNESCO) with much of the island protected within the Rapa Nui National Park. In recent times the island has served as a cautionary tale about the cultural and environmental dangers of overexploitation. Ethnographers and archaeologists now argue that the introduction of diseases carried by European colonizers and the slave raiding that devastated the population in the 1860s had a much greater social than environmental impact.
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Ecuador
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Egypt
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Ephesus
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Fiji
Fiji (; ), officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands (; ), is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 2000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its more immediate neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north. Fiji has had inhabitants since the second millennium B.C. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch and the British explored Fiji.Fiji was a British colony up until 1970; British occupation lasted almost a century. Because of the abundance of forest, mineral, and fish resources, Fiji is one of the most developed economies in the Pacific island realm. Today, the main sources of foreign exchange are its tourist industry and sugar exports. The country's currency is the Fijian dollar.
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Florida
Florida () is a state of the United States. It is located in the Southeastern United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. Much of the state's land mass is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean to the south. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European colonization.
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France
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia () is a state located in the southeastern United States. Georgia was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 21, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15, 1870 and the only among the 13 that is explicitly named after a monarch; King George II of England.
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Guam
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Guatemala
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Gurgaon
Gurgaon () is the sixth largest city in the Indian state of Haryana. Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of Haryana. An important town in ancient Hindu mythology, Gurgaon is one of Delhi's four major satellite cities and is part of the National Capital Region of India. According to a survey by Business Today magazine, Gurgaon is considered the best city in India to work and live in.
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Hanoi
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Hoedspruit
Hoedspruit (Afrikaans for Hat Creek) is a town situated at the foot of the Klein Drakensberg ('Small Dragon Mountains' range), in the Limpopo province of South Africa on the railway line from Tzaneen to Kaapmuiden.
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Hout Bay
Hout Bay (, from the Dutch for "Wood Bay") is the name of a coastal suburb of Cape Town, South Africa with a mix of neighbourhoods from the very rich to the very poor. It lies in a valley on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Cape Peninsula and is twenty kilometres south of the Central Business District of Cape Town. The name Hout Bay can refer to the town, or the bay on which it is situated, or the whole valley.
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Iceland
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Illinois
Illinois ( {{respell|-i-), is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. It is the most populous state in the Midwest region, however with 65% of its residents concentrated in the Chicago metropolitan area, most of the state has either a rural or a small town character. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and western Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is an important transportation hub; the Port of Chicago connects the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River via the Illinois River. As the "most average state", Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics, though the latter has not really been true since the early 1970s.
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Impenetrable Forest
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Israel
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Istanbul
Istanbul (), historically known as Constantinople(See Names of Istanbul for further information) is the largest city in Turkey and 5th largest city proper in the world with a population of 12.8 million, also making it the second largest metropolitan area in Europe by population, and the largest metropolitan city proper. Istanbul is also a megacity, as well as the cultural, economic, and financial centre of Turkey. The city covers 39 districts of the Istanbul province. It is located on the Bosphorus Strait and encompasses the natural harbour known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country. It extends both on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) sides of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world that is situated on two continents. Istanbul is a designated alpha world city.
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Italy
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Japan
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Johannesburg
Johannesburg (, ) also known as Jozi, '''Jo'burg or eGoli''', is the largest city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa.. The city is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world, and is also the world's largest city not situated on a river, lake, or coastline.
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Jordan
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Kenya
The Republic of Kenya (pronounced ) is a country in East Africa. Lying along the Indian Ocean to its southeast and at the equator, Kenya is bordered by Somalia to the northeast, Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west and Tanzania to the south. Lake Victoria is to the southwest and is shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Kenya has numerous wildlife reserves, containing thousands of animal species. The capital city is Nairobi. Kenya's area is 580,000 km2 with a population of nearly 39 million which is diverse: more than 40 different ethnic groups are present. The country is named after Mount Kenya, a significant landmark and second among Africa's highest mountain peaks.
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Kuwait
The State of Kuwait (, Dawlat al-Kuwayt) is a sovereign Arab nation situated in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, and Iraq to the north. It lies on the northwestern shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the Arabic "akwat", the plural of "kout", meaning fortress built near water. The emirate covers an area of 17,820 square kilometres (6,880 sq mi) and has a population of about 2.7 million.
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Kuwait City
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Laos
Laos (, , or ), officially the '''Lao People's Democratic Republic''', is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west.
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Lisse
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Luang Prabang
Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang (Lao: , literally: "Royal Buddha Image (in the Dispelling Fear mudra)," pronounced ), is a city located in north central Laos, where the Nam Khan river meets the Mekong River about 425 km north of Vientiane. It is the capital of Luang Prabang Province. The current population of the city is about 103,000.
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Machu Picchu
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Madagascar
Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic, French: ), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth-largest island in the world.
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Madrid
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Mali
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Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts () is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of 6.6 million lives in the Boston metropolitan area. The eastern half of the state consists of urban, suburban, and rural areas, while Western Massachusetts is mostly rural. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England states and ranks third among U.S. states in GDP per capita.
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Melbourne
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Mexico City
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Miami
Miami ( or ) is a major city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida, and the eighth-most populous county in the United States, with a population of 2,500,625. The 42nd largest city in the United States, with a population of 433,136, it is the principal, central and most populous city of the South Florida metropolitan area. According to United Nations estimates, the Miami Urbanized Area was the fifth most populous urbanized area in the U.S. in 2000 with a population of 4,919,036, but in 2008 that number increased to 5,232,342, making it the fourth-largest urbanized area in the United States, behind New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
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Mongolia
Mongolia (; ) is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to about 38% of the population. Mongolia's political system is a parliamentary republic.
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Monte Alban
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Montreal
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Morocco
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Moscow
Moscow ( or ; ; see also ) is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a global city. Moscow is the most populous city on the continent of Europe and the seventh largest city proper in the world, a megacity. The population of Moscow (as of 1 January 2010) is 10,563,038.
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Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay () is a town with 150,000 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It lies on the southern coast of South Africa, east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of Knysna on the Indian Ocean coast and is part of the Garden Route.
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Mpumalanga
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Mumbai
Mumbai (; , ', ), previously known as Bombay' (), is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the second most populous city in the world, with a population of approximately 14 million. The official language of Mumbai is Marathi. But many other languages are also widely used, particularly the Mumbaiian Hindi''. Along with the neighbouring urban areas, including the cities of Navi Mumbai and Thane, it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world. Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. As of 2009, Mumbai was named an Alpha world city. Mumbai is also the richest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South or Central Asia.
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Mutianyu
Mutianyu () is a section of the Great Wall of China located in Huairou County 70km northeast of Beijing. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is connected with Jiankou in the west and Lianhuachi in the east. As one of the best-preserved parts of the Great Wall, the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall used to serve as the northern barrier defending the capital and the imperial tombs.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (, ), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990 following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, ) is an Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
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Neko Harbour
Neko Harbor is an inlet on the Antarctic Peninsula on Andvord Bay, situated on the west coast of Graham Land. Neko Harbor was discovered by Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache in the early 20th century. It was named for a Norwegian whaling boat, the Neko, which operated in the area between 1911 and 1924.
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Nelspruit
Nelspruit () or Mbombela (see name situation below) is a city of 221,474 people (2000) situated in northeastern South Africa. It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province (formerly Eastern Transvaal). Located on the Crocodile River, Nelspruit lies about 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of the Mozambique border and 330 kilometres (205 miles) east of Johannesburg. The townships of Nelspruit are Kanyamazane and Matsulu which are tens of kilometres east of Nelspruit. There are many orange farms in the area around Nelspruit. It is a key manufacturing and agricultural hub for northeastern South Africa. Major industries include the canning of citrus fruit, paper production, furniture manufacture and timbermills. Fertile soils and subtropical climate provide perfect conditions for the growing of citrus and tropical fruits, mainly mango, banana, avocado and Macadamia nuts.
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Netherlands
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Nevada
Nevada is a state located in the western and southwestern region of the United States. Nevada is also part of the Mountain States. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas. The state's nickname is Silver State, due to the large number of silver deposits that were discovered and mined there. "Sagebrush State" and "Battle Born State" are its alternative nicknames. In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state to enter the union, and the phrase "Battle Born" on the state flag reflects the state's entry on the Union side during the American Civil War. Its first nonnative settlement was called Mormon Station.
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New Mexico
New Mexico() is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also part of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth- most sparsely inhabited U.S. state.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW), Australia's most populous state, is located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland, east of South Australia and encompasses the whole of the Australian Capital Territory. The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the Australian mainland, as well as Van Diemen's Land, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island in addition to the area currently referred to as the state of New South Wales, which was formed during Federation in 1901.
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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New Zealand
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North Korea
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK Census, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom.
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Norway
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Ontario
Ontario is a Province of Canada located in the east-central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area, (Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are larger in area, but they are not provinces.) The province's largest metropolitan area and Canada's most populous city, Toronto, is the capital city of Ontario. The national capital of Canada, Ottawa, is located in Ontario as well.
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Palau
Palau , officially the Republic of Palau (), is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) south of Tokyo. Having emerged from United Nations trusteeship (administered by the United States) in 1994, it is one of the world's youngest and smallest sovereign states. In English, the name is sometimes spelled Belau in accordance with the native pronunciation. It was formerly also spelled Pelew.
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Panama
Panama (), officially the Republic of Panama (; ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The capital is Panama City.
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, annual traffic has risen from about 1,000 ships in the canal's early days to 14,702 vessels in 2008, measuring a total 309.6 million Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System (PC/UMS) tons.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea ( , also or ; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini) (PNG), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is a part of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua). It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in a region defined since the early 19th century as Melanesia. The capital is Port Moresby.
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Paro, Bhutan
Paro (, Wylie: spa ro) is a town and seat of Paro District in the Paro Valley of Bhutan.
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Philippines
The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Portugal
Portugal (, ), officially the Portuguese Republic (; ), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are also part of Portugal.
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Praça do Comércio
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Quebec
Quebec or ( ) is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level.
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Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia that occupies the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. The state is Australia's second largest by area, following Western Australia, and the country's third most populous after New South Wales and Victoria.
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (, , , ), described as the Republic of Ireland (), is a state in northwest Europe with a population of almost 4.5 million people. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional republic occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned into two jurisdictions in 1921. It is bordered to the northeast by Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom, and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Sea to the east, St George's Channel to the southeast, and the Celtic Sea to the south.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ("River of January", ; ), commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, 6th largest in the Americas and 26th in the world.
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Rock Islands
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Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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Rwanda
The Republic of Rwanda (, , or in English, or in Kinyarwanda) is a unitary republic of central and eastern Africa. It borders Uganda to the north; Tanzania to the east; Burundi to the south; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Rwanda is landlocked but is noted for its lakes, particularly Lake Kivu, which occupies the floor of the Rift Valley along most of the country's western border. Although close to the equator, the country has a temperate climate due to its high elevation, with the highest point being Mount Karisimbi. The terrain consists of mountains and gently rolling hills, with plains and swamps in the east. Abundant wildlife, including rare mountain gorillas, have led to a fast-growing tourism sector. The largest cities in Rwanda are Kigali, Gitarama, and Butare. Unlike many African countries, Rwanda is home to only one significant ethnic and linguistic group, the Banyarwanda. The country is well known for its native styles of dance, particularly the Intore dance, and for its drummers. Kinyarwanda, English and French are the official languages.
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Salar de Uyuni
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San Francisco
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Sana'a
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Sandton
Sandton is a wealthy area situated within the metro of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. The name comes from the combination of two of its suburbs, Sandown and Bryanston, both of which were named after places in the United Kingdom. In 1969 Sandton was promulgated as a municipality in its own right, but lost its status as an independent town after the re-organisation of South African local governments.
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Seattle
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Seattle, Washington
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Seljalandsfoss
Seljalandsfoss is one of the most famous waterfalls of Iceland. It is very picturesque and therefore its photo can be found in many books and calendars. It was a waypoint during the first leg of The Amazing Race 6.
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Seoul
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Siberia
Siberia ( ), is a vast region, constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union (USSR) from its beginning, as the preceding Russian Empire conquered it in the 16th century.
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Singapore
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Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands ) is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of 28,400 square kilometres (10,965 sq mi). The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal. The nation of the Solomon Islands is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK, , ) and sometimes referred to simply as Korea, is a state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population of .
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Soweto
Soweto is an urban area of the city of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name, an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships, refers to its origins as a Black township under South Africa's Apartheid government. The population has historically been overwhelmingly Black and some of the watershed events in the struggle against Apartheid occurred in the township.
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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Stockholm
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Sydney
Sydney () is the largest and most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. With an approximate population of 4.5 million in the Sydney metropolitan area the city is the largest in Oceania. Inhabitants of Sydney are called Sydneysiders, comprising a cosmopolitan and international population of people from numerous places around the world.
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Sükhbaatar (city)
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Tagaytay
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Taipei
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Taiwan
Taiwan, also known (especially in the past) as Formosa (from , "Beautiful Island"), is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It comprises most (99%) of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" is also a common name to refer to the entire country of the Republic of China.
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Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania (; phonetical: tan-zann-ei-a; or sometimes tan-zanneia; ) is a country in central East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.
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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew: , lit. "Spring Hill"-Jaffa; , ''Tall 'Abib''), usually referred to as Tel Aviv, is the second-largest city in Israel, with an estimated population of 393,900. The city is situated on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline, with a land area of . It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, home to 3.2 million people as of 2008. The city is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality, headed by Ron Huldai. Residents of Tel Aviv are called Tel Avivians.
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Teotihuacán
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Texas
Texas () is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.
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Thailand
Thailand ( or ; Ratcha Anachak Thai, ), formerly Siam (, ), is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
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Thimphu
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Tikal
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Timbuktu
Timbuktu (Timbuctoo) (Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; ) is a city in Tombouctou Region, in the West African nation of Mali. It was made prosperous by the tenth mansa of the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa. It is home to Sankore University and other madrasas, and was an intellectual and spiritual capital and centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahya, recall Timbuktu's golden age. Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification.
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Tokyo
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Tonga
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Tongatapu
Tongatapu is the main island of the Kingdom of Tonga and the location of its capital Nukualofa. It is located in Tonga's southern island group, to which it gives its name, and is the country's most populous island, with approximately 71,260 residents (2006), 70.5% of the national population. Tongatapu is Tonga's centre of government and the seat of its monarchy.
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Toronto
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Tsavo
Tsavo is a region of Kenya located at the crossing of the Uganda Railway over the Tsavo River, close to where it meets the Athi River. It is a KiKamba word meaning "a place of slaughter", a reference to the murderous attacks of Maasai morani on Kamba people there. Until the British put an end to the slave trade in the 19th century, Tsavo was continually crossed by caravans of Arab slavers and their captives. Many of the victims dropped dead by the way and were eaten by lions. In this manner, some lions of Tsavo acquired a taste for human flesh. This might have contributed to the attacks by the two infamous Tsavo maneaters.
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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Uganda
The Republic of Uganda ( or ) is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, which is also bordered by Kenya and Tanzania.
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United Arab Emirates
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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USA
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Vancouver
Vancouver () is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s. The name Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch "van Coevorden", denoting somebody from Coevorden, a city in the Netherlands.
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Vava'u
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Venice
Venice ( , Venetian: Venesia) is a city in northern Italy known both for tourism and for industry, and is the capital of the region Veneto, with a population of about 272,000 (census estimate 1 January 2004). Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area (population 1,600,000).
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Very Large Array
The Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Augustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, some fifty miles (80 km) west of Socorro, New Mexico, USA. U.S. Route 60 passes through the complex, which is adjacent to the Boy Scout Double H High Adventure Base. The VLA stands at an elevation of 6970 ft (2124 m) above sea level. It is a component of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north, South Australia to the west, and Tasmania to the south, across Bass Strait. Victoria is the most densely populated state, and has a highly centralised population, with almost 75% of Victorians living in Melbourne, the state capital and largest city. Approximately 30,000 Indigenous Australians are estimated to have lived in the area, before European settlement in Victoria began in the 1830s. The discovery of gold in 1851 at Ballarat and Warrandyte transformed it into a leading industrial and commercial centre.
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Vietnam
Vietnam ( ; , ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (, ), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China (PRC) to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea, referred to as East Sea (), to the east. With a population of over 86 million, Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world.
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Wadi Rum
Wadi Rum () also known as The Valley of the Moon () is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in south Jordan at 60 km to the east of Aqaba. It is the largest wadi in Jordan. The name Rum most likely comes from an Aramaic root meaning 'high' or 'elevated'. To reflect its proper Arabic pronunciation, archaeologists transcribe it as Wadi Ramm. The highest elevation in Wadi rum is Mount Um Dami at more than 1800m above sea level.
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Warsaw
Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2009 was estimated at 1,711,466, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000. The city area is , with an agglomeration of (Warsaw Metro Area Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy). Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.
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Washington (state)
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. (), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the federal territory until an act of Congress in 1871 established a single, unified municipal government for the whole District. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, which is located on the country's Pacific coast.
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West Bank
The West Bank (, , , ''HaGadah HaMa'aravit'') is a landlocked territory and is the eastern part of the Palestinian territories; on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the country of Jordan. The West Bank also contains a significant coastline along the western bank of the Dead Sea. Since 1967, most of the West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation as what it calls the Judea and Samaria Area. A smaller part of the West Bank is administered by the Israeli civilian authorities as part of Jerusalem District.
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Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. Australia's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.2 million inhabitants (10% of the national total), 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.
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Wilton, Connecticut
Wilton is a town nestled in the Norwalk River Valley in western Connecticut and is located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 17,633. In 2007, it was voted as one of CNN Money's "Best Places to Live" in the United States.
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Yangon
Yangon (, ; also known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") is a former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the capital of Yangon Region (formerly Yangon Division). Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial center.
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Yemen
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Zambia
The Republic of Zambia () is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. The capital city is Lusaka, located in the south-central part of the country. The population is concentrated mainly around the Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt to the northwest.
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Zanzibar
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Matt Pritchett
Matthew Pritchett MBE (born July 14th 1964) has been the pocket cartoonist on the Daily Telegraph newspaper since 1988.
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Patrick Matt
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De Matt, Matt Filmography
- The Highly Observant Bill White (2011)
- Junction (2011)
- Junction (2011)
- Funny Money (2006)
- Other Voices (2000)
- Hot Ice (2000)
- Marquis de Slime (1997)
- Lowball (1996)
- Léon (1994)
- Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Mattli Filmography
- The Queen's Guards (1961)
- The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952)
- Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
- The Upturned Glass (1947)
Matt Filmography
- Oh No! There's a Negro in My Wife! 3 (2009)
- Mandinka Parties 2 (2008)
- Oh No! There's a Negro in My Mom! 2 (2008)
- Oh No! There's a Negro in My Wife! 2 (2008)
karaoke
(And now, for my next number, I'd like to return to the classics)
This time when I feel myself open up
Even though I don't want to
And one side of me says kill her
But that just won't do
So I say we're through
So I say we're...
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
(I DON'T KNOW WHY)
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
(I DON'T KNOW WHY)
I think it's time to pack your things let's go
To a place where we both know
And don't worry, I'll drive real slow
Spend some time before we go
Spend some time before we go
So I way we're...
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
(I DON'T KNOW WHY)
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
(I DON'T KNOW WHY)
Get up in your face with a sickness a quickness
Dialect I inject, will we be up tongue kissing all night
To make you feel right
So I say we're through
It doesn't sink in to you, oh please don't make me hate you
But that just won't do, so I say we're through
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
(I DON'T KNOW WHY)
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
Stop and stare what the fuck you don't know me
(I DON'T KNOW WHY)
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Soriane Houston 2004
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- Ultime round
- Miss
- Hit box
- Hotel Motel (feat. Sat)
- Le Front
- Nous contre eux (feat. Dadoo)
- Muse
- Wicked (feat. Kulu Ganja)
- Dance Soul
- Chabine
- Block V.I.P. (feat. Skalde Blase)
- Sans titre
- Piégé
- Paparazzi
- Temps mort
- Music
- Absorbe mes pensées
- Lâche-moi
- L'Œuvre de Dieu
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- Aftershow
- Dans la peau d'un dealer
- R&B; 2 rue
- J'croyais en toi
- West Indies
- Là d'où tu es
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- On dit quoi ?
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- Dans la peau d'un bandit
- 12/0013
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- Sinon !!?
- Ce que je suis
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Where the Hell is Matt? 2008
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14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me.
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Where the Hell is Matt? 2012
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Put # and then your city and country at the end of your comment so I know where you're from. #Seattle, Washington Wanna dance with me in in your town? Like this page for Facebook updates: tinyurl.com "Trip the Light" on iTunes: tinyurl.com Download the video to your device, buy the shirt and stuff like that: store.wherethehellismatt.com Vocals by Alicia Lemke: www.alicialemke.com Lyrics www.wherethehellismatt.com The dancers in Syria are blurred for their safety. I got into North Korea with Koryo Tours. It's not difficult or dangerous. This video was made without a sponsor. You don't have to buy anything. Just remember we need to take care of each other.
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Where the Hell is Matt? 2006
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I had a great time making this. Hope you enjoy it. www.wherethehellismatt.com www.STRIDEgum.com
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Where the Hell is Matt? 2005
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Here's the original. Made in 2003 and 2004. Posted in 2005.
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Matt Cardle sings Just The Way You Are - The X Factor Live show 2 - itv.com/xfactor
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The X Factor 2010: Matt had loads of fun last week, feeling at home on the stage. This week, he's got to hit a really high note in his song. If it goes wrong, it could be the difference between staying and going. Will Matt make the note? Download this performance from iTunes! Click here: bit.ly See more at itv.com
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Matt Cardle sings The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face) - The X Factor Live show 5 - itv.com/xfactor
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The X Factor 2010: Matt had a tough week last week after some worrying comments. However, Matt's not defeated - he feels he's fought his way here and is going to try his best to stay! With a song he's passionate about - can Matt do himself proud? Click here: bit.ly See more at itv.com
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Matt Cardle's X Factor bootcamp challenge (Full Version) - itv.com/xfactor
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The X Factor 2010: 27-year-old Matt has decided to take a risk with his final performance at bootcamp, opting for a girls song! Having checked with the others, he's the only one doing it, so could this be the end of the road for him, or his chance to shine? See more at itv.com
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Matt Houston Ft P-Square - POSITIF- Officiel
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- Updated: 13 Nov 2012
Matt Houston , Découvre le Nouveau Clip "Le Bagne" Ici !!! www.youtube.com Album RACINES Disponible sur ITUNES ICI : itunes.apple.com POSITIF enfin disponible sur ITUNES Cliquer ici pour acheter le titre : itunes.apple.com Music video by Matt Houston performing Positif (feat. P. Square). Directed by OP (P) 2012 On The Track under exclusive licence to Play On © On The Track 2012 Positif ft P-Square Produit par Oniryk Production Follow Twitter @Matthouston971 Follow Facebook www.facebook.com/matthouston971
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Where the Hell are Matt's 2006 Outtakes
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Here's some stuff that didn't make it into the last video.
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Matt Cardle - Amazing
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- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
The 'Amazing' EP is out now, buy it from iTunes UK: bit.ly Music video by Matt Cardle performing Amazing. (c) 2011 Simco Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
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MATT AND KIM - "DAYLIGHT" (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
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Directed by Micah Perta www.mattandkimmusic.com GRAND available now iTunes itunes.apple.com
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Where the Hell are Matt's 2012 Outtakes
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These are outtakes from the 2012 video, which is here: youtu.be Download the videos, buy the shirt and stuff like that: store.wherethehellismatt.com "Dance Outtakes Song" on iTunes: itunes.apple.com Music Composed by Garry Schyman Lyrics: La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la (x7)
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matt houston rnb de rue
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matheo
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MATT AND KIM - "LESSONS LEARNED" (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
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Brooklyn's Matt & Kim strip down in New York City's Time Square Directed by Taylor Cohen and Otto Arsenault. (www.FVMMO.com) Cinematography by Ben Wolf. VFX by Steve Ilous. Copyright FADER Label 2009 GRAND available now iTunes itunes.apple.com
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FOR MATT
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FOR MATT -D-BOY, LIL MAYNE, YOUNG MEX (SYB. DISS) CITY OF HOUSTONE RECORDS COMPOUND FILMS HOUSTON TX
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Daylight- Matt and Kim (w/lyrics)
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I DO NOT CLAIM THE RIGHTS TO THIS SONG. This song is daylight. By Matt and Kim. Enjoy. *_*
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(Official-Full) Mi Amor Music Video - Matt Hunter
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- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
This is for you HUNTERS. All of you are.....MI AMOR.
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How the Hell Did Matt Get People to Dance With Him?
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- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
I was invited to give an Ignite Talk at Gnomedex in Seattle on August 22nd, 2008. I decided to explain how we got people to come out and dance in the 2008 video.
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Matt's Revenge: No, NO. NO! Scare Prank - (Printer through window)
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- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Video of why Matt did this revenge: www.youtube.com Another great prank gone wrong: www.youtube.com Best comment I've read thus far: "In Soviet Russia, printer crashes windows!" ...never thought I'd ever hear a "in Soviet Russia" joke that actually works.
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Friday by Rebecca Black - Cover by Matt Mulholland
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- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
The dark side of Friday... FACEBOOK: tiny.cc TWITTER: tiny.cc SECOND CHANNEL: tiny.cc WEBSITE: mattmulholland.com ***BUY THIS SONG ON MY NEW REMASTERED COVERS ALBUM!*** - http
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Disavow links
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- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
Matt Cutts explains the "Disavow links" feature of Google Webmaster Tools. Learn more about how to use the disavow links feature on our blog and in our Help Center: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com support.google.com Access the feature here: www.google.com More webmaster resources: www.google.com
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Matt Kennon, "The Call" - OFFICIAL VIDEO
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- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Visit itunes.apple.com to purchase the new cd "77"! Video for my single that is blowing up phone-lines all over the country. I'm so appreciative of all the support for this song and video so far - I really believe it can change lives.
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Matthew West - Forgiveness (Lyrics)
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Full album on Itunes: smarturl.it Forgiveness (single): itunes.apple.com It's the hardest thing to give away And the last thing on your mind today It always goes to those that don't deserve It's the opposite of how you feel When the pain they caused is just too real It takes everything you have to say the word... Forgiveness Forgiveness It flies in the face of all your pride It moves away the mad inside It's always anger's own worst enemy Even when the jury and the judge Say you gotta right to hold a grudge It's the whisper in your ear saying 'set it free' Forgiveness, Forgiveness Forgiveness, Forgiveness Show me how to love the unlovable Show me how to reach the unreachable Help me now to do the impossible Forgiveness, Forgiveness Help me now to do the impossible Forgiveness It'll clear the bitterness away It can even set a prisoner free There is no end to what its power can do So let it go and be amazed By what you see through eyes of grace The prisoner that it really frees is you Forgiveness, Forgiveness Forgiveness, Forgiveness Show me how to love the unlovable Show me how to reach the unreachable Help me now to do the impossible Forgiveness I want to finally set it free So show me how to see what Your mercy sees Help me now to give what You gave to me Forgiveness, Forgiveness Forgiveness, Forgiveness Forgiveness
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NATO is ready to help member state Turkey as the 20-month conflict in Syria is increasingly spilling across the border, the alliance's chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. "Turkey can rely on NATO...
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10 Nov 2012
DOHA, Qatar -- Syriaâs biggest political opposition bloc Friday elected a Christian, George Sabra, as president, a move Sabra said showed that the Muslim-majority nation will not allow its national...
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11 Nov 2012
KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistan hopes to persuade Afghan insurgent groups, including the lethal Haqqani network, to pursue peace but worries resistance from political factions opposed to the Taliban could...
Kansas City Star
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Jennings keys fourth-quarter Bucks rally
13 Nov 2012
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Philadelphia - Brandon Jennings showed up at the arena three hours early Monday night, determined to make up for his poor showing in the Milwaukee Bucks' home loss to Boston on Saturday. The point guard's extra work paid off in a sterling performance as he scored 33 points to help lift the Bucks to...(size: 63.7Kb)
Steelers, Chiefs tied at 10 after three
13 Nov 2012
Palm Beach Post
Ben Roethlisberger left Monday night's game with a right shoulder injury, and the Pittsburgh Steelers were tied with the Kansas City Chiefs 10-10 after three quarters. Roethlisberger was replaced by Byron Leftwich after being sacked by Justin Houston three plays into the second half. Roethlisberger...(size: 3.7Kb)
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Philadelphia Daily News
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Wilkshire out of Socceroos' friendly
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Detroit Free Press
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Expert: Ky. earthquake not from mining
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LOUISVILLE, KY. (AP) - Geologists say the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Kentucky over the weekend was too deep to be induced by the region’s underground mining activity. The epicenter was about 10 miles west of Whitesburg, in the heart of Kentucky’s coal country, where...(size: 4.4Kb)
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Matt may refer to:
- Matt (given name), people with the given name Matt or Matthew, meaning "gift from god"
- In British English, of a surface: having a non-glossy finish, see gloss (material appearance)
- Matt, Switzerland, a municipality
- Matt Pritchett, British cartoonist, who signs his cartoons 'Matt'.
- Patrick Matt (born 1969), a Liechtenstein track cyclist
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For the British musician of the same name, see Matt Harding (musician).
| Matthew Harding | |
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 Matt Harding in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan on January 27, 2007. |
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| Born | Matthew Harding (1976-09-27) September 27, 1976 (age 35) |
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Matthew "Matt" Harding (born September 27, 1976), is an American traveler, video game designer, and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since received widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets,[1][2][3][4][5] and was hired by Visa to star in their Travel Happy campaign.[6]
He is originally from Westport, Connecticut.[7] He began his game industry career working for a video game specialty store called Cutting Edge Entertainment. Harding later worked as an editor for GameWeek Magazine in Wilton, Connecticut, and then as a software developer for Activision in Santa Monica, California and then Brisbane, Australia.
Harding claims that a sarcastic joke about the popularity of shoot 'em up games led Pandemic Studios to develop the game Destroy All Humans!, on which he received a conceptual credit. Saying he "didn't want to spend two years of my life writing a game about killing everyone", he quit his job and began traveling, leading to the production of his first video.[8]
On 11 December 2008, Matt Harding sarcastically revealed at the Entertainment Gathering that the videos were a hoax and that he is an actor, not a game designer, and the videos were made using animatronic puppets and extensive video editing.[9] A month later, during the MacWorld convention, Matt revealed the "hoax about the hoax" and joked about the fact many people took it seriously and the outrage it caused. He also made it very clear that the videos he made were indeed 100% real.[10]
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Where the Hell is Matt?[link]
Harding was known by his friends for a particular dance, and while video recording each other in Vietnam, his travel companion suggested he add the dance. The videos were uploaded to his website for friends and family to enjoy. Later, Harding edited together 15 dance scenes, all with him center frame, with the background music "Sweet Lullaby" by "Deep Forest". The original Song uses samples from a dying Solomon Islands language which was recorded in 1971 by a French ethnomusicologist at the Solomon Islands near Papua New Guinea. The song, "Rorogwela" was sung by a young woman named Afunakwa. According to the video "Where the Hell is Afunakwa" by Matt Harding, Afunakwa died in 1998.
The video was passed around by e-mail and eventually became viral, with his server getting 20,000 or more hits a day as it was discovered, generally country by country due to language barriers, before the launch of major video upload sites.
Harding created a second version of the video in 2006, with additional dancing scenes from subsequent travels, called "Dancing 2006". At the request of Stride, a gum brand, he accepted sponsorship[11] of this video, since he usually travels on a limited budget.
Harding released his third dancing video on June 20, 2008. The video is the product of 14 months of traveling in 42 countries. The background music/song of this video is known as "Praan" composed by Garry Schyman and sung by Palbasha Siddique, with lyrics adapted from the poem "Stream of Life," a part of the Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore.[12]
As of August 2008, Harding is represented by Creative Artists Agency.[13] His videos are viewable on YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo and his own site wherethehellismatt.com. His "Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)" video has been watched over 40,900,000 times on YouTube since 2011 and Harding's YouTube channel is ranked "#83 - Most Subscribed (All Time) - Directors" as of December 22, 2010.[14][15]
Major media coverage[link]
Harding's video clips have appeared on television shows including:
- The Screen Savers (March 17, 2005)
- MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann (August 18, 2005)
- Inside Edition (August 19, 2005)
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (October 10, 2005)
- Rude Tube (February 15, 2008)
- 40 Greatest Internet Celebrities on VH1
- Jimmy Kimmel Live (August 6, 2008)
- Enough Rope (August 18, 2008)
- The Daily Show (November 6, 2008)
- Good Morning America (May 31, 2006)
In 2007, Jawed Karim, one of the founders of YouTube, stated that Harding's video is his favorite video posted to YouTube.[16]
On July 22, 2008 and again on July 25, 2010, NASA featured Harding's third video on their APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) website, titled "Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth", making claim of humans worldwide sharing a common love of dance. The website states that "few people are able to watch the above video without smiling".[17] Harding himself has joked that he is impressed with this, especially since the video has nothing to do with astronomy, nor is a picture.
Videos[link]
Videogame development credits[link]
Harding's development credits include:[21]
- Destroy All Humans!
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Army Men RTS
- Dark Reign 2
- Battlezone II: Combat Commander
- Battlezone
- Zork: Grand Inquisitor
References[link]
- ^ Benji Lanyado (December 23, 2006). "Dance, dance, wherever you may be". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDNiue2N. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "In the year we became obsessed with YouTube and MySpace, perhaps it's no surprise that a blog of a bloke doing a silly dance around the world got five million hits [...] Tis the season to give out awards. So, here's another one. My award for Alternative Travel Hero for 2006 goes to (cue drum roll, split screen of smiling nominees) ... Matt Harding."
- ^ Andrea Sachs (October 22, 2006). "The Guy Who Danced Around the Globe". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDM15iMn. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "So, where the hell is Matt? We found him in Seattle, but before that, Matt Harding, 30, was everywhere. In 2003, the video-game maker performed a silly free-form dance in more than a dozen countries, which he filmed and then posted on his Web site at http://www.wherethehellismatt.com."
- ^ James Gilden (September 3, 2006). "Amateurs' talent: Giving us a local perspective on the world". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-internet3sep03,1,6277665.column?coll=la-travel-headlines. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "THE man in the video is doing some sort of quirky dance in a foreign land, arms flailing and flopping, feet moving as if walking over hot coals. There is nothing graceful or beautiful about the dance. Nonetheless it communicates an infectious joy that defies easy characterization. In short, it is fun to watch. [...] "It's just something I've always done," said Matt Harding, who created and stars in the video. "It's that dance that kids do when they're 2 or 3 years old." [dead link]
- ^ Kristin Jackson (October 5, 2006). "Dancing around the world (and Web)". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDNzonS2. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "It's a 20-something's fantasy: Travel around the world, dance a lot and get paid to do it. [...] Matt Harding of Seattle made that dream come true. And he's turning into an Internet star, thanks to a short video he made of his recent trip that's become wildly popular on the Web."
- ^ Mike Musgrove (July 13, 2008). "Product Placement Creeps Into Amateurs' YouTube Offerings". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071200141.html. Retrieved 2008-07-14. "Matt Harding has this silly dance he does, this running-in-place thing where he waves his arms around spastically. If it had a name, you might call it the Excited Toddler."
- ^ Travel the world with the currency of the world, 20 November 2008. Press release by Visa. "Visa's new travel-focused commercial recreates the dance made famous by internet celebrity Matt Harding in his self-made quirky video travel diaries."
- ^ McGrath, Charles (2008-07-08). "A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDP8FJWx. Retrieved 2008-07-08. "Mr. Harding, who grew up in Westport, Conn., skipped college at the suggestion of his father,"
- ^ Jordan Smith (August 26, 2005). "Dancing Matt coming to town". Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDPxw6P5. Retrieved 2006-12-16. "Harding didn't. "I … didn't want to spend two years of my life writing a game about killing everyone," he said"
- ^ "Matt Harding: Where the Hell is Matt? a Hoax". FORA.tv. December 11, 2008. http://fora.tv/2008/12/11/Matt_Harding_Where_The_Hell_Is_Matt_an_Elaborate_Hoax.
- ^ "Not to dwell but...". January 09, 2009. http://wherethehellismatt.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/seattle-washington-not-to-dwell-but.html.
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| Rebecca Black | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Rebecca Renee Black |
| Born | (1997-06-21) June 21, 1997 (age 15) Irvine, California, U.S.[1] |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupations | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Labels | RB Records |
| Website | www.rebeccablackonline.com |
Rebecca Renee Black[2] (born June 21, 1997) is an American pop singer and dancer who gained extensive media attention with the 2011 single "Friday". Her mother paid $4,000 to have the single and an accompanying music video put out as a vanity release[3] through the record label ARK Music Factory.[4] The song was co-written and produced by Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson of Ark Music Factory. After the video went viral on YouTube and other social media sites, "Friday" was derided by many music critics and viewers, who dubbed it "the worst song ever."[5][6][7] The music video received around 167 million views, causing Black to gain international attention as a "viral star", before being removed from the site on June 16. Black re-uploaded it in her own channel three months later.
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Biography[link]
Personal life[link]
Rebecca Black was born on June 21, 1997,[8] in Irvine, California.[1] She is the daughter of John Jeffery Black and Georgina Marquez Kelly, both veterinarians.[4][9] She is of Mexican, Spanish, Italian, English, and Polish descent.[10][11] An honor student, Black studied dance, auditioned for school shows, attended music summer camps, and began singing publicly in 2008 after joining the patriotic group Celebration USA.[citation needed] In 2011 Black left public school in favor of homeschooling, both in response to constant verbal bullying at school and in order to focus more of her time on her career.[12] Black later said that her main reason for the move to homeschooling was more for career reasons rather than the bullying.[13]
Career[link]
Ark Music Factory and "Friday" (2010–2011)[link]
In late 2010, a classmate of Black and music-video client of ARK Music Factory, a Los Angeles label, told her about the company.[14] Black's mother paid $4,000 for Ark Music to produce the music video while the Blacks retained ownership of both the master and the video.[4][15] The single, "Friday", written entirely by Ark, was released on YouTube and iTunes. The song's video was uploaded to YouTube on February 10, 2011, and received approximately 1,000 views in the first month. The video went viral on March 11, 2011, acquiring millions of views on YouTube in a matter of days, becoming the most-talked-about topic on social networking site Twitter,[16] and garnering mostly negative media coverage.[17] As of June 14, 2011, the video had received more than 3,190,000 "dislikes" on YouTube compared to more than 451,000 "likes".[18] As of March 22, 2011, first-week sales of her digital single were estimated to be around 40,000 by Billboard.[19] On March 22, 2011, Black appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, during which she performed the single and discussed the negative reaction to it.[20] The song has peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 and the New Zealand Singles Chart at number 58 and 33, respectively.[21][22] In the UK, the song debuted at number 61 on the UK Singles Chart.[23]
Black teamed up with Funny or Die on April Fool's Day (the site was renamed Friday or Die) for a series of videos, including one which addresses the controversy about the driving kids in her music video, stating "We so excited about safety."[24]
She has stated that she is a fan of Justin Bieber, and expressed interest in performing a duet with him.[25]
In response to the YouTube video of "Friday", Black began to receive death threats in late February 2011, specifically by phone and email.[26] These threats are being investigated by the Anaheim Police Department.[27]
In March 2011, Ryan Seacrest reportedly helped sign Rebecca to manager Debra Baum's DB Entertainment.[28]
MTV selected Rebecca to host its first online awards show, the O Music Awards Fan Army Party in April 2011.[29] As an homage to "Friday", Black appears in the music video for Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)",[30] in which Black plays alongside Perry as the hostess of a party Perry attends. "Friday" was also performed on the second season of Glee in the episode, "Prom Queen", which originally aired May 10, 2011. When asked about why the song was covered on Glee, show creator Ryan Murphy replied, "The show pays tribute to pop culture and, love it or hate it, that song is pop culture."[31]
RB Records and upcoming album (2011–present)[link]
After the fallout with Ark Music Factory, Black announced she would start an independent record label named RB Records. Black released a self-produced single titled "My Moment" on July 18 by her own label RB Records, with an accompanying music video, publishing it to her YouTube channel; the video as of November 27 has received, approximately, 590,000 "dislikes" against 340,000 "likes."[32] In the "My Moment" music video, director Morgan Lawley features real life video of Black's life from both before and after her fame.[33]
Black is planning to release her official debut album around 2012, which she said will include "a bunch of different kinds of stuff."[34] It is being recorded at a studio belonging to music producer Charlton Pettus.[35] In an interview with The Sun, Black said that the songs will be "appropriate and clean".
Black appears as herself in the music video of Katy Perry's single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". She appears as the host of a party in the house next door to that of "Kathy Beth Terry". At the end of the video Perry attempts to blame the excesses of the party (which had subsequently moved to her own house) on Black, only for her parents (Corey Feldman and Debbie Gibson) to disbelieve her.[36] Later on, Perry (in character as Kathy Beth Terry) and Black hosted a livestream on Tinychat.com after weeks of Black being mentioned on Terry's Twitter.[37] Perry, who performs Friday routinely on stage as part of California Dreams Tour, also brought Black on stage to perform the song as a duet during her show at the Nokia Theater on August 5, 2011.[38]
On August 10, 2011, Black was featured in an ABC Primetime Nightline: Celebrity Secrets special entitled Underage and Famous: Inside Child Stars' Lives.[39]
On Friday, September 16, Black re-uploaded "Friday" on YouTube.[40] In late September 2011, she was brought to Australia by Telstra to promote the launch of their 4G service.[41]
On October 25, Black announced she started filming her upcoming music video which she first identified as 'POI' and later identified as "Person of Interest".[42] Black said, "The basis of it is that it's a love song but it's not a love song. It's about almost teenage crushes — when you're not in love yet but you really like a guy — which I'm really excited about because I don't think there are too many out like that. It's very much a dance type song. It will make you get up and dance and sing along in your car."[43] A teaser of the official music video was posted on November 3, 2011.[44] Black released another teaser including a snippet of the song on November 10, 2011 on her YouTube channel. The single and its accompanying music video were released on November 15, 2011.[45]
On December 20, 2011, "Friday" was revealed as the #1 video of the year by YouTube and Black hosted a short video called "YouTube Rewind".[46]
Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year's 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011. Rebecca Black #1 Most Searched Google. The searches for the teen singer topped even those of pop icon Lady Gaga and Adele.[47]
On May 8, 2012, Black released her fourth official single, "Sing It".[48] The music video premiered on Black's YouTube the same day.
Philanthropy[link]
Black features NOH8 Campaign a silent protest photo project against California Proposition 8. It features photographs portraying people in front of a white backdrop wearing white t-shirts, their mouths taped shut and "NOH8" painted on their cheek.
Rebecca has pledged to donate profits from the sales of her song "Friday" towards her school, El Rancho Charter, and shortly after the 2011 Japan Earthquake, to emergency relief in the country.[49]
Discography[link]
Singles[link]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||
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| US [50] |
AUS Digital [51] |
CAN [52] |
IRL [53] |
NZ [22] |
UK [23] |
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| "Friday" | 2011 | 58 | 40 | 61 | 46 | 33 | 60 | TBA |
| "My Moment" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Person of Interest"[54] | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Sing It" | 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||||||
Music videos[link]
| Title | Year | Director(s) |
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| "Friday" | 2011 | Chris Lowe Ian Hotchkiss |
| "My Moment" | Morgan Lawley | |
| "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" (with Katy Perry) | Marc Klasfeld Danny Lockwood |
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| "Person of Interest" | Theshay West | |
| "Sing It" | 2012 | N/A |
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2011 | Tu Xia Chuan Qi | Penny | Voice |
| 2012 | My Music | Herself | Web show; episode 6 |
Awards and nominations[link]
- In April 2011, the MTV O Music Awards, one of the annual awards established by MTV to honor the art, creativity, personality and technology of music into the digital space nominated "Which Seat Can I Take?" for "Favorite Animated GIF" that included footage by Rebecca Black featuring 50 Cent and Bert.[55]
- Black was named "Choice Web Star" at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards in August 2011.[56]
| Year | Nominated work | Event | Award | Result |
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| 2011 | "Which Seat Can I Take?" (50 Cent, Rebecca Black, Bert) |
MTV O Music Awards | Favorite Animated GIF | Nominated |
| Herself | 2011 Teen Choice Awards | Choice Web Star | Won | |
| J-14 Teen Icon Awards | Iconic Web Star | Nominated | ||
| 2012 | Hollywood Teen TV Awards | Favorite Breakout Star | Pending |
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| Date of birth | 1997-06-21 |
| Place of birth | Irvine, California, United States |
| Date of death | |
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| Matt Kennon | |
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 Matt Kennon at BamaJam Music & Art Festival, in June 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Matthew Carl Ferguson[1] |
| Origin | Conyers, Georgia, U.S.[2] |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2001-present |
| Labels | BamaJam/Stroudavarious |
| Associated acts | James Stroud, Randy Travis |
| Website | http://mattkennon.com/ |
Matthew Carl Ferguson (born in Conyers, Georgia) is an American country music singer and songwriter known professionally as Matt Kennon. He has co-written a song for Randy Travis and has released one album for BamaJam Records. This album includes the top 40 hit "The Call".
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Biography[link]
Matthew Carl Ferguson was born in Conyers, Georgia.[2] He was adopted at birth by two parents, who had previously lost three of their four biological children to a house fire. Kennon's birth mother, who already had another son, made a decision to have an abortion, but she arrived at her doctor's office two weeks too late and was told she had to carry the child to full term.[3]
He began playing the drums at age seven, and went on to play drums in high school jazz bands.[4] Later on, he began performing at clubs in the Atlanta, Georgia area, playing cover versions of country and southern rock songs.[4]
In the late 2000s, Kennon self-released an album of his music, which he began selling at his concerts. He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he met Travis Tritt's former manager Gary Falcon, who recommended him to Kyle Lehning, a record producer known for his work with Randy Travis.[4] After Travis recorded Kennon's "Turn It Around" and released it as a single,[5] Kennon was signed to a publishing contract. He also began working with another producer, James Stroud.[2]
Later in 2009, Kennon signed to BamaJam Records in association with Stroudavarious Records (which Stroud owns) and released his debut single "The Call,"[6] which he wrote with Jeremy Campbell and Noah Gordon. The song debuted at number 55 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts dated for the week of October 17, 2009.[7] Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song a mostly-favorable review, saying that he did not enjoy the song upon first listen because of Kennon's voice, but said that the lyrics are "where it shines."[8]
Kennon's self-titled debut album was released on May 11, 2010. In advance of the album's release, he released a three-song extended play featuring "The Call" and two other songs from the album.[9][10]
In April 2011, Kennon self-released a second album titled 77.[11]
Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
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| 77 |
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Extended plays[link]
| Title | Album details | Peak positions |
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| US Country [12] |
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| The Call |
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Singles[link]
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
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| US Country [16] |
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| 2009 | "The Call" | 33 | Matt Kennon |
| 2010 | "You Can Still Wear White" | — | |
| 2011 | "Too Loud" | — | |
| "You Had to Pick on Me" | — | 77 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
Music videos[link]
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | "The Call" | Trey Fanjoy |
References[link]
- ^ "Search results for Ferguson, Matthew Carl". Broadcast Music Incorporated. http://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&fromrow=1&torow=25&querytype=WriterID&keyid=1002100&keyname=FERGUSON%20MATTHEW%20CARL&CAE=489722501&Affiliation=BMI. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ a b c Floydd, Michelle (2010-02-05). "Local hits charts in Nashville". Rockdale Citizen. http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/headlines/83736072.html. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
- ^ Hughes, Donna (25 January 2010). "Matt Kennon Discovers Shocking Details About His Adoption". The Boot. http://www.theboot.com/2010/01/25/matt-kennon-adoption/. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
- ^ a b c Leggett, Steve. "Matt Kennon biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p1579734/biography. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
- ^ "Digging Up Bones Xclusive: Interview With Matt Kennon". Randy Travis.com. http://www.randytravis.com/blog/italianicon235/digging-bones-xclusive-interview-matt-kennon. Retrieved 2009-10-19.
- ^ "Matt Kennon". BamaJam Records. http://www.bamajamrecords.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=100:matt-kennon-the-call&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=72. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
- ^ Morris, Edward (10 October 2009). "Miranda Lambert's Revolution seizes the album summit". CMT. http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1623560/miranda-lamberts-revolution-seizes-the-album-summit.jhtml. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
- ^ Bjorke, Matt (19 October 2009). "Matt Kennon — "The Call"". Roughstock. http://www.roughstock.com/blog/matt-kennon-the-call-. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
- ^ "Matt Kennon's self titled album". Music Remedy. 11 February 2010. http://musicremedy.com/m/matt-kennon/album/self-titled-8051.html. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ Smith, Peter J. (8 February 2010). "New Country Music Star Born as Pro-Life Ballad Climbs the Charts". Life Site News. http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/feb/10020814.html. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ "Matt Kennon: 77". CDBaby. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mattkennon1. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
- ^ a b "Matt Kennon Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Company. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/matt-kennon/chart-history/1184157?f=320&g=Albums. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
- ^ "Matt Kennon Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200". Billboard. Nielsen Company. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/matt-kennon/chart-history/1184157. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
- ^ "Matt Kennon Album & Song Chart History - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Company. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/matt-kennon/chart-history/1184157?f=324&g=Albums. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
- ^ "Matt Kennon Album & Song Chart History - Independent Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Company. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/matt-kennon/chart-history/1184157?f=326&g=Albums. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
- ^ "Matt Kennon Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs". Billboard. Nielsen Company. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/matt-kennon/chart-history/1184157?f=357&g=Singles. Retrieved October 24, 2010.
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 Matthew West playing a concert on the History 101 tour in September 2005 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Matthew Joseph West |
| Born | (1977-04-25) April 25, 1977 (age 35) |
| Origin | Downers Grove, IL, U.S.[1] |
| Genres | CCM, pop/rock, Adult contemporary, Indie pop[2] |
| Occupations | Singer/songwriter |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | Universal South, Sparrow |
| Website | matthewwest.com |
Matthew Joseph West[3] (born April 25, 1977) is a Contemporary Christian musician from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released four studio albums and is known for his No. 1 hits "More", "You Are Everything", and "The Motions". He was nominated for five Dove Awards in 2005, two of which were for his major label debut album Happy.
First starting out as an independent musician in the late 1990s, he released three independent albums before signing with Universal South Records. With the release of his Dove Award-winning debut album Happy (2003) came the success of his first radio single "More", which stayed at No. 1 on Christian AC charts for nine weeks and received two Dove Award nominations. His second record History (2005) was followed by a 2006 re-release of the originally independent album Sellout. In 2007 he faced vocal issues which threatened his career with two months of prescribed vocal rest. His third studio album Something to Say (2008) also enjoyed chart success with No. 1 hits "You Are Everything" and "The Motions".
In addition to his main solo career, West has worked as a songwriter for many Christian musicians and groups such as Point of Grace, Mandisa, and Natalie Grant, as well as mainstream country acts Rascal Flatts and Billy Ray Cyrus.
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Early life[link]
Matthew West was born on April 25, 1977 in Downers Grove, IL.[4] As a child he was a fan of his hometown baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, and wanted to eventually have a career in baseball.[5] He played baseball throughout high school, becoming team captain as a senior. He was hoping for a college baseball scholarship but instead ended up receiving a four-year music scholarship at Millikin University in Illinois. He graduated from Millikin in 1999.[5]
Musical career[link]
West wrote most of his first songs in the sanctuary of his father's church while he was at home during college breaks.[5] He was a songwriter and independent musician from 1997–2002, releasing three albums: September Sun (1997), Every Step of the Way (1998), and Sellout (2002).[6][7] In October 1997, he went on a three-city tour to support of the release of September Sun.[6]
Just before graduating from Millikin University in 1999, someone from the college recommended that West attend the GMA Music in the Rockies event for aspiring musicians. Although West was not interested at first, he attended after learning that other people signed him up and paid his entrance fee.[5] He met a representative from Word Publishing at the event who took interest in him and kept in contact until he graduated. West landed in the finals of a songwriting competition and was offered a songwriting deal in July 1999, five weeks after graduating.[5][6] After penning songs for well-known musicians like Billy Ray Cyrus and Rachael Lampa, he began touring the United States as an independent artist in 2000 and 2001.[5][6]
"I'm not going to candy coat it and say, 'Life is hard but God is good.' No, I was at the depths and my weakest moment."
Matthew West in an interview with Christianity Today about his arm injury.[5]
On July 26, 2002,[6] only a week or two before signing a record contract with Universal South Records, West had an injury to his left arm which threatened his musical career and guitar playing. He says, "I locked myself out of my house. But I'd done that before, and I had a way of breaking in through a window. But this time, I had a really hard time getting the window open. I started pushing up on the window really hard and my hand broke through the glass. Blood starting spewing out of my left arm everywhere and I ran down my street screaming for help. After seeing so much blood, I went into shock and just blacked out in the middle of the street. The next thing I can remember is some construction workers praying over me in Spanish and then being taken to the hospital."[5] West was told that the chances were low of regaining the full use of his left arm, having come very close to severing a major artery.[5] He recovered after the accident, however, and was able to continue playing guitar and record for his first studio album.[8]
[edit] Happy (2003)
After signing with Universal South Records on August 23, 2002,[6] West released his first non-independent studio album, Happy on December 26, 2003.[9] The album's producers Kenny Greenberg and Jason Houser co-wrote the song "More" with West.[10][11] The track was his first and most successful radio single to date, staying at No. 1 on R&R's Christian Adult Contemporary chart for a record-breaking nine weeks.[12] It was the most played Christian AC song of 2004[13] and went on to be labelled as the Christian Song of the Year by ASCAP.[14] Two additional songs, "The End" and "You Know Where to Find Me", were also released as singles off the album.[15] Beginning in late September 2004, West joined Avalon and Mark Schultz on a 40-city fall tour, which concluded at the end of November.[16] In 2005, he was nominated for five Dove Awards, including "New Artist of the Year" and "Song of the Year".[17] He won the "Recorded Music Packaging of the Year" Dove Award for his debut album Happy.[18]
In early 2005, he was on the WinterJam 2005 tour, hosted by NewSong, with tobyMac, Building 429, Tait, and Rachael Lampa.[19]
[edit] History (2005)
With Kenny Greenberg and Jason Houser once again as producers,[20] Matthew West began recording for his second studio album in early 2005.[15] History, co-produced by West, was released on June 21, 2005 on Universal South Records.[21] The first single off the album, "Next Thing You Know", was released June 20, a day before the album's release.[22] The theme of the title track "History" was inspired by a R&R music news headline "Matthew West Makes History", in reference to his first album, Happy. "It's not every day you read a headline like that with your name in it that calls you a history maker," he said.[23] Beginning on September 14, 2005, he kicked off the 30-city History 101 tour, his first headlining tour, which included guest musicians Shawn McDonald and Paul Wright.[24] He then joined tobyMac's Winter Wonder Slam tour, beginning on December 1, 2005, along with John Reuben, BarlowGirl, GRITS, and DJ Maj.[25] Two additional songs were released off History as singles: "Only Grace" and the title track "History".[26][27]
His independent album Sellout was re-released in 2006 on Universal South Records.[28]
Vocal problems[link]
West said that he began to experience "some vocal fatigue" in April 2007. He said "I had lost some of my vocal range, staying on higher notes and lower notes. I even began having a hard time speaking."[29] At a vocal check-up in response to the issue, West's doctors at the Nashville Vanderbilt Voice Center discovered "hemorrhaging caused by some polyps".[29] He was told by his doctors that vocal surgery was the only option, since a few weeks had passed.[29] The surgery took place on May 17, 2007, a process that he said was "career threatening."[30] Afterward, he was prescribed a two-month period of silence for vocal rest.[29]
A video documentary titled Nothing to Say, directed and produced by Benjamin Eisner, was released in early 2008, highlighting Matthew West's time of silence and vocal recovery in 2007.[31] In February 2008, the documentary was available exclusively in Family Christian Stores as a CD/DVD combo pack with West's album Something to Say.[31]
[edit] Something to Say (2008–2010)
His next single "You Are Everything" was released in late 2007. The song was available as a free download from West's website.[32] He also recorded a duet("Christmas Makes Me Cry") with American Idol finalist Mandisa which was released as a Christmas radio single in November 2007, from Mandisa's Christmas Joy EP.[32]
Matthew West's album, Something to Say, was released on January 15, 2008.[33] It reached No. 8 on Billboard's Top Christian albums chart, and peaked at No. 159 on the Billboard 200 chart,[34] making it his first Billboard 200 album .[35] It was produced by Brown Bannister, Ed Cash, and Christopher Stevens.[36] West said in an interview that all of the album's songs had already been written and the title "Something to Say" had already been decided "months before I found out that I was going to have nothing to say."[29][37] The first radio single released from the album was "You Are Everything". In March 2008, the song reached No. 1 on R&R's Christian AC chart.[38] "Something to Say", the album's title track, was also released to radio, receiving airplay in June 2008.[39]
Matthew West guested on tobyMac's 26-city "Boomin' Beyond Measure" tour along with Jeremy Camp.[40] The tour ran from February 6 through March 21, 2008.[41]
He was featured on the Billy Graham television special America's Dream: Chasing Happiness, which aired in the U.S. on March 1–9, 2008.[42] The appearance included a world premiere of his music video for "Nothing Else", a song from History.[42] On June 29, West hosted GMA's 2008 Gospel Dream, a televised Christian music talent competition.[43] "The Motions" was released as his next single, placing at No. 1 on R&R's Christian AC chart in April 2009.[44]
He has a song on the upcoming album of country artist Jo Dee Messina, and another under consideration by “American Idol” finalist Danny Gokey. In December 2009, "The Motions" was Grammy-nominated for Best Gospel Song, his first Grammy nomination.[45]
[edit] Story of Your Life (2010-present)
The first single from Matthew West's new album, "My Own Little World" was released on August 23, 2010. The album, The Story of Your Life, was released October 5, 2010, and according to West, is a response to thousands of life stories his fans shared with him. "The first day, I got 1,000 stories. All of a sudden, I was like, 'holy cow, something special is about to take place'. I rented a cabin in Tennessee, about 25 minutes from my house that felt like it was out in the middle of nowhere. And I spent two months in that cabin reading 10,000 stories," the singer/songwriter reported in an interview with CBN.com.[46] Matthew is also starring in The Heart of Christmas.[47]
Other songwriting[link]
In addition to his main solo career, Matthew West has also written songs for other bands and musicians, including Mark Schultz, Mandisa, Jump5, Sara Groves, Joy Williams, Salvador, Natalie Grant, PureNRG, and Point of Grace, as well as mainstream country act Billy Ray Cyrus. Rascal Flatts recorded Matthew's song "The Day Before You" on their album Feels Like Today.[2][11][48][49] He co-wrote "Voice of a Savior" by Mandisa and "Thank You" by 33Miles, both of which were released as singles in early 2008.[50]
Personal life[link]
Matthew West currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Emily.[13][51] He married Emily on May 10, 2003 after proposing to her in September 2002.[6] They have a daughter Luella Jane ("Lulu") and a daughter Delaney Ruth.[52] The Wests own a pug named Earl "The Girl".[23]
Awards[link]
GMA Dove Awards[link]
| Year | Award | Result |
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| 2005 | New Artist of the Year[53] | Nominated |
| Song of the Year ("More") | Nominated | |
| Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year ("More") | Nominated | |
| Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year (Happy) | Nominated | |
| Recorded Music Packaging of the Year (Happy) | Won | |
| 2006 | Song of the Year ("Only Grace") | Nominated |
| 2011 | Short Form Music Video of the Year ("My Own Little World") | Pending |
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
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- 1997 - September Sun
- 1998 - Every Step of the Way
- 2002 - Sellout
- 2003 - Happy
- 2005 - History
- 2008 - Something to Say
- 2010 - The Story of Your Life
- 2011 - The Heart of Christmas
Singles[link]
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| Year | Single | Peak Chart Positions | Album |
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| US Christian | |||
| 2003 | "More" | 1 | Happy |
| "The End" | |||
| "You Know Where to Find Me" | |||
| 2005 | "Next Thing You Know" | History | |
| "Only Grace" | 6 | ||
| "History" | 13 | ||
| 2008 | "You Are Everything" | 1 | Something to Say |
| "Something to Say" | 8 | ||
| "The Motions" | 1 | ||
| "Save a Place for Me" | 17 | ||
| "The Center" | |||
| 2010 | "Give This Christmas Away" featuring Amy Grant | 1 | The Heart of Christmas |
| "My Own Little World" | 6 | The Story of Your Life | |
| "Strong Enough" | 3 | ||
| 2011 | "One Last Christmas" | 11 | The Heart of Christmas |
| "The Heart of Christmas" | 2 |
Compilation contributions[link]
- 2003: Festival Con Dios Vol. 3 – "More", from Happy (Inpop)[4]
- 2004: WOW Hits 2005 – "More", from Happy (Sparrow)
- 2005: WOW Christmas: Green – "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" (Word)
- 2005: Night of Joy 2005 – "Get Away", from History (Disney)
- 2006: WOW Hits 2007 – "Only Grace", from History (EMI)[54]
- 2007: Christmas Joy EP – "Christmas Makes Me Cry", a duet with Mandisa (Sparrow)[55]
- 2007: WOW Hits 2008 – "History", from History (EMI)[56]
- 2008: WOW Hits 1 - "You Are Everything," from Something to Say
- 2008: WOW Hits 2009 - "You Are Everything," from Something to Say
- 2009: WOW Hits 2010 - "The Motions," from Something to Say
- 2010: WOW Hits 2011 - "My Own Little World," from The Story of Your Life
- 2011: Music Inspired by the Story - "Good (Adam & Eve)," a duet with Leigh Nash (EMI Christian Music) [57]
- 2011: WOW Hits 2012 - "Strong Enough," from The Story of Your Life
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| Name | West, Matthew |
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| Short description | Contemporary Christian musician |
| Date of birth | April 25, 1979* |
| Place of birth | Downers Grove, Illinois |
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