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	* ... that after a career as an opera singer and Broadway musical star, ''']''' ''(pictured)'' ~~became a comedian in~~ ] as one half of the comic duo Blake and Amber?		* ... that after a career as an opera singer and Broadway musical star, ''']''' ''(pictured)'' joined ] as one half of the comic duo Blake and Amber?
	* ... that a Picasso sculpture at ''']''' was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?		* ... that a Picasso sculpture at ''']''' was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?
	* ... that country music singer ] bought ''']''' from his sister?		* ... that country music singer ] bought ''']''' from his sister?

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Winfield Blake

... that after a career as an opera singer and Broadway musical star, Winfield Blake (pictured) joined vaudeville as one half of the comic duo Blake and Amber?
... that a Picasso sculpture at University Village was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?
... that country music singer Buck Owens bought a bankrupt TV station in California from his sister?
... that 13-year-old Nyah Mway is thought to be the first Karen person killed by police in the United States?
... that Ratnākara's Haravijaya is the longest extant Sanskrit mahākāvya?
... that 99-year-old swimmer Betty Brussel broke three competitive swimming records on the same day?
... that both scholars and activists believe that diet culture is often intertwined with racism and other forms of prejudice?
... that G. R. Pantouw supported the Dutch puppet state of East Indonesia because he wanted to push the Netherlands into abandoning colonialism?
... that a Cretan man found a 1st-century statue of Aphrodite while trying to drill a well, and then reburied it?