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  2. American Experience season 19 - Wikipedia

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    Season 19 of the television program American Experience originally aired on the PBS network in the United States on October 2, 2006 and concluded on May 14, 2007. The season contained 15 new episodes and began with the first two parts of the Eyes on the Prize miniseries, "Awakenings (19541956)" and "Fighting Back (1957–1962)".

  3. Jagriti - Wikipedia

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    The Awakening) is a 1954 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Satyen Bose. It was based on the 1949 Bengali film Paribartan that Bose had also directed. The film stars Rajkumar Gupta, Abhi Bhattacharya, and Ratan Kumar in the lead roles. The film won the Filmfare Award for Best Film at the 3rd Filmfare Awards in 1956.

  4. Henry Mayer (cartoonist) - Wikipedia

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    The Awakening. Suffragists were successful in the West; their torch awakens the women struggling in the East and South in this cartoon by Henry Mayer in Puck 20 February 1915. Mayer was born in Worms, Germany, the son of a Jewish merchant from London. [3]

  5. Awakenings - Wikipedia

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    Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film written by Steven Zaillian, directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow. It is based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 nonfiction memoir of the same title. The film tells the story ...

  6. Awakenings (opera) - Wikipedia

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    Awakenings is an opera in two acts composed by Tobias Picker, with a libretto by Aryeh Lev Stollman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based on Awakenings , Oliver Sacks' 1960's chronicle of his efforts to help the victims of an encephalitis epidemic , [ 3 ] the opera was commissioned by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis , and premiered on June 5, 2022.

  7. Awakenings (book) - Wikipedia

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    Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks.It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. [1] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing) in the Bronx, New York. [2]

  8. Eyes on the Prize - Wikipedia

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    The first part, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954–1965, chronicles the time period between the United States Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965. It consists of six episodes, which premiered on January 21, 1987, and concluded on February 25, 1987.

  9. 1956 in literature - Wikipedia

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    Rev. W. Awdry – Percy the Small Engine (eleventh in The Railway Series of 42 books by him and his son Christopher Awdry); Polly Cameron – The Cat Who Thought He Was a Tiger