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Toys "R" Us [nb 1] is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer owned by Tru Kids (doing business as Tru Kids Brands) and various others. The company was founded in 1948; its first store was built in April 1948, with its headquarters located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey , in the New York metropolitan area .
Followed by. Jazz. Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. The narrative of Beloved derives from the life of Margaret Garner, a slave in the ...
A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. Authors who have contributed to the development of this genre include Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë .
The Nutcracker(Russian: Щелкунчик[a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced[ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk]ⓘ), Op.71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eveat the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's ...
A comic book, also called comicbook, [1] [2] comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art ...
Pritzker was born in Palo Alto, California, on January 19, 1965.He is the son of Donald Pritzker and Sue Pritzker (née Sandel). [10] [2] A member of the Pritzker family, a Jewish family of Ukrainian descent [11] prominent in business and philanthropy during the late 20th century, [12] [13] Pritzker is named after both of his paternal uncles, Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker. [14]
The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, written by Justin Marks and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on Rudyard Kipling 's eponymous collective works, the film is a live-action animated remake of Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book. [ 1][ 6] Neel Sethi plays Mowgli, the ...
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