List: Duos

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•  Gilbert and Sullivan

  Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.

  

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•  Lewis and Clark Expedition

  The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) was the first overland expedition undertaken by the United States to the Pacific coast and back. The expedition team was headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and assisted by Sacajawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. The expedition's goal was to gain an accurate sense of the resources being exchanged in the Louisiana Purchase. The expedition laid much of the groundwork for the westward expansion of the United States.

  

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•  Natural Born Killers

  Natural Born Killers is a 1994 crime film directed by Oliver Stone about a pair of mass murderers and the media coverage given to them. It stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, along with Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey, Jr. , Tom Sizemore, and Tommy Lee Jones. The film is based on a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino that was heavily revised by Stone with writer Dave Veloz and associate producer Richard Rutowski.

  

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•  Roxette

  Roxette is a Swedish pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. They enjoyed worldwide success, from the late 1980s until the mid 1990s, gaining nineteen UK Top 40 hits and four US #1 singles with, "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride". Two further singles "Dangerous" and "Fading Like a Flower" hit #2.

  

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•  Bonnie and Clyde

  Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were well known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who, with their gang, travelled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were known nationwide. They captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.

  

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•  Yin and yang

  In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang (often referred to in the west as yin and yang) is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn.

  

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•  Bruce & Terry

  Bruce & Terry were Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher. The pair were instrumental in the development of surf rock, recording under a variety of names and created the band The Rip Chords. They began working together while Johnston was a well-known session musician and Melcher, the son of actress/singer Doris Day, had a minor solo career as Terry Day before becoming the youngest staff record producer in Columbia Records' history.

  

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•  Peter and Gordon

  Peter and Gordon were a British Invasion-era performing duo, formed by Peter Asher and Gordon Waller, that rocketed to fame in 1964 with "A World Without Love" and had several subsequent hits in that era. Waller died on 17 July 2009 at the age of 64.

  

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•  Ben & Jerry's

  Ben & Jerry's is an American ice cream company, and since 2000 a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate, that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream novelty products, manufactured by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc. , headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, United States, with the main factory in Waterbury. It is most well-known for its ice cream brand, founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont.

  

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•  Blackalicious

  Blackalicious is an American hip hop duo from Oakland, California made up of rapper Gift of Gab (born Tim Parker) and DJ/producer Chief Xcel (born Xavier Mosley). They are noted for Gift of Gab's often "tongue-twisting", multisyllabic, complex rhymes and Chef Xcel's "classic" beats. The pair have released three full-length albums, and have been described as "one of the most popular groups in the independent hip-hop scene."

  

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•  Galton and Simpson

  Ray Galton OBE (born 17 July 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (born 27 November 1929), are British scriptwriters who met in 1948 at a tuberculosis sanatorium, the Surrey county sanatorium near Godalming, on which the sitcom Get Well Soon was based. They are best known for their work with comedian Tony Hancock on radio and television between 1954 and 1961, and their long-running television situation comedy, Steptoe and Son, eight series of which were aired between 1962 and 1974.

  

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•  Sacco and Vanzetti

  Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891-August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888-August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the men were executed on August 23, 1927.

  

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•  The Brides of Funkenstein

  The Brides of Funkenstein was a funk musical group originally composed of singers Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry. Previously background singers for Sly Stone, Mabry and Silva joined the P-Funk collective in 1977. George Clinton named the group (based on the scenario and characters from the Parliament album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein) and produced their first album, Funk Or Walk, for Atlantic Records in 1978.

  

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•  K Foundation

  The K Foundation was an art foundation set up by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in 1993, following their 'retirement' from the music industry. The Foundation served as an artistic outlet for the duo's post-retirement KLF income. Between 1993 and 1995, they spent this money in a number of ways, including on a series of Situationist-inspired press adverts and extravagant subversions in the art world, focusing in particular on the Turner Prize.

  

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•  Siegfried & Roy

  Siegfried & Roy are two German-American entertainers known for their long running show of magic and illusion in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The duo gave their final performance on February 28, 2009, after a hiatus of over five years. Their show was famous for including white tigers, and due to their dependence on white tigers for their act, the duo started a tiger-breeding program.

  

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•  Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

  Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 – April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 – April 20, 1999) were the high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre. They killed 13 people and injured 21 others. Three people were also injured as they escaped the attack. Both Harris, 18 years old, and Klebold, 17, committed suicide at the site of the killings.

  

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•  Zager and Evans

  Zager and Evans were a Lincoln, Nebraska rock-pop duo of the late 1960s and early 1970s named after its two members, Denny Zager and Rick Evans, who met at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Artists Dave Trupp and Mark Dalton backed up the duo. The band also included Paul Maher on drums, until he split off of the band after their hit song "In The Year 2525" Zager and Evans are best known for their immensely popular "In the Year 2525. " written by Rick Evans.

  

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•  Couple

  Couple may refer to: Two items of a type, or a small number of items (U.S. usage) Two members of an intimate relationship Couple (mechanics), a system of forces with a resultant moment but no resultant force Thermocouple, a type of temperature sensor

  

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•  The Dream Weavers

  The Dream Weavers was a popular music, vocal group, famous in the 1950s, formed at the University of Florida by Gene Adkinson and Wade Buff.

  

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•  Harmodius and Aristogeiton

  Harmodius (Ἁρμόδιος / Harmódios) and Aristogeiton (Ἀριστογείτων / Aristogeítôn), both d. 514 BC, were lovers in ancient Athens. They became known as the Tyrannicides (τυραννοκτόνοι) after they killed the Peisistratid tyrant Hipparchus, and were the preeminent symbol of democracy to ancient Athenians.

  

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•  Mark and Lard

  Mark and Lard, the stage name of Mark Radcliffe (Mark) and Marc Riley (Lard), are former BBC Radio 1 disc jockeys. Mark and Lard joined Radio 1 in October 1993 and left in March 2004. The pair moved to Radio 1 from BBC Radio 5's evening Hit the North programme, where Radcliffe was presenter and Riley climbed from researcher to producer.

  

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•  Sjöwall and Wahlöö

  Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö were a well known husband and wife team of detective writers from Sweden. Together they conceived and wrote a series of ten novels about the exploits of detectives from the the special homicide commission of the national police in which the character of Martin Beck was the main protagonist. Both authors also wrote novels separately. For the Martin Beck series, they plotted and researched each book together then wrote alternate chapters.

  

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•  Pierre et Gilles

  Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, are gay French artistic and romantic partners. They produce highly stylized photographs, building their own sets and costumes as well as retouching the photographs. Their work often features images from popular culture, gay culture including porn, and religion.

  

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•  The Weather Girls

  The Weather Girls are an American girl group that formed in 1982, best known for their single "It's Raining Men".

  

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•  A Taste of Honey (band)

  A Taste of Honey was the name of an American recording act formed in 1971 by associates Perry Kibble and Donald Ray Johnson. They later went on to score one of the best known songs of the disco era. After their popularity waned during the early 1980s Johnson went on to record as a solo artist and release the album One Taste Of Honey which produced numerous minor hits.

  

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