Promoters from SFX Entertainment told Reuters the Drowned World tour would be the most extravagant stage spectacle of the singer's 17-year career.

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The Drowned World Tour, Madonna's first roadshow since 1993's Girlie Show, will also make European stops in Milan, Paris and London before moving to the United States in late July.

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He was an Italian army captain, drowned in the Nile in the first world war, who spoke 74 languages, including Latin.

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But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

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