On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of Montgomery,Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus.

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This year,six hundred forty-two acts from fifty-nine countries were invited to perform.

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In 2006 and 2008, sixteen Democrats entered the Senate, giving the Party its current majority of fifty-nine to forty-one (counting two independents).

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On the demand side, as per Hersh, coal fired electric generation is being replaced by natural gas, as evidenced by coal market share being reduced from fifty percent to roughly forty-four percent over the past two years.

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