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The Luddite riots were a series of outbreaks in which popular discontent expressed itself in the Midlands between 1811 and 1818. General distress being caused by the progress of the industrial revolution, the anger of the rioters was directed against the new machinery, much of which was destroyed. The name Luddite derives from Ned Lud, a man (supposedly an imbecile though some say he was insane) from Leicestershire who in a fit of passion demolished two stocking-frames around 1779.
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The term Wild West refers to the frontier society of 19th-century USA. Around the masculine, saloon-bar world of the gold rushes and the cowboy cattle-drives of Texas, California, and the largely unsettled western territories there early developed a mythology. Bandits such as Billy the Kid and Jesse James were romanticised, as were General Custer and his 'last stand'. An early perpetrator of the myth was Edward Z. C. Judson, who, under the pseudonym Ned Buntline, wrote penny (dime) novels romanticising the exploits of his friend W. F. Cody as 'Buffalo Bill'. The latter in turn organised 'Wild West Shows' from 1883 onwards, which included the appearance of the Indian Chief Sitting Bull and which travelled as far afield as Europe.
There is no evidence that the West was much less law-abiding than the rest of the USA. Nonetheless, the 'Wild West' was no purposeless myth; it suggested an arena in which individuals struggled to make order out of chaos and to progress through individual effort and moral worth. The North American continent had had a succession of 'Wests', as its frontiers receded, and that known as the Wild West was the last. It disappeared after 1890, with the end of Indian hostilities, the decline of the long-distance cattle drives, the building of the railways, and the steady growth of population.
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Ned Ray McWherter was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Tennessee from 1987 until 1995.
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David Kelly (also known as Dave Kelly) is an Irish actor. He was born in 1929 at Dublin. He is perhaps best known for his role as the one-armed assistant Albert Riddle in the 1977 television comedy series Robin's Nest, and for his starring role in the 1998 film Waking Ned.
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Ian Bannen was a Scottish actor. He was born in 1928 and died in 1999. He is remembered for starring along side David Kelly in the 1998 film ' Waking Ned Divine'. He was killed in a motoring accident in Scotland in November 1999.
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Michael Bilton was an English actor. He was born in 1919 at Cottingham and died in 1993. Michael Bilton was best known as a comic supporting actor, playing the role of 'Old Ned' in the television series 'To The Manor Born' and the over-sexed geriatric 'Basil' in the 1990's television series 'Waiting For God', though he also appeared in four episodes of Dr Who, playing slightly tongue-in-cheek characters.
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Ned Beatty is an american actor. He was born in 1937.
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Ned Sparks (real name Edward Sparkman) was a Candian actor. He was born in 1883 and died in 1957.
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The NED Virus is an encrypted computer virus which uses stealth techniques to avoid detection and which infects .COM and .EXE files including COMMAND. COM. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program. The virus corrupts program or overlay files and data files.
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1941 is a drama starring Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi and Nancy Allen in a story about the panic which followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. 1941 was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1979.
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