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Norma (the Rule or Square) is a southern constellation adjacent to Circinus, formed by Lacaille in 1752. The outburst of Nova Normae was recorded on a photograph taken by Bailey in July 1893, and was discovered by examination of the photograph by Mrs Fleming.
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Giulia Grisi was an Italian singer. She was born in 1811 or 1812 at Milan and died in 1869. After having studied music at Bologna, and made her debut in Rossini's Zeimira, she appeared at Milan as Norma. She acquired great celebrity at Paris, in England, and America. She subsequently married Mario, the great tenor singer.
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Vincenzo Bellini was an Italian composer. He was born in 1801 at Catania in Sicily in 1802 and died in 1835. He was educated at Naples under Zingarelli, commenced writing operas before he was twenty, and composed for the principal musical establishments in Europe. He composed I Puritani, La Sonnambula, Norma.
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Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson) was an American actress. She was born in 1926 and died in 1962. A former photographer's model, through her blonde beauty, she was exploited in a number of minor film roles beginning in 1948. She showed promise as a comedian in bit roles in 'The Asphalt Jungle' and ' All About Eve'. Her first starring role was in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'.
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Norma Shearer was a Canadian actress. She was born in 1902 at Montreal, Quebec and died in 1983 of pneumonia. After winning a beauty contest when she was fourteen, she started acting, appearing first as an extra in 1920's films.
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Norma Talmadge was an actress. She was born in 1893 and died in 1969.
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Norma Varden was an English actress. She was born in 1898 and died in 1989.
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Fiddler On The Roof is a musical comedy starring Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey and Molly Picon in a story about a poor Ukrainian milkman determined to find good husbands for his five daughters. Fiddler On The Roof was directed by Norman Jewison in 1971.
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Norma is a cultivated variety of potato.
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Norma (1940) is a cultivated variety of potato.
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