• Red Wedge was a collective of musicians formed in the UK in 1985 who attempted to educate youth with the policies of the Labour Party leading up to the...
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    Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (Russian: Клином красным бей белых!, Klinom krasnym bey belykh!) is a 1919 lithographic Bolshevik propaganda poster...
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  • Wedge Antilles is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a supporting character portrayed by Denis Lawson in the original Star Wars trilogy...
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    Eric Michael Wedge (born January 27, 1968) is an American former baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher and manager. As a player, Wedge attended Northrop...
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    The wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) also known as the eaglehawk, is the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia. It is also found in southern...
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    once more on the Labour Party-sponsored Red Wedge tour in 1985: "In the early '80s, I got involved with Red Wedge, in which Neil Kinnock got various bands...
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  • artwork is based on El Lissitzky's art work Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge.[citation needed] "This Fire" was featured on the soundtrack for the 2004...
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    backing tapes during this performance). In 1985 Heaven 17 joined the Red Wedge collective. After the remix album Endless peaked at number 70 in July...
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    (the best known being El Lissitzky's poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919)). Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky's declaration 'the streets our...
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    Proletkult. El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites With the Red Wedge, 1919...
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    "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge". Russia was going through a civil war at the time, which was mainly fought between the "Reds" (communists, socialists...
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    with Billy Bragg, who persuaded him to return to Britain and support Red Wedge, a coalition of like-minded musicians supporting the British Labour Party...
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    sense of humour and progressed into stand-up comedy. He was part of the Red Wedge comedy tour in 1986, which aimed to raise awareness of the social problems...
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    The wedge-capped capuchin or Guianan weeper capuchin (Cebus olivaceus) is a capuchin monkey from South America. It is found in northern Brazil, Guyana...
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    like-minded activists in the public eye to form the musicians' alliance Red Wedge, which promoted Labour's cause – and in turn lobbied the party on youth...
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  • had earlier given his support to the left-wing Red Wedge British youth political movement. Red Wedge closely allied itself with Labour Party leader Neil...
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    Step (Closer to You)". He also became involved with the formation of Red Wedge in 1986 with Billy Bragg, Jimmy Somerville and Paul Weller, and had been...
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    of the party at the Manchester Apollo with the collective of musicians Red Wedge, which included Billy Bragg, Johnny Marr and Paul Weller. Kemp, raised...
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    Alexander Rodchenko; "This Fire" which references Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge by El Lissitzky; and "Michael", with single art based on A Proun by Lissitzky...
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    the latter half of 1985, Weller was highly involved in the formation of Red Wedge, a left-wing collective of musicians and actors etc. who aimed to "bring...
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    Cato Dickinson in 1877–9. Forster writes of the building as 'a tall dark red wedge-shaped house all windows and hospitality, and it was there that I saw...
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    The Wedge (or Delaware Wedge) is a 1.068-square-mile (684-acre; 2.77 km2) tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Ownership...
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  • persuaded by Billy Bragg to let the Style Council play a leading role in Red Wedge, a youth-orientated political campaign associated with the British Labour...
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  • Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919), El Lissitzky...
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    called exterior product or wedge product and denoted with ∧ {\displaystyle \wedge } , such that v ∧ v = 0 {\displaystyle v\wedge v=0} for every vector v...
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    to the Thatcher era by espousing socialism through movements such as Red Wedge. In the week of the 1987 election, the paper featured an interview with...
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  • Arena, which launched in 1986. In November 1985, Spencer helped found Red Wedge with British musicians Paul Weller and Billy Bragg. The collective aimed...
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    political positions. Prior to the 1987 UK general election, Elton supported Red Wedge by participating in a comedy tour organised by the campaign. Elton was...
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  • acts of the 1980s (including the Blow Monkeys), some of whom joined the Red Wedge movement as part of their political activism. Some songs on the album...
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    Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge by Daniel Rachel (2016) Reminiscences of RAR: Rocking Against Racism 1976-1979. Edited by Roger Huddle and Red Saunders (Redwords...
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