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As long as the press remains shackled by the gilded chains of billionaire overlords, freedom lies in chains as well, leaving us in a world of corporate domination.

From Salon

There’s so much potential in the 35-acre expanse that dates to the 1880s and was once a symbol of municipal pride, as well as a setting for Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies and for a stunt in which escape artist Harry Houdini jumped into the lake in chains.

Linkin Park are not the first band to appoint a new lead singer following the death of a frontman - Alice in Chains and Sublime have previously done the same.

From BBC

In 1986, Cross was named editor of the Rocket, a weekly newspaper in Seattle, just as that city’s music scene was beginning to attract national attention; he went on to edit the paper through the grunge explosion of the late ’80s and early ’90s — during which Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Nirvana became staples of MTV and alternative rock radio — until 2000.

Colonies consist of hundreds of individuals linked in chains that can be up to several meters long.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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