The new Terrence Malick film is set fitfully in the present day, largely in the nineteen-fifties, and, somewhat surprisingly, a few billion years before that.

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Nineteen states prohibit pay-day lending outright, usually as the result of longstanding usury laws.

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Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground.

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Four thousand, six hundred allied troops had been killed on that day alone, of whom two thousand five hundred were American and nineteen French.

BBC: Part Two - France and Memory

Nineteen years ago, my father proudly signed the bill making Martin Luther King Day a time dedicated to serving others.

CNN: Chelsea Clinton: We can make a difference

"Through the Tunnel" is an accomplished fable about a young boy's initiation in Mediterranean waters, while "The Day Stalin Died" follows the pathos and comedy of a London writer and "To Room Nineteen" examines the effect of a single act of infidelity on a supposedly sturdy British marriage.

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Nineteen of the chairs are smaller than the rest, in memory of the children murdered in their day-care centre.

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