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What is DareDevil?

Daredevil is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Daredevil was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in Daredevil #1 (April 1964). Writer/artist Frank Miller’s influential tenure on the title in the early 1980s cemented the character as a popular and influential part of the Marvel Universe. Daredevil is commonly known by such epithets as the “Man Without Fear” and the “Devil of Hell’s Kitchen”.

Daredevil’s origin story relates that while living in the historically gritty or crime-ridden, working class Irish-American neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen in New York City, Matthew Michael Murdock (better known as Matt Murdock) is blinded by a radioactive substance that falls from a truck after he pushes a man to safety from the oncoming vehicle. While he no longer can see, the radioactive exposure heightens his remaining senses beyond normal human ability and gives him a “radar sense”. His father, a boxer named Jack Murdock, supports him as he grows up, though Jack is later killed by gangsters after refusing to throw a fight. After donning a yellow and dark red costume (later all dark red), Matt seeks out revenge against his father’s killers as the superhero Daredevil, fighting against his many enemies, including Bullseye and Kingpin.[4] He also becomes a lawyer after having graduated from Columbia Law School with his best friend and roommate, Franklin “Foggy” Nelson.

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LIRR

What is LIRR?

LIRR is the Long Island Rail Road Company a commuter rail system in southeastern New York

The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in southeastern New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. With an average weekday ridership of 337,800 passengers in 2014, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America. It is also one of the worlds few commuter systems that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year-round. It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, who refer to it as MTA Long Island Rail Road.

The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains. The LIRR is one of two commuter rail systems the MTA owns, the other being Metro-North Railroad. Established in 1834 and having operated continuously since then, it is the second oldest US railroad still operating under its original name and charter.

There are 124 stations, and more than 700 miles (1,100 km) of track, on its two lines to the two forks of the island and eight major branches, with the passenger railroad system totaling 319 miles (513 km) of route.

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What is a vlog?

A vlog is a video blog

A vlog is the abbreviation of Video weblog and is actually a diary that consists of video footage. It started somewhere in 2002 in New York with some experiments and in 2005 was held the 1st Video Blog conference (also in New York). At the end of 2006 it was also in the Netherlands and was paid attention in a news broadcast of RTL4. Often a vlog is still provided with text (and sometimes images) to veruidelijken the context of the video. Read More