Thad King
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Thad King was an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica for 15 years. A lover of theater, literature, and sports, he has always enjoyed the variety of subjects that one encounters when working for an encyclopedia.
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Top Gun, American action film, released in 1986, that centers on a group of young fighter pilots at the U.S. Navy’s elite flying school. The movie captured the Cold War-era patriotism of the United States in the 1980s and was a massive box-office success. Director Tony Scott’s visually stunning…
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