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The five-second rule is a popular polite fiction regarding the eating of food that has fallen to the floor or ground. The origins of the rule are unknown. The substance of the rule is that if food falls on the ground, it may be safely eaten as long as it is picked up within 5 seconds.There are many variations on the rule. Sometimes the time limit is modified so that it is known variously as the "

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Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper, US President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderón met yesterday at the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit, held this year in New Orleans, Louisiana.The first meeting was between Bush and Calderón. Afterwards, Bush noted that they "had a very long and very good discussion on a variety of issues. U.S. and Mexican

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The BAE Systems Sea Harrier is a naval VTOL/STOVL jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft, a development of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier. It first entered service with the Royal Navy in April 1980 as the Sea Harrier FRS.1, and was informally known as the "Shar". The latest version is the Sea Harrier FA2. It was withdrawn from Royal Navy service in March 2006.In 1966 the planned CVA-01

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Gabriel Iglesias (born on July 15, 1976 in Chula Vista, California) is a comedian who is best known for his loud Hawaiian shirts, funny voices, and animated style of comedy. He is the self-proclaimed "Fluffy Man" (as opposed to fat), in reference to his large frame and his own joke about the "Five Levels of Fatness" (which are Big, Healthy, Husky, Fluffy, and "DAMN!!"). He has made several guest

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Keystone beer is a product of the Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado. It was first introduced in Chico, California in September of 1989. Due to its relatively low price and popularity amongst college-aged individuals, it is often considered a cheap beer or, when purchased in case-form, a 'dirty thirty'. Its low price also makes it a great beer for Beer Pong and also Beer-Ball. They are

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"Conquest" is a role-reversal song written by Corky Robbins and popularized in the 1950s by Patti Page. "Conquest" was also covered by The White Stripes on their 2007 album Icky Thump, which features Regulo Aldama on trumpet. Patti Page's version of "Conquest" was featured on an ebay commercial in fall 2007."Conquest" was released as the third single from the White Stripes' album Icky Thump in

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Levitation (from Latin levare, to raise) is the process by which an object is suspended against gravity, in a stable position, by a force without physical contact.It is also a popular conjuring trick, such as apparently raising a human being without any physical aid. The illusion can be produced by clever mechanics, lighting arrangements or other means.On earth all that is required for

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Beowulf is a 2007 animated epic film adapted from the Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship, Beowulf. The film is directed by Robert Zemeckis and was created through motion capture, a technique similar to that used by Zemeckis in The Polar Express. The cast includes Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Dominic Keating, Alison Lohman, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover,

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Chopsticks are a pair of small even-length tapered sticks, which originated in China, and are the traditional eating utensils of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.Chopsticks are commonly used in the first four countries and their associated cuisine. Chopsticks can also now be found in some areas of Tibet and Nepal that are close to Han Chinese populations, due to cross-cultural influences. In South

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Trapt are a four-piece post-grunge/alternative metal band originating from Los Gatos, California in the United States.Trapt formed in 1997 with Chris Brown on vocals, Simon Ormandy playing guitar, Peter Charell on bass, and David Stege playing the drums. Shortly after, they recorded two albums (Amalgamation and Glimpse) to sell when they played at local venues. The band received a great response,

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen-comedy film written by Cameron Crowe (adapted from his book) and directed by Amy Heckerling. The film follows a school year in the lives of freshman Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh), freshman Mark Ratner (Brian Backer) and their respective friends Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates) and Mike Damone (Robert Romanus) who believe

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Dog the Bounty Hunter is a reality television show, chronicling Duane "Dog" Chapman's operations at his job, Da Kine Bail Bonds in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dog is joined in his exploits by his wife and business partner, Beth Smith Chapman, his sons Leland, Duane Lee, brother Tim Chapman, his daughter Lyssa Chapman, as well as his friend Jessica Harsh. His nephew Justin Bihag also appeared during the

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The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 film based loosely on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novel of the same name. Matt Damon stars once again as Ludlum's signature character, amnesia-suffering assassin Jason Bourne. Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen co-star. Paul Greengrass directed the film from a script by Tony Gilroy, George

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Matthew Abram Groening (born February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon; his family name is pronounced 'greɪnɪŋ', rhymes with raining) is an Emmy Award-winning American cartoonist and the creator of The Simpsons, Futurama and the weekly comic strip Life in Hell.Groening grew up in Portland, Oregon, the middle child of five children. His mother Margaret was once a teacher and his father Homer was a

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"No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song made famous by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song was first released in 1974, and became world-famous in 1975 through the studio album Natty Dread by the same band. The live version from the 1975 album Live! is perhaps best known — it was this version which was released on the greatest hits compilation Legend. Though Bob Marley likely wrote the song himself,

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a British film based upon the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell; the film was made in the year imagined by the author.The film was shot in and around London between April and June 1984. Some scenes were shot on the actual days noted in Winston Smith's diary (for example: April 4, 1984). Nineteen Eighty-Four stars John Hurt as Winston Smith and

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Tamara "Tammy" Faye Messner (born March 7, 1942) is an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She is the former wife of televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker, and she co-hosted with him on The PTL Club, from 1976 to 1987. She is known for her tendency to wear heavy makeup, particularly mascara and false eyelashes;

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Škoda Auto is a Czech automobile manufacturer and one of the four oldest car producers in the world. In 1991, it became a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group (VAG).The origins of Škoda go back to the early 1890s where, like many long-established car manufacturers, the company started out with the manufacture of bicycles. It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, who was a bookseller by trade in

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 Academy Award winning film based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published novel in C.S. Lewis' children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. It was produced by Walden Media and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Four British children are evacuated during the Blitz to the countryside, and find a

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Cast Away is a 2000 film by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks about a FedEx employee who is stranded on a deserted island after his plane goes down over the South Pacific. It is unusual in modern cinema in that during most of the movie there is only one character (with the noted exception of Wilson the volleyball). Tom Hanks would go on to be nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his

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"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written by folk-rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which is notable for the number of times it has been covered by different artists in different genres.Bob Dylan has indicated that the events in the song's lyrics are "in a rather reverse order", beginning logically in time with the "All Along the Watchtower" verse, describing the approach of the horsemen, and

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"All Shook Up" is one of the many hit songs of Elvis Presley. It reached the top of all three U.S. charts (pop, country and r&b), staying there for eight weeks in 1957, from April 13 through May 27. In the U.S., it is regarded as the top song of 1957. Otis Blackwell composed this song, with compostional additions by Elvis himself, who is also credited as lyricist. It was ranked #352 on Rolling

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George Louis Costanza is a fictional character on the United States-based television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Jason Alexander. He has variously been described as a "short, stocky, slow-witted, bald man" (by Elaine Benes), "Lord of the Idiots" (by Costanza himself), and as "the greatest sitcom character of all time". George is neurotic, self-loathing, and dominated by his parents,

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Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is the fourth installment in the Die Hard film series. It stars veteran actor Bruce Willis as John McClane, the hero of the first three films. The film takes place some 18 years after the first film, and sees McClane face a gang of Internet terrorists. The film's American and Canadian release date is June 27, 2007.In the past

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Timothy Z. Mosley (born March 10, 1971), better known as Timbaland, is an American musical composer and R&B record producer and rapper whose style influenced both genres even helping to blur the distinction between R&B and hip-hop, as well as pop and dance music. With partner Magoo, he is a member of hip-hop duo Timbaland & Magoo.Timbaland has been considered similar to producers such as Brian

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Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is a Welsh-Cornish electronic music artist, credited with developing the genres of techno, ambient, acid, and drum and bass.Richard D. James was born of Welsh parents Lorna and Derek James on August 18, 1971 in St. Munchins's Limerick Regional Maternity Hospital, Ireland. He grew up in Cornwall, England, enjoying, along

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Kevin Durant (born September 29, 1988 in Washington, D.C.) is a 6'9" American college basketball player who played for the University of Texas at Austin in the Big 12 Conference of the NCAA during the 2006-2007 season. He was selected as the 2006-2007 Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Year and received numerous other awards. After his freshman season, Durant opted to enter the NBA Draft.A

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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a critically-acclaimed and very popular animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.The special depicts one Halloween night in which Linus Van Pelt, Charlie Brown's security blanket-toting best friend, eagerly awaits the arrival of "the Great Pumpkin", who Linus believes to travel around the world each Halloween giving

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Connie Talbot is a six year old singer from Streetly, Walsall, England. She started singing aged 18 months.She appeared on the television reality show Britain's Got Talent, singing Judy Garland's Over The Rainbow during the audition stage. "I will win Britain's Got Talent in memory of my Nan" she vowed. Her nan died from breast cancer two years ago, and Connie's mother said: "She loved the old

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Mara Salvatrucha refers to large gangs involved in criminal activities in Central America and the United States. The gang names are commonly abbreviated as MS-13, Mara, MS, and are composed mostly of Salvadorans, Hondurans and other Central Americans. The MS-13 gangs have cliques, or factions, located throughout the United States and Latin America. Membership is believed to total over 100,000

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Bob Ross (October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter and television presenter. Born in Daytona Beach, Florida, he spent 20 years keeping medical records for the U.S. Air Force before becoming famous worldwide with his television program The Joy of Painting.He has a son Steven from his first marriage to Linda. Steven occasionally appeared on The Joy of Painting and is a Bob Ross

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Michael Tsarion was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and is an author, public speaker, historian and businessman whose topics include religion, symbolism, sidereal astrology, mythology, the occult, Atlantis, etc.Michael Tsarion is affiliated with the Paul Solomon Foundation of Virginia and has taught Indigo children at the New Age Academy in Berkeley. He was also mentored by and is a friend of

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"Like a Rolling Stone" is a song by Bob Dylan from his album Highway 61 Revisited. First issued in 1965, it represents in its length (6:09), style, and scoring, one of the most influential of Dylan's songs. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it as the greatest song of all time, declaring, "No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of

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The AMX International AMX "Ghibli" is a surface attack aircraft for battlefield interdiction, close air support and reconnaissance missions. It is built by the AMX International joint venture. In the Brazilian Air Force, it is designated the A-1.The AMX is capable of operating at high subsonic speed and low altitude, by day or night, and if necessary, from bases with poorly equipped or damaged

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eBay is an American Internet company that manages ebay.com, an online auction and shopping website where people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. In addition to its original U.S. website, eBay has established localized websites in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Philippines,

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T-Pain (born Faheem Najim in Tallahassee, Florida in 1985) is an American hip-hop and R&B singer.Faheem was born in Tallahassee to entrepreneur Muslim parents. At the age of ten, Faheem reworked his bedroom into a small studio with a Keyboard, beat machine and four track recorder, and began composing music.Prior to becoming a solo singer, Faheem was part of the Tallahassee rap group Nappy Headz.

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he became one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA (National Basketball Association) around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.After a standout career at the

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Larry Wright (born c. 1975) is a well-known New York City busker. He's credited as the first major drummer to use five gallon plastic buckets instead of a normal drum kit. He uses his foot to lift the bucket changing the sound patterns.He has appeared in commercials, Mariah Carey's "Some Day" video, as well as the movie Green Card. There is an independant movie about him as a high school student.

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Brian Collins Westbrook (Born on September 2, 1979 in Fort Washington, Maryland) is an American football player who currently plays running back for the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL.Westbrook played high school varsity football at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. The private, Catholic all-boys prep school has a storied tradition of athletic achievement, and Westbrook's

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The Killers are a Grammy-nominated American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Formed in 2002 and made up of Brandon Flowers (vocals, keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitar, vocals), Mark Stoermer (bass guitar, vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr., (drums, percussion), they released their debut album, Hot Fuss, in 2004. Their second album, Sam's Town, was released in early October 2006.Most famous for their

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The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament canon.The author identifies himself in the opening verse as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ". From the middle of the third century, patristic authors cited the Epistle as written by James the Just, a relation of Jesus and first Bishop of Jerusalem. Not numbered among the Twelve Apostles, James was nonetheless a

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This article is about the history of central banking in the United States, from the 1790s to the present.1791–1836: The First and Second Bank of the United StatesFirst Bank of the United StatesAlexander Hamilton, The Secretary of the Treasury convinced Congress in 1791 that the financial needs and credit of the new government required funding the national debt, and creating a national bank. In

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Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. It was released by Google on October 7, 2005 through Google Labs.Major revisions to Reader's interface were made on September 28, 2006. Nick Baum, Product Manager on the Google Reader team, whilst being interviewed by Robert Scoble, stated that the redesign is a movement toward making news aggregation something for

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Akon (born Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam on October 14, 1981) is an American R&B singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Akon rose to fame in 2004 following the release of his single "Locked Up" from his debut album Trouble. His second album, Konvicted, earned him a Grammy Award nomination for the single "Smack That".Akon often goes by the shorter,

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The tunnels of Củ Chi are an immense network of connecting underground tunnels located in the Củ Chi district of Vietnam, and are part of a much larger network of tunnels that underlie much of the country. The Củ Chi tunnels were the location of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War, and were the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam's base of operations for the Tết

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Television (often abbreviated to TV, T.V., or t.v., nicknamed telly in the UK) is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term "television" may also be used to refer specifically to a television set, programming or television transmission. The word is derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots, meaning "far sight": Greek

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Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) is an unauthorized made-for-television docudrama written and directed by Martyn Burke. Based upon the book, Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer, by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, this film documents the rise of the home computer/personal computer through the rivalry between Apple Computer (Apple II and the Apple Macintosh) and Microsoft (

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Woodsball, also known as woods paintball, Bushball, and sometimes incorrectly as scenarioball, is a popular form of paintball. Woodsball is the name of paintball that is played in any natural setting.Woodsball is the classic form of paintball. Technically, woodsball doesn't have to be played in "woods" as such, but also open fields, swamps, mountains, canyons, etc. Another characteristic of

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A haboob is a type of intense sand storm commonly observed the Sahara desert (typically Sudan), as well as across the Arabian Peninsula, throughout Kuwait, and in the most arid regions of Iraq. African haboobs result from the northward summer shift of the intertropical front into North Africa, bringing moisture from the Gulf of Guinea. Haboob winds in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Kuwait are

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Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a widely-known Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of America's most prominent journalists.Jennings started his career early, hosting

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The Phil Hendrie Show was a comedy talk radio program syndicated throughout North America on Premiere Radio Networks and on XM Satellite Radio. It was known for outrageous guests, all of whom were fictional and voiced live by the host, Phil Hendrie.Though Hendrie often explained that he was doing the voices, listeners unfamiliar with the show's format were invited to call, duped into believing

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ASCII art is an artistic medium that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1967 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of the 7-bit standard ASCII). The term is also loosely used to refer to text

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The Lumberjack Song is one of the best-known and most popular sketches by the Monty Python comedy troupe. The song was written by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson.The sketch appeared in several forms (on the original television series, film, stage, and LP). It first appeared on the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Each time the sketch started differently.The common

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Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system and an appetite suppressant, giving rise to what has been described as a euphoric sense of happiness and increased energy. It is most often used recreationally for this effect. Nonetheless, cocaine is formally used in medicine as a topical anesthetic,

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The Angrez is a 2006 Indian movie directed by Kuntaa Nikkil.The word "Angrez" in Hindustani language refers to English people, and in general, to all foreigners, specifically the whites. "The Angrez" is the first movie in Hyderabadi dialect.The movie takes a dig on Hyderabadis and revolves around three sets of people. 1. The Angrez - Two guys who come back from US to serve the top management

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Kerd ma lui (English title: Born to Fight) is a 2004 Thai action film directed by Panna Rittikrai. It was the followup film to Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior that Panna choreographed the action for, and featured more of his "no strings attached" stuntwork. Many of the actors in Born to Fight were Thailand national athletes. The film was a remake in name only of Panna's first film, a B-movie actioner

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Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988) is a Bajan singer with musical influences from R&B, pop, reggae and dancehall. Rihanna became worldwide known with chart hits such as "Pon de Replay", "If It's Lovin' That You Want", "SOS", "Unfaithful", and "Break It Off".Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados to Ronald and Monica Fenty. Her mother is Guyanese and her father is

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Delta Farce is a 2007 comedy film set to be released for Lions Gate on May 11, 2007. It is directed by C. B. Harding and stars Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy, DJ Qualls and Danny Trejo.Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry (Larry the Cable Guy) decides to join his neighbor, Bill (Bill Engvall), and his combat-happy buddy, Everett (DJ Qualls), for a

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Cookie Monster is a popular Muppet character on the children's television show Sesame Street. He is covered with blue fur and has "googly eyes", but he is most known for his voracious appetite. He can (and often does) eat anything and everything, but his favorite choice of food above everything else is cookies, hence his name. (Chocolate-chip cookies are his favorite kind.) In a song in 2004,

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The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band, known as "The Pride", is the student marching band for the University of Oklahoma Sooners.The Pride was founded in 1901 as a pep band to play at Sooner football games. In the early years, the band was composed mostly of Norman residents and was disbanded every year after football season.The first continuous student band was founded in 1904 by Lloyd Curtis,

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Pit Bull is a term that describes several breeds of dogs with similar physical characteristics. The American Pit Bull Terrier and the American Staffordshire Terrier commonly fall under the category of "pit bull." There are several other breeds that are sometimes included under the rubric of "pit bull", including the Indian Bull Terrier, Argentine Dogo, the English Bull Terrier, the American

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Howl's Moving Castle is an Academy Award-nominated Japanese animated fantasy film, based on Diana Wynne Jones' novel of the same name, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. Mamoru Hosoda, director of two seasons and one movie from the Digimon series, was originally selected to direct but abruptly left the project, leaving the then retired Miyazaki to take up the director's role.The

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Dr. Steven M. Greer (June 28, 1955) is an emergency physician and former chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, North Carolina. He is also a lifetime member of Alpha Omega Alpha, a prestigious medical honor society. Greer, who is a regarded by some as a leading Ufologist, is the founder of the Disclosure Project, the Space Energy Access Systems,

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Stuart Wilde has been referred to as both an urban mystic and a visionary. Born in the British Colony of Tanzania shortly after WW II, he has written 17 books on self-help, self-empowerment, spirituality and consciousness. He has also released many tapes and CDs for meditation and transcendence. His works have been translated into over 30 languages.In addition to spirituality, Stuart Wilde's

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Smosh is a video-creating duo that has established fame on YouTube; it consists of childhood friends Anthony Padilla (born 16 September 1987.) and Ian Hecox (born 30 November 1987). Smosh is the second most subscribed channel of all time on YouTube (as of March 2007). Smosh's videos have been viewed by millions of people and have appeared on mainstream television. Padilla and Hecox both attend

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The East African Land Snail, Achatina fulica, is a terrestrial pulmonate snail species that has been widely introduced to Asia, to Pacific and Indian Oceans islands, and to the West Indies. It has also been intercepted widely by quarantine officials and incipient invasions have been eradicated, for instance in the mainland USA.More recently, the land snail has become a common pet, however they

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1942: A Love Story is a Hindi movie released in 1994. The movie stars Anil Kapoor, Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa and Pran. The movie was the first ever to be given a PG-12 rating while featuring a scene, previously considered inappropriate for young children, showing the actors kissing. The film was a musical hit and was released some time after the death of the

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Willard Mitt Romney, usually known as Mitt (born March 12, 1947), was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, elected in 2002. He served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term ended January 4, 2007. Romney is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, having formally announced his candidacy on February 13, 2007. He made his announcement at the

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Dave Della Terza is a 24-year-old web entrepreneur from Naperville, Illinois. He is most notable as the founder of Vote for the Worst, a web site that promotes voting for contestants on American Idol who producers would hate to see win. Della Terza has been credited with helping Sanjaya Malakar become an unlikely success on the show.Appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman on April 17, 2007.

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Uno is a card game played with a specially printed deck. The game was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins. It is now a Mattel product. The game's general principles put it into the Crazy Eights family of card games. Despite being developed in America, Uno is officially pronounced exactly the same way as the Italian and Spanish word for "one", uno.The custom deck consists of cards of 4

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Jim Jeffries (born Perth, Western Australia) is an Austrailian comedian.He has appeared on BBC television shows such as Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The Heaven and Earth Show. He has also performed spots on The World Stands Up and Edinburgh and Beyond for the Paramount Comedy Channel.He has performed at several festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, Montreal Comedy Festival (Just for Laughs),

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Magic sand is a special type of hydrophobic sand. It can be blue, green, or red in colour. Magic Sand was originally developed to trap ocean oil spills near the shore. This would be done by sprinkling Magic Sand on floating petroleum, which would then mix with the oil and make it heavy enough to sink. However, due to the expense of production, it is not being used for this purpose.Magic sand was

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"November Rain" is one of the most popular songs by the band Guns N' Roses, written by Axl Rose. As well known as the song is itself, perhaps a greater amount of attention is given to the music video, which, when it was released in 1992, quickly became the most requested video on MTV, and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography.As revealed in the Chris Heath book Pet Shop Boys

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The series stars Loken as Jane Vasco, a DEA agent who is framed for drug crimes and forced to join a shadow agency of the United States government led by Andre McBride (Rob Stewart),in order to track down "Neuros" — mutants with superhuman neurological based powers, which encompass telekinesis and telepathy as well as other mental powers. Vasco and the others on McBride's team of agents work from

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Salsa is usually a partner dance form that corresponds to salsa music. In some forms, it can also appear as a performance dance. The word is the same as the Spanish word salsa meaning sauce, or in this case flavor or style.According to testimonials from musicologists and historians of music, the name salsa was gradually accepted among dancers throughout various decades. The very first time the

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Vasectomy is a permanent birth control method. In some conventional clinics part of the vasa deferentia are surgically removed, thus sterilizing the patient. In more modern clinics and in no-scalpel (keyhole) vasectomies none of the vas is removed, but is instead cut and sealed.Vasectomy should not be confused with castration: vasectomy does not involve removal of the testicles and it affects

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Maserati is a famous Italian manufacturer of racing cars and sports cars, established in 1914 in Bologna. The company's headquarters are now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. Today, Maserati is owned directly by the Italian car giant Fiat, after having been a part of Ferrari for some years.The Maserati brothers, Alfieri Maserati, Bindo Maserati, Carlo Maserati, Ettore Maserati, Ernesto

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In 1978, author Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Jesse Marcel, the only person known to have accompanied the Roswell incident debris from where it was recovered to Fort Worth, Texas. Over the next few years, the accounts he and others would give elevated Roswell from a forgotten incident to perhaps the most famous UFO case of all time. Marcel and many other witnesses to the recovered debris

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Eiken is also the name of a Japanese animation studio known for such works as Sazae-san, Gigantor, 8th Man, and Glass Mask.Eiken is a heavily fanservice-themed manga and anime series created by Seiji Matsuyama. The story depicts the life of schoolboy Densuke Mifune after he is forced into the mysterious Eiken Club, which is populated only by females, several of which have enormous breasts.The

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Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori. The film is based on two stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ("Rashomon" provides the setting, while "In a Grove" provides the characters and plot). Rashomon can be said to have introduced Kurosawa and Japanese cinema

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Hugh Norman Ross (born July 24, 1945) is a Canadian-born Old Earth creationist and Christian apologist. An astronomer by training, he has established his own ministry called Reasons To Believe that promotes a form of Old Earth creationism known as progressive creationism. Ross accepts the scientific evidence of the age of the earth and the age of the universe, but he rejects evolution and

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Morbid Angel is a Florida-based death metal band assembled in 1983. They, along with Death were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards. Their songs are complex in arrangement, owing to the considerable technical skills of guitarist Trey Azagthoth and drummer Pete Sandoval.Morbid Angel was one of the original death metal bands signed to Earache Records, and were

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Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953 in Reading, Berkshire) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age and more recently dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature. He is best known for his hit 1973 album Tubular Bells which broke new ground as

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Released in 1930 under the title Abraham Lincoln, D.W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln' is a biopic of former American president Abraham Lincoln starring Walter Huston.Its runtime is 1:24:39.Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are

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John Donald "Don" Imus, Jr. (born July 23, 1940) is an American radio talk show host and writer, best known for his sarcasm, wit and often harsh language. His popular radio show, Imus in the Morning, airs daily.Imus was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. In 2002, Talkers magazine ranked Imus as one of the greatest radio talk show hosts of all time.Imus maintains three residences, one

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Man of the Year is a comedy movie directed by Barry Levinson and featuring Robin Williams in the lead role. In addition to Williams, the film features Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Linney and Lewis Black.In the film, Williams portrays Tom Dobbs, the host of a comedy/political talk show, based loosely on the real-life personas of Jon Stewart and Bill Maher. When an offhand remark he

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Jurassic Park is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton that was published in 1990. Often considered a cautionary tale on unconsidered biological tinkering in the same spirit as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it uses the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its philosophical implications to explain the collapse of an amusement park showcasing certain genetically recreated dinosaur

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Elfen Lied is the title of a Japanese manga series originally created by Japanese author Lynn Okamoto as well as a TV anime series based on it. Elfen Lied focuses on a mysterious and deadly breed of horned humans called "diclonius", and the havoc they wreak upon humanity. The title Elfen Lied is German for "Elf Song", and pronounced approximately, although the correct German spelling would be "

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Ari Koivunen (born June 7, 1984, Kouvola) is a winner of the 2007 Finnish Idols competition.A resident of Lahti, Koivunen breezed into the finals after winning 86% of the public vote for his rendition of Billy Joel's Piano Man. On the first of March, 2007, Koivunen reserved himself a place in the second round of competition with his version of Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers.Koivunen moved into

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Mélissa Theuriau (born 18 July 1978, in Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble, France) is a French journalist. She has also been called the most beautiful newscaster in the world, and has a cult following in the United States and the United Kingdom.After one year of Law school, Theuriau graduated from the Institut de la Communication et des Médias, Université Stendhal - Grenoble III at

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Aloysius Snuffleupagus, more commonly known as Mr. Snuffleupagus or Snuffy, is one of the Muppet characters on the long-running educational television program for young children, Sesame Street. He resembles a woolly mammoth, without tusks or (visible) ears, and he is a friend of Big Bird. He attends Snufflegarten and has a baby sister named Alice.For many years, Big Bird was the only character on

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A Cadbury Creme Egg is a brand of chocolate egg produced by Cadbury Schweppes. The egg has a thick milk chocolate "shell", with a white and yellow fondant filling designed to resemble the yolk and albumen of an egg.Creme eggs are usually sold individually, but are also available in packets of three, four, six, and twelve, and in boxes of eight, fifteen and twenty-four. The foil wrapping of the

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Super Soaker is a brand of recreational water gun, first sold in 1988. The first Super Soakers utilized pressurized air to shoot water with greater power, range, and accuracy than conventional squirt guns. Super Soakers were popular for many years - so popular, in fact, that the term super soaker is sometimes used generically, to refer to any type of pressurized water gun[citation needed].The

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The Yes Men are a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call "identity correction". They pretend to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations, accepting invitations received on their websites to appear at symposiums and TV shows. They use their newfound authority to express the idea that corporations and governmental organizations often act in

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Jamie Doran is an Irish documentary filmmaker who worked for the BBC for seven years before he set up his own television company. * Guinea Pig Kids - Black and Hispanic HIV positive children from some of New York's poorest districts are being forcibly subjected to toxic experiments without the consent of guardians or relatives. During a nine month investigation, Jamie Doran uncovered the

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Balls of Steel is a Channel 4 comedy series hosted by Mark Dolan, where his special guests perform stunts, holding their nerve during hidden camera set-ups or by being juvenile and stupid in the presence of celebrities or the British public.There are a total of 12 acts. In each episode six acts compete with one of them being the winner from the previous episode. At the end of each episode the

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God of War II is the sequel to the God of War video game. It was released on March 13, 2007 for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console. The game will be released on April 20 in Europe.God of War II is packaged in a two-disc set. The first disc contains the game, and the second disc is dedicated to the game's development, including a diary of the game production.The game starts with the new cod

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A Zippo lighter is a refillable, metal lighter manufactured by Zippo Manufacturing Company. Thousands of different styles and designs have been made in the seven decades since their introduction. They are frequently collected.They became popular in the United States military, especially during World War II — when, as the company's website says, Zippo "ceased production of lighters for consumer

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The Slip 'n Slide is a toy manufactured by Wham-O for use on lawns in the summer.The toy is a long sheet of thin plastic, flanked lengthwise on one side by a heat-sealed tubular fold. The tube can be attached to any ordinary garden hose. Water runs through the tube and out small perforations, spraying onto the sliding surface. The Slip 'n Slide then becomes very slippery, enabling users to dive

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Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (Wednesday, February 26, 1908 – Tuesday, August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Droopy. His influence was found in

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