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Obscura Digital Cuelight Interactive Pool Table. Featured at the Esquire Houses Ultimate Bachelor Pad in NYC, the limited Edition Obscura CueLight projection system turns a game of pool into an amazing interactive art display. Obscuras projection, sensor and tracking system reveals images and animations that follow the movements of the pool balls as players hit them around the table. You supply

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Owen and Mzee are a hippopotamus and a tortoise, respectively, that became the subject of much media attention after forming a unique bond of friendship.A baby hippopotamus, Owen, was orphaned in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Kenya near Malindi during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. The baby hippo, weighing 600 pounds (270 kg), was rescued during a day long effort by

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Officials in Georgia have alleged that a Russian fighter jet shot down a Georgian spy plane on Sunday. Colonel David Nairashvili of Georgia's air force told Associated Press that the spy plane recorded video of a Russian fighter before it was downed.According to the foreign ministry of Russia, Abkhaz rebels shot down the Georgian spy plane with anti-aircraft weapons. The statement said that

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The moonwalk or backslide is a dance move that gained widespread popularity after being performed by Michael Jackson on the 1983 television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and has since become his signature move. The purpose of the moonwalk is to give the illusion that the dancer appears to walk forward while actually moving backward.Although he did not invent its mechanics (which

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Nick Vujicic is a motivational speaker and the director for Life Without Limbs, an organization that is for the physically disabled. Nick was born in Melbourne, Australia on 4 December 1982.First born child into his devout Christian family, Nick Vujicic was born in Sunnybank, Brisbane, Australia, limbless, missing both arms at shoulder level, and having one small foot with two toes protruding

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Vancouver Film School (VFS) is a private entertainment arts school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1987, it has achieved international recognition. The Vancouver Film School has campus locations around downtown Vancouver and comprises six buildings. As part of the school's upcoming 20th anniversary in 2007, in August 2006 one million dollars was set aside in

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The hibachi is a traditional Japanese heating device. It consists of a round, cylindrical or a box-shaped open-topped container, made from or lined with a heatproof material and designed to hold burning charcoal.In North America, the term "hibachi" is used to refer to a small cooking stove heated by charcoal (actually called shichirin in Japanese), or to an iron hot plate (teppan) used in

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David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an Emmy-Award and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian, television personality who gained fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. He currently stars as single man Russell on the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement.Spade, the youngest of three sons, was born in Birmingham, Michigan to Judith M., a writer and magazine editor, and

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William Sledd is a host of a web-based video series hosted on YouTube. His videos center around fashion, hair and the one time cupcake baking episode. The series is most well known for it's "Ask a Gay Man" episodes where Sledd, as an openly gay man, explains the latest trends in fashion and occasionally goes on location to point out fashion "dont's" as part of his Fashion Victim's

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A wave pool is a type of swimming pool in which reasonably large waves are artificially generated. The idea of such a pool is generally to provide an experience more similar to swimming in the ocean than a typical swimming pool can provide. Wave pools are often a major feature of water parks.Several locations claim to have developed the first wave pool in the United States, including Big Surf in

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Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC.Fitts served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush

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The Great Destroyer is a 2005 album by the slowcore band Low. It was their first effort on Sub Pop Records."California", a song about Sparhawk's mother, was the first single, backed with a demo of "Cue the Strings". A remix EP of "Monkey", entitled Tonight the Monkeys Die, soon followed. Music videos were created for both.The title of the album (as well as the song "Silver Rider") is taken from

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Dwarf tossing is a bar attraction in which dwarfs wearing special padded clothing or Velcro costumes are thrown onto mattresses or at Velcro-coated walls. Participants compete to throw the dwarf the farthest. The term "dwarf throwing" is sometimes used. The sport is believed to have originated in Queensland, Australia, around the mid-1980s.The World Dwarf-throwing Championships were held in

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"I Got a Crush... on Obama" is a popular internet viral video, first posted on YouTube in June 2007 featuring an attractive young woman seductively singing of her love for Junior Senator of Illinois and 2008 U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. Actress and model Amber Lee Ettinger lip-synched the song for the video, and Leah Kauffman (of "My Box in a Box" fame) provided the vocals.The

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"Series of tubes" is a widely ridiculed metaphor used by United States Senator and then-Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). He was describing the Internet in a speech about network neutrality on June 28, 2006. Stevens was criticizing a proposed amendment to a committee bill which would have prohibited Internet service

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Owned is a slang word that evolved in gaming circles, but has now become a general slang term. The term originated among 1990s hackers, where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over someone else's computer. By 1997 it was regularly used in website defacements. It then spread to gaming circles, where it came to mean acquisition of superiority through the downfall of another

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Andrew P. Napolitano (born June 6, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is a former judge and now an analyst for Fox News Channel. Napolitano started on the channel in 1998, and currently serves as the network's senior judicial analyst, commenting on most legal news and trials. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Notre Dame Law School.Napolitano was a Superior Court judge in New Jersey from 1987

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The Jonas Brothers are an American pop rock band from Wyckoff, New Jersey.The Jonas Brothers band was started as a solo project of the youngest member and brother, Nicholas Jonas. Once it was brought to the attention of recording company that he had two other musically talented brothers as well, they were quickly signed as "The Jonas Brothers" to Columbia Records. The boys recently converted

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Brad Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer, and songwriter from Glen Dale, West Virginia.Brad Paisley has stated that his love of country music stems from his maternal grandfather, who gave Paisley his first guitar at age 8 and taught him how to play. At age 12, Paisley wrote his first song, and by 13 he was an opening act for country singers such as Ricky Skaggs and

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Jake 'Unbreakable' Brown (born September 6, 1974) is an Australian skateboarder who competes in the X Games. He began competing in 1996, turning pro the next year. His skateboard stance is goofy.On August 2, 2007, during the Summer X Games 2007 in The Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, California, Brown suffered what ESPN commentators called the "heaviest slam they had ever seen". On his fifth and

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Code Monkeys is an animated series on G4 featuring a pixelated animation style inspired by classic video games of the early 1980s. The show is created, written and executive produced by Adam de la Pena (I'm with Busey, Minoriteam).Many of the references in the show suggest that it is set at the beginning of the video game era, sometime in the 1980s. It centers on a video game publisher called

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"Smooth Criminal" is the eighth single from Michael Jackson's Bad album (1987). The song contains a fast-paced beat intertwined with Jackson's lyrics about a woman named Annie, who has been attacked in her apartment by a suave hitman. It was released as a single in 1988 and peaked at seven on the Billboard Hot 100. It was re-released on April 10, 2006 as a part of the Visionary: The Video Singles

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Magnetic levitation, maglev, or magnetic suspension is a method by which an object is suspended above another object with no support other than magnetic fields. The electromagnetic force is used to counteract the effects of the gravitational force.Earnshaw's theorem proved conclusively that it is not possible to levitate stably using only static, macroscopic, "classical" electromagnetic fields.

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"AYO Technology" was the fourth single from 50 Cent's upcoming third album, Curtis. The song features Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Sources from HipHopDX.com claim that 50 Cent had to re-work the song because of pressure from Universal Music Group (parent company of Interscope Records) due to the song being too explicit for airplay. The video for the song, which was supposed to be released on

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Nicole Camille Richie (born September 21, 1981) is an American socialite, actress, author, and singer. The adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, she is known for her role in the reality show The Simple Life and her turbulent personal life.Nicole Richie was born Nicole Camille Escovedo in Berkeley, California. Her biological mother was a backstage assistant for Lionel.At age two, Nicole went to live

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"Louie Louie" is an American rock 'n' roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. It has become a standard in pop and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists. The song is written in the style of a Jamaican ballad; and tells, in simple verse-chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love. The singer brags of his "fine

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The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (official designator Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, 1,900-foot (579 m) steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate Highway 35W across the Mississippi River. The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) bridge was Minnesota's second busiest, carrying 141,000 vehicles daily.During the weekday evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, the bridge collapsed

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No Reservations is a 2007 romantic comedy directed by Scott Hicks, from a screenplay by Carol Fuchs based on an original script by Sandra Nettelbeck. A remake of the German film Mostly Martha (Ger. title Bella Martha, directed by Nettelbeck), the American version stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart as a pair of chefs, and Abigail Breslin. An episode of Food Network's Unwrapped, which

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Elvis sightings are a recurring phenomenon in which people claim to see American singer and rock star Elvis Presley, who died on August 16, 1977.Presley was born in January 1935, so his projected age would not preclude the possibility that Elvis is still alive (as of 2007, he would be 72 years old).Critics of those who believe that Elvis is alive may state that a number of Elvis impersonators

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The Yardbirds are an English rock band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. A blues-based band whose sound evolved into experimental pop rock, they had a string of hits including “For Your Love”, “Over, Under, Sideways, Down” and “Heart Full Of Soul”. They were a crucial link between British R&B and psychedelia; their

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"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a power ballad by the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released on their debut album Appetite for Destruction on August 21, 1987. "Sweet Child o' Mine" was Guns N' Roses' first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at the top spot in September 1988.The song is credited as being written by Guns N' Roses as a band; more specifically it contains

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The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is an existential 1957 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman about the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) across a plague-ridden landscape. Its best-known scene features the knight playing chess with the personification of Death, his life resting on the outcome of the game. It is widely considered to be one of Bergman's best films.The

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Mr. Bean's Holiday (also known as Bean 2) is a comedy film starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean which was released in the United Kingdom March 2007. This film is rated G by the MPAA.Mr. Bean's Holiday is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean, following the 1997 film Bean. News of the second movie first broke in early 2005, suggesting that it would be written by Simon McBurney,

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"Behind These Hazel Eyes" is the third single (the second in Europe) from Breakaway, the second album by pop rock singer, Kelly Clarkson.Released in 2005, the song was co-written by Clarkson, Max Martin, and Dr. Luke and was co-produced by Max Martin and Dr. Luke. Surprisingly, the single almost did not appear on the album because Clarkson was not satisfied with the song's original lyrical

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Zachary David Alexander Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor. He began acting in the early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, and the film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray. Speaking to Newsweek in June 2006, director Adam Shankman described Efron as "arguably the

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Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding the wake of a watercraft (motor boat or PWC) on a single board. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques. Some people believe that wakeboarding is a copy of skurfing but they have varying characteristics.As in water skiing, the rider is towed behind a watercraft, or a cable (that is made

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Jerusalem is Israel's capital, seat of government, and largest city in both population and area, with 732,100 residents in an area of 126 square kilometers (49 sq mi). Located in the Judean Mountains, between the Mediterranean Sea and the northern tip of the Dead Sea, the city has a history that goes back as far as the 4th millennium BCE. Jerusalem has been the holiest city in Judaism and the

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Faces of Death, also released under the title The Original Faces of Death, is a 1978 mondo film, lasting roughly 105 minutes, which guides viewers through explicit scenes depicting a variety of ways to die. It is often billed as Banned in 40 Countries, with that number varying with the years. The film has, in fact, been banned (at least temporarily) in New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Finland.

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Ryan Allen Sheckler (born December 30, 1989) is an American professional skateboarder.Sheckler was born in San Clemente, California to Randy and Gretchen Sheckler. He has two brothers Shane and Kane. At the age of 18 months, Sheckler found his dad's old school skateboard. Sheckler taught himself to push it around by using one knee, and eventually stood up on the skateboard. Since the age of 6, he

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The Ferrari F430 is a high-performance sports car produced by the Italian automaker Ferrari to succeed the Ferrari 360. It debuted at the 2004 Paris Motor Show. European left-hand drive sales began in November 2004, but right-hand drive sales did not start until Spring 2005, and the United States did not get the F430 until Summer 2005.The F430's chassis is heavily based on its predecessor, the

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The Messengers is a 2007 supernatural thriller film directed by the Pang Brothers (directors of the notable The Eye series) and produced by Sam Raimi. It stars Kristen Stewart, Graham Bell, John Corbett, William B. Davis, Dylan McDermott and Penelope Ann Miller. The plot of the film is about an ominous darkness that invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon

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Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964 in Riverside, California) is a Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants. He is the son of former Major League All-Star Bobby Bonds, distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, and the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.Bonds holds the single season major league records for home runs (73), on base percentage (.609), slugging percentage (

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The Morning Glory cloud is one of the most spectacular meteorological phenomena in the world. It is quite rare as it is usually only observed in Northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. A Morning Glory cloud can best be described as a roll cloud that can be up to 1000 kilometers long, 1 to 2 kilometers high, and can move at speeds up to 40 kilometers per hour. The morning glory is often

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"Paul is dead" is an urban legend alleging that Paul McCartney of the British rock band The Beatles died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike. McCartney is alive and well as of 2007.Evidence for McCartney's death consists of "clues" found among the Beatles' many recordings, most of which are treated as if they were deliberately placed by the Beatles or others—as if McCartney's

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"Call Me" is a song performed by Blondie, released in February of 1980. "Call Me" topped the singles charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom; it would become the band's biggest-selling single in the U.S., and the top seller for the entire year.The song was the main theme of the film American Gigolo, starring Richard Gere. European disco producer Giorgio Moroder originally asked

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The Iran-Iraq War, also known as the Iraqi Imposed War (جنگ تحمیلی, Jang-e-tahmīlī), Holy defense (دفاع مقدس, Defa-e-moghaddas) and Iranian Revolutionary War in Iran, and Saddām's Qādisiyyah (قادسيّة صدّام, Qādisiyyat Saddām) in Iraq, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988. It was commonly referred to as the Persian Gulf War until the

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Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California, USA, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch.The company is the result of a 1935 merger

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Krang is a fictional supervillain who appears in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe. He appeared in the 1987 TMNT cartoon and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic book, as well as most of the classic TMNT video games. In the TV series, Krang is voiced by Pat Fraley.Krang is an extremely intelligent warlord from Dimension X. He somehow took command of an army of Rock Soldiers

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"Juicy" is a song by hip hop artist The Notorious B.I.G. and the first single from his 1994 debut album Ready to Die. It was produced by Bad Boy Records producers Poke and Sean "Puffy" Combs. Its melody is sampled from Mtume's "Juicy Fruit." It is one of his best known songs. The song is considered by many as one of the greatest hip-hop songs of all-time.The song is a "rags-to-riches chronicle"

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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che or just Che was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas.As a young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled roughrough[›] throughout South America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many

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Thomas is a fictional anthropomorphic tank locomotive created by the Rev. W. V. Awdry in his Railway Series books, made into the British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and its American spinoff Shining Time Station.In his first appearance in the television series he was described as follows: "Thomas is a blue tank engine who lives at a big station on the Island

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The Lamborghini Murciélago is a supercar produced by a Italian automaker Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. and designed by Luc Donckerwolke. It was introduced in 2002 as the successor to the Diablo. The Murciélago is a two-door, two-seat coupé. To celebrate the company's 40 years in working, 50 special edition Murciélagos were built during the autumn of 2003.An open-top version called the Murciélago

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"Relax" is the title track of the first single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records 24 October 1983. The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome.Although fairly inauspicious upon initial release, "Relax" finally reached number one in the UK singles chart on 24 January 1984, ultimately becoming one of the most controversial and most commercially

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William Roberts (born February 8, 1977 in Carol City, Florida), better known by his stage name Rick Ross (alternate form Rick Ro$$), is an African American rapper from Carol City in northern Miami-Dade County, Florida. Ross' moniker is suspected to be borrowed from drug trafficker Ricky "Freeway" Ross, who ran one of the largest cocaine distribution networks in the country during the '1980s and

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"Summer Nights" was a popular song made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.Written by Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs, "Summer Nights" was one of the stand out songs from the musical Grease. The follow up to their earlier release "You're The One That I Want," it was a massive hit in the UK spending 7 weeks at number one, taking the duo's total at number one to 16 weeks for their two hits.

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The Aryan Brotherhood, (also known as the AB or The Brand) is a prison gang numbering about 15,000 members in and out of prison. In March 2006, four leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood were indicted for numerous crimes, including murder, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and racketeering. According to the FBI, the gang is responsible for up to 20% of murders in the federal prison system.The Aryan

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Ratatouille is a 2007 animated feature film produced by Pixar. It tells the story of Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rat living in Paris who wants to be a chef. The film was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005, and it was released on June 29, 2007 in the United States.Remy (Patton Oswalt) lives in a rat colony in the attic of a French country home with his brother

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Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski (born May 2, 1967) is an American television news journalist, currently a co-host of MSNBC's weekday morning program, Morning Joe. In addition to providing regular commentary, she also reads the news headlines for the program. Brzezinski recently began contributing reports to the NBC Nightly News, and serves as alternating news anchor on Weekend Today. Previously,

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Hitman is a 2007 film adaptation of the video game series Hitman. The film is directed by Xavier Gens and stars Timothy Olyphant. The script is written by Skip Woods. Hitman is slated for an October 12, 2007 release.20th Century Fox: "Agent 47 (Olyphant) has been educated to become a professional assassin for hire, whose most powerful weapons are his nerve and a resolute pride in his work. 47 is

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force (also known as ATHF or simply Aqua Teen) was an American animated television series shown on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim late-night programming block. It premiered on December 30, 2000. ATHF is one of the four original Williams Street series that premiered on Adult Swim in 2000 (the others are Sealab 2021, The Brak Show, and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law),

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Christopher Dorsey, better known as B.G. (born September 3, 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American rapper. "B.G." is short for "Baby Gangsta".B.G. remained with Cash Money for the rest of the 1990s, and was a member of the Hot Boys with Juvenile, Lil' Wayne, and Turk. He left the label in early 2001 after disputes with Brian "Baby" Williams over personal issues (B.G. recently claimed that

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Owen James Hart (May 7, 1965 – May 23, 1999) was a Canadian professional wrestler who was most known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Owen was born in Calgary, Alberta, the youngest of 12 children to wrestling promoter Stu Hart and Helen Hart.Owen entered wrestling by working for his father's Stampede Wrestling. Wrestling, however, was not Owen's first choice for a career;

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"Stacy's Mom" is a hit single by American band Fountains of Wayne, released in 2003 and taken from their album Welcome Interstate Managers."Stacy's Mom" appeared in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (#21) and was one of the first songs to reach the #1 spot on the "Most Downloaded Songs" list of the iTunes Music Store. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Pop Performance at

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Roberto Flores (born September 1975) is a Mexican American (Chicano) rapper from San Diego, California, USA. He was born and raised in the La Colonia area of Eden Gardens, a Hispanic neighborhood near Solana Beach. Lil Rob debuted as an artist in 1992, prior to the release of his album Twelve Eighteen Part 1, he regularly moved as many as 100,000 units for each independent CD he recorded. The

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Edward Lewis Brown (born 1942), a resident of the American state of New Hampshire, gained national news media attention in early 2007 for refusing to pay federal income tax and refusing to surrender to federal government agents after having been convicted of tax crimes.On January 18, 2007, Brown was found guilty by a jury in a Federal District Court in Concord, New Hampshire of three criminal

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Aly & AJ are a teen pop duo consisting of sisters Alyson Renae "Aly" Michalka and Amanda Joy "AJ" Michalka. They were born in Torrance, California, but spent part of their childhood in Seattle, Washington. Both of them are actresses, singer-songwriters, and guitarists.Aly and AJ have had an interest for music since they were very young. "I think it started when we were three and five. Just

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"Tom Sawyer" is a 1981 song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush named for Mark Twain's literary character. The song relies heavily on Geddy Lee's skill as a synthesist and the techniques of drummer Neil Peart. Geddy Lee has referred to the track as the "quintessential Rush song"; It is one of Rush's best-known songs and is a staple of classic rock radio. Notably, it No.24 in the UK singles

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The iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled mobile phone by Apple, announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo on 9 January 2007, that is scheduled to be released on 29 June 2007 in the U.S. at 6 p.m "local time."The iPhone's functions include those of a camera phone, a multimedia player, mobile phone, and Internet services like e-mail, text

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Nikolai Valuev (born August 21, 1973), was the first Russian professional heavyweight boxing champion and the former holder of the WBA title between December 17, 2005 and April 15, 2007. His alias used to be "The Beast from the East" but he now prefers to be styled "The Russian Giant".Valuev is the tallest and heaviest recognized champion to this day, standing at 215 cm (about 7 feet) tall and

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Guinness is a dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness's St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. The beer is based upon the porter style that originated in London in the early 1700s. It is one of the most successful beer brands in the world, being exported world wide. The distinctive feature in the flavour is the roasted barley which remains unfermented. For many years a portion of the

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Derren Victor Brown (born February 27, 1971) is an English psychological illusionist and skeptic of paranormal phenomena. He was born in Croydon, South London, where he attended Whitgift School, where his father was the swimming teacher. While studying Law and German at the University of Bristol he attended a show by the hypnotist Martin S Taylor, who inspired him to turn to illusion and hypnosis

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Paul Harvey Aurandt (born September 4, 1918), better known as Paul Harvey, is an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcasts News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. His listening audience is estimated at 22 million people a week. Harvey likes to say he was raised in radio

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The Bilderberg Group or Bilderberg conference is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media, and politics.The elite group meets annually at exclusive, four or five-star resorts throughout the world, normally in Europe, once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden,

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Pinky and the Brain are cartoon characters from the animated television series Animaniacs, who became popular enough to warrant their own animated spinoff called Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain. Still later they appeared in Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain, 65 episodes produced by Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. Animation, and aired from 1995 to 1998 on The WB Television Network.Pinky

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The Fisher King is a comedy-drama film made in 1991, written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It starred Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer and Michael Jeter. The film is about a radio shock-jock who tries to find redemption by helping a homeless man whose life he inadvertently shattered.Peter Travers, of Rolling Stone magazine, wrote that the film '

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Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress.She is the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal and the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. Gyllenhaal began her acting career in a film directed by her father, and later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real-life brother's on-screen sister in the cult hit Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal

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Human Traffic is a 1999 film directed and written by Justin Kerrigan. It is based around a group of friends living in Cardiff and their clubbing exploits over the course of one weekend, including sexual exploits and drug use. In a recent edition of UK gay lifestyle magazine Attitude, actor Danny Dyer spoke about the film being based on the withdrawn 1990 film Loved Up F**ked Up mentioning that

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A French kiss, tongue kiss, pash, deep kiss, snog or neck is a romantic or sexual kiss in which one participant's tongue touches the other's tongue (or lips) and usually enters his/her mouth.Although family members may sometimes kiss on the lips, a kiss using the tongue almost always indicates a romance relationship. French kissing stimulates the lips, tongue and mouth, which are all areas very

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Paul Potts (born 1971 in Bristol) lives in Port Talbot in South Wales and is a mobile phone salesman and amateur opera singer. He was the winner of the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent.On June 9, 2007 he took part in Simon Cowell's new search-for-a-star show Britain's Got Talent on ITV which was held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Paul sang Giacomo Puccini's "Nessun dorma",

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Brother is a 1997 crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov and starring Sergei Bodrov Jr.. The film quickly became a popular hit in Russia and announced a new generation of Russian filmmaking had arrived. It's a simple yet compelling tale. It resonates with the same energy as the French new wave films.Danila (Bodrov) is a former soldier who arrives in St. Petersburg to find a job. He goes to

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American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and written by Adam Herz. This was the first film directed by the Weitz brothers. The movie is centered on four boys who make a pact to lose their virginity by their high school graduation, and their subsequent adventures. The title refers to a scene in the film in which the lead character is caught having sex with a

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The Audi R8 is a mid-engined sports car released by the German automaker Audi in 2006. Audi announced in 2005 that the name of the successful Audi R8 race car would be used for a new road car in 2007, the Audi R8, based on the Audi Le Mans Quattro concept car, which appeared at the 2003 Geneva Auto Show and 2003 International Motor Show. The R8 was officially launched at the Paris Auto Show on 30

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Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to ask and answer questions posed by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation. As of November 2006, it contains 65 million answers and more than 7 million questions.Virtually any question is allowed, except ones that

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Mitchell Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 29, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian known for his stylistic elocution and routines that often consisted of a string of one-line non sequiturs.Mitch Hedberg was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was the son of Swedish immigrants Arne and Mary Hedberg,[citation needed], graduated from Harding High School[citation needed] in Saint Paul and was

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The term "swing dance" is commonly used to refer either to a group of dances developing in response to swing music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, or to lindy hop, a popular partner dance today. While the majority of swing dances began in African American communities as vernacular African American dances, there were a number of forms which developed within Anglo-American or other ethnic group

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The Fast Food Rockers were a British pop group, known for their novelty music. The band met at a fast-food convention in Folkestone.Their most successful hit was the bouncy 2003 release, "The Fast Food Song," originally an American children's song parodying the traditional folk melody A Ram Sam Sam. A Dutch version of the song, "De Pizzadans," by DJ Eric Dikeb had been a hit in Europe in 2002 for

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Nicolas Sarkozy (born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on 28 January 1955) is the current President of France. As President, he is ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur.He was elected President of the French Republic on 6 May 2007 after defeating Socialist Party contender Ségolène Royal during the 2007 election. Before his presidency, he was

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Lil' Bush: Resident of the United States is a series of short satirical cartoons created by Donick Cary, a writer of The Simpsons, Just Shoot Me and other prominent television shows. They originated through Amp'd Mobile, who announced their release on September 1, 2006.The show was picked up by Comedy Central for a six-episode run beginning on June 13, 2007.Lil' Bush takes place in an alternate

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Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), whose real name was Ehrich Weiss (which was changed from Erich Weisz when he emigrated to America), was a Hungarian-American magician, escapologist (widely regarded as one of the greatest ever), stunt performer, as well as an investigator of spiritualists, film producer, actor, and an amateur aviator.Harry Houdini was born into a Jewish family in

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Footbinding was a custom practiced on young females for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century. In Chinese foot binding, young girls' feet, usually at age 6 but often earlier, were wrapped in tight bandages so that they could not grow and develop normally; they would, instead, break and become highly deformed, not growing past

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Clean, Shaven is a 1994 film directed by Lodge Kerrigan.In this raw and disturbing film, Peter Winter (played by Peter Greene) is a schizophrenic man desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive mother. The film is an auditory nightmare and one which tries to objectively view schizophrenia and those who are affected by it.It is a piece attempting to allow the audience to explore

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Edward Rudolph Bradley, Jr. (June 22, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was a highly-respected American journalist, best known for 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News television magazine 60 Minutes. During his earlier career he also covered the fall of Saigon, was the first black television correspondent to cover the White House, and anchored his own news broadcast, "CBS Sunday Night with Ed

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Garrison Keillor (born Gary Edward Keillor on August 7, 1942) is an American author, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality.He is best known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion (also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on BBC 7 and in Ireland).Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, and raised in a family belonging to the Plymouth Brethren,

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Watch Mr. Wizard was a United States television program for children in the 1950s, a general science experiments show, that explained the science behind ordinary things. It was briefly revived in 1971, and then later in the 1980s as a program on the Nickelodeon children's television network as Mr. Wizard's World.Watch Mr. Wizard first aired on NBC on March 3, 1951 with Don Herbert as Mister

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Lolcats, a compound of lol and cat, are photos of cats with humorous captions. They are a type of image macro, and are thus also referred to as cat macros. Lolcats are created for the purpose of sharing them with others on imageboards and other internet forums, especially on Saturdays ("Caturdays").Lolcat images usually consist of a photo of a cat with a caption characteristically formatted in a

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Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was a prominent American economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and

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La Linea ("The Line") is an Italian animated series of about 100 episodes created by Osvaldo Cavandoli in 1969. Due to its short duration (usually 2 minutes 30 seconds), it is often used as an interstitial program.The cartoon features a man (known as "Mr. Linea" or, in some parts of Europe, "Balou", as well as "Linus" in Sweden), drawn as a single outline around his silhouette, walking on an

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Amy Jade Winehouse Fielder-Civil (born 14 September 1983) is an English soul, jazz, and R&B singer and songwriter. Her debut album, Frank (released in 2003) was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Winehouse is a two-time Ivor Novello Award winner; once in 2004 for her debut single "Stronger than Me" and again in May 2007 for the first single "Rehab" from her 2006 internationally acclaimed second

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OurPrisoner is an Internet reality television show that featured 35-year-old man Kieran Vogel, who lived on camera for 24-hours a day, seven-days-a-week, for an entirety of six-months in a single-family New Jersey home.The show began on June 14, 2006. All of Kieran's actions were to be controlled by the public. Through a series of votes, viewers were to choose what he ate, what he wore, what he

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The Terminal (2004) is a movie about a man trapped in the JFK International Airport Terminal when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot return to his native country due to a revolution.The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and features Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, and Chi McBride. The screenplay was written by Sacha Gervasi and Jeff Nathanson

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