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| x David Ben-Gurion |
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Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century |
David Ben-Gurion (help·info) (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן, born David Grün on 16 October 1886, died 1 December 1973) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his...
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| x Upanishad | 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written | 4 |
The Upanishads (Devanagari: उपनिषद्, IAST: upaniṣad, also spelled "Upanisad") are Hindu scriptures that constitute the core teachings of Vedanta. They do not belong to any particular period of Sanskrit literature: the oldest, such as the...
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| x Odyssey |
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100 Most Influential Books Ever Written | 3 |
The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια or Odússeia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. The poem was probably written near the end of the eighth century BC, somewhere along the Greek...
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| x Iliad |
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100 Most Influential Books Ever Written | 3 |
The Iliad (Greek: Ἰλιάς, Iliás) is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a...
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| x Old Testament |
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100 Most Influential Books Ever Written | 2 |
In Christianity, the Old Testament is the collection of books that form the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), with some variations and additions. In the Eastern Orthodox Church the...
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| x I Ching |
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100 Most Influential Books Ever Written | 1 |
The I Ching (Wade-Giles), "Yì Jīng" (Pinyin), Classic of Changes or Book of Changes; also called Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African Ifá...
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| x CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 13 | |||
| x CWE-682: Incorrect Calculation | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 18 | |||
| x CWE-285: Improper Access Control (Authorization) | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 19 | |||
| x CWE-362: Race Condition | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 8 | |||
| x CWE-94: Failure to Control Generation of Code (aka 'Code Injection') | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 14 | |||
| x CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 24 | |||
| x CWE-119: Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 10 | |||
| x CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 23 | |||
| x CWE-20: Improper Input Validation | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 1 | |||
| x CWE-79: Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure (aka 'Cross-site Scripting') | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 4 | |||
| x CWE-78: Failure to Preserve OS Command Structure (aka 'OS Command Injection') | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 5 | |||
| x CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 2 | |||
| x CWE-602: Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 25 | |||
| x CWE-259: Hard-Coded Password | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 21 | |||
| x CWE-665: Improper Initialization | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 17 | |||
| x CWE-732: Insecure Permission Assignment for Critical Resource | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 22 | |||
| x CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 15 | |||
| x CWE-404: Improper Resource Shutdown or Release | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 16 | |||
| x CWE-209: Error Message Information Leak | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 9 | |||
| x CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 12 | |||
| x CWE-642: External Control of Critical State Data | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 11 | |||
| x CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 20 | |||
| x CWE-319: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 6 | |||
| x CWE-89: Failure to Preserve SQL Query Structure (aka 'SQL Injection') | CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors | 3 | |||
| x Frankenstein |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 87 |
Frankenstein is a 1931 horror film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and very loosely based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley as well as the play adapted from it by Peggy Webling. The film stars Colin Clive, Mae Clarke,...
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| x A Streetcar Named Desire |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 45 |
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 film adaptation of the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. It was directed by Elia Kazan, who had also directed the original stage production, and stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl...
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| x It Happened One Night |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 35 |
It Happened One Night is an 1934 American comedy with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ...
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| x The Bridge on the River Kwai |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 13 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942...
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| x The French Connection |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 70 |
The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore. It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives named ...
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| x The Silence of the Lambs |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 65 |
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological crime/horror thriller directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald and Brooke Smith. It is based on the novel of the same name by...
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| x The Godfather |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 3 |
The Godfather is a 1972 American thriller film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne (uncredited). It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James...
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| x The Graduate |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 7 |
The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay is by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, who...
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| x Lawrence of Arabia |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 5 |
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizon Pictures), from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. ...
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| x Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 99 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose. The movie...
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| x Singin' in the Rain |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 10 |
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood, and its...
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| x Jaws |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 48 |
Jaws is a 1975 American horror/thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant great white...
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| x The Searchers |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 96 |
The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is the story of Ethan Edwards, a middle-aged Civil War veteran portrayed by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece with...
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| x West Side Story |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 41 |
West Side Story is a 1961 American film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was adapted from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard...
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| x The Manchurian Candidate |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 67 |
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 Cold War political thriller film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury and featuring Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver. It was directed by John...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 8 | ||||
| x From Here to Eternity |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 52 |
From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months...
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| x To Kill a Mockingbird |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 34 |
To Kill A Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Mary Badham in the role of Scout and Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch.
In 1995, the film was...
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| x The Apartment |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 93 |
The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder's follow up to the enormously popular Some Like It Hot and was an equal...
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| x Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 15 |
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released simply as Star Wars, is an American 1977 space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 29 | ||||
| x The Gold Rush |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 74 |
The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite. Chaplin declared several times...
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| x Apocalypse Now |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 28 |
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate...
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| x One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 20 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The movie was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best...
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| x Taxi Driver |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 47 |
Taxi Driver is a 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle,...
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| x MASH |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 56 |
MASH is a 1970 American Academy Award-winning satirical dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. It is the only feature film in the M*A...
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| x Patton |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 89 |
Patton (UK: Patton: Lust for Glory) is a 1970 biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 35 | ||||
| x American Graffiti |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 77 |
American Graffiti is a 1973 coming of age comedy-drama film co-written/directed by George Lucas, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford. Set in...
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| x The Godfather Part II |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 32 |
The Godfather Part II (also known as Mario Puzo's The Godfather Part II) is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather,...
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| x E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 25 |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Dee Wallace. It tells the story of...
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| x Easy Rider |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 88 |
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the...
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| Metacritic Top Films | 119 | ||||
| x Midnight Cowboy |
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 36 |
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and then-newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller...
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