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| x Amadis de Gaula |
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Don Quixote |
Amadis de Gaula (original Castilian Spanish version) (English: Amadis of Gaul, Spanish: Amadís de Gaula) is a landmark work among the knight-errantry tales which were in vogue in 16th century Iberian Peninsula, and formed the earliest reading of...
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| x Zero Hour! |
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Airplane! |
Zero Hour! is a 1957 movie written by Arthur Hailey, starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden, and released by Paramount Pictures. Zero Hour! served as the basis for the spoof Airplane!. Zero Hour! was a remake of Hailey's 1956...
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| x Disaster |
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Airplane! |
A disaster film is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster (such as a damaged airliner, fire, shipwreck, or an asteroid collision) as its subject. These films typically feature large casts of well-known actors and multiple plotlines,...
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| x News program |
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The Daily Show |
A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors. A news...
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| x The O'Reilly Factor |
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The Colbert Report |
The O'Reilly Factor is an American talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by commentator Bill O'Reilly, who often discusses current controversial political and social issues with guests. The show premiered in 1996, along with the Fox News Channel....
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| x The Beatles |
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The Rutles |
The Beatles are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.
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| x Zombie |
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Shaun of the Dead |
A zombie is a creature that appears in folklore and popular culture typically as a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being...
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| x Star Trek |
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Galaxy Quest |
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series. The original Star Trek was an American television series, created by Gene Roddenberry, which debuted in 1966 and ran for three seasons, following the interstellar adventures of Captain...
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| x Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
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Hardware Wars |
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 was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films continue the...
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| x Apocalypse Now |
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Porklips Now |
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 Mona Lisa |
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L.H.O.O.Q. |
Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France...
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| x Dracula |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It |
Dracula is a 1931 United States horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which...
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| x Bram Stoker's Dracula |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It |
Dracula (also known as Bram Stoker's Dracula) is a 1992 horror-romance film-thriller produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula and Winona Ryder as Mina Harker in...
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| x Roots |
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Love At First Bite |
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
Roots received 36 Emmy Award nominations. It went on to win nine Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented...
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| x Dracula |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It |
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion...
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| x Beau Geste |
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Beau Hunks |
Beau Geste is a 1926 silent film, based on the novel by P. C. Wren. This version starred Ronald Colman as the title character.
The plot concerns a valuable gem, which one of the Geste brothers, Beau, is thought to have stolen from his adoptive...
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| x Isn't Life Wonderful | Isn't Life Terrible? |
Isn't Life Wonderful? (1924) is a film, directed by D. W. Griffith for his company D. W. Griffith Productions, and distributed by United Artists. It was based on the novel by Geoffrey Moss and it went under the alternative title Dawn. The title of...
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| x Pamela |
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An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews |
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a maid named Pamela whose master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her. She rejects him continually, and her virtue is...
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| x A Christmas Carol |
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol |
A Christmas Carol (originally, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novella by English author Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) about a curmudgeon and his secular conversion and redemption after being...
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| x The Maltese Falcon |
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The Maltese Bippy |
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American Warner Bros. film based on novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale...
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| x Citizen Kane |
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La Classe américaine |
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles. It was released by...
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| x Japan Sinks |
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Everyone But Japan Sinks |
Nihon Chinbotsu (日本沈没, lit. "Japan Sinks") is a 2006 Tokusatsu film directed by Shinji Higuchi, and a remake of the 1973 screenplay based on the Komatsu novel. It stars Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kou Shibasaki, Etsushi Toyokawa, and Mao Daichi, and was...
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| x Hamlet |
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who...
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| x Charlie's Angels |
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D.E.B.S. |
Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast in the USA on the ABC Television...
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| x Britney Spears |
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Britney's New Look |
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in...
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| x Schadenfreude |
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Britney's New Look |
Schadenfreude (pronounced /ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/, German pronunciation: [ˈʃaːdənˌfʁɔʏ̯də]) Audio (US) (help·info) is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. This German word is used as a loanword in English and some other languages, including...
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| x Paparazzi |
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Britney's New Look |
Paparazzi is a plural term (paparazzo being the Italian singular form) for photographers who take unstaged and/or candid photographs of celebrities caught unaware. Paparazzi take photos of celebrities at moments when the subjects do not expect to be...
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| x The Lottery |
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Britney's New Look |
"The Lottery" is a classic short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in the June 26, 1948 issue of The New Yorker.
The magazine and Jackson herself were surprised by the highly negative reader response. Many readers cancelled their...
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| x Miley Cyrus |
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Britney's New Look |
Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus; November 23, 1992) is an American pop singer and television and film actress. Cyrus is best known for starring as the title character in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. Following the success of...
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| x Purity ring |
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The Ring |
Purity rings (also known as chastity rings, promise rings, or abstinence rings) originated in the United States in the 1990s among Christian-affiliated sexual abstinence groups. The rings are sold to adolescents, or to parents so that the rings may...
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| x The Walt Disney Company |
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The Ring |
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), often simply known as Disney, is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world, known for its family-friendly products. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as an...
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| x Mickey Mouse |
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The Ring |
Mickey Mouse is a comic animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney. The Walt Disney Company celebrates his birth as November 18...
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| x Jonas Brothers |
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The Ring |
The Jonas Brothers are an American pop rock boy band. The band gained its popularity from the Disney Channel children's television network. From Wyckoff, New Jersey, the band consists of three brothers: Paul Kevin Jonas II (Kevin Jonas), Joseph Adam...
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| x Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia |
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Eat, Pray, Queef |
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author and memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce, and what she...
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| x Numa Numa |
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Canada on Strike |
Numa Numa is an Internet phenomenon based on amateur videos, most notably Numa Numa Dance by Gary Brolsma, made for the song "Dragostea din tei" as performed by the CDM Project. Brolsma's video, released in December 2004 onto the website Newgrounds...
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| x Jay Maynard |
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Canada on Strike |
Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his self made electroluminescent Tron Guy costume.
He became a subject of Internet discussion forums when his costume, inspired by the movie TRON, spread across the...
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| x Afro Ninja | Canada on Strike |
Afro Ninja is a popular user from Newgrounds and from his own site, Afro Ninja Productions. Afro Ninja is a creator of many Flash Animations.
Afro Ninja was seen on the South Park episode, Canada on Strike. He appeared when Stan, Kyle, Butters, and...
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| x Dramatic Chipmunk | Canada on Strike |
Dramatic Chipmunk, also referred to as Dramatic Prairie Dog, is a popular viral video, originally released on June 19, 2007 on CollegeHumor. Despite the title, the video actually features a prairie dog. The video is a five-second clip of the prairie...
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| x Tay Zonday |
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Canada on Strike |
Adam Nyerere Bahner (born July 6, 1982), better known by the pseudonym Tay Zonday, is an American musician, voice actor, film actor, and social commentator. He was an MC for YouTube Live in 2008. He entered mainstream exposure when his composition ...
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| x Chris Crocker |
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Canada on Strike |
Chris Crocker (born December 1987) is an American internet celebrity and self-described "edutainer" who produces and acts in transgressive videos. In almost all of Crocker's work he presents himself as an openly gay and effeminate Southern...
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| x 2007 Writers Guild of America strike |
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Canada on Strike |
The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, more commonly known as the Writers' Strike, was a strike by the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW). The WGAE and WGAW labor unions represent film,...
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| x Star Wars kid |
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Canada on Strike |
"Star Wars Kid" is an Internet phenomenon (also called an Internet meme) which started when a fourteen-year-old French Canadian high school student filmed himself wielding a golf ball retriever like a lightsaber in a similar fashion to that of Darth...
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| x Laughing Baby | Canada on Strike |
The laughing baby is an internet neologism given to a Youtube viral video of a laughing baby, which has expanded into a worldwide, internet phenomenon, with over 90 million views. Uploaded by a Swedish man under the pseudonym of spacelord72, and...
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| x Samwell |
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Canada on Strike |
Sam Norman, better known by his stage name Samwell is an openly gay entertainer whose hit video "What What (In the Butt)" made him an internet celebrity.
Samwell is unsigned, but his "What What (In the Butt)" song is licensed through Fatboy Slim's...
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| x Jimmy Kimmel |
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Fishsticks |
James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host and comedian. He is the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show that airs on ABC. Before that program, Kimmel was also well-known as co-host of Comedy...
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| x Ellen DeGeneres |
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Fishsticks |
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and is also a judge on American Idol, having joined the show in its ninth...
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| x David Letterman |
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Fishsticks |
David Letterman is an American Television Host and Comedian. He is an Emmy Award Winner and known for hosting his own show: Late Show with David Letterman.
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| x Jay Leno |
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Fishsticks |
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian and television host. From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. During his tenure, the show held the top ratings position in its...
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| x Human Torch |
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Fishsticks |
The Human Torch (Jonathan "Johnny" Lowell Spencer Storm) is a fictional character and superhero of the Marvel Comics universe. He is a member of the Fantastic Four, making his first appearance in Fantastic Four #1 November 1961. Writer Stan Lee and...
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| x Carlos Mencia |
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Fishsticks |
Ned Arnel Mencía (born October 22, 1967), better known by his stage name Carlos Mencia, is a comedian, writer, and actor in the United States. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race, culture, and social class, juxtaposing...
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| x Kanye West |
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Fishsticks |
Kanye Omari West (pronounced /ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977) is an American singer/rapper. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album...
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| x Conan O'Brien |
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Fishsticks |
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, television writer, comedian, producer, and the current host of The Tonight Show on NBC. He rose to fame as the host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to...
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| x Boy Scouts of America |
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Pinewood Derby |
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over four million youth members in its age-related divisions. Since its founding in 1910 as part of the international Scout Movement, more than 110...
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| x Vladimir Putin |
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Pinewood Derby |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин, pronounced [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn] ( listen); born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the...
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| x Taro Aso |
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Pinewood Derby |
Taro Aso (麻生太郎, Asō Tarō, born September 20, 1940) was the 59th Prime Minister of Japan serving from September 2008 to September 2009, and was defeated in the August 2009 election.
He has served in the House of Representatives since 1979. He was...
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| x Leia Organa |
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Pinewood Derby |
Princess Leia Organa Solo (born as Leia Amidala Skywalker) is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. She is portrayed by actress Carrie Fisher in A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and The Star Wars Holiday Special....
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| x Nicolas Sarkozy |
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Pinewood Derby |
Nicolas Sarkozy (pronounced [nikɔla saʁkɔzi] (help·info), born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on 28 January 1955) is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16...
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| x Hu Jintao |
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Pinewood Derby |
Hu Jintao (simplified Chinese: 胡锦涛; traditional Chinese: 胡錦濤; pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo; Wade-Giles: Hu Chin-t'ao) (born 21 December 1942) is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the...
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| x Angela Merkel |
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Pinewood Derby |
Angela Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany and the head of the political party CDU in Germany. In addition to being the first female German Chanchellor, she is also considered by Forbes magazine to be the most powerful woman in the world.
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| x Edward G. Robinson |
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Pinewood Derby |
Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. (born Emanuel Goldenberg; Yiddish: עמנואל גאָלדנבערג; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles...
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