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Book Subject | Seven Samurai |
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is...
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Country | Seven Samurai |
Japan ( Nihon or Nippon, officially or Nihon-koku) is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the...
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| Swordsmanship | Seven Samurai |
Swordsman redirects here. For the comic book characters, see Swordsman (comics). For the 1990 Hong Kong film, see The Swordsman.
Swordsmanship refers to the skills of a swordsman, a person versed in the art of the sword. The term is modern, and as...
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is a Japanese term describing martial arts. In English, it is used almost exclusively in reference to Japanese martial arts.
Budō is a compound of the root bu (武:ぶ), meaning war or martial; and dō (道:どう), meaning path or way. Specifically, dō is...
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| Dune |
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Book | Thinking Machines |
Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. Winner of the 1966 Hugo Award and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel, Dune is popularly considered one of the great science fiction novels of all time, is...
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| Frank Herbert |
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Person | Thinking Machines |
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8 1920 – February 11 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although also a short story author, he is best known for his novels, such as Dune and its five...
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| Mad Max |
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Film | Max Rockatansky |
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian apocalyptic action thriller film directed by George Miller and written by Miller and Byron Kennedy. The film, starring the then-little-known Mel Gibson, was released internationally in 1980.
This low-budget film's story...
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| Mel Gibson |
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Film actor | Max Rockatansky |
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American born, two-time Academy Award-winning Australia actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Gibson moved to Australia when he was 12 years old and he...
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| Sacha Baron Cohen |
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Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English comedian, writer and Golden Globe-winning actor most noted for his comic characters Ali G (a hip hop gangsta wannabe from suburban Staines), Borat (a Kazakh reporter), and Bruno (a...
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| Scientology |
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Religion | Keith Henson |
Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices initially created by American science fictionauthor L. Ron Hubbard. The major organization promoting Scientology is the Church of Scientology, a hierarchical organization founded by Hubbard,...
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| Supreme Court of the United States |
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Governmental Body | Kelo v. City of New London |
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal judiciary. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight...
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| New London |
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Location | Kelo v. City of New London |
New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States.It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, southeastern Connecticut.
The city is home to Connecticut College, Mitchell College,...
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| Eminent domain |
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Legal subject | Kelo v. City of New London |
Eminent domain (United States), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia) or expropriation (South Africa and Canada) in common law legal systems is the inherent power of the state to...
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| World War II |
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Film subject | Tokyo Express |
World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all of the great power, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the...
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| Artificial life |
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Computer Game Genre | Christopher Langton |
Artificial life (commonly Alife or alife) is a field of study and an associated art form which examine system related to life, its processes, and its evolution through simulation using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. There are three...
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| Cute | Hello Kitty | |||
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| Funny | Borat | |||
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| Ivy League |
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Sports Association | Dartmouth College |
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group. The term also has...
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| Pacific Ten Conference |
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Sports Association | University of California, Berkeley |
The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the...
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| Baseball League | Stanford University | |||
| University of Southern California | ||||
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| Big Ten Conference |
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Sports Association | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its eleven member institutions are located primarily in the Midwest United States, stretching from Iowa and Minnesota in the west to Pennsylvania in the east...
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| National Book Award | Award | National Book Award for Poetry |
The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards...
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| Pulitzer Prize |
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Award | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
The Pulitzer Prize, -it-sər, is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition. It is administered by Columbia University in New York City.
Prizes are awarded yearly...
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| Brain Trust | Rexford Tugwell |
The term "brains trust" (originally plural, the s was later dropped) was first coined in 1901 and used in a sarcastic sense in reference to the first American general staff of the U.S. President. In 1932, New York Times writer James M. Kiernan...
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| Raymond Moley | ||||
| Adolph A. Berle, Jr. | ||||
| Basil O'Connor | ||||
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| Japanese American internment |
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Location | Jerome War Relocation Center |
Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese American to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl...
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| Art Subject | Rohwer War Relocation Center | |||
| Book Subject | Tule Lake War Relocation Center | |||
| Film subject | Granada War Relocation Center | |||
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| Coen Brothers |
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Person | Joel Coen |
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are four-time Academy Award winning American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from screwball...
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| Nobel Prize |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
The Nobel Prize was established in Alfred Nobel's will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics in 1901. An associated prize, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory...
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| Namesake | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |||
| Person | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |||
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| The Big Four | Leland Stanford |
The Big Four was the name popularly given to the chief entrepreneur in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States. However, the four of them preferred to be known as ...
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