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| Seven Samurai |
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Film | Samurai |
is a 1954 Japanese film co-written, edited and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film takes place in Warring States Period Japan (around 1587/1588). It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven masterless samurai (ronin) to combat...
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| Ronin |
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Book | Samurai |
Ronin is a comic book limited series published between 1983 and 1984, by DC Comics. The series was written and drawn by Frank Miller with artwork painted by Lynn Varley. It takes place in a dystopic near-future New York in which a ronin is re...
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| Katana |
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A Japanese sword, or , is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan. These are categorised in several types according to size and method of manufacture. The most commonly known type is the katana, which, like the similarly formed tachi, is a...
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| Miyamoto Musashi |
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Person | Samurai |
(c. 1584–June 13 , 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke, or by his Buddhist name Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman famed for his duels and distinctive style. Musashi, as he is often simply known, became legendary through his...
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| Le Samouraï |
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Film | Samurai |
Le Samouraï (English title The Samurai) is a 1967 French minimalist crime drama/thriller film directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville. The film's protagonist Jef Costello is played by Alain Delon.
The story follows a perfectionist free...
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| Thinking Machines |
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Dune |
The thinking machines are a fictional group from Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' universe. Created by humans, they are intelligent machines which come to dominate mankind. The human revolt against the machines known as the Butlerian Jihad is an epic...
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| Max Rockatansky |
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Fictional Character | Mad Max |
"Mad" Max Rockatansky, sometimes referred to as The Road Warrior, is the main character from director George Miller's Mad Max film trilogy, appearing in the films Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Max is played by Mel Gibson...
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| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan |
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was written, produced by, and stars the British comedian Sacha...
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| Keith Henson |
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Person | Scientology |
Howard Keith Henson (born 1942) is an American electrical engineer and writer on life extension, cryonics, memetics and evolutionary psychology. In 1975 he and his then-wife Carolyn Meinel founded the L5 Society, which promoted space colonization...
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| Kelo v. City of New London |
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Court ruling | Supreme Court of the United States |
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. The case arose from...
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| Tokyo Express |
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World War II |
The Tokyo Express was the name given by Allied forces to the use of Imperial Japanese Navy ships at night to deliver personnel, supplies, and equipment to Japanese forces operating in and around New Guinea and the Solomon Islands during the Pacific...
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| Christopher Langton | Person | Artificial life |
Christopher Langton (1949- ) is an American biologist and one of the founders of the field of artificial life. He coined the term in the late 1980s when he organized the first "International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living...
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Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan (, Qazaqstan, ; , Kazakhstán, ), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country in Central Asia and Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a...
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| Hello Kitty |
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, full name , is the best-known of many simply drawn fictional character produced by the Japan company Sanrio. Hello Kitty can be described as a friendly white kitty with the head larger than her body, small button eyes and nose, but having no mouth...
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| Tribble |
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Cute |
Tribbles are fictional animals in the Star Trek universe. They are depicted as small, soft, and gentle, and as producing a soothing purr sound. These traits are said to endear them to most sentient races which encounter them, with the notable...
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| Koala |
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Organism Classification | Cute |
The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a thickset arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae.
The Koala is found in coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia, from near...
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| Borat |
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Fictional Character | Funny |
Borat Sagdiyev is a fictional character created and portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen. He is the eponymous protagonist of the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat's humour derives from his...
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| Steve Martin |
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Film actor | Funny |
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.
Stephen Glenn Martin was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee Martin, and Glenn Vernon Martin,...
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| Jonathan Winters |
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Film actor | Funny |
Jonathan Harshman Winters III (born November 11, 1925) is an American comedian and actor.
Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore (née Rodgers), a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He...
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| Knock-knock joke | Funny |
The knock-knock joke is a type of joke, probably the best-known format of the pun, and is a time-honoured "call and answer" exercise.
It is a roleplay exercise, with a punster and a recipient of wit.
The standard format has five lines:
Knock...
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| Pyroflatulence |
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Funny |
Fart lighting, (also called fart-burning, blue dart, blue flame, blue angel and flatus ignition) is the practice of setting fire to the gases produced by human flatulence, often producing a blue hue.
Although there is little scientific discourse...
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| Kitten |
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Cute |
Kittens (Old English diminutive of cat) are juvenile domesticated cats (Felis catus) that are not fully-grown.
The young of species in the genus Panthera and of some other big cat are called cub rather than kittens. Either term may be used for the...
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| Child |
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Art Subject | Cute |
A child is a young human being between birth and puberty; a boy or girl. The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. "Child" may also describe a relationship with a...
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| Dartmouth College |
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Educational Institution | Ivy League |
Dartmouth College (IPA: ) is a private, coeducation university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S. Incorporated as "Trustees of Dartmouth College,"it is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American...
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| Cornell University |
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Educational Institution | Ivy League |
Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, U.S. is a private university with four state-supported statutory or contract colleges. Its two medical campus are in New York City and Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of two private land grant...
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| Princeton University |
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Educational Institution | Ivy League |
Princeton University is a private coeducation research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. It is one of the eight universities that comprise the Ivy League.
Originally founded in 1746 at Elizabeth, New Jersey as the College of New Jersey,...
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| University of Pennsylvania | Educational Institution | Ivy League |
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is America's first university and is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Penn is also a...
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| Harvard University |
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College/University | Ivy League |
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the...
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| Brown University |
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Educational Institution | Ivy League |
Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States. It is a...
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| Columbia University |
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Educational Institution | Ivy League |
Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The university is now legally known...
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| Yale University |
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Educational Institution | Ivy League |
Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Particularly well-known are...
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| University of California, Berkeley |
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Educational Institution | Pacific Ten Conference |
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of...
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| Stanford University |
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Educational Institution | Pacific Ten Conference |
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States.
Stanford was founded in 1885 by the former Governor of California and...
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