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  1. AH Cultural Descriptions

    The famous opening line of J. Scott Fitzgerald's most popular work Lost in Lawlessness. Written after the author's failure to elicit a market in the upper crust and wealthy high society markets of New York and Long Island, Fitzgerald moved to Nevada in the California Commonwealth. The "live fast...

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    ((Dear God, the reference density is over 9000)) The final film in the biographical trilogy of Columbian revolutionary abolitionist and terrorist Aaron Lincoln, who famously engineered the Columbian Civil War of 1872 in order to bring about the collapse of the Union and the overthrow of the...

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    The most famous poem by R. Milhous Nixon, this piece has been referred to as the "Crown Jewel" of the Existentialist movement of the 1960's and early 70's in the United American Commonwealth. The poem, as all Existentialist pieces, reflects upon the inevitability of death and oblivion and the...

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    A Palestinian political tract from the early post-Ottoman period, written by Umar al-Kassanah, which discusses both the merits and flaws of the Middle East's most multicultural nation, as well as its resistance, alongside Kurdistan, to the rising tide of Pan-Arabism that swept many nations after...

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    An Ulsterian ballad by folk singer Ewan McDowall, written and produced in 1933 as a protest song about the Kingdom of Ireland's occupation of the then "autonomous province". The titular "Piper" in the song is a reference to a rebel leader whose true name has been lost to history, but the song...

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    The famous last words of Aaró Aleix, leader of the First Catalan Uprising in 1756, at his execution. He was hung overlooking a crowd of spectators overseen by his captor, the Count of Tarragone. The meaning of his words are open to speculation, but the most popular theory is that he thought his...

  7. The American Bonapartes

    Hoorah! Huzzah! Other celebratory interjections that both begin and end in h!

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    地球上で最後の男, translated in English as the Last Man on Earth, was an original Niponese animation series set after the apocalypse, with the only known survivor of the human race, Kito Kuriashi, wandering the wrecked city of Edo with only a small mouse as a companion before eventually succumbing to...

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    Originally written and published in 1938 as a pulp adventure novel, D.B. Whitaccer's debut The Steel Highway generally credited as being the first of the "Science Noir" genre. Whitaccer's story combined elements of the then popular detective and urban noir styles with the scientific fascinations...

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    Famous line from the widely acclaimed play "The Silk and the Steel", commemorating the reign of Queen Isabella of Castile, who single handedly drove the Moors out of their last foothold in Iberia, notably without the proffered help of Aragon. The passage is regarded as one of the hallmarks of...

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    :( Geez dude, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that.

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    (Better to make a joke of it than let it continue. :rolleyes:)

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    Nickname given to the Republican Union's first Minister of Labor, Charles Goodyear II. The heir to the Goodyear airship transportation empire and massive factory service, it was rumored that he was appointed on his name alone. However, once he took office he drastically reformed the nation's...

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    The motto of Creighton Hotels and Casinos primary advertising for many decades, and one of the world's most well known commercial slogans. The ad campaign began during the Golden Thirties, portraying the dashing and charming owner of the franchise, Jericho Chreighton, taking an unpictured...

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    Name of former president Herbert "Bushman" Walker's infamous autobiography. The folksy title references both his nickname inherited from his service in the special forces in Vietnam, and the old saying "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". In it, Walker describes his presidency using...

  16. WI Different Mormon Settlement

    Ritt Momney. :D:rolleyes: Oh you guys.

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    Code name for the Pan-Arab Uprising of 1915 which was later immortalized by the novel and later film of the same name. The novel was written by British volunteer and military adviser T. Edward Lawrence, and was a fictionalization of his own personal experiences during the failed rebellion...

  18. "What Madness Is This?" - A Timeline

    Zoid where might a man find such a document?

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    Name given by archeologists to an unknown society discovered near Victoria, New Zealand. The ruins confounded modern society, due to the examples of metalwork and relatively high levels of masonry, dated at a period of about 400 BCE, nearly a millennium before the Maori tribes arrived in the...

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    Title of the the 1955 nautical adventure film that pioneered several film techniques earned multiple Goldstien Awards for Best Film, Best Screeplay, Best Score and Best Leading Actor. The Tide is High follows the event known as the "Last Hurrah of the British Empire," the famous Battle of...
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