December 2011
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Wonka Donutz
These were widely promoted around the release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film) in 2005. However, they are discontinued, due to a lack of customers. These were short-lived, anyway.[citation needed]
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Anteater
The anteater finds a place to sleep, curls up, and covers itself with its bushy tail. Since the anteater is a very solitary animal, it can be easily awoken. When attacked, it can defend itself with its sabre-like anterior claws. They also have the locomotion of knuckle-walking
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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Nano guitar
It is disputed as to whether the nano guitar should be classified as a guitar, but it is the common opinion that it is in fact a guitar.
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Book of Thugs
Book of Thugs: Chapter AK Verse 47 is the third studio album by rapper Trick Daddy, two years after www.thug.com.[4] It was released on February 15, 2000 by Atlantic Records and Slip-n-Slide Records. The album went gold. The name of the album subliminally states the automatic assault rifle, AK-47.
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Gef
Gef claimed at times to be “an extra extra clever mongoose”, an “Earthbound spirit” and “a ghost in the form of a weasel”. He once said: “I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you’d faint, you’d be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!”
He had many characteristics traditionally ascribed to...
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Homicidal Retribution
“Homicidal Retribution” is a song by Maryland death metal band Dying Fetus, off of their 2007 album, War of Attrition. The song is notable because it had a music video made for it, which has seen moderate airing on YouTube.
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Atlantis of the Sands
In modern times, the mystery of the lost city of Atlantis has generated a number of books, films, articles, web pages, and a Disney cartoon.
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Big Bertha (comics)
In an attempt to evict Deadpool from their Initiative-sponsored headquarters, Big Bertha agrees on one date. Confusion reigns as she appears for the date in her slim form. After saving lives in a dockside all-you-can-eat restaurant Bertha realizes that Deadpool was only attracted to her large form. She lectures him, telling of her experiences of only being valued for her looks in her slim form. In...
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Acacia
Perhaps the most famous acacia is the Arbre du Ténéré in Niger. The reason for the tree’s fame is that it used to be the most isolated tree in the world, approximately 400 km (249 mi) from any other tree. The tree was knocked down by a truck driver in 1973.
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Big Bertha (comics)
Big Bertha has the ability to make herself super strong and durable (to the point of being bullet-proof) by becoming extraordinarily obese. It is implied that she has greater control of this ability and can distribute her fat content to select areas (i.e. just her breasts or buttocks or other areas), becoming “every man’s dream.”[volume & issue needed] She can also purge most...
Squirrel Girl
Squirrel Girl is always accompanied by one or more squirrels. Two of these, Monkey Joe and later his successor Tippy-Toe, have been her constant companion. At her insistence, they have each been accepted as a full member of the Great Lakes Avengers.
In addition to Monkey Joe and Tippy-Toe, Squirrel Girl named several other squirrels in Great Lakes Avengers #4. Slippy Pete, Mr. Freckle, and Nutso...
Monarchy of the Netherlands
The King may cease being King in any of four ways:
Death
A dead person cannot be King.
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All-star
Television
In televison, there are a number of groups who could be considered All-Stars.
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(Note that this is the entirety of the “Television” section.)
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Yavin
All except three Rebel Alliance craft were destroyed in the attack, the only survivors being Luke Skywalker, Wedge Antilles, and an unnamed Y-wing pilot (perhaps Keyan Farlander), and possibly a gunner, making four, not including Luke.
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Yesun Temur
He poisoned or murdered his brother in order to enthrone himself. But he regretted his action and blamed his mother for Changshi’s death. And he also became heavy drunk and stressed.
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Celebration (Kool & the Gang song)
The song is also notable for having played when the remaining American hostages returned home following the 1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis. It was also rewritten in 1984 as the jingle for Diet Orange Crush.
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Dan Donovan (guitarist)
His music career began with a band called Back to Jordan which only recorded one EP. Then he founded the band Tribe of Dan, described on the King Kool website as “cult greb goth outfit” and elsewhere as “swamp rock”
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All Hail West Texas
When the promotional copies of this album were sent out, a unique General Highway Map of a part of West Texas was included in the mailing. Apparently this was not acknowledged by any of the critics who received it.
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