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  3. The Wizard of Id - Wikipedia

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    The aspects that stay the same, however, are that Id is in the middle of nowhere, home to a large castle surrounded by a moat. The king and his subjects run an inept army perpetually at war with "the Huns", while the unhappy, overtaxed peasants (or "Idiots") make little money as farmers and stablehands to keep modest lifestyles.

  4. The Idiots (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The inspiration for "The Idiots" was largely derived from the works of Conrad's older French contemporaries Guy de Maupassant and Gustave Flaubert. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Literary critic Joycyln Baines acknowledges Conrad's debt to Maupassant with this caveat: "It is a well-told tale and effective story, but without much importance in Conrad's ...

  5. Idiot plot - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction writer and critic Damon Knight, in his 1956 collection In Search of Wonder, says that the term may have originated with author James Blish. [1]: 26 Knight went on to coin the term second-order idiot plot as a narrative "in which not merely the principals, but everybody in the whole society has to be a grade-A idiot, or the story couldn't happen".

  6. Watercolor illusion - Wikipedia

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    The watercolor illusion, also referred to as the water-color effect, is an optical illusion in which a white area takes on a pale tint of a thin, bright, intensely colored polygon surrounding it if the coloured polygon is itself surrounded by a thin, darker border (Figures 1 and 2).

  7. Complete Idiot's Guides - Wikipedia

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    The Complete Idiot's Guides ("The Idiot's Guide to..."series) is a product line of how-to and other reference books published by Dorling Kindersley (DK). The books in this series provide a basic understanding of a complex and popular topics.

  8. Them There - Wikipedia

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    Them There is a theatrical production collective made up of a group of comedy writers and performers, notable for working on a range of projects together including the first five series of Horrible Histories, Yonderland, and Ghosts.

  9. Ramon Torrents - Wikipedia

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    Ramón Torrents was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, northern Spain. He began his career drawing for the comic Space Ace. He later worked on romance comics for British publisher Fleetway, including Marilyn and True Life Library. In the late 1960s, Torrents worked with Esteban Maroto in the Spanish science fiction series Cinco x Infinito.