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  2. File:World pictures; being a record in colour (IA ...

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    Original file (875 × 1,237 pixels, file size: 24.69 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 562 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  3. 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".

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. The Monster with 21 Faces - Wikipedia

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    The Monster with 21 Faces (かい人21面相, Kaijin Nijūichi Mensō) was a name (based on Edogawa Rampo's fictional villain "The Fiend with Twenty Faces") used as an alias by the group responsible for the blackmail letters in the Glico Morinaga case in Japan, in 1984.

  7. A Free Man of Color - Wikipedia

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    A Free Man of Color is a play written by John Guare. The play is set in New Orleans in 1801 as the United States is attempting to purchase Louisiana from France, as well as some scenes taking place in Haiti and France. The story follows main character Jacques Cornet, "a new world Don Juan" and the wealthiest colored man in New Orleans. [1]

  8. Ebbinghaus illusion - Wikipedia

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    In the best-known version of the illusion, two circles of identical size are placed near each other, and one is surrounded by large circles while the other is surrounded by small circles. As a result of the juxtaposition of circles, the central circle surrounded by large circles appears smaller than the central circle surrounded by small circles.

  9. The Magic Barrel - Wikipedia

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    The Magic Barrel is a 1958 collection of thirteen short stories written by Bernard Malamud and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.Also, the Jewish Publication Society released its own edition at the same time.