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a con artist, transient swindler, or professional gambler (US and UK: con man); also grift can mean an act of thievery or trickery [458] [459] [460] gotten Past participle of "get" ( got in most of the UK); "gotten" is however of British origin, [ 461 ] still retained in some older dialects, and is sometimes now used again under US influence.
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire; A 500-Year History is an American non-fiction book written by Kurt Andersen and published in 2017. Fantasyland debuted on the New York Times bestseller list at number 3 [1] and at number 5 on the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists (hardcover non-fiction).
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture.
Speaking of Tonys, “A Strange Loop” won a couple of the most prestigious ones, for best musical and best book, both for playwright-songwriter Michael Jackson, who’d earlier picked up a ...
America (The Book) was written and edited by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum, and other writers of The Daily Show. Karlin was the show's executive producer and Javerbaum its head writer. The book is written as a parody of a United States high school civics textbook , complete with study guides, questions, and class exercises.
Ripley's Believe it or Not! fans have found their new favorite oddity, Nermin Halilagic. The 38-year-old from Bosnia recently discovered he has the unique ability to become 'magnetic'.
The magazine Book ranked Big Brother no. 59 on its "100 best characters in fiction since 1900" list. [14] Wizard magazine rated him the 75th-greatest villain of all time. [15] The iconic image of Big Brother (played by David Graham) played a key role in Apple's "1984" television commercial introducing the Macintosh.
“I’m a Black man in America, so asking this stuff hits a little bit different.” ... White people, including some people of Hispanic descent, make up 75% of the country and represent 55% of ...