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  2. List of CBS Radio Mystery Theater episodes (1974 season)

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    A father and daughter are crippled with 3rd degree burns for refusing a $1 million demand by a man who can control elemental fire. It prompts the father to turn his home into a fortress, and his daughter to ask her beau for assistance. Starring: Mandel Kramer, Julie Newmar, Earl Hammond, Guy Sorel, Sydney Walker

  3. Path of Exile - Wikipedia

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    Path of Exile (full release) 23 October 2013 In October 2013, Path of Exile officially launched leaving what had been Open Beta, the launch was an expansion that changed the shape of the game. Originally Open Beta version 0.10.0 in January 2013 marked the point where Path of Exile was opened to the public as a free-to-play game.

  4. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms include dark, hardened scales growing on one's body, numbness in affected areas, and fatigue. As it progresses, patients have nerve damage as the scales develop into ulcers and dead tissue. It is suggested that some are born with the disease and that it is related to elemental energy. Element 115 Call of Duty: Online, Call of Duty ...

  5. Status effect - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the game, some increase the chance to escape suffering the effect each time the player may potentially receive it, while others grant complete immunity. However, sometimes the equipment that is resisting an effect, will in exchange, as a penalty, increase vulnerability against a different effect, offering the player the opportunity ...

  6. A Predicament - Wikipedia

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    Poe may have intended the editor's suggestion that Zenobia kill herself as a jab at women writers or their editors. [6] Additionally, Poe mocks political writing and plagiarism of the period by depicting the editor with three apprentices who use tailor shears to cut apart other articles and splice them together.

  7. The Pit and the Pendulum - Wikipedia

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    Poe may have been inspired to focus on the purposeful impersonal torture in part by Juan Antonio Llorente's History of the Spanish Inquisition, first published in 1817. [8] It has also been suggested that Poe's "pit" was inspired by a translation of the Qur'an (Poe had referenced the Qur'an also in "Al Aaraaf" and "Israfel") by George Sale. Poe ...

  8. Neglect of probability - Wikipedia

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    In another example of near-total neglect of probability, Rottenstreich and Hsee (2001) found that the typical subject was willing to pay $10 to avoid a 99% chance of a painful electric shock, and $7 to avoid a 1% chance of the same shock. They suggest that probability is more likely to be neglected when the outcomes are emotion-arousing.

  9. The Black Cat (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The plot essentially retells the short story in a semi-autobiographical manner, with Poe himself undergoing a series of events involving a black cat which he used to inspire the story of the same name. In 2012, Big Fish Games released a point and click mystery game loosely based on the story called Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat: Dark Tales [14]