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  2. Dalek - Wikipedia

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    The allusion is most obvious in the Dalek stories written by Nation, in particular The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) and Genesis of the Daleks (1975). [15] [16] [17] Before he wrote the first Dalek serial, Nation was a scriptwriter for the comedian Tony Hancock. The two men had a falling out and Nation either resigned or was fired.

  3. Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 090 dump - Wikipedia

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    Create a command file, for example ListCheckWiki90.txt with the following contents: ListCheckWiki enwiki-$-pages-articles.xml.bz2 wiki:Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC_{0 ...

  4. List of cultural references in the Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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    Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.

  5. Allusion - Wikipedia

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    Allusion is an economical device, a figure of speech that uses a relatively short space to draw upon the ready stock of ideas, cultural memes or emotion already associated with a topic. Thus, an allusion is understandable only to those with prior knowledge of the covert reference in question, a mark of their cultural literacy. [8]

  6. List of Futurama characters - Wikipedia

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    Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West), primarily known by his surname Fry, is the main protagonist of the series.He is a 20th-century pizza delivery boy in New York City who, after getting dumped by his girlfriend and being stuck in a dead-end job, is cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999, waking up 1000 years later just before the year 3000.

  7. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    Cracker: In the United States, the use of "cracker" as a pejorative term for a white person does not come from the use of bullwhips by whites against slaves in the Atlantic slave trade.

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    Bambi Bliss - adult film star; Barbara Bray Edwards - Andy Griffith's first wife; Barbara Griffin - Irish actress; Barry Clayton - English actor of stage and screen, bet known for the opening monologue on Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' and voice work on the British TV series Count Duckula.