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  2. Genies in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Genies or djinns are supernatural creatures from pre-Islamic and Islamic mythology. [1] [2] [3] They are associated with shapeshifting, possession and madness.[1] [2] In later Western popular representation, they became associated with wish-granting [1] [3] and often live in magic lamps or bottles.

  3. Mockingbird Don't Sing - Wikipedia

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    Mockingbird Don't Sing is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child. [1] The film is told from the point of view of Susan Curtiss (whose fictitious name is Sandra Tannen), a professor of linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles.

  4. Kazaam - Wikipedia

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    Kazaam (/ k ə ˈ z æ m /) is a 1996 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Paul Michael Glaser, written by Christian Ford and Roger Soffer based on a story by Glaser, and starring Shaquille O'Neal as the title character, a 5,000-year-old genie who appears from a magic boombox to grant a 14-year-old boy three wishes.

  5. ‘Genie’ Review: Melissa McCarthy Stars in a Fairy ... - AOL

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    Genies, at least in pop culture, have long been comic foils. Way back in 1940, in “The Thief of Bagdad,” Rex Ingram played Djinn, the movie’s larger-than-life genie — 100 feet tall in his ...

  6. 20Q - Wikipedia

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    20Q is a computerized game of twenty questions that began as a test in artificial intelligence (AI). It was invented by Robin Burgener in 1988. [1] The game was made handheld by Radica in 2003, but was discontinued in 2011 because Techno Source took the license for 20Q handheld devices.

  7. Three wishes joke - Wikipedia

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    When they uncork the bottle, a genie appears and offers three wishes. The first wishes to be taken to Paris. The genie snaps his fingers, and the man suddenly finds himself standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. The second man wishes that he were in Hollywood, and with a snap of the genie's fingers, he finds himself on a Tinseltown movie set ...

  8. Here is What Hedge Funds Think About Genie Energy Ltd (GNE) - AOL

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  9. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    In many stories, they talk of Pan, or just satyrs, in general, are known to play tricks on people, especially children, for their amusement. Pedro Urdemales – a trickster folk hero from Iberian and Latin American folklore; Prometheus - Tricks Zeus over sacrifices at Mecone, steals fire on behalf of mankind.