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  2. 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 ...

  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. Dick Van Dyke, 98, Says He's 'Not Afraid' of Dying: 'I'm ...

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    Dick Van Dyke knows he won't be around forever, but when death comes, he won't be afraid.. The legendary entertainer, 98, stars in Coldplay's latest music video for their song, "All My Love," and ...

  6. Cogito, ergo sum - Wikipedia

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    The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. [1]

  7. List of last words (19th century) - Wikipedia

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    "Thank you—but don't kiss me; it is the sweat of death. I am dying, and it's for the best." [65] — John Field, Irish pianist and composer (23 January 1837), to his friend Gebhard Duel of Pushkin and d'Anthes. "Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent." [42]: 26

  8. ‘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 ...

  9. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    "I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been." [24] — Virginia Woolf, English writer (28 March 1941), addressing her husband Leonard in her suicide note, drowning herself later that day "It's coming to an end for me, I'm sinking, I'm sinking!" [180] ("Es geht mit mir zu Ende, ich versinke, ich versinke!")