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  2. Reddy Kilowatt - Wikipedia

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    Reddy Kilowatt made his first published appearance on March 14, 1926, in an advertisement in The Birmingham News for the Alabama Power Company (APC). The character was the brainchild of the company's 40-year-old commercial manager, Ashton B. Collins Sr. [3]

  3. Speed Racer - Wikipedia

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    Soon enough, Mach GoGoGo hit shelves in the early 1960s. The central character in the anime and manga was a young race car driver named Gō Mifune ( Mifune Gō ). The name of the series, Mach GoGoGo , has a triple meaning: "Mahha-gō" ( マッハ号 ) is the name of the car; the name of the main character is Gō Mifune; and finally, it contains ...

  4. Old Bill (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Two film adaptations of The Better 'Ole were made during the silent era. The first, a 1919 British version, starred Charles Rock as Bill. The second version was a 1926 Warner Bros. production. This film—the second feature to use the Vitaphone sound process—starred Syd Chaplin as Old Bill.

  5. Pole Position (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Pole Position is an animated series produced by DIC Enterprises [1] and MK Company. The series is loosely based on the arcade racing video game series Pole Position , the name of which was licensed from Namco to capitalize on its popularity.

  6. Berkeley Breathed - Wikipedia

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    Breathed's syndicated and Facebook cartoon work has produced at least thirteen cartoon anthology books, as of January 2018. Starting in 1992, he designed a greeting card and gift ensemble collection for American Greetings , featuring the "Bloom County" characters Opus , Bill the Cat , and Milquetoast the Cockroach .

  7. Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z - Wikipedia

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    The cartoon begins with the title sign and the Coyote hiding behind it, before the Road Runner speeding past. As he comes by, the Coyote runs right after him but gets hit by a truck (with the card on which the main producers of the cartoon are shown), and just the moment Wile E is hit, even a box falls on him with Charles M. Jones' name.

  8. Whoa, Be-Gone! - Wikipedia

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    The Road Runner escapes, and the rocket makes a U-turn toward its owner. Wile E. dodges from the rocket, but ironically, is hit by an ACME truck. 1. Wile E. is pacing around a mountaintop when he runs directly into the Road Runner, who beeps and causes the Coyote's head to retract after being scared into a rock ceiling.

  9. Truck (rigging) - Wikipedia

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    A truck is a wooden ball, disk, or bun-shaped cap at the top of a mast, with holes in it through which flag halyards are passed. [1] Trucks are also used on wooden flagpoles, to prevent them from splitting. [citation needed] Without a masthead truck, water could easily seep into the circular growth rings of a wooden mast.