Fantasy novel by the American author Walt Disney about a sapient Triceratops that is transported to king Arthur's court by the wizard Merlin.
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A historical novel about the childhood of the so called insurgent king of the Penninian Kingdom, the territory of the Clan Endir.
Local Lake Monsters and Everywhere Lake Spirits: Monsters in Folklore and Mythology of the Spanish Great Lakes
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An encyclopedic book on local folklore and mythology surrounding the five largest freshwater lakes within the former colonial territories of Hispania Nova.
The Europa Report
A modern-day online news outlet to that brings reports of the happenings in Europe, with sections dedicated to news and European pop culture, similar to Kotaku
The Wumpus of Galilee
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A satirical short story by Mark Twain about a simpleton showing up in a frontier town. Originally ridiculed as 'just some wumpus', the stranger quickly through a combination of luck, straightforwardness and inability to grasp the complexity of the issue manages to solve all the community's problems. Eventually he is elected major of the place and hailed into the city riding on a donkey when suddenly with a clap of thunder 'a great steel ship emerges from the sky'. At the sight of those the 'wumpus' races his donkey to the lake and runs into 'the ark' he has been building tere all the time. The next moment he and his craft disappear in a flash of light. Meanwhile the ship in the sky lands and from it a regiment of soldiers emerge showing everyone a 'wanted' poster with the wumpus' face on it...
The story is regarded as Mark Twain's foray into Science Fiction and, although predated by more famous stories by Jules Verne, E. A. Poe nd H.G. Wells, still is printed regularly in anthologies of early SF.
It's most lasting impact however is that despite the fact that he story plays in a fictional town of 'Lake Galilee, Missouri', several church leaders at the time regarded it as a mockery of the Christian Faith and therefore fermented the narrative of Twain being a heretic freemason and his stories being unsuited for Faithful audiences. In the long run, the famously led him to publish 'Huckelberry Finn' by himself and selling it through traveling salesmen rather then through the official bookstores.
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Monday Chewbacca
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A derogatory term for african-american hairstyles, coined in 1991 by Joan Rivers critiquing Angie Bass's afro at the Met. She has since regretted coining the phrase.
[May the] Gods Bless America
First book in the Vizenon Cycle by brothers Harry and Will Turtledove where the US in rebellion is transported to another, more magical, world and must decide whether to support the Roman like Empire of Vizenon or the Soviet like United Republics.
The series spawned the term "cosmopulted" - a shortening of "cosmically catapulted" - that was popular among certain AH forums.
The Tragedy of John the Lionheart
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King John refused to signed the Magna Carta and became increasingly isolated as time went on. His death was brutal and quick, even if it was from falling off his horse when not in a battle.
The Little Red Book
The Little Red Book
The sacred text of the Church of Hastur.
The Train to Tenochtitlan
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I think you missed out the paragraph where you explain what cultural work the quote relates to
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I was trying to describe my predecessor's bolded term.I think you missed out the paragraph where you explain what cultural work the quote relates to
The baggage train of Cortez, the conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire.
The Taming of the Screw
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A 1972 novel written by writer and left-wing activist Dwight Macdonald, set in the backdrop of late-1950s McCarthyist America. Macdonald, who spent several years incarcerated due to his political writings and anti-government publications, took inspiration from his own experiences in writing about the protagonist's relationship with a prison corrections officer who shifts from the role of antagonist to ally, culminating in the latter aiding in the former's escape to exile in Canada.
"I've got balls of steel."
The slogan for the Schaeffler group, a company that made (among other things) ball bearings. This slogan was quickly replaced after outcry because a. the ball bearings were not always made out of steel. b. It sounded childish.
Raiders of the lost season
A book by the Egyptian writer Adib Ishaq detailing a heavily dramaticised story of a group of young Wahhabis raiding a pyramid and braving the dangers of the pyramid to find the remains of Alexander the Great. It was published during the time of the Saudi Caliphate where the Wahhabis were commiting cultural genocide against the Egyptians by destroying and raiding Ancient Egyptian monuments, deeming them unislamic. Although there are some strong anti-Wahhabi undertones in the book, it was widely popular among the citizens of the Saudi Caliphate, eventually falling into the hands of ardent Egyptologists.
Encyclopedia Atlantia
An encyclopedia that was about the mythological city of Atlantis. There were corollaries in the book describing pro and con arguments that Atlantis was a real location or not. Archeologists argued back and forth on this, until a consensus was reached. That consensus was "Atlantis was based off a real location" (Lost cities in Ancient Greece), but Atlantis itself is still a myth. In addition to the "Real or not" argument, the results of the Nautile submersible expedition that found some Ancient Greek cities at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea were also documented here.
Beef History
A half-cookbook, half-biography about beef recipes from different parts of the world, complete with stories behind its creation, alongside instructions on how to prepare for it. In general, the book was about one of the principal meats used in cuisines around the world and its relationship with different cultures.
'Od LaHit (עיד להיט) - the Music Hits Parade
A book of Ashkenazi Jewish folk songs, collected by historian Amanda Katz as a means of collecting traditions that were nearly killed in the Holocaust. It has served as a model for other collections of traditional music or oral history in endangered cultures.
For Want of a Horseshoe Nail