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Pio2013

eliphas8 said:
So What? I've Got A Floor!
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Movie from 1970. Considered a piece of art by many cinema critics, its based in the homonyms suspense novel about the life of Bastian Leuceder, the famous architect specialized in skyscrappers and his time in the army and how affected it in his future career.

Shetlands Sunset
 

Hollis Hurlbut

Pio2013 said:
Shetlands Sunset
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A cocktail made with equal parts scotch whiskey, rowan liqueur, and bog myrtle schnapps. It was invented by Ian Fleming for his 1959 novel The Low Road, in which it was the preferred beverage of Glenda Rubb, a Scottish nationalist lesbian Soviet spy.

Ay caramba!
 
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Escape Zeppelin

Pio2013 said:
The Blue Roosters
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A Three Stooges short film in which the Stooges play WWI French fighter pilots of the Blue Roosters Squadron. Through a series of increasingly preposterous hijinks the Stooges eventually capture the German high command and are hailed as heroes to the dismay of their stern commander.

The Undying Idea
 

Hollis Hurlbut

Pio2013 said:
The Blue Roosters
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Gallos azules, a collection of seven very short stories written by Jorge Luis Borges during his imprisonment by the Montoneros (February-August, 1974). In the title story, a pair of blue gamecocks are entombed alive in La Recoleta cemetery, so that the dead alone may wager on the fight. An iconic statue of two blue obsidian roosters adorns Borges's tomb in Austin, Texas.

Adolph the Aardvark

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Pio2013

Escape Zeppelin said:
The Undying Idea
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The most famous Van Gogh painting. As their autobiography says, he imagined the painting and started to paint it instead "cutting my ear". Many people until now thinks that Vincent tried to cut his own ear.

Hollis Hurlbut said:
Adolph the Aardvark
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One of the characters of the animated serie "The purple tiger", always having troubles with Sissi and Lizzy the ants. Gained popularity with the song "Adolph the Aardvark" from the group Nirvana. In the videoclip, the main protagonist wears a t-shirt with the face of Adolph.

Pizza, Kebab & Sushi
 

eliphas8

Hollis Hurlbut said:
The US secret service codenames for the prime ministers of Italy, Turkey, and Japan, as made famous by Brutus, Clint Eastwood's film about the Putin assassination.

The Hamburglar
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A muckraking political documentary about how the McDonald's corporation systematically defrauded the american government and collected billions of dollars in taxes that they would have otherwise owed to the federal government.

The Strange Life Of Sultana Suleiman The Spectacular
 

Hollis Hurlbut

Flashman said:
The Jew With the Silver
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The self-bestowed nickname of California congressman Mark Spitz, who first came to fame by winning a record seven silver medals at the 1972 Olympic Games in Detroit.

eliphas8 said:
The Strange Life Of Sultana Suleiman The Spectacular
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A 1975 young adult novel by Judy Blume about a suburban American girl who invents a fake pen-pal from the Sultanate of Kashmir.

Captain Cotton
 

Escape Zeppelin

Flashman said:
The Jew With the Silver
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A popular 1953 children's book from Germany that taught children the value of saving money and to protect the German race. The beautifully illustrated book won the Aryan Literature prize that year and became a best seller when the Fuhrer publicly asked for an autographed copy for his own children.

The Strange Life Of Sultana Suleiman The Spectacular

The English title of a German 1968 cult classic film set in the fantasy world of the Sultana Suleiman. A stinging critique of the inhumanizing nature of government and its propaganda the film draws heavily on the imagery of popular yet government approved childhood stories such as the Berenstain Bears and The Jew With the Silver.
 
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Orsino

Banned
Hollis Hurlbut said:
Captain Cotton
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Jack Jacobs (1844-1907) was a freedman and pirate who operated in the Americas between 1867 and 1888 and was better known by the moniker "Captain Cotton". Jacob's attacks on cotton exports and revenge attacks against slavers and slave ships earned him a fearsome reputation among sailors of the Union of Southern Republics but he was a folk hero to many plantation slaves and supporters of the USA. Jacobs later retired to British America and died peacefully in his sleep in 1907, six years after the fall of the USR.

Catch 22
 

Captain Planet

Orsino said:
Jack Jacobs (1844-1907) was a freedman and pirate who operated in the Americas between 1867 and 1888 and was better known by the moniker "Captain Cotton". Jacob's attacks on cotton exports and revenge attacks against slavers and slave ships earned him a fearsome reputation among sailors of the Union of Southern Republics but he was a folk hero to many plantation slaves and supporters of the USA. Jacobs later retired to British America and died peacefully in his sleep in 1907, six years after the fall of the USR.

Catch 22
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An autobiography written by Emmitt Smith following his last season as a Minnesota Viking running back which told the entire story of his career through the high school and college ranks, and what would culminate into 6 straight Superbowl victories for his team after they traded their star running back to the Dallas Cowboys for 8 draft picks and 5 other players. The Cowboys were at the bottom of their conference for the next 14 years and the Viking would go on to be considered one of the best franchise's in the NFL.

Caesar's Gambit
 

The Uchronian

Hollis Hurlbut said:
The pilot episode of Caesar (1970-1975), a Dumont sitcom featuring Telly Savalas as Tony Caesar, a street-smart veteran of the Cuban War who gets a job teaching history at a Pasadena high school.

Rapper's Delight
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1990 hit indie film about the New York marijuana smoker's scene, many of its adherents rappers or their fans.

Snow Blanche
 

Hollis Hurlbut

CaliBoy1990 said:
Snow Blanche
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The standard English term for a silhouette of a robed figure made by lying in snow and fanning out one's arms and legs. Derived from Queen Blanche I of England, whose coronation in 1565 coincided with the coldest winter in living memory, and led to her epithet "the Ice Queen".

Spaceballs
 

The Uchronian

Hollis Hurlbut said:
The standard English term for a silhouette of a robed figure made by lying in snow and fanning out one's arms and legs. Derived from Queen Blanche I of England, whose coronation in 1565 coincided with the coldest winter in living memory, and led to her epithet "the Ice Queen".

Spaceballs
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Popular toy from 1960s/70s America, invented by a Calif. entrepreneur. :D

Jackson's Revenge
 

Gurroruo

CaliBoy1990 said:
Popular toy from 1960s/70s America, invented by a Calif. entrepreneur. :D

Jackson's Revenge
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Jackson's Revenge a painting of the famous Battle of Quebec. This painting was painted five years after the War of 1822. Which has caused much critisicm by the art community considering the fact that the jackson lost the battle.

Guerrero!
 

The Uchronian

Gurroruo said:
Jackson's Revenge a painting of the famous Battle of Quebec. This painting was painted five years after the War of 1822. Which has caused much critisicm by the art community considering the fact that the jackson lost the battle.

Guerrero!
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In 1967, the Mexican government funded a biographical film about one of its earliest leaders, Vicente Guerrero.

The Grand Tour: Thrills & Escapades from Paris to Saratov.
 
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