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July 9, 2008: A new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has appeared among Americans, creating lots of tiny holes in their brains and gradually causing them to loose their ability to think,...
The 10th Century consists of the following decades:
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The 11th century consists of the following decades:
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"What I tell you three times is true."
—- The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
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The human mind is wired to find patterns. One of the ways this manifests can be summed up...
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The 12th Century consists of the following decades:
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September 22, 2009: The article describes 13 animals (complete with pictures) which are especially gruesome or creepy to look at.
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The 13th century consists of the following decades:
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June 12, 2009: A boy in Essen, Germany has been hit by a meteorite and survived - a Million To One Chance, according to scientists. The meteorite left a scar in his hand and then caused a...
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The 16th century consists of the following decades:
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The 17th century consists of the following decades:
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The 1883 "No Cents" Liberty Head nickel is a genuine US coin, but the term also refers to an old confidence game developed by con artists that electroplated Liberty Head nickels,...
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The 18th century consists of the following decades:
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1918
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1949
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1967
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1976
1977
1978
1979
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1982
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1987
1988
1989
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The 1990s consist of the following years:
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1991
1992
1993
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1996
1997
1998
1999
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February 9, 2008: Two Russian mathematicians speculate that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland could produce miniature wormholes, thus making time travel possible.
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May 7, 2009: The article takes a report by National Geographic that a certain species of wolf spider in Greenland currently seems to grow by 10% in size per year (possibly as a result of...
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3753 Cruithne is an asteroid that is a quasi-satellite of Earth, having a horseshoe orbit in regards to Earth. That means it's a big rock that orbits the sun in about the same...
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3D Printing is the technology of creating three dimensional objects through applying multiple layers of material through a printer array.
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News: 'Organ Printing' Could...
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April 13, 2009: A 5cm fir tree has been found growing in the lung of a man who was coughing blood. It was surgically removed.
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Nightmare Fuel
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September 15, 2009: The article details 5 popular tactics in the event of a zombie outbreak - and why they are a bad idea:
Raiding the gun store: Everyone will have the same idea, making...
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April 10, 2009: In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States government sponsored Project Plowshare, which investigated possible civilian uses of nuclear weapons. Among the possible uses...
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May 3, 2008: A volcano in Chile that had remained dormant for 9,000 years erupted unexpectedly and during a stunning lightning storm.[2] Many photos were taken and they are breath-taking....
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99942 Apophis (also known as 2004 MN4) is a near-Earth Asteroid that may crash into the Earth in 2029, 2036 or 2037. Since it's about 350 meters (1,100 ft) long, it would be...
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Aachen is the westernmost city of Germany. It was founded by the Romans when they discovered some local hot springs. It was the seat of Emperor Charlemagne. During World War II,...
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November 15, 2007: Unnamed people entered a laboratory in Moscow where the Soviet Armed Forces conducted experiments on human and animal brains and took photos of the abandoned...
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Above The Ruins is an Action Adventure Trope.
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Abraham features in the Book of Genesis. He is widely regarded as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
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The Absent-Minded Professor is a Stock Character of a brilliant scientist or professor who's terribly unorganized and forgetful. They're also frequently a poor judge of character...
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Absurdity Ascendant represents tropes about nonsense, the bizarre, and surrealism.
List of Absurdity Ascendant Tropes
Are You Pondering What Im Pondering
Beyond The...
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The Emirate of Abu Dhabi is the largest of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, compromising 86% of its land. It has the second highest population in the UAW after...
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Abusive Precursors are the ancient evil from The Dark Times. They are like Neglectful Precursors, except they meant to create the mess they left behind. This can range from...
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Acacia are plants which grow as either shrubs ortrees. Most of the known species exist in Australia, with other species existing in warm-temperate to tropical regions of Africa,...
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An accent is a distinct way of pronouncing a particular language, usually because the speaker grew up with a different language.
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Related to Language Tropes, these are tropes that deal with the way in which characters from a certain region and their actors pronounce words, and the character traits these...
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An Accretion Disk is a disc-shaped cloud of gases, debris, etc that is spiraling in towards a central stellar body. Typically this central unit is a young star, a protostar, a...
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Historically, an Ace Pilot is a fighter pilot who has shot down 5 or more enemy aircraft.
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The ACM-R5 is a snake-like robot that can move similar to snakes - both on the ground and underwater.
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Action Adventure Tropes are tropes used for exciting action sequences, or primarily only found in stories about adventure.
List of Action Adventure Tropes
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She's beautiful, she's sexy and she can clean your clock. She's the Action Girl. Perhaps she comes from an Amazon culture of warrior women; perhaps her father was a kick-butt...
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An Active Galactic Nucleus (abbreviated AGN) is a region at the center of some galaxies that is highly luminous. Such a nucleus releases huge amounts of electromagnetic...
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An Active Galaxy is a Galaxy with an Active Galactic Nucleus.
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Quasar
Supermassive black hole
M-sigma relation
Relativistic jet
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The Book of Genesis in the Bible describe Adam and Eve as the first people on earth, and the progenitors of the human race. According to Genesis 2:7, "the LORD God formed the man...
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This character trope is the Archaeologist (or Professor, or other Badass Bookworm) who forgoes dusty academia and meticulous fieldwork in favor of grave robbing and punching...
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Adventure towns are a type of setting which the protagonists visit and soon after get involved in an adventure. Typically, they don't linger much once the local problem is solved...
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An Adventuring Party (or The Party) refers to a group of Player Characters and/or NPCs, working together for some purpose. The term can refer to a couple slightly different...
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An aerodyne is a heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving lift from dynamic motion through the air.
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An aerostat is a lighter-than-air aircraft or object that relies on buoyancy to keep it aloft.
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Aesoptinum is Phlebotinum with a moral component, designed so the author of the story can communicate a metaphor.
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Fantastic Aesop
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After the End is a type of setting. It takes place in a world where a devastating event reduced most of civilization to rubble.
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Post Apocalyptic Decay for a timeline of...
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The Agent Mulder (sometimes also called the Agent Cooper) is the investigator who believes in pretty much everything. This can range from having an open mind, up to bisociation,...
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Agent Orange is the code name of the most well-known of the "Rainbow Herbicides" used by the US Military during the Vietnam War. The typical delivery method is spraying from...
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The Agent Scully is an investigator who has Scully Syndrome. The Scully is the skeptic taken to extremes. They won't believe in the supernatural, regardless of how much proof is...
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Ahaus is a town in Germany (30000 inhabitants), Norhrhine-Westfalia.
It is situated in the north-western part of the Münsterland near the Dutch border.
Ahaus was first mentioned...
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An aircraft is a type of vehicle that is capable of flight via being supported by planetary atmosphere. Vehicles which use thrust instead of lift to overcome gravity...
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The AirJelly is a flying robot based on a jellyfish.
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1. Festo Company Website entry
2. YouTube video
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The AirPenguin is a flying robot based on a penguin.
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Bibliography
1. Festo Company Website entry
2. YouTube video
3. YouTube video explaining mechanical...
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The Air Ray is a flying robot based on the shape of manta rays.
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Bibliography
1. Festo Company Website entry
2. YouTube video
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Arctic - the region north of Alaska.
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July 13, 2009: A lawsuit has been filed in Saudi Arabia that has a most unique defendant. The accused is a genie, or possibly several jinn. The Sheikh in charge of the Sharia...
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Albert Einstein is best known for E=MC2 (the most famous equation in science), and for his hair. His name is synonymous with "genius". He's been the model for numerous...
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An Alchemist is someone who practices or researches alchemy.
Just as alchemy occupies a strange niche between magic and science (and is similar to both), the Alchemist is a...
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Alchemy is a philosophy, art, and alternative science related to chemistry. It predated chemistry, and in many ways contributed to the development of that science. The name...
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The Alcubierre Drive is a theoretical and speculative concept for a Stardrive, proposed by Physicist Miguel Alcubierre. The Technology to make such a device function is unknown,...
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An Alderson Disk is an enormous interstellar megastructure. It is shaped like a giant CD, with an entire Star inside the middle hole. The radius of the disk would be about the...
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The Alderson Drive is a type of Shortcut Drive used in some novels by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. It's named for scientist Dan Alderson, who helped Pournelle work out the...
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Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon, biologist, and advocate of eugenics who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his medical work. In his book L'Homme, cet inconnu (Man, The Unknown)...
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The jet fuel used by the US Military is a kerosene-based fuel called Jet Propellant 8. Because of the volatile price of petroleum, and the urgent need for energy independence,...
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Algol is one name (the Demon Star is another) for a set of stars in the constellation Perseus. It's classified as an eclipsing binary, but technically it's three stars, a trinary...
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Algol Variables, or Algol-type binaries are a specific type of eclipsing binaries. It's a pair of stars, one brighter than the other, that eclipse one another when viewed from...
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An alien is a creature of extraterrestrial origin. They are likely to exhibit Alien Biochemistry.
List of Alien Types and Descriptions
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An Alien Abduction is a speculative fiction trope, as well as something that many people claim happens in real life. According to it, sometimes people are are abducted by aliens...
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Amino acids are the building blocks of protein and enzymes.
20 different amino acids, in various sequences, define almost every protein on Earth.
However, a large number of...
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Extraterrestrial / alien life is likely to be rather different than that found here on earth. Even in a setting where exogenesis or panspermia proves true, and carbon-based life...
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Alien Geometries is a Horror Trope, most common in books of the Cosmic Horror subgenre.
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Alien Hand Syndrome (also sometimes known as AHS, Anarchic Hand or Doctor Strangelove Syndrome) is a neurological disorder where the patient / sufferer has little or no control...
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November 24, 2008: A squid has been filmed by a Remotely operated underwater vehicle owned by the Shell Oil Company near an off-shore drilling site. The squid is of the rare and unusual...
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In this Time Travel Trope, the Time Traveler decides to impress his "uncivilized" friends with the awe and majesty of music from the future. Often this involves an electric...
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Allan Hills 84001 (commonly abbreviated ALH 84001) is a meteorite found in Allan Hills, Antarctica on December 27, 1984. It's structure includes what some scientists believe to...
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He fought Civil War spies and Wild West train robbers; he saved the life of Abraham Lincoln and established the first Private Detective agency. His name became synonymous both...
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October 28, 2009: An MSNBC article reports on a Norwegian man caught smuggling two dozen reptiles into the country by hiding them inside his clothing. He had 14 pythons, each placed in an...
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All Is Well That Ends Well is a narrative devices where a character, despite experiencing considerable physical or emotional trauma, is able to pick up his life again and keep...
VI. Consistent with the limitations of your vessel and equipment, you will confine your landings an contacts to Class "M" planets approximating Earth-Mars conditions.
Star Trek original series...
That quintessential requirement to be a caped crusader: the secret identity.
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Ever notice how the hero has to lead a normal life in addition all his world saving/crime...
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What If [insert important historical event] never happened? How would the world be different?
Alternate History is a type of Speculative Fiction, set in a world where one or more...
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This bibliography page lists sources that might be useful in running an Alternate History or Alternate Universe game. The two terms are largely interchangeable, but "Alternate...
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This speculative fiction trope / comic book trope describes a story where the characters visit, get marooned in, or get visited by, another reality. It's kinda like a Dream...
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Alternative biology is the study of theoretical or non-traditional life forms. It also considers the earliest theoretical forms of life on Earth. It has some overlap with...
sometimes the most dubious sources make for the best gaming.
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This page lists theories and fields of inquiry which some might call scientific but which are not considered part of...
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Always Female are character types are Characterization Tropes which are almost always female, although Wholesome Crossdressers or Gender Benders can take on these roles as well,...
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Always Male are character types are Characterization Tropes which are almost always male, although many of them can be ported over to female characters, and many have distaff...
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August 30, 2008: As newly released documents show, the British James Lonsdale-Bryans traveled to Italy during World War II to meet with the German diplomat Ulrich von Hassell where he...
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Just as the first Apple Computer was cobbled together in a garage, today some amateur geneticists are trying to rewrite DNA in their own home-made labs.
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They're an elite team of fighters and every one of them is a guaranteed knockout. The Amazon Brigade follows the principle that if one Action Girl is hot, then a whole team of...
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Amber is a Diceless RPG, written by Erick Wujcik, and based on the ten Amber novels by Roger Zelazny.
Amber is the one true world, the shining Center of the Universe, even if the...
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Life as we know it requires water. Water acts as a biological solvent, dissolving various chemicals into solution, so that they may be transported more readily via the body's...
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This article is a stub. Please expand on it!
Specific Types of Ammunition
Dragon's Breath
Sources
Wikipedia entry
Game and Story Use
Ammunition use in RPGs tends to swing...
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Amway is an American company whose selling strategies have often been compared to Pyramid schemes.
See Also
Milkman Conspiracy
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This Trope refers to the way that period pieces and time travel films can often get away with excessive historical inaccuracy and almost never get called on it. Most TV and film...
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An Adventurer Is You is the name of gaming trope where the players are various heroic, exciting or barbarous characters that kill monsters, gather treasure, save the day, and/or...
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Anarchy is the lack of recognized government and/or a general state of lawlessness is society. Individuals in society may take or give whatever they please, using whatever means...
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In this Science Fiction Trope it is revealed that the Gods or Mythological Creatures of the distant past were real, but were "merely" aliens. This lets you blend Sword and...
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Ancient Rome was one of the largest Empires of the Ancient World. According to Legend, the city was founded on April 21, 753 BC by the half-divine (sons of Mars (mythology))...
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May 3, 2009: Archaeologists have determined that approximately 2,300 years ago a tsunami hit the New York City region. This was determined by out-of-place elements and debris in the...
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July 13, 2009: The article provides an in-depth economic analysis of piracy in Somalia, discussing costs, risks, and so forth of the attack, negotiations, and resolution and payoff....
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May 31, 2007: In 1962 in Tanzania, a strange disease broke out which caused its victims to laugh and cry. It started on January 30 in a girls' middle school, and spread to several other...
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As far as badass angelic jobs go, this one is pretty popular and everybody seems to want a shot at the title. Here's a short list of those who could be considered Angels of...
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Animals are multicellular life forms which are also mobile (if only at certain stages of their lives). They also feed on other life forms, whether plants or other animals.
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This page is about vehicles that are not mechanically powered, but are instead drawn by a domesticated animal, such as a horse or ox.
The following list includes many of the more...
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An anime trope is a trope which was invented in or is especially prominent in anime series.
List of Anime Tropes
Absurdly Powerful Student Council
Accidental Marriage
Ace...
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Scientifically speaking, other dimensions would likely be just a "bigger picture" in terms of movement, measuring, space, physical interactions, and perception, like Edwin Abbot...
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This article is a stub. Please expand on it!
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News: Ant mega-colony takes over world
News: Zombie Fire Ants
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Antarctica is the southernmost continent on Earth, overlaying the South Pole. Most of it is covered by a massive ice sheet, including numerous glaciers. Antarctica is the only...
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April 16, 2009: In Antarctica, there is a location where water bursts forth from a glacier, after which it quickly oxidizes the surrounding regions and turns rust red. This water comes from...
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November 24, 2003: Scientists observe the first recorded total eclipse over Antarctica.
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Original story
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Eclipses always had occult significances, and Antarctica...
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Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin.
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Squick
News/Event: Gunpowder Plot - Human Skin-Covered Book Auctioned
News: Some of nation's...
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Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, especially of human cultures.
Sources
Wikipedia entry
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Anthropologists are in a good position to discover...
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An Anthropomorphic Personification is the Human(-ish) embodiment of an abstract concept. Like if Good and Evil were real people.
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Anthropomorphism
Genius Loci
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The Anti-Hero is a character that is technically a hero, but lacks most of the traits associated with heroes. They may even seem to be the polar opposite of heroes, except when...
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The Antikythera mechanism is the oldest known analog/mechanical computer. This artifact is a compact form of orrery that tracked the positions of the sun, moon, and other...
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March 14, 2009: The article showcases maps of ancient Antioch penned by an Italian scholar which shows several differences to more "established" maps.
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They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums… drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the...
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The word Apocrypha comes from the Greek for "things hidden away" and is generally used to refer to certain biblical books that are not considered to be part of the sacred canon....
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An apostle is a disciple who has written an epistle.
All right. So that isn't particularly helpful. A better distinction would be to say that a disciple is a student and an...
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Apothecary refers to a profession, (common from the 14th Century to 19th Century) which has many similarities to the modern pharmacist or dispensing chemist. The apothecaries...
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The AquaJelly is an underwater robot based on a jellyfish.
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1. Festo Company Website entry
2. YouTube video
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The AquaPenguin is an underwater robot based on a penguin.
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2. YouTube video
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The Aqua Ray is an underwater robot in the shape of a manta ray.
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Enlarge them to the...
This project stems from my fascination with my Amazon Kindle, a modern ebook reader. I often read in it when traveling, as well as in the evening in my bed shortly before going to sleep - and I...
This guide is intended to help you with writing well-designed and interesting Arcana Wiki entries that conform to a standard appearance. This isn't supposed to explain the details of wiki code...
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Arcanist is a term for the contributors to the Arcana Wiki.
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Here is a list of Real World archaeoastronomical sites that can be used in your campaign whether it be set in the real world itself or whether you want to get ideas when the...
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An archetypal character is a type of character which appears in stories around the world, even fairly isolated ones. Thus, such character types seem to resonate deeply with the...
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An archipelago is a cluster of islands. They are commonly found on the open ocean, though sometimes they are located near large land masses.
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An Arc Number is a number that pops up over and over again in a given work, often in seemingly unrelated contexts. Sometimes the number really is significant; sometimes, it's just...
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An arcology is a gigantic structure which is a habitat for large numbers of people - frequently it is a city in its own right. Sometimes, arcologies are even self-sufficient.
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The Arctic is the region of Earth surrounding the North Pole.
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Event/News: Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities
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Arc Welding is the process of retroactively tying together episodic stories into a larger story arc.
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Narrative Devices
Seasons
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The narrative Trope known as "Arc Words" refers to an enigmatic word or phrase that appears, unexplained and without context, here and there throughout a series or story arc, and...
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Area 51 is a remote tract of land in the southwestern portion of southern Nevada in the western United States. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, a dry...
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October 27, 2008: Cognitive scientists are trying to create a computer character which is pure "Evil" to better understand the nature of Evil.
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Artificial Intelligence
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News: Gulls' vicious attacks on whales
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1. Wikipedia entry
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Event/News: Hark! Where's the Bible Ark?
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Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland.
- "Todesfuge", by Paul Celan
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Armin Meiwes is a German who gained notoriety by killing and eating a willing victim.
He places an...
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The term armorer (also armourer) can have two meanings, both of which are professions.
A person who makes armor, especially a craftsman who does so (not someone on an assembly...
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Technically speaking, an armorsmith is someone who makes armor from metal. But, as with weaponsmith, the term is often used more generally to mean someone who makes armor,...
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An artifact is a unique item that may have historical, cultural, or supernatural significance.
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This speculative fiction trope is also a character as device trope specific to inanimate objects. The Artifact of Doom is a Villain that is also an artifact. Despite being a...
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Artificial Intelligence describes the intelligence of machines.
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Robot
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An artist is someone who creates art.
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List of Artists
List of pages with the "Art" tag
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To add art to an entry, you first need to upload the image to the page to which you want to add it. You can do this via the "files" button at the bottom of each page. Examples of wiki code that...
This page is about the crime. For other uses, see Assault (Disambiguation).
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In US Law, an Assault is an attempt to commit Battery (crime). In others, any unlawful attempt to...
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In Warfare:
An attack in war, see battle and strategic offensive
in particular, the first phase of an attack, see shock troops
Assault course
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An asteroid is a small rocky body that orbits our Sun. They are larger than meteoroids (so, larger than 10 meters in diameter), but smaller than planets. An asteroid large enough...
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The Asteroid Belt
The Asteroid Belt is a large group of asteroids orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt includes most asteroids in the Solar System, but...
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Since Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale they don't realize how big and empty space is. They also don't realize how big and empty an asteroid belt is. It's really not a...
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Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. This multidisciplinary field overlaps with Astronomy and Biology. It assumes...
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The Astrochicken is a form of Von Neumann Probe proposed by astrophysicist Freeman Dyson. It's a one-kilogram cyborg, genetically engineered to explore our solar-system. Rather...
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Astronautics is the branch of Engineering directly concerned with vehicles (predominantly spacecraft) and machines that exit the earth's atmosphere, or that work entirely outside...
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August 23, 2007: Astronomers at the University of Minnesota have found a void, a region of the universe empty of interstellar matter, of a far larger size than any previously known void....
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In the old town square of Prague stands an enormous and extremely complex astronomical clock affixed to the wall of the old city hall. Built in 1410, it is one of the prime...
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Astronomy is the field of science concerning celestial objects, such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies, as well as phenomena originating beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
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Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature, and chemical composition)...
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The aswang is a ghoul from the folklore of the Philippines.
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Down below, before my very eyes, lay the ruins of a submerged city, swallowed by the sea. Its roofs were sunken, its temples demolished, its arches in pieces, its columns on the ground, but its...
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Atlantropa (also called Panropa) was a massive project proposed by Herman Sorgel in the 1920s.
The heart of the project was a massive hydroelectric dam that would have been built...
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An atmosphere is a layer of gases that may surround a planet of sufficient mass. It is retained by the gravity of the planet. Within it, weather phenomena will occur.
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Atmospheric Reentry is what happens when a spacecraft or satellite enters the atmosphere of a planet. It results in significant aerodynamic heating of the object and the air it...
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The atomic bomb, also known as the A-bomb or simply The Bomb, is a device that converts a small amount of uranium into energy, thereby creating an explosion capable of reducing a...
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Attack Of The Killer Whatever is a classic horror trope.
Pick something - any something. Any type of animal, vegetable, or mineral, or a form of technology, or mythological...
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Agdistis was born with both male and female traits which frightened the Olympian gods. They cut off the male traits and cast them away- from which grew an almond tree. The nymph...
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Attributes or Abilities, within the context of a role-playing game, are a form of Game Statistic that represents the innate capabilities of a character. They are ranked, often on...
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Aufhockers are creatures from German folklore. They are small spirits that jump on the back or shoulders of lone wanderers at night, and usually instill such terror in their...
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August is the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar.
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Locations
The Hideout
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Australia is both a country and Earth's smallest continent. It is located in the southern hemisphere between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
Towns and...
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March 31, 2009: The Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Australia was forced to close down due to the economic downturn, signaling the end of the recent resource boom in Australia and possibly...
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Authority Equals Asskicking is an authority trope. It stands for the idea that authority in any kind of organization - which is a kind of power - also translates into an equal...
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Authority tropes are tropes about the different effects and displays of authority and obedience.
List of Authority Tropes
Tropes About Authority in General
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Autoinfanticide is a specific variation on the Grandfather Paradox. This Time Travel Trope is form of Temporal Paradox, and is also a term used in Philosophy. It refers, as the...
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Automatically Violent is a madness trope. With it, it is assumed that a character who becomes insane for whatever reason automatically also becomes violent, even if the character...
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An ax crazy character is someone who is psychologically unstable and presents a clear danger to others. This is a very common Stock Character, who almost always works...
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An axe (or ax) is a chopping implement - some are intended as tools, others as weapons, but most can serve as either.
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Battle Axe
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See infant.
For other uses, see Honey, Darling and Sweet Babboo.
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December 30, 2002: A BBC documentary about extreme art practices in China as provoked controversy, as it features a Chinese artist who apparently eats a stillborn baby. The artist claims...
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The Badass is a character who can really mix it up, kick ass, and perform amazing stunts. They are the Rule of Cool personified.
Subtropes include:
Back To Back Badasses
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"B-but she's just a kid!"
Yeah, that's what the Badass Lolita wants you to think. Maybe she was trained by ninjas. Maybe she has an arsenal of high-powered weaponry in her...
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Every other major character in the setting has some sort of supernatural power, but somehow this essentially mundane character is able to stand toe-to-toe with them, or even stay...
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An alternate future where the bad guys won. In Movies and TV, this is often just a temporary situation, that will be fixed or solved as the plot goes on, retroactively wiping...
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The badger game extortion is a confidence game often perpetrated on married men. The mark is deliberately coerced into a compromising position, a supposed affair for example,...
[A guy gets thrown out of a rowdy bar and lands on the street next to Kermit]
GUY: That's toughest, meanest, *filthiest* pest hole on the face of the earth!
KERMIT: Why not complain to the...
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Bad Moon Rising is a speculative fiction trope. It represents an ill omen of an upcoming epic conflict or disaster - and the disaster is of such magnitude that the skies...
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The bajang is an evil spirit who appears when a disaster or illness is about to occur. He usually takes the form of a giant polecat.
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The modern Ballistic Vest is a form of armor that covers the vital areas of the torso. It is intended to reduce and prevent injuries from stabbing and gunshots.
Rating System
The...
"My favorite's the Professor
He always saves their butts;
He could build a nuclear reactor
Out of a couple of coconuts."
— "Gilligan's Isle Thing" — "Weird Al" Yankovic
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A subset of the Outlaw with a Hispanic flavor. Most often found in stories set in Mexico or near the US-Mexican border. As with the outlaw, the bandito often overlaps with the...
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June 20, 2008: If current predictions about global warming and rising sea levels are correct, Bangladesh will loose most of its land to the ocean by the end of the 21st...
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U.S. President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961, and is thus a U.S. Citizen.
A ton of conspiracy theories have popped up alleging that he was born in...
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The Barbarian Tribe isn't just one stock character - it's a whole pack of illiterate, uncultured, evil warriors. They descend upon helpless villages and towns, stealing whatever...
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Sometimes a Barber is more than just a person who cuts your hair.
For the version of the Barber from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, or Ancient World, see BARBER-CHIRURGEON.
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This page is about the Barber, as the term was known from Classical Antiquity up until the end of the Colonial Era. For more modern eras (Wild West especially), see The Barber.
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The Bar Brawl is a classic trope where a fight breaks out in a bar, and quickly spreads from the original angry parties to everyone else in the bar. In movies, Bar Brawls have an...
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Barsa-Kelmes (alternative spelling Barsakelmes) is the largest island of the Aral Sea, which has a reputation of being a strange (and even cursed) place. It remains uninhabited...
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A basilisk image is an image which "crashes the human mind by triggering thoughts that the mind is physically or logically incapable of thinking"[2].
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Bat Species
Vampyrym Spectrum
Vampire Bat
Desmodus Draculae
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Vampire
News: Shuttle-Riding Bat Dies The Most Glorious...
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This Speculative Fiction Trope is when a character can breathe, and sometimes even talk, in outer space.
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The Battle Butler is a Sidekick, Henchman or Minion who serves their master out of a sense of duty. They blur the line between personal servant and bodyguard.
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The Bauhaus was a German school of Art and Design that had a tremendous influence on architecture and industrial design in the 20th Century. It was founded in 1919 by the...
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In Robert Asprin's Mythadventures series, Deeva is a desolate wasteland inhabited by creatures known as Deveels. They have red skin, cloven hooves and horns and look very much...
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Bear dogs (Amphicyonidae) were a pre-historic species of Carnivoran mammals related to both the bear family and the dog family. Bear dogs are, appropriately, hypothesized to have...
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The Venerable Bede was an English monk and scholar who lived in the 7th and 8th Centuries. He is best-known for his book, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The...
"I don't know," Becky said clutching her candle nervously. "We could get into a lot of trouble doing this."
"I say there's something shifty about that reverend," Tom insisted, pulling the tarp off...
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One of Ludwig van Beethoven's early tutors, a writer and composer named Christian Neefe, was also a member of the Bavarian Illuminati and tried to instill in the young genius the...
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Beethoven wasn't really an alien spy (as far as we know, any way). This Time Travel Trope is a story element where a famous historical figure turns out to have a secret life....
"To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock;
In a pestilential prison with a life long lock;
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
Of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black...
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Beneath the Earth is both a setting and an Otherworld trope. This trope assumes that a large number of fantastic beings or societies live within tunnels and caves within the...
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Bergen is the second largest city of Norway.
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Bergen Museum
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Wikipedia entry
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Bergen Museum is a museum in Bergen, Norway.
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News: Spooky Mystery At Bergen Museum
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A character with a Berserk Button can go from mild-mannered friendly fellow to Unstoppable Rage in just seconds. Typically there's a handful of topics that just set them off.
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Bertam Wilberforce Wooster, ("Bertie" to his friends) is in some respects almost the Platonic Ideal of the Upper Class Twit. He is the narrator and hero of the "Jeeves" stories...
A Bestiary is a book or collection of animals.
Our Bestiaries
This site's bestiaries are divided into several subcategories:
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Common Animals
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Did you say he was a six-fingered man?
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Revenge is a dish best served cold. This character this trope describes has been harboring a nasty desire for vengeance for years. One day,...
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Betrayal tropes are topical tropes about how characters break each others' trust.
List of Betrayal Tropes
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Deceptive Disciple
Et Tu Brute
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What is "Beware of Python"? Is it a warning sign? Is it a tabletop gaming trope? Is it a meme? Is it just geeky human nature? Whatever the reason behind it, the fact remains that...
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Beware The Honest Ones is a characterization trope. A character falling under this trope is an idealist, but he is often surrounded by other characters with more dubious...
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September 18, 2008: Cambridge University reveals the "Corpus Clock", a new clock which incorporates a mechanical creature - a mixture of beetle and lizard - into its design. This creature,...
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The Bewildered Time Novice is a character who's new to Time Travel and doesn't understand how it works.
Short Term
A week ago he was an Ignorant Leveler, and now despite his best...
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July 1, 2009: This interview / article discusses the history and future of economic systems. Each successive system has focused the wealth into fewer and fewer hands, and resulted in a...
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The Old Testament (the Tanakh)
The New Testament
The Apocrypha
Pseudepigrapha
People of the Bible
Adam and Eve
Abraham
Cain and...
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The Bible Retranslation Project is a project at the Conservapedia which aims to "re-translate" the Bible - that is to say, to alter specific words and phrases which the...
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The Bielefeld Conspiracy is a satirical conspiracy theory (as well as a meme) which holds that the German city of Bielefeld does not exist. This is allegedly hushed up by "the...
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The Big Bad Evil Guy, also known as a Big Bad or BBEG for short, is an extremely potent Character with evil plans and the muscle, magic, or brains to achieve them. In a TV show,...
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BigDog is a quadrupedal robot developed by Boston Dynamics. It is 1 m long, stands 0.7 m tall, and weighs 75 kg. It can navigate through difficult terrain at...
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The Big Rip is a potential Ultimate Fate of the Universe scenario. It's sort of the inverse of the Big Crunch. In the Big Rip model, Phantom Dark Energy continues to expand the...
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People shopping for pirated software, illegal pornographic images, bootleg music, drugs, firearms or other forbidden or controlled goods may be legally hindered from reporting...
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The Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas (US) is the second largest hand dug well in the world at a depth of 109 feet deep and 32 feet in diameter (only the Pozzo di S. Patrizio built...
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There are two ways to establish a female character as a badass; one is give her a sword, the other is to put her on a motorcycle. I won't go into the Freudian implications of...
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The term biker gang might refer to a mundane Motorcycle Club or to rowdy Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. The later are sometimes referred to as "One Percenters", as in "99% percent of...
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Though it is sometimes spelled without the "e", a Bilboe refers to a form of Punishment, and not the fictional character from Middle Earth. They are also sometimes known as...
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Biology is a field of science that concerns itself with the study of living organisms.
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Bizarre Alien Biology is a otherness trope that shows up most commonly in science-fiction TV and movies. It usually stems from budgetary and costuming issues - when you can't...
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Black dwarfs are a hypothetical type of star (more specifically a stellar remnant) that form when a white dwarf has cooled to the point that it no longer noticeably emits light...
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A black hole is an astronomical body whose gravitational pull is so strong that even light will be permanently drawn in if it comes within a certain distance. The escape velocity...
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The Black Rock Desert is a dry lake bed in northwestern Nevada. The annual Burning Man festival takes place here, and some civilian organizations associated with rocketry are...
Black Shuck
Black Shuck is the Norfolk name given to one of many different huge, spectral hounds which are common in the folklore of the British Isles. Also called by such names as Padfoot,...
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August 10, 2008.: A fire and several huge explosions occurred at a propane depot in Toronto, Canada.
Sources
Original story
YouTube video of the fire - skip to 1:50 for a huge...
TIRESIAS: So,
you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this.
You with your precious eyes,
you're blind to the corruption of your life,
to the house you live in, those you live with —
—...
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October 30, 2008: The article details a variety of measures and tactics which have been used to deny voters in the United States the right to vote for political...
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The Blood Knight is a character that lives for war - they love to prove themselves in battle. Often out Walking the Earth, looking for a Worthy Opponent.
Related...
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The Bloody Benders were a family of mass murderers active in Labette County, Kansas in the 1870s. The Benders ran a grocery store and inn along a popular trail for people heading...
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The Bloop was an underwater acoustic phenomenon spotted in the summer of 1997 in the southern Pacific Ocean, off the southwestern coast of South America, by equipment of the...
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July 15, 2008: The article provides a list of locations which are blurred out on Google Maps for political reasons.
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Many, if...
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Body horror is a horror trope. It happens when a character is slowly turned into something different, or when another entity invades his body and turns it against him.
Body...
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The bogeyman (also referred to as the boogyman, bogyman, boogieman, boogey monster or boogeyman) is a folkloric monster, tales of which are often used as a kind of behavioral...
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He's the big, jolly guy with the ham-like fists; always ready for a drink, a fight, a wench or a joke; not necessarily in that order. When he slaps you on the back, he sends you...
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A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one...
With his .45 automatic in hand, Fred felt confident holding the funny-looking stranger at bay till the police arrived. It didn't matter how weird the fellow looked, or whether the rumors about him...
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Bootleg or bootlegging usually refers to making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor or copyrighted material; the term originates from concealing flasks of...
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February 4, 2009: A propensity towards religious belief seems to be hardwired into the human brain.
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1. Original article
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This Characterization Trope refers to a character who yearns for Ye Goode Olde Days. They may be some sort of recreationist or history buff. They may be a Reincarnation of...
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A Born Winner is a character who is innately more powerful, smarter, and all-around better than the people around him. He did not have to actively work to be as good as he is -...
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March 26, 2009: The administrator of a Boston school denied that there any vampires at the school in attempt to get the students to focus on their classes instead of the spreading...
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Botany is the discipline of Biology which concerns itself with the study of plants.
See Also
Chlorophyll
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1. Wikipedia entry
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A Bounty Hunter is a Western character who hunts down criminals and fugitives for profit.
See Also
Hired Guns
Stock Characters
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TV Tropes Wiki entry
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The brain is the control center of the nervous system. In humans, it makes sapience possible.
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News: Otty Sanchez, Woman Accused Of Killing Newborn, Ate...
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Brainwashed And Crazy is a mind manipulation trope. It refers to a type of brainwashing where the victim becomes violent towards others as a result.
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Madness...
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The Bräutigamseiche (German for "bridegroom's oak") is an ancient oak near Eutin in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. According to legend, the oak was planted by a Celtic lord in...
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Locations
Amazon Stonehenge
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News: Cracking Crime In Brazil
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1. Wikipedia entry
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February 20, 2009: Strange, rectangular marks have been discovered in a map from Google Earth. These marks can be found 600 miles west of Morocco, deep in the Atlantic Ocean, and they are...
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Break the Haughty is a characterization trope. It involves a character who is extremely prideful - i.e. displays the sin of hubris - and then suffers extreme misfortune in order...
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A Bridezilla is a soon-to-be-married woman who thinks that the wedding is Her Day, and woe be unto anyone who inadvertantly endangers the perfectness of that day. This is a Stock...
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Suspension Bridge
Stressed Ribbon Bridge
Tridge
News: Living Root Bridges
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A character who is Brilliant But Lazy would be more than capable of dealing with most problems in the story - but usually, he cannot be bothered with exerting himself...
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March 17, 2009: The British Library is missing more than 9,000 books from its shelves, although it insists that the majority of them is "mislaid" instead of stolen. Some of these books...
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November 15, 2007: Until the early days of the Tony Blair administration, British nuclear weapons could be armed with bicycle locks. The article also mentions some of the security...
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Broadcast signal intrusion is the act of hijacking broadcast signals of radio and television stations.
Sources
Wikipedia entry
Game and Story Use
What could be more fun than...
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The Brotherhood of Funny Hats is a trope depicting Fraternal Orders as just goofy fun. Such groups are shown as either an excuse to get drunk, or life-long Pledge Week for...
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Edward Arthur Wilson was a cultist who created a spiritual community on a temperate forest island in British Columbia in the 1920s.
Wilson, better known as "Brother XII", sought...
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A Brown Dwarf is an object larger than a planet, but smaller than a star. Many celestial bodies exist that straddle the line, and are hard to categorize. The usual definition is...
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Bubbleworld is a stellar megastructure proposed as a space habitat by Dandridge M. Cole and Donald W. Cox. It was invented to answer the question "what is the largest space...
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This Dialogue Trope is most prevalent in TV sit coms. Some character, often a nerdy or awkward one, will say something innocent that, out of context, sounds a little weird,...
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There is a strong cultural tradition of a man being the King of his Castle; the Patriarch of the Clan; the Wise and Benevolent Authority Figure; the One Who Wears the Pants....
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The Bunny Ears Lawyer trope describes a character who is …eccentric… but really good at what they do.
Okay, the truth is they're probably insane, but they're so good at...
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The Buntline Special may never have actually existed, but it has found a place in Western Lore.
According to a 1931 biography of famed lawman Wyatt Earp by Stuart N Lake, Earp...
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The bunyip is a creature from Australian folkore that appears to have originated in Aboriginal Dreamtime mythology. Descriptions of the bunyip vary widely, though it is typically...
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June 4, 2009: A homeless man saves enough money shining shoes on the street to get his own apartment only to lose it all paying for a permit to shine shoes. Interestingly enough he'd never...
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News: Report reveals Burma's 2014 nukes target
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1. Wikipedia entry
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Burning Man is an annual festival taking place in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada which culminates in the burning of a wooden effigy. The first Burning Man took place on June 21...
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July 31, 2008: A passenger on a Greyhound bus close to Portage la Prairie in Manitoba, Canada has stabbed and beheaded the passenger sitting next to him.
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Bus rider recalls another...
You have followed the traces of the vengeful spirit possessing its unfortunate victim, and are now in hot pursuit. Will you catch him before it starts mutilating its victim?
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August 2,...
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The Butterfly of Doom is a Time Travel Trope, named for the Butterfly Effect of Chaos Theory (which, itself, is the notion that the flapping of the wings of a butterfly on one...
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The Butt Monkey is a Loser Archetype - someone who, through no true fault of his own, always ends up the butt of jokes or other unfortunate plot developments. The opposite of the...
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August 16, 2009: The author claims that throughout history, there have been religious groups which were dedicated with not seeking out the truth, but with obscuring facts and only...
"Mother always liked you best!"
— Tommy Smothers
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(Genesis 4:1-16)
According to the book of Genesis, the first two sons of Adam and Eve were Cain and Abel. Cain was a farmer,...
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List of California locations
California Aqueduct
Death Valley, California
Mount Shasta
Naval Air Weapons Station China...
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The California Aqueduct is a system of tunnels, canals and pipelines that transports water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern- and Central California to...
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July 2, 2009: Unable to pay for vital services, the government of state of California has started to issue IOUs to its debtors so that it can be able to function. The current financial...
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August 4, 2009: Owners of small businesses are suing the state of California because the state will not accept the IOUs it has issued for its own debts to pay for taxes and other payments...
Everybody roll "Spot Hidden".
(sound of dice rolling, a few gasps and hoots as players react to their luck)
Those of you who succeeded see something horrifying and otherworldly that drives you...
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Calluna Vulgaris, more commonly known as Heather or Ling, is a flowering plant common to the Heath (habitat) and Moorland of Europe. It thrives in acidic soil, such as found in...
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Campaign Settings are settings published for role-playing games, whether they were invented specifically for RPGs or are based on other fiction.
Note: Limit yourself to one-page...
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Campbell Country can mean two things:
The equivalent of Lovecraft Country, but in England. Popularized by the works of Ramsey Campbell. See the TV Tropes Wiki for further...
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This Western Character drives the Chuckwagon, tends the fire, and fixes food for a camp of cowboys, miners, lumberjacks, or soldiers.
Often this is an older worker, who's no...
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Canada is a large country located on the most of the top half of North America. It is the 2nd largest country in the world. Canada is made up by 10 provinces and 3 territories....
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Canis Latinicus is a language trope. It represents "dog Latin" - made-up words that sound Latin for the purpose of making them sound more impressive.
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December 11, 2007: A self-proclaimed poet and dramatist from Mexico who admitted to killing, cutting up, and cooking his girlfriend and feeding the remains to street dogs, was found dead...
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In this classic Time Travel Trope, the Time Traveler is prevented or prohibited from bringing anything back in time with him.
Occurs in two flavors:
It might be the result a...
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A Cap-and-Ball revolver, also known as a Percussion Revolver, is a pistol that uses a two-part (sometimes three-part) ammunition, a firing device known as a Caplock Mechansim,...
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She's cute, she's competent, and she likes you. Too bad she's on the other side.
The Capulet Counterpart takes the theme of the Star-Crossed Lovers and transplants it into an...
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A Carbon Planet is a planet similar to a terrestrial planet, but made of carbon and carbon-compounds instead of silicon-oxygen compounds found on earth.
It's core would likely be...
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Carcassonne (Carcassonna in the local Occitan language, Carcaso in Latin) is an ancient city in southern France which has been continuously inhabited since ~3500 BC. For more...
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It was the autumn of 1869 when a farmer in the Onondaga Valley of upstate New York made an incredible discovery. He was digging a new well and came upon an enormous limestone...
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Most common in the Southwestern Pacific region of the world, a cargo cult is any group or religious movement that believes manufactured western goods ('cargo') have been created...
Proper druid circles were hard to come buy in this New World, and in his weakened state, he lacked the strength to build one of his own. Thankfully, the correspondence was enough to function as a...
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Cartography is the practice and study of making representations of regions on a flat surface.
See Also
Map
Sources
Bibliography
1. Wikipedia entry
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Being a...
"Kiss 'em, squeeze 'em;
Love 'em and leave 'em."
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Named after the celebrated 18th Century adventurer Giacomo Casanova this character is a serial womanizer. His Little...
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November 9, 2008: A contractor found $182,000 dating back to the Great Depression when tearing down a bathroom wall, but because he couldn't agree with the home owner how to distribute the...
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Domesticated cats have been around for thousands of years and have been worshiped, cast out, eaten, mummified, and shunned. The Egyptians worshiped them and mummified them in...
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The Perfecti, also known as Parfait, or Cathar Perfects, where the spiritual elite of of Catharism. The position is superficially similar to a Monk, Priest, Missionary, Healer or...
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The Cathars (also known as Albigensians, Bougres, Bulgars, or Bons Hommes et Bonnes Femmes) were a gnostic, dualistic sect of Christianity. They believed the world was created by...
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December 18, 2006: The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice of Saudi Arabia have issued a decree that forbids the sale of dogs and cats in the...
CHORUS: Goodness me! Why, what was that?
DICK: Silent be, it was the cat!
CHORUS: It was, it was the cat!
CAPTAIN: They're right! It was the cat!
— The H.M.S. Pinafore by W.S. Gilbert
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Cattle (colloquially cows) are large domesticated ungulates. They are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, most commonly classified as Bos primigenius. Cattle are raised...
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A Cattle Baron is the Rancher writ large. Instead of owning one regular-sized ranch, this Western Character will own several ranches, possibly in more than one state, or a...
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Causality is the relationship between two events, where one event is the cause and the other is the effect. I punch you, and as a result, you hurt.
Of course, Causality isn't...
ZAPHOD: Wee hoo! Hey, what a cave, man! Hey… we could really…
ARTHUR: We could really what?
ZAPHOD: We could really, you know… BE in this cave.
ARTHUR: We are in this cave.
ZAPHOD: And what...
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The Cave of Swallows is a pit cave situated in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Rods have been sighted here in large numbers.
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1. Video of the Rods at the cave
2....
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Some heroes just aren't into romance. It could be because he feels that love would be a distraction from his duties. It could be because he's afraid his dangerous lifestyle will...
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Centralia, Pennsylvania is a former town in Pennsylvania. There are significant coal deposits below the town, which started to burn when local firefighters were careless when...
The <enter century here> consists of the following...
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Science, Technology, Physics, Hadron, etc
Time Travel, Subatomic Particle, Black Hole
LHC aka Large Hadron...
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You'd think that a Time Traveler would have to go to exacting trouble researching the fashions of any era they wished to visit. According to this Trope, that's not really...
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According to the theory of Chaotic Inflation, new universes are constantly being formed, with their Big Bangs happening in our Quantum Foam. These bubble universes isolate from...
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A character's Alignment is a rough indication of his moral/ethical views. Many roleplaying games have alignment as an explicit game-mechanical property of a character. This...
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Characterization is the process of depicting and conveying information about characters, especially their personality, motivations, etc. There's several ways to go about...
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Characterization tropes are narrative tropes that flesh out characters in a story beyond their intended function for the plot. Contrast with Characters As Device.
List of...
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Characters represent a broad range of…
Wait. I don't really have to explain this one, right?
List of Character Types
Archetypal Character
Characters And Casting
Characters As...
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Characters as devices are tropes that represent character archetypes which fulfill specific roles within the plot. See also Stock Characters.
Contrast Characterization Tropes,...
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A Character Trope is a recognizable element of a story that defines or conveys information about a character.
They come in two main flavors:
Characters as Device - tropes that...
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Charles Bonnet Syndrome is a mental disorder which causes otherwise mentally healthy people to see hallucinations of things they know aren't there. It is named for the scientist...
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Called the "patron saint of cranks", Charles Hoy Fort was a satirist, a scholar and a relentless collector of weirdities and factoids that did not fit in with the scientific...
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The Chaste Hero is somewhat like the Celebate Hero in that neither one is interested in the opposite sex. They differ in that while the latter has renounced all women, the former...
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Chernobyl is a ghost town in the Ukraine. It was evacuated because of the Chernobyl disaster.
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Urban Prairie
News: Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On...
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May 23, 2007: Scientists have discovered fungi in the former nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine which uses the radiation at the site as a source of food.
The article also discusses that...
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Event: Chilean Blob
Event/News: Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake Rocks Northern Chile
Event/News: 'Nazi hunt' launched in S...
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The Chilean Blob was a strange, 12 m long lump of flesh that surfaced on a beach in Los Muermos, Chile on June 23, 2003. It took some time until it could be identified as a...
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Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov - this guy attempted to interbreed chimpanzees with humans.
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Cities
Hong Kong
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Chinese Launderer
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - security organization which China is a member...
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August 12, 2007: This article describes how China is planning to implement technology to keep tabs on its citizens.
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1. Original article
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This would...
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Around the same time that The Wild West was seeing it's Gold Rush fever, China was experiencing economic woes, so it's only natural that many Chinese men immigrated to the US....
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Prior to the invention and mass production of modern laundry machines, doing laundry was a lengthy, hot, dirty and tiring chore. Naturally, many people turned to professional...
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September 24, 2008: The Chinese government is sponsoring the construction of a so-called EmDrive (short for "Electromagnetical Drive") which, according to its inventor, the British...
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July 24, 2009: Chinese scientists have implanted skin cells of mice into mice embryos and brought them to term, resulting in mice whose genetic material is 95% identical with that of the...
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Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in plants. It absorbs light and converts it into energy for the plant. The light-absorbing components of chlorophyll are complex, many-body...
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Chocolate Show
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Bibliography
1. Wikipedia entry
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Every year there is an annual chocolate fashion show where models dress up in clothes made by and with chocolate. Some of the articles of clothing are fabric infused with...
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Bible
Cathars
End Of Days
Quiverfull
News: Christian Soldiers
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1. Wikipedia entry
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June 19, 2009: There are accusations that Evangelist groups are abusing their endorsement of chaplains in the U.S. military to further their own agendas and to proselytize. Especially the...
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The Chronology Protection Conjecture by Stephen Hawking pretty much says Time Travel can't happen. Or at least, it can't happen for anything larger than the sub-microscopic.
In...
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Chthonian planets (sometimes spelled Cthonian) are the hypothetical planets left behind when a Gas Giant loses its gas. These planets are the rocky core left behind after a...
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September 5, 2008: The CIA, the FBI, and the National Security Agency are planning to launch a new social networking site called A-Space on September 22, 2008. Members of the American...
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Named after a Roman general, the Cincinnatus is a character who is given vast power in a crisis by a superior in the firm knowledge that he won't abuse this power (because of his...
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A cipher is a tool of cryptography - an algorithm for the encryption and decryption of information.
Sources
Bibliography
1. Analysis of Criminal Codes and Ciphers
2. Wikipedia...
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A judge who moves from place to place within his area of jurisdiction, "riding the circuit." In the early days of the United States of America, the country had a large land area...
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A City Mouse is a character, often though not always female, who was born and raised in a city and has unexpectedly been transplanted to the countryside and now has to deal with...
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The Civillain is a former villain who has spent time in prison or otherwise went through the normal punishment for his crimes. Now he wants to be an upstanding member of society....
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April 21, 2009: After the lost election in the United States, conservative bloggers are attacking each wildly, accusing each other of betrayal and insanity.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The above is Clarke's Third Law, one of Clarke's Three Laws. It, along with the other laws, free up the...
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Clarke's Three Laws… Well, there's actually four such laws written by Arthur C. Clarke, plus a few corollaries put forth by others. They pertain to technology, predictions...
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Class F Stars are white and white-yellow stars. They are a little hotter, and often a little larger, than our sun. They're fairly rare, representing only 1 in 33 of the main...
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Class G stars are yellow and yellow-white stars. Our sun is a Class G star. Most Gs are main sequence dwarf stars, more properly classified as G V Stars. About 1 in 13 main...
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Classical Mythology is the melded jumble of Greek Mythology, Etruscan Mythology, and Roman Mythology. Due to Syncretism, Bisociation, and Interpretatio Graeca, the Greek and...
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Class K stars are orange stars, a little colder than our own sun. They range from huge Supergiants down to dwarf stars like the K V class. About 1 in 8 of the main sequence stars...
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Class M Stars are the most common type of stars in the galaxy, composing about 76% of the main sequence stars in our region of the galaxy. They are the next category colder than...
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Class O stars are very large, hot and bright. Their power output is over a million times that of our sun. They burn out "quickly" (on the astronomical scale). They emit mostly UV...
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Technically speaking, any second story artist who sneaks in through windows to rob people is called a Cat Burglar; but isn't cooler when the burglar is a sexy gal in a...
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Clay Theory is a concept of abiogenesis - a possible way by which life may have begun.
Though you might not guess it from a look at a lump of whet clay, like any silicate clay is...
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Cleveland is a major city in Ohio.
Unformatted Information - please clean up!
One thing that may not have come through in your geography sources is the East Side/West Side split....
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November 23, 2004: A hunter from Texas plans to build a web site where would-be hunters could pay for remotely controlling a gun via the Internet to shoot at live...
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She's cute, and highly affectionate, and just the teensiest bit possessive. And if you so much as look at another woman, she's going to break your spine in three places. And then...
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A Clingy MacGuffin is Applied Phlebotinum which cannot be separated from its "owner". No matter what he does, it will always come back to him,
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Artifact of...
"We don't have all the time in the world after all, don't you see? If we don't fix this paradox ourselves - and soon - we'll run into more of those things like that one that erased Johnson. Worse...
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A planet that lacks ground, or has been settled high in the clouds. You're so far up, and the sky is so cloudy, you rarely see the surface. Often, this is a Gas Giant that...
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The CMOT Dribbler, named after a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, is a stock character who always tries to sell merchandise of very dubious quality and/or...
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1. Blazon - downloadable software
2. Coat of Arms Visual Designer- free Java applet allowing you to create your...
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Cockroaches have been on the planet for the last 350 million years according the fossil records we have.[6] There are thousands of species of cockroach on the planet, some sites...
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Coded Myth refers to the notion that classical works of mythology or religion may have secrets encoded within them. The goofy stories of lusty Gods may have meanings that go...
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The Codex Gigas, also known as the "Devil's Bible", is the largest known surviving medieval manuscript. It currently is at the National Library in Stockholm, Sweden. According to...
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Coelacanths are an order of ray-finned fish known mostly from fossils. They first evolved in the Devonian and were common and diverse from the latter part of the Devonian to the...
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Coffee is a brewed beverage which works as a stimulant, and is thus popular with people who need to work long hours or otherwise want to stave off sleep.
Drinking large amounts...
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Coin Rolling Scams are a form of Confidence Game involving a prop, that being a roll of coins. The scams vary quite a bit, but are fairly simple. You put the wrong type of coin...
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In his book Hyperspace, Michio Kaku devotes just over a page to discussion of the notion of the Collapse of Causality, a Disaster that is a likely consequence of the spread and...
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A collection agency is a business that pursues payments on debts owed by individuals or businesses. Many of them are very ruthless in collecting debts, and will not shy away from...
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November 12, 2008: Recent American college and university graduates find themselves with high student debts and low job prospects as their country heads into a recession, leading to an...
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The Monopoly by Royal Decree system was applied in the Colonial Era, and it shaped (warped, even) the economy of the colonies. Most colonies were established by Charter Companies...
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List of Colorado Locations
Ogallala Aquifer
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Bibliography
1. Fairfield Project Wiki entry
2. Wikipedia entry
Game and...
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A Combat Role is a definition of what a character does during a battle, fight scene, or military engagement. I don't mean what they do at a random specific moment, but rather the...
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Combat tropes are topical tropes about combat in general.
List of Combat Tropes
Air Jousting
All Your Colors Combined
Annoying Arrows
Armor Is Useless
Attack Pattern...
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This is a house rule I like to use in my campaigns. If a player's character takes damage in a manner which unrelated to the main plot and which is funny, it is ruled comedy...
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Comedy tropes are genre tropes that frequently appear in comedy shows.
List of Comedy Tropes
Acceptable Targets
Once Acceptable Targets
Accidental Athlete
Acid Reflux...
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Comelenguas is "an unseen beast that feeds on the tongues of sleeping cattle"[1]. By some accounts it's about the size of a turkey, and at least somewhat bat-like. Other names...
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"The Dirty Snowballs" of our solar system, Comets are small bodies of rock and ice that orbit our Sun. They are similar to asteroids, but distinguished by their fuzzy atmosphere...
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November 9, 2007: At the time the article was written, the dust cloud of comet Holmes was larger in diameter than the Sun.
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1. Original article
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Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 was a large comet that impacted on Jupiter from July 16 to July 22 1994, where the impact caused enormous explosions.
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Meteor...
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Comox Valley is located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It contains Courtenay, Comox, Cumberland, Royston, Union Bay, Fanny Bay, Black Creek, Merville, Denman Island and...
"The Computer Is Your Friend."
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A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a set of instructions.[1]
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A Conestoga Wagon is a particularly advanced form of Covered Wagon that first appeared in the early 1750s in Pennsylvania.
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A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, or swindle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by...
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A con man, con artist, bunko artist, or grifter is a person who uses scams and frauds (also known as confidence games) to extort or swindle money out of other individuals. Follow...
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The Connecticut Yankee is a character who is stranded in the past long before their own birth. Once they're over the initial shock of it, they settle down to improve the past...
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A Consociational State is a state which has major splits along ethnic, religious, cultural, or linguistic lines in a way that keeps one group from dominating the others, but...
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As the name implies, the term Conspiracy Theory refers to theories and explanations that certain historical or current events were not the result of innocent coincidence, lone...
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"I'm just a simple unfrozen caveman lawyer…"
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This character is a Caveman, but transplanted to the Modern Day (or some other civilized era).
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Continuum is a role-playing game published by Aetherco in the late 90s. In the game, players have the ability to time travel and teleport. In effect, you are your own Time...
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A cookbook is a book containing recipes and information about cooking. Books about food have existed since ancient times, but the earliest ones were written either to provide a...
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Co-orbital Moons are two or more moons circling the same planet at roughly the same distance from that planet.
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A Coronal Mass Ejection is a huge blast or wave of plasma ejected from a star. The plasma is mostly made of loose electrons and protons. CMEs travel at extremely high speeds, and...
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List of Corporations
Amway
eBay
Google
Wal-Mart
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
Megacorp
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A corpse, or cadaver, is the deceased body of an animal that was alive at one time. This can also be extended to plants, but is more often in referral to animals. Just exactly...
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August 8, 2008: A Dutch amateur astronomer has discovered something which might be a new class of astronomical object.
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu (1926)
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Cosmic horror is a genre of horror where humans...
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The Coso Artifact is a spark plug found in a lump of rock near Olancha, California on February 13, 1961. One of the people who found it claimed that a geologist told her that the...
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News: How Trafigura tried to cover up African pollution disaster
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March 10, 2009: The article explains the possible reasons for a future conflict between India and China over Tibet:
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February 26, 2009: This short article mentions potential vampire variants in Nicaragua - including the chupacabra, comelenguas, and Desmodus draculae.
It also says an exterminator (well,...
This page lists various real world countries, both current and historical. For mythological countries or fantastic versions of ostensibly real countries, refer to Mythological Places or Fictional...
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Covered Wagons were commonly used to settle and travel great distances from the Colonial Era to The Wild West. The term covered wagon might mean anything from a run down old farm...
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The Cowboy is the archetypal character of The Western, perhaps the quintessential American hero. In the simplest terms, a "cowboy" is someone whose primary job is tending a herd...
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The Cowboy Cop is a Police Officer or Detective who bends the rules, roughs up suspects, ignores his Boss, and/or violates the Constitution - all in the name of catching the...
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The Cowgirl is the Distaff Counterpart of the Cowboy. This Western Character is often depicted as a Plucky Girl in Western garb, who can ride and shoot as well as any man, but...
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July 1, 2000: Crime is so prevalent in Brazil that some companies have resorted to making deals with criminals. For instance, one company made a deal with a drug cartel - in exchange for...
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A Crapsack World is a setting where everything that can go wrong is going wrong. This isn't limited to the protagonists, but to pretty much everyone.
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A Crazy Cat Lady is an elderly person (commonly, though not necessarily female) who has developed an affinity with a specific type of animal, of which large numbers will flock to...
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The Crazy Survivalist is a stock character who's certain that one day society will collapse, and he'll be one of the survivors. He prepares for this eventuality - stockpiling...
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth…. And God said, "Let there be light;" and there was light.
—Genesis 1:1, 3 KJV
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Genesis 1:1 - 2:3
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One of the oldest questions mankind has asked about the universe is, "How did the world come to be?" For much of mankind's history, this question was the exclusive province of...
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The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event - also known as the KT extinction was a disaster that occurred 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs, as well as numerous...
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Crime and Punishment Tropes are genre tropes which predominantly appear in Crime and Punishment shows.
List of Crime and Punishment Tropes
Acquitted Too Late
All In Hand
All...
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Societies define crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.
Written codes of laws go back...
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A criminal is a person who commits crimes.
If an act or item is criminal, it means a law proscribes a punishment for those who perform the act or possess the item.
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A cruise ship is a passenger ship intended for pleasure voyages, with the stay aboard the ship intended to be part of the enjoyment.
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In the alternative science of cryptozoology, the term cryptid denotes a creature:
whose existence is suggested by folklore or sightings, but has not been proven by scientific...
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Cryptozoology (from Greek κρυπτός, kruptos, "hidden" + zoology; literally, "study of hidden animals") is the study of and search for animals which fall outside of...
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Crystal Island is a planned arcology in Moscow, Russia. As of 2009, construction has been postponed indefinitely because of the Global financial crisis of...
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Crystal Spires and Togas is a speculative fiction trope that codifies the appearance of an advanced society, usually one from the far future. It's a blend of New Age and Ancient...
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July 28, 2009: New technologies and a new discovery stand a chance at finally revealing what happened during the infamous missing 18.5 minutes of the Nixon tapes. The tapes were the...
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"Ktulu! / Ktulu's so he-ea-ea-a-avy / he's driving you mad. / He's driving you mad! / He's driving you. / Hyeah! / He's so / Heavy! / Heavy! / Heavy! / Yeah!"
- Ktulu (He's So Heavy) by...
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The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe created by H.P. Lovecraft and used by many other writers. It forms the basis of the Call of Cthulhu RPG (as well as the Delta Green...
Then was the Scold herself,
In a wheelbarrow brought,
Stripped naked to the smock,
As in that case she ought:
Neats tongues about her neck
Were hung in open show;
And thus unto the cucking...
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January 19, 2008: In the Iraqi cities of Basra and Nasiriya, security forces fought with members of a cult called "Supporters of Mahdi" or "Soldiers of Heaven" during the celebrations of...
"I think this is it," Doc said examining the inscription on the massive stone door.
"What does it say?" Penny asked, shifting the burnished brass plate she held to reflect more light on the...
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After the incident of the Drunkeness of Noah (Genesis 9:20-13), Noah cursed his son Ham for… well, presumably for being a butthead about it. This is what Noah said:
"Cursed by...
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The so-called "Zero-Year Curse", also known as the Curse of Tecumseh or the Curse of Tippecanoe, was first widely popularized by a "Ripley's Believe it or Not" cartoon from 1931....
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Customer service is the branch of a company which provides service before, during, and after a purchase. As a result, they interact heavily with the customers, and are among the...
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The Cute Witch is a character type who possesses magic and some of the physical accessories of the traditonal "Halloween" witch (black cat, rides a broom, and the obligatory...
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This trope is most prevalent in Cyberpunk and Twenty Minutes Into The Future settings. At it's simplest, it's the concept that cybernetic limbs, gadgets, and weapons drives you...
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Cyberpunk is a speculative fiction trope which centers on how information technology, both good and bad, transforms society.
Related Tropes
Artificial Limbs
City Of...
Redirect: see Cyberpunk.
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This bibliography page lists sources that might be useful in running a Cyberpunk game.
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Misha Glenny:
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld - a...
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Cities
Kutná Hora
Prague
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Da Chief is a Police Chief, Police Commissioner, Commanding Officer or other Senior Officer who exists just to be the foil to the Cowboy Cop. As such, they are always strict and...
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June 4, 2009: A man in Sherborne, Dorset, England bought a zebra, trained it, and rode it to his favorite pub. Lucky for him Zebras have a built in homing sense that will let the zebra...
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In Astrophysics, a DAEMON is a DArk Electric Matter Object - don't ask me where they get the N from.
DAEMOns are subatomic black holes. These are one of the proposed explanations...
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The Dark Action Girl is the Action Girl's evil counterpart. She kicks butt just as well as her goody-goody opposite, but without any annoying traits like loyalty or nobility....
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Dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy which permeates the entire universe and increases the rate of expansion of the universe, thus ensuring that our universe will succumb...
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DarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum run undercover by the FBI in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The web site allowed buyers and sellers of stolen identities...
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Over the years our scientists have done a lot of analysis of our universe. One thing they've noticed is that there's not as much visible matter in our galaxy as there "should" be...
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The Dark Matter Halo is a huge area and volume of space at the edges of our galaxy that seems likely to be full of Dark Matter. Of course, we can't see the Dark Matter, but we...
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The Dark Planet is essentially Mordor in space. It's continuously night, with a nasty storm brewing. Chances are the Big Bad Evil Guy lives here, in his imposing Evil Tower Of...
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The Darvaza Gas Crater is a site in Turkmenistan rich in natural gas. The Soviet Union attempted to drill there for gas in 1971, but the ground collapsed. To prevent the gas from...
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The Darwinist is a type of villain who believes that only the strong, cunning, and ruthless have a right to be on top, and that the weak and poor deserve their fate. What makes...
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Deadlands is a RPG and campaign setting published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. The setting is an alternate history of the Wild West, called The Weird West. It's set in 1876,...
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Deadly Lunge is a horror trope that sometimes applies to ordinarily slow-moving monsters, such as zombies - whenever they notice prey close by, they will suddenly display a burst...
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July 29, 2008: A strange, dead creature was allegedly washed ashore at Montauk, New York.
This story has not been confirmed by a reputable source, and might be a...
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Death is the end of all your biological functions. It encompasses the concepts of Clinical Death, Legal Death and Brain Death. The more our medical science and technology...
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The Death Seeker is a character who wants to die in combat. Suicide won't do. They won't take the easy way out, it's got to be a glorious bloody end. Problem is, they're lousy at...
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Death tropes are topical tropes about the many forms that death can take in a story.
List of Death Tropes
Acquitted Too Late
A Death In The Limelight
Alas Poor Scrappy
Alas Poor...
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Death Valley is the lowest, driest, and hottest location in North America.
Death Valley is known for its moving rocks - rocks of varying sizes, from small stones to larger...
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A death world is a planet where everything tries to kill you. It may have a toxic atmosphere, or poisonous plants. It may have venomous, ravenous, infectious, or just really big...
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Decapitation is the removal of the head from the body. It may be accidental, such as in an explosion or car crash. It may be intentional, as in murder or the method of execution...
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December is the twelth month of the Gregorian calendar.
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The Trope:
The Deep Cover Agent appears to be a normal, happy, patriotic, stereotypical housewife and/or soccer mom. In reality, though, she (and it's always a she) is actually a...
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The Deep State is said to be a group of powerful, anti-democratic forces within Turkey, consisting of members of the Turkish intelligence agencies, military, security, judges,...
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April 4, 2009: In defiance of international protests, North Korea has launched a missile from its Musudan-ri launch site, which allegedly carries an "experimental communications...
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Degenerate Matter is matter that has been so heavily compressed, the atoms just can't get any closer without changing to a higher quantum energy state. It's squished so tight,...
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This Time Travel Trope deals with the notion that whatever consequences come from a Temporal Paradox will take a while to catch up with the characters who changed history. It's...
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Delta Green is a campaign setting for Call of Cthulhu (i.e. using the Cthulhu Mythos). It focuses on an American government conspiracy dedicated to fighting supernatural and...
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Demarchy is a system of government where important government positions are filled by random lot from an available pool of citizens.
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A Demon is an evil spirit from mythology, folklore or religion.
Appearance:
Demons could look like anything. If you examine the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, for example, you'll...
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Demonic possession occurs when a character's body or mind is taken over by a demon or similar evil entity.
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Body Snatcher
Split Personality Takeover
The Puppet...
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February 4, 2008: More than 100 students in a primary school in Uganda became hysterical in what authorities described as an "attack by demons. Some of the students had undressed, and the...
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List of Denmark locations
Greenland
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Norse Mythology
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This article is about a trope.
Depleted Phlebotinum Shells represent a modification to a weapon or ammunition to take out a specific kind of enemy that would otherwise be...
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A desert is a type of terrain with little to no vegetation.
List of Deserts
Black Rock Desert
Death Valley, California
Rub' al Khali
Sahara
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A classic trope of speculative fiction, the Desert Planet is a One-Biome Planet set to Desert. It often comes with some sort of Hydraulic Empire - a form of despotism based on...
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Desmodus draculae is a giant vampire bat that lived during the Pleistocene. Fossil and subfossilized remains have been found in Venezuela and Brazil. Some remains were not...
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Western Characters who seek to claim land by improving it through agriculture. He is determined to have a place that he owns in his own right, come hell or high water. Even if a...
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Determined Homesteaders tend to have a lot of kids. In the real American West, they'd have several more than is typically depicted in the movies (because child actors are so...
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The Determined Homesteaders Wife is a character trope common to both The Western and the Romance Novel. With her in the mix, either member of the couple could qualify as a...
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The Determined Widow is a former Determined Homesteaders Wife who lost her husband, tragically. It's quite common for in The Western for her widow-i-ness to be her defining...
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Detroit is a city in Michigan, United States. It used to be a major site for factories for the American car industry, but the decline of this industry has caused the city to...
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October 1, 2009: In Detroit, dead bodies are piling up in the morgues as the high unemployment in the city means that many people can no longer afford either burial or cremation for their...
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March 31, 2009: Three companies have jointly created a "Brain-Machine Interface", allowing someone to control a robot by thought alone.
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Device Magic is magic performed with some form of mystical device or relic. In this sort of system, the only magic that can be done without some sort of potion or magic item is...
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Devil is sometimes used as just another word for Demon. In other settings, a Devil is a specific type of Demon. In yet others, it is a distinct form of evil Spirit that is...
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The Devil's Tramping Ground is a barren circle in a forest near Bennett, North Carolina. For at least a century, nothing has grown within the 12 foot ring, and so far, nobody has...
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Dialogue represents narrative tropes about all the things characters say to each other.
List of Dialogue Tropes
Analogy Backfire
Announcer Chatter
Answering The Not Actually The...
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October 29, 2009: A team of scientists has proposed that 2.5 to 3 million years ago Earth was littered with tiny nuclear reactors, similar to the natural nuclear fission reactors at Oklo...
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Did Not Do The Research is what happens when the writer of a story did not pay enough attention to real world facts.
List of Did Not Do The Research tropes
All Animals Are...
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(Genesis chapter 34: v.1-31)
Jacob had twelve sons, whose descendants became the Twelve Tribes of Israel. He undoubtably had several daughters too, but only one is mentioned in...
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July 21, 2003: A rare dinosaur skeleton on loan to the Newcastle Regional Museum in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia from China has been stolen.
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July 23, 2009: Dozens of people in New Jersey have been arrested by the FBI and the IRS in an corruption investigation which has been going on for more than ten years. The charges include...
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May 12, 2009: This news article concerns a United Nations meeting to discuss Global Warming. The latest predictions from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are that the sea...
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A Disaster Movie is a film genre in which the protagonist have to face some kind of huge disaster - either natural or man-made - and deal with the consequences.
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Alien...
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Disposal of human corpses is the process and practice of interring, or getting rid of, a human corpse, whether for religious, sanitary, or secrecy...
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Heroes do not exist in a vaccuum. Every Hero is but one corner of the Mystic Trinity of Plot: The Hero, the Villain and the Victim, who must be rescued by the Hero from the...
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Disturbing The Peace is the misdemeanor infraction typically associated with loud and disruptive noises. Arguing and loud insults, challenges and fighting are most exciting...
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August 17, 2009: According to Israeli scientists, it is possible to fake evidence for DNA profiling. All that is needed is some DNA from a discarded drinking cup, a cigarette butt, or even...
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August 4, 2009: The village of Kodinji, India (population ~15,000) is home to over 230 sets of twins. This is 4 times the statistical average for a community of it's size. Currently, 5...
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April 1, 2009: A 64 years-old Swiss woman has reported that she has an imaginary "third arm" that appeared after she had suffered a stroke. It appears pale, milky-white, and she can use it...
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August 14, 2008: The names of nearly 24,000 spies serving with the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II have been declassified and released to the general...
"What gentler eye,
What nobler heart,
Doth warm the winter's day;
Than the true-blue orb
And the oaken core
Of beloved Old Dog Tray?"
— Walt Kelly
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November 17, 2007: Members of a Russian doomsday cult called the True Russian Orthodox Church have sealed themselves off in a cave near the Volga river in Nikolskoye in the Penza region of...
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Double-Action Only denotes a Revolver that cannot be manually cocked. As with other Double Action Revolvers, pulling the trigger cocks the gun and advances the cylinder, but in...
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A Revolver is said to be Double-Action if it's trigger assembly includes a mechanism where pulling the trigger cocks the hammer. This results in a faster rate of fire than a...
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A Double Planet is actually two planets, a planetary form of Binary System.
Actually, it's hard to say where exactly the cut-off between a Double Planet and a Planet-Moon system...
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Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan was an airplane mechanic and aviator who was among the first generation of transatlantic flyers.
He was born in Galveston, Texas and became...
This page is about the big scaly winged beast. For the character role of the main villain's right hand man (or beat stick), see The Dragon.
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A dragon is a legendary creature with...
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Dragonflies are a type of insect.
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News: Legless frogs mystery solved
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Thanks to their ability to hover,...
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She's sexy, she's seductive, and you'd be amazed at how many sharp bladed weapons she can hide in that slinky silk dress. She's the Yellow Peril in one sexy package. You're not...
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Dragon's Breath is a type of shotgun ammunition that produces a long burst of flame, similar to a flamethrower. Sparks and fire shoot out to a range of about 5 meters.
The rounds...
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Drama tropes are genre tropes that primarily appear in dramas.
List of Drama Tropes
Achey Scars
Achilles Heel
All Up To You
Always Murder
Arc Words
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On February 10, 1910, Horace de Vere Cole and several friends pose as a delegation from Abyssinia and convince the Royal Navy to show them their flagship, the HMS Dreadnought....
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Dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings experienced while asleep.
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Nightmare
News: 'Dream centre' of the brain found
News: Nightmares for many are very, very...
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September 10, 2004: Scientists have found the part of the brain that is responsible for dreams.
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If dreams are the gateway to...
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By drink Ford Prefect meant alcohol. The Encyclopaedia Galactica describes alcohol as a colourless, volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars, and also notes its intoxication effect of...
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Driverless Cars are cars that can move without a manual operator, likely steered by an artificial intelligence.
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"It's good to be king!"
— Mel Brooks, History of the World Part I
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The droit de seigneur, also called "first night" or "primæ noctis", is the alleged right of a lord to take...
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There is a magical place located in Mayfair in London, just off Piccadilly in Dover Street; a place where the idle rich sons of Britain's idiot aristocracy can lounge, loaf and...
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List of Drugs
Opium
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Drug Cartel
News: Dubai tourists warned over tough drug stance
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Drug cartels are criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely-managed agreements...
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It's possible for a location or nation to recognize / use more than one currency at a time.
There may be a Grain-based Local Currency and a National Currency that bears the...
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Dubai refers to both one of the member states of the United Arab Emirates and the main city of the same emirate. It is a rapidly growing financial and business center, with one...
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February 8, 2008: People visiting Dubai have been arrested for drug smuggling even when they only carried certain types of medicine commonly available in Western countries or, in one case,...
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The Dubai Ziggurat is a proposed arcology to be built in Dubai.
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Ziggurats were...
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The Ducking Stool is a chair into which a minor criminal could be strapped, and then dunked into the water as punishment. In some communities the ducking stool would be a...
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The Dude Ranch Cowboy is similar to the working cowboy, but whose job is to give "dudes" (tourists) a taste of The Theme Park Version of ranch life. Generally more careful of his...
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The DUKW (popularly pronounced "duck") is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was designed by General Motors Corporation during World War II for transporting goods and troops...
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The Dulce base is believed to be a sprawling underground complex located beneath Archuleta Mesa on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation near Dulce, New Mexico. For decades, this...
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She's not the sharpest tool in the shed. She's not brightest bulb in the marquee. She moves her lips when she reads the cereal box. She's a Dumb Blonde.
She's not always a ditz....
"The terror induced by forests and darkness," said a mocking voice from somewhere over her head, "was called by the Ancients, Panic fear, or the fear of the great god Pan. It is interesting to...
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The duoped is a ridiculous little two-wheeled human-powered vehicle that is a little like a skateboard, or roller skates, or bicycle. Except much less stable than any of those....
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September 23, 2009: A dust storm has enveloped Sydney, Australia, causing the city to be bathed into an eerie red light at dawn which was likened by many people to a scene at the End of...
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"Dwarf planet" is a new category of astronomical object defined by the International Astronomical Union in 2006. A dwarf planet has sufficient mass to be rounded by its own...
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On February 2, 1959, nine ski hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains in Russia in a bizarre incident. Apparently, the hikers tore open their tent from within and wandered...
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A Dyson Bubble is a form of Dyson Sphere. It's similar to a Dyson Swarm, except composed of statites instead of satellites. Each statite maintains a stationary position relative...
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A Dyson Net would basically be a giant net of cables and wires encircling a star. Solar collectors are hung from the net. This may be a way to get higher efficiency out of a...
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A Dyson Ring is the simplest form of Dyson Swarm. It's a row of energy-collecting satellites (and possibly a few space habitats) in a single orbit. They follow like a chain or...
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The Dyson Shell is the form of Dyson Sphere that is most commonly depicted in science fiction. This is a real shame, because the Shell is the least feasible and most unstable...
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Dyson Sphere is a term that encompasses several ideas created by scientist Freeman Dyson. A Dyson Sphere is a Stellar Megastructure, or a series of smaller structures that...
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A Dyson Swarm is one type of Dyson Sphere, a category of Stellar Megastructure intended to collect energy from a Star. It's a collection of orbiting solar power...
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Earth is the third planet in the solar system and the birthplace of humanity. It orbits the sun, and is orbited by the moon.
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A trope where the heroes destroy the MacGuffin to prevent others from using it.
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The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot ("EATR") is a planned robot sponsored by the Pentagon which can acquire its own fuel by "eating" organic material in its vicinity - up...
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Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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Here's some pages on Arcana Wiki that have...
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June 1, 2008: The article discusses the possibility of the Technological Singularity, and compares it with previous "singularities" - transition periods of great change. It argues that...
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The Economic system describes the way economic interactions within a nation or region take place.
Types of Economic Systems
Ideological Economic Systems
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Ecumenopolis is a "city made of the whole world". The term was coined in 1967 to discuss the notion that urban areas may spread like ribbons around the globe, following the major...
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March 25, 2009: The Egyptian government has tried to dispel rumors that an SMS is spreading around Egypt "from unknown foreign quarters" which kills those who read it. According to the...
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November 4, 2008: Scientists have discovered simple, eight-armed life forms which lived in the Ediacaran Period 635 to 541 million years ago. They went extinct shortly before the Cambrian...
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Einstein-Rosen Bridge is a technical term for the wormhole at the center of a black hole. This wormhole connects our universe to a mirror universe. This mirror universe, and the...
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An ekranoplan is a vehicle resembling an aircraft but with shorter "wings. It supports itself above the ground using the ground effect. It was developed in the Soviet Union...
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An Elaborate Underground Base represents a setting and a speculative fiction trope. A villain or organization commonly uses this to evade detection, for increased security, or...
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Elders are characters whose main feature are their advanced years.
List of Elder Archetypes
Badass Grandpa
Cool Old Guy
Cool Old Lady
Curse Of The Ancients
Dirty Old Man
Dirty...
Esteban pointed excitedly across the lake. "See? The old Indian was telling the truth!"
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Eldritch Abominations are a a form of inhuman character, threat, or plot device, depending on just how inhuman they are. As a trope, they most commonly occur in the Cosmic Horror...
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An Elemental is a creature formed entirely of one of the classical elements in mysticism, alchemy, mythology and modern fantasy fiction. An elemental is believed to be a being of...
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In European folklore, these small creatures are quite industrious. They will come into homes at night to help those they find deserving. They will do the work for the owners with...
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Despite the misleadingly cool name, Ellerman Bombs are not some sort of sci-fi weaponry, they're actually just a form of solar flare. They are small (in solar scale) solar...
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In the novel The Getaway by Jim Thompson, the main characters are criminals trying to escape the law and get across the border into Mexico. The ultimate goal of their journey is...
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February 1, 2008: The co-pilot on a flight from Toronto, Canada to London, United Kingdom had a mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, swearing and asking for God. He was restrained by...
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The End of Days refers to The End Of The World As We Know It, but with a decidedly religious context. In addition to the End Times foretold in the Abrahamic Religions of Judaism,...
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The Endura was a form of ritual suicide associated with the Cathars. In their world view, the physical flesh was an evil imperfection of the spiritual realm one could attain...
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The Enigmatic Minion is a type of villain who apparently serves the Big Bad of the story, yet who apparently has his own agenda which may or may not be at odds with either the...
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Erlangen is a medium-sized city with about 100,000 inhabitants in Franconia, the northern part of Bavaria. Its economy is mostly dependent on the Siemens Corporation (which has...
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Escape Velocity is the speed needed to get beyond the gravitational pull of an object. It is most commonly heard in relation to spacecraft leaving a planet, but the term also...
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Espionage tropes are genre tropes of espionage fiction and movies.
List of Espionage Tropes
Deep Cover Agent
Double Agent
Fake Defector
False Flag Operation
Government Agency Of...
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Kingdom of Prester John
News: [[[Ethiopia's passion for bureaucracy]]
Event/News: Hark! Where's the Bible...
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August 10, 2009: A reporter preparing to leave Addis Ababa reflects on the quirks of the bureaucracy of Ethiopia - especially its obsession which rubber stamps, which are not only...
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September 19, 2009: The European Union is currently funding a five-year program called Project INDECT with the goal of developing software tools which can "automatically detect threats or...
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Eurabia is a shorthand for the belief that Europe will soon be subsumed by the Arab World, because of alleged appeasement towards Muslims as well as high birth rates of Muslim...
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The Evil Laugh usually starts with "mua", "mwa", or sometimes "nya", followed by a bunch of "hahahaha".
It can be roughly translated as:
I'm an evil supervillain, card carrying...
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The Evil Matriarch is a character who generally is the oldest female member of an extended family. She will meddle in the affairs of her descendants, and often outright dominate...
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Evil tropes are morality tropes that examine the many facets of Evil.
List of Evil Tropes
Artifact Of Death
Avenging The Villain
Bad Powers Bad People
Bald Of Evil
Beard Of...
""I was far more evil then you ever were."
- Stormbringer
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A subtype of the Artifact of Doom, the evil weapon is a self-aware magical weapon, with an evil personality.
The type of...
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Evolution is the process of species changing over time.
Theories of Evolution
Darwinian Evolution - now evolved itself into Modern Evolutionary...
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An Exilarchy is a government which is established for or rules over a religious or ethnic diaspora rather than ruling from the origin of this group.
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Exotic Matter is a hypothetical form of matter. Most commonly and properly it refers to matter that has Negative Mass. More information can be found on the Negative Mass...
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October 14, 2008: Scientists from the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Australia, China and Japan are preparing for an expedition which will explore the Gamburtsev Mountains, a...
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In the shadow of the Space Needle in Seattle is a brightly colored, strangely-shaped building. It's made of sheet metal bent in twisting organic forms, including elements...
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This Speculative Fiction Trope is about how Sci-Fi films and movies pretty much always do explosions wrong, especially explosions in outer space.
What You See
In a movie, an...
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Explosive Decompression is a somewhat misleading term. Hollywood, in particular, has been mislead by it, and continues to mislead the viewing public with this speculative fiction...
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The Faceman is the character in a group who has the best social skills or the most charisma. In fact, that's the character's main gimmick, practically to the exclusion of all...
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In the Volsunga Saga, Fafnir is the name of a dwarf, son of a dwarvish king, strong of arm and fearless in spirit. He and his brother, Regin, killed their father to gain a...
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Fairies are a type of spirit which, depending on which mythological source you ask, can be nature spirits, spirits of the dead, former angels who allied neither with Heaven nor...
In Adam's fall
We sinned all.
—New England Primer, 1784
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The Creation account in Genesis 1-2 describes the world as a perfect place, a garden where Adam and Eve, the...
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A False Flag Operation is a military attack (or other covert action) that is intended to fool the enemy, the observers, and/or the public into thinking it was perpetrated by a...
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A family is a social unit bound together by bonds of blood relation, marriage, or adoption.
See Also
Family Tropes
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1. Wikipedia entry
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August 11, 2008: The family of a teenager shot by the police in Montreal, Canada protests the riots which erupted from demonstrations by locals against the killing.
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Family tropes are topical tropes related to the family of the characters in a story.
List of Family Tropes
Anime In Laws
Black Sheep
The Clan
Big Screwed Up...
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A character with a Famous Ancestor is someone who is a descendant of someone who did something really spectacular. The implications for the character vary - maybe he only gets...
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Fan-Speak is terminology which, while not officially accepted by dictionaries or scientific works, is nevertheless well understood by the fandom of a specific genre.
List of...
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Fantastica is the setting of most of the children's novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
List of Locations
List of Characters
Childlike Empress
Gmork
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Fantasy is a genre and type of speculative fiction, usually involving settings where magic or other supernatural powers exist, without attempts to explain them...
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January 20, 2005: Local people on the Thai island of Phuket as well as the Phi Phi and Khao Lak resorts claim that the local beaches are being haunted by the ghosts of Western foreigners...
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The Fastest Gun In The West is a title only one Gunslinger has the right to claim at a time. It refers to the Character who has the ultimate Quick Draw. Nobody can draw and fire...
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Fate And Prophecy Tropes are topical tropes about the foretold destiny of characters.
List of Fate and Prophecy Tropes
Because Destiny Says So
Blind Seer
Crystal Ball
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It's not easy being a Faux Action Girl. She has the look; she has the reputation; she has the credentials; but somehow when the time comes to kick butt, she's the one who gets...
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Fayetteville, Arkansas is a small town with an "old soul" feel to it, especially the downtown area commonly refered to as The Square and Dickson Street where most of...
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February 8, 2008: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, has expanded the powers of an organization called InfraGard consisting of...
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A Feat or Edge is a type of Special Ability that is available in many RPGs.
A Feat or Edge is differentiated from a Merit or Advantage in that, except for exceptional...
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February is the second month of the Julian and Gregorian Calendars.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Days in...
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November 26, 2008: Federal agents recover an 18 kt gold bookmark reportedly given to Adolf Hitler by his mistress Eva Braun. The item was one of several stolen in an auction house...
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Nan Madol
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The Federation of Damanhur is a spiritual community/commune located in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, about 50 km (30 miles) north of the city of Turin. It was...
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Felo-de-se is a Latin term meaning "evildoer upon himself" or ''felon of himself", a crime roughly similar to suicide. Prior to 1870, however, it was a separate crime in England,...
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Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) are small, domesticated mammals belonging to the family Mustelidae (weasel). They are related to otters, skunks, minks and badgers and are most...
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Ferret Legging is a British endurance competition, now officially banned. The contestants tie the ankles of their trousers and place a ferret down them. Then they fasten their...
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Fiction is anything that is not real.
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1. Wikipedia entry
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Fictional Characters are somewhat like Mythological Characters, except that instead of coming from a body of legend or folklore, they can be traced to a specific work of fiction...
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Fictional creatures are beings which have been deliberately invented for story-telling or similar purposes, as opposed to Mythological Creatures which gradually sprang up in...
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Fictional locations were invented for stories of fiction, movies, television and so forth and do not exist in the real world.
For real world locations that just have heavy...
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News: Living Root Bridges - bridges made out of the roots of ficus trees
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The fifth dimension can mean one of two things, depending on whether or not you count Time as a dimension and number it.
If you do count time, then the fifth dimension is...
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April 17, 2009: In Queens and Brooklyn, New York, feral parakeets have nested in the local utility poles, wreaking havoc with the power lines. Attempts to scare them away with a fake owl...
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October 30, 2008: The United States Department of Defense is working on a variety of laser-based weapon platforms:
Zeus: A directed-energy weapon intended to explode unexploded ordnance...
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Film genres are genres commonly found in movies.
List of Film Genres
Aint No Rule
B Movie
Chick Flicks
Disaster Movie
Exploitation Film
Fan Film
Film Noir
Giallo
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A fire balloon was a hydrogen balloon with incendiary or bombs attached. Fire balloons were developed by Japan to attack the western United States during World War II by having...
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A Fish Out Of Water situation is a the result of characters being placed in an unfamiliar time period. Most commonly, this is caused by Time Travel or being a Human Popsicle or...
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The flagship is the lead ship in a fleet. This designation is given to it because it is either the largest, fastest, newest, most powerful, or most well known ship in the...
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Genetic Parasites - known to infect flies.
News: Zombie Fire Ants - flies from South America which first turn ants into...
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List of Food Items
Chocolate
Hot Dog
Pizza
Spice
See Also
Agriculture
Camp Cook
Drink
Food Chain
Food Tropes
Octodog Hot Dog...
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Force Magic is a form of magic where practitioners tap into and control or weave together one or more magical forces.
Magic which waxes and wanes according to how close the...
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List of Noteworthy Forests
Real World Forests
Nürnberger Reichswald
Mythological Forests
Fictional Forests
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Dungeon...
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January 25, 2008: In Kington, Herefordshire, sheep have been gathering in mysterious circles, reminiscent of crop circles. A local farm manager claimed that the likely reason for...
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This Western Character is a participant in the California Gold Rush of 1848-1855. See Also: Miner and Prospector.
History
When gold was discovered near Sutters Mill, California...
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For want of the shoe, the horse was lost;
For want of the horse, the rider was lost;
For want of the rider, the battle was lost;
For want of the battle, the...
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According to popular legend, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León discovered the present-day state of...
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She was sighted at the Jim Jones compound in Guyana the weekend before his cult committed mass suicide. She was...
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The Fourth Dimension can refer to either the Time Dimension or an additional Spatial Dimension. The majority of this page is about the spatial dimension.
Time Dimension
In...
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This page is about creatures or intelligent beings native to the Fourth Dimension, particularly the spatial interpretation. Read that page too, as the basics it gives you on how...
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Foxes are small canids, which are sometimes considered very catlike. Foxes are well known for being crafty, and being able to survive in almost any climate and terrain. Foxes are...
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France is a major country in Europe.
Towns and Cities
Carcassonne
See Also
Alexis Carrel
Cham de Bondons menhirs
Carnac
Sources
Bibliography
1. Wikipedia entry
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May 12, 2009: Scientists have discovered that predators are more likely to eat the most common subgroup of their prey.
At first blush, it seems so trivial. That summary totally hides the...
"If you're wondering how he eats and breathes,
And other science facts;
(la-la-la!)
Then repeat to yourself 'It's just a show,
I should really just relax.'"
— Theme song from Mystery Science...
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News: Legless frogs mystery solved
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1. Wikipedia entry
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There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light;
She set out one day,
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
— Arthur Henry Reginald Buller,...
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FTL Communication refers to some sort of method for distant spacecraft or planets to stay in touch without the multi-year delays between responses that would occur if using...
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An FTL Radio (also sometimes known as an Ansible or Subspace Ansible) is a communication device popular in science fiction that makes it possible to communicate across vast...
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FTL Travel is the ability to move from point A to point B faster than light, or even in no time at all. It's what most people think of when they talk about FTL or "Warp".
Since...
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The Fueller is a profession common to the Middle Ages (and probably going back further). It's a job of one who sells fuel, often a traveling salesman type. Wood and Charcoal were...
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Functional Magic is a trope that refers to magic that goes beyond mere plot device to serve as a tool, science, technology, art, or philosophy. Functional Magic is magic that...
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The Funktiontide is a prototype robotic pillow close to the size of humans. It can move and change shape depending on how you hold it. In a demonstration video a man is seen...
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Let's say your life depended on you knowing, ten minutes from now, the name of the first fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte.
If you live in Europe in the 1800s, you might be able to...
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This Time Travel Trope describes the situation where a time traveling character meets a future their future self, and finds that version of them to be distasteful in some way....
…there was no law yet against prodding some of the new veshches which they used to put into the old moloko, so you could peet it with vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or one or two other...
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News: Gang Uses Snake In Street Attack
News: Police 'can't cope' as Vietnamese flood drugs trade
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New York City in the 19th Century (and early 20th Century) featured several Street Gangs that seem almost surreal from the modern perspective. No doubt some of the claims have...
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August 9, 2009: A gang in Bradley Stoke, South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom has used a snake to attack a 14 year old boy. The snake - a non-venomous python - was forced to bite the boy...
I stood upon the edge of the cliff and looked down into a sea of refuse. For 2000 years, the inhabitants of Marburyport had thrown their garbage over this cliff into the sea. But now the sea had...
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In Genesis chapter 2: v. 4-17, the Bible describes how God created Adam and Eve and made a special place for them to live in called the Garden of Eden. This was the original...
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The Garden of Eden is an eccentric concrete sculpture garden created by the equally eccentric Samuel Perry Dinsmoor in Lucas, Kansas (USA). In 1905, Dinsmoor built the house that...
Ernest Gary Gygax is one of the co-creators of Dungeons and Dragons.
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Gary Gygax, who died on March 4, 2008, was a very active member of the roleplaying community. He was one of...
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A gas giant is a very large planet that is made mostly of non-solid matter.
In our Solar System there are four such gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and...
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Gender and Sexuality Tropes are characterization tropes about gender and sexual identity.
Affirmative Action Girl
All Paedophiles Are Child Molestors
Ambiguous Gender
Anything...
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Genesis is the first book of the Bible. The title comes from the Greek word for "beginnings" or "origins" and was how the book was called in the Septuagint, the great Greek...
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October 26, 2007: Scientists discover the entire genetic code of one species - a type of bacteria residing inside the DNA of another (a type of fly).
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Body Horror
Grand Theft...
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Genetics is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms.
This is a stub.
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News: Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home
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Genius Loci can refer to three different concepts:
In Roman Mythology, a Genius Loci is a protective spirit of a place, and it often manifested as a snake, or was represented by...
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Stories are typically categorized into genres. These are vague categories with no fixed boundaries. Genres are formed by sets of conventions, and many works cross into multiple...
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A character who is Genre Savvy is (on some level) aware of the most common genre tropes of the sort of story he's in. For example, if a character who's seen zombie movies before...
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Genre tropes are tropes that are associated with specific genres
List of Genre Tropes
Action Adventure Tropes
Chase Scene
Just In Time
Comedy Tropes
Parody Tropes
Side...
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He's handsome, suave, charming; he's impeccably dressed and excruciatingly well-bred. He looks just like Cary Grant, or perhaps David Niven. He has all the gentlemanly virtues…...
"What in the world, Wimsey, are you doing in this Morgue?" demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the "Evening Banner" with the air of a man released from an irksome duty.
"Oh, I wouldn't call...
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The Georgia Guidestones are a monument in northeastern Georgia, United States. It consists of five stone slabs which have been raised in a star pattern. It was built in 1980 to...
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Aachen
Ahaus
Erlangen
Other locations
Bräutigamseiche
Goseck circle
Nürnberger Reichswald
Tagebau Garzweiler
Myths and...
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September 18, 2009: An ABC News article tells of how, during World War II, British Intelligence smuggled maps and escape tools to soldiers in POW camps hidden inside Monopoly games. The...
The darkness is made all the more disturbing by the feeling that someone… or something… is just out of sight, watching you. If you listen carefully, you can almost hear them whispering to...
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A ghost town is a town that has been abandoned by its inhabitants for some reason. Following is a list of known ghost towns:
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Chernobyl
Dogtown,...
Reginald cursed himself as he sped across the Savoy's lobby. He had let himself be so distracted by the ridiculous patter singer on stage that he didn't notice the Count leave his box until it was...
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This classic Trope refers to things that are not quite human and how they do a not quite perfect job of hiding that fact. Some form of magic, disguise, or illusion hides their...
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The Glass Cannon is a combat role of someone who can really dish it out, but can't take it. As the name suggests, devestating offensive power, but vulnerable and sometimes...
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The glim-dropper is a con that requires several accomplices, one of whom must be a one-eyed man. One grifter goes into a store and pretends he has lost his glass eye. Everyone...
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The Global Consciousness Project is an ongoing scientific project to examine whether events that provoke strong global emotional response among humans will create a deviation...
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Globus Cassus is proposal by Swiss architect and artist Christian Waldvogel presenting a conceptual transformation of Planet Earth into a much bigger, hollow, artificial world...
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A goblin shark is a deep sea shark with an unusual appearance. It has a lengthy "snout" protruding far from the head itself, and it has a jaw which it can protrude as well, not...
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Gods Need Prayer Badly is a Religion Trope. According to it, the power of gods is proportional to the amount of prayer and worship they receive.
This concept is actually pretty...
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Godwin's Law of Time Travel is a Time Travel Trope that establishes any change to history results in a Nazi victory. It's Hitlers Time Travel Exemption Act crossed with Butterfly...
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There are some places in the Bible where the text makes a throwaway reference to something the original readers were probably very familiar with; and then people spend the next...
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The Gog Magog Downs, aka Gog Magog Hills, aka The Gogs, are a series of hills near Cambridge in England. The highest points are about 75m (250 ft) above sea level. Today, part of...
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Gold bricking has two meanings in reference to confidence games.
It can refer to a specific old con: selling a bar of lead (that's been gold plated or just painted gold) at the...
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From the 1650s to the 1720s, the seas were a particularly dangerous place. Pirates and Privateers roamed the waters of the Carribean and Indian Ocean, as well as the waters of...
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"Goldilocks planet" is an informal term for planets in the "Goldilocks zone" or stellar habitable zone of their star. Not too hot, not too cold, just right for sustaining an...
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A staple of Cosmic Horror, this Horror Trope involves the all-too-common situation where some revelation, intuition, or encounter makes a character go totally insane.
We're not...
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August 13, 2009: Every year, thousands of people try to disappear and start over new lives elsewhere. The article discusses the motivations of such people and various possible strategies...
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Big Brother Is Watching
Data Mining
Data Monster
Future Google
Google Street View
YouTube - now owned by Google
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The Gorgoneion is a protective device hailing from Ancient Greece. It's an image of Medusa, just her head and snake-y hair, with no attached body.
Pendants, masks, jewelry, and...
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September 22, 2009: A British historian and an American fashion designer have cooperated in Madagascar to produce spider silk from the webs of the golden orb spider, which is renowned for...
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A government is a body within an organization or nation which has the authority to enforce laws, regulations, or rules.
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A government conspiracy represents a genre of shows, a political trope, and a type of plot. It centers on a government trying to keep "the Truth" hidden, whatever that might...
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Grain-based Local Currency refers both to a form of monetary unit, and to one of the earliest economic systems to supplant pure barter. In such a system, money is minted/printed...
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In this time travel trope, a character goes back in time and (usually accidentally) replaces their own grandfather (or similar relative). Often this involves having sex with...
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She's the Hippie Chick. She wears tie-dyed shirts and sandals; she's opposed to war, and environmental pollution, and she has some petitions she'd like you to sign. She's into...
Three lawyers were attending the funeral for one of their friends. As they came up to the open casket to pay their last respects, one of them said: "You know, in ancient times they used to put...
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August 14, 2008: Paleontologists have discovered graves in the Sahara desert at a site called Gobero which date back to a period when the Sahara was still green and fertile, five to ten...
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A time travel trope, Grays Sports Almanac is an item that is perfectly innocuous in its own time period but will change history in a dramatic (and invariably negative) way if...
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Greek Mythology
Interpretatio Graeca
Marathon
Event/News: Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old bronze...
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Greed is the desire to accumulate as much wealth or as many material comforts as possible. It is one of the Seven Deadly Sins of Catholicism.
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Briefcase Full Of...
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March 23, 2009: A Greek fisherman has found a 2,200 year old bronze statue of a horseman in his net. The statue was recovered in the Aegean Sea between the Greek islands of Kos and...
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Greek Mythology is the body of Myth and Legend of Ancient Greece.
Major themes of Greek Myth:
Generational Conflict: Uranus is castrated by his son, Cronus. Cronus is killed by...
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Fiction/News: 2060 - Humvee-sized, bulletproof meat-eating spiders attack
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Greensburg is a small town located in Kiowa County, Kansas. In May of 2007, the town was almost completely destoyed by an F5 tornado. Estimates indicated that 95% of the town or...
In the days of World War II, when combat planes were coming off the assembly line almost as fast as automobiles and there was a greater mathematical chance of malfunctions than there would...
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Grimsby is a large Town in the North-East of England. It used to be a large fishing town but with the collapse of the fishing trade it has switched to food processing and...
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This speculative fiction trope depicts an icy hell in the far north. It may be home to vikings, vampires, The Dark Lord or other dangerous folks. The trope typically focuses on...
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The GroundBot is a small, spherical robot which mounts cameras and other sensors and has limited off-road capabilities.
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A Ground Effect Vehicle (or Wing-In-Ground-Effect Vehicle) is sort of an aircraft. It's a category of aerodyne vehicle that flies very close to the ground, held aloft by an...
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In this Time Travel Trope, a character relives the same period of time (usually exactly one day) again and again. Just as grief has seven stages, the Ground Hog Day Loop has...
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News: Gulls Vicious Attacks On Whales
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1. Wikipedia entry
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June 24, 2009: Gulls near Valdes Peninsula, Argentina have learned to attack surfacing whales, especially mothers and calves, for their blubber. These attacks have increased in frequency...
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Technically, the term Gun refers to an artillery piece, but more often it's used to mean a man-portable firearm, so firearms are what...
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A Gun Moll is a female accomplice to criminals, or girlfriend of a criminal, especially during the 1920s and 1930s. The term actually originated a few decades before, in the...
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February 27, 2004: A book covered in human skin thought to have belonged to one of the co-conspirators in Guy Fawke's Gunpowder Plot of 1605 has been auctioned off. It is...
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Abnormal Ammo
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In the stellar classification system, a star that is rated G V is a dwarf star (see also Main Sequence) that is white or yellow-white in color. These bright stars convert...
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The term Gyrojet refers to a class of firearms invented and manufactured in the 1960s. These guns were noteworthy because they fired gyroscopically stabilized rockets, instead of...
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A HabStar is a star defined as being likely to produce habitable worlds for life similar to what has evolved on earth. This distinction is being made by our current SETI program,...
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A Half Human Hybrid is a being that is half human, half… something else. This is a frequent occurrence in mythology and the fantasy genres. In science fiction, it is generally...
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March 6, 2003: According to Haliburton, a device containing radioactive material was stolen from them in December 2002 from their operations in Nigeria. According to one watchdog group,...
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Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31st mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth nations such as Canada, Ireland, or Australia. Japan has...
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To Hand Wave something is to gloss over or not sweat the details. In terms of story, it's an explanation or story element that's murky, vague, or inconsistently applied. It's the...
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Handwavium is a type of light-weight Phlebotinum used purely to hand wave a plot element or some sort of magic and powers. It definitely doesn't exist, and probably can't exist,...
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September 23, 2009: On September 12, a 51 year old Census worker was found hanging from a tree in a remote part of the Daniel Boone National Forest near a cemetery in rural southeast...
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A Hanging Judge is a ruthless judge who rules his courtroom as his own personal fiefdom. He will hand out brutal sentences for the most minor infractions. He may be a Corrupt...
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June 26, 2009: The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Abune Paulos, apparently backed off from an announcement made on Jun 24 that he would reveal the Ark of the Covenant...
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Hashim ibn Hakim was a religious dissident living in 8th century Persia. He mixed elements of Zoroastrianism and Islam, and styled himself the Veiled Prophet because he always...
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Hazardous Water is a horror trope. It means that a character in a dangerous situation in a horror plot who falls into a body of water will have great difficulties getting out...
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Headless Valley is a specific region (Lat: 61.25 Long: -124.5) of the South Nahanni River valley (Canada) said to encompass a lost world complete with tropical forests,...
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Hecate is a Greek goddess, whose worship survived long past the decline of Ancient Greece. She's more than a little mysterious, with scholars disagreeing on her purview,...
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The Height 611 UFO incident is an alleged UFO crash near the town of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia on January 29, 1986. "Height 611" refers to the hill on which it...
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Heimdall is one of the Aesir gods of Norse Mythology. He's a somewhat enigmatic figure, not one of the most well-understood members of the Norse pantheon. What's he the god of?...
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A Helium White Dwarf is a form of White Dwarf Star that used to be normal star - possibly even a Solar Analog - but lost it's mass. The most likely cause of such mass loss is...
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Henry Okah is the creator of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). Under his guidance, MEND wreaked havoc in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, diverting...
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The position of Herald is a rather complicated profession. It's part messenger, part town crier, part scholar, and part artist. Yet nothing in that statement suggests the...
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George Prosper Remi, better known by his pen-name Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist who created one of the most internationally famous comic strip characters of the 20th Century,...
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Heroes are the protagonists of stories who seek to defeat the villains, rescue others, etc.
List of Hero Archetypes
Accidental Hero
The Ace
Action Girl
Action Mom
Faux Action...
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Heroic Fantasy is a subgenre of Fantasy. It tends to be about personal adventuring, treasure quests, and the like. (This distinguishes it from High Fantasy which is more about...
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This is a Bibliography page for useful resources in the Heroic Fantasy genre, including Swords & Sorcery and classic Gygaxian Dungeon Fantasy.
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Books
Alexander,...
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April 6, 2009: Scientists have been able to create a battery which uses viruses in its electrodes. The creators of these batteries think that this process could be scaled to an industrial...
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A high-rise is a tall building or structure.
See Also
Arcology
Megastructure
Skyscraper
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1. Wikipedia entry
High-rise Floor Plans (External Links)
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A hill is a peak of land above sea level, like a mountain, but lower and not as steep. These geological formations can be formed by erosion or deposition of sediment. These areas...
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Hired Guns are characters (and Narrative Tropes) whose main motivation for getting involved in the story is the financial compensation, and they usually do not feel any great...
First, let me start by just saying "Eew…"
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Zoophilia is sex between humans and animals.
I really don't want to go into this at length and detail, and luckily (thanks to...
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This page lists true historic events and other history-related subjects.
(It is not for mythological or controversial/hypothetical history, though alternative readings may appear...
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Languages are not stable, and English is no exception. If you go back in time even just a few hundred years, you'll find slang and phrasing quite puzzling, and be amazed at how...
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This Time Travel Trope refers to the concept, popular in fiction and sci-fi media, that something horrible and epic (aka WWII and/or The Holocaust) must happen between the years...
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Hlavni Nadraži is the principle train station in Prague. It is a hybrid building, with the older and original Art Nouveau construction sitting on top of the elevated railway...
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The Hodag is a legendary creature of the Wisconsin North Woods. Originally the subject of bunkhouse tall tales of the lumber camps, the hodag was first sighted near the town of...
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This Category covers various types of holidays. These could be religious festivals, national observances, or generally holy days. They could be widely observed, or local customs,...
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Hollywood Science is very bad science.
Hollywood Science is a trope, and is most common to bad Science Fiction.
Hollywood Science is when the writers of a Speculative Fiction...
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The old Jewish quarter of Prague, where Franz Kafka once lived, is full of beautiful synagogues and Judaica which now serve almost exclusively as tourist sites, so complete was...
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Homer may be an actual historic figure, a blind poet-bard of great skill who lived sometime between the 1200 BC and 800 BC. Scholars who accept his historicity are divided on...
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Homicide is the act of killing a human being. It includes the crimes of Murder and Manslaughter, as well as non-criminal killings such as those covered by the self-defense plea,...
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March 31, 2009: Three companies have jointly developed a "Brain Machine Interface" using electroencephalography controlling a robot with thoughts alone.
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Hong Kong is a city in China
Locations
Kowloon
Kowloon Walled City
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1. Wikipedia entry
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A Horrible Judge Of Character is someone who is easily duped and willing to trust even the most evil of villains. Usually, only extreme displays of villainy or betrayal will...
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Horror tropes are genre tropes that frequently appear in horror stories.
List of Horror Tropes
Abandoned Hospital
A House Divided
Alien Geometries
And I Must Scream
Apocalyptic...
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The Western - a genre that generally involves lots of horses - or some substitute for them
News: In Florida, mysterious...
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A hospital is a place which cares for the sick, injured, and infirm.
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Abandoned Hospital
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1. Wikipedia entry
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A Hot Comet is a comet that has radioactive materials in or near it's core.
The Deep Impact (space mission) and Stardust (spacecraft) showed that the insides of such comets...
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August 16, 2007 - Scientists estimate that it is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more likely that life started inside a Hot Comet than on the surface of the Earth, thereby...
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Hot Dark Matter is one possible type of Dark Matter. It refers to non-baryonic subatomic particles that move at speeds very close to that of light. It's not "hot" in the...
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April 21, 2008: The article looks at abandoned efforts to build five-star hotels on the Sinai Peninsula.
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Architecture
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Hot Jupiters are a specific type of Gas Giant. These planets are the size of our Jupiter, or larger, and much closer to their local stars than Mercury is to our sun. The extreme...
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Hot Neptunes are Ocean Planets that are now located so close to the star they orbit that the ocean should be constantly boiling - but the immense pressure of such a large planet...
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A houseboat is a watercraft which has been designed or modified so that it can be used for permanent human habitation.
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According to the story, an architect named Alex Jordan Jr. went to see his idol, the famed Frank Lloyd Wright, at the master's architectural school, Taliesin, in Green Lake,...
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Even when they are using the same rules systems, each GM interprets those rules his own way; and very often, he tweaks those rules or devises additional rules to reflect his own...
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November 1, 2009: An article on the Mental_Floss website, reprinted from Mental_Floss magazine, tells about a writer and activist named Stetson Kennedy who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan...
If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site (and, by default, you are), simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor.
To create a link to a new page, use...
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September 16, 2009: The British oil trader Trafigura has been accused of dumping large amounts of toxic waste off the coast near Abidjan, the capital of Côte d'Ivoire, in 2006. The...
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This Narrative Trope refers to when a story starts with a point at (or near) the end of the narrative, and then goes back to fill in how the current situation came about.
See...
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July 14, 2009: A strange, gooey substance up to 12 miles long is floating in the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic off the coast of Alaska along the North Slope Borough, between Point Barrow and...
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April 2, 2009: A giant sea worm has been captured at an aquarium in Newquay, United Kingdom. The creature is over four foot in length, and is covered with bristles which can cause...
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Argh! Too many big words in this Wiki! Thag hates big words! Thag hates complex grammatical constructions! Thag only use Hulk Speak! Hulk Speak is when character talk simple....
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Humans are the sole known sapient species to populate Earth. All members of the human species together are known as humanity.
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Anthropodermic Bibliopegy
Artificial...
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April 17, 2009: Louisiana senator Danny Martiny has filed a bill which would make it illegal to create human-animal hybrids, punishing violators with high fines and/or extended prison...
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A human-powered vehicle is a machine built to facilitate human-powered transport.
Examples:
Canoeing and kayaking
Caster Board
Chariot skating
Cross-country...
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October 17, 2006: A British "evolutionary theorist" speculates that the human species, thanks to increasing reliance on technology and more selective choosing of partners will over the...
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Human Terrain Teams are anthropologists who accompany combat brigades Military of the United States to understand the "cultural landscape" of a region where the United States...
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A professor of anthropology assists the US military forces in Iraq by helping them figure out the social networks between the natives.
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News: Medieval Battle Records Go Online
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1. Wikipedia entry
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A character who makes his (or, rarely, her) legitimate living by hunting down animals for their meat and fur. Most often found in stories about America's frontier days, fading...
See tropical cyclone.
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Hurricane Katrina was a hurricane that devastated New Orleans, Louisiana on August 29, 2005.
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Wikipedia entry
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Used straight, surviving through Katrina...
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Locations
Icelandic Phallological Museum
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Wikipedia entry
Game and Story Use
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March 17, 2009: After the United States Department of Homeland Security gave permission to build a new border fence between the United States and Mexico which would have resulted in the...
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Terrestrial life uses water as a solvent, keeping the various chemicals of life dissolved, providing a medium for aqueous reactions, and transporting them within and between...
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Water is an amazing chemical. Here on earth, it has proven to be a key ingredient in life, serving as a biological solvent, helping insulate and maintain temperatures, and being...
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A Hyperdoughnut is a higher dimensional space that is shaped like a doughnut. Since the geometric name of the shape of a doughnut is Torus, a hyperdoughnut is also known as a...
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A Hyperdrive is a form of Star Drive that propels a spacecraft into subspace or hyperspace. In most cases, the hyperdrive provides the spaceship with propulsion while in...
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This index, borrowed from the TV Tropes Wiki, lists tropes depicting matter or energy being "created" (in seeming violation of the laws of conservation), and/or space being...
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Hyperspace may provide handy corner-cutting and relativity-dodging space travel but it's not always a place that you want to go to. It could just be the fact that it's just...
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A Hypersphere is a fourth-dimensional sphere.
A normal sphere is circular, it can be visualized as a projection of a circle into three dimensions. If you take a single "layer"...
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Here on Earth, Life As We Know It is built around Carbon as the basic building block, with Water as the solvent. Our cells are made of carbon, and water is used to break down...
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I Am Not Making This Up is a type of fan-speak when truth is stranger than fiction - the kind of stuff that sounds completely unbelievable, but apparently is real.
List of I Am...
The village elders were forced to face the facts. Each winter was harder and longer than the one before it. The herds had all migrated south, and were unlikely to come back. The glacier had...
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An Ice Giant is a large planet composed mostly of water, ammonia, and methane. The outer 15% to 20% of the planet may also be made of Helium and Hydrogen. The chemical...
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Cities and Towns
Húsavík
List of Locations
Surtsey - new volcanic island off the coast
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The Icelandic Phallological Museum is a museum in Húsavík, Iceland. It displays penises from a vast range of species native to Iceland, with the exception of...
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Ice Planet is a subtrope of Single Biome Planet. The defining terrain feature is snow and ice. There may or may not be some exposed rock. If you're really lucky you'll get ice...
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I Coulda Been A Contender is what happens to a character when, just when he is about to embark on a very promising career, he is struck down by some sort of misfortune that makes...
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Nearly everyone who ever existed or ever will exist is just another ignorant leveler. Their perceptions barely scratch the surface of reality. When some Time Ripple sweeps over...
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Her name was McGill
And she called herself "Lil",
But everyone knew her as "Nancy".
- The Beatles, Rocky Racoon
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Rather than having one single simple name, this character has...
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Iliaster is an alchemical term for the primeval substance which is the source of all other substances. It contained both matter and spirit. The term was invented by Paracelsus,...
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News: Ugly Battle Has Librarians In Oak Brook Turning To Teamsters
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Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian and Soviet biologist. In the 1920s, he attempted to create human-ape hybrids, first by artificially inseminating chimpanzee females with human...
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Immortality refers to the state of being Immortal, and thus Immunity to Death and/or Aging. It comes in several varieties:
Biological Immortality
Contractual Immortality (See...
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum is Phlebotinum that was abandoned or supplied by some alien race, or other temporary visitor to our neck of spacetime. Often it's totally normal...
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February 24, 2008: Ancient books have been uncovered with a script believed to be that of the Tujia people of China - who were until now believed not to have their own written...
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Independence is the state of self-government of a country.
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The process of becoming independent tends to be a fairly...
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Hindu Mythology
Iron Pillar - an Out Of Place Artifact of India
Jantar Mantar - an Archaeoastronomical...
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October 22, 2008: India has launched the Chandrayaan-I mission to the Moon, which includes a lunar orbiter and an impactor. This probe is intended to study the lunar...
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April 5, 2009: In a large funeral home belonging to one of the largest chain of funeral homes in the world, corpses were not kept in cold storage until the actual funeral, but left at room...
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An infant is a human child at the earliest stage of its development.
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Infant Immortality
News: Otty Sanchez, Woman Accused Of Killing Newborn, Ate...
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August 3, 2009: The article compiles information from three other articles about criminal horse-killings near Miami, Florida. A total of 17 horses have been killed over the past...
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Something is in-genre when it's particularly appropriate to the genre, the setting, or the style of the story being told. Chances are (if it's truly in-genre) you've seen that...
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Inherent In The System is a politics trope. It designates a world, setting, or system that has fundamental problems which are not the fault of a single, specific person.
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It looks like one of those respectable english clubs out of an old movie where elderly earls discuss the Crimean War and eccentric aristocrats make extravagant wagers over games of whist. That's...
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January 23, 2003: There is a subculture of gay men called "bug chasers" who actively seek out getting infected by the HIV virus and thus get AIDS. Most of them see infecting themselves as...
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So, you're running a sci-fi game with spacecraft and interstellar travel, and you're uncertain how sound works in space.
It doesn't.
Things You Can't Hear.
Or rather, there's no...
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The opposite of the Time Travel Trope callled For Want Of A Nail, In Spite Of A Nail refers to situations where events that should logically have broad-sweeping impact are...
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Practice makes perfect, but who has time to practice? Time Travelers do. Being a time traveler is great. If you're healthy and in half-way decent physical shape, then you can...
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August 11, 2009: According to a "whistleblower" - a former executive with a major American health insurance corporation - are behind many of the current disruptions of town hall meetings,...
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This form of Time Travel only enables you to be an observer. You're invisible or intangible (or both), and are merely watching what's happened in the past, or will happen in the...
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Intelligent Design is the assertion that certain aspects of the universe and/or living beings are unlikely to have evolved randomly, and thus are best explained by the existence...
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This was a group founded by Father Divine in 1919. They lived together- first in a house on Long Island and then in a series of hotels that they ran throughout the movement. The...
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The traditional romance fraud has now moved into internet dating sites. The con man actively cultivates a romantic relationship which often involves promises of marriage....
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The Cthulhu Mythos, while wholly fictional, grew much like a real mythology - various writers and storytellers used its various entities in different guises and in different...
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See Interpretatio Cthulhiana for more details. See Interpretatio Cthulhiana - Deities for the list of deities in the Cthulhu Mythos.
This page lists the various species of the...
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See Interpretatio Cthulhiana for more details. See Interpretatio Cthulhiana - Creatures for the list of lesser species in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Interpretatio Graeca:
Writers in Ancient Greece, when traveling in or discussing other lands, had a habit of identifying the local gods with their own gods back home. For...
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Space is not entirely empty. The interstellar medium is the extremely thin gas that fills interstellar space. In the Milky Way as a whole, the average density is around a million...
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This page is a list of Stellar Phenomena, Solar Phenomena, and Celestial Bodies. Some links are general categories of interstellar phenomena, other links are to specific stars or...
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April 27, 2008: Many cities in Eastern Germany have lost as much as one-fifth of their population, and are likely to lose more in the future. These cities are now searching for ways of...
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The Intrepid Merchant is a character who will travel the world in search for profit. He doesn't go looking for hidden treasures, but all sorts of trade goods which he can buy,...
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December 17, 2008: A Canadian inventor has created an "anatomically correct" robot named "Aiko" in the shape of a Japanese girl. The robot can speak 13,000 phrases in English and Japanese,...
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The Inverse-Square Law is a concept in Physics that can be applied to gravity, radiation, acoustics, electrostatics, etc, so there's several different fields of physics which...
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September 11, 2009: Wal-Mart has engaged in business practices designed to exploit its employees from its very start. These included:
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An IOU is usually an informal document acknowledging debt.
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Iram Of The Pillars was a city in the Rub' al Khali desert in what is now Saudi Arabia. According to legend, it was destroyed by God for the sins of its inhabitants.
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Walking up the narrow brick path to the two-story, stucco and stonework Irondale Inn, you are immediately taken with the simple 1830s construction of the building. The large windows, the green...
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
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May 21, 2009: Various science fiction authors and leading experts in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence are asked whether a Robot War scenario is possible, and outline some...
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End Of Days
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According to an article in the Israeli news site Ynet news, a Hamas police spokesman in the Gaza Strip has accused Israeli Intelligence of trying to "destroy" the younger...
The City of Cities. Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantium, Miklagarth, Tsargrad, whatever you want to call it, it's the centre of the world.
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August 2, 2009: A document has surfaced which allegedly is the birth certificate of current United States president Barack Obama. This document looks like it was created by Kenyan...
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Towns and Cities of Italy
Federation Of Damanhur
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1. Olive Garden TV Tropes Wiki entry (stereotypes about...
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December 11, 2006: The Italian police plans to set up a special police squad investigating dangerous religious sects, especially Satanists. The team is supposed to include psychoanalysts,...
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July 11, 2009: Despite the rapidly increasing budget deficit of California - now at $26.3 billion - and the increasing difficulty of keeping vital services running and state employees...
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June 26, 2009: CNN reports that the death of Michael Jackson on June 25 crashed significant portions of the internet. The first several news and gossip sites to post about his death all...
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Tokyo
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Yonaguni Monument
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Kitsune
News: Ant mega-colony takes over world
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April 5, 2009: Japanese researchers have built a humanoid robots who gradually learns by observing mimicking human behavior, similar to infants.
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December 19, 2007: The Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura has stated that he is convinced that UFOs exist.
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September 22, 2008: Japanese scientists who are part of the Japan Space Elevator Association are confident that it will be feasible and relatively cheap to build a space elevator, and are...
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July 23, 2009: In addition to the recent large-scale arrests related to money laundering and illegal organ trading, New Jersey has had numerous other corruption scandals, with...
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace...
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He's been called both a martyr and a madman, a freedom fighter and a fanatic. More than any single person, he can be said to have set the United States irrecoverably on the path...
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In Norse Mythology, Jörmungandr, also known as the Midgard Serpent was the middle of Loki's three children. He took the form of a gigantic serpent. Odin hurled Jörmungandr into...
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Jupiter and Saturn represent a class of Gas Giant sometimes called a "traditional Gas Giant" or a "Jovian Planet". Such a planet is composed mostly of Hydrogen and Helium. At the...
Jake had stepped out of the saloon to take a leak and catch a breath of fresh air when he noticed the smell of smoke. He looked down the street and saw a red glow in the sky down by lumberyard. He...
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Immortals hoping to remain hidden from humanity are forced to move about frequently, and are likely to adopt various nicknames and aliases as the drift from culture to culture....
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A Jungle Planet is a Single Biome Planet covered in jungle.
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This is a page about the planet. For the Roman God, see Jupiter (Mythology).
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. It's the largest planet in our system,...
"‘Reverse primary thrust, Marvin,’ that's what they say to me, ‘open airlock number three, Marvin. Marvin, can you pick up that piece of paper?’ Can I pick up that piece of paper! Here I...
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Just-in-Time Socialism is a proposed form of economic system based on Socialist economics. It seeks to do away with the traditional inefficiency of Socialism - namely, that it is...
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Kadykchan is a near-ghost town in the Susumansky District of Magadan Oblast, Russia. While it had more than 10,000 inhabitants in 1986 [2], by now there are less than 300 people...
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Kapu was a set of taboos practiced by natives of Hawaii. Taboos included not touching or even coming close to chieftains, eating specific foods, eating food together with members...
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The transition from one type to another on the Kardashev Scale is likely to be very challenging and harrowing. expected to be a tumultuous time, with social upheavals at least as...
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The Kardashev Scale is a theoretical scale for measuring the progress of civilizations, especially extraterrestrial civilizations, as it puts the energy consumption of a...
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A karmic transformation is a shape shifting trope. It transforms a character into something he hates, and is often an ironic punishment.
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Anvilicious
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Something that is fake that everyone pretends is real. Mass intentional self-deception. See also Willing Suspension of Disbelief
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Former Republic of the Soviet Union.
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Barsa-Kelmes island
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - security organization which Kazakhstan is a...
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These creatures are similar to the pooka, but significantly more malevolent. These creatures tend to appear as either sleek black or white ponies. They appear to be gentle lost...
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Event/News: Hanged Census worker had 'fed' on chest
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The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa.
Locations within Kenya include:
Mount Kenya
Olorgesailie
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The KGB was the security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency of the Soviet Union
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Commonly in TV shows a character will have a much younger sidekick. Not nearly as common in gaming (unless you've got young kids as players) since the point of Kid Sidekick in TV...
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A king is a head of state of a nation, usually of a kingdom or a realm. It is the second highest title of nobility after emperor. The queen is either the female counterpart of...
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In the year 1122, a stranger from the East arrived in Rome to see Pope Calixtus II. He called himself "John, Patriarch of the Indians" and claimed to be an archbishop of the...
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The King's Imprimatur refers to a monarch's Royal Seal or guarantee. The term may refer to a Royal Decree, or official approval, or just the symbol of such.
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Kingston Upon Hull, or "Hull" for short, is a city in the East of the United Kingdom. It is considered by many to be one of the least desirable cities to live in, having been...
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Kitezh refers to Bolshoy Kitezh, a legendary town that once stood in what is, today, the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. Legend states that Georgy...
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The Kitsune is a mythological being of Eastern creation. This creature is a single, or multi-tailed (up to nine) Fox. Stories call them rain spirits,...
Kit Taupe Prower is a character designed by Teirusu Reynard (Tails_155,) to be the son of Miles "Tails" Prower, and Kristie Kesuiko… Though born to the two, not from this dimension, but a...
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A knife is a hand-held short blade which can be used as both a tool and a weapon.
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WASP Injector Knife
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Shortly after the First Crusade, a French knight named Hugues de Payens proposed the formation of a new monastic order devoted to the protection of pilgrims. The Christians had...
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[Basicly, I felt we needed a page for the pre-Korean War Korea; and I happened upon a piece on that subject which I wanted to link to...
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A Krasnikov Tube is a proposed method of faster-than-light travel that is essentially an extremely limited one-way time machine. The tube is a distortion of spacetime that can be...
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Kutná Hora is a city in the Czech Republic.
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Sedlec Ossuary
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A K V Star is a star that's a little colder than our Sun, but still relatively close in size to our own. See Stellar Classification for more details. As it turns out, these...
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - security organization which Kyrgyzstan is a member of.
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When Joseph Valachi testified before the US Senate in 1962, he revealed that American mafiosi refer to their organization by the term cosa nostra, which means "our thing". The...
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The Lady of War is a more refined type of Action Girl. She has an aristocratic bearing and her weapons of choice emphasize grace and beauty of motion. She possesses a sense of...
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Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria.
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1. Scenes from Lagos, Africa's mega-city - Slate series of articles
2. Wikipedia entry
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Lagrange Points (also known as L Points, Lagrangian Points, or Libration Points) are specific points in space where an object can orbit safely in relation to two other objects....
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"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town…"
—Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion
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Described as "the little town that time forgot, that th