64 relations: Asteroid, Bad Doberan, Berlin, Cameo appearance, Cameroon, Candice Bergen, Composer, Coneheads, Corriere della Sera, Deep Purple, Film director, Frank Zappa, Genus, Germany, Goby, Gov't Mule, Gov't Mule (album), Guilty Gear X2, Guitarist, Head (film), I'm the Slime, Illegal drug trade, Independent station (North America), International Astronomical Union, KCAL-TV, Killer Is Dead, List of Guilty Gear characters, List of minor planets: 3001–4000, List of satirists and satires, List of The Ren & Stimpy Show episodes, Lithuania, Lorne Michaels, Los Angeles, Marzahn, Miami Vice, Michael Nesmith, Minor Planet Center, Montreux, ORWOhaus, Pachygnatha zappa, Palermo, Partinico, Phialella, Phialella zappai, Pope, Proteus mirabilis, Ringo Starr, Saturday Night Live, Shelley Duvall, Singing, ..., Smoke on the Water, Switzerland, The Monkees, The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Steve Allen Show, United States, Video game, Vilnius, Vladimir Lenin, What's My Line?, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6, Zappa confluentus, Zappanale, 200 Motels. Expand index (14 more) »
Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.
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Bad Doberan
Bad Doberan is a town in the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.
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Cameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.
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Cameroon
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Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model.
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Composer
A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.
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Coneheads
The Coneheads was a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live (SNL) about a family of aliens with bald conical heads.
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Corriere della Sera
The Corriere della Sera (English: Evening Courier) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015.
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Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968.
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Film director
A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Goby
Gobies are fishes of the family Gobiidae, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera.
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Gov't Mule
Gov't Mule (pronounced Government Mule) is an American southern rock jam band, formed in 1994 as a side project of The Allman Brothers Band by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody.
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Gov't Mule (album)
Gov't Mule is the self-titled debut studio album by southern rock jam band Gov't Mule.
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Guilty Gear X2
Guilty Gear X2, also known as and subtitled The Midnight Carnival in Japan, is a fighting game developed by Arc System Works and published by Sammy Studios.
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Guitarist
A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.
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Head (film)
Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, directed by Rafelson, starring television rock group The Monkees (Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith), and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
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I'm the Slime
"I'm the Slime" is a 1973 single by Frank Zappa and The Mothers from the album Over-Nite Sensation.
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Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws.
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Independent station (North America)
An independent station is a type of television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any broadcast television network; most commonly, these stations carry a mix of syndicated, brokered and in some cases, local programming to fill time periods when network programs typically would air.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.
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KCAL-TV
KCAL-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, is an independent television station located in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Killer Is Dead
Killer Is Dead is a 2013 hack and slash video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture.
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List of Guilty Gear characters
This is an index of characters from the Guilty Gear fighting game series.
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List of minor planets: 3001–4000
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List of satirists and satires
Below is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire – humorous social criticism.
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List of The Ren & Stimpy Show episodes
This is a list of episodes of the animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.
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Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, comedian, and actor, best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live, and producing the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995) and The Tonight Show (since 2014).
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Marzahn
Marzahn is a locality within the borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin.
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Miami Vice
Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC.
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Michael Nesmith
Robert Michael Nesmith (born December 30, 1942) is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968).
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Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data for minor planets (such as asteroids and comets), calculating their orbits and publishing this information via the Minor Planet Circulars.
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Montreux
Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
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ORWOhaus
The ORWOhaus is a Berlin-based musical collective.
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Pachygnatha zappa
Pachygnatha zappa is a spider named after musician Frank Zappa because of its unique markings which resemble his famous moustache.
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Palermo
Palermo (Sicilian: Palermu, Panormus, from Πάνορμος, Panormos) is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo.
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Partinico
Partinico (Sicilian: Partinicu, Ancient Greek: Parthenikòn) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy.
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Phialella
Phialella is a genus of hydrozoans.
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Phialella zappai
Phialella zappai is a species of cnidarian in the family Phialellidae.
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Pope
The pope (papa from πάππας pappas, a child's word for "father"), also known as the supreme pontiff (from Latin pontifex maximus "greatest priest"), is the Bishop of Rome and therefore ex officio the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.
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Proteus mirabilis
Proteus mirabilis is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium.
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Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles.
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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.
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Shelley Duvall
Shelley Alexis Duvall (born July 7, 1949) is an American former actress, producer, writer and singer.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Smoke on the Water
"Smoke on the Water" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.
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The Monkees
The Monkees were an American rock and pop band originally active between 1966 and 1971, with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed.
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The Ren & Stimpy Show
The Ren & Stimpy Show is an American animated series created by John Kricfalusi for Nickelodeon.
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The Steve Allen Show
The Steve Allen Show is an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to December 1961 on ABC, from the Museum of Broadcast Communications and in first-run syndication from 1962 to 1964.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Video game
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.
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Vilnius
Vilnius (see also other names) is the capital of Lithuania and its largest city, with a population of 574,221.
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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
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What's My Line?
What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals.
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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.
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Zappa confluentus
Zappa confluentus, the New Guinea slender mudskipper, endemic to New Guinea where it is only known from the lower parts of the Fly, Ramu and Bintuni Rivers.
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Zappanale
Zappanale is an annual music festival held outside Bad Doberan, a German town previously part of East Germany.
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200 Motels
200 Motels is a 1971 American-British musical surrealist film cowritten and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer and starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel and Ringo Starr.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa_in_popular_culture