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Ankh-Morpork City Watch

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The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is the police force of the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld series by the English writer Terry Pratchett. [1]

171 relations: A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices, ABC Me, Action figure, Adjutant, Affirmative action, Ankh-Morpork, Archaeology, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Baker Street Irregulars, Battle of Cable Street, BBC Radio, BBC Radio 4, Benton Fraser, BlackBerry, Bribery, British Union of Fascists, Buzzard, Captain Swing, Cigarette, Coincidence, Columbidae, Constable, Copper, Corporal, Cosgrove Hall Films, Cretaceous, Death (Discworld), Derbyshire, Discworld, Discworld (video game), Discworld (world), Discworld characters, Discworld Diary, Discworld gods, Discworld Noir, Dowager, Due South, Duke, Dwarfs (Discworld), Earl, European dragon, Fair value, Feet of Clay (novel), Figurehead, Flora and fauna of the Discworld, Fluorite, Folk dance, Forensic accounting, Forensic science, Funding, ..., Genetics, Go ahead, make my day, Going Postal, Golems (Discworld), Gray wolf, Guards! Guards!, Guilds of Ankh-Morpork, Gymnosperm, Hammerhead shark, Hand cannon, HarperCollins, Heir apparent, Hogfather, I before E except after C, I Shall Wear Midnight, Igor (Discworld), Infantry, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Inspector, Intelligence agency, Internal affairs (law enforcement), Intimate relationship, Irish National Invincibles, J. B. Williamson, Jeeves, Jingo (novel), King, Laurel and Hardy, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Leave (military), Liam Neeson, List of light-heavyweight boxing champions, Lord Vetinari, Major depressive disorder, Making Money, Maskerade, Mayonnaise, Melvyn Hayes, Men at Arms, Midwife, Militia, Moist von Lipwig, Monstrous Regiment (novel), Moving Pictures (novel), Nac Mac Feegle, Night Watch (Discworld), Nobility, Nunchaku, Oddjob, Oswald Mosley, P. G. Wodehouse, Pamphlet, Parent, Phrenology, Police captain, Police rank, Private investigator, Prohibition, Proselytism, Pub, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?, Rage (emotion), Raising Steam, Religion, Revolution, Rob Brydon, Rupert Sheldrake, Sam Vimes, Scotland Yard, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Secret police, Sergeant, Serjeant-at-arms, Sherlock Holmes, Slavery, Snuff (Pratchett novel), Soul music, Soul Music (novel), Special constable, Special Constabulary, Stephen Thorne, Street children, Surveillance, Swashbuckler, Swing Riots, Swordsmanship, Swordstick, Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, Testimony, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The Art of Discworld, The Colour of Magic, The Discworld Companion, The Fifth Elephant, The Flying Pickets, The Light Fantastic, The Plain Truth, The Truth (novel), The War Cry, The Watch (TV series), Theatre of Cruelty (Discworld), Thief-taker, Threat, Thud!, Tony Robinson, Traffic stop, Troll (Discworld), Undergarment, Unseen Academicals, Unseen University, Untouchables (law enforcement), Vampire, Vegetarianism, Volunteering, Wali, War, Water-meadow, Welsh language, World Boxing Council. Expand index (121 more) »

A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices

"A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices" is a Discworld short story by Terry Pratchett.

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ABC Me

ABC Me (stylised as ABC ME) is an Australian children's public digital television multichannel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Action figure

An action figure is a poseable character figurine, made of plastic or other materials, and often based upon characters from a film, comic book, video game, or television program.

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Adjutant

Adjutant is a military appointment given to an officer who assists the commanding officer with unit administration.

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Affirmative action

Affirmative action, also known as reservation in India and Nepal, positive action in the UK, and employment equity (in a narrower context) in Canada and South Africa, is the policy of protecting members of groups that are known to have previously suffered from discrimination.

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Ankh-Morpork

Ankh-Morpork is a fictional city-state which features prominently in Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American actor, filmmaker, businessman, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician, and former professional bodybuilder and powerlifter.

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Baker Street Irregulars

The Baker Street Irregulars are fictional characters who appear in various Sherlock Holmes stories, as street boys who are employed by Holmes as intelligence agents.

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Battle of Cable Street

The Battle of Cable Street was a riot that took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel in the East End of London, on Sunday 4 October 1936.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927).

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Benton Fraser

Benton Fraser (born 1962) is a fictional character in the television series Due South.

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BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a line of smartphones, tablets, and services originally designed and marketed by Canadian company BlackBerry Limited (formerly known as Research In Motion, or RIM).

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Bribery

Bribery is the act of giving or receiving something of value in exchange for some kind of influence or action in return, that the recipient would otherwise not alter.

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British Union of Fascists

The British Union of Fascists, or BUF, was a fascist political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.

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Buzzard

Buzzard is the common name of several species of bird of prey.

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Captain Swing

"Captain Swing" was the name appended to several threatening letters during the rural English Swing Riots of 1830, when labourers rioted over the introduction of new threshing machines and the loss of their livelihoods.

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Cigarette

A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing tobacco that is rolled into thin paper for smoking.

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Coincidence

A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another.

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Columbidae

Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.

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Constable

A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in criminal law enforcement.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Corporal

Corporal is a military rank in use in some form by many militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations.

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Cosgrove Hall Films

Cosgrove Hall Films (also known as Cosgrove Hall Productions) was a British animation studio founded by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall; its headquarters was in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Death (Discworld)

Death is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and a parody of several other personifications of death.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.

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Discworld (video game)

Discworld is a 1995 point-and-click adventure game developed by Teeny Weeny Games and Perfect 10 Productions for MS-DOS, Macintosh, and the Sony PlayStation.

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Discworld (world)

The Discworld is the fictional setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels.

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Discworld characters

This article contains brief biographies for characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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Discworld Diary

The Discworld Diaries are a series of themed diaries based on the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett.

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Discworld gods

The Discworld gods are the fictional deities from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels.

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Discworld Noir

Discworld Noir is a 1999 adventure game developed by Perfect Entertainment and published by GT Interactive.

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Dowager

A dowager is a widow who holds a title or property—a "dower"—derived from her deceased husband.

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Due South

Due South is a Canadian crime series with elements of comedy.

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Duke

A duke (male) or duchess (female) can either be a monarch ruling over a duchy or a member of royalty or nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch.

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Dwarfs (Discworld)

Dwarfs in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, to which they largely started out as a homage, and dwarves in other fantasy novels.

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Earl

An earl is a member of the nobility.

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European dragon

European dragons are legendary creatures in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe.

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Fair value

In accounting and in most Schools of economic thought, fair value is a rational and unbiased estimate of the potential market price of a good, service, or asset.

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Feet of Clay (novel)

Feet of Clay is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the nineteenth book in the Discworld series, published in 1996.

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Figurehead

In politics, a figurehead is a person who holds de jure (in name or by law) an important title or office (often supremely powerful), yet de facto (in reality) executes little actual power.

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Flora and fauna of the Discworld

Terry Pratchett's fictional Discworld has a large number of creatures and plants unique to it or its parasite universes (such as Fairyland or Death's Domain).

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Fluorite

Not to be confused with Fluoride. Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2.

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Folk dance

A folk dance is developed by people that reflect the life of the people of a certain country or region.

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Forensic accounting

Forensic accounting, forensic accountancy or financial forensics is the specialty practice area of accounting that describes engagements that result from actual or anticipated disputes or litigation.

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Forensic science

Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.

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Funding

Funding is the act of providing financial resources, usually in the form of money, or other values such as effort or time, to finance a need, program, and project, usually by an organization or company.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

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Go ahead, make my day

"Go ahead, make my day" is a catchphrase written by Charles B. Pierce and spoken by the character Harry Callahan from the 1983 film Sudden Impact.

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Going Postal

Going Postal is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 33rd book in his Discworld series, released in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2004.

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Golems (Discworld)

Golems in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series are derived from golems in Jewish mythology; early forms of a clay robot, supposedly awakened by a spell or priestly words to do people's bidding.

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Gray wolf

The gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf,Paquet, P. & Carbyn, L. W. (2003).

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Guards! Guards!

Guards! Guards! is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the eighth in the Discworld series, first published in 1989.

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Guilds of Ankh-Morpork

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels, there are almost 300 Guilds in the city of Ankh-Morpork.

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Gymnosperm

The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes.

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Hammerhead shark

The hammerhead sharks are a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, so named for the unusual and distinctive structure of their heads, which are flattened and laterally extended into a "hammer" shape called a cephalofoil.

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Hand cannon

The hand cannon (Chinese: 手銃), also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the first true firearm and the successor of the fire lance.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Heir apparent

An heir apparent is a person who is first in a line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person.

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Hogfather

Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and a 1997 British Fantasy Award nominee.

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I before E except after C

"I before E, except after C" is a mnemonic rule of thumb for English spelling.

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I Shall Wear Midnight

I Shall Wear Midnight is an Andre Norton Award-winning comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld.

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Igor (Discworld)

The Igors are a recurring set of characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels.

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Infantry

Infantry is the branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot, distinguished from cavalry, artillery, and tank forces.

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Ingrid Bolsø Berdal

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (born 2 March 1980) is a Norwegian actress.

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Inspector

Inspector is both a police rank and an administrative position, both used in a number of contexts.

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Intelligence agency

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives.

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Internal affairs (law enforcement)

The internal affairs refers to a division of a law enforcement agency that investigates incidents and possible suspicions of law-breaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force.

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Intimate relationship

An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy.

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Irish National Invincibles

The Irish National Invincibles, usually known as the Invincibles, were a splinter group of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

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J. B. Williamson

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Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves, usually referred to as Jeeves, is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse.

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Jingo (novel)

Jingo is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his Discworld series.

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King

King, or King Regnant is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts.

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Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.

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Lawrence Watt-Evans

Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans (another pseudonym, used primarily for science fiction, is Nathan Archer).

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Leave (military)

In military forces, leave is a permission to be away from one's unit, either for a specified or unspecified period of time.

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Liam Neeson

Liam John Neeson, OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.

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List of light-heavyweight boxing champions

This is a chronological list of world light heavyweight boxing champions, as recognized by four of the better-known sanctioning organizations.

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Lord Vetinari

Lord Havelock Vetinari, Lord Patrician (Primus inter pares) of the city-state of Ankh-Morpork, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a series of forty-one books describing a parallel universe whose main world has reflections of our Earth.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.

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Making Money

Making Money is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his Discworld series, first published in the UK on 20 September 2007.

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Maskerade

Maskerade is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the eighteenth book in the Discworld series.

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Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise (also), informally mayo, is a thick cold sauce or dressing usually used in sandwiches and composed salads.

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Melvyn Hayes

Melvyn Hayes (born Melvyn Hyams, 11 January 1935) is an English actor known for playing the effeminate Gunner (later Bombardier) "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and the Cliff Richard musical films The Young Ones and Summer Holiday.

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Men at Arms

Men at Arms is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 15th book in the Discworld series, first published in 1993.

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Midwife

A midwife is a professional in midwifery, specializing in pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, women's sexual and reproductive health (including annual gynecological exams, family planning, menopausal care and others), and newborn care.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, members of a warrior nobility class (e.g., knights or samurai).

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Moist von Lipwig

Moist von Lipwig is a fictional character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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Monstrous Regiment (novel)

Monstrous Regiment is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 31st novel in his Discworld series.

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Moving Pictures (novel)

Moving Pictures is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published in 1990, the tenth book in his Discworld series.

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Nac Mac Feegle

The Nac Mac Feegle (also sometimes known as Pictsies, Wee Free Men, and the Little Men) are a type of fairy folk that appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels Carpe Jugulum, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, Snuff, and The Shepherd's Crown.

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Night Watch (Discworld)

Night Watch is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 29th book in his Discworld series, published in 2002.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class in aristocracy, normally ranked immediately under royalty, that possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in a society and with membership thereof typically being hereditary.

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Nunchaku

is a traditional Okinawan martial arts weapon consisting of two sticks connected at one end by a short chain or rope.

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Oddjob

Oddjob (often written as "Odd Job") is a fictional character in the espionage novels and films featuring James Bond.

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Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet of Ancoats (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician who rose to fame in the 1920s as a Member of Parliament and later in the 1930s became leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF).

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Pamphlet

A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding).

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Parent

A parent is a caregiver of the offspring in their own species.

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Phrenology

Phrenology is a pseudomedicine primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules.

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Police captain

A captain is a police rank in some countries, such as the United States and France.

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Police rank

Lists of the ranks of various police agencies and forces all around the world.

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Private investigator

A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.

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Proselytism

Proselytism is the act of attempting to convert people to another religion or opinion.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase found in the work of the Roman poet Juvenal from his Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–348).

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Rage (emotion)

Rage (often called fury or frenzy) is a feeling of intense, violent, or growing anger.

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Raising Steam

Raising Steam is the 40th Discworld novel, written by Terry Pratchett.

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Religion

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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Revolution

In political science, a revolution (Latin: revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolt against the government, typically due to perceived oppression (political, social, economic).

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Rob Brydon

Robert Brydon Jones, (born 3 May 1965), known professionally as Rob Brydon, is a Welsh actor, comedian, radio and television presenter, singer, and impressionist.

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Rupert Sheldrake

Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, who developed the concept of "morphic resonance".

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Sam Vimes

Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a fictional policeman from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Secret police

The term secret police (or political police)Ilan Berman & J. Michael Waller, "Introduction: The Centrality of the Secret Police" in Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), p. xv.

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Sergeant

Sergeant (abbreviated to Sgt and capitalized when used as a named person's title) is a rank in many uniformed organizations, principally military and policing forces.

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Serjeant-at-arms

A serjeant-at-arms, or sergeant-at-arms is an officer appointed by a deliberative body, usually a legislature, to keep order during its meetings.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Snuff (Pratchett novel)

Snuff is the 39th novel in the Discworld series, written by Terry Pratchett.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soul Music (novel)

Soul Music is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the sixteenth book in the Discworld series, first published in 1994.

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Special constable

A special constable or special police constable (SC or SPC) is generally an auxiliary or part-time law enforcement officer.

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Special Constabulary

The Special Constabulary is the part-time volunteer section of statutory police forces in the United Kingdom and some Crown dependencies.

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Stephen Thorne

Stephen Thorne (born 2 March 1935) is a British actor of radio, film, stage and television.

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Street children

Street children are children experiencing poverty, homelessness or both, who are living on the streets of a city, town, or village.

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Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or other changing information for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting people.

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Swashbuckler

A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword, acrobatics and chivalric ideals.

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Swing Riots

The Swing Riots were a widespread uprising in 1830 by agricultural workers in southern and eastern England, in protest of agricultural mechanisation and other harsh conditions.

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Swordsmanship

Swordsmanship or sword fighting refers to the skills of a swordsman, a person versed in the art of the sword.

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Swordstick

A swordstick or cane-sword is a cane containing a hidden blade.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

Terry Pratchett's Going Postal is a two-part television film adaptation of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle and produced by The Mob, which was first broadcast on Sky1, and in high definition on Sky1 HD, at the end of May 2010.

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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

Terry Pratchett's Hogfather is a two-part television film adaptation of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, produced by The Mob, and first broadcast on Sky1, and in High Definition on Sky1 HD, over Christmas 2006.

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Testimony

In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.

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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a children's fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published by Doubleday in 2001.

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The Art of Discworld

The Art of Discworld is a descriptive book of the world of the Discworld as portrayed in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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The Colour of Magic

The Colour of Magic is a 1983 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series.

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The Discworld Companion

The Discworld Companion is an encyclopaedia of the Discworld fictional universe created by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs.

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The Fifth Elephant

The Fifth Elephant is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 24th book in the Discworld series.

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The Flying Pickets

The Flying Pickets are a British a cappella vocal group, who had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of Yazoo's track "Only You".

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The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series.

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The Plain Truth

The Plain Truth, a former free of charge monthly magazine, was first published in 1934 by Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of The Radio Church of God, which he later named The Worldwide Church of God (WCG).

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The Truth (novel)

The Truth is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the twenty-fifth book in his Discworld series, published in 2000.

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The War Cry

The War Cry is the official news publication of The Salvation Army.

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The Watch (TV series)

The Watch is a British fantasy police procedural television series under development since 2011.

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Theatre of Cruelty (Discworld)

"Theatre of Cruelty" is a short Discworld story by Terry Pratchett written in 1993.

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Thief-taker

In English legal history, a thief-taker was a private individual hired to capture criminals.

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Threat

A threat is a communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another person.

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Thud!

Thud! is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 34th book in the Discworld series, first released in the United States on September 13, 2005, then the United Kingdom on 1 October 2005.

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Tony Robinson

Sir Anthony Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, comedian, author, presenter and political activist.

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Traffic stop

A traffic stop, commonly called being pulled over, is a temporary detention of a driver of a vehicle by police to investigate a possible crime or minor violation of law.

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Troll (Discworld)

Trolls in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, unlike the monstrous trolls of folklore and J. R. R. Tolkien, have been subverted into a moderately civilised race.

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Undergarment

Undergarments are items of clothing worn beneath outer clothes, usually in direct contact with the skin, although they may comprise more than a single layer.

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Unseen Academicals

Unseen Academicals is the 37th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

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Unseen University

The Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels.

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Untouchables (law enforcement)

The Untouchables were a group of nine U.S. federal law-enforcement agents led by Eliot Ness, who, from 1929 to 1931, worked to end Al Capone's illegal activities by aggressively enforcing Prohibition laws against Capone and his organization.

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Vampire

A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.

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Volunteering

Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain "to benefit another person, group or organization".

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Wali

Walī (ولي, plural أولياء) is an Arabic word whose literal meanings include "custodian", "protector", "helper", and "friend".

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War

War is a state of armed conflict between states, societies and informal groups, such as insurgents and militias.

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Water-meadow

A water-meadow (also water meadow or watermeadow) is an area of grassland subject to controlled irrigation to increase agricultural productivity.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) and one of the two original sanctioning bodies (along with the WBA).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork_City_Watch

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