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Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. [1]

95 relations: Abrams Books, American Dad!, Arthur Brisbane, Back to the Future, Bancroft Library, Boob McNutt, California, Cartoonist, Chain reaction, Chindōgu, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cog (advertisement), Comic Strip Classics, Crazy Machines, Curly Howard, Deathtrap (plot device), Domino effect, Domino show, Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Edward R. Murrow, Edward Scissorhands, Elementary (TV series), Family Guy, Final Destination, Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse, Gamasutra, GameSpot, George W. George, Gremlins, Hatari!, Hawthorne, New York, Home Alone (franchise), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Hotel for Dogs (film), Humongous Entertainment, Jean Tinguely, JPEG, List of assets owned by The New York Times Company, Looney Tunes, Malcolm (film), McClure Newspaper Syndicate, McNaught Syndicate, Mickey One, Mike and Ike (They Look Alike), Mouse Trap (game), National Cartoonists Society, New York City, New York Evening Mail, Newsreel, OK Go, ..., Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Popular Mechanics, Postage stamp, Public Ledger (Philadelphia), Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, PythagoraSwitch, Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Red Buttons, Register and Tribune Syndicate, Robert Storm Petersen, Rowland Emett, Rube Goldberg machine, Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, Saw (franchise), Sesame Street, Shia LaBeouf, Soap opera, Soup to Nuts, Ted Healy, The Boston Globe, The Bravery, The Cat from Outer Space, The Electric Company, The Goonies, The Great Mouse Detective, The Incredible Machine (video game), The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, The San Francisco Call, The Three Stooges, The Way Things Go, The X-Files, Tom and Jerry, Unity Technologies, University of California, Berkeley, Vision On, W. Heath Robinson, Waiting... (film), Wallace and Gromit, William Randolph Hearst, Wired (magazine), World War II, YouTube. Expand index (45 more) »

Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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American Dad!

American Dad! is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, and Matt Weitzman for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Arthur Brisbane

Arthur Brisbane (December 12, 1864 – December 25, 1936) was one of the best known American newspaper editors of the 20th century as well as a successful real estate investor.

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library.

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Boob McNutt

Boob McNutt was a comic strip by Rube Goldberg which ran from 1915 to September 1934.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons.

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Chain reaction

A chain reaction is a sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by-product causes additional reactions to take place.

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Chindōgu

is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem, but are in fact useless.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film, directed by Ken Hughes and written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car. The film stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann and Gert Fröbe. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli, the regular co-producer of the James Bond series of films (also based on Ian Fleming novels). John Stears supervised the special effects. Irwin Kostal supervised and conducted the music, while the musical numbers, written by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman of Mary Poppins, were staged by Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood. The song "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was nominated for an Academy Award.

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Cog (advertisement)

"Cog" is a British television and cinema advertisement launched by Honda in 2003 to promote the seventh-generation Accord line of cars.

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Comic Strip Classics

The Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the US Postal Service on October 1, 1995 to honor the centennial of the newspaper comic strip.

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Crazy Machines

Crazy Machines is a puzzle computer game created by a FAKT Software GmbH.

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Curly Howard

Jerome Lester Horwitz (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American vaudevillian actor and comedian.

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Deathtrap (plot device)

A deathtrap is a literary and dramatic plot device in which a villain who has captured the hero or another sympathetic character attempts to use an elaborate and usually sadistic method of murdering him/her.

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Domino effect

A domino effect or chain reaction is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of similar events.

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Domino show

A domino show is created by standing up dominoes in sequence, to create a chain reaction also called the domino effect.

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Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Don Markstein's Toonopedia (subtitled A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge) is a web encyclopedia of print cartoons, comic strips and animation, initiated February 13, 2001.

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Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.

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Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American romantic dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by Denise Di Novi and Tim Burton, and written by Caroline Thompson from a story by Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson, starring Johnny Depp as an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation who has scissor blades instead of hands.

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Elementary (TV series)

Elementary is an American procedural drama series that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes.

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Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Final Destination

Final Destination is an American horror franchise composed of five films, comic books and novels.

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Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse

Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse is a 1996 video game and the second of five adventure games in the Freddi Fish series of games developed and published by Humongous Entertainment.

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Gamasutra

Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.

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GameSpot

GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games.

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George W. George

George W. George (born George Warren Goldberg, February 8, 1920 – November 7, 2007) was an American theater, Broadway and film producer.

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Gremlins

Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters.

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Hatari!

Hatari! (Swahili for "Danger!") is a 1962 American action/adventure romantic comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne.

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Hawthorne, New York

Hawthorne is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York.

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Home Alone (franchise)

Home Alone (stylized as HOME ALONe) is a series of Christmas family comedy films originally created by John Hughes, and directed by Chris Columbus (1 & 2), Raja Gosnell (3), Rod Daniel (4) and Peter Hewitt (5).

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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 American comic science fiction film.

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Hotel for Dogs (film)

Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 American family comedy film based on Lois Duncan's 1971 novel of the same name.

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Humongous Entertainment

Humongous Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Bothell, Washington.

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Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss painter and sculptor.

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JPEG

JPEG is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.

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List of assets owned by The New York Times Company

This is a list of assets owned by The New York Times Company.

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Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is an American animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series Merrie Melodies.

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Malcolm (film)

Malcolm is a 1986 Australian cult film comedy, written by the husband-and-wife team of David Parker and Nadia Tass, and directed by Nadia Tass (who made her debut as a feature director on this film).

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McClure Newspaper Syndicate

McClure Newspaper Syndicate, the first American newspaper syndicate, introduced many American and British writers to the masses.

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McNaught Syndicate

The McNaught Syndicate (1922–1989) was an American newspaper syndicate founded in 1922.

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Mickey One

Mickey One is a 1965 surrealistic dramatic film starring Warren Beatty and directed by Arthur Penn from a script by Alan Surgal.

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Mike and Ike (They Look Alike)

Mike and Ike (They Look Alike) was a comic strip by Rube Goldberg, who introduced the identical twin characters in the San Francisco Bulletin on September 29, 1907.

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Mouse Trap (game)

Mouse Trap (originally titled Mouse Trap Game) is a board game first published by Ideal in 1963 for two to four players.

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National Cartoonists Society

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Evening Mail

The New York Evening Mail (1867-1924) was an American daily newspaper published in New York City.

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Newsreel

A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the late 1960s.

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OK Go

OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California.

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Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Tim Burton in his full-length film directing debut and starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman with supporting roles provided by Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, and Judd Omen.

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Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Peter Fischli (born 8 June 1952) and David Weiss (21 June 1946 – 27 April 2012), often shortened to Fischli/Weiss, were an artist duo that had been collaborating since 1979.

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Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.

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Postage stamp

A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage.

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Public Ledger (Philadelphia)

The Public Ledger was a daily newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania published from March 25, 1836 to January 1942.

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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoons is one of the fourteen Pulitzer Prizes that is annually awarded for Journalism.

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PythagoraSwitch

is a 15-minute Japanese educational television program that has been aired by NHK since April 9, 2002.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.

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Red Buttons

Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt; February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006) was an American actor and comedian.

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Register and Tribune Syndicate

The Register and Tribune Syndicate was a syndication service based in Des Moines, Iowa, that operated from 1922 to 1986, when it was acquired by King Features to become the Cowles Syndicate affiliate.

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Robert Storm Petersen

Robert Storm Petersen (September 19, 1882 – March 6, 1949) was a Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist.

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Rowland Emett

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE (22 October 190613 November 1990), known as Rowland Emett (with the forename sometimes spelled "Roland" and the surname frequently misspelled "Emmett"), was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture.

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Rube Goldberg machine

A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overcomplicated fashion.

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Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is a contest in which college or high school students build devices to complete a simple task in a minimum of twenty steps in the style of American cartoonist Rube Goldberg.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Saw (franchise)

Saw is an American horror franchise distributed by Lionsgate, produced by Twisted Pictures and created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, that consists of eight feature films and additional media.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Shia LaBeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf (born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker.

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Soap opera

A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.

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Soup to Nuts

Soup to Nuts is an American Pre-Code feature film written by Rube Goldberg and directed by Benjamin Stoloff, which marks the film debut of the original four members who would later, minus Ted Healy, go on to become known as The Three Stooges comic trio.

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Ted Healy

Ted Healy (born Ernest Lea Nash, October 1, 1896 – December 21, 1937) was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Bravery

The Bravery was an American rock band formed in New York City in 2003 that consisted of lead vocalist Sam Endicott, guitarist Michael Zakarin, keyboardist John Conway, bassist Mike Hindert and drummer Anthony Burulcich.

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The Cat from Outer Space

The Cat from Outer Space is a 1978 American science fiction comedy film starring Ronnie Schell, Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall and McLean Stevenson.

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The Electric Company

The Electric Company is an American educational children's television series created by Paul Dooley and directed by Robert Schwarz (1971 & 1977), Henry Behar (1972–1975), John Tracy (1975–1976); written by Dooley, Christopher Cerf (1971–1973), Jeremy Steven (1972–1974) and John Boni/Amy Ephron (1972–1973); and produced by the Children's Television Workshop (now called Sesame Workshop) for PBS in the United States.

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The Goonies

The Goonies is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Richard Donner, who produced with Harvey Bernhard.

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The Great Mouse Detective

The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 American animated mystery comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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The Incredible Machine (video game)

The Incredible Machine is a video game released in 1993, and the first release in The Incredible Machine video game series.

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The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (Flåklypa Grand Prix) is a Norwegian stop motion-animated feature film directed by Ivo Caprino.

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The San Francisco Call

The San Francisco Call was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California.

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The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best known for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures that have been regularly airing on television since 1958.

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The Way Things Go

The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) is a 1987 art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

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Unity Technologies

Unity Technologies SF is a video game development company, which is best known for the development of Unity, a licensed game engine.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Vision On

Vision On was a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1976 and designed specifically for children with hearing impairment.

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W. Heath Robinson

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives.

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Waiting... (film)

Waiting... is a 2005 American workplace comedy film starring Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, and Justin Long.

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Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit is a British clay animation comedy series created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.

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William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst Sr. (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company Hearst Communications and whose flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

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