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The Seven Crystal Balls

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The Seven Crystal Balls (Les Sept Boules de Cristal) is the thirteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. [1]

93 relations: Alfred Hitchcock, Andes, Antisemitism, Antwerp, Art & History Museum, Arthur Conan Doyle, Atari, SA, Ball lightning, Belgian National Movement, Belgian prisoners of war in World War II, Belgian Resistance, Belvision Studios, Benoît Peeters, Bernard Heuvelmans, Bianca Castafiore, Capital punishment, Captain Haddock, Casterman, Cœurs Vaillants, Charleroi, Cigars of the Pharaoh, Clairvoyance, Collaborationism, Crystal ball, Curse of the pharaohs, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Dirk Brossé, Ear pain, Edgar P. Jacobs, Ellipse, Ellipse Programmé, François Rauber, Franco-Belgian comics, Front de l'Indépendance, German occupation of Belgium during World War II, Greg (cartoonist), Hammer Film Productions, Harry Thompson, Hergé, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, Howard Carter, Influenza, Jacques Brel, Jacques Van Melkebeke, Jean-Marc Lofficier, King Ottokar's Sceptre, Le Petit Vingtième, Le Soir, List of The Adventures of Tintin characters, Marlinspike Hall, ..., Methuen Publishing, Michael Farr, Music hall, National Royalist Movement, Nelvana, Opel Olympia, Paris, Pierre Assouline, Prisoners of the Sun, Prisoners of the Sun (video game), Professor Calculus, Psychiatric hospital, Psychoanalysis, Quechua people, Raymond de Becker, Raymond Leblanc, Red Rackham's Treasure, Saint-Nazaire, San Theodoros, Schutzstaffel, Seth Gaaikema, Sherlock Holmes, Sinusitis, Snowy (character), Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, The 39 Steps (1935 film), The Adventures of Tintin, The Adventures of Tintin (TV series), The Broken Ear, The Calculus Affair, The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Red Sea Sharks, The Secret of the Unicorn, The Shooting Star, Thomson and Thompson, Tintin (character), Tintin (magazine), Tintin and the Temple of the Sun, Tom McCarthy (novelist), Tutankhamun, Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, Watermael-Boitsfort, Weymouth, Dorset. Expand index (43 more) »

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers) is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders.

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Art & History Museum

The Art & History Museum (Musée Art & Histoire, Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis) is a public museum in Brussels, Belgium which is one of the constituents of the Royal Museums for Art and History.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Atari, SA

Atari, SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment, SA) is a French holding company headquartered in Paris.

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Ball lightning

Ball lightning is an unexplained and potentially dangerous atmospheric electrical phenomenon.

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Belgian National Movement

The Belgian National Movement (Mouvement national belge or MNB, Belgisch Nationale Beweging, BNB) was a major group in the resistance in German-occupied Belgium during World War II.

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Belgian prisoners of war in World War II

During World War II, Belgian prisoners of war were principally Belgian soldiers captured by the Germans during and shortly after the Battle of Belgium in May 1940.

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Belgian Resistance

The Belgian Resistance (Résistance belge, Belgisch verzet) collectively refers to the resistance movements opposed to the German occupation of Belgium during World War II.

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Belvision Studios

Belvision Studios is a Belgian animation studio founded in 1956 by Raymond Leblanc.

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Benoît Peeters

Benoît Peeters (born 1956) is a French comics writer, novelist, and comics studies scholar.

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Bernard Heuvelmans

Bernard Heuvelmans (10 October 1916 – 22 August 2001) was a Belgian-French scientist, explorer, researcher, and writer probably best known as "the father of cryptozoology".

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Bianca Castafiore

Bianca Castafiore, the "Milanese Nightingale", is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Captain Haddock

Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Casterman

Casterman is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, specializing in comic books and children's literature.

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Cœurs Vaillants

Cœurs Vaillants (Brave Hearts), known later as J2 Jeunes and Formule 1, was a Catholic French language weekly newspaper for French children.

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Charleroi

Charleroi (Tchålerwè) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

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Cigars of the Pharaoh

Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du Pharaon) is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance (from French clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "vision") is the alleged ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception.

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Collaborationism

Collaborationism is cooperation with the enemy against one's country in wartime.

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Crystal ball

A crystal ball, also known as an orbuculum, is a crystal or glass ball and common fortune telling object.

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Curse of the pharaohs

The curse of the pharaohs refers to an alleged curse believed by some to be cast upon any person who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian person, especially a pharaoh.

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Didier Van Cauwelaert

Didier Van Cauwelaert (born 29 July 1960) is a French author of Belgian descent who was born in Nice.

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Dirk Brossé

Dirk Brossé, Ridder (born 18 February 1960, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor and composer.

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Ear pain

Ear pain, also known as earache or otalgia, is pain in the ear.

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Edgar P. Jacobs

Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs (30 March 1904 – 20 February 1987), better known under his pen name Edgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book creator (writer and artist), born in Brussels, Belgium.

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Ellipse

In mathematics, an ellipse is a curve in a plane surrounding two focal points such that the sum of the distances to the two focal points is constant for every point on the curve.

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Ellipse Programmé

Ellipsanime (also known as Le Studio Ellipse, or simply Ellipse Programme) is a French animation studio that produces television programs.

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François Rauber

François Rauber (19 January 1933 – 14 December 2003) was a French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor known for his works with chansonnier Jacques Brel.

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Franco-Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics (bande dessinée franco-belge) are comics that are created for French-Belgian (Wallonia) and/or French readership.

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Front de l'Indépendance

The Independent Front or FI (Front de l'Indépendance, Onafhankelijkheidsfront (OF)) was a Belgian resistance movement during World War II, founded in March 1941 by Dr.

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German occupation of Belgium during World War II

The German occupation of Belgium (Occupation allemande, Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940 when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945.

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Greg (cartoonist)

Michel Régnier (5 May 1931 – 29 October 1999), best known by his pseudonym Greg, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for Achille Talon, and later became editor of Tintin magazine.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company based in London.

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Harry Thompson

Harry William Thompson (6 February 1960 – 7 November 2005) was an English radio and television producer, comedy writer, novelist and biographer.

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Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist.

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Hergé's Adventures of Tintin

Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin, d'après Hergé) is the first animated television series based on Hergé's popular comic book series, The Adventures of Tintin.

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Howard Carter

Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb (designated KV62) of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "King Tut" and "the boy king"), in November 1922.

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Influenza

Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus.

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Jacques Brel

Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer, songwriter, poet, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, later throughout the world.

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Jacques Van Melkebeke

Jacques Van Melkebeke (12 December 1904 – 8 June 1983) was a Belgian painter, journalist, writer, and comic strip writer.

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Jean-Marc Lofficier

Jean-Marc Lofficier (born June 22, 1954) is a French author of books about films and television programs, as well as numerous comics and translations of a number of animation screenplays.

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King Ottokar's Sceptre

King Ottokar's Sceptre (Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Le Petit Vingtième

Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth) was the weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle ("The Twentieth Century") from 1928 to 1940.

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Le Soir

Le Soir ("The Evening") is a French language daily Belgian newspaper.

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List of The Adventures of Tintin characters

This is the list of fictional characters in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Marlinspike Hall

Marlinspike Hall (Le château de Moulinsart) is Captain Haddock's country house and family estate in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Methuen Publishing

Methuen Publishing Ltd is an English publishing house.

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Michael Farr

Michael Farr (born 1953) is a British expert on the comic series The Adventures of Tintin and its creator, Hergé.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.

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National Royalist Movement

The National Royalist Movement (Mouvement national royaliste or MNR, Nationale Koninklijke Beweging, NKB) was a group within the Belgian Resistance in German-occupied Belgium during World War II.

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Nelvana

Nelvana Ltd. is a Canadian animation studio and children's media company owned by Corus Entertainment.

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Opel Olympia

The Opel Olympia is a compact car produced by the German automaker Opel from 1935 to 1940, from 1947 to 1953 and again from 1967 to 1970.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pierre Assouline

Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a writer and journalist.

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Prisoners of the Sun

Prisoners of the Sun (Le Temple du Soleil) is the fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Prisoners of the Sun (video game)

Prisoners of the Sun is a video game based on The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun from the series The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Professor Calculus

Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, meaning "Professor Tryphon Sunflower"), is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, mental health units, mental asylums or simply asylums, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

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Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.

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Quechua people

The Quechua people are the indigenous peoples of South America who speak any of the Quechua languages.

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Raymond de Becker

Raymond de Becker (1912 in Brussels – April 18, 1969 in Versailles) was a Belgian journalist and writer who was born in Brussels.

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Raymond Leblanc

Raymond Leblanc (born May 22, 1915, in Neufchâteau, Belgium – died March 21, 2008, in Brussels) was a Belgian comic book publisher and film producer, best known for publishing works such as The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé and Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs.

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Red Rackham's Treasure

Red Rackham's Treasure (Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge) is the twelfth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire (Gallo: Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany.

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San Theodoros

San Theodoros is a fictional country in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes;; literally "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Seth Gaaikema

Seth Gaaikema (11 July 1939 – 21 October 2014) was a Dutch cabaret artist, writer, and lyricist.

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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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Sinusitis

Sinusitis, also known as a sinus infection or rhinosinusitis, is inflammation of the sinuses resulting in symptoms.

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Snowy (character)

Snowy (Milou) is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) was the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II.

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The 39 Steps (1935 film)

The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.

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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé.

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The Adventures of Tintin (TV series)

The Adventures of Tintin is a French/Belgian/Canadian animated television series based on The Adventures of Tintin.

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The Broken Ear

The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée), also published as Tintin and the Broken Ear, is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Calculus Affair

The Calculus Affair (L'Affaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Crab with the Golden Claws

The Crab with the Golden Claws (Le Crabe aux pinces d'or) is the ninth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Red Sea Sharks

The Red Sea Sharks (Coke en stock) is the nineteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Secret of the Unicorn

The Secret of the Unicorn (Le Secret de La Licorne) is the eleventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star (L'Étoile mystérieuse) is the tenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Thomson and Thompson

Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont) are fictional characters in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Tintin (character)

Tintin is the fictional hero of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Tintin (magazine)

Tintin magazine (Le Journal de Tintin; Kuifje) was a weekly Franco-Belgian comics magazine of the second half of the 20th century.

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Tintin and the Temple of the Sun

Tintin and the Temple of the Sun / The Seven Crystal Balls & Prisoners of the Sun (1969, Belvision, a co-production between Belgium, France and Switzerland) is a film made after the success of the Belvision cartoon series.

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Tom McCarthy (novelist)

Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist.

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Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun (alternatively spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c. 1332–1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom or sometimes the New Empire Period.

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Walter Ganshof van der Meersch

Walter Jean Ganshof van der Meersch (18 May 1900 – 12 September 1993) was a Belgian jurist and lawyer.

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Watermael-Boitsfort

Watermael-Boitsfort (French) or Watermaal-Bosvoorde (Dutch) is a residential suburb of the city of Brussels in Belgium which is one of the 19 municipalities which form the Brussels-Capital Region.

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Weymouth, Dorset

Weymouth is a seaside town in Dorset, England, situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey on the English Channel coast.

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References

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

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