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81 relations: Ambrosia (band), Anarchy, Anthropology, Appian Way Productions, Arms race, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bernard Vonnegut, Between Time and Timbuktu, Bokononism, Caribbean Sea, Cat's Cradle, Cat's cradle, Communism, Contact (1997 American film), Creole language, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dan Mangan, David Odell, David Sulzer, Dell Publishing, Dictatorship, Everyman, Fargo (TV series), Fictional country, FX (TV channel), General Electric, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Granfalloon, Grateful Dead, H. G. Wells, Henry Holt and Company, Hey Arnold!, Holt McDougal, Home on the Range, Hoosier, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Ice Nine Kills, ICE-9 (Susumu Hirasawa album), Ice-nine, Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut), Irving Langmuir, Ishmael (Moby-Dick), James V. Hart, Joe Satriani, Jonah, Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonnegut, Legislature, Leonardo DiCaprio, Manhattan Project, ..., Moby-Dick, Mother Night, Mutual assured destruction, My So-Called Life, Nice, Nice, Very Nice, Noah Hawley, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Person of Interest (TV series), Port-au-Prince, Postmodernism, Puerto Rico, Satire, Science fiction, Seed crystal, String figure, Surfing with the Alien, Susumu Hirasawa, Taxicab, The Nation, The Recruit, The Sirens of Titan, The Washington Post, Theodore Sturgeon, Tobago, United States dollar, United States Marine Corps, University of Chicago, World War II, Zero Escape, 66652 Borasisi. Expand index (31 more) »
Ambrosia (band)
Ambrosia is an American rock band formed in southern California in 1970.
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Anarchy
Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy.
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Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.
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Appian Way Productions
Appian Way Productions is a film production company in West Hollywood, California, established by actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Arms race
An arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more states to have the best armed forces.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.
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Bernard Vonnegut
Bernard Vonnegut (August 29, 1914 – April 25, 1997) was an American atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain.
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Between Time and Timbuktu
Between Time and Timbuktu is a television film directed by Fred Barzyk and based on a number of works by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Bokononism
Bokononism is a fictitious religion invented by Kurt Vonnegut and practiced by many of the characters in his novel Cat's Cradle.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle is the fourth novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1963.
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Cat's cradle
Cat's cradle is one of the oldest games in recorded human history, and involves creating various string figures, either individually or by passing a loop of string back and forth between two or more players.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Contact (1997 American film)
Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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Creole language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages at a fairly sudden point in time: often, a pidgin transitioned into a full, native language.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 (Crisis de Octubre), the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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Dan Mangan
Daniel Mangan (born April 28, 1983) is a Vancouver-based, two-time JUNO Award winning Canadian musician.
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David Odell
David Odell is an American screenwriter and film director.
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David Sulzer
David Sulzer is an American neuroscientist and Professor at Columbia University Medical Center in the Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Pharmacology.
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Dell Publishing
Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000, two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about the movies, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day).
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Dictatorship
A dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders with either no party or a weak party, little mass mobilization, and limited political pluralism.
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Everyman
In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify easily and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances.
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Fargo (TV series)
Fargo is an American black comedy–crime drama anthology television series created and primarily written by Noah Hawley.
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Fictional country
A fictional country is a country that is made up for fictional stories, and does not exist in real life, or one that people believe in without proof.
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FX (TV channel)
FX (originally an initialism of Fox Extended, pronounced and suggesting "effects") is an American basic cable and satellite television channel based in Los Angeles, California, owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC.
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
God Bless You, Mr.
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Granfalloon
A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass".
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Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company based in New York City.
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Hey Arnold!
Hey Arnold! is an American animated television series created by Craig Bartlett that aired on Nickelodeon from October 7, 1996 to June 8, 2004.
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Holt McDougal
Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in secondary schools.
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Home on the Range
"Home on the Range" is a classic western folk song sometimes called the "unofficial anthem" of the American West.
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Hoosier
Hoosier is the official demonym for a resident of the U.S. state of Indiana.
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Hugo Award for Best Novel
The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.
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Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills (sometimes stylized as ICE NINE KILLS or abbreviated INK) is an American metalcore band from Boston, Massachusetts who are signed to Fearless Records.
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ICE-9 (Susumu Hirasawa album)
ICE-9 is an instrumental album by Susumu Hirasawa.
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Ice-nine
Ice-nine is a fictional material that appears in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.
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Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut)
Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.
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Irving Langmuir
Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist and physicist.
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Ishmael (Moby-Dick)
Ishmael is a fictional character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851).
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James V. Hart
James V. "Jim" Hart (born 1950 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American screenwriter and author.
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Joe Satriani
Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956)Prato, Greg.
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Jonah
Jonah or Jonas is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE.
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Kilgore Trout
Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer.
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Legislature
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.
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Mother Night
Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962.
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Mutual assured destruction
Mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike).
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My So-Called Life
My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.
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Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Nice, Nice, Very Nice is the second album by Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Mangan, released on August 11, 2009.
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Noah Hawley
Noah Hawley (born) is an American television writer and producer, screenwriter, and bestselling author, best known for creating and writing the FX television series Fargo (2014–present) and Legion (2017–present).
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.
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Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who conferred the most outstanding contributions for mankind in the field of physics.
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Person of Interest (TV series)
Person of Interest is an American science fiction crime drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, to June 21, 2016, its five seasons comprising 103 episodes.
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Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Seed crystal
A seed crystal is a small piece of single crystal or polycrystal material from which a large crystal of typically the same material is to be grown in a laboratory.
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String figure
A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people.
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Surfing with the Alien
Surfing with the Alien is the second studio album by American rock guitarist Joe Satriani.
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Susumu Hirasawa
(born April 1, 1954) is a Japanese musician and composer.
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Taxicab
A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.
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The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
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The Recruit
The Recruit is a 2003 American spy thriller film, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Al Pacino, Colin Farrell and Bridget Moynahan.
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The Sirens of Titan
The Sirens of Titan is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., first published in 1959.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo; February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American writer, primarily of fantasy, science fiction and horror.
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Tobago
Tobago is an autonomous island within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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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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Zero Escape
Zero Escape, formerly released in Japan as, is a series of adventure games directed and written by Kotaro Uchikoshi.
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66652 Borasisi
66652 Borasisi is a binary classical Kuiper belt object.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle
