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LeVar Burton

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Levardis Robert Martyn "LeVar" Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, presenter, director and author. [1]

193 relations: Actor, Adventure Time, Adventure Time (season 5), AIDS Research Alliance, Alex Haley, Ali (film), All Things Considered, American Broadcasting Company, Angela Lansbury, Arsenal F.C., Associated Press, Association football, Author, Batman: The Animated Series, Battle of the Network Stars, Becker (TV series), Black Lightning, Black Reel Awards, Blizzard (film), Booker T. Washington, Boomtown (2002 TV series), Brokered programming, Cameo (band), Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Catholic Church, Charmed, Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Christopher Paul Curtis, Christy (TV series), Community (TV series), Consumer Electronics Show, Dancing in September, Daytime Emmy Award, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming, DC Talk, Deadly Games, Deseret News, Detroit Tigers, Dick Clark, Directors Guild of America, Documentary film, Dummy (1979 film), Emmy Award, Face Off (TV series), Family Guy, Fantasy Island, Free at Last (DC Talk album), Friedrich Nietzsche, Funk, ..., Galt, California, Gargoyles (TV series), Gene Roddenberry, Genie Awards, Geordi La Forge, Geothermal Escapism, Germany, Grambling's White Tiger, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Guyana, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series), Helmsman, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Houston Knights, In Saturn's Rings, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking, JAG (TV series), Jesse Owens, Jessica Fletcher, Jessica Steen, Jim Jones, Katey Sagal, Kevin Kilner, Kickstarter, KTXL, Kunta Kinte, Landstuhl, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Laozi, Las Vegas (TV series), List of Batman: The Animated Series episodes, List of Becker episodes, List of Disney Channel original films, List of Fantasy Island episodes, List of Gargoyles episodes, List of Murder, She Wrote episodes, List of Pinky and the Brain episodes, List of The Love Boat episodes, List of The Super Hero Squad Show episodes, List of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! episodes, List of Trapper John, M.D. episodes, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film), Martin Luther King Jr., Melissa Block, Miracle's Boys, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 28), Murder, She Wrote, NAACP Image Awards, NCIS: New Orleans, Noetics, Not All Dogs Go to Heaven, NPR, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story, Our Friend, Martin, Parallel Lives (film), Patrick Stewart, PBS, Peabody Award, Peace and conflict studies, Perception (U.S. TV series), Petarded, Pinky and the Brain, Procter & Gamble, Pyramid (game show), Rainbow, Reading Rainbow, Rebop (TV series), Recycling, Rhythm and blues, Rise of the Zombies, Robert Picardo, Ron LeFlore, Rooster Teeth, Roots (1977 miniseries), Roots (2016 miniseries), Roots: The Gift, Sacramento, California, Sampling (music), Søren Kierkegaard, SciShow, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, Sigma Alpha Mu, Signal Corps (United States Army), Smart House (film), Smosh, Soul Food (TV series), Star Trek, Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Sun-Sentinel, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Taken in Broad Daylight, TCA Awards, Television director, Television film, Television presenter, The Big Bang Theory, The Big Bang Theory (season 4), The Big Bang Theory (season 6), The Big Bang Theory (season 8), The Blade (Toledo, Ohio), The Herald-Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, The Hunter (1980 film), The Jensen Project, The Jesse Owens Story, The Love Boat, The Midnight Hour, The Muppet Movie, The Muppet Show, The Sacramento Observer, The Super Hero Squad Show, The Supernaturals (film), The Tiger Woods Story, The Toast Derivation, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, The Weakest Link (UK game show), This Week in Tech, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Timeless (Star Trek: Voyager), TNT (U.S. TV network), Transformers: Rescue Bots, Trapper John, M.D., University of Southern California, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), Visual impairment, Walmart, War Machine, West Germany, Word Up! (song), World peace, YouTube. Expand index (143 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Adventure Time

Adventure Time is an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network.

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Adventure Time (season 5)

The fifth season of Adventure Time, an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, premiered on Cartoon Network on November 12, 2012 and concluded on March 17, 2014.

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AIDS Research Alliance

AIDS Research Alliance of America (ARAA) is a national community-based 501(c)3 non-profit medical research institution that seeks to develop a cure for HIV/AIDS, medical strategies to prevent new HIV infections and better treatments for people living with HIV/AIDS.

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Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.

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Ali (film)

Ali is a 2001 American biographical sports drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Mann.

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All Things Considered

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Angela Lansbury

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, (born 16 October 1925) is an English-American-Irish actress who has appeared in theatre, television, and film, as well as a producer and singer.

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Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.

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Batman: The Animated Series

Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman.

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Battle of the Network Stars

Battle of the Network Stars is a series of competitions in which television stars from ABC, CBS, and NBC would compete in various sporting events.

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Becker (TV series)

Becker is an American sitcom that ran from 1998 to 2004 on CBS.

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Black Lightning

Black Lightning is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Black Reel Awards

The Black Reel Awards, or "BRAs", is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) to recognize excellence of African-Americans, as well as the cinematic achievements of the African diaspora, in the global film industry, as assessed by the Foundation’s voting membership.

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Blizzard (film)

Blizzard is a 2003 American/Canadian Christmas-themed family film directed by LeVar Burton, and stars Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollak, and Whoopi Goldberg.

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Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (– November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States.

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Boomtown (2002 TV series)

Boomtown was an American television action/drama series produced by NBC.

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Brokered programming

Brokered programming (also known as time-buy and blocktime) is a form of broadcast content in which the show's producer pays a radio or television station for air time, rather than exchanging programming for pay or the opportunity to play spot commercials.

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Cameo (band)

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s.

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Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Captain Planet and the Planeteers was an American animated environmentalist television program created by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle. The series was produced by Turner Program Services and DiC Entertainment and it was broadcast on TBS from September 15, 1990, to December 5, 1992. A sequel series, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, was produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. and distributed by Turner Program Services and was broadcast from September 11, 1993, to May 11, 1996. Both series continue today in syndication. The program is a form of edutainment and advocates environmentalism and is famous for having a number of famous actors providing voices for the villains.Captain Planet Zooms to the Rescue of the Environment, Washington Post – Sep 16, 1990 The show spawned a franchise consisting of a charity, a Marvel comic book series, video games, and a TV crossover with OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Charmed

Charmed is an American supernatural fantasy drama television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner.

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Chicago International Children's Film Festival

In 1983, Facets Multi-Media founded the Chicago International Children's Film Festival (CICFF), the first competitive festival of films for children in the U.S. The impetus for the Festival came from a need to introduce new, culturally diverse films for children to American children's audiences, and to recognize excellence in children's filmmaking.

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Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953)Judy Levin, Allison Stark Draper, Christopher Paul Curtis (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2005),, p. 84.

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Christy (TV series)

Christy is an American period drama series which aired on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995, for twenty episodes.

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Community (TV series)

Community is an American comedy television series created by Dan Harmon that aired on NBC and Yahoo! Screen from September 17, 2009 to June 2, 2015.

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Consumer Electronics Show

CES (formerly an acronym for Consumer Electronics Show but now the official name) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association.

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Dancing in September

Dancing in September is a 2000 HBO television film starring Isaiah Washington and Nicole Ari Parker.

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Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Award is an American accolade bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.

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Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series

The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series is an Emmy award given to television programming aimed towards children.

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Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming

The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming is an Emmy award given to performers in television programming aimed towards children.

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DC Talk

DC Talk (stylized as dc Talk) is a Christian rap and rock trio.

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Deadly Games

Deadly Games is an American action science fiction television series that appeared on UPN as part of its 1995 season.

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Deseret News

The Deseret News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Dummy (1979 film)

Dummy is a 1979 American television film starring LeVar Burton as Donald Lang and Paul Sorvino as Lowell Meyers, Lang's attorney.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Face Off (TV series)

Face Off is an American reality television game show on the Syfy cable network in which a group of prosthetic makeup artists compete against each other to create prostheses such as those found in science fiction and horror films.

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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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Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island is an American television series that originally aired on the ABC network from 1977 to 1984.

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Free at Last (DC Talk album)

Free at Last is the third studio album from DC Talk, which was released in 1992.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Galt, California

Galt is a city in Sacramento County, California, USA.

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Gargoyles (TV series)

Gargoyles is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television and distributed by Buena Vista Television, and originally aired from October 24, 1994 to February 15, 1997.

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Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer.

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Genie Awards

The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980-2012.

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Geordi La Forge

Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge (or Geordi LaForge) is a fictional character who appeared in all seven seasons of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and its four feature films.

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Geothermal Escapism

"Geothermal Escapism" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of Community, and the 89th episode overall in the series.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Grambling's White Tiger

Grambling's White Tiger (also released as White Tiger in Europe) is a 1981 TV movie about the true story of Jim Gregory (played by Bruce Jenner) the first white quarterback at Grambling College, a historically black college in 1962.

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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959.

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Guyana

Guyana (pronounced or), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a sovereign state on the northern mainland of South America.

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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, also called The Mad Messiah, is a 1980 television miniseries about the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones, and their 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown.

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series that premiered March 12, 1995 on HBO.

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Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series)

Hell's Kitchen is an American reality competition television series based on the British series of the same name.

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Helmsman

A helmsman or helm is a person who steers a ship, sailboat, submarine, other type of maritime vessel, or spacecraft.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Houston Knights

Houston Knights is an American crime drama set in Houston, Texas.

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In Saturn's Rings

In Saturn's Rings is a large format movie about Saturn made exclusively from real photographs taken by spacecraft.

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Institute of Noetic Sciences

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American non-profit parapsychological research institute.

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Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking

"Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" is the 16th episode of the second season of ''Community''.

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JAG (TV series)

JAG (U.S. military acronym for Judge Advocate General) is an American legal drama television show with a distinct U.S. Navy theme, created by Donald P. Bellisario, and produced by Belisarius Productions in association with Paramount Network Television (now CBS Television Studios).

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Jesse Owens

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 Games.

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Jessica Fletcher

Jessica Beatrice Fletcher (born Jessica Beatrice MacGill, known as J.B. Fletcher when writing) is a character and the protagonist portrayed by Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury on the American television series Murder, She Wrote.

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Jessica Steen

Jessica Steen (born December 19, 1965) is a Canadian film and television actress, noted for her roles in Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Homefront, Earth 2, Armageddon, Left Behind: World at War, NCIS, Flashpoint and the CBC series Heartland.

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Jim Jones

James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious cult leader who initiated and was responsible for a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana.

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Katey Sagal

Catherine Louise Sagal (born January 19, 1954) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.

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Kevin Kilner

Kevin Kilner (born May 3, 1958) is an American television and film actor.

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity and merchandising.

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KTXL

KTXL, virtual and UHF digital channel 40, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Sacramento, California, United States.

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Kunta Kinte

Kunta Kinte (1750 – 1822) is a character in the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley.

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Landstuhl

Landstuhl is a municipality of over 9,000 people in southwestern Germany.

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Landstuhl Regional Medical Center

The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) is an overseas military hospital operated by the United States Army and the Department of Defense.

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Laozi

Laozi (. Collins English Dictionary.; also Lao-Tzu,. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2016. or Lao-Tze;, literally "Old Master") was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer.

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Las Vegas (TV series)

Las Vegas is an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003, to February 15, 2008.

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List of Batman: The Animated Series episodes

Batman: The Animated Series is an American television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, which was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and originally aired on Fox from 1992 to 1995; lasting 85 episodes.

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List of Becker episodes

Becker is an American situation comedy series which aired on CBS.

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List of Disney Channel original films

Many television films have been produced for the U.S. cable network, Disney Channel, since the service's inception in 1983.

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List of Fantasy Island episodes

This is a list of episodes for the 1977–84 television series Fantasy Island.

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List of Gargoyles episodes

Gargoyles is an American animated television series that aired from October 24, 1994, to February 15, 1997.

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List of Murder, She Wrote episodes

This is a list of Murder, She Wrote episodes in the order that they originally aired on CBS.

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List of Pinky and the Brain episodes

The following is an episode list for the Warner Bros. Animation animated television series Pinky and the Brain, which ran from 1995 to 1998.

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List of The Love Boat episodes

The American television series The Love Boat (Love Boat in its final season), set on a cruise ship, was aired on ABC from September 24, 1977 until February 27, 1987.

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List of The Super Hero Squad Show episodes

This is a list of episodes for the TV show The Super Hero Squad Show.

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List of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! episodes

The following is a list of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! episodes.

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List of Trapper John, M.D. episodes

The following is a list of episodes in the CBS TV series Trapper John, M.D.

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Melissa Block

Melissa Block (born December 28, 1961) is an American radio host and journalist.

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Miracle's Boys

Miracle's Boys is an American drama television series, originally airing on The N. It began production in June 2004 and premiered on February 18, 2005.

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (sometimes shortened to Misterogers or simply Mister Rogers) is an American half-hour educational children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers.

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (season 28)

The following is a list of episodes from the twenty-eighth season of the PBS series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which aired in 1998.

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Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.

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NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Award is an annual awards ceremony presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.

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NCIS: New Orleans

NCIS: New Orleans is an American television series combining elements of the military drama and police procedural genres that premiered on Tuesday, September 23, 2014, following its parent series NCIS.

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Noetics

In philosophy, noetics is a branch of metaphysical philosophy concerned with the study of mind as well as intellect.

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Not All Dogs Go to Heaven

"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" is the 11th episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series Family Guy.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (also known simply as OK K.O.!) is an American action comedy animated series created by Ian Jones-Quartey (known for his work on Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, and Nockforce) for Cartoon Network. The show is based on his pilot short Lakewood Plaza Turbo, which was released as part of Cartoon Network's 2013 Summer Shorts project. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The web series premiered on Cartoon Network's YouTube channel and on Cartoon Network Video on February 4, 2016. On March 9, 2017, nearly four years after the original short's premiere, Cartoon Network announced that the television series had been greenlit. The opening sequence was storyboarded by Japanese artist Hiroyuki Imaishi, co-founder of Studio Trigger. On December 4, 2017, the series was confirmed to be renewed for a second season, which premiered on May 5, 2018.

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One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (also known as Man of Passion) is a 1978 American made-for-television biographical sports drama film telling the story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers.

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Our Friend, Martin

Our Friend, Martin is a 1999 direct-to-video animated children's educational film about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.

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Parallel Lives (film)

Parallel Lives is a 1994 American made-for-television mystery-drama film written, directed and produced by Linda Yellen which returns some actors and similar patterns of Yellen's previous work, Chantilly Lace.

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Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart, (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.

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Peace and conflict studies

Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and analyzes violent and nonviolent behaviours as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts (including social conflicts), with a view towards understanding those processes which lead to a more desirable human condition.

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Perception (U.S. TV series)

Perception is an American crime drama television series created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman.

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Petarded

"Petarded" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Family Guy.

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Pinky and the Brain

Pinky and the Brain is an American animated television series.

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Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) is an American multi-national consumer goods corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by British American William Procter and Irish American James Gamble.

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Pyramid (game show)

Pyramid is an American television game show franchise that has aired several versions domestically and internationally.

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Rainbow

A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky.

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Reading Rainbow

Reading Rainbow is an American half-hour educational children's television series that aired on PBS Kids from June 6, 1983 to November 10, 2006, with a total of 155 half-hour episodes spanning over 21 seasons.

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Rebop (TV series)

Rebop is an American children's television series that aired from 1976 to 1979 on PBS stations and produced by WGBH Boston.

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Recycling

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rise of the Zombies

Rise of the Zombies, also known as Dead Walking, is a 2012 American zombie horror film from The Asylum and directed by Nick Lyon.

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Robert Picardo

Robert Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor.

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Ron LeFlore

Ronald LeFlore (born June 16, 1948) is an American former Major League Baseball center fielder.

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Rooster Teeth

Rooster Teeth Productions is an American media and entertainment company located mainly in Austin, Texas, as well as Los Angeles and London.

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Roots (1977 miniseries)

Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

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Roots (2016 miniseries)

Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

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Roots: The Gift

Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.

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SciShow

SciShow is a series of science-related videos on YouTube.

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Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles

Sherman Oaks is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, founded in 1927 with boundary changes afterward.

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Sigma Alpha Mu

Sigma Alpha Mu (ΣΑΜ), commonly known as Sammy, is a college fraternity founded at the City College of New York in 1909.

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Signal Corps (United States Army)

The United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) develops, tests, provides, and manages communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces.

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Smart House (film)

Smart House is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) about a teenage computer whiz (Ryan Merriman), his widowed father, and his little sister, who win a computerized house that begins to take on a life of its own – the life of an overbearing mother (Katey Sagal).

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Smosh

Smosh is an American sketch comedy YouTube channel created by Ian Andrew Hecox (born November 30, 1987) and Daniel Anthony Padilla (born September 16, 1987).

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Soul Food (TV series)

Soul Food is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek Generations

Star Trek Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film directed by David Carson and based on the franchise of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (sometimes abbreviated to DS9) is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the Milky Way galaxy, in the years 2369–2375.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT) (titled simply Enterprise until the third episode of season three) is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga as a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series.

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Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan Frakes in his directorial debut, and based on the franchise of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection is a 1998 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan Frakes and based on the franchise of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: Nemesis is a 2002 American science fiction film directed by Stuart Baird and based on the franchise of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994.

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Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe that debuted in 1995 and ended its original run in 2001, with a classic "ship in space" formula like the preceding Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG).

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Sun-Sentinel

The Sun-Sentinel is the main daily newspaper of Broward County, Florida.

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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is a 2009 original direct-to-video animated superhero film adaptation of "Public Enemies"—the opening story arc of DC Comics' Superman/Batman—which focuses on Superman and Batman teaming up to prevent a meteorite from striking Earth and take down Lex Luthor, who has been elected President of the United States.

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Taken in Broad Daylight

Taken in Broad Daylight is a 2009 American made-for-television movie based on the real-life kidnapping of Nebraska teenager Anne Sluti, who was abducted and held for six days in April 2001 by Anthony Steven Wright, also known as Tony Zappa.

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TCA Awards

The TCA Awards are awards presented by the Television Critics Association in recognition of excellence in television.

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Television director

A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program, or section of a programme.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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Television presenter

A presenter is a person who introduces or hosts television programs (or segments thereof such as an infomercial advertiser).

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The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro.

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The Big Bang Theory (season 4)

The fourth season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory, began airing on CBS on September 23, 2010.

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The Big Bang Theory (season 6)

The sixth season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory aired on CBS from September 27, 2012, to May 16, 2013.

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The Big Bang Theory (season 8)

The eighth season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory first aired on CBS with a one-hour premiere on Monday, September 22, 2014.

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The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)

The Blade, also known as the Toledo Blade, is a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, in the United States, first published on December 19, 1835.

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The Herald-Mail

The Herald-Mail is a newspaper serving the cities of Hagerstown, Maryland, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Martinsburg, West Virginia and the surrounding counties.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.

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The Hunter (1980 film)

The Hunter is a 1980 American thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik.

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The Jensen Project

The Jensen Project is the second in a series of a TV movies produced by Procter & Gamble and Walmart aimed at families.

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The Jesse Owens Story

The Jesse Owens Story is a 1984 American biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens.

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The Love Boat

The Love Boat is an American comedy television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from May 5, 1977, until May 24, 1986; three-hour specials aired in 1986–87 and 1990.

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The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour is a 1985 American comedy horror television film directed by Jack Bender and starring Shari Belafonte-Harper, LeVar Burton, Peter DeLuise, and Dedee Pfeiffer.

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The Muppet Movie

The Muppet Movie is a 1979 musical road comedy movie and the first theatrical film featuring the Muppets.

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The Muppet Show

The Muppet Show is a family-oriented comedy-variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets.

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The Sacramento Observer

The Sacramento Observer is an African American-owned weekly newspaper in Sacramento, California, U.S. It serves the African-American community throughout the Sacramento Metropolitan Area.

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The Super Hero Squad Show

Marvel Super Hero Squad is an American cartoon series by Marvel Animation.

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The Supernaturals (film)

The Supernaturals is a 1986 American zombie horror film directed by Armand Mastroianni and written by Michael S. Murphey and Joel Soisson.

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The Tiger Woods Story

The Tiger Woods Story is a 1998 television film directed by LeVar Burton.

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The Toast Derivation

"The Toast Derivation" is the 17th episode of the fourth season of the US sitcom The Big Bang Theory and the 80th episode of the show overall.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 (1995) is a historical-fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis.

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The Weakest Link (UK game show)

The Weakest Link is a British television quiz show, mainly broadcast on BBC Two as well as BBC One.

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This Week in Tech

This Week in Tech–casually referred to as TWiT, and briefly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers–is the weekly flagship podcast and namesake of the TWiT.tv network.

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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is an American sketch comedy series created by and starring Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, which premiered February 11, 2007 on Adult Swim and ran until May 2010.

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Timeless (Star Trek: Voyager)

"Timeless," the sixth episode of the fifth season of Star Trek: Voyager, was also the series' 100th episode.

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TNT (U.S. TV network)

TNT is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System.

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Transformers: Rescue Bots

Transformers: Rescue Bots (or simply Rescue Bots) is a toyline, story book series, and animated robot superhero television series based on toy manufacturer Hasbro's Transformers franchise.

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Trapper John, M.D.

Trapper John, M.D. is an American medical drama television series and spin-off of the film MASH (1970).

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)

USS Enterprise - NCC-1701-D (or Enterprise-D) is a 24th-century starship in the fictional Star Trek universe and the principal setting of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series.

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Visual impairment

Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly branded as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.

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War Machine

War Machine (James Rupert "Rhodey" Rhodes) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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Word Up! (song)

"Word Up!" is a funk and R&B song originally recorded by American funk band Cameo in 1986.

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World peace

World peace, or peace on Earth, is the concept of an ideal state of happiness, freedom and peace within and among all people and nations on earth.

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YouTube

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

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