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War Dogs (2016 film)

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War Dogs is a 2016 American biographical dark comedy-crime film directed by Todd Phillips and written by Phillips, Jason Smilovic and Stephen Chin, based on a Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson. [1]

96 relations: Aerosmith, Afghan National Army, Ana de Armas, Arms industry, Baghdad, Barry Livingston, Beastie Boys, Behind Blue Eyes, Ben-Hur (2016 film), Beretta, Biographical film, Black comedy, Bradley Cooper, British Board of Film Classification, Buck Dharma, Burbank, California, Business Wire, California, CBS Interactive, Century City, Los Angeles, CinemaScore, Cliff Martinez, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crime film, Darlene Love, David Packouz, Deadline Hollywood, Dean Martin, Eddie Jemison, Efraim Diveroli, Fandango (company), Fortunate Son, Gabriel Spahiu, Georges Bizet, Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Gram Parsons, Habanera (aria), Haddaway, House of Pain, Iggy Pop, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Ilham al-Madfai, IndieWire, Iraq, Iraq War, Jason Smilovic, JB Blanc, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonah Hill, ..., Jordan, Justice (band), Kevin Pollak, Kubo and the Two Strings, Lawrence Sher, Leonard Cohen, Los Angeles, Maria Callas, Mark Gordon, Matt Zoller Seitz, Metacritic, Miami, Miles Teller, Neil Diamond, New York City, Orchestre National de France, Patrick St. Esprit, Pink Floyd, Pitbull (rapper), RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Red Red Wine, RogerEbert.com, Rolling Stone, Romania, Rotten Tomatoes, Rufus Thomas, Shaun Toub, Shia LaBeouf, The A.V. Club, The Hollywood Reporter, The Who, TheWrap, Time in a Bottle, Todd Phillips, USA Today, Vanilla Fudge, Variety (magazine), Warner Bros., Waters of Nazareth, What Is Love, Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song), Wolfmother, You Keep Me Hangin' On, 2008 Gërdec explosions, 50 Cent, 7.62×39mm. Expand index (46 more) »

Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an American rock band.

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Afghan National Army

The Afghan National Army (ANA) is the land warfare branch of the Afghan Armed Forces.

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Ana de Armas

Ana Celia de Armas Caso (born 30 April 1988) is a Cuban actress.

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Arms industry

The arms industry, also known as the defense industry or the arms trade, is a global industry responsible for the manufacturing and sales of weapons and military technology.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (بغداد) is the capital of Iraq.

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Barry Livingston

Barry Gordon Livingston (born December 17, 1953) is an American television and film actor, known for his roles as "Ernie Douglas" on the television series My Three Sons (1963–72).

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Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys were an American rap rock band from New York City, formed in 1979.

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Behind Blue Eyes

"Behind Blue Eyes" is a song by the English rock band The Who.

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Ben-Hur (2016 film)

Ben-Hur is a 2016 American epic historical period drama film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Keith Clarke and John Ridley.

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Beretta

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta (literally, "Pietro Beretta Arms Factory") is a privately held Italian firearms manufacturing company operating in several countries.

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Bradley Cooper

Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and producer.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Buck Dharma

Donald Bruce Roeser (born November 12, 1947), more commonly known by his stage name Buck Dharma, is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for being a member of Blue Öyster Cult since the group's formation in 1967.

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Burbank, California

Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

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Business Wire

Business Wire is a company that disseminates full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences.

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California

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

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CBS Interactive

CBS Interactive Inc. (formerly CBS Digital Media Group) is an American media company and is a division of the CBS Corporation.

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Century City, Los Angeles

Century City is a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles County's Westside.

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CinemaScore

CinemaScore is a market research firm based in Las Vegas.

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Cliff Martinez

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival (often referred to as Creedence or CCR) was an American rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s which consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford.

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Crime film

Crime cinema, in the broadest sense, is a cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Darlene Love

Darlene Wright (born July 26, 1941), known by her stage name, Darlene Love, is an American popular music singer and actress.

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David Packouz

David Mordechai Packouz (born February 16, 1982) is an American former arms dealer, musician, inventor and entrepreneur.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, also known as Deadline.com and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Dean Martin

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, comedian and film producer.

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Eddie Jemison

Edward Francis "Eddie" Jemison, Jr. (born 25 November 1963) is an American film and television actor.

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Efraim Diveroli

Efraim Diveroli (born December 20, 1985) is an American former arms dealer and author.

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Fandango (company)

Fandango is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app.

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Fortunate Son

"Fortunate Son" is a song by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival released on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys in November 1969.

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Gabriel Spahiu

Gabriel Spahiu (born 21 March 1968) is a Romanian actor.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.

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Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon

"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" is a song written by American musician Neil Diamond, whose recording of it on Bang Records reached number 10 on the US pop singles chart in 1967.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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Gram Parsons

Ingram Cecil Connor III (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973), known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist.

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Habanera (aria)

Habanera (music or dance of Havana) is the popular name for "" ("Love is a rebellious bird"), an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen.

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Haddaway

Nestor Alexander Haddaway (born January 9, 1965), better known mononymously as Haddaway, is a Trinidadian-German singer, songwriter and musician best known for his 1993 hit single "What Is Love".

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House of Pain

House of Pain is an American hip hop group who released three albums in the 1990s before lead rapper Everlast left to pursue his solo career.

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Iggy Pop

James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop, and designated the "Godfather of Punk", is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Ignatiy Igorevich Vishnevetsky (Игна́тий И́горевич Вишневе́цкий; born September 5, 1986)Vishnevetsky, Ignatiy, Mubi is a Russian born, United States-based film critic and essayist.

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Ilham al-Madfai

Ilham al-Madfai (إلهام المدفعي) (born c. 1942) is an Iraqi guitarist, singer and composer.

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IndieWire

IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996.

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Iraq

Iraq (or; العراق; عێراق), officially known as the Republic of Iraq (جُمُهورية العِراق; کۆماری عێراق), is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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Jason Smilovic

Jason Smilovic is an American writer and executive producer of Croatian descent, as well as the creator of the television series Kidnapped, My Own Worst Enemy, and Karen Sisco.

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JB Blanc

Jean-Benoît Blanc is a French-British actor, director and voice-over artist who has worked on a number of cartoons, anime, and video games produced in the Los Angeles area.

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Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor, author, and playwright.

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Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and comedian.

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Jordan

Jordan (الْأُرْدُنّ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River.

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Justice (band)

Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay.

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Kevin Pollak

Kevin Elliot Pollak (born October 30, 1957) is an American actor, impressionist, and comedian.

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Kubo and the Two Strings

Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 American 3D stop-motion action fantasy film directed and produced by Travis Knight (in his directorial debut) and written by Marc Haimes and Chris Butler.

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Lawrence Sher

Lawrence Sher, (born February 4, 1970) is an American cinematographer and film director, best known for comedy films such as Garden State, The Hangover and The Dictator.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Maria Callas

Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI (Μαρία Κάλλας; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was a New York-born Greek soprano, one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

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Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon (born October 10, 1956) is an American television and film producer.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz (born December 26, 1968) is an American film and television critic, author, and filmmaker.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miles Teller

Miles Alexander Teller (born February 20, 1987) is an American actor.

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Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor.

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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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Orchestre National de France

The Orchestre national de France (ONF; literal translation, National Orchestra of France) is a French symphony orchestra based in Paris, founded in 1934.

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Patrick St. Esprit

Patrick St.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pitbull (rapper)

Armando Christian Pérez (born January 15, 1981), known by the stage name Pitbull (also known as Mr. Worldwide), is an American rapper.

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RatPac-Dune Entertainment

RatPac Entertainment is an American motion picture production and financing company owned by producer-director Brett Ratner and Access Entertainment.

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Red Red Wine

"Red Red Wine" is a song originally written, performed, and recorded by American singer Neil Diamond in 1967.

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RogerEbert.com

RogerEbert.com is an American website that archives film reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rufus Thomas

Rufus C. Thomas, Jr. (March 26, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm-and-blues, funk, soul and blues singer, songwriter, dancer, DJ and comic entertainer from Memphis, Tennessee.

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Shaun Toub

Shaun Toub (شان طوب, born April 6, 1963) is an Iranian American actor.

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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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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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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 Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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TheWrap

TheWrap is an entertainment and media news website founded by Sharon Waxman in 2009.

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Time in a Bottle

"Time in a Bottle" is a hit single by singer-songwriter Jim Croce.

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Todd Phillips

Todd Phillips (born Todd Bunzl; December 20, 1970) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Vanilla Fudge

Vanilla Fudge is an American rock band known predominantly for their extended rock arrangements of contemporary hit songs, most notably "You Keep Me Hangin' On".

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Waters of Nazareth

"Waters of Nazareth" is a song by French electronic music duo Justice.

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What Is Love

"What Is Love" is a song recorded by Trinidadian-German Eurodance artist Haddaway for his debut album, The Album.

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Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)

"Wish You Were Here" is the title track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here.

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Wolfmother

Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band from Sydney, New South Wales formed in 2000 by vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett.

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You Keep Me Hangin' On

"You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a 1966 song written and composed by Holland–Dozier–Holland.

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2008 Gërdec explosions

At approximately noon local time on Saturday 15 March 2008, at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec in the Vorë Municipality, Albania (14 kilometers from Tirana, the nation's capital), U.S and Albanian munitions experts were preparing to destroy stockpiles of obsolete ammunition.

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50 Cent

Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, businessman, and investor.

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7.62×39mm

The 7.62×39mm (aka 7.62 Soviet or formerly.30 Russian Short) round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin that was designed during World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)

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