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Important Names from the entire syllabus Flashcards

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1
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Nicolas Jenson

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inventor of the first Roman typeface

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Aldus Manutius and Franesco Griffo

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italics

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William Carlson

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Old Style

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Firmin Didot and Giambattista Bodoni

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the first serifs

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Vincent Figgings

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slab serif

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Frederic Goudy

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first professional font designer

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Steve Matteson

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creator of Aptos

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Edward Johnston

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London Underground font

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Thomas Phinney

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forensic font

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Joe Woodland

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barcode

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Caroline Brooks

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butter sculptures

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Erika Iris Simmons

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cassette tape art

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Charles Darwin

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finches

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Dominique Blain

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Missa

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E.S. Wheeler

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the Detroit Pyramids

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Phillipe Maindron

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Eiffela

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12
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Jon Rafman

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the Kool-Aid man

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13
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Rachel Rossin

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I Came and Went as a Ghost Hand

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14
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Michael Wolgemut & Wilhelm Pleydenwruff

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes

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Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang

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La Camera Insabbiata

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15
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Artemisia Gentileschi

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Judith Slaying Holofernes

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Giorgio Vasari

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Judith and Holofernes

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Pedro Americo

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Judith and Holofernes

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Kehinde Wiley

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Judith and Holofernes

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Johannes Vermeer

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Girl with the Pearl Earrings

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Julian van Diekan

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A Girl with Glowing Earrings

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Jacque-Louis David

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Napoleon Crossing the Alps

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Hippolyte Paul Dalaroche

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Napoleon Crossing the Alps (again)

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Emanuel Leutze

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George Washington Crossing the Delaware

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Takashi Kawamura

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Nagoya Castle elevator crisis

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22
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Angie Mason

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rooftop farming

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Claude Monet

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Water Lily Pond

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Giuseppe Archimboldo

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A Reversible Anthropomorphic Portrait of a Man Composed of Fruit

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Albert Robida

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Aerial Rotating House

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Carel Willink

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Late Visitors to Pompeii

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Graciela Iturbide

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Our Lady of the Iguanas

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Pedro Meyer

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The Strolling Saint

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28
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Pedro Alvarez

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The Romantic Dollarscape

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Avery Gibbes

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Weirdos of Another Universe

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Andy Warhol

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Campbell Soup Cans

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Betye Saar

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Liberation of Aunty Jemima

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32
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Banksy

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Charlie Brown Firestarter

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Brendan O’Connell

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Life, Miracle Whip and Premium

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33
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Meryl Streep

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Margaret Thatcher actor

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34
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Imran Khan

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PTI leader; delivered AI speech

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34
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Richard Attemborough, Ben Kingsley

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Gandhi

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35
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Stuart Humphryes

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The Colors of Life

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35
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Steven Spielberg

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Schindler’s List

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36
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Jordan Lloyd

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Professional Recolor-er

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37
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Chang Xiangyu

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Mulan opera girl

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38
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Boris Eldagsen

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The Electrician

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39
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Bas Uterwijk

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dead people in art (Artbreeder) made realistic

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40
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Pierre-Francois Bouchard

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Rosetta Stone

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Dr. Sebastien Rey

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Girsu Project

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Thomas Stamford Raffes

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Borobudur

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Johann Ludwig Buckhardt

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Petra

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Basil Brown

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Sutton Hoo

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Ivan Sprajc

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Ocumtun

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Ernest Shackleton

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HMS Endurance

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Yohannes Haile-Selassie

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Ardi

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47
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Eugene Debois

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Java Man

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Raymond Dart

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Taung Child

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Mary & Louis Leakey

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Oldowan Toolkit

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48
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Brent Seales

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launcher of the Vesuvius Challenge

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48
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Robert Broom

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Paranthropus robustus

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Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor, and Julian Schilliger

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winners of the Vesuvius Challenge

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Francisco Franco

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Spanish dictator following Civil War

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50
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Mary C Lauderate

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director of the Black History Museum in Virginia

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51
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Neil Gaiman

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The Sandman

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52
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John Gary Steele

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The Sandman (production designer)

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Mike Dringenberg

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The Sandman (comic)

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52
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Yuriy Pimenov

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New Moscow

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53
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Rene Rios Boettiger

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Condorito

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54
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Fritz Lang

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Metropolis

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Fernando Pena

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fixer-upper of Metropolis

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54
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Marcel Duchamp

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Fountain

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55
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Rrose Selavy

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Marcel Duchamp’s alter ego

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Sherrie Levine

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Fountain (Buddha)

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56
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Mike Bidlo

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Fractured Fountain

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57
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Alfred Stieglitz

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photographer of the Fountain

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58
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Rachel Lachowicz

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Untitled (Lipstick Urinals)

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59
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Charles K. Harris

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“After the Ball”

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60
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George Michael

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“Freedom! 90”

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R.E.M.

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“Losing My Religion”

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62
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Lis Sorenson

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“Braendt”

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63
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Alyona Sviridova

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“Pink Flamingo”

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63
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Chris Cornell

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“Black Hole Sun”

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64
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Semisonic

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“Singing in My Sleep”(band that wrote)

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64
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Dan Wilson

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“Singing in My Sleep” (writer)

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64
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Soundgarden

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“Black Hole Sun”

65
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Peter Buck

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“Losing My Religion”

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Francis Fukuyama

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The End of History and the Last Man

67
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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coined the “end of history”

68
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Alexandre Kojeve

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supporter of Hegel

68
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Aaron Delehanty

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dioramas

69
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Carl Akeley

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creator of dioramas

70
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Michael Pelletz

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Dreamland Wax Museum

71
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Daniel De Freitas & Noam Shazeer

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Character.AI

72
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William Shatner

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James Tk. Kirk in Star Trek

73
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Zhang Zewei

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Super Brain

73
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Patricia Weskunas

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assaulted; Crime Survivors Inc.

74
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Jeffrey Kelavos

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the assaulter; true crime

75
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Truman Capote

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In Cold Blood

76
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Makoto Shinkai

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Suzume

77
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William Wallace

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Braveheart

78
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Ronald D. Moore

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For All Mankind

79
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Guy Gavriel Kay

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cool fantasy writer

80
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George Hadley

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The Veldt

81
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Ray Bradbury
The Veldt

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82
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Miriam Greenburg

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“Brazillian Telephone”

82
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W. B. Yeats

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“The Municipal Gallery Revisited”

83
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Carl Sandburg

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“Buffalo Dusk”

84
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Robert G. Ingersoll
“At the Tomb of Napoleon”

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“At the Tomb of Napoleon”

85
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John Milton Hay

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“My Castle in Spain”

86
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Wislawa Szymborska

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“Photograph from September 11”

87
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Koh Buk Song

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“A Brief History of Toa Poyah”

88
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Norman Dubie

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“The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter”

89
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Margaret Atwood

A

“This is a Photograph of Me”

90
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John Dee
man

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sadistic person in The Sandman

91
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Chloe Phillips-Harris

A

detained at Kazakhstan airport

92
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John Key

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PM of NZ

93
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Gloria & Luis Miguel Rodriguez

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Eat Spain Up!

94
Q

Gaston Acurio
most famous Peruvian chef

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most famous Peruvian chef

95
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John Urry

A

tourist gaze

96
Q

Stephen Turnbull
ninja

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ninja

97
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Seiko Fujita

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promoter of the ninja

98
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Belva Cottier

A

Alcatraz Native American

99
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Egon Schiele

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Edge of Town (Krumau Town Crescent III)

100
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Peter Solo

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Vandou Game

101
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Them Mushroomz

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Embe Dodo

102
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Charles Dibdin

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the first pop star

103
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Arturo Toscanini

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by the book conductor

103
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Jules Verne

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steampunk

104
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Lloyd deMause

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psychohistory

105
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Jean-Marc Cote

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these postcards

106
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Heinrich von Kleist

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rocket mail

107
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Charles Jantzi

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internet bad for Amish

108
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Lindsay Ems
internet fine for Amish

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internet fine for Amish

109
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Howard Arkley

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Family Home: Suburban Exterior

110
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Malvina Reynolds

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“Little Boxes”

111
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Leonard Koscianski

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Life in the Suburbs

112
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Sen Borsan

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Setora guruhi

112
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Diego Rivera

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Mexico Today and Tomorrow

113
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Viktor Deni

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Comrade Lenin Cleanses Earth of Filth

114
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Czeslaw Milosz

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“A Song on the End of the World”

114
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Percy Shelley

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“To a Skylark”

114
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Dylan Thomas

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“Poem in October”

115
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Vinod Kumar Shookla

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“That Man Put on a Wool Coat”

116
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Pablo Neruda

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“Ode to My Socks”

117
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Gertrude Stein

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“My Long Dress”

118
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Anne Carson

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“Father’s Old Blue Cardigan”

119
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Jurgen Habermas

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The Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere

119
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Thompson Cooper

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first man to interview the pope

119
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Liam Rector

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“Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits”

120
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Erasmus

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Republic of Letters

121
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Darren Cullen

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Join the Army!

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David Chappatte

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Graphic Journalism

123
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Eleri Harris & Matt Bors

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The Nib

124
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Jon Stewart
The Daily Show

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The Daily Show

125
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John Oliver

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“Last Week Tonight”

126
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Glyn Evans

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iPhoneography

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Jimmy Lai

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Next Media Animations

128
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Li Kui-Ming

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Trump on Show

129
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David Attenborough

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Dynasties (penguins)

130
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Henk Rogers

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Tetris

130
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Alexey Pajitnov

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Tetris designer

131
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Jin Sakai

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Ghost of Tsushima

131
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George, Lizzie, Ralph

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Rampage

132
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Harleigh English

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allure of imperfection

133
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Yoh Moriyama

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Megalo Box

134
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John Plant

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Primitive Technology

135
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Jonathan Townsend

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historical reenactment products

136
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Bernadette Banner

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YouTube sewer

136
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Charles Babbage

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Analytical Engine

136
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John Sculley

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Apple

137
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Larry Page & Sergey Brin

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Google

138
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Sundar Pichai

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Alphabet

139
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Reed Hastings

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Netflix

140
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Sam Altman

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(former) OpenAI CEO

141
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Mira Murati

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(new, interim) OpenAI CEO

142
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Greg Brockman

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(former) chairman of the board of OpenAI

143
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Martha Matilda Harper

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franchising

144
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Michael Lewis

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Moneyball

145
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Billy Beane

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sabermetrics

146
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James Daunt

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Waterstone & B&N

146
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Duane Hanson

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Supermarket Shopper

147
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Allen Ginsberg

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“A Supermarket in California”

148
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Andreas Gursky

A

99 Cent

149
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Alexander Nikolaevich Govor

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McRussia (vskuno and tochka)

150
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Pablo Escobar

A

hippos

151
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Ronald Goderie

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supercow (auroch)

151
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Ben Lamm

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Colossal Biosciences

151
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Ino Tadataka

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Japan map

151
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Samuel Morse

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telegraph

152
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Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot

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Pale Blue Dot

153
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Elizabeth Holmes

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Theranos

154
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Trevor Milton

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Nikola

155
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Jeffrey Katzenburg & Meg Whitman
Quibi

A

Quibi

155
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Kendra Holmes

A

Life at Sea Cruise

155
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Sam Bankman-Fried

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FTX

155
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Sam Lee & Zijing Xu
Hyper(x)

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Hyper(x)

156
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Jon Lech Johansen

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DeCSS

157
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Ricardo Garcia

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youtube-dl

157
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Kenneth Arnold

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first UFO sighting (1947)

157
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Suttons family

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Little Green Men

158
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Hikari Azuma

A

waifu bo

158
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Major Keyhoe

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The Flying Saucers Are Real

159
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Ling

A

virtual idol

160
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Minoru Takeuchi

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inventor of waifu bot

160
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Jasdeep Singh Degun & Laurence Cummings

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Orfeo

160
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Sheila Williams

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The Last Hope received loads of stories names this from people using ai

161
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Gabriella Damian Miravete

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“We Will Dream in the Garden”

162
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Holly Mintzer

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“Tomorrow is Waiting”

163
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Isaac Asimov

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“Franchise” & “The Last Question”

164
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Vitaly Komar & Alexander Malamid

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Judith on the Red Square

165
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Styx: Dennis DeYoung

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“Come Sail Away”

165
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Blink 182: Tom DeLonge

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“Aliens Exist”

165
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Ella Fitzgerald

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“Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer”

166
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Parliament

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“Mothership Connection: Star Child”

166
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Shonen Knife

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“Riding On The Rocket”

167
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Ace Frehly

A

“Space Invader”

168
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Archibald Motley
“Black Belt”

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“Black Belt”

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William Hogarth

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“An Election Entertainment”

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