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| Space colonization Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, space habitation, etc.) is the concept of autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. theme in science fiction, as well as a long-term goal of various national space programs.While many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, others argue that the first colonies will be in orbit. Space_colonization | |
| Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948), more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Terry_Pratchett | |
| United Kingdom United_Kingdom | |
| Unification Church The Unification Church is a new religious movement founded by Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon. In addition to providing and sustaining spiritual, scriptural, and liturgical functions and structures for its worldwide community of believers, the Unification Church, like many religious organizations, owns, operates, and subsidizes organizations and projects involved in political, cultural, commercial, media, educational, and other activities. Unification_Church | |
| Vexatious litigation Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought, regardless of its merits, solely to harass or subdue an adversary. It may take the form of a primary frivolous lawsuit or may be the repetitive, burdensome, and unwarranted filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. Filing vexatious litigation is considered an abuse of the judicial process and may result in sanctions against the offender. Vexatious_litigation | |
| Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (, ; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. Vladimir_Putin | |
| Woody Allen Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, comedian, writer, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. Woody_Allen | |
| Wine Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made of fermented grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients. Wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast consumes the sugars found in the grapes and converts them into alcohol. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are used depending on the type of wine being produced. Wine | |
| Whippet The Whippet is a breed of dog, of the sighthound family. They are active and playful and are physically similar to a small greyhound. Their popularity has led to the reuse of the Whippet name on a large number of things, from cars to cookies. Whippet | |
| Whitney Houston Talk:Whitney_Houston | |
| Bristol Bristol | |
| Carry On (series) Carry On is a long-running series of low-budget British comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres.Twenty-nine original films and one compilation were made between 1958 and 1978 at Pinewood Studios, with an additional movie made in 1992. Carry_On_(series) | |
| Barbecue Barbecue or barbeque (common spelling variant) (with abbreviations BBQ, Bar-B-Q and Bar-B-Que; diminutive form barbie, used chiefly in Australia & New Zealand; and called Braai in South Africa) is a method and apparatus for cooking food, often meat, with the heat and Barbecue | |
| Toilet paper Toilet paper is a soft paper product (tissue paper) used to maintain personal hygiene after human defecation or urination. It differs in composition somewhat from facial tissue, and is designed to decompose in septic tanks, whereas some other bathroom and facial tissues do not. Toilet_paper | |
| Harry Enfield Henry "Harry" Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961 in Horsham, West Sussex, England) is a BAFTA winning British comedian, actor and writer, as well as working small-time as a director. Harry_Enfield | |
| Crucifixion See alsoCrucifixion of Jesus.Crucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross (of various shapes) and left to hang until dead. The term comes from the Latin crucifixio, fixed to a cross, from prefix cruci-, cross, + verb ficere, fix or do. Crucifixion | |
| Fidel Castro Fidel_Castro | |
| Chat room The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology ranging from real-time online chat over instant messaging and online forums to fully immersive graphical social environments. Chat_room | |
| Robbie Williams Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England) is a Grammy Award-nominated and multi BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter. His career started at the age of 15 as a dancer and singer of the pop band Take That in 1989, which he left in 1995 to launch his solo career. Robbie_Williams | |
| Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac (born 29 November 1932) served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. Chirac was the second-longest serving President of France (two full terms, first seven years and second five), behind François Mitterrand. Chirac is the only person to have served twice as Prime Minister under the Fifth Republic. Jacques_Chirac | |
| Gillian Anderson Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files, Moro in the English dub of Princess Mononoke and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series Bleak House. Gillian_Anderson | |
| Barbed wire Barbed wire, also known as barb wire (and frequently in dialect form spelled bob or bobbed), is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s). It is used to construct inexpensive fences and is used atop walls surrounding secured property. It is also a major feature of the fortifications in trench warfare (as a wire obstacle). Barbed_wire | |
| Elizabeth Taylor Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-born American actress. Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a larger-than-life celebrity.The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time. Elizabeth_Taylor | |
| Gwyneth Paltrow Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress.The daughter of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner, Paltrow dropped out of her university to follow an acting career. She began her career in theatre in 1990, and made her film debut the following year. Gwyneth_Paltrow | |
| Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself coined to make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Alice_Walker | |
| Polychaete The Polychaeta or polychaetes are a class of annelid worms, generally marine. Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called chaetae, which are made of chitin. Indeed, polychaetes are sometimes referred to as bristle worms. More than 10,000 species are described in this class. Common representatives include the lugworm (Arenicola marina) and the sandworm or clam worm Nereis. Polychaete | |
| Alex Ferguson Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson, CBE, more commonly known as Alex Ferguson, Sir Alex, or Fergie (born 31 December 1941 in Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United , where he has been in charge since 1986. Alex_Ferguson | |
| Unicorn A unicorn (from Latin unus 'one' and cornu 'horn') is a mythological creature. Though the modern popular image of the unicorn is sometimes that of a horse differing only in the horn on its forehead, the traditional unicorn also has a billy-goat beard, a lion's tail, and cloven hooves—Marianna Mayer has observed (The Unicorn and the Lake), "The unicorn is the only fabulous beast that does not seem to have been conceived out of human fears. Unicorn | |
| Three Little Pigs Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring talking animals. Printed versions date back to the 1840s, but the story itself is thought to be much older. The phrases used in the story, and the various morals which can be drawn from it, have become enshrined in western culture. On the Aarne-Thompson classification system, it is a type 124. Three_Little_Pigs | |
| Laurence Olivier Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (; 22 May 1907English actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson..He was born in Dorking, son of the Rev Gerard Kerr Olivier and his wife Agnes Louis (Crookenden), educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, and studied with Elsie Fogerty. Laurence_Olivier | |
| Violence against LGBT people Violence against LGBT people, queer identifying and the same-sex attracted are actions which may occur either at the hands of individuals or groups, or as part of governmental enforcement of laws targeting people who are perceived to violate heteronormative rules and who contravene protocols of gender roles. Violence_against_LGBT_people | |
| Evil empire The phrase evil empire was applied especially to the Soviet Union by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and American and Canadian conservatives, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities. Evil_empire | |
| Uranus Uranus | |
| Brad Pitt William Bradley "Brad" Pitt Brad_Pitt | |
| Dannii Minogue Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian singer, occasional actress, and TV Personality. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show, Young Talent Time and the soap opera Home and Away, before commencing her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s.Minogue achieved early success with hits such as "Love and Kisses" and "This is It", though by the release of her second album, her popularity as a singer had declined, leading her to concentrate on other fields such as television presenting. Dannii_Minogue | |
| Sacha Baron Cohen Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English comedian, writer, and Golden Globe-winning actor most noted for his comic characters Ali G (an inner city youth chav from suburban Staines), Borat Sagdiyev (a Kazakh reporter), and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). Sacha_Baron_Cohen | |
| Albus Dumbledore Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character and a major protagonist within the Harry Potter novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. For the majority of the series, he is the headmaster of the Wizarding school Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As part of his back-story, it is revealed that he is the founder and leader of the "Order of the Phoenix", an organisation dedicated to fighting the main antagonist of the series, Lord Voldemort. Albus_Dumbledore | |
| List of weapons in Star Trek The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of weapons. List_of_weapons_in_Star_Trek | |
| Victoria Beckham Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and model.During her rise to fame with 1990's pop group the Spice Girls, she was dubbed Posh Spice, a nickname first coined by a British pop music magazine. Victoria_Beckham | |
| Violence Violence is the expression of physical force against self or other, compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt. Variant uses of the term refer to the destruction of non-living objects (see property damage). Worldwide, violence is used as a tool of manipulation and also is an area of concern for law and culture who take attempts to suppress and stop it. Violence | |
| Jane Seymour (actress) Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg on February 15, 1951) is an English actress best known as a Bond girl in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die and the star of the 1990s American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and its telefilm sequels. Jane_Seymour_(actress) | |
| West Ham United F.C. West_Ham_United_F.C. | |
| Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet (known as QE Boys) is a boys' grammar school in Barnet, North London, which was founded in 1573 by Queen Elizabeth I. and has a specialist status in Music It is one of the most academically successful secondary schools in England and was chosen as The Sunday Times State School of the Year 2007.The school was the subject of some controversy in the 1990s, but an Ofsted report published in January 2008 stated Queen_Elizabeth's_Grammar_School_for_Boys | |
| Incandescent light bulb The incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is a source of electric light that works by incandescence (a general term for heat-driven light emissions which includes the simple case of black body radiation). An electric current passes through a thin filament, heating it until it produces light. Incandescent_light_bulb | |
| Canterbury Canterbury ( or Canterbury | |
| Lyrebird A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. Lyrebirds have unique plumes of neutral coloured tailfeathers. Lyrebirds are among Australia's best-known native birds, even though they are rarely seen in their natural habitat. Lyrebird | |
| Atlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the transatlantic slave trade, was the trade of primarily African people supplied to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th century to the 19th century. Most slaves were shipped from West Africa and Central Africa and taken to the New World (primarily Brazil). Atlantic_slave_trade | |
| Zebu Zebus (Bos primigenius indicus), sometimes known as 'humped cattle' or 'indicus' cattle, are a type of cattle better-adapted to tropical environments than the other domestic cattle, the Bos primigenius taurus or 'taurine' types. The scientific name of zebu cattle was originally Bos indicus, but this name is now deemed invalid by ITIS, who classify the zebu under Bos primigenius along with all other domestic cattle and their extinct aurochs ancestors. Zebu | |
| Houses of the Holy Houses of the Holy is the fifth album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on 28 March 1973. The album title is a dedication by the band to their fans who appeared at venues they dubbed "Houses of the Holy." It was the first Led Zeppelin album to not be, at least unofficially, titled after the band. The album represents a musical turning point for Led Zeppelin, as they began to use more layering and production techniques in recording their songs. Houses_of_the_Holy | |
| Thalidomide Thalidomide () is a sedative-hypnotic, and multiple myeloma medication. The drug is a potent teratogen in rabbits and primates including humans Thalidomide |
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