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- ATR (aircraft manufacturer) - Wikipedia
The aircraft would have a cruising speed as high as 330 knots (610 km h; 380 mph) The ATR-82 project (as it was dubbed) was suspended when Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) was formed in early 1996 [37] ATR 92 The company proposed a five-to-six abreast, 95–105 seat airliner at the 1988 Farnborough Air Show
- Gashapon - Wikipedia
The word Gashapon, a Bandai trademark, is onomatopoeic from two sounds, gasha (or gacha) for the hand-cranking action of a toy-vending machine, and pon for the toy capsule landing in the collection tray [2] Gashapon is used for both the machines themselves and the toys obtained from them
- Colt Single Action Army - Wikipedia
The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a single-action revolver handgun It was designed for the U S government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company (today known as Colt's Manufacturing Company) and was adopted as the standard-issued revolver of the U S Army from 1873 to 1892
- The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia
Phrases in the poem have been adopted as the title in a variety of media The words "things fall apart" in the third line are alluded to by Chinua Achebe in his novel Things Fall Apart (1958), [1] The Roots in their album Things Fall Apart (1999), [15] and Jon Ronson in his podcast series Things Fell Apart (2021) [16]
- Egregore - Wikipedia
The Traditionalist School philosopher Julius Evola, in his Revolt Against the Modern World, referred to an elite of spiritually aware people, who keep Tradition alive, [8] [9] as "those who are awake, whom in Greek are called the εγρῄγοροι", [9] apparently alluding to the Watchers, [8] and the most literal sense of their name, which is "wakeful" or "awake"
- Mad scientist - Wikipedia
A common stereotype of a mad scientist The mad scientist (also mad doctor or mad professor) is a stock character of a scientist who is perceived as "mad, bad and dangerous to know" [1] or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments
- Alice Munro - Wikipedia
Alice Ann Munro OOnt ( m ə n ˈ r oʊ mən-ROH; née Laidlaw ˈ l eɪ d l ɔː LAYD-law; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013
- Jacobs Ladder (1990 film) - Wikipedia
Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film [4] directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall and written by Bruce Joel Rubin It stars Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer, an American infantryman whose experiences during his military service in Vietnam result in strange, fragmentary visions and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him
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