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Duckburg maintains a traditional rivalry with Goosetown, another city of Calisota.
Duckburg maintains a traditional rivalry with Goosetown, another city of Calisota.


Fort Duckburg is a fictional place in the fictional state of [[Calisota]].<ref> ''The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Volume 2''</ref> It was originally created by [[Carl Barks]] and then intensively developed by [[Keno Don Rosa]].<ref name='DBD'> {{cite web | url = http://marciodisneycomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/duckburg.html | title = Duckburg | accessdate = 2011-04-11 | work = The Daily Disney | publisher = Marcio Disney Comics}}</ref> It was, in the fictional universe of Barks and Rosa, first built by Sir [[Francis Drake]], who named it "Fort Drakeborough". It was later acquired by [[Cornelius Coot]], who changed the name from "Drakeborough" to "Duckburg" (same meaning). A grandson of Cornelius named [[Clinton Coot]] sold it to [[Scrooge McDuck]], who built his world-famous Money Bin in its site. This would eventually cause McDuck an incredible variety of problems and dilemmas. The first one was caused by the [[Junior Woodchucks]], who were squatting in the site and using it as their headquarters, even though they did not have legal title to it. The dispute led to a small war.{{citation needed|date=October 2006}}
Fort Duckburg is a fictional place in the fictional state of [[Calisota]].<ref> ''The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Volume 2''</ref> It was originally created by [[Carl Barks]] and then intensively developed by [[Keno Don Rosa]].<ref name='DBD'> {{cite web | url = http://marciodisneycomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/duckburg.html | title = Duckburg | accessdate = 2011-04-11 | work = The Daily Disney | publisher = Marcio Disney Comics}}</ref> It was, in the fictional universe of Barks and Rosa, first built by Sir [[Francis Drake]], who named it "Fort Drakeborough". It was later acquired by [[Cornelius Coot]], who changed the name from "Drakeborough" to "Duckburg" (same meaning).


===Calisota===
===Calisota===

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The Duck universe is the fictional world centering on stories about Disney characters Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck. Carl Barks created Scrooge McDuck in 1947, wrote and drew numerous stories involving Donald Duck, his nephews and their wealthy Uncle Scrooge. This work was continued by many American artists and writers.

History

Most of the characters have appeared in the 1980s Disney cartoon series DuckTales. Disney's Darkwing Duck series is nominally set in the DuckTales universe, in a metropolis called St. Canard, although sharing the denizen Launchpad McQuack, and a few crossover episodes involving GizmoDuck, there is no interaction. The Darkwing Duck material does not appear in Barks' comics, as the Darkwing Duck TV series was created decades after Barks's active years as a comic artist. Later, a few characters would be the main characters in the show Quack Pack.

However, in the magazine Disney Adventures, there was a five-part crossover/storyline titled "Legend of the Chaos God" which began with TaleSpin, and continued with Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop, and DuckTales, then concluded with Darkwing Duck.

Duckburg

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Duckburg, as seen in the animated series DuckTales.

Duckburg is the city that serves as the home of Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck, Daisy Duck, and most of their supporting cast. Duckburg was first mentioned in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #49 in 1944, and was created by Carl Barks.[1]

Duckburg is a medium size city located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota. In comic writer Don Rosa's stories, Duckburg is located on the west coast of the United States, though other writers often leave the city's location more vaguely defined. However, in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: "I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast... but if you get out a good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city." Knowing how Don Rosa like to play a gag, it is likely that this city would be Eureka, California (Eureka meaning 'I found it'!). This fits with the river and a large forest south of Eureka.

In the DuckTales episode "Double O' Duck", a map is shown which shows Duckburg as being located approximately where the city of Pittsburgh, PA would be. The city is populated by various anthropomorphized animals, with ducks, dogs, and pigs the most dominant ones. The population is estimated 316 000.

The most prominent landmark in Duckburg is Scrooge McDuck's money bin, a giant building sitting on Killmotor Hill (formerly known as Killmule Hill) in the center of town. The money bin contains both office space and, most famously, three cubic acres of money, the results of Scrooge's lifetime of business and treasure-seeking adventures. Another major landmark in some stories is a large statue of Duckburg's founder, Cornelius Coot.

Duckburg is a major center for Space exploration. Expeditions have been launched from Duckburg to the Moon, Mars, Venus, the Asteroids, and more remote parts of the Galaxy. The town also features a sea port and is in proximity to several mountains, the most notable being "Old Demon Tooth", usually depicted as a towering pointed peak leaning slightly to the side.

Duckburg is home to Yarvard University (a play on the universities of Harvard and Yale), an institution more notable for its athletic teams than for its academic achievements. However, it is the Alma Mater of the Bey of El Daga, an eccentric Levantine ruler.

Located near Duckburg is a farm owned and run by Grandma Duck, Donald's paternal grandmother. Donald's cousin Gus Goose also lives on Grandma's farm as a "farmhand", though his laziness makes him a rather poor farmhand. The farm is often a gathering site for various Duck family holiday celebrations. Grandma's real name is Elvira Coot Duck. She is a direct descendant of Cornelius Coot. Her finest achievement is helping Donald Duck and the Junior Woodchucks to transform her great-grandsons Huey, Dewey, and Louie from wild, destructive little kids to fine upstanding boys.

Duckburg was the setting of the 1987 animated series DuckTales. The cartoon's version of Duckburg was based heavily on the comics' version. Duckburg appeared in the 1990s animated series Quack Pack. In this series, Duckburg was populated almost entirely by human beings, with Donald, Daisy, and Donald's nephews as the only anthropomorphized animals that usually appeared. Moreover, the Money Bin is nowhere to be seen. Duckburg was the setting for one of the three initial levels of the video game Quackshot and also for the second level of the video game Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers.

Duckburg was also used for the setting of Mickey's Birthdayland (later Mickey's Starland) at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom from 1988 to 1996. It even included Grandma Duck's Farm and a statue of Cornelius Coot, though it was more of a rural town than a burgeoning metropolis. The connection to Duckburg was removed as the land was renovated in 1996 to become Mickey's Toontown Fair. However, the Cornelius Coot statue remains.

History

Duckburg has been given a long history by many creators, including such writers as Barks and current Duck comic writer Don Rosa.

In the comics, the location that would eventually become known as Duckburg was originally known as "Fort Drake Borough", a fort built in the 16th century by British explorer Sir Francis Drake. By the 19th century, the fort had been handed over by its departing British occupants to Cornelius Coot, who renamed the fort "Duckburg". "Drake" means a male duck, while "borough" and "burg" are synonyms.

Duckburg remained a quiet, small town until the arrival of wealthy businessman Scrooge McDuck. McDuck had bought the old fort from Clinton Coot, a descendant of Cornelius. Scrooge proceeded to construct his famous money bin and established various businesses in and around Duckburg. This construction caused Duckburg's population to swell, and turned the small town into a bustling city within several decades' time.

Duckburg is probably the largest city in the state of Calisota, but not the capital city. There are no references to the governor, legislature, Capitol, etc., of Calisota in any of the many stories about Duckburg. Duckburg seems to have its own governor, however, if it is not a sort of city state. In more than one story a "Duckburg embassy" is shown, which would place it outside the USA at a legislative level. In a story by Barks the Duckburg embassy displays a flag of Duckburg, which consists of a white duck over a green field. However, in the Don Rosa story "His Majesty, McDuck" (Uncle Scrooge Adventures #14, Gladstone Aug. 1989) Scrooge gains a short-lived independence from the United States for Killmotor Hill, thus placing Duckburg within the U.S.

Duckburg maintains a traditional rivalry with Goosetown, another city of Calisota.

Fort Duckburg is a fictional place in the fictional state of Calisota.[2] It was originally created by Carl Barks and then intensively developed by Keno Don Rosa.[3] It was, in the fictional universe of Barks and Rosa, first built by Sir Francis Drake, who named it "Fort Drakeborough". It was later acquired by Cornelius Coot, who changed the name from "Drakeborough" to "Duckburg" (same meaning).

Calisota

Calisota is a fictional U.S. state, created by Carl Barks in his story "The Gilded Man" (Four Color #422). Duckburg is among the cities located there. So are Goosetown,[4] Mouseton,[5]

Although it has many fictional elements and a variable climate, Calisota is probably roughly equivalent to Northern California. Duckburg has occasionally been said to be seated north of Los Angeles and San Francisco. A map in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck portrays Calisota covering the part of California north of Sacramento.

The name is a blend of California and Minnesota—supposedly to allow all kinds of weather or climate in the stories—although Calisota bears very little in common with the latter (a state in the Upper Midwest, far from the ocean coasts). It may also be a reference to Calistoga, a small town in Napa County, which is, like Duckburg, north of San Francisco.

Money Bin

The money bin is the building where Scrooge McDuck stores the portions of his money he earned by himself and is the tallest building in Duckburg. Carl Barks invented the "money swim" in 1950, while he invented the "money bin" in 1951.[6]

The money bin was built in 1902, shortly after Scrooge entered the diamond market and could no longer sleep at night because all the money he was storing under his mattress raised his bed too close to the ceiling, necessitating a more suitable storage facility for his money. His favorite pastime is to dive off a springboard into his money and swim through it.

Although the money bin is a twelve-story skyscraper and vault (filled with 3 cubic acres of money), on various occasions it has been pulled around by a tractor, lifted to the top of a mountain, stolen by aliens from the bottom of the ocean, and blasted open with a cannon. The traditional location of the Money Bin is on top of Killmotor Hill. The money bin sits atop Futterman's Fault, a fault line which would prove catastrophic in the event of an earthquake.

The money bin is the victim of repeated assaults by Scrooge's enemies who try to steal his money, such as the Beagle Boys, who are after the bulk of Scrooge's money, and Magica DeSpell, who is after Scrooge's "Number One Dime" (the first dime Scrooge ever earned).

To protect against these attempted break-ins, Scrooge has installed the greatest security system in the world to thwart any thought of even trying to intrude onto the premises.

Barks defined the volume of money contained inside as "three cubic acres", but the exact meaning, and therefore the volume, of a "cubic acre" is subject to interpretation by the reader, since an acre is a measure of area, not length, a cubic acre would be a 6-dimensional space of 247,961,850,048,000 feet to the sixth power).[7] A series of blueprints created for a Scrooge McDuck story by Don Rosa state that the money bin is approximately 127 feet (39 m) tall, and 120 feet (37 m) wide. In the story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Keno D. Rosa (which is Don Rosa's actual name).

The Norwegian name for the Money Bin is "Pengebingen", and has become regular word in the Norwegian language for a large amount of money or cash.[8]

Russell W. Belk mentions the money bin in Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth, where he remarks that Scrooge's "childish fascination with money", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the money bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain.[9] Penelope Fritzer in the article Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron considers it possible for the money bin to symbolize the entire Disney empire.[10]

Glomgold's bin

Flintheart Glomgold has his own money bin, somewhere around Limpopo Valley, with a pound sign (£) instead of the dollar sign ($) that appears on Scrooge's as revealed when Scrooge pays him a visit in "The Second-Richest Duck". Although Glomgold uses some of Scrooge's ideas, like the cannon, he apparently doesn't have booby traps around his money bin, as Scrooge enters it without having to handle them although Flintheart didn't know about his visit.

Although it's not so often as Scrooge's, Flintheart's money bin is also victim of assaults, as it's revealed in A Little Something Special, by the Beagle Boys, who don't care if the money they steal is Scrooge's or Flintheart's, and Magica De Spell, who was working with the possibility of Flintheart Glomgold being the world's richest duck, meaning she would need his "Number One Rand" instead of Scrooge's "Number One Dime".

Number One Dime

The Number One Dime is the first coin that Scrooge McDuck ever earned (or, according to some stories, produced). The Number One Dime first appeared in the story titled "The Round Money Bin", created by Carl Barks and first published in Uncle Scrooge #3 (September, 1953). In this story, the dime is so old that it has become thin as a razor blade and allows Scrooge to cut binding ropes and escape from the Beagle Boys. In later stories, it is insinuated that the dime brings good luck to Scrooge and has helped him become a rich man, and in some stories he instantly starts losing money whenever the dime is no longer in his possession. It is never made clear whether the dime actually brings good luck or if Scrooge merely believes in it so much that he is distressed and makes bad decisions whenever he no longer has the dime. Since Barks never actually said that it was because of the coin that Scrooge was the richest duck in the world, Don Rosa, after various informations exchange with Barks, for a faithful production of Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck, clarified that The Number One Dime is not actually an amulet, and that this vision was just a myth. The Number One Dime is just a sentimental object that happens to be the first coin Scrooge received for his work. Rosa made clear, also, that Scrooge made his fortune working hard and being honest.

According to a comic story by Don Rosa,[11] it is an 1875 Seated Liberty dime, but in a comic story written by Pat and Carol McGreal and drawn by Maximino Tortajada Aguilar,[12] the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 Seated Liberty dime.

According to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa, Scrooge earned the dime in 1877 in his hometown of Glasgow, when he started working as a shoeshine boy on his tenth birthday. Before that it belonged to Howard Rockerduck (the father of John D. Rockerduck). The customer who paid it to him, a ditch-digger called Burt, "cheated" Scrooge from Scrooge's point of view (an American dime being unspendable in Scotland). In reality, Scrooge's father, Fergus McDuck, gave Burt the dime specifically for paying Scrooge for his services. Scrooge McDuck never learned that fact, although Fergus did reveal it to Scrooge's sisters Matilda and Hortense. Burt and Magica De Spell, who learned about this when she traveled in time to the day Scrooge earned the Dime, are the only other ones who know. McDuck kept it as a reminder not to be fooled again in the future. When he emigrated to the US three years later, he carried it with him. Scrooge still has the dime and keeps it on a pillow under glass because it is very special to him. Donald Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Gladstone Gander among many others think it is really a lucky charm, but Scrooge himself maintains it has only sentimental value.

The TV show Duck Tales deals with the origin of the dime in an episode entitled, "Once Upon a Dime". The episode can be viewed in the Duck Tales DVD collection: Volume 3. In the episode, Scrooge explains to his Nephews how the dime came into his possession.

The cartoon is similar to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa, because Scrooge receives the dime by shining shoes. Unable to spend the dime in Scotland, Scrooge travels to America by boat (The Queen Mary of Scots), where he meets his Uncle Catfish McDuck, who was working as a Riverboat Captain. Scrooge is quickly arrested for wearing a skirt in public (a Kilt). Scrooge had to give his dime up for bail. Judge Scotty McGillicutty released Scrooge because he was a Scot himself. The Judge sentenced the cop who arrested Scrooge to 30 days wearing a kilt.

The Judge gave Scrooge his dime back, and Scrooge went to work for his Uncle Catfish on a River Boat. Scrooge helps his Uncle win a River Boat race against Old Man Ribbit (Old Man River) and the Beaver Boys, the prize being the Corpone Gables plantation. The Race was from Notches (Most likely a parody of Natches, Mississippi) to Rivers Bend. Scrooge and his Uncle manned the Cortland Queen, while Old Man Ribbit manned the Silt Slapper. Uncle Catfish won the race with the help of Scrooge, and Scrooge was paid a shiny half dollar.

Scrooge later went into business himself, getting involved in the Klondike gold rush. Scrooge struck gold, and bought himself a train, and had a railroad built to Oklahoma. Scrooge was swindled into buying some Oklahoma timberland, but when he got there, he found out there were no trees. When Scrooge got to Oklahoma, he couldn't pay his workers. The workers chased Scrooge, and he tried to bury his dime. While digging in the ground, Scrooge struck oil.

Scrooge was later talked into searching for diamonds, and bought some worthless coal mining property in Africa. Scrooge had a herd of stampeding elephants crush the coal, which in turn turned the coal to diamonds underneath all of the pressure. The episode ends with Scrooge telling his Nephews that family is the most important thing in life.

The first time Magica got the Dime took place in "The Midas Touch", the story where she and Emily Quackfaster debuted. Magica intended to create an amulet with coins belonged to rich people and offered one dollar (the amount may vary according to time and place of each publication) for one of Scrooge's dimes. Scrooge was so excited he accidentally sold the Dime. After realizing that, he ran after Magica and asked her to change it for another one (he couldn't force her, since she acquired it honestly) and she agrees, unaware it was his first dime. Scrooge was so happy he tells her it's the Number One Dime and Magica then steals it anyway and Scrooge and family go to Mt. Vesuvius to get it back.

In at least two stories, Magica gets the Dime and later realizes she turned it useless in the process. In The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck - Part 0 - Of Ducks, Dimes and Destinies, she steals the Dime before Scrooge earns it, but gives it back after realizing the Dime won't be the first coin earned by the richest man on Earth if he never actually gets it. In A Little Something Special, she teams up with Blackheart Beagle, the Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold to get the Dime. While the other villains put Scrooge's money in a train, he reminds Magica he's no longer rich, thus making his first dime useless for her spell. Now that she has no idea of how to make her spell work, Scrooge gives her advice for a price. Magica ends the story by stealing Flintheart's first coin.

Characters

The Junior Woodchucks

The Junior Woodchucks are the Scouting organization to which Huey, Dewey, and Louie belong. They have a uniform with a coonskin cap. The Junior Woodchucks were created by Carl Barks in 1951, in the story "Operation St. Bernhard" (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #125). Later stories introduced a similar organization for girls, Junior Chickadees, to which Daisy Duck's nieces, April, May and June belong. A hallmark of the Woodchucks are exalted titles and ranks (Huey, Dewey, and Louie being promoted to become Ten Star Generals in the 1952 story of that name) and the awarding of buckets of badges, along with severe ideals as to decorum. In this way Barks poked gentle but pointed satire at aspects of the Boy Scouts.

Brutopia

Brutopia (a portmanteau word from brute and Utopia) is a fictional country appearing in several Donald Duck stories. It was created by Carl Barks in 1957. Brutopia is a very hostile country, aiming for world domination. It is clearly a caricature of the Soviet Union. In the Duck universe, Brutopia occasionally attempts to steal Scrooge's money so as to devastate the American economy, and to fund the creation of doomsday weaponry. The currency of Brutopia is the peso. Its coat of arms is the hammer and handcuffs.

Whether Brutopia is a stand-in for all of the former USSR, or just for part of it, varies with the story. Sometimes parallels to Russia are drawn directly. Don Rosa has suggested that Brutopia might instead represent the eastern part of Siberia.

The language of Brutopia often looks somewhat Slavic. On some occasions it is written in Cyrillic script. On the other hand, Brutopians seem to speak perfect, non-accented English; and other stories show English language texts being used by Brutopians, suggesting that the national language could be English.

In 1957, Brutopia's military spending budget amounted to one trillion dollars plus all the kitchen sinks of its happy people (a number that on closer inspection turned out to be five). Scrooge McDuck outbid the Brutopian government by paying one trillion dollars and six kitchen sinks for a sample of the recently discovered substance of bombastium.

According to Disney stories written and drawn in the post-Barks period, the capital of Brutopia is Brutengrad. The country is no longer a dictatorship, as the former regime was overthrown by a popular revolt, and the tyrant forced to flee.

In modern usage

The Australian centre-left then Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, used the term to criticize the economic policies of the Howard Government, notably in an essay in the November 2006 issue of The Monthly magazine entitled "Howard's Brutopia: The Battle of Ideas in Australian Politics".[13] According to Rudd, a "brutopia" is a place of "unchecked market forces", incompatible with both "fairness" and "the so-called conservative institutions of family, community, church and country". Rudd argues that Australia is becoming such a place due to the Howard Government's "market fundamentalism". For example, he claims that as a result of the Government's labour market liberalization, "Breadwinners are now at risk of working less predictable shifts, spread over a seven-day week, not sensitive to weekends and possibly for less take-home pay. The pressures on relationships, parenting and the cost and quality of childcare are without precedent... Neo-liberalism's core philosophical dilemma is that it has no answer to the relentless march of market fundamentalism into the sanctum of the family itself. The Christian churches should be concerned about where this march ultimately ends." In the essay, Rudd writes that the term "brutopia" was borrowed from British conservative Michael Oakeshott.

The then Australian Treasurer, Peter Costello, ridiculed Rudd's use of the term on 8 February 2007 in the Australian Parliament: "We have unemployment at 4.5 per cent. We have had 300,000 new jobs in the last year and we have had 2 million new jobs over the last 10 years. The Leader of the Opposition says that all of this represents free market fundamentalism, and he describes this economy as Howard's Brutopia... There has been some speculation as to what a Brutopia is. I can now authoritatively inform the House that Brutopia is a fictional country which appears in several Donald Duck stories... Labor [is] drawing inspiration for its economic analysis from a Donald Duck magazine, Mr Speaker! This is the evolutionary cycle of the Labor Party. We have now moved from Mark Latham's roosters to Kevin Rudd's ducks, Mr Speaker. Managing the Australian economy, which is a $1 trillion economy, takes experience and commitment—and you do not get your analysis from Donald Duck comics. It is much more serious than that."[14][15]

Bombastium

Bombastium is a fictional chemical element which is not on the actual periodic table. Atomic number and atomic symbol are unknown. Bombastium, mentioned the first time by Carl Barks in 1957 (Uncle Scrooge No. 17), is claimed to be the rarest element in the world. Even though it is very coveted, its usage potential is not entirely known. Though, it does have the characteristic that it tastes different every time you taste it, and scientists did eventually discover that one atom of bombastium dropped into a barrel of water becomes one barrel of ice cream - a different flavor of ice cream each time. Also, to avoid evaporation, bombastium must be kept frozen.

The last piece of bombastium known to exist (about the size of a soccer ball) was acquired by Scrooge McDuck of Duckburg in 1957, but at that time it was also heavily sought after by the hostile nation of Brutopia. Brutopia's military spending budget that year amounted to one trillion dollars plus all the kitchen sinks of its happy people. Scrooge McDuck therefore had to pay one trillion dollars plus six kitchen sinks to win the auction.

The element was also used for the 5-part DuckTales episode Time is Money, which introduced Bubba the Caveduck. In this cartoon episode, bombastium is the fuel for one of Gyro Gearloose's inventions, a time traveling helicopter named the Millennium Shortcut. The bombastium itself must be kept frozen in order for it to be usable as fuel (a small freezer is equipped onboard the Shortcut for this purpose). Otherwise, the Shortcut could not travel through time.

One of the treasures that can be obtained in the computer game DuckTales: The Quest for Gold is bombastium. Unlike the other treasures, bombastium is worth more than just money, as Gyro Gearloose can use it to build a matter transporter which takes away the risk of flying from place to place while having the possible downside of sending the player to a location they hadn't intended to go.

See also

References

  1. ^ "A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe: W WDC 49-02 tight-wire walkers". Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  2. ^ The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Volume 2
  3. ^ "Duckburg". The Daily Disney. Marcio Disney Comics. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
  4. ^ "Boxing Donald," Uncle Scrooge 367 (2007); Goosetown is explicitly identified as being in Calisota. It should be noted that many other stories imply as much without explicitly saying so.
  5. ^ Examples: "Back From the Brink", Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 661 (2005); "The World to Come Part 1: The Numbers Crunch", Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 703 (2010).
  6. ^ Carl Barks: Conversations, p xxxviii. Google Books
  7. ^ From the WSJ Opinion Archives - Big Money, James Taranto, The Wall Street Journal, 8 June 2005. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  8. ^ Vår tids eventyr ("Our time's adventure") nrk.no May 6, 2003 Template:No icon
  9. ^ The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 14, No. 1. (Jun., 1987), pp. 26-42.
  10. ^ The Journal for the Liberal Art and Sciences, Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron, Penelope Fritzer, Florida Atlantic University
  11. ^ The Last of the Clan McDuck p. 5
  12. ^ See Kalle Anka & C:o issue 1-2/2010 p. 66-69.
  13. ^ "Howard's Brutopia: The Battle of Ideas in Australian Politics"
  14. ^ PM - Costello lampoons Rudd on economics
  15. ^ [1][dead link]

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