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  • appreciation for the artistry of the swindler, often praising the cleverness of the con and blaming its victim. Modern editions have been entitled both The Book Against...
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    For this reason, "Follow the Water" was the science theme of NASA's Mars Exploration Program (MEP) in the first decade of the 21st century. NASA and ESA...
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    games". Although "swindling" in general usage is synonymous with cheating or fraud, in chess the term does not imply that the swindler has done anything...
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  • Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (ふしぎの海のナディア, Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, lit. "Nadia of the Mysterious Seas") is a Japanese animated television series inspired...
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    The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895) or the First China–Japan War was a conflict between the Qing dynasty and the Empire of Japan...
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    execute. Because of the need to conserve limited fresh water supplies, baths were supplied with sea water; only the attached showers of the private bathrooms...
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    (1860). Record of the Court at Upland, in Pennsylvania, 1676 to 1681. Vol. 7. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. p. 196. Swindler, William F...
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    The first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933, when he was inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and...
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    portrays a charming swindler who runs afoul of a news reporter and a Keystone Cop. In addition to co-writing the "scenario" and directing the production, Henry...
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    member of the Federalist Party. He had remarked that Hamilton's economic program, centered around banks, would "swindle" the poor and unleash the "gangrene...
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  • Dragon Ball is the first of two anime adaptations of the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. Produced by Toei Animation, the anime series premiered...
    214 KB (253 words) - 18:57, 2 August 2024
  • The Great Global Warming Swindle is a 2007 British polemical documentary film directed by Martin Durkin. The film denies the scientific consensus about...
    85 KB (10,387 words) - 20:59, 3 August 2024
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    Nautilus (1800 submarine) (category Age of Sail submarines of the United States)
    Napoleon decided Fulton was a swindler and charlatan. The French navy had no enthusiasm for a weapon they considered suicidal for the crews even though Fulton...
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  • regular series was preceded by the two-hour pilot movie, which first aired on March 30, 1974. The series began on the NBC network on September 11, 1974...
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    2307/2674364. JSTOR 2674364. PMID 18273995. Swindler, William F. (February 1981). "Our First Constitution: The Articles of Confederation". American Bar Association...
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  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, known as Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1955 to 1962, aired 32 episodes during its ninth season from 1963 to 1964. "Previews...
    67 KB (34 words) - 09:35, 29 July 2024
  • A list of torture methods and devices includes: Blackmail Chinese water torture Humiliation Subjection to periods of interrogation Music torture Forced...
    20 KB (2,479 words) - 05:11, 28 July 2024
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    some of the old copper skin for testing. The torch, found to have been leaking water since the 1916 alterations, was replaced with an exact replica of Bartholdi's...
    131 KB (13,913 words) - 23:52, 27 July 2024
  • Stockton, California, from 1876-1878. The one-hour episodes follow the lives of the Barkley family, one of the wealthiest and largest ranch-owning families...
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  • series which ran from January 9, 1959 until December 7, 1965, with a total of 217 episodes across eight seasons. It aired on CBS in black-and-white and...
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