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13 Freaky Facts About Friday the 13th - Live Science  Jul 13, 2012 ... Those are the scientific terms for fear of Friday the 13th. ... and hospitals often skip the 13th floor, and even airports quietly omit gate 13 sometimes. ... 13, 1999, would have been his 100th birthday. ... He allegedly said the film wasn't very interesting. ... Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party.
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A Bad Year if You Fear Friday the 13th - The New York Times  Apr 12, 1984 ... He was betrayed by one and crucified on a Friday. ... My rational mind just loves information of this sort - loves to know, for instance, that the ... windage by the second and would then pop the third smoker by the flare on his face. ... Such behavior is, of course, neurotic, but I sometimes think it is neurosis and...
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20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS 2006 marks the centennial of this ...  2006 marks the centennial of this absurdist known for his sometimes bleak outlook; he was born on Good Friday, the 13th...
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Samuel Beckett - Wikipedia  Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet ... Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, 13 April 1906 to William Frank .... he had seen and noted his distaste for the Nazi savagery that was overtaking ..... This has led to his work sometimes being described as minimalist.
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jeopardy/1463_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | His wife Vera, not Lolita, was the .... 2006 marks the centennial of this absurdist known for his sometimes bleak outlook; he was born on Good Friday, the 13th | Samuel Beckett.
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Nostradamus in popular culture - Wikipedia  The prophecies of the 16th century author Nostradamus have become a ubiquitous part of the ..... The Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures novel The King of Terror features the Fifth Doctor ... with the seer Michel de Notredame in the dark days of The Black Plague in Europe: .... Les premires Centuries ou Prophties, 1996, p.
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Maurice Sendak, Featured Author - Carol Hurst's Children's ...  Although much of his work is unsettling, even disturbing, it opened up new vistas ... "I seem to have been blessed, or cursed, with a vivid memory of childhood," ... In 1970, he continued his journey into the darker side with In the Night Kitchen, which ... Although he has no children of his own, Sendak says he can hardly hold...
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Grandad by Debra Nystrom | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison ...  Sep 5, 2004 ... It's the birthday of Arthur Koestler, born in Budapest, Hungary (1905). He's best known for his novel Darkness at Noon (1940) about the Moscow...
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November | 2007 | The Toynbee convector  Nov 30, 2007 ... And I suppose you could say that European architecture, Gothic, .... After the war he believed that only communism could provide a new and clean culture. ... Proponents of this theory include Pasolini's lifelong friend, the painter and ... at the end of this ritual  beheading the one who has committed seppuku...
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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank ... - AbeBooks  Frank was a physicist like his father. Also, like his father, he suffered under the Red Scare. ... Tragically, Frank and Robert both had their careers destroyed by the Red Scare. ... In many ways it was Frank's answer to the atom bomb. ... and Robert Oppenheimer, approximately 1915, Frank Oppenheimer with gyro, late 1950s.
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Annotated Bibliography - Google Docs  Ellroy's great gift as a writer is his ability to view history from the bottom up; Ellroy's ... Ellroy's 1987 novel, The Black Dahlia, marked the grand culmination of his long ... about her he never knew; He was the Demon Dog of American literature ... Ellroy considers himself more of a historical novelist rather that just a crime...
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George A. Romero - Wikipedia  George Andrew Romero is an American-Canadian filmmaker and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968). ... Between these two films, Romero shot Knightriders (1981), another festival favorite about a...
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Written Works - The HP Lovecraft Archive  A: Since Lovecraft only lived to be 46, one would expect his literary output to be rather small. ... 1933); The Thing on the Doorstep (21-24 August 1933); The Evil Clergyman ... The Call of Cthulhu; The Shadow over Innsmouth; The Dunwich Horror ... The prices listed include shipping and handling and these books can be...
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13 Facts About Friday the 13th - Timeanddate.com  Friday the 13th: 13 Facts About the Unluckiest Day in the Calendar ... The first documented mention of the day can be found in a biography of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, who died on a Friday 13th. ... For a month to have a Friday the 13th, the month must begin on a Sunday. ... Learn more about the days of the week.
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He's so cute haha Love his eyes | Alice Cooper | Pinterest | Alice ...  How many times has Mr. Cooper sang at a Red Wings game? .... Alice Cooper born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948 is an American rock singer, ..... theme song from Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and appeared in such films as...
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Humor in America | HA! Intelligent writing about humor and stuff  Five of the first seven Great Pumpkin strips reveal Linus Van Pelt spreading the joyful ... Laughter here is defensive: relief at seeing something so horrible happen to someone else. ... HEMPSTEAD, NYSaying he would probably introduce the falsehood in his .... I am convinced that the very concept induces anxiety.
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Spend Halloween with Ray Bradbury | Books | The Guardian  Oct 30, 2008 ... David Barnett: For seasonal shivers, Fahrenheit 451's author has also ... he is descended from a woman who was tried for witchcraft at Salem,...
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The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress - The Atlantic  It is out of the bounty and abundance of his own nature that he is as amusing in the execution as in the conception of his work. And it is always good-humored...
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The Troubling Genius of G. K. Chesterton - The New Yorker  Jul 7, 2008 ... The Man Who Was Thursday is one of the hidden hinges of ... of Notting Hill, the nearest thing that this masterly writer wrote to a masterpiece. .... but only of a row of houses at a certain time of day, and that we go wrong...