MacGuffin - Film. One particularly famous early movie example of a MacGuffin is the titular statuette in The Maltese Falcon. Roger Ebert defines the term in his commentary track for Casablanca, where he points out that the "letters of transit"[2] in the film are a MacGuffin. Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir classic, Chinatown uses a MacGuffin in the form of the fake Mrs. Mulwray who drives the plot but ultimately bears little influence in the grand scheme of things. A ...

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MacGuffin, MacGuffin - In Hitchcock's films, MacGuffin - Other examples, MacGuffin - Film, MacGuffin - Television, MacGuffin - The written word, MacGuffin - Video Games

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Deus ex machina - Literature and comics. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the kidnapping of Hamlet, alone, by pirates in order to escape his orchestrated death in England is in large part an example of deus ex machina, only toward the climax of the play. Shakespeare's As You Like It also has an example of deux ex machina when Hymen comes to the mass wedding to sort out the problems of Rosalind's stay and disguise in the Forest of Arden. A Series of Unfortunate Events, ...

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Deus ex machina - Literature and comics. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the kidnapping of Hamlet, alone, by pirates in order to escape his orchestrated death in England is in large part an example of deus ex machina, only toward the climax of the play. A Series of Unfortunate Events, particularly The Vile Village, references a deus ex machina, particularly when referring to the Self Sustaining Hot Air Mobile Home. In the Edgar Allan Poe story The Pit and the Pendu ...

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Deus ex machina, Deus ex machina - Deus ex machina in fiction works, Deus ex machina - Literature and comics, Deus ex machina - Cinema and television, Deus ex machina - Video Games, Deus ex machina - Music

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Blowfish has a 64-bit block size and a key length of anywhere from 32 bits to 448 bits. It is a 16-round Feistel cipher and uses large key-dependent S-boxes. It is similar in structure to CAST-128, which uses fixed S-boxes. The diagram to the left shows the action of Blowfish. Each line represents 32 bits. The algorithm keeps two subkey arrays: the 18-entry P-array and four 256-entry S-boxes. The S-boxes accept 8-bit input and produce 32-bit output. One entry of the P-array is used every round, and after the final round, each half of the data block is XORe ...

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Blowfish cipher, Blowfish cipher - The algorithm, Blowfish cipher - Cryptanalysis of Blowfish, Blowfish cipher - Blowfish in practice

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Typical quests involve killing a set number of creatures or collecting a list of specific items. Some quests may take only a few minutes or hours to complete, while others may take several days or weeks. Often, the larger the reward, the longer the quests takes to finish, and it is common for a quest to require a player's character to be a certain level before they are allowed to begin. Some games, like EverQuest, have certain quests that can only be completed by player characters of a specific class or race. In turn, the rewards for those quests are often only useable by them. Other quests are do ...

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Quest gaming, Quest gaming - Overview of quests, Quest gaming - Side-quest, Quest gaming - Multiquest, Quest gaming - Quest chain, Quest gaming - Types of quests, Quest gaming - Fetch quest, Quest gaming - Fedex quest, Quest gaming - Collect the pieces plot/quest

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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a British-born film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. He began directing in the United Kingdom before working mostly in the United States from 1939 onwards, becoming an American citizen in 1956. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the color era. Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular directors of all time, famous for his expert and often unriva ...

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• Alfred Hitchcock - Themes and devices
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• Alfred Hitchcock - His style of working
• Alfred Hitchcock - Awards
• Alfred Hitchcock - Quotations
• Alfred Hitchcock - Other notes
• Alfred Hitchcock - Filmography
• Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films
• Alfred Hitchcock - Sound films
• Alfred Hitchcock - Television episodes
• Alfred Hitchcock - Frequent collaborators

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Art theft is the stealing of someone else's high-profile art. This is usually done for the purpose of resale; occasionally thieves are also commissioned by dedicated private collectors. Art theft - Individual theft. Many thieves are motivated by the fact that reasonably valuable art pieces are worth millions of dollars and weigh only a few kilograms, at most. Transportation is also trivial, assuming the thief is willing to inflict some damage to the painting by cutting it off the frame and rolling it up int ...

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• Art theft - Individual theft
• Art theft - Famous cases of art theft
• Art theft - The Mona Lisa 1911
• Art theft - Panels from the Ghent Altarpiece 1934
• Art theft - Last Judgment triptych by Memling 1473
• Art theft - The Gardner Museum 1990
• Art theft - Russborough House
• Art theft - Stephane Breitwieser - The Art Collector ~2001
• Art theft - Frankfurt art theft and Operation Cobalt 1994-2003
• Art theft - Edvard Munch works 1994 2004 and 2005
• Art theft - Saliera
• Art theft - Theft during the Holocaust
• Art theft - Recovery
• Art theft - The portrayal of art theft in popular media
• Art theft - Literature
• Art theft - Film

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Bruce Schneier (born January 15, 1963) is an American cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer. He is the author of several books on computer security and cryptography, and is the founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security[1]. Originally from New York, Schneier currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife Karen Cooper. Schneier has a Master's in computer science degree from American University and a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Rochester. Before Counterpane, he worked at the Un ...

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Bokononism is the fictional religion practiced by many of the characters in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. It is based on living by the untruths that make one happy, called foma. Many of the sacred texts of Bokononism were written in the form of calypsos. Bokonon is the founder of the religion. He was born Lionel Boyd Johnson. "Bokonon" was the way the natives of San Lorenzo, the tropi ...

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24 is a current U.S. television action/drama series, produced by the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide. It is named 24 because the action on the show ostensibly occurs in "real time", with each season covering the events of one day in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). The show also follows Jack's colleagues at the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles, as well as the actions of both various terrorists and the White House. Every episode in a season covers the events of one hour in that day (henc ...

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• 24 television - Season 1
• 24 television - Season 2
• 24 television - Season 3
• 24 television - Season 4
• 24 television - Season 5
• 24 television - Behind-the-scenes information
• 24 television - General trivia
• 24 television - Fan phone
• 24 television - Main cast
• 24 television - Broadcasters
• 24 television - DVD releases
• 24 television - Region 1
• 24 television - Region 2
• 24 television - Region 3

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Fantasy media Fantastic art Fantasy literature Fantasy authors Fantasy fiction magazines Fantasy art Fantasy films Fantasy operas Genre studies History of fantasy Fantasy subgenres Fantasy themes Quests & Artifacts Fantasy races Fantasy worlds Legendary creatures Fantasy subculture Lovecraftianism Tolkien fan ...

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Quest gaming - Fetch quest. The fetch quest is a somewhat derogatory name for a common sort of quest seen in many video game role-playing games (RPGs) and adventure games. There are several highly recognizable stages to the standard fetch quest: Your party is told to go find an item, usually rare, usually obtainable in only one place. You must travel to and through that place, which is more often than not a dungeon. You'll probably have to fight a boss t ...

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Quest gaming, Quest gaming - Overview of quests, Quest gaming - Side-quest, Quest gaming - Multiquest, Quest gaming - Quest chain, Quest gaming - Types of quests, Quest gaming - Fetch quest, Quest gaming - Fedex quest, Quest gaming - Collect the pieces plot/quest

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There is no effective cryptanalysis of Blowfish known publicly as of 2006, although the 64-bit block size is now considered too short, because encrypting more than 232 data blocks can begin to leak information about the plaintext due to a birthday attack. Despite this, Blowfish seems thus far to be secure. While the short block size does not pose any serious concerns for routine consumer applications like e-mail, Blowfish may not be suitable in situations w ...

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Blowfish cipher, Blowfish cipher - The algorithm, Blowfish cipher - Cryptanalysis of Blowfish, Blowfish cipher - Blowfish in practice

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Blowfish is one of the fastest block ciphers in widespread use, except when changing keys. Each new key requires pre-processing equivalent to encrypting about 4 kilobytes of text, which is very slow compared to other block ciphers. This prevents its use in certain applications, but is not a problem in others. In one application, it is actually a benefit: the password-hashing method used in OpenBSD uses an algorithm derived from Blowfish that makes use of the slow key schedule; the idea is that the extra computational effo ...

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Blowfish cipher, Blowfish cipher - The algorithm, Blowfish cipher - Cryptanalysis of Blowfish, Blowfish cipher - Blowfish in practice

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Casablanca is a 1942 movie set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, and stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa. It focuses on Rick's conflict between, in the words of one character, love and virtue: he must choose between his love for Ilsa and his need to do the right thing by helping her husband, Resistance hero Victor Laszlo, escape f ...

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• Casablanca film - Cinematography
• Casablanca film - Music
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• Casablanca film - Sequels
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• Casablanca film - Myths
• Casablanca film - Errors
• Casablanca film - Criticism
• Casablanca film - Awards
• Casablanca film - Quotes

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Art theft - The Mona Lisa 1911. Perhaps the most famous case of art theft occurred on August 21, 1911, when the Mona Lisa was stolen out of the Louvre. It would be two years before it was recovered. French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had once called for the Louvre to be "burnt down", was arrested and put in jail on suspicion of theft. His friend Pablo Picasso was br ...

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Art theft, Art theft - Individual theft, Art theft - Famous cases of art theft, Art theft - The Mona Lisa 1911, Art theft - Panels from the Ghent Altarpiece 1934, Art theft - Last Judgment triptych by Memling 1473, Art theft - The Gardner Museum 1990, Art theft - Russborough House, Art theft - Stephane Breitwieser - The Art Collector ~2001, Art theft - Frankfurt art theft and Operation Cobalt 1994-2003, Art theft - Edvard Munch works 1994 2004 and 2005, Art theft - Saliera, Art theft - Theft during the Holocaust, Art theft - Recovery, Art theft - The portrayal of art theft in popular media, Art theft - Literature, Art theft - Film

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Technology in the Stargate universe - Healing Device. Main articles: Ancient Healing Device, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}} ...

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Lenny's most obvious friend is Carl Carlson (see below), as they are rarely seen apart. Other friends are Homer, and the regulars at Moe's Tavern, including Barney Gumble and Moe Szyslak. In one episode Lenny's friends attempt to throw a surprise party for him at Moe's, which is ruined by Homer. He then sits on a cake shaped like Lenny's favorite barstool, ruining it completely. Homer repeatedly confuses Carl and Lenny, and is on one occasion surprised to find out that Lenny is white and Carl is black. In one episode, Homer exclaims, "That's Lenny? I wanted the black one!" and in another he has, "Lenny= ...

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Lenny Leonard, Lenny Leonard - Statistics, Lenny Leonard - Address, Lenny Leonard - Job, Lenny Leonard - Friends, Lenny Leonard - Romantic Life, Lenny Leonard - Relationship with Carl, Lenny Leonard - Political views, Lenny Leonard - Lenny's sensitive eye, Lenny Leonard - Stardom, Lenny Leonard - Original source

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The following is Lavos' instinctual life process, as it is explained in Chrono Trigger. Lavos crashes onto a planet. Upon landing on the planet, Lavos buries itself into the planet's core at incredible speed, making a nest in the core. While it sleeps in its subterranean nest, it subconciously and forcefully evolves all life on the planet, while continuously collecting DNA from every living thing in the world. Because of humanity's dominance, this may be the reason Lavos' true, inner form is humanoid.See also:

Lavos, Lavos - Lavos' life cycle, Lavos - Extra information

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The whole film is set in a bizarre, sometimes dreamlike atmosphere, flirting with the absurd and surreal. The photography, dialogue and story are in turn exquisitely beautiful, and nastily brutal. The sets are constructed with great care and symbolism, with much attention paid to the slightly surreal surroundings in which the characters perform both grittily real and strangely whimsical dialogue. A famous and influential sequence in the film features Jules on a moped fleeing pursuers through the Paris Métro. Throughout the movie, the substituted tape acts as a MacGu ...

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Diva film, Diva film - Story, Diva film - Overview, Diva film - Casting:, Diva film - Awards

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