Monty Python

Unlike the other Pythons, who wrote in pairs (Cleese/Chapman and Palin/Jones), Idle wrote alone. His work was often closely associated with long, complex speeches or catchy one-liners. Amongst the many Python sketches written by Idle is the "Nudge Nudge Wink Wink" sketch, the title of which has become a catchphrase. His skills as a singer-songwriter were also put to use in his work with Monty Python, having written the majority of the songs featured in their television series' and films. These include "Eric the Half-a-Bee", "Th ...

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Eric Idle, Eric Idle - Early Life, Eric Idle - University Life, Eric Idle - Monty Python, Eric Idle - Writing, Eric Idle - Other Performances, Eric Idle - External link

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Monty Python - Michael Palin. The youngest Python by a matter of weeks, Palin is often labelled 'the nice one'. He attended Oxford, where he met his Python writing partner Terry Jones. The two also wrote the series Ripping Yarns together. Palin and Jones originally wrote together, but soon found it was more productive to write apart and then come together and review what the other had written. Therefore, Jones and Palin's sketches tended to be more focused than that of the other four, taking one bizarre, hilariou ...

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Monty Python, Monty Python - History pre-Python, Monty Python - Flying Circus and the Python style, Monty Python - Life after Python, Monty Python - Python Monty Pictures, Monty Python - Going solo, Monty Python - The End?, Monty Python - The Pythons, Monty Python - Michael Palin, Monty Python - Terry Jones, Monty Python - Eric Idle, Monty Python - John Cleese, Monty Python - Graham Chapman, Monty Python - Terry Gilliam, Monty Python - The 7th Python, Monty Python - Python media, Monty Python - Television, Monty Python - Films, Monty Python - Albums, Monty Python - Theatre, Monty Python - Trivia, Monty Python - Sources

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Diomedea Thalassarche Phoebastria Phoebetria The albatrosses are seabirds in the family Diomedeidae, which is closely allied to the procellarids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic although fossil remains show they once occurred there too. Albatrosses are amongst the largest of flying birds, and the great albatrosses from the genus Diomedea ...

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• Albatross - Albatross biology
• Albatross - Morphology and flight
• Albatross - Diet
• Albatross - Breeding
• Albatross - Albatrosses and humans
• Albatross - Etymology
• Albatross - Albatrosses and culture
• Albatross - Threats and conservation
• Albatross - Species

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In the Christian story of the Passion of Jesus, Barabbas, actually Jesus bar-Abbas, (Aramaic Bar-abbâ, "son of the father"), was the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem. The penalty for Barabbas' crime was death by crucifixion, but according to all four Gospels there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judaea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim, and the "crowd" (ochlos) — which b ...

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• Barabbas - Jesus Barabbas
• Barabbas - Barabbas' crime
• Barabbas - Historicity
• Barabbas - Were Barabbas and Jesus the same person?
• Barabbas - A possible parable
• Barabbas - Other uses

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The autism rights movement was started by adult autistic individuals in order to advocate and demand tolerance for what they refer to as their neurodiversity. The movement is supported by some neurotypicals including parents of autistic children. The movement has been criticized by parents of autistic children who disagree with its anti-cure and pro-neurodiversity views. The use of the Internet has made it possible for autistics to present their perspective when they do not have the communication skills to do so offline. Even s ...

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• Autism rights movement - The anti-cure perspective
• Autism rights movement - People in the movement
• Autism rights movement - Role of parents in the movement
• Autism rights movement - Organized groups
• Autism rights movement - Individuals
• Autism rights movement - Numbers
• Autism rights movement - History
• Autism rights movement - Noteworthy events in the movement
• Autism rights movement - Issues
• Autism rights movement - Ethical challenges to autism treatment
• Autism rights movement - Opposition to eliminating autism
• Autism rights movement - Opposition to an alleged insulting view of autism
• Autism rights movement - Adult issues
• Autism rights movement - Misconceptions of autistic traits
• Autism rights movement - Functioning labels
• Autism rights movement - Status as a social minority group
• Autism rights movement - Activist methods and activities
• Autism rights movement - Speculation of autism in famous people
• Autism rights movement - Activist campaigns
• Autism rights movement - Controversy
• Autism rights movement - Criticism
• Autism rights movement - Responses from the movement
• Autism rights movement - Ongoing debate
• Autism rights movement - Criticism within the movement
• Autism rights movement - Notes

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Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the late Victorian world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. The technological innovations of the 19th century had opened the possibility of rapid circumnavigation and the prospect fascinated Verne and his readership. The ...

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• Around the World in Eighty Days - Plot summary
• Around the World in Eighty Days - Notes
• Around the World in Eighty Days - Imitators
• Around the World in Eighty Days - Film adaptations

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The Beatles were a British rock/pop group from Liverpool, England. The group shattered many sales records and charted more than fifty top 40 hit singles, including twenty #1 hits in the USA alone, becoming the biggest musical act of the twentieth century. EMI Records estimated in 1985 that the band had sold over a billion records worldwide[1]. The band's songs covered many genres (including ballads, reggae, psychedelic music, blues, heavy metal and country music) and opened the door for many new musical styles and production techniques. The Beatles' influence extended beyond music into ...

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• The Beatles - History
• The Beatles - Studio style evolution
• The Beatles - In film
• The Beatles - Influences and music
• The Beatles - Band members
• The Beatles - Early members
• The Beatles - Song catalogue
• The Beatles - Trivia
• The Beatles - Song samples

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Randomness has many uses in gambling, divination, statistics, cryptography, art, etc. Note that these uses may have different requirements when it comes to statistical randomness or unpredictability, which in turn leads to different randomization methods. For example, applications in cryptography have strict requirements, whereas other uses (such as generating a "quote of the day") don't need more than "shallow" randomness. Applications of randomness - Early uses. Applications of randomness - ...

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• Applications of randomness - Early uses
• Applications of randomness - Games
• Applications of randomness - Divination
• Applications of randomness - Science
• Applications of randomness - Statistical sampling
• Applications of randomness - Analysis
• Applications of randomness - Simulation
• Applications of randomness - Cryptography
• Applications of randomness - Literature music and art
• Applications of randomness - Other uses

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The bearded woman has been a phenomenon of legend, curiosity, ridicule and more recently political statement. A small number of women are able to grow what may appear to be a Beard. This is usually not truly beard growth, but simply dark body hair. Cultural pressure leads most to remove it, as it may be viewed as a social stigma. Notable exceptions were the famous (and usually fake) bearded women of the circus sideshows of the 19th and early 20th centu ...

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• Bearded woman - In fiction

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Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. It is set in a fictional hotel named Fawlty Towers in the Devon town of Torquay on "the English Riviera". The hotel is owned and run by the eccentric Basil Fawlty and his censorious wife Sybil, helped by the maid Polly, the Spanish porter Manuel who could barely speak English and (in the second series) the chef Terry. Permanent guests were the half-senile Major Gowen and the bewildered old ladies Miss Tibbs and ...

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• Fawlty Towers - Credits
• Fawlty Towers - Characters
• Fawlty Towers - Background and inspiration
• Fawlty Towers - Episode list
• Fawlty Towers - Fawlty Towers influence
• Fawlty Towers - Awards

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A Series of Unfortunate Events is a children's book series, written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym of Lemony Snicket, and illustrated by Brett Helquist. There are twelve books in the series as of 2005, but it is known that the final series will consist of thirteen books (each with thirteen chapters), excluding spin-offs such as The Unauthorized Autobiography. The first book in the series, The Bad Be ...

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• A Series of Unfortunate Events - The story
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - General plot
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Themes
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - General storyline
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket's writing style
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Unanswered questions
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Other notes
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Distribution
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Books
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Audio books
• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Film

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The term Inquisition (Latin: Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis Sanctum Officium) refers broadly to a number of historical movements surrounding the suppression of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. There were four major movements, starting with the Medieval Inquisition in 1184 and ending with the Spanish Inquisition in 1834. Inquisition - Origin. The Inquisition was an institution within the Roman Catholic Church, charged with the eradication of heresies. Heresies (from Greek haeresis, ...

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• Inquisition - Origin
• Inquisition - History
• Inquisition - Medieval Inquisition
• Inquisition - Spanish Inquisition
• Inquisition - Roman Inquisition
• Inquisition - Portuguese Inquisition
• Inquisition - Other uses of the word Inquisitions
• Inquisition - Derivative works

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Death is the cessation of physical life in a living organism, or the state of the organism after that event. Death - Interpretations of death. In almost all societies, death has one or several symbols associated with it. Common symbols of death in Western cultures include the grim reaper and the color black; conversely, in certain Eastern cultures, the color white is considered symbolic of death. The grave is a metonym for death. Biologically, death can occur to wholes, to parts, or to both. For exam ...

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• Death - Interpretations of death
• Death - Criteria of human death: medical religious and legal
• Death - When is a person dead?
• Death - The process of dying
• Death - Cell death
• Death - Physiological changes during the process of dying
• Death - Signs of approaching death
• Death - When death is imminent
• Death - When death occurs
• Death - Causes of death in the United States
• Death - Other notable causes of death in the United States 2002
• Death - What happens to humans after death?
• Death - Physiological consequences of human death
• Death - Settlement of dead human bodies
• Death - Personification of death
• Death - Unwritten customs and superstitions

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King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of legends known as the Matter of Britain. There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed. In the earliest mentions and in Welsh texts, he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as a dux bellorum ("war leader"), and High Medieval Welsh texts often call him an ameraudur ("emperor"; the ...

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• King Arthur - The Arthur of history
• King Arthur - Earliest traditions of Arthur
• King Arthur - The Arthurian romance
• King Arthur - Arthur's swords
• King Arthur - Arthur in various media
• King Arthur - Literature
• King Arthur - Plays
• King Arthur - Opera
• King Arthur - Film
• King Arthur - Television
• King Arthur - Other media
• King Arthur - Bibliography

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In mathematics, the binomial theorem is an important formula giving the expansion of powers of sums. Its simplest version reads whenever n is any non-negative integer, the numbers are the binomial coefficients, and n! denotes the factorial of n. This formula, and the triangular arrangement of the binomial coefficients, are often attributed to Blaise Pascal who described them in the 17th century. It was, however, known to Chinese mathematician Yang Hui in the 13th century. The Persian mathematicia ...

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• Binomial theorem - Newton's generalized binomial theorem
• Binomial theorem - Binomial type
• Binomial theorem - Proof inductive
• Binomial theorem - Trivia

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Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives P ...

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• Anarcho-syndicalism - Organizations
• Anarcho-syndicalism - Books
• Anarcho-syndicalism - Trivia

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The Albatross sketch is a Monty Python routine that was usually performed during their live shows. It first appeared in Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 13 In the sketch as immortalized in the movie Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl, John Cleese, dressed as a cigarette girl with a strap-on sales case, wanders through the audience offering a (stuffed) albatross as if it were a normal part of the venue's concessions. An audience member (played by Terry Jones as a bowler-hatted and suited older gentleman) then app ...

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The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between Britain and the Zulus, and signalled the end of the Zulus as an independent nation. It had complex beginnings, some bad decisions, bloody battles that caused the British to engage earlier than they intended, but played out a common story of colonialism. Anglo-Zulu War - Background. Disputes as to the causes of the war which broke out on January 11, 1879 concerned, chiefly, the occupied territory which in 1854 was proclaimed the republic of Utrecht, and the Boers ...

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• Anglo-Zulu War - Background
• Anglo-Zulu War - The Ultimatum
• Anglo-Zulu War - British invasion
• Anglo-Zulu War - Defeat of the Zulu
• Anglo-Zulu War - Aftermath
• Anglo-Zulu War - Anglo-Zulu war in film

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The Charge of the Light Brigade was an ill-advised cavalry charge, led by Lord Cardigan, which occurred during the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 during the Crimean War. It is best remembered as the subject of a famous poem entitled The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, whose lines "Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die" have made the charge a symbol of warfare at its most reckless. Charge of the Light Brigade - Events. The charge was made by the Light Briga ...

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• Charge of the Light Brigade - Events
• Charge of the Light Brigade - Aftermath
• Charge of the Light Brigade - Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Charge of the Light Brigade - Kipling's response
• Charge of the Light Brigade - Tennyson's The Charge of the Heavy Brigade
• Charge of the Light Brigade - Other media
• Charge of the Light Brigade - External link

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Fair use History of copyright law Idea-expression dichotomy History of patent law Patentability Sufficiency of disclosure Patent infringement Trademark dilution Trademark registration Database rights Mask work Plant breeders' rights Supplementary protection certificate (SPC) Traditional knowledge For copyright issues in relation to Wikipe ...

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• Copyright - History of copyright
• Copyright - United Kingdom copyright methodology
• Copyright - United States copyright law
• Copyright - Obtaining and enforcing copyright
• Copyright - Copyright notices
• Copyright - The exclusive rights of the copyright holder
• Copyright - Limits and exceptions to copyright
• Copyright - Idea-expression dichotomy and the merger doctrine
• Copyright - The first-sale doctrine exhaustion of rights
• Copyright - Fair use and fair dealing
• Copyright - Critiques
• Copyright - Other aspects
• Copyright - Transfer and licensing
• Copyright - Brief comparison with other forms of intellectual property
• Copyright - How long copyright lasts
• Copyright - Moral rights
• Copyright - Typefaces
• Copyright - Unusual copyright grants
• Copyright - Registering copyright in the United States
• Copyright - Related concepts
• Copyright - Critique
• Copyright - Other
• Copyright - Some legislation
• Copyright - National copyright laws
• Copyright - International treaties
• Copyright - Notable advocates of copyright law reform
• Copyright - Miscellaneous further reading

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