Two mad scientists, Dr. Clayton Forrester, played by Trace Beaulieu, and his sidekick Dr. Laurence Erhardt, played by Josh Weinstein, launch Joel Robinson (Hodgson), a janitor working for the Gizmonics Institute, into space and force him to watch truly horrible B-movies. They do this in order to measure how much bad movie-making it takes to drive a person crazy, and to pinpoint the perfect B-movie to use as a weapon in Dr. Forrester's scheme of world domination. (The sycophantic TV's Frank, played by Frank Conniff, replaced Dr. Erhardt in the second season pr ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Premise, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - History, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - DVD, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The cast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The guys, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Mads, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Recurring guest characters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Quotes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The episodes

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In The Beatles Anthology, Paul McCartney claims the idea for the movie came from Blackpool Lights tours, where a group of people would take a bus, an accordion player, and get drunk on the way to see the Blackpool Lights. Although it is never fully stated, several scenes in the movie were based on strange ideas the group members had. John Lennon said he came up with one such scene in a dream. He dreamed he was a waiter at a fancy restaurant, and his duty was to continually shovel spaghetti onto a customer's plate. So, in the mo ...

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Magical Mystery Tour film, Magical Mystery Tour film - Plot, Magical Mystery Tour film - Motivation, Magical Mystery Tour film - Songs, Magical Mystery Tour film - External link

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In this version of the game, the mazes for the dungeons are randomly-generated. This means that each time the player enters the same dungeon, the path through the maze will be different, although the same items and monsters will be encountered. In the beginning of the game, Chocobo can only carry a few items. If he dies in the dungeon, the player loses all accumulated items and must start over. As the game progresses, the player will be able to rent storage space in town and send extra items there. These items are not lost if the char ...

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Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2, Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2 - Gameplay, Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2 - Trivia

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The story is very loosely based on the children's novel, The King's Fifth, by Scott O'Dell. In the year 1532, a Spanish orphan named Esteban searches for one of The Seven Cities of Gold in the New World, hoping to find his father in the process. He is joined on his quest by Zia, an Inca girl, and Tao, the last descendant of the sunken empire of Mu ("Hiva" in the English dub). The series is a mix of South American history, archaeology, and science fiction. The characters discover many lost technological wonders of the Aztecs, In ...

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The Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Mysterious Cities of Gold - Plot summary, The Mysterious Cities of Gold - Current status

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Prior to the 1906 earthquake, the house had been built up to seven stories tall, but now the highest point is the fourth floor. The house is predominantly wood frame construction, with a brick foundation. There are 160 rooms, including 40 bedrooms and two ballrooms. The house also has 47 fireplaces, 10,000 window panes, 17 chimneys (with evidence of two others), two basements and three elevators. Mrs. Winchester's property was 161.919 acres (650,000 m²) at one time but now the estate is just 6.5 acres (24,000 m²) - the minimum to contain t ...

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Winchester Mystery House, Winchester Mystery House - The house today, Winchester Mystery House - Depictions in popular culture

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Osiris - The passion and resurrection. Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were “gloomy, solemn, and mournful…” (Isis and Osiris, 69) and that the great mystery festival, celebrated in two phases, began at Abydos on the 17th of Athyr (Nov. 13th) commemorating the death of the god, which is also the same day that grain was planted in the ground. “The death of the grain and the death of the god were one and the same: the cereal was identified with the god who came from heaven; he wa ...

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Osiris, Osiris - Early mythology, Osiris - God of the dead, Osiris - Centipede, Osiris - Father of Anubis, Osiris - Father of Horus, Osiris - Ram god, Osiris - Mystery religion, Osiris - The passion and resurrection, Osiris - Wheat and clay rituals, Osiris - The Osirian Sacrament, Osiris - Osiris-Dionysus, Osiris - Serapis, Osiris - Destruction, Osiris - Osiris in popular culture

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Eusebius of Caesarea in his Praeparatio Evangelica includes a brief chapter of three sentences on celestial distances (Book XV, Chapter 53). He states simply that Eratosthenes found the distance to the sun to be "σταδιων μυριαδας τετρακοσιας και οκτωκισμυριας" (literally "of stadia myriads 400 and 80000") and the distance to the moon to be 780,000 stadia. The expression for the distance to the sun has been translated either as 4,080,000 stadia (1903 translation by E. H. Giffor ...

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Eratosthenes, Eratosthenes - Short summary of Eratosthenes' life, Eratosthenes - Measurement of the Earth, Eratosthenes - Other work, Eratosthenes - The mysterious astronomical distances, Eratosthenes - Named after Eratosthenes

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When a worker is put to work on a commercial basis, he initially produces a value equal to what it costs to hire him. But once this value has been created, and the work continues, he begins to valorise capital, i.e. increase its value. Marx claims however that this process, whereby capital grows in value through human activity in production, becomes obscured and hidden in the theories of economics. The "fetish" of capital reaches its culmination when it appears that capital grows of its own accord without anybody doing a ...

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Valorisation, Valorisation - Definition, Valorisation - The mysteries of capital's growth, Valorisation - Valorisation and management theory, Valorisation - Devalorisation, Valorisation - Valorisation and the realisation of capital

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The tapestry contains several mysteries. There is a panel with what appears to be a clergy man striking a woman. No one knows the meaning of the inscription above this scene. Historians speculate that it may represent a well known scandal of the day that needed no explanation. (Setton 125) The second mystery of the tapestry is that at least 2 panels of the tapestry are missing, perhaps even another 7 yards worth. This missing yardage would probably include William’s coronation. A mod ...

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Bayeux Tapestry, Bayeux Tapestry - Origins of the Tapestry, Bayeux Tapestry - Modern history of the tapestry, Bayeux Tapestry - The story of the tapestry, Bayeux Tapestry - Mysteries of the tapestry, Bayeux Tapestry - The aftermath, Bayeux Tapestry - Gallery, Bayeux Tapestry - Additional Resources

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"Magical Mystery Tour" "Your Mother Should Know" "I Am the Walrus" "The Fool on the Hill" "Flying" (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey) "Blue Jay Way" (Harrison) ...

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Magical Mystery Tour, Magical Mystery Tour - History of the project, Magical Mystery Tour - Track listing LP CD, Magical Mystery Tour - Track listing double EP, Magical Mystery Tour - Release history, Magical Mystery Tour - External link

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The mystery novels of Vance are chiefly valuable today for what they reveal about his evolution as a science-fiction and fantasy writer (he stopped working in the mystery genre in the early 1970s except for science-fiction mysteries--see below). Bad Ronald is especially noteworthy for its portrayal of a trial-run version of what is perhaps Vance's greatest character--Howard Alan Treesong of The Book of Dreams. The Deadly Isles reveals, in its portrayal of Tahiti in the 1960s, some of the secret ingredients of master chef ...

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Jack Vance, Jack Vance - Biography, Jack Vance - Output and Characteristics, Jack Vance - Possible Influences, Jack Vance - As Mystery Writer, Jack Vance - Publication, Jack Vance - The Vance Integral Edition, Jack Vance - Selected Bibliography, Jack Vance - Dying Earth Series, Jack Vance - Demon Princes Series, Jack Vance - Tschai Series also known as Planet of Adventure, Jack Vance - Gaean Reach informal grouping, Jack Vance - Lyonesse Trilogy, Jack Vance - Durdane Trilogy, Jack Vance - Alastor Cluster Threesome, Jack Vance - Big Planet Twosome

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Later in the war, Königsberg was heavily bombarded by the Royal Air Force, then further very heavily damaged by the advancing Soviets before and after its fall on April 9, 1945. The Amber Room was never seen again, though reports have occasionally surfaced stating that components of the Amber Room survived the war. There have been numerous conflicting reports and theories, among them that the Amber Room was destroyed by bombing, hidden in a now-lost subterranean bunker in Königsberg, buried in mines in a mountain range on the Czech / Polish - German border not far from Berlin, or taken onto a Nazi ship or subm ...

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Amber Room, Amber Room - Creation, Amber Room - Looted by Nazis, Amber Room - Disappearance and mystery, Amber Room - Destruction theory, Amber Room - Reconstruction, Amber Room - Fiction, Amber Room - Notes

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"Magical Mystery Tour" SAMPLE (122k) "The Fool on the Hill" "Flying" (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey) "Blue Jay Way" (Harrison) "Your Mother Should Know" "I Am the Walrus" SAMPLE (133k) "Hello Goodbye" "Strawberry Fields Forever" SAMPLE (141k) "Penny Lane" SAMPLE (192k) "Baby You're a Rich Man" "All You Need Is Love" ...

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Magical Mystery Tour, Magical Mystery Tour - History of the project, Magical Mystery Tour - Track listing LP CD, Magical Mystery Tour - Track listing double EP, Magical Mystery Tour - Release history, Magical Mystery Tour - External link

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The following are examples of "impossible" or "locked-room" crimes: The only door, locked from the inside, has to be forced open (and the position of the body clearly suggests that the victim could not have locked it after being struck down by the killer). There is no fireplace or chimney through which the murderer might have escaped. The only window is barred from the inside, or there is virgin snow on the window sill outside. There is no secret passage leading to, or trapdoor anywhere in, the room.See also:

Locked room mystery, Locked room mystery - Examples, Locked room mystery - Authors and works, Locked room mystery - Television, Locked room mystery - External link

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Mystery

• To find yourself bewildered by some mysterious event, denotes that strangers will harass you with their troubles and claim your aid. It warns you also of neglected duties, for which you feel much aversion. Business will wind you into unpleasant complications.
• To find yourself studying the mysteries of creation, denotes that a change will take place in your life, throwing you into a higher atmosphere of research and learning, and thus advancing you nearer the attainment of true pleasure and fortune.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

(See also: Dream Archives, Meaning of Dreams, Dream Interpretation, Dream Dictionary, Dream Dictionary - Mystery, Meaning of Dreams about Mystery, Dream Interpretation Mystery)