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Viz is a popular British adult spoof comic magazine. The comic's style parodies the strait-laced British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with very adult language, crude toilet humour and either sexual or violent story lines (and often both). It also sends up tabloid style newspapers, with mockeries of letters pages and daft competitions with rubbish prizes. It also often satirises current events and politicians, and pretends to be obsessed with celebrities, including half ...

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• Viz comic - History
• Viz comic - Regular Features
• Viz comic - Featured Strips
• Viz comic - Spoof News Stories
• Viz comic - Letterbocks
• Viz comic - Top Tips
• Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions
• Viz comic - Photo Strips
• Viz comic - Viz in other media

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The dog is a canine mammal of the Order Carnivora. It has been argued the dog has been domesticated for 12,000 years, but perhaps for as long as 150,000 years based on recent genetic evidence. In this time, the dog has developed into hundreds of breeds with a great degree of variation. For example, heights range from just a few inches (such as the Chihuahua) to nearly three feet (such as the Irish Wolfhound), and colors range from white to black, with reds, grays (usually called blue), and browns occurring in a tremendous varia ...

Including:

• Dog - Terminology
• Dog - Physical characteristics
• Dog - Intelligence
• Dog - Diet
• Dog - Treats
• Dog - Dangerous substances
• Dog - Reproduction
• Dog - Fertility
• Dog - Menarche
• Dog - Pregnancy and litters
• Dog - Spaying and neutering
• Dog - Attributes
• Dog - Sight
• Dog - Hearing
• Dog - Scenting
• Dog - Direction and spatial sense
• Dog - Weather detection
• Dog - Diseases and ailments
• Dog - Diseases
• Dog - Parasites
• Dog - Common Physical Disorders
• Dog - Behavior
• Dog - Interactions between Dogs and Humans
• Dog - Dogs as working partners
• Dog - Dogs as hunting and sporting partners
• Dog - Dogs as pets
• Dog - Dogs as food
• Dog - Attacks on humans and livestock
• Dog - Abandoned dogs
• Dog - Ancestry and history of domestication
• Dog - Wolf ancestors
• Dog - Speed of domestication
• Dog - Dog breeds
• Dog - Neoteny in the rapid evolution of diverse dog breeds
• Dog - References and further reading
• Dog - References

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Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as "The Coyote") and the Road Runner are cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, created by Chuck Jones in 1949 for Warner Brothers. Chuck Jones based the films on a Mark Twain book called Roughing It, in which Twain noted that coyotes are starving and hungry and would chase a roadrunner. Chuck Jones once said of his most famous protagonist and antagonist that "Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal." He originally created the Road R ...

Including:

• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Premise
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Latin names
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Scenery
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - The Acme Corporation
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - The rules
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Later cartoons
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Spin-offs
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Cultural references
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Commercial appearances
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Video games

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The native strain of dog, which still exists in Tibet (though sparsely), and the English breed are very different in temperament. Elizabeth Schuler states, "The few individuals that remain in Tibet are ferocious and aggressive, unpredictable in their behavior, and very difficult to train. But the dogs bred by the English are obedient and attached to their masters." As a sheepdog and guard dog, it is ferocious in its ability to tackle even wolves and leopards. As a domestic dog, it requires at least a yard; it is not an appropriate dog ...

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Tibetan Mastiff, Tibetan Mastiff - Appearance, Tibetan Mastiff - Temperament, Tibetan Mastiff - Health, Tibetan Mastiff - History

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In 1861, as the American Civil War broke out, Jackson became a drill master for some of the many new recruits in the Confederate Army. On April 27, 1861, Virginia Governor John Letcher ordered Colonel Jackson to take command at Harpers Ferry, where he would assemble and command the famous "Stonewall Brigade", consisting of the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 27th, and 33rd Virginia infantry regiments. All of these units were from the Shenandoah Valley region of Vi ...

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Stonewall Jackson, Stonewall Jackson - Paternal ancestry, Stonewall Jackson - Childhood, Stonewall Jackson - U.S. Army the Mexican War, Stonewall Jackson - Virginia Military Institute, Stonewall Jackson - American Civil War, Stonewall Jackson - Legacy, Stonewall Jackson - Notes

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One year prior to the formation of the Road Rovers, Professor Shepherd is attacked by a man named General Parvo, who demands the professor’s experimental transdogrifier (a play on the term transmogrifier) technology in exchange for his pet dog. Shepherd gives in but is tricked by Parvo, who gives him a bomb that destroys his laboratory. The next year, as normal dogs begin to mutate into monsters, Shepard realizes it is Parvo who i ...

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Road Rovers, Road Rovers - Plot, Road Rovers - Russian Name Song Controversy, Road Rovers - Characters, Road Rovers - Episodes, Road Rovers - Trivia

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Many members of the dog family can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Molecular analysis indicates 4 divisions of canids: Wolf-like canids including the domestic dog, gray wolves, coyotes, and jackals The South American canids Old and New World red-foxlike canids, for example, red foxes and kit foxes Monotypic species, for example, bat-eared fox and raccoon dog The wolf, coyote, jackal, and domestic dog (including the dingo) all have 78 chromosomes arranged in 39 pairs. This ...

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Canid hybrid, Canid hybrid - Canid interfertility, Canid hybrid - Wolf-dogs, Canid hybrid - Dox, Canid hybrid - Coy-dog, Canid hybrid - Coy-Dingo, Canid hybrid - Dingo hybrids, Canid hybrid - Dogote, Canid hybrid - Coy-wolf, Canid hybrid - Jackal hybrids

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Scooby-Doo - Creation and development. Starting in 1968, a number of parental watchdog groups, most notably Action for Children's Television (ACT), began vocally protesting what they perceived as an excessive amount of gratuitous violence in Saturday morning cartoons during the mid-to-late 1960s. Most of these shows were action cartoons such as Space Ghost and The Herculoids, and virtually all of them were cancelled by 1969 because of pressure from the watchgroups. Members of these watchgroups had b ...

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Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo - Production history, Scooby-Doo - Creation and development, Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo television series, Scooby-Doo - Telefilms and direct-to-video features, Scooby-Doo - Live-action Warner Bros. feature films, Scooby-Doo - The Scooby influence, Scooby-Doo - Merchandising, Scooby-Doo - Cereal, Scooby-Doo - Dog treats, Scooby-Doo - Comic books, Scooby-Doo - Board games, Scooby-Doo - Vans, Scooby-Doo - Video games, Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo filmography, Scooby-Doo - Original TV series, Scooby-Doo - Spin-off TV series, Scooby-Doo - Series Revival, Scooby-Doo - TV Special, Scooby-Doo - Made-for-TV movies, Scooby-Doo - Direct-to-Video movies, Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo live action theatrical releases

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Show dogs have a registered name, that is, the name under which they are registered as a purebred with the appropriate kennel club, and a call name, which is how their owners talk to them. In working dog registries, the registered name and the call name are usually the same. The registered name often refers directly or indirectly to the kennel where the dog was bred; kennel clubs often require that the breeder's kennel prefix form the first part of the dog's registered name. For example, all dogs bred at the Gold ...

See also:

Breed registry, Breed registry - Types of registry, Breed registry - Crossbreeding and backbreeding, Breed registry - Registered names

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Orks gather into various levels of organization. The first is the mob, a squad-level unit of Orks with similar ideas of how to act on the battlefield, generally led by a Nob (short for "noble," but pronounced "knob"). A number of mobs will gather together into a warband, which is roughly equivalent to an Imperial Guard company (although with a greater variation in size), led by a warboss. The largest organizational unit is the tribe, a group of numerous warbands all under the command of a warboss. Different tribes can be united by a powerful warlord when he raises a Waaagh!. < ...

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Ork Warhammer 40000, Ork Warhammer 40000 - The History of Orks, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Later Versions, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Physiology, Ork Warhammer 40000 - The Waaagh!, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Biology, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Reproduction, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Orkoid Subspecies, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Oddboyz, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Society, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Language, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Religion, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Currency, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Da Clanz, Ork Warhammer 40000 - The Kult of Speed, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Technology, Ork Warhammer 40000 - Ork Kultur

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The original Chuck Jones productions ended in 1963 with the closing of the Warner Bros. animation studio. War and Pieces, the last Road Runner short directed by Jones, was released in mid-1964. By that time, Pink Panther co-creator David DePatie and veteran director Friz Freleng had formed DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and commissioned new Road Runner productions. The first cartoon of the DePatie-Freleng Road Runner series, The Wild Chase, was directed by Friz Freleng in 1965, and notably starre ...

See also:

Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Premise, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Latin names, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Scenery, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - The Acme Corporation, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Laws and rules, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Later cartoons, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Spin-offs, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Cultural references, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Commercial appearances, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Video games

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John Peel - BBC Radio 1. When Wonderful Radio London closed down on August 14, 1967, John Peel joined the BBC's new pop music station, Radio 1, which began broadcasting the following month. Unlike Big L, Radio 1 was not a full-time station, but a hybrid of recorded music and live studio orchestras broadcast at the same time as the talk and light music of BBC Radio Two. The pirate stations had been successful partly because they played records continuously, but the BBC was gagged by the Musicians' Union and record ...

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John Peel, John Peel - Early life, John Peel - United States, John Peel - Beginning of British career, John Peel - BBC career, John Peel - BBC Radio 1, John Peel - Needle Time, John Peel - BBC World Service and foreign radio, John Peel - BBC Television, John Peel - Dandelion Records and Strange Fruit, John Peel - Family and home life, John Peel - Later years, John Peel - Awards and honorary degrees, John Peel - Health in later years and death, John Peel - John Peel Day, John Peel - Trivia

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For dog owners who enjoy competition and relish the opportunity to work as a highly tuned team with their dogs, competitive obedience is available. In competition, merely sitting, lying down, or walking on a leash are insufficient. The dog and handler must perform the activities off leash and in a highly stylized and carefully defined manner. For example, on a recall, the dog must come directly to the handler, without sniffing or veering to one side, and sit straight in front of the handler, not at an angle or off to one side or the other. ...

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Obedience training, Obedience training - History, Obedience training - Companion obedience, Obedience training - Competitive obedience, Obedience training - Competition obedience exercises, Obedience training - Obedience for Other Purposes, Obedience training - Dog Intelligence and Training

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The original Chuck Jones productions ended in 1963 with the closing of the Warner Bros. animation studio. War and Pieces, the last Road Runner short directed by Jones, was released in mid-1964. By that time, Pink Panther co-creator David DePatie and veteran director Friz Freleng had formed DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and commissioned new Road Runner productions. The first cartoon of the DePatie-Freleng Road Runner series, The Wild Chase, was directed by Friz Freleng in 1965, and notably starre ...

See also:

Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Premise, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Latin names, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Scenery, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - The Acme Corporation, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - The rules, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Later cartoons, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Spin-offs, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Cultural references, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Commercial appearances, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Video games

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All dogs have a tremendous capacity to learn complex social behavior and to interpret varied body language and sounds, and, like many predators, can react to and learn from novel situations. The requirements of coordinating complex social behavior requires that canines have the ability to sense and deliver a wide variety of cues via body language, more so than for even humans, who can use language for the same purpose. Physiologically, this correlates with such features as a large number of nerves innervating the facial muscles of dogs, allo ...

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Dog, Dog - Terminology, Dog - Physical characteristics, Dog - Intelligence, Dog - Diet, Dog - Treats, Dog - Dangerous substances, Dog - Reproduction, Dog - Fertility, Dog - Menarche, Dog - Pregnancy and litters, Dog - Spaying and neutering, Dog - Attributes, Dog - Sight, Dog - Hearing, Dog - Scenting, Dog - Direction and spatial sense, Dog - Weather detection, Dog - Diseases and ailments, Dog - Diseases, Dog - Parasites, Dog - Common Physical Disorders, Dog - Behavior, Dog - Interactions between Dogs and Humans, Dog - Dogs as working partners, Dog - Dogs as hunting and sporting partners, Dog - Dogs as pets, Dog - Dogs as food, Dog - Attacks on humans and livestock, Dog - Abandoned dogs, Dog - Ancestry and history of domestication, Dog - Wolf ancestors, Dog - Speed of domestication, Dog - Dog breeds, Dog - Neoteny in the rapid evolution of diverse dog breeds, Dog - References and further reading, Dog - References

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McCartney first rose to fame as a bassist, pianist, guitarist, singer and songwriter for The Beatles. He met John Lennon at a church picnic in 1957 and was invited to join Lennon's band The Quarrymen as a guitarist. McCartney's schoolmate, George Harrison joined soon after as a third guitarist, followed by the addition of Stuart Sutcliffe on bass. Pete Best joined on drums, rounding out the original lineup of the band. McCartney took over bass guitar duties in the early 1960s, when Lennon and H ...

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Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney - Early years, Paul McCartney - Role in The Beatles, Paul McCartney - Early solo career, Paul McCartney - Wings, Paul McCartney - Solo again: 1980s, Paul McCartney - 1990s, Paul McCartney - 2000s, Paul McCartney - Pseudonyms, Paul McCartney - Discography, Paul McCartney - Achievements World Records and Misc. Trivia

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The film follows the story of a headstrong sixteen-year-old mermaid named Ariel (voiced by Jodi Benson), who is dissatisfied with life under the sea. Ignoring the warnings of her father, King Triton (voiced by Kenneth Mars), the ruler of the merpeople, and the court musician, Sebastian the crab (voiced by Samuel E. Wright), Ariel and her best friend, a fish named Flounder (voiced by Jason Marin), often sneak up to the surface of the ocean. There, they collect human artifacts with the help of a goofy seagull named Scuttle (voiced by Buddy Hackett). Ariel knows that contact between the humans and merpeople is forbidd ...

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The Little Mermaid film, The Little Mermaid film - Plot, The Little Mermaid film - Significance, The Little Mermaid film - Voice cast, The Little Mermaid film - Songs, The Little Mermaid film - Controversy, The Little Mermaid film - TV series and sequel, The Little Mermaid film - Trivia

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Show dogs have a registered name, that is, the name under which they are registered as a purebred with the appropriate kennel club, and a call name, which is how their owners talk to them. In working dog registries, the registered name and the call name are usually the same. The registered name often refers directly or indirectly to the kennel where the dog was bred; kennel clubs often require that the breeder's kennel prefix form the first part of the dog's registered name. For example, all dogs bred at the Gold ...

See also:

Breed registry, Breed registry - Types of registry, Breed registry - Closed, Breed registry - Open, Breed registry - Crossbreeding and backbreeding, Breed registry - Registered names

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The original Chuck Jones productions ended in 1963 with the closing of the Warner Bros. animation studio. War and Pieces, the last Road Runner short directed by Jones, was released in mid-1964. By that time, Pink Panther co-creator David DePatie and veteran director Friz Freleng had formed DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and commissioned new Road Runner productions. The first cartoon of the DePatie-Freleng Road Runner series, The Wild Chase, was directed by Friz Freleng in 1965, and notably starre ...

See also:

Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Premise, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Mock Latin names, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Scenery, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - The Acme Corporation, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Laws and rules, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Later cartoons, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Spin-offs, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Cultural references, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Commercial appearances, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Video games

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The League of Gentlemen comedy - Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup. Edward and Tubbs, played by Shearsmith and Pemberton respectively, are a married couple (apparently brother and sister) and proprietors of Royston Vasey's local shop, conveniently located on the top of a hill some distance away from the town. Both have distinctly piggy noses (the actors have their noses held up with tape). Despite being complete outsiders to the rest of the action in the show, they have ironically become a ...

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The League of Gentlemen comedy, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Overview, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Characters, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Barbara Dixon, The League of Gentlemen comedy - The Dentons, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Hilary Briss, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Mr Chinnery, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Pauline Mickey and Ross, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Geoff Mike and Brian, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Les McQueen, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Rev. Bernice Woodall, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Mrs Levinson and Iris Krell, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Charlie and Stella Hull, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Charity Shop Workers, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Henry Portrait and Ally Welles, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Papa Lazarou, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Herr Lipp, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Legz Akimbo, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Additional characters, The League of Gentlemen comedy - Reference

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