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  • 11Sketches from Late Night with Conan O'Brien — The following is a list of sketches performed on the late night program Late Night with Conan O Brien .Major sketchesActual ItemsA parody of Jay Leno s Headlines segment on The Tonight Show in which Leno finds humorous mistakes in various… …

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  • 12pick — I v 1. choose, select, handpick, pick out, single out; decide upon, determine upon, settle upon, fix upon; make up one s mind, make one s choice, make a selection, opt, opt for; sift, sift out, sieve out, screen, screen out, sort, sort out,… …

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  • 13Morocco (1930 film) — Morocco theatrical release poster Directed by Josef von Sternberg Produced by …

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  • 14pirate — /ˈpaɪrət / (say puyruht) noun 1. someone who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea. 2. a vessel employed by such persons. 3. any plunderer. 4. someone who appropriates and reproduces, without authorisation, the… …

  • 15pull —    1. to cause a horse to lose a race    Racing jargon, from the jockey s handling of the reins. To pull up means, in racing circles as in motoring, to cause to come to a standstill.    2. to seek to strike up an acquaintance with a member of the …

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  • 16frogger — /ˈfrɒgə/ (say froguh) noun a volunteer representative of Red Frogs Australia, an organisation established to provide protection and guidance to young people gathered together in social situations in which they may be at risk, in particular from… …

  • 17United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 18Bertrand Russell — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE image caption = Russell in 1907 image size = 150px name = Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell birth = birth date|df=yes|1872|5|18 Trellech …

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  • 19Andrew Carnegie — Infobox Person name = Andrew Carnegie caption = birth date = birth date|1835|11|25 birth place = Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom death date = Death date and age|1919|8|11|1835|11|25 death place = Shadow Brook Lenox, Massachusetts, United States …

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  • 20Locke: knowledge and its limits — Ian Tipton I That John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding is one of the philosophical classics is something nobody would deny, yet it is not easy to pinpoint precisely what is so special about it. Locke himself has been described as the …

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