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...ifferent levels gets you different perks, e.g. If the Kickstarter is for a book, a large donation makes you eligible for a signed copy.
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...modified form in Randall's book ''[[How To]]'', in the introduction of the book. Supervolcanos would be mentioned again in [[1159: Countdown]] and in [[161
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...o a hidden door. It is most used in spy movies or books. In this case, the book is ''Atlas Shrugged'' and instead of a secret passage, the wall swings arou
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...gives "absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems". His first book, ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'', is a collection of his favourite comics published
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...roduct, since it is often significantly more expensive than, say, buying a book on time management at the bookstore.
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...react with the air and/or undergo nuclear decay. In his book ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'', in the first comic, it shows the 92nd little pig, who built
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...stry and Physics}}. It is also nicknamed the 'Rubber Bible' or the 'Rubber Book', as CRC originally stood for "Chemical Rubber Company".
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...d sudoku puzzle books called "Martial Arts Sudoku". The difficulty of each book is denoted by a martial arts belt color, with each color representing a cer
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...not her appearance or address; it locates her by looking her up in a phone book (and ends up killing a number of other women with the same name, as well as
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...http://xkcd.com/ XKCD], asked me to make a fun "simple writer" for his new book, Thing Explainer. The simple writer helps you write using only the top ten
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...cides to look up the code in a book apparently called ''Error Codes''. The book then indicates to go to a lake instead of how to resolve the computer probl
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...t>" to make e-commerce websites display an innocuous pop-up as soon as the book name loads. [https://i.imgur.com/Dd4XN7d.png It immediately worked on sever
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...the protagonist of the Hitchhiker's series, in the beginning of the first book, in an attempt to prevent his house from being demolished, by lying in fron
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...f the series, "{{w|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}" (in the final book, we learn that it was {{Spoiler|part of Dumbledore's plan}}).
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...all are sitting at a table. Cueball is holding the menu as well as a thick book and is ordering from a waiter. Megan is facepalming.]
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...y his butler Alfred. Batman, in contrast to {{w|Superman}} and other comic book heroes, has no superpowers. The name "Batman" suggests that he is a man who
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...steroid and visits other inhabited asteroids and eventually the Earth. The book is filled with drawings of the asteroid, the prince, and the travels they m
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...readers to law professor {{w|Lawrence Lessig}}'s book ''{{w|Free Culture (book)|Free Culture}}''.
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...all ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' articles featured in the blog and the book series.
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* ''[[What If? 2]]'', the sequel to the first book, released in 2022
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...several books about philosophy, mathematics, and science. This particular book is his most famous one, about "strange loops", self-reference, and recurrin
...ences reflect back on themselves; the strip displays some symmetry. In the book, there's an interplay of contributions from the artist, the musician, and t
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* In the book ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'', this comic is slightly different. The derivative is
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...white bubbles comes from {{w|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}, a comic book series about dreams. {{w|Neil Gaiman}} is a science fiction and fantasy aut
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...ith is very dismayed by this result, as there are now so many more vampire-book-fans than computer geeks on 4chan, and they cannot get through with any of
...he darkness of the picture. The last picture depicts the cover of the last book ''Breaking Dawn'' with the two chess pieces. This fan seems to be searching
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...{{w|Hogwarts|Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy}} from the popular book series by {{w|J.K. Rowling}} about {{w|Harry Potter}}.
...nd a ruthless master criminal from the {{w|Artemis Fowl (series)|eponymous book series}}. He uses his intelligence to build his family fortune through crim
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...m a superhero who specializes in the study of God's creation of Man in the Book of Genesi-- HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!
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...smee Cullen#Renesmee Cullen|Renesmee Cullen}}, who is the baby born in the book and movie {{w|Breaking Dawn}} to parents Edward and Bella. Edward and Bella
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...ace. {{w|Adam and Eve}} are in the story in the Bible of the creation ({{w|Book of Genesis}}), and are the first pair of humans, created by God.
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**The story can be read in the book ''[https://books.google.ca/books?id=aFHyUfFUVIwC&printsec=frontcover&hl=da#
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...at If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, he will even fight you about it. From the book:<br>
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...ial campaign, 2000|his controversial 2000 presidential run}}, and the 1965 book ''{{w|Unsafe at Any Speed}}''. Nader is an environmentalist and a member of
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...nology for long space flights or other necessary preservation (like in the book ''{{w|2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)|2001}}''). Also people who are terminal
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...r anyone finding errors in his publications. The first error found in each book is worth US$2.56 (256=2<sup>8</sup> is a very important number in the IT do
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Also, in [[Randall|Randall's]] book [[Thing Explainer|Thing Explainer,]] every number from one to ten are in th
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...ing at a computer, and Cueball is sitting in an armchair, reading either a book or a newspaper.]
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...he idea of executing as an example was discussed by Sun Tzu in the ancient book {{w|The Art Of War}}.
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...stack of three books in front of her, is reading another book and a fifth book lies behind her on the floor.]
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...ipedia. To encourage people to be on their toes, I'm not going to say what book or author.
We haven't seen a book like the one Randall describes in the title text, but one example of the mi
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...me}} which states "If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.". The book referenced is "The Secret House: 24 hours in the strange & wonderful world
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...and two pieces of paper, one lying below the other paper but up above the book. A smaller frame breaking the border at the top of the frame has a caption:
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''{{w|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe}}'' is a book in which four children accidentally wander into a world known as {{w|Narnia
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...ode> to make e-commerce websites display a hackneyed pop-up as soon as the book name loads. [https://i.imgur.com/Dd4XN7d.png It immediately worked on sever
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...Psychologists tick is a bald man with glasses and a goatee beard holding a book under one arm. The third person above the Biologists tick is a Cueball-like
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The {{w|Dread Pirate Roberts}} is a fictional character from the book and movie {{w|The Princess Bride}}. Roberts is the most feared pirate on th
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...s are shown as tastier than red may partially be because in his "What If?" book, Randall mentions a specific dislike of "red delicious" apples.
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...nsional space|2D}} world -- a recurring reference in XKCD comics. Half the book is a direct satire of {{w|Victorian era|Victorian}} society, and the other
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...e. Holding a book prompts my mind to enrich itself. Frankly, I suspect the book isn't even necessary.
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...the [http://xkcd.com/635/info.0.json official transcript] on xkcd). In the book these two kids write their opinions on their world's version of the interne
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The book ''[[Thing Explainer]]'' that was the reason for the Hoverboard game, also h
...shed 20 books on suicide and its prevention, one of which, ''A Commonsense Book of Death'', defines most people to be death-postponers. A death-postponer h
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...which showed that Bean was manipulating many of the events of the original book.
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...mazon.com/dp/0811855511 ''Porn for Women''] is a popular illustrated humor book that features exactly what the comic says.
...hat objectifies the people involved in the intercourse. The authors of the book follows this line, presenting an (arguably) more sexist porn, that instead
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...house, even letting the boy cut it down to make a boat. At the end of the book, the boy comes back as a grown man and the tree tells him sadly that it has
...side complaints that Amazon would continue to use {{w|DRM}} "encumbered" e-book formats.
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...endless series of screens similar to panel 2 of this comic. In the latter book he focuses on the idea of minds being self-referential. "In the end, we are
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...mith}} from {{w|Lois McMaster Bujold}}'s ''{{w|Shards of Honor}}''. In the book, Cordelia Naismith and Lord Aral Vorkosigan are on opposite sides of the Be
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...learn to juggle [[Cueball]] begins practising after reading an instruction book. In the third panel, it seems as though he is juggling normally after tossi
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...ment that there's something creepy about the windmills. They allude to the book ''{{w|The War of the Worlds}}'' by {{w|H. G. Wells}} (the Jeff Wayne musica
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...that the text above is the one she types. Behind her stand Cueball with a book in his hand, and a man with male-pattern baldness holding up a smoking pipe
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...ut philosophy, mathematics, and science. He is perhaps most famous for his book ''{{w|Gödel, Escher, Bach}}'' which explores "strange loops," or {{w|self-
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...10496 cult-like following] among scientists. He's also (largely due to his book) known as something of a womanizer, thus why he would take several women ho
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...ike a pot of boiling water. But every time he gets 15 minutes in to such a book he freaks out, realizing this deadly stuff is right beneath him, and he ben
:[Cueball reading a book pulls legs up tight under office chair, peering downwards.]
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The phrase ''A suffusion of blue'' is a reference to {{w|Douglas Adams}}' book ''{{w|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul}}''. In it, an ''{{w|I Ching}}'' c
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...owing the faithful nature of ''Wishbone'''s adaptations, an episode on the book would likely involve age-inappropriate material for children, as the sounds
*''{{w|The Anarchist Cookbook}}'', first published in 1971, is a book that contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary t
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This comic is an illustration that will later be used in [[Randall]]'s book '{{w|Thing Explainer}}', where he took it upon himself to explain a number
...th the element with his hands over his mouth. See more below regarding the book.
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...{{w|psychology}} (that he has obviously learned from the heavy volume of a book lying on the table with that title) to engineer a forked object in such a w
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...94&nodeID=283155&store=books a popular Amazon review] for Randall Munroe's book, What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.
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..." is another quote from Ecclesiastes; this line is repeated throughout the book and refers to impermanence of man and his creations. As the mirror just bro
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...a full beard. Gary Gygax is leaning over his bag behind him, taking out a book while resting the other hand on the table. On the table are already two oth
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...ntal monotheism. {{w|First Epistle to the Corinthians|1 Corinthians}} is a book of the {{w|Christian biblical canons|Christian Bible}}. Megan refers to cha
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...Outliers" and "Blink." {{w|Steven Levitt}} is one of the co-authors of the book ''{{w|Freakonomics}}'' and the Freakonomics blog on NYTimes.com.
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...MHz, 128Kb storage, and a memo pad, calendar, and state-of-the-art address book that can store over 100 names!
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...he best content. However, this fails to realize that the publishers of the book would only be good at marketing themselves, but not necessarily at teaching
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...uter hacker. The term "console cowboys" is stated to be a reference to the book ''{{w|Neuromancer}}'' in the full scene.
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...//en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conflate conflates] the origin story of the comic-book superhero of {{w|Spider-Man}} with the origin of {{w|Ohm's law}}, as both t
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...ying to get an audible.com audiobook playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music that I ever paid for.
..."] ad campaign, as well as a 1970 pro-anarchy book called ''{{w|Steal This Book}}''. There is also some underlying humor: since xkcd [http://creativecommon
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...apturing the Heart of Mr. Right" which the authors describe as a self-help book for women seeking a man to marry. It's often decried for being formulaic an
...eball]]'s response to [[Megan]]. ''{{w|The Giving Tree}}'' is a children's book by {{w|Shel Silverstein}} about the relationship between a tree and a young
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...]], [[304: Nighttime Stories]], and [[241: Battle Room]]. In the parallel book to "Ender's Game", "Ender's shadow", the main character has had the gene fo
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...rping house on the same street from the mysterious '{{w|House of Leaves}}' book.
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...nist in ''The Wizard of Oz'', which is based on L. Frank Baum's children's book ''{{w|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}''. In the 1939 version of ''The Wizard o
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...th the laptop on the floor. On the floor are several pieces of paper and a book. Cueball stands to her left.]
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...ally called ''{{rw|Noah's_Ark|Noah's Ark}}'', is found in the Biblical {{w|Book of Genesis}}; [http://biblehub.com/genesis/6.htm chapters six through nine]
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...ams collectively known as the {{w|Stargate Project}}, depicted in the 2004 book and 2009 film {{w|The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)|''The Men Who Stare at
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...hart. Minard's chart is extensively discussed by {{w|Edward Tufte}} in his book ''The Visual Display of Quantitative Information'', and he summarizes some
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...digital copies, because when you download a game or music file (or read a book, in this case), you are merely making an identical copy of the source mater
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...people who needed to be killed, over the years, but the implication in the book (and movie) is that at least most surrender without a fight and are presuma
...ovie or read the book, you may find it helpful to read the synopsis of the book {{w|The_Princess_Bride#Plot_summary|here}}.
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...e election, he had the edited text of the debates published in a book. The book's popularity and widespread media coverage of the original debates helped p
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...to him, relied heavily on the assistance of his niece Penny, her computer book, and her dog, Brain.
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...y series]]. [[Cueball]] is tricking [[Megan]] by pretending to read from a book about a parasitic brain worm, describing the apparent symptoms caused by an
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...13 and 14 of the {{w|Free Culture (book)#Chapter_13._Eldred|Free Culture}} book by Lawrence Lessig concern {{w|Eldred v. Ashcroft}}, 537 U.S. 186 (2003), a
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In the book {{w|One Two Three ... Infinity}}, the writer describes African tribes that
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...used to turn people "pretty". (SPOILER ALERT) It is later revealed in the book that this procedure is accompanied by a neurosurgical operation making the
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...e and {{w|SETI}} (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). He wrote the book ''Contact'', which was later made into the movie by the same name. While Sa
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...rd Tufte's 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is a fantastic book, and should be required reading for anyone in either the sciences or graphi
|TripMaster Monkey says || {{w|Tripmaster Monkey}} is a book by {{w|Maxine Hong Kingston}} about Wittman Ah Sing, an American graduate o
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...legend likely originates from a mathematical error that appeared in a 1934 book, written by a scientist who acknowledged that the conclusion was probably w
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|Robert Bakker is an American paleontologist who has written the book ''Raptor Red'' about the life of a female Utahraptor (see below). This has
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...a very straightforward way. Some have called some of the arguments in the book very clever and original, albeit overly simplistic. This comic could be a p
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...ually resolved this self-reference, but Cantor's 'everything-in-the-fetish-book-twice' parties finally sunk the idea.
...to put that in the book too; this process will keep adding fetishes to the book ''ad infinitum'', again making the task impossible to complete.
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...rather unusual. The Chris Van Allsburg picture book ''{{w|Jumanji (picture book)| Jumanji}}'' and the Robin Williams movie adaptation
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...|The Chronicles of Narnia}}'' by {{w|C. S. Lewis}}. In the first published book (second chronologically), ''{{w|The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe}}'', L
...hile playing {{w|hide-and-seek}}, like in the book. Unlike in the original book, Lucy does not precipitately set foot into Narnia. Instead, she fetches her
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...curious" could be a reference to {{w|Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur C. Clarke's}} book ''{{w|Imperial Earth}}'', where bisexuality is the norm. Deliberately trite
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:[A teacher, holding a book, is talking to a student, sitting at a desk and holding a document of his o
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...e. Only thing used in both explanations is the weight of a cat, but in the book it weighs 5 kg rather than 4 kg in this comic.
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...Harriet the Spy}}, the 11 year old protagonist of a bestselling children's book written by Louise Fitzhugh, as well as other spinoff books written by vario
...emes and tone of the novel. The actual movie is one of Hollywood's better book adaptations {{w|Bridge to Terabithia (2007 film)#Reception|[1]}} but the tr
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...he open book lying in front of him. His laptop is standing open behind the book. In front of him, just inside the panel to the right is the back and arms o
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...phers have unsuccessfully attempted to decode the book. A cut out from the book is depicted in the first frame (real or similar).
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...icles of Narnia}}''. In ''{{w|Prince Caspian}}'', the fourth chronological book in the series, {{w|Lucy Pevensie}} tells him that he has grown since she la
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...tes}}'' making it both "officially random", but also essentially not. This book is also referenced in [[1751: Movie Folder]]. See also: [[221: Random Numbe
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...We apologize for the inconvenience." is possibly a reference to the famous book series ''{{w|The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy}}'' by {{w|Douglas Adams}}
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...timate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything}}", according to the book {{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}. The number 4 is formed by digit
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...ontinue talking. Megan has her arms raised. Miss Lenhart is seen reading a book on a sofa.]
...talking. Cueball has his hand raised. Miss Lenhart has looked up from her book.]
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...age of her love of books. He starts to open up a brand-new {{w|hardcover}} book much farther than it was made to open, ruining the spine, and then mistreat
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...hat purports that the more words an author makes up, the less likely their book is any good. To demonstrate this, he provides an example where a hypothetic
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...Room]] and [[635: Locke and Demosthenes]], which cover events in the first book.
...room, with a bookshelf and an open window. Megan is seen outside reading a book by a glow.]
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:[Cueball and Megan are shown sitting on a rock in a park, reading a book together.]
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...before it hits the ground, to get the batter out. Another character in the book, Mrs. Who, may also be on the field; Megan may be pointing out that she sho
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...nel shows the similarity between the story of Martin the Warrior (from the book ''{{w|Mossflower}}'') and {{w|Aragorn}} from ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'
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:[Black Hat, seated in an armchair reading a book, facing to the right]
:[Black Hat, still reading his book.]
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...-narration is marked by Courier font as mimicked in the comic) discovers a book called ''The Navidson Record'' (represented here by the pancake menu), whic
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...ball, effectively becoming a nuisance, interrupting Cueball's reading of a book and leaving Cueball wondering what has happened. In Randall's world, the ta
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...n more so if the friends are heterosexual - most people would not take the book's suggestion, and it may even make them feel embarrassed and awkward.{{cita
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...ook)|What If?]]'' book, the article No More DNA (exclusive to the physical book), this graph is shown redrawn with "Destroying Angel" added to it. Destroyi
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...A Vision of the Human Future in Space}}" inspired by this picture. In the book, Sagan waxed eloquent about the picture in a widely quoted passage. The com
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...x2642;</span> for Mars. (A unicode snowman is also referenced in Randall's book ''What If'', where it is keymapped to a laptop.)
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...Men}} was a 2012 Marvel crossover event that, like many other recent comic book events, had heroes fight other heroes. In this case, the {{w|Avengers (comi
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...ularly when the sayings are sourced from a pop-culture reference such as a book or film. In fact, there are entire [http://www.amazon.ca/Lets-Bring-Back-Co
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...ling the book gingerly as if it were a device with a touchscreen where the book is displayed as an infinite scrolling text. Touching a link would navigate
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...ial lives via the written word over the generation that occasionally wrote book reports and letters to grandma once a year, any day.
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...ion of that comic. Since 2012, most new posts are about Randall's books or book tours. There were no posts to the blog between [https://blog.xkcd.com/2015/
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The comic references the book ''[https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262692988/vaclavsmil-20/ The Ea
On page 186 of Smil's book, there is a bar chart with the following values:
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...ious emacs command see [[378: Real Programmers]]). See [[#Machine of Death book|below]] for why this was used.
===Machine of Death book===
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...n renaming of the British ''{{w|Where's Wally?}}'') is a children's puzzle book in which you have to locate 'Waldo', a character with a distinctive striped
...lower than would be necessary to resolve the characters in a Where's Waldo book. But since Cueball works at the {{w|National Reconnaissance Office}} (NRO),
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...to prevent him being caught with a presumably-illegal copy of an Animorphs book or as a result of embarrassment at his fan fiction - the former is less lik
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...to this one. In [[942: Juggling]], Cueball throws some balls and later a book. They [http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Flying miss the ground].
In the book ''[[Thing Explainer]]'' Cueball jumps to score with a basketball in the exp
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...s Past}}'' trilogy, which draws on a similar idea; the title of the second book, ''{{w|The Dark Forest}}'', is a reference to the same Fermi paradox soluti
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| titletext = We will have an entire wing of the library devoted to copies of book #26, because ohmygod it's the one where Jake and Cassie finally KISS!!!
...the series}} finally kiss. While this is a momentous event for fans of the book series, the information is of no consequence for the rebuilding of civiliza
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...-book/ popular science book] about it, called ''{{w|Fermat's Last Theorem (book)|Fermat's Last Theorem}}''.
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===Paperback book===
:Paperback book $6.80
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...robably because the words in the first panel were way too uncommon for the book - see more details [[Thing_Explainer#References_to_comics|here]].
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...ver and over and then letting your attention wander and picking up another book.
...one in that there is an obvious terminus to the electronics loop while the book loop could extend nearly indefinitely.
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...te to the 18th. One recent version appears in {{W|Stephen Hawking}}'s 1988 book {{W|A Brief History of Time}}, which starts:
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:[Randall's ''What If?'' book is standing next to Cueball who is taking something out of a box. On the si
:[Cueball is beginning to assemble a rocket containing Randall's ''What If?'' book.]
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!|In the {{w|Book of Revelation}} in the {{w|New Testament}} there are {{w|Seven seals}}<ref
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...to four stacks of household objects: the first has a lightbulb on top of a book, the second has a blender on top of three books, the third has five books (
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...ng updated every five minutes. The collection of images creates a {{w|flip book}} that is displayed above.
...e the last picture was released (All 143 pictures are included in the flip-book gif image shown here above). But even 143 pictures at 5 minutes intervals o
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...ented in a {{w|geography}} textbook. May be based on the first page of the book [http://nicksharratt.com/books/other_authors/you_choose.html You Choose] wh
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...s 1:3}}: "God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light"), the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. When rese
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...first five panels of the comic [[Cueball]] reads the quoted passage in his book ''Wings''. This passage describes what Masklin thinks about when he told Gr
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...r those with whose title is an east coast city name) or it could even be a book/song that describes the relevant area.
...John Laroche. The movie is about a screenwriter who struggles to adapt the book into a movie, turning himself into a main character in his own story.
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...ontological argument is that of {{w|Richard Dawkins}}, in his best-selling book “{{w|The God Delusion}}”. His parody is a version of the argument which
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|dictionary in addition to being a book where you can look up the definition of words can also be a data structure
...nd Richard Martin}}, American novelist and screenwriter best known for his book series {{w|A Song of Fire and Ice}} and its television adaptation {{w|Game
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...by Walt Disney is a well-known version of this fairytale based on White's book.
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***In the book ''[[Thing Explainer]]'', she is also used to represent Marie Curie in the e
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...determine which words would go on his list, a list that is revealed in the book. (It can also be found [https://www.xkcd.com/simplewriter/words.js here].)
...ry below and also the [[#Things in this book by page|entire index from the book]] listing all the 45 different explanations.
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...l die. From the [http://machineofdeath.net/ official home page] the entire book can be downloaded for free as a [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/464819
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...Randall. (The link was part of a "news" flash, the other was regarding his book based on [[1133: Up Goer Five]]. See more on this news in that comics expla
|rowspan="2"|Author of book on childcare
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...page with a word size of 6. It then states that we can fit 1000 pages per book. 1000 pages is a lot for children's books{{Citation needed}} and even large
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|For my book report presentation, i'll be acting out "50 shades of gray"
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...agery of Pestilence being thwarted by modern medicine was also used in the book {{w|Good Omens}}, by {{w|Terry Pratchett}} (of whom Randall is a fan, see [
...ubmarine that carries nukes. All three comics and both explanations in the book, does like this comic, comment on how insane it is that we have created eno
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...an (film)|The Martian}}'' is finally released, because he really liked the book. Cueball most likely represents [[Randall]] himself in this comic.
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...sic}} (see [http://www.ealasaid.com/fan/vetinari/vl-soulmusic.html part of book here]). Rather than listening to music, he preferred to read the printed sh
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...ubmarine that carries nukes. All three comics and both explanations in the book, does like this comic, comment on how crazy it is that we have created enou
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This comic uses the starting lines of an innocent children's book and creates irony by delivering a dark message.
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...other beings for sport. Alternatively, a planetary predator (such as comic book villain {{w|Galactus}}) may have previously scarred Pluto.
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...tle text is a reference to the TV series ''Game of Thrones'', based on the book series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''. All of these titles are direct synonyms,
...ets}} is a very well hidden room that is central to the plot of the second book.
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...if.3F_book_tour|book tour]] for the first ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book. See the link for other instances where he mentions this problem in the [[H
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...nto an ebook for people to easily download, then published into a physical book, and has now had a {{w|The Martian (film)|movie}} created based on it. The
...o a {{w|Fifty Shades of Grey (film)|movie}} released in February 2015. The book was already referenced back in 2012 in [[1128: Fifty Shades]].
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...page, and the link stayed for more than a month up till the release of his book [[Thing Explainer]] 2015-11-24.
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::My new book,
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...24_-_Thing_Explainer_is_out_today|changed that day]] to shout out that the book was released on that day. This is a platforming minigame, in which you coll
...about the book, the game does not seem to have any direct relation to the book; there are, however, several scenes in the game that could be seen as [[#Re
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...://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Proverbs-Chapter-1/#3 self-proclaimed book] on receiving wisdom and instruction to be made wise. Thus, her response ap
*In his celebration game for his new book [[1608: Hoverboard]], there is a scene in the Star Destroyer were Cueball i
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...might have them all removed... This comic came out about a month after the book so it may be viewed as a kind of reference to the problem with too many bon
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...oard]], the coin collecting game that celebrated [[Randall|Randall's]] new book.
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...can also be seen on the [[Thing Explainer#Preview Pages|back cover of the book]].
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:[The panel shows a close up of Cueball reading a book. The book is called "How To Juggle" and has a picture of a person juggling on the cov
:[The view now shows the entirety of Cueball. A book is on the floor behind them, and he is holding some juggling balls.]
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...submarine that caries nukes. All three comics and both explanations in the book, does like this comic, comment on how crazy it is that we have created enou
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...made from {{w|Sambucus|Elder wood}}, is a very important part of the last book ''{{w|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}''. Other examples are the {{w|
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...ch sugar as possible to the dish and eat it, so that he can sue the recipe book's writer for any ill effects he receives as a result. Needless to say, this
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...I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and ''wow'' is that book ever boring. No thank you.
..., so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and wow is that book ever boring. No thank you.
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...mous past King of Israel and giant, {{w|Biblical}} characters from the {{w|Book of Samuel}} in the {{w|Old Testament}}). (See the [[#Trivia|trivia section]
| {{w|Batman}} and {{w|Robin (comic)|Robin}} are comic book characters (first appearance for Batman was in 1939, Robin the year after).
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...submarine that caries nukes. All three comics and both explanations in the book, does like this comic, comment on how crazy it is that we have created enou
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...ction on {{w|recursion}} and self-reference, rather than estimation). This book has been directly referenced in [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]].
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...grew up in the forest when Narnia was created in the chronologically first book {{w|The Magician's Nephew}} when Aslan created Narnia.
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...ded phenotype”. {{w|Richard Dawkins}} wrote a {{w|the extended phenotype|book of that name}} (as a follow-up of “{{w|The Selfish Gene}}”) where he de
This is quite similar to an argument made in the book {{w|Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind|''Sapiens''}}. Author Yuval Noah
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...ueball does not revert to fiddling with his phone—he would rather read a book. By using the word "yell" for the way the phone attracts his attention, he
:Cueball: I'm gonna go look for a book or something, but yell if you need me, I guess.
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...|Rachel Carson}}, a pioneering environmentalist who is most famous for her book ''{{w|Silent Spring}}''.
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...ple message like "does anyone speak Russian?" to the whole company address book. Several people are likely to reply using the "reply all" button by mistake
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...use snakes' to 'yes', and choose a large font size (33 or so). Then pick a book with long words and justified text, and read it in a narrow window.
...ly used in [http://www.medievalcodes.ca/2016/04/line-fillers.html medieval book art].
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...io in the "Neutron Bullet" chapter of the ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]'' book, and a black hole of similar dimensions in the ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?
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...ross the sky is, and God tells him it is a {{w|rainbow}}. According to the Book of Genesis, God placed a {{w|Rainbows in mythology|rainbow}} in the sky, gi
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...is chronologically earlier than another book will not appear in the latter book, even if canonically they still exist in its time. Here are the seven books
| A forest from the ''{{w|Redwall}}'' book series. See also the comic [[370: Redwall]] and [[1722: Debugging]] that re
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...film}} ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' that were written simultaneously. In the book solely written by {{w|Arthur C. Clarke}} they go to Saturn. In the film (fr
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...search whether he is most likely to bump into something while looking at a book, at his phone, or staring at the sky (something [[Randall]] does a lot with
...into things has little to do with whether he's looking at his phone, in a book or at the sky. Cueball responds defensively, saying that "walking [without
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...one]) that claims honey has an infinite shelf life. The article links to a book that makes the assertion of such findings but does not provide factual supp
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...for_a_penny,_in_for_a_pound "In for a penny, in for a pound"]. The popular book {{w|Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow|"Thinking, Fast and Slow"}} by Daniel Kahneman
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...are the first words said by God during the Creation, according to the {{w|Book of Genesis}}. Here, the title text implies that, as the universe died, AC n
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...ional character {{w|List_of_Moby-Dick_characters#Mates|Starbuck}} from the book {{w|Moby Dick}}, so she could be referring to this, although Starbuck had n
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...andall's goal is to make a cross over of {{w|Zzzax}}, a {{w|Marvel comic}} book villain, with that of {{w|Mister Mxyzptlk}}, a {{w|DC Comics}} villain. Sin
| {{w|Zzzax}} || A Marvel comic book villain. || Proper noun, fictional name || No || Yes, with both blanks as Z
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...A Million Random Digits, which is much better than the American remake the book was based on.
...ing numbers on a screen. Black Hat comments that the movie came before the book, which was a {{w|novelization}} of the film. The '''title text''' says that
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...children, like reading a picture book - specifically, the "touch and feel" book for small children and babies known as {{w|Pat the Bunny}}. It isn't clear
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...s you a list of the top 10 highest-impact potential voters in your address book to get in touch with -- based on the likelihood that they support progressi
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...t Britain] on his blog as part of the promotion for his book ''[[What If? (book)|What If?]]''. This map is from a very similar position and appears to have
...and refers to {{w|Downland|chalk hills}}. Possibly a contraction from the book and movie: Watership Down.
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...f anyone calls you on any weird detail, just say it's from the Jedi Prince book series, which contains so much random incongruous stuff that even most Expa
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