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The names of Hannah Montana were changed a few times. One of the previous names was Alexis Texas.[4]

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Experiments included, but were not limited to:

irradiating the heads of children[4]

feeding radioactive material to mentally disabled children[5]

exposing U.S. soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation[5]

irradiating the testicles of prisoners, which caused severe birth defects[5]

exhuming bodies from graveyards to test them for radiation (without the consent of the families of the deceased)[6]

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Around the time he was starting high school, Boosie started rapping on tracks when he was like 14 or 15.

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The victim laughs even if he or she finds the experience unpleasant because the laughter is an innate reflex rather than social conditioning.

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Objects experienced are represented within the mind of the observer

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The Vernepator Cur was bred to run on a wheel in order to turn meat so it would cook evenly. Due to the strenuous nature of the work, a pair of dogs would often be worked in shifts. This may have led to the proverb "every dog has his day". The dogs were also taken to church to serve as foot warmers.

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Animals

Fly as Nana

Dash as Nana (stunt double)

Don Juan/D.J. as Demon

Cody as Demon (stunt double)

Floyd as Mac

Speedy as Scooper

Nando as Diesel

Buck as Sniff

Koda as Yodel

Gloria as Dutchess

Grizzly Bear as the Bear

Flower as the Skunk

Red Fox as the Fox

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Varying opinions as to the purpose of a joke party can sometimes lead to internal conflicts, as it did in the McGillicuddy Serious Party. The Monster Raving Loony Party has split on at least two occasions due to internal disputes.

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Examples of joke parties include the Official Monster Raving Loony Party in the United Kingdom, the McGillicuddy Serious Party and Bill and Ben Party in New Zealand, the Rhinoceros Party and its successor, and the Lemon Party, all in Canada, the Donald Duck Party in Sweden, the Die PARTEI party in Germany, the Beer Lovers Party in several eastern European countries, the Independent Royalist Party of Estonia, the NEE Party in Belgium,[1] the Surprise Party of the United States and Besti flokkurinn in Iceland.

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The party is on good terms with another joke party, the Fourth Way, which is led by two birds. However, there are some disagreements between them, since Fourth Way plans to abolish bird flu, and this is opposed by the Two-tailed Dog Party, in accord with virus rights principles.

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The Two-tailed Dog Party is not a registered political party, but planned to participate in the 2006 elections. The party made the following promises: eternal life, world peace, one work day per week, two sunsets a day (in various colours), smaller gravitation, free beer and low taxes.

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There is also a tradition[citation needed] of certain volumes of erotica being bound in human skin. Examples reported include a copy of the Marquis de Sade's Justine et Juliette bound in tanned skin from female breasts.[citation needed] Other examples are known, with the feature of the intact human nipple on one or more of the boards of the book.[citation needed]

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The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my deare friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma[1] on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. King Btesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. Requiescat in pace.

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Spectrogram of a male voice saying 'tatata'.

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A moment is a medieval unit of time equal to 1.5 minutes or 1/40 of an hour.[1] This reckoning is derived from the work of Bartholomeus Anglicus, writing in 1240 that each hour was divided into four points, each point into ten moments, each moment into twelve ounces, and each ounce into 47 atoms.[2]

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The speech known as Abraham Lincoln's "Lost Speech" was given on May 29, 1856, in Bloomington, Illinois. Traditionally regarded as lost because it was so engaging that reporters neglected to take notes, the speech is believed to have been an impassioned condemnation of slavery.

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A Cessna 150, one of the more famous items Lotito ate over his lifetime.