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Duck and Cover is a 1951 American civil-defense animated and live-action social guidance film, directed by Anthony Rizzo. Often mischaracterized as propaganda, it has similar themes to more adult-oriented civil-defense training films. It was widely distributed to schoolchildren in the United States in the 1950s, and teaches students what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion. The film starts with an animated sequence showing Bert, an anthropomorphic turtle, who is attacked by a monkey holding a lit firecracker or stick of dynamite on the end of a string. Bert ducks into his shell as the charge goes off; it destroys both the monkey and the tree in which he is sitting, but Bert is left unharmed. The film then switches to live footage as a narrator explains what children should do when they see the flash of an atomic bomb while in various environments. It is suggested that by ducking down low in the event of a nuclear explosion, such as crawling under desks, children would be safer than they would be standing. In 2004, Duck and Cover was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".Film credit: Anthony Rizzo


Overview

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Exteray, a Wikipedian, was born in 1990.

Wikimania

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A currently avid user of Wikipedia, Exteray first saw this amazing project several years ago. He was instantly drawn to it [citation needed].

He spends as much time on Wikipedia now that it has led to parental objection. (His parents are very strict). But in his young mind Wikipedia is his life.

His Userboxes

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Exteray has an uncanny fascination with userboxes. He allegedly spent the entire night creating semi-random userboxes for himself when he first knew about its existence. To date, there are over 356 of them.[citation needed] Due to this overwhelming number of userboxes, they are displayed on a separate page here.

Interests

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Chess

Articles

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Created

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Edited disambiguation pages

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And numerous others.

Quotable Quotes

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Math

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  • "I had the worst nightmare ever. Zeros and ones everywhere. I think I saw a two."
  • "This is a one-line proof, if we start sufficiently far to the left."
  • "I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." -- Pierre de Fermat

Others

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  • "I wonder what life would be like if I was a human. Being a robot is great and all, but we don't have emotions and that makes me very sad."

School/Civilian Terrorism

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Hostage Crisis in Russia

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School Shootings

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Trivia

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  • He has a glass model of a Klein bottle.
  • His school ID number is a prime.
  • 9000007 (read nine million and seven), which is significant as the first composite number in the sequence 97, 907, 9007, 90007, 900007, 9000007, 90000007 and so on (the next prime after 900007 has fourteen zeroes).
  • 97 is a prime number.
  • 9007 is a prime number.
  • 90007 is a prime number.
  • 900007 is a prime number.
  • 9000007 is not a prime number.
  • 90000007 is a prime number.
  • 900000007 is a prime number.
  • 9000000007 is a prime number.
  • 90000000007 is a prime number.
  • 900000000007 is a prime number.
  • 9000000000007 is a prime number.
  • 90000000000007 is a prime number.
  • 900000000000007 is a prime number.
  • 9000000000000007 is not a prime number.
  • ....

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