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Did Charlie Chaplin lose a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest?
The relevant quote from the book is: Vaudeville houses still showed motion pictures in 1915, and many were promoting the Chaplin vogue by sponsoring amateur Charlie look-alike contests. Among the early winners was Bob Hope, who took first prize in a Chaplin contest in Cleveland. Charlie himself was not so lucky.
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Did Sophocles write"Success is dependent on effort"?
The English phrase"dependent on" has two meanings: One meaning is a discrete, binary or 'categorical' relationship, i.e."not one without the other". A second meaning is a continuous function, i.e.,"the more of one, the more of the other". The English version of the phrase admits the second meaning as well as the first; but the Greek is only ...
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Did Charlie Chaplin lose a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest? I heard this several times, is it really true or just a joke/rumor? The claim is, that"Charlie Chaplin once only came second in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest".
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medical science - Is GM corn toxic? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
@Charlie Brown:"Prove Monsanto has a strict policy of selling toxic things?" That sounds completely absurd. Not more than saying that GM crop are toxic just because they are produced by Monsanto. Please provide biological proof that they are toxic. The economical strategy of a company does not have anything to do with the toxicity of a product.
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biology - Do evil twins exist? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
During the 1920s, Charlie Chaplin once went to a Charlie Chaplin-look-alike competition. Chaplin didn't even make it to the finals. (source: Howell, Melissa; Howell, Greg; Pierce, Seth (1 August 2010). Fusion: Where You and God Connect. Review and Herald Pub Assoc. p. 275. ISBN 9780828025478)
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charlie-chaplin; denten. 10.8k; asked Apr 21, 2013 at 19:01. 2 votes. 0 answers. 465 views. Was it common among soldiers to put boot blacking on other soldiers' priv ...
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Greatest Hits. biology. Questions that have a large amount of views or a large amount of feedback. Questions are ranked by the number of page views divided by the total amount of question and answer feedback received. A bonus is added for high view counts. Questions with less views than the median (1580) are excluded. Skeptics.
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quotes - Did Charlie Chaplin write this letter to his daughter ...
There is a letter circulating that puports to be from Charlie Chaplin to his daughter. Here is one example. It starts: Now it is night. One Christmas night. All unarmed wars in my little castle slept. Not awake or your brother or your sister. Even your mother now sleeps. Not only woke up zaspalite birds until he came to this polusvetla room.
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Questions tagged [charlie-chaplin] Ask Question Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889 - 1977) was an English actor most notable for his comedic silent films featuring"The Tramp."
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Did Hitler borrow his mustache from Chaplin?
Adolf Hitler was a fan of Chaplin, but"there is no evidence (though some speculation) that Hitler modeled his 'stache on [Charlie Chaplin]." The speculation is often repeated, for example on this history blog: Hitler’s favorite actresses were Shirley Temple and Greta Garbo [...] And he may have borrowed his infamous mustache from none other ...
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