• Cecil Adams, affectionately known to readers and fans and sometimes refers to himself as Uncle Cecil or Uncle Cece, is the pseudonymous author of The Straight...
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  • season's episode, "Kapiushon", his real name is revealed to be Cecil Adams. Ruvé Adams (portrayed by Janet Kidder) is the wife of Damien Darhk who shares...
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    to be named Gideon. Following the miscarriage of his son caused by Cecil Adams and Amanda Young, John became distraught and later learned he had an...
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  • Chicago, Illinois. He is credited as being the "editor and confidant" of Cecil Adams, the pseudonym of the writer of the column "The Straight Dope" (published...
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    was a question-and-answer newspaper column written under the pseudonym Cecil Adams. Contributions were made by multiple authors, and it was illustrated...
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    contentious discussion of Savant's article took place in Cecil Adams's column "The Straight Dope". Adams initially answered, incorrectly, that the chances for...
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    doi:10.1046/j.1464-410X.2002.02974.x. PMID 12230622. S2CID 20887458. Cecil, Adams (26 August 2003). "The size of things to come". The Straight Dope. Archived...
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    colonialism. "Assuming the missionary position… again". The Straight Dope. Cecil Adams. 2005-06-17. Archived from the original on 2024-03-16. Retrieved 2024-03-16...
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    Whatever happened to the soft drink sarsaparilla? December 16, 1977 by Cecil Adams, retrieved 2013-04-30 "Themes for Coca-Cola Advertising (1886–1999)"...
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  • people or as generalizations of no stated source". In January 2004, Cecil Adams of The Straight Dope wrote on the book after a reader wrote in with a...
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    truth about falling coconuts". Canadian Medical Association Journal. Cecil Adams (19 July 2002). "Are 150 people killed each year by falling coconuts...
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  • Workers' Liberty, 2005-12-25 "What are the seven basic literary plots?", Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope, 2000-12-24 'The "Basic" Plots in Literature', IPL2...
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  • However, the term "Naughty Aughties" was suggested as far back as 1975 by Cecil Adams, in his column The Straight Dope. In spoken English, the number 0 is...
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    strategies in Astronomy. Vol. 7. Springer. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4020-5300-9. Cecil Adams (11 March 1983). "Is it true summer in Ireland starts May 1?". The Straight...
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  • became devastated by the Spectre. Two incarnations of Count Vertigo, Cecil Adams and Werner Zytle, appear in Arrow, portrayed by Seth Gabel and Peter...
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    cycle. A high pressure sodium engineer at General Electric, quoted by Cecil Adams, summarizes SLI as "a combination of coincidence and wishful thinking"...
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    Archived from the original on April 28, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012. Adams, Cecil (1986). "Is It True What they Say About Gerbils?" The Straight Dope,...
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    nipple exposure of a man was not regulated. An opinion column credited to Cecil Adams noted: "Ponder the significance of that. A man walks around bare-chested...
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    2013, at the Wayback Machine", Answers.com. Accessed May 12, 2010. Cecil Adams, "Is the Great wall of China the only manmade object byou can see from...
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    2021-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, July 1, 1940, p. 18. Cecil Adams (1994-04-22). "Did Mussolini use castor oil as an instrument of torture...
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  • biographer Cecil, minor character from the NBC soap opera Passions Cecil, a character from the American animated series Beany and Cecil Cecil Adams, an author...
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  • intended toy for his unborn son Gideon, who died while Cecil Adams was robbing the clinic; Cecil accidentally pushed the door into Jill, which resulted...
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    contained psychoactive properties, how would the government react?"), Cecil Adams reports in The Straight Dope: The wire services, and after them the whole...
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    Moment in Consumer Technology". The Bulwark. Retrieved 30 May 2021. Cecil Adams (26 November 1999). "Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you...
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  • Floor: A Ghost Story". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 26, 2008. Cecil Adams (1992-11-06). "Why is the number 13 considered unlucky?". The Straight...
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  • Archived 3 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 20 February 2008. Cecil Adams, Why are leases made for 99-year terms?, 22 July 1977, found at The Straight...
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    Belgian Congo to the Bronx Zoo", September 8, 2006, National Public Radio Cecil Adams answer to "Are Pygmies really human?", The Straight Dope, February 20...
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  • commitment from advertisers. "The Straight Dope", by the pseudonymous Cecil Adams, was the Chicago Reader's first weekly column and one of the first features...
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  • Archived from the original on 28 September 2009. Retrieved 12 May 2010. Cecil Adams. "Is the". The Straight Dope. Retrieved 12 May 2010. "The 100 km Boundary...
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  • instead, the "cover" date was moved to the indicia on an interior page. Cecil Adams (1990-06-22). "Why are magazines dated ahead of the time they actually...
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