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* Archimedes
** EurekaMoment

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** (History is) WrittenByTheWinners




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** ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma
** WrittenByTheWinners
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** FreudianCouch
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** AllPsychologyIsFreudian


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** {{Darwinist}}

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** {{Darwinist}}
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* Laurence Olivier

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* Laurence OlivierLaurenceOlivier
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* Patrick Henry
** GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath
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* Mike Tyson
** TheTysonZone (coined by sports writer Bill Simmons)
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* TheRepublic (from [[AncientGreece Greek]] ''res publica'')

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* TheRepublic (from [[AncientGreece Ancient Greek]] ''res publica'')
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* The Empire (the ''term'' which lent this trope its name originated in the [[TheRomanEmpire Roman Empire]] - or rather the [[TheRomanRepublic Republic]], if you wanted to get really specific)

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* The Empire TheEmpire (the ''term'' which lent this trope its name originated in the [[TheRomanEmpire Roman Empire]] - or rather the [[TheRomanRepublic Republic]], if you wanted to get really specific)



* The Republic (from [[AncientAncient Greek]] ''res publica'')

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* The Republic TheRepublic (from [[AncientAncient [[AncientGreece Greek]] ''res publica'')
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* The Empire (the ''term'' which lent this trope its name originated in the [[TheRomanEmpire Roman Empire]] - or rather the [[TheRomanRepublic Republic]], if you wanted to get really specific)


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* The Republic (from [[AncientAncient Greek]] ''res publica'')
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** {{Wingdinglish}}
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** WhamEpisode (and derived from that, WhamLine)
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* Mark Evanier

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* Mark EvanierMarkEvanier
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* [[TheMarxBrothers Harpo Marx]]
** HarpoDoesSomethingFunny
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Redlink.


* WakingASleepingGiant (From a quote attributed to Japanese admiral Isoruku Yamamoto after the Pearl Harbor attack.)
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* JackKirby
** KirbyDots

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Why would that be named after a real place? And where exactly is "BBC Quarry"?


* JosefStalin
** AMillionIsAStatistic

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* JosefStalin
** AMillionIsAStatistic
%% A Million is a Statistic is commonly misattributed to Stalin



* BBCQuarry



* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield (By way of ''TheSimpsons''. And no guesses as to ''which'' Springfield...)

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* RousseauWasRight


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* Jean-Jacques Rousseau
** EatTheRich
** RousseauWasRight
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New trope name.


** GateConstruction (Watergate)

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** GateConstruction (Watergate){{Scandalgate}}
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** WeWillUseMicrosInTheFuture (named for the BBC Microcomputer)

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** WeWillUseMicrosInTheFuture (named for the BBC Microcomputer)

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** GateConstruction (Watergate)




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** RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman
** SilentMajority

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* {{Darwinist}} (Charles Darwin)



* LamarckWasRight



* {{Woolseyism}}


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** {{Darwinist}}


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* ClintEastwood
** ClintSquint


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* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
** LamarckWasRight


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* Ted Woolsey
** {{Woolseyism}}
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* Mark Evanier
** TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong
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* NoFEMAResponse (after the United States' Federal Emergency Management Agency, charged with helping citizens clean up after natural disasters strike)
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* CargoCult (cults that sprung up on some remote Pacific islands after WorldWarTwo, based on trying to lure back the planes that brought all that cool stuff)

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* CargoCult (cults that sprung up on some remote Pacific islands after WorldWarTwo, based on trying (natives conducting rituals to lure back the planes that brought all that cool stuff)WorldWarTwo supply planes; famous for {{Richard Feynman}}'s lecture on "Cargo Cult Science")
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If Stereotype doesn't count as a trope, somebody remove this.

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** {{Stereotype}}

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* Texas Instruments
** InappropriateSpeakAndSpell



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* RichardNixon
** NixonMask
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** BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts (''TheHauntedMansion'')

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