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4* Most of the games use a whimsical excerpt from Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Scheherazade Op. 35: III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess'' as the "Land Settled" jingle.
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8* Your ship's commanders will occasionally reply to your orders with "Captain! My Captain!", echoing the famous Walt Whitman poem.
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12* The wannabe minstrel Leif Jorgensen will hum a "re-imagining" of the famous ''Reichston'' poem by the real-life German minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide.
13-->"I sat upon a stone, and was stretching my legs.\
14Then I raised my arm, and suddenly I felt... ''warm''!" [[note]]"Ich saß auf einem Steine, und streckte mir die Beine. Dann hob ich meinen Arm, und plötzlich war mir... warm."[[/note]]
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18* Achievement names contain a lot of these. [[[[http://anno2070.wikia.com/wiki/Achievements Here]] is the original list for those who want it.
19** Parlay! -- ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
20** I am the State -- King Louis XIV.
21** A Pound of Flesh -- ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''.
22** Money doesn't stink -- Emperor Vespasian.
23** Tower on E7 -- Chess.
24** How about a nice game of Chess? -- ''Film/WarGames''.
25** No one has the intention of erecting a wall! -- East German General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.
26** Fiat lux! -- The Bible.
27** Raiders of the lost flotsam -- ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
28** Grand Theft Ship -- Grand Theft Auto.
29** A good deed every day! -- boy scouts motto.
30** Tortoise and Hare -- The fairy tale with the same name.
31** There is no ship -- ''Film/TheMatrix''.
32** Laalaalaa-laa-lala-lala-lalaa -- Music/TheBeatles.
33** The big orange -- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.
34** Give me back my armies! -- Emperor Augustus.
35* One of the Tycoon buildings in ''2070'' is called the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Ministry of Truth]].
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39* One of the possible moon assignments is finding a [[Series/DoctorWho blue box]] in one of the craters. The quote text mentions how two people without ID mysteriously appeared looking for a blue box. The mission name is even called Timey-Wimey.
40* One of the crisis intervention missions revolves around hacking into the Orbital Watch's data network. It takes place in a massive fortified harbor facility, which the Mysterious Woman mockingly calls "Drake's[[note]]the Orbital Watch's leader[[/note]] [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} fortress of solitude]]".
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