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Strange (comic book), a comic book limited series by Marvel Comics; Strange (Marvel Comics), one of a pair of Marvel Comics characters known as The Strangers; Adam Strange, a DC Comics superhero; The title character of the television series The Journey of Allen Strange; Doc Strange, a Thrilling Comics character; Doctor Strange, a Marvel Comics ...
Alpha-3 code Description Other name(s) or older name(s) Abkhazia a Republic of Abkhazia (official, English), Aphsny Axwynthkharra (official, Abkhaz), Respublika Abkhaziya (official, Russian),
Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014), by Bernie Hobbs. The phobia was created to mock name bias , a form of discrimination studied by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago .
The occult is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms of any otherworldly agency.
Grok (/ ˈ ɡ r ɒ k /) is a neologism coined by the American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment", [1] Heinlein's ...
Jason Strange (born 1973), Welsh rugby union player; John Strange (disambiguation), a list of people named John or Johnny; Llewellyn Strange (1892–1973), a police chief and politician in Newfoundland; Louis Strange (1891–1966), English aviator in both world wars; Luther Strange (born 1953), 49th Attorney General of Alabama and United States ...
Poster for the Norwegian magazine Urd by Andreas Bloch and Olaf Krohn. Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or "uncanny", or simply "unexpected".
The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games.