Unorthodoxly Orthodox

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Novel: "My Name Is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok
Autobiography: Surfing Rabbi by Nachum Shifren
Nonfiction: Cool Jew by Lisa Alcalay Klug
Article: "Putting the 'fun' in fundamentalism" by Mark I. Pinsky
Album: This Is Babylon by Y-Love
Album: Youth by Matisyahu
Album: Heavenly Jams Band by Piamenta
Website: http://www.rivkahk.com/
Blog: Frum Outdoorsman: Rare but Possible
Blog: Frum Satire | Jewish Comedy
Blog: The Jew & The Carrot
Blog: cool yiddishe mama
Blog: Anarcho-Judaism
Blog: Hasidic Rebel
Blog: One Frum Skeptic
Blog: frum female
Blog: A Frum Punk
Website: http://rabbisimcha.com/
Wikipedia: Jewish religious movements

Tupac

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Poetry: The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Book: Tupac: Resurrection by Tupac Shakur et al
Biography: Tupac Shakur by Heather Forkos
Nonfiction: The Killing of Tupac Shakur by Cathy Scott
Album: 2Pacalypse Now by Tupac Shakur
Album: Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. by Tupac Shakur
Film: Juice (1992)
Film: Gridlock'd (1997)
Article: "Tupac's Book Shelf" by Mark Anthony Neal
Article: "The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 86) Tupac Shakur" by 50 Cent
Wikipedia: Tupac Shakur

Walt Disney: The Man and His Company

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Biography: Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas
Biography: Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince by Marc Eliot
Autobiography: Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
Website: http://www.waltdisneymuseum.org/
Film: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Film: Fantasia (1940)
Film: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954)
Film: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
Film: Mary Poppins (1964)
Film: The Jungle Book (1967)
Wikipedia: The Walt Disney Company

Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film

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Nonfiction: Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film by Annalee R. Ward
Nonfiction: Deconstructing Disney by Eleanor Byrne and Martin McQuillan
Film: The Lion King (1994)
Film: Pocahontas (1995)
Film: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Film: Hercules (1997)
Film: Mulan (1998)
Article: "Beyond the mouse-ear gates: the wonderful world of Disney studies" by Cynthia Chris
Reference: Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia "The Lion King", "Pocahontas", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Hercules", "Mulan" by Dave Smith
Wikipedia: Disneyfication

The Cowboys Get Religion

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Album: God by Johnny Cash
Album: Show Me Your Way by Glen Campbell
Novel: The Backslider by Levi S. Peterson
Blogpost: "A Cowboy of Faith" by Editor Corbett
Article: "Ministry the cowboy way" by Bobby Ross Jr.
Documentary: "Cowboys Of Faith" (2006)
Memoir: "The Salt Block" by Bubba Stahl
Novel: Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
Wikipedia: Circuit preacher

Black Cowboys

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Nonfiction: The Negro Cowboys by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones
Picture book: Black Cowboy, Wild Horses by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney
Autobiography: The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love
Novel: Ebony Marshal by Sean Chandler
Album: The Essential Charley Pride by Charley Pride
Film: Blazing Saddles (1974)
Film: Silverado (1985)
Wikipedia: Cowboy

Little Red Riding Hood

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Nonfiction: Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked by Catherine Orenstein
Children's novel: Wolf by Gillian Cross
Film: Red Riding Hood (2004)
Film: Hoodwinked! (2005)
Music video: "Call Me When You're Sober" for Evanescence (2006)
Short film: "Red Hot Riding Hood" (1943)
Short film: The Story of Little Red Riding Hood (1949)
Poem: "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" by Roald Dahl
Picture book: Ruby by Michael Emberley
Picture book: Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and James Marshall
Picture book: The Wolf's Story by Toby Forward and Izhar Cohen
Fairy tale: "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" by Charles Perrault
Fairy tale: "Rotkäppchen" by the Brothers Grimm
Song: "Li'l Red Riding Hood" by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs
Comics: Spider-Man Fairy Tales #1
Wikipedia: Little Red Riding Hood

Repartee

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Short story collection: My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Play: The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Play: Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Film: Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Film: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Film: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Nonfiction: Viva la Repartee by Mardy Grothe
Essay: "Twitter Aphorisms, Epigrams and Repartee" by Tim O'Reilly
Essay: "H-E-E-E-E-RE'S BARRY!" by Dave Barry
Wikipedia: Wit

Of, and, for, or about Castro

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Speeches: "History Will Absolve Me", "On the Triumph of the Revolution", "One Hundred Years of Struggle for Cuban Independence", "Rectifying the Errors of the Cuban Revolution", "Assessing Half a Century of the Cuban Revolution" by Fidel Castro
Novel: Escape from Castro by Mario Lamar
Novel: Flight to Freedom by Ana Vesiana-Suarez
Film: Bananas (1971)
Documentary film: Fidel: The Untold Story (2003)
Nonfiction: The Man Who Invented Fidel by Anthony Depalma
Wikipedia: Fidel Castro

San Francisco (no earlier than twenty years ago)

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Novel: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Novel: McTeague by Frank Norris
Film: Bullitt (1968)
Film: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Film: Vertigo (1958)
Film: San Francisco (1936)
Song: "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" by Tony Bennett
Song: "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie
Song: "San Francisco" by Jeanette MacDonald
Photo book: San Francisco's Chinatown by Judy Yung
Nonfiction: San Francisco : a cultural and literary history by Mick Sinclair
Wikipedia: History of San Francisco

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Novel: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Novel: My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Nonfiction: Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman
Comics: Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Website: http://www.fromthetop.org/
Website: http://www.teenspoint.org/teenart/index.asp
Magazine: a recent issue of Teen Ink
Movie: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
Wikipedia: Alliance for Young Artists & Writers

Just your average upper-middle-class African-American family

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Novel: The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Television: The Cosby Show, "A Shirt Story" and "Clair's Case" and "Mr. Quiet" and "Cliff's Birthday"
Television: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "The Fresh Prince Project" and "Clubba Hubba" and "Mistaken Identity" and "Kiss My Butler"
Radio news: "Black Brokers On Obama" by Celeste Headlee
Article: "The Secrets of Success of Wealthy African Americans" by Jevaillier Jefferson
Website: http://www.bravotv.com/Real_Housewives_Of_Atlanta/season/1/bios/index.php
Nonfiction: Blue-Chip Black by Karyn R. Lacy
Wikipedia: Black billionaires

For Love of Luna

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Film: The Right Stuff (1983)
Film: Apollo 13 (1995)
Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968
Short film: Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902)
Nonfiction: Apollo by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox
Novel: Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
Children's nonfiction: Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
Nonfiction: The Moonlandings, chapter 16, "First Steps -- and Where They Led" by Reginald Turnill
Song: "Monochrome" by The Sundays
Webpage: hhttp://windows2universe.org/mythology/planets/Earth/moon.html
Wikipedia: Moon

The Russian Space Program

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Photography: Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age by Adam Bartos
Nonfiction: Sputnik: The Shock of the Century by Paul Dickson
Television documentary: NOVA: Sputnik Declassified (2007)
Article: "Going to Space? First Stop: Eight Months of Grueling Training in Russia's Star City" by David Kushner
Website: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/
Website: http://www.sputnikmania.com/
Article: "Sputnik -- one man's dream" by the Associated Press
Blogpost: "Sputnik was just a rocket booster!" by Kim Sbarcea
Article: " Russia's space program is struggling to recruit a new generation of cosmonauts" by Mara D. Bellaby
Article: "Russia thriving again on the final frontier" by Alan Boyle
Wikipedia: Russian Federal Space Agency

The Great Deluge

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Scripture: Bible The Book of Genesis, chapters 6-10
Epic poem: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI
Novella: Atlantis by Orson Scott Card
Nonfiction: Noah's Flood by William Ryan and Walter Pitman
Article: “Svalbard Global Seed Vault: a ‘Noah’s Ark’ for the world’s seeds” by Marte Qvenild
Film: Waterworld (1995)
Webpage: http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/floods.htm
Wikipedia: Deluge (mythology)

Football Season

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Nonfiction: How Football Explains America by Sal Paolantonio
Novel: North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent
Nonfiction: Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Film: Any Given Sunday (1999)
Film: Horse Feathers (1932)
Film: The Waterboy (1998)
Film: Remember the Titans (2000)
YouTube: "The Super Bowl Shuffle:The Bears"
Wikipedia: Formation (American football)

Blacklisted!

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Article: "I'm No Communist" by Humphrey Bogart
Documentary short: The Hollywood Ten (1950)
Film: The Majestic (2001)
Film: Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
Memoir: I'd Hate Myself in the Morning by Ring Lardner Jr.
Article: "Hollywood Blacklist" by Dan Georgakas
Article: "Many Refuse to Clap as Kazan Receives Oscar" by Patrick Goldstein
Article: "How the Film and Television Blacklists Worked" by Richard A. Schwartz
Memoir: Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist by Bernard Gordon
Wikipedia: Hollywood blacklist

The Cold War

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Memoir: Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
Film: The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Film: From Russia with Love (1963)
Film: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Website: http://www.coldwar.org/
Webpage: http://www.inthe80s.com/coldwar.shtml
Nonfiction: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
Novel: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Song: "Leningrad" by Billy Joel
Wikipedia: History of Soviet and Russian espionage in the United States

What meaning "Freak"?

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Film: Freaks (1932)
Television: Freaks and Geeks, "Tricks and Treats"
Novel: Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Song: "Superfreak" by Rick James
Song: "Le Freak" by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Song: "Freak" by Silverchair
Nonfiction: Jesus Freaks by dc Talk
Manga: Anne Freaks Volume 1 by Yua Kotegawa
Novel: Freak by Marcella Pixley
Blog: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
Wikipedia: Freak

Math Is Fun

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Film: Good Will Hunting (1997)
Nonfiction: Radical Equations, chapter four, "Bouncing a Ball" by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb
Nonfiction: Kiss My Math by Danica McKellar
Television: Numb3rs, "Sabotage"
Nonfiction: The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
Novel: Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Comics: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna
Songs: "Lobachevsky" and "That's Mathematics" and "New Math" by Tom Lehrer
Wikipedia: Srinivasa Ramanujan

Death Row

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Nonfiction: Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
Comics: "Ready to Die" by Kim Dietch
Poetry: One Big Self by C.D. Wright
Soundtrack: Murder Was the Case (1994)
Album: Murder by Johnny Cash
Television: Oz, "Dead Man Talking"
Film: The Green Mile (1999)
Memoir: Blue Rage, Black Redemption by Stanley Tookie Williams
Wikipedia: Capital punishment in the United States

Elephant Abuse

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Essay: "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
Short story: "Almost Shooting an Elephant" by T.C. Boyle
Novel: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Short story: "Toomai of the Elephants" by Rudyard Kipling
Music: The Carnival of the Animals, "The Elephant" by Camille Saint-Saëns
Film: Dumbo (1941)
Nonfiction: The Cowboy and His Elephant by Malcolm Macpherson
Novella: The Elephants of Poznan by Orson Scott Card
Webpage: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/ecomments/4732/
Wikipedia: Elephant intelligence

Orpheus

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Myth: "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Edith Hamilton
Myth: "Orpheus and Eurydice" by James W. Bright
Novel: The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Film: Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Film: Black Orpheus (1959)
Comics: The Sandman: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaimain et al
Poem: "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" by Alexander Pope
Poetry: "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Gregory Orr
Children's novel: Legend Of Orpheus And Eurydice by Michael Cadnum
Operetta: Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach
Wikipedia: Orpheus

The S*x Question

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Nonfiction: Is Sex Necessary? by James Thurber and E. B. White
Nonfiction: Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex by Dave Barry
Film: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex.... (1972)
Article: "Will science render men unnecessary?" by Brian Alexander
Short story: "The Chaste Planet" by John Updike
Short story: "Chaste Clarissa" by John Cheever
Song: Making Whoopee by Frank Sinatra
Novel: Candide by Voltaire
Novel: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Wikipedia: Human sexuality

American Mythology: Einstein

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Novel: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Nonfiction: Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti
Film: I.Q. (1994)
Article: "Albert Einstein: Person of the Century" by Frederic Golden
Nonfiction: Einstein's Mistakes by Hans C. Ohanian
Opera: Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass
Website: http://www.biography.com/deathiversary/albert_einstein/albert_einstein.jsp
Website: http://www.geniusbabies.com/baby-einstien.html
Wikipedia: Albert Einstein

Visions of Blue Men

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Novel: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Television: 30 Rock, "Tracy Does Conan"
DVD: Blue Man Group - The Complex Rock Tour Live
Picture book: Smurf Cake by Peyo
Comics: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Photography book: Moko--Maori tattoo by Hans Neleman
Novel: The Blue Man by Kin Platt
Wikipedia: Blues

Contemporary Views of American Slavery

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Novel: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Letter: "Slavery a Positive Good" by John C. Calhoun
Speech: "The 'Mudsill' Theory" by James Henry Hammond
Speech: "An address to the Negroes in the state of New-York" by Jupiter Hammon
Autobiography: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Website: http://www.localdial.com/users/jsyedu133/Soulreview/Understandingpages/coded.htm
Wikipedia: Slave narrative

Slavery: the way it looks from here

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Miniseries: Roots (1977)
Novel: Kindred by Octavia Butler
Novel: Beloved by Toni Morrison
Children's novel: To Be A Slave by Julius Lester
Picture book: Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson
Article: "Rappers Rock a Different Chain" by Benjamin Meadows-Ingram
Song: "Equiano's Tears" by Soweto Kinch
Wikipedia: Slavery in the United States

Slave No More

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Nonfiction: Monsieur de Saint-George by Alain Guédé
Autobiography: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Album: From the Plantation to the Penitentiary by Wynton Marsalis
Poem: “Biography” by Le Roi Jones
Film: Amistad (1997)
Novel: The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
Wikipedia: Freedman's Savings Bank

Vampires (not dracula)

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Novel: Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Novel: Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe
Novel: You Suck by Christopher Moore
Short story: "The Vampyre" by John William Polidor
Film: Vampyr (1932)
Film: Salem's Lot (1979)
Film: Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Nonfiction: Sex and the Slayer by Lorna Jowett
Comics: 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles et al
Painting: Vampyren by Edvard Munch
Television: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "The Wish"
Song: "We Hunger" by Sioxie and the Banshees
Wikipedia: Vampire folklore by region

Dracula: King of Vampires

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Novel: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Novel: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Music: Dracula by Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet
Short story: "Abraham's Boys" by Joe Hill
Nonfiction: In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally
Film: Nosferatu (1922)
Film: Dracula (1931)
Film: Dracula (1958)
Film: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Comics: Batman & Dracula: Red Rain by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones
Wikipedia: Count Dracula

The Sins of Baseball

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Nonfiction: Shut Out by Howard Bryant
Nonfiction: Juiced by Jose Canseco
Play: Cobb by Lee Blessing
Film: Eight Men Out (1988)
Short story: "Beanball" by Ron Carlson
Webpage: http://www.eastlandmemorial.org/landis0.shtml
Article: "The Old Ball Game" by Charles Cohen
YouTube: "Johnny Bench angry with Pete Rose"
Wikipedia: Major League Baseball scandals

Minor Leagues, Major Dreams

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Novel: The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Nonfiction: Minor Miracles by David Pietrusza
Film: Long Gone (1987)
Film: Bull Durham (1988)
Article: “Diamond dreams” by Matthew Jaffe
Article: “Playing Catch-up” by Michael Leahy
Article: "Characters: The King of Swing" by Andy Simmons
Wikipedia: Minor league baseball

Baseball’s Early Days

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Nonfiction: Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
Short story collection: The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories by Zane Grey
Documentary: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns, "1st Inning - Our Game", "2nd Inning - Something Like A War" and "3rd Inning - The Faith of Fifty Million People"
Article: Birdland: "Two observations on the cultural significance of baseball" by Gerald Early
Article: “Tobacco Baseball Cards and Wagner’s own Wagner Card” by Frank Ceresi
Website: http://wiki.vbba.org/
Novel: The Cleveland Indian by Luke Salisbury
Wikipedia: Origins of baseball

Baseball: The American Mythology

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Novel: Summerland by Michael Chabon
Novel: Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
Film: Field of Dreams (1989)
Film: The Natural (1984)
Poem: “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Short film: Casey Bats Again (1954)
Nonfiction: Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot? and Other Unsolved Mysteries of Baseball by Paul Aron
Wikipedia: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Edgar Allen Poe

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Collection: Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Philosophy: Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
Novel: The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
Film: The Raven (1963)
Short film: Vincent (1982)
Wikipedia: Death of Edgar Allan Poe

You are the devil and the devil is bad

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Film: The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Film segment: Fantasia, "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" (1940)
Song: "The Devil Is Bad" by The W's
Painting: "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch
Television: Space Ghost Coast to Coast, "Sweet For Brak"
Novel: Needful Things by Stephen King
Novel: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Album: Hell Awaits by Slayer
Epic poem: Paradise Lost, Books II, III and X by John Milton
Wikipedia: Lucifer

Cinderella

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Film: Cinderella (1950)
Film: Cinderella II (2002)
Film: Ever After (1998)
Fairy tale: "Aschenputtel" by The Brothers Grimm
Nonfiction: Cinderella: A Casebook by Alan Dundes
Novel: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Album: Cinderella (1965 Television Cast) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Poem: "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton
Wikipedia: Cinderella

Spelling Bees

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Poem: "The Spelling Bee at Angels" by Bret Harte
Novel: Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Film: Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Film: A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Album: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005 Original Broadway Cast)
Documentary: Spellbound (2002)
DVD: The Best of the National Spelling Bee
Nonfiction: How to Spell Like a Champ by Barrie Trinkle et al
Article: "The Spelling Bee" by Lola Di Giulio De Maci
Wikipedia: Scripps National Spelling Bee

Reefer Madness

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Nonfiction: Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
Nonfiction: Dying to Get High by Wendy Chapkis and Richard Webb
Fiction: Budding Prospects: A Pastoral by T.C. Boyle
Comics: A Drug War Carol by Susan W. Wells
Film: Dazed and Confused (1993)
Film: Friday (1995)
Film: Reefer Madness (1936)
Film: Up in Smoke (1978)
Film: Half Baked (1998)
Television: Weeds, "A.K.A. The Plant"
Wikipedia: Cannabis (drug)

Band of Thieves

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Novel: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Novel: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Film: Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Film: Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Monk"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Potter"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne"
Ballad: "Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow"
Wikipedia: Ned Kelly

It's Called, uh, Memory

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Novel: Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Song: "Remember the Time" by Michael Jackson
Song: "That Time" by Regina Spektor
Novel: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Film: Memento (2000)
Article: "The Last Hippie" by Oliver Sacks
Wikipedia: Memory

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Web

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Nonfiction: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good by Sarah Lacy
Novel: Daemon by Leinad Zeraus
Song: "eBay" by "Weird Al" Yankovich
Music video: "Pork and Beans" by Weezer
Article: "Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe" by Joshua Davis
Article: "Geek Brawl" by Carlye Adler
Website: Boing Boing
Website: InternetNews
Website: Slashdot
Wikipedia: History of the Internet

Mëtalheads

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Album: Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Album: Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
Album: Master of Puppets by Metallica
Album: Rust in Peace by Megadeth
Album: Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest
Film: This Is Spın̈al Tap (1984)
Film: Heavy Metal (1981)
Documentary: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Autobiography: Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi
Television: Metalocalypse, "Dethwater"
Graphic novel: The Melting Pot by Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley and Eric Talbot
Novel: Scream Queens of the Dead Sea: Sex! Heavy Metal! Linguistics! by Gilad Elbom
Website: http://metal-archives.com/
Wikipedia: Metalhead

Tech Watch You

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Nonfiction: The Numerati by Stephen Baker
Nonfiction: The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
Short story: "The Hood Maker" by Philip K. Dick
Film: The Truman Show (1998)
DVD: Candid Camera: Greatest Moments
Album: Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
Wikipedia: Surveillance

Rats!

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Children's novel: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
Film: Willard (2003)
Nonfiction: The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase
Nonfiction: Rat Attacks by Cynthia Laslo
Nonfiction: Rats by Robert Sullivan
Radio: Escape, "Three Skeleton Key"
Short story: "The Rat-Catcher's Son" by Carolyn London
Short story: "Graveyard Shift" by Stephen King
Wikipedia: Rat

Real Magick

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Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Novel: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Television: Bewitched, "Be It Ever So Mortgaged"
Television: Charmed, "Something Wicca This Way Comes"
Short story: "The Sea and Little Fishes" by Terry Pratchett
Film: Willow (1988)
Wikipedia: Magic (fantasy)

Prestidigitation

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Short story: "Eisenheim the Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser
Film: The Prestige (2006)
Manual: Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic by Mark Wilson
Novel: Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace
Comics: Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes
Television: Arrested Development, "Sword of Destiny"
Short film: L'homme à la tête de caoutchouc (1902)
Wikipedia: Street magic

Book of Mormon Stories

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Scripture: The Book of Mormon
Novel: Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites by Chris Heimerdinger
Short story collection: The Loftier Way by Blaine M. Yorgason and Brenton G. Yorgason
Song: "Book of Mormon Stories" by Elizabeth Bates et al
Music: "Variations on 'Nephite Lamentation'" by Lawrence Green
Wikipedia: Golden plates

The Hero’s Journey

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Nonfiction: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Epic poem: The Odyssey by Homer
Epic poem: Gilgamesh translated by Stephen Mitchell
Documentary: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, "Episode 1: The Hero's Adventure" (1988)
Film: Star Wars (1977)
Wikipedia: Monomyth

Circular Time

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Film: Groundhog Day (1993)
Novel: Replay by Ken Grimwood
Short story: "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" by Stephen King
Short story: "Abraham's Purgatory" by B. G. Christensen
Nonfiction: The Gifts of the Jews, "The Temple in the Moonlight" by Thomas Cahill
Comics: The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by T. Ott
Essay: "UGH! I Just Got the Creepiest Feeling That I Have Been Here Before" by Julia Johnson
Television: The X-Files, "Monday"
Film: Run, Lola, Run (1998)
Wikipedia: Déjà vu

What is "Superman"?

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Philosophy: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Radio: This American Life, "How to Win Friends and Influence People", acts three and four
Film: The Iron Giant (1999)
Television-commercial series: "The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman"
Short story: "The Reign of the Super-Man" by Jerry Siegel
Comics: Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb
Comics: All Star Superman, Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison
Comics: Superman: Sunday Classics 1939-1943 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Television: Smallville, "Pilot"
Album: Sound of Superman
Nonfiction: The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios
Wikipedia: History of Superman

On Superheroes

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Novel: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Comics: Batman: Year One by Frank Miller et al
Essay: "Warren Ellis Is the Future of Superhero Comics" by Brendan Riley
Comics: "The Amazing Life of Onion Jack" by Joel Priddy
Film: The Incredibles (2004)
Film: Spider-Man (2002)
Score: Superman: The Movie by John Williams
Nonfiction: Comic Book Nation by Bradford W. Wright
Wikipedia: Superman

That Time of the Month

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Novel: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Novel: Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Short story: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis
Short story collection: Don’t Cramp My Style by Lisa Rowe
Film: Carrie (1976)
Website: www.mum.org
Wikipedia: Menstruation

Hoop Dreams

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Documentary: Hoop Dreams (1994)
Film: Hoosiers (1986)
Film: Coach Carter (2005)
Novel: Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Poem: "Ex-Basketball Player" by John Updike
Poem: "Why We Love It" by Elizabeth Noel Green
Nonfiction: Last Dance by John Feinstein and Mike Krzyzewski
Manga: Slam Dunk, Volume 1 by Takehiko Inoue
Wikipedia: Harlem Globetrotters

Faeries

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Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Comics: The Sandman: Dream Country, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Neil Gaiman et al
Film: FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Art book: Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book by Brian Froud and Terry Jones
Children's book: Tink, North of Never Land by Kiki Thorpe
Short story: "Tom Brightwind, or How the Fairy Bridge was Built at Thoresby" by Susanna Clarke
Album: Fairy of the Woods by Gary Stadler
Nonfiction: Strange and Secret Peoples by Carole G. Silver
Television: Torchwood, "Small Worlds" (2006)
Wikipedia: Fairy

Death on the Waters

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Novel: Passage by Connie Willis
Film: Lifeboat (1944)
Film: Titanic (1997)
Short Story: "Safe Passage" by Ramona Ausubel
Poem: "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Painting: "The Lady of Shalott" by John William Waterhouse
Song: "Kern River" by Merle Haggard
Wikipedia: Water (classical element)

Goth (through the ages)

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Website: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html#united
Website: http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index
Novel: The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Novel: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Short story: "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
Album: The Sky's Gone Out by Bauhaus
Film: The Crow (1994)
Comics: The Sandman: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman et al
Article: "An EgoDriven Interview with Voltaire" by Josh Johnson
Wikipedia: Goth subculture

Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre

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Novel: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Novel: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Novel: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Film: Rebecca (1940)
Miniseries: Jane Eyre (2006)
Wikipedia: Charlotte Brontë

Am I Lying to You?

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Picture book: Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book by Shel Silverstein
Short story: "Stump hunting" by Margaret Atwood
Film: The Sting (1973)
Short story: "Taste" by Roald Dahl
Novel: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Television: Batman: The Animated Series, "Christmas with the Joker"
Website: http://www.oddee.com/item_66536.aspx
Article: "Worst Publishing Week Ever" by Daniel Engber
Wikipedia: Lie

On or Near the Rez

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Novel: Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Film: Smoke Signals (1998)
Novel: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
Album: The Collection by Brulé
Album: Rez Affilliated by Litefoot
Novel: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Article: "An Emissary of the Between-World" by Katie Bacon
Wikipedia: Indian reservation

The Reading Life

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Nonfiction: Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Short Story: "The Night Bookmobile" by Audrey Niffenegger
Novel: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Essay: "Of Books" by Michel de Montaigne
Autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, chapters six and seven, by Frederick Douglass
Film: The Princess Bride (1987)
Film: Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
YouTube: "Tina Fey and The Bookaneers"
Wikipedia: Slow reading

After the Apocalypse

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Novel: Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Short story: "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
Film: The Matrix (1999)
Nonfiction: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Short story: "By the Waters of Babylon" (also published as "Place of the Gods") by Stephen Vincent Benét
Poem: "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale
Wikipedia: Doomsday event

The Good Samaritan

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Scripture: Luke 10:25–37
Film: Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Comics: Astro City: Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson
Short story: "Samaritan" by Connie Willis
Poem: "Ode: Samaritan" by Reginald Gibbons
Play: "The Cocktail Party" by T.S. Eliot
Short story: "The Hobo and the Fairy" by Jack London
Play: "Prodigal Son" by Garrison Keillor
Website: http://www.biblical-art.com/biblicalsubject.asp?id_biblicalsubject=781&pagenum=1
Wikipedia: Parable of the Good Samaritan

Chinese Food

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Novel: The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Novel: Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng
Nonfiction: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8 Lee
Nonfiction: Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, Chapter 3, "First Kill Your Fish" by Fuchsia Dunlop
Nonfiction: Chinese Cooking for Dummies, Part I, "What Is Chinese Cooking?" by Martin Yan
Philosophy: Caigentan by Hong Zicheng
Essay: "A Chinese Banquet" by Jules Verne
Wikipedia: Chinese cuisine

Cyberpunk'd!

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Novel: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Novel: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Film: Tron (1982)
Film: Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Article: "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto" by Lawrence Person
Article: "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson
Song: "Automated" by Frightdoll
Short story: "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
Wikipedia: Cyberpunk

My Time Machine Is Better than Your Time Machine

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Novel: The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
Novel: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Film: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Film: Back to the Future (1985)
Short story: "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
Article: "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" by Isaac Asimov
Nonfiction: Time Traveler by Ronald L. Mallett and Bruce Henderson
Wikipedia: Grandfather paradox

Pointy-Haired Bosses

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Comics: Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Review by Scott Adams
Novel: Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
Film: Office Space (1999)
Television: The Office (UK version), "Downsize"
Television: The Office (US version), "Pilot"
Novella: Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Song: "Take This Job and Shove It" by Johnny Paycheck
Film: Nine to Five (1980)
Wikipedia: Pointy-Haired Boss

Old Scratch

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Short story: "The Man in the Black Suit" by Stephen King
Short story: "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short film: Not Without My Handbag (1993)
Film: The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Closet drama: "A Dialogue between Joseph Smith and the Devil" by Parley P. Pratt
Epic poem: The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto XXXIV by Dante Alighieri
Novel: The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
Wikipedia: Faust

I Am Your Biggest Fan

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Novel: Misery by Stephen King
Film: The Incredibles (2004)
Song: “I’m Your No.1 Fan” by The Beautiful South
Album: The Phantom of the Opera (Original 1986 London Cast)
Comics: The Blue Aspic by Edward Gorey
Film: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Film: The Fan (1996)
Poem: "I See You" by Naomi Welsh
Wikipedia: Football hooliganism

Brontëland: The Heathiest Place on Earth

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Novel: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Novel: Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Novel: Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Miniseries: Jane Eyre (2006)
Poem: "High waving heather'neath stormy blasts bending" by Emily Brontë
Painting: The Pillar Portrait by Branwell Brontë
Wikipedia: Patrick Brontë

Zora & Friends

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Novel: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Article: "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" by Alice Walker
Article: "What Does Soulful Mean" by Zadie Smith
Article: "An Instant Classic: Oprah's Private Library" by Janet Sternburg
Article: "Between Laughter and Tears" by Richard Wright
Play: Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
Website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/zora-neale-hurston/jump-at-the-sun/93/
Film: Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
Wikipedia: Zora Neale Hurston

Who Are You?

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Novel: Trap for Cinderella by Sébastien Japrisot
Short story: "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" by Paul Auster
Song: “The Stranger” Billy Joel
Comics: The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey
Tactile novel: Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock
Film: The Truman Show (1998)
Film: Shrek (2001)
Epic poem: The Odyssey, Books XIX to XXIII by Homer
Short story: "Who Am I This Time?" by Kurt Vonnegut
Wikipedia: Personal identity (philosophy)

Beowulf

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Audiobook: Beowulf translated and read by Seamus Heaney
Novella: The Monarch of the Glen by Neil Gaiman
Film: Beowulf (2007)
Novel: Grendel by John Gardner
Comics: Beowulf by Gareth Hinds
Music: The Lament for Beowulf, op. 25 by Howard Hanson
Film: Alien (1979)
Essay: "The Funny Side of 'Beowulf'" by Dave Barry
Wikipedia: Beowulf

Date Rape

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Novel: We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Novel: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Song: "Date Rape" by Sublime
Website: http://www.loveisrespect.org/
Short story: "Up in Michigan" by Ernest Hemingway
Film: The Tenth Circle (2008)
Poem: "Don't Write a Poem about Rape" by Julie Buffaloe-Yoder
Wikipedia: Teen dating violence

I Am a Rock

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Song: "I Am a Rock" by Simon And Garfunkel
Essay: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation #17 by John Donne
Song: "Nowhere Man" by The Beatles
Comics: The Complete Concrete by Paul Chadwick
Novel: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Film: About a Boy (2002)
Novella: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wikipedia: Solitude

Dirty Angels

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Novel: Skellig by David Almond
Short story: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez
Film: City of Angels (1998)
Short story: "Murder Mysteries" by Neil Gaiman
Epic poem: Paradise Lost, Book VI by John Milton
Song: "Maybe An Angel" by Heather Nova
Wikipedia: Nephilim

Soul-Crushing Poverty

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Novel: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Poetry collection: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake
Album: English Rebel Songs 1381-1984 by Chumbawamba
Nonfiction: Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Documentary film: Bigger Boxes (2004)
Documenary short film: Recycled Life (2006)
Game: FreeRice
Wikipedia: List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty

9/11

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Novel: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Epic poem: Bikeman by Thomas F. Flynn
Comics: The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
Comics: In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
Nonfiction: Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts
Documentary film: In Memoriam - New York City, 9/11/01 (2002)
Film: United 93 (2006)
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/portraits/
Wikipedia: Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks

Bunnies

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Novel: Watership Down by Richard Adams
Film: Donnie Darko (2001)
Play: Harvey by Mary Chase
Children's novel: Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Picture book: I Am a Bunny by Richard Scarry
Comics: Usagi Yojimbo Book 1: The Ronin by Stan Sakai
Comics: Fox Bunny Funny by Andy Hartzell
Wikipedia: Rabbit

Writing Poetry

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Essay: "The Philosophy of Composition" by Edgar Allan Poe
Essay: "Notes on 'A Note on the Rapture to His True Love'" by Thomas Lynch
Poems: “Purity” and “The Trouble with Poetry” and “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins
Novel: Possession by A.S. Byatt
Children's novella: The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell
Poem: "When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be" by John Keats
Poem: "Poetry" by Marianne Moore
Wikipedia: Poetry slam

I was beautiful once....

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Novel: Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Novel: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Film: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Film: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Nonfiction: On Ugliness by Umberto Eco
Website: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/index.htm
Wikipedia: Physical attractiveness

Chess is Fun for Everyone!

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Film: Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Novel: The Eight by Katherine Neville
Novel: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Online Comic: "My Obsession with Chess" by Scott McCloud
Poem: "Versus de scachis"
Original cast recording: Chess
Memoir: My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer
Wikipedia: Deep Blue (chess computer)

So You Wanna Go to Art School

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Comics: "Art School Confidential" by Daniel Clowes
Movie: Art School Confidential (2006)
Website: http://www.risd.edu/undergraduate.cfm
Painting: L’Atelier du peintre: Allégorie Réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique (et morale) by Gustave Courbet
Novel: The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Nonfiction: Art for Dummies by Thomas Hoving and Andrew Wyeth
Poem: "art school" by Rg Gregory
Wikipedia: École des Beaux-Arts

World War II: Holocaust

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Diary: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Film: Schindler's List (1993)
Memoir: Night by Elie Wiesel
Novel: The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Documentary film: Genocide (1982)
Philosophy: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Comics: Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegelman
Short story: "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick
Wikipedia: Final Solution

The Subcontinent

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Novel: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Scripture: Mahābhārata, Adi Parva, Book 1, Section 1
Film: Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Album: Three Ragas by Ravi Shankar
Novel: The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Short story: "The Cow of the Barricades" by Raja Rao
Wikipedia: History of Indian Institutes of Technology

Conspiracy

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Novel: The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
Short Story: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges
Film: Arlington Road (1999)
Album: Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
Nonfiction: The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories 1 by James McConnachie and Robin Tudge
Song: "Conspiracy Theory" by The Lost Children of Babylon
Wikipedia: Gunpowder Plot

Girls through the Looking Glass

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Novel: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Novel: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Novel: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Film: El Laberinto del Fauno (2006)
Opera: Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin
Painting series: Alice in Wonderland by Charles Blackman
Wikipedia: Alice Liddell

World War II: Europe

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Novel: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Novel: The Dirty Dozen by E.M. Nathanson
Film: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Speech: "Proclamation of 22 June 1941" by Adolf Hitler
Personal essay: "A Piece of Cake" by Roald Dahl
DVD: Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines
Wikipedia: End of World War II in Europe

World War II: Pacific

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Memoir: With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
Film: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1971)
Nonfiction: Hiroshima by John Hersey
Manga: Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
Nonfiction: The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Children's nonfiction: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Wikipedia: Bataan Death March

Matchmakers

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Novel: Emma by Jane Austen
Film: Clueless (1995)
Television: Jeeves and Wooster, "Jeeves the Matchmaker"
Play: The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Film: Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Article: "The New Arranged Marriage" by Melanie Thernstrom
Website: http://www.matchmakinginstitute.com
Wikipedia: Arranged marriage

Infinite Universe

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Radio: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Nonfiction: The Illustrated Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Television: Star Trek Voyager, "Caretaker"
Music: The Planets Op. 32 by Gustav Holst
Novel: Contact by Carl Sagan
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/
Wikipedia: History of the Big Bang theory

Let's Kill Everyone with Germs!

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Nonfiction: Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Nonfiction: Biohazard by Ken Alibek and Stephen Handelman
Film: Outbreak (1995)
Novel: The Stand by Stephen King
Short Story: "I Put My Blue Genes On" by Orson Scott Card
Website: http://emergency.cdc.gov/bioterrorism/
Wikipedia: Biological warfare

Gangtime

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Novel: Portrait of a Young Man Drowning by Charles Perry
Nonfiction: Memos from Purgatory by Harlan Ellison
Album: Rhyme Pays by Ice T
Album: All Eyez on Me Tupac Shakur
Nonfiction: Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Film: Scarface (1932)
Film: Scarface (1983)
Wikipedia: Gangs in the United States

Juvenile Delinquency

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Film: Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Novel: Monster by Walter Dean Meyers
Novel: Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Novel: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Film: Bad Boys (1983)
Wikipedia: Waif

Iranian Women

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Comic: Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Memoir: Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Memoir: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Album : Laleh by Laleh Pourkarim
Film: Nargess (1992)
Wikipedia: Pantea Rahmani

Women in the Armed Forces

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Novel: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Film: Private Benjamin (1980)
Novel: Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Nonfiction: Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier by Alfred Young
Nonfiction: Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts by James E. Wise and Scott Baron
Wikipedia: Athena

Mostly Children, Mostly Balloons, Mostly Red

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Children's novel: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Film: Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (2007)
Short Film: Billy's Balloon (1998)
Short Film: Le Ballon rouge (1956)
Song: "99 Luftballons" by Nena
Short story: "The Balloon" by Emma Delaney
Short story: "The Balloon" by Donald Barthelme
Short story: "Pop Art" by Joe Hill
Wikipedia: Cluster ballooning

Old People

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Novel: Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man : A Novel by Joseph Heller
Comics: Kingdom Come by Mark Waid et al
Music: "My Beloved Wife" by Natalie Merchant
Short Story: "The Bear Went over the Mountain" by Alice Munro
Movie: Cocoon (1985)
Short film: Geri's Game (1997)
Wikipedia: Gerontocracy