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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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* ''[[The Bourne Series (novel)|The Bourne Ultimatum]]'': Conklin has to point out he wants Vienna, Virginia instead of Vienna, Austria. |
* ''[[The Bourne Series (novel)|The Bourne Ultimatum]]'': Conklin has to point out he wants Vienna, Virginia instead of Vienna, Austria. |
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* The [[Dan Brown]] novel ''[[Angels |
* The [[Dan Brown]] novel ''[[Angels & Demons]]'' did a similar joke with Geneva. |
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* Most of those "solve-the-mystery" books (including ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'', of course) have at least one where the key to solving the mystery is knowing that there are apparently cities named Athens, Jerusalem, Palestine or Paris in Texas. It's always one of those four, and more importantly, ''it's always in Texas.'' |
* Most of those "solve-the-mystery" books (including ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'', of course) have at least one where the key to solving the mystery is knowing that there are apparently cities named Athens, Jerusalem, Palestine or Paris in Texas. It's always one of those four, and more importantly, ''it's always in Texas.'' |
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** To be more general, the discovery that [[There Is Another]] place where something happens is a staple of [[No Man of Woman Born]] stories. |
** To be more general, the discovery that [[There Is Another]] place where something happens is a staple of [[No Man of Woman Born]] stories. |
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