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D-Ring: Agent of Suspense is a British television series featuring Patrick McGoohan as secret home repair engineer Dee Ring.
The Prisoner is a children's psychological drama television series hosted by Bob Keeshan and co-hosted by Patrick McGoohan.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for The Prisoner is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients who have extraordinary relationships with the British television series The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan.
Monk versus Alf is a science fiction buddy comedy-drama television series starring Tony Shalhoub and Alf.
Placebo is a brand of insert substances in pill form, designed to have no therapeutic value.
A condiment packet gun is a toy novelty gun which shoots the contents of condiment packets.

What Lies Beneath is a 2022 American supernatural art thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michelle Pfeiffer Vincent and van Gogh as a couple who live on a haunted potato farm.

"It is impossible to read the same tweet twice" is a phrase attributed to philosopher and social media influencer Heraclitus 1.1.

... that the volume of blood in the human body is approximately the volume of beer in a case of beer?

$1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.$

1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.
1819: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

Hats

The Hunting of the Raspberry Beret is a nonsense poem by English writer [REDACTED] which borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from his earlier poem "Rubberwookie". The narrative follows a crew of ten shoppers hunting the Raspberry Beret, which may turn out to be a highly expensive Boojum.
Lacuna Beret is a 2008 American comedy-thriller film about a serial haberdasher who rigs hats that cause his victims memory loss based on the number of hits received by a website that features a live streaming video of children in sweatshops producing hats. Millions of people log on, hastening the victims' ignorance of child labor conditions around the world.