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A fictional setting is any location, real or made up, that appears in a work of fiction.To add a fictional setting to a work of fiction, simply add...
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| x Polis Massa | Luke Skywalker | ||||
| x Turkana IV | Tasha Yar | ||||
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| x Mos Eisley | Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
Mos Eisley is a spaceport town on the planet Tatooine in the fictional Star Wars universe. In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) described Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." It is also the...
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| x Unseen University | Sourcery | Hex |
Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's fictional Discworld city of Ankh-Morpork, staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards. The official motto of UU is "Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides", loosely...
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| x Sunnydale |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Willow Rosenberg | Sunnydale High |
Sunnydale, California, is the fictional setting for the U.S. television drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Series creator Joss Whedon conceived the town as a representation of a generic California city, as well as a narrative parody of the all-too...
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| Angel | Xander Harris | Hellmouth | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Jesse McNally | The Bronze | |||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds | Cordelia Chase | Buffy's residence | |||
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| x Arda | The Lord of the Rings | Aman |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in a period of prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in The Lord of the Rings and related material once existed. It included several seas and oceans, and the continents of...
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| x Eä | Arda |
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Eￃﾤ is the Quenya language name for the universe, as a realization of the vision of the Ainur. The word comes from the Quenya word for to be. Thus, Eￃﾤ is the World that Is, as distinguished from the World that Is...
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| x Éa |
In the fantasy world of Earthsea created by Ursula K. Le Guin, ￃﾉa is an island in the Sea of ￃﾉa, between Enlad and Havnor. According to the Earthsea creation myth, The Creation of ￃﾉa, the island of ￃﾉa was the first land raised by the creator,...
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| x Bag End |
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The Lord of the Rings |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Bag End was a smial (or hobbit-hole) in Hobbiton, above Bagshot Row. Bag End is described in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The name "Bag End" comes from the farmhouse in the tiny...
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| x The Shire |
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Frodo Baggins | Bag End |
The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It...
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| x Rivendell |
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The Lord of the Rings |
Rivendell (Sindarin: Imladris) is an Elven outpost in Middle-earth, a fictional realm created by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was established and ruled by Elrond in the Second Age of Middle-earth (four or five thousand years before the events of The Lord of...
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| x Bree |
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Bree is a fictional town in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thought to have been inspired by the Buckinghamshire village of Brill, which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at Oxford. ...
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| x Moria |
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In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria (Sindarin for "Black Chasm") was the name given by the Eldar to an enormous underground complex in north-western Middle-earth, comprising a vast network of tunnels, chambers, mines and huge halls or ...
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| x Rohan |
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Rohan is a realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth. It is also referred to as Riddermark or The Mark. (The Mark is believed to have been the Mercian name for the Anglian Kingdom of Mercia, but could also mean just land as used in...
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| x Gondor |
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Minas Tirith |
Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth by the end of the Third Age. The third volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, is concerned with the...
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| x Mordor |
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Orodruin |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mordor (from Sindarin Black Land and Quenya Land of Shadow) is the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of Middle-earth to the East of Anduin, the great river. Orodruin, the sole...
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| x Númenor |
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Númenor (IPA: [ˈnuːmɛnɔɹ]) is a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, which the author intended to be an allusion to the legendary Atlantis. An unfinished story Aldarion and Erendis is set in the realm of Númenor at the time of its...
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| x 221B Baker Street |
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221B Baker Street is the fictional London residence of the detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The number followed by a letter indicates an apartment in a residential house that was likely to have formed part of a...
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| x Hed |
Hed is a fictional land that was created by Patricia A. McKillip in the Riddle-Master series of books. It is known for its beer and its Prince who bested Peven of Aum.
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| x Emelan |
Emelan is a fictional realm that provides the main setting of the Circle of Magic quartet by Tamora Pierce, primarily in the capital city of Summersea and the nearby temple of Winding Circle. Of the follow-up books, only Magic Steps of the quartet...
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| x Arkham |
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Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.
Arkham House, a publishing company started by two...
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| x Kashyyyk |
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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith | Lumpawarrump | Wartaki Island |
For the imperial bodyguard of the Mongol emperors, see Keshik.
Kashyyyk (pronounced /ˈkæʃik/ or /ˈkæʃɪk/), also known as Wookiee Planet C, is a planet in the Star Wars universe. It is the lush, tree-filled home planet of the Wookiees, who live in...
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| x Forest moon of Endor |
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Star Wars: Ewoks |
The forest moon of Endor, also referred to as the sanctuary moon or simply as Endor, is a moon in the Star Wars fictional universe. It appears in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi as the home to the Ewoks, and is the body over which the...
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| Ewoks: The Battle for Endor | |||||
| Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure | |||||
| x Hogwarts Express |
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The Hogwarts Express is a fiction magical train in the Harry Potter series, which carries students between London and Hogwarts. The train starts from King's Cross railway station platform 9ￂﾾ, which is invisible to Muggle eyes and is reached by...
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| x Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Forbidden Forest |
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a setting in J. K. Rowling's best-selling Harry Potter series. In the series, it is a Secondary Technical Boarding school of magic for witches and wizards between the ages of eleven and eighteen living...
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| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Hogwarts houses | ||||
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Gryffindor House | ||||
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| x Hogwarts houses |
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In the Harry Potter series, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into four houses, each bearing the last name of its founder: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff. The houses compete throughout...
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| x United Federation of Planets |
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The United Federation of Planets (also known as "The Federation" or UFP) is a fictional interplanetary federal republic depicted in the Star Trek television series and motion pictures. In those episodes and films, the Federation is described as an...
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| x Kzinti Hegemony |
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In the fictional Star Fleet Universe, the Kzinti Hegemony is a powerful stellar empire violently opposed to the Lyran Star Empire and allied with the Hydran Kingdom and eventually with the United Federation of Planets and the Gorn Confederation in...
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| x Klingon High Council |
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In the fictional Star Trek universe the Klingon High Council (in Klingon tlhIngan yejquv) is the supreme ruling body of the Klingon Empire. The council meets at the Great Hall of the First City of the Klingon Empire on the planet Qo'noS (also known...
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| x Qo'noS |
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In the fiction Star Trek universe, Qo'noS is the Klingon homeworld, also known as Kronos. The Klingon High Council, governing body of the Klingon Empire, is situated in the First City on Qo'noS.
Early Star Trek literature referred to Qo'noS as ...
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| x Starfleet Academy |
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In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet Academy is where the future members of Starfleet are trained. It was created in the year 2161, when the United Federation of Planets was founded. The Academy's motto is "Ex astris, scientia" - "from...
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| x Q Continuum |
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In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Q Continuum is an extradimensional plane of existence inhabited by a race of extremely powerful, hyper-intelligent beings known as the Q. They claim to be largely indifferent to the affairs of the non-Q...
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| x Wartaki Island | |||||
| x Land of Oz |
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Oz is a fairy country (fantasy region) containing four lands under the rule of one monarch.
It was first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum, one of many fairy countries that he created for his books. It achieved a...
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| x Kobol |
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Kobol is the name of a planet in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe.
Within the context of both Battlestar Galactica stories, Kobol is the birthplace and original home of humanity, from which the civilization departed and formed the "Twelve...
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| x Caprica |
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Lee Adama | Umbra, Caprica |
ﾻCaprica is a fictional planet featured in both the original and re-imagined Battlestar Galactica science fiction television series.
Caprica is devastated in the opening storyline for both the original series and the re-imagined series in a sneak...
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| Zoe Greystone | Caprica City, Caprica | ||||
| Qualai, Caprica | |||||
| x New Caprica |
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New Caprica is the fictional name given to a relatively desolate but habitable planet in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. The capital of New Caprica is New Caprica City, the same name as the capital of the eponymous original colony.
New...
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| x Urbana, Illinois | HAL 9000 | ||||
| SAL 9000 | |||||
| x Arrakis |
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Dune | Chani |
Arrakis, (الراقص ar-rāqiṣ, "the dancer") later Rakis (informally known as Dune) is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert; it is the home of the Fremen (Zensunni wanderers) and later, the Imperial Capital...
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| x Baldur's Gate | Baldur's Gate series |
Baldur's Gate is a fictional metropolis in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It is a coastal city on the north bank of the river Chiontar, located in the Western Heartlands region of Faerûn....
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| x Berkeley |
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Way of the Peaceful Warrior |
Berkeley (pronounced /ˈbɜrkli/) is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the...
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| x Earth |
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Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen | Trillian |
Earth (pronounced /ɝːθ/ (help·info)) is the third planet from the Sun, and the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in terms of diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World, Blue Planet, and Terra.
Home to...
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| Stargate SG-1 | Zapp Brannigan | ||||
| David Bowman | |||||
| Lyta Alexander | |||||
| Susan Ivanova | |||||
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| x Arborville | Hang Tough, Paul Mather | ||||
| Finding Buck McHenry | |||||
| A Friend Like That | |||||
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| x Metropolis |
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Jason White | Daily Planet |
Metropolis is a fictional city that appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and is the home of Superman. Metropolis first appeared by name in Action Comics #16, in 1939.
Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is portrayed as one of the largest...
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| x Vulcan |
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T'Pol |
In the fictional Star Trek universe, Vulcan is a reddish Minshara-Class planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani A, 16 light years from Earth, and is the original homeworld of the Vulcans. (Early references to the planet in novels and other background...
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| x Rhûn |
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In the fictional world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien, Rhûn was a large region of eastern Middle-earth. Rhûn (which is also the Elvish word for "east") was the name used for all lands lying east of Rhovanion, around and beyond the...
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| x Misty Mountains |
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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, the Misty Mountains (also known by its Sindarin name of Hithaeglir—misspelled as Hithaiglin on the original Lord of the Rings map—and as the Mountains of Mist) is a mountain range, running for 795...
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| x Mirkwood |
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The Hobbit |
Mirkwood is a name used for two distinct fictional forests in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. In the First Age, the highlands of Dorthonion north of Beleriand were known as Mirkwood after falling under Morgoth's control. During the Third Age, the...
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| x Aman |
Aman is the name of a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, also known as the Undying Lands or Blessed Realm.
It was a continent that lay to the west of Middle-earth across the great ocean Belegaer, although it lay in another dimension during...
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| x Riverside |
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James T. Kirk |
Riverside is a city in rural Washington County, Iowa, United States, along the English River on Iowa Highway 22. It is part of the Iowa City, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 928 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Highland...
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| x USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) |
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Star Trek: The Original Series |
The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, is a starship in the Star Trek media franchise. The original Star Trek series depicts its crew's mission "to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone...
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| x 23rd century | Star Trek: The Original Series |
The 23rd century of the anno Domini (common) era will span the years 2201–2300 of the Gregorian calendar.
Unless changes are made as to when Easter will occur, in 2285, the Western Easter will fall on March 22 for the first time since 1818, the...
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| x New York City |
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City Hall | Tom Hagen |
The City of New York, commonly called New York City and New York, has been the most populous city in the United States since 1790, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city...
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| 13 Going on 30 | Philip J. Fry | ||||
| A Death in the Family, Part Four | |||||
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| x Suldanessellar |
Suldanessellar is a fictional town in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Located within the nation of Tethyr, the city is populated entirely by wild elves. Suldanessellar was created by the...
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| x Amn | Suldanessellar |
Amn is a fictional country in the role-playing game of Dungeons and Dragons, modeled on medieval Spain. It is the land of focus in the titular game Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
It is a tremendously wealthy nation, holding colonies in far away...
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| x Second Earth | Bobby Pendragon |
Second Earth is a territory of Halla in the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale.
Bobby Pendragon - Lead Traveler of his generation, and successor to Press Tilton.
Courtney Chetwynde &Mark; Dimond
Mark Dimond's escape to First Earth, and his...
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| x Midwestern United States |
![Midwest as shown by U.S. Census Bureau official map from [3]](http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb//guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004ad66a4?maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The Midwestern United States (in the U.S. generally referred to as the Midwest) is one of the four geographic regions within the United States of America that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.
The region consists of...
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| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |||||
| x Angel Island |
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Starfleet Academy |
Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay that offers expansive views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin County Headlands and Mount Tamalpais. The entire island is included within Angel Island State Park, and is administered by California...
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| x Xen |
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Half-Life | Gargantua |
Xen is a fictional world that appears in the science fiction video game Half-Life (Valve Software, 1998); the expansion packs Half-Life: Opposing Force (Valve Software and Gearbox Software, 1999); Half-Life: Blue Shift (Valve/Gearbox, 2001); and...
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| x San Francisco |
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Hikaru Sulu |
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the second most densely populated major city in the U.S. and...
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| Tales of the City | |||||
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| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | |||||
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