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Dexter's Laboratory is a children's animated cartoon television show created by Genndy Tartakovsky and commissioned by Turner Entertainment and Hanna-Barbera, about a little boy - Dexter - who creates bizarre inventions in his laboratory that usually work too well, and his annoying, brain-dead elder sister who usually manages to cause the invention to run amok.
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On July the 4th, 1776, Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson as a committee to prepare a device for the great seal of the United States.
The committee reported various devices during several years. William Barton, of Philadelphia, was appointed to submit designs. Sir John Prestwich, an English antiquarian, suggested a design to John Adams in 1779.
Combining the various designs of William Barton and John Prestwich, a seal was adopted on June the 20th, 1782. Arms: Paleways of thirteen pieces argent and gules; a chief azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch and in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows; and in his beak a scroll with the motto: E Pluribus Unum. Crest: a glory breaking through a cloud proper and surrounding thirteen stars. Reverse: A pyramid unfinished. In the zenith an eye in a triangle, surrounded with a glory proper, over the eye the words, Annuit Coeptis. Beneath the pyramid, MDCCLXXVI, and the words, Novus Ordo Seculorum.
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The Dexter is a breed of cattle.
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Samuel Dexter was an American politiican. He was born in 1761 and died in 1816. A noted lawyer of Massachusetts, he was successively, for short periods in 1800 and 1801, Secretary of War and of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President John Adams.
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Anthony Dexter (real name Walter Fleischmann) was an American actor. he was born in 1919 at Talmadge, Nebraska and died in 2001.
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Brad Dexter was an American actor and film producer. He was born in 1917 at Goldfield, Nevada and died in 2002 of emphysema.
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Dexter Gordon was an actor. He died in 1990.
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Yvonne Romain is an English actress. She was born in 1938 at London. She played the role of 'Janet Dexter' in the 1964 film 'Smokescreen'.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a gangster comedy starring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones in a violent story about four London East End thugs who hijack a robbery plan following taking on a vicious gangster in a high-stakes card game and ending up in debt with only days to pay. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was directed by Guy Ritchie in 1998.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a gangster comedy starring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones in a violent story about four London East End thugs who hijack a robbery plan following taking on a vicious gangster in a high-stakes card game and ending up in debt with only days to pay. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was directed by Guy Ritchie in 1998.
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