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Where's Wally? The Fantastic Journey


Where's Wally? The Fantastic Journey (originally numbered with a "3"; originally called The Great Waldo Search in North America; now called Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey) was the third "Where's Wally?", first released in 1989. In the book Wally travels to fantasy lands in search of Wizard Whitebeard's magical scrolls. The book introduces the second recurring "Where's Wally" character, Wizard Whitebeard. Readers are also asked for the first time to find the Wizard's scrolls. The
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Where's Wally Now?


Where's Wally Now? (called Find Waldo Now and later Where's Waldo Now? in the US) was the second "Where's Wally?" book. It was first published in 1988. In the book Wally travels through time as he visits many different locations and events. He also loses a book on each page, which the reader has to find. The book was re-released in October 1997 in a special edition where Wally was moved in each picture and additional characters were added for the reader to
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Where's Wally?: The Animated Series


Where's Wally?: The Animated Series (called Where's Waldo? in North America) is a joint venture between American/Canadian/British animated television series production, animated by DIC Animation City and The Waldo Film Company. The television series aired on CBS Kids for one season (1991) and later reaired on Nickelodeon. The program's opening song "Where's Wally?" was composed by Michael Tavera. It was later followed by a couple of straight-to-video films which had a different voice cast
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. Wally/Waldo and his dog Woof travel to distant lands, solving mysteries and lending a helping hand wherever they could. With the help of his magic walking stick, Wally/Waldo could travel through space and time or travel to far off magical lands. Often sent by Wizard Whitebeard to help solve a puzzle, or mysteries, "Where's Waldo?" was a 1/2 hour puzzle of clues and riddles. The evil Waldo lookalike Odlaw was the show's villain, constantly plotting to steal Waldo's magic stick.
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Where's Wally?: The Animated Series


"Waldo" books based on the adventures and characters from the "Where's Waldo?" TV Show. "Fun with Waldo" and "More Fun with Waldo", featured print versions of many of the "Waldo Minute" freeze-frame scenes, along with new puzzles and things to spot in each picture. To meet the needs of international viewers in the US and Canada, a second audio track was recorded using the same vocal actors – the name "Wally" was replaced entirely with "Waldo",
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except for Julian Holloway. The distribution rights to the show are currently held by HIT Entertainment. The show follows the adventures of Wally/Waldo and his dog Woof, who were already established stars of the "Where's Wally?" picture book series. The "Where's Wally?" TV Show brought the gangly man in the striped shirt and ski cap to Saturday morning TV. The cartoon "Where's Waldo?" went beyond the books' original concept, giving the characters depth and giving reasons for their adventures
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Where's Waldo? (TV series)


Where's Waldo? (known outside North America as Where's Wally?) is an American animated children's television series with educational elements based on the North American variation of the "Where's Wally?" books by Martin Handford. The series is produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and debuted on Universal Kids on July 20, 2019. The series follows young members of the WorldWide Wanderer Society, Waldo and Wenda, who are sent on travel missions by their mentor, Wizard Whitebeard. Their rival, Odlulu, causes them trouble
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In each episode Odlaw would team up with the other villains from the far-off lands to help get the magic stick, while Waldo and Woof teamed up with other land's "good-guys" to help with their problems. Waldo stayed true to the books' premise by means of the "Waldo's Minutes," during which the screen froze for a full minute so the viewer at home could try to find Wally. This kind of segment aired twice per episode. The "Where's Wally?" cartoon
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Where's Wally?: The Ultimate Fun Book


Where's Wally?: The Ultimate Fun Book (Where's Waldo?: The Ultimate Fun Book in America) was a "Where's Wally?" activity book released in 1990. The book introduces Wilma, her dog Woof, and the Wally Watchers. Unlike the previous three Where's Wally? books ("Where's Wally?", "Where's Wally Now?", and "The Fantastic Journey"), this book featured various puzzles and games rather than the traditional detailed crowd scenes. The other
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Where's Wally? (book)


Where's Wally?, published in the United States and Canada as Where's Waldo?, is the title of the first book in the "Where's Wally?" series, published in 1987. In the book, Wally travels to everyday places, where he sends postcards to the reader (which are the pictures in the book), and the reader must locate Wally in the postcard. The book became an instant best-seller. "Where's Wally?" was re-released in October 1997 in a
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Where's Wally?


A number of North American video games were developed using the US/Canada regional name "Waldo". For several years in the early and mid-1990s, "Where's Wally?" was turned into a Sunday newspaper comic/puzzle, distributed by King Features Syndicate. The comics were also released in book form in the US, using the regional name 'Waldo'. In the early 1990s Quaker Life Cereal in the US carried various "Where's Wally?" scenes on the back of the boxes along with collector's
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Where's Wally? The Incredible Paper Chase


Where's Wally?: The Incredible Paper Chase (known in the U.S. as Where's Waldo?: The Incredible Paper Chase) is the seventh book in the "Where's Wally?" book series. The book was released in 2009, and is the latest book in the series. It features Wally, Woof, Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, and Odlaw travelling through different scenes. The reader's goal is to find Wally's key, Woof's bone, Wenda's camera, Wizard Whitebeard's scroll, Odlaw's
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cards, toys and send-away prizes. This was shown in "The Simpsons" episode "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" where Homer shouts "WALDO, WHERE ARE YOU?!" after looking at the scene on the cereal box as Waldo walks by the kitchen window. On 1 April 2018 Google Maps added a minigame in which one can look for Wally and his friends around the world – in the Andes (Chile), Surfers Paradise beach (Australia), in the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium (South Korea)
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Where's Wally?: The Magnificent Poster Book!


Where's Wally?/Waldo: The Magnificent Poster Book! was a "Where's Wally?" poster book released in 1991. The book introduces Wenda and Odlaw. Characters to spot include Wally, Woof, Wilma, Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw, and the Wally Watchers. The book included large one-sided posters of Wally scenes. Of the 11 scenes, five were from past Wally books and 6 were all-new (although three of them would later be published in ""). The book marks the second and
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Where's Wally?


and white. Sometimes it would take him up to eight weeks to draw a two-page sketch of the elusive "Wally" and the characters surrounding him. The first "Where's Wally?" book was published on 21 September 1987. The "Where's Wally?" books were published in the United Kingdom by Walker Books and in the United States under the title "Where's Waldo?" first by Little, Brown and Company before being taken on by Candlewick Press (Walker Books' American subsidiary publishing company
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Where's Wally? The Fantastic Journey


, Wenda, Odlaw, the Wally Watchers, and others), and again once more into a smaller size. In 2017 the book was the third biggest seller of World book day, having been selected as one of ten books that would be promoted for it. Two video game adaptations of this book were released. The first one was "The Great Waldo Search", which was released in 1992 for the NES, SNES and the Sega Genesis. The second is a remake titled "Where's Waldo? The Fantastic
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Martin Handford


his travels by his friend, Wenda, who wears clothes with the same colours as Wally's, and by an evil character named Odlaw (Waldo spelled backwards) who dresses in yellow and black. Handford became a minor celebrity with the success of "Where's Wally?". The "Where's Wally?" trademark sold in 28 different countries. Beginning in 1987, Handford produced a total of seven "classic" "Where's Wally?" books, but his character was branched out into other products, such
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Where's Waldo? (video game)


Where's Waldo? (Where's Wally? in the UK, Australia and South America) is a puzzle game developed by Bethesda Softworks and published in 1991 by THQ for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was the first video game loosely based on Martin Handford's book of the "same name". Mostly similar to the books, players must help Waldo get to the moon by finding him in each of the eight levels in the game. The game was panned by critics, who criticized the game for its graphics,
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Where's Wally?


Sunday 19 June 2011, the previous record was broken when 3,872 people dressed as Wally gathered in Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland. The Waldo Waldo 5K has tried to break the record in a 5-kilometre fun run to raise money for the Waldo Canyon Fire burn area in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US, every year since the fire in July, 2012. The first attempt, on Sunday 21 October 2012, had just over a thousand The second attempt, on Sunday 27 October 2013, had over 2,700. The third
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crowd. The "Where's Wally?" books were published in the UK by Walker Books and in the US under the title "Where's Waldo?" first by Little, Brown and Company before being taken on by Candlewick Press (Walker Books' American subsidiary publishing company). The first four titles were originally printed in Italy, but later reprinted in China. A film based on the "Where's Wally?" series of books was planned for filming in 2005 by Nickelodeon Movies but was cancelled due to a
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Where's Wally?


versions, with the same voice cast of the original US production, in order to market the show in the UK. The distribution rights to the show are currently held by HIT Entertainment. A new animated series will air on Universal Kids in July 2019. In April 2019, the voice cast of "Where's Waldo?" was announced, including Joshua Rush as the voice of Waldo, Haley Tju as Wenda, Eva Carlton as Odlulu, Thomas Lennon as Wizard Whitebeard and Ian James Corlett as Woof. The series is
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Where's Wally?


the World" began, focusing more on history than geography. The first issue was given away free with the last issue of "Wally's World". A 13-episode animated series, "", with Townsend Coleman as the voice of Wally, was produced by DiC for CBS in 1991 for the North American market under the "Waldo" name. The show was later translated for international markets – usually renaming the character to match the books of that country. The dialogue and theme song were recorded in alternative "Wally"
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Where's Wally?


talks to produce the film with their producing partner James Weaver while Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir will write the film, under their Point Grey Pictures banner. The 1994 comedy film "", starring Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley, features a cameo appearance by Wally (locally known as Waldo) at the end of the film during a scene that takes place at the Academy Awards. During the 2012 Super Bowl, Wally was featured in a MetLife commercial. As in the series, Wally was hard to find in the commercial.
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Interactive children's book


's books, the franchises grew to include licensing of Waldo for video games, spin-off books, magazines, dolls, toys, comics and a Where's Waldo? (TV series). Wally has his own website where he dispatches messages to fans and invites them to join in on the chase through different social networks. I Spy is another interactive children’s book series that can be categorized as a hidden object picture book. Debuting in 1992, the books consist of texts written by Jean Marzollo regarding items hidden within
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Film Festival) and "Waldo Walker" by Wally White. He also appeared in "Celebrity" and "Judgment Call", and as a stuntman in "Analyze This". Cowling worked with director Mira Nair in "The Namesake" and director Griffin Dunne in "The Accidental Husband" (2007) where he worked with Uma Thurman and Colin Firth. His Off-Broadway credits included "Burn This", "Billy Budd", "Love! Valour! Compassion!" premieres of "Edenville", "
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Interactive children's book


the frontline assisting their audiences’ development of interactive reading skills in hidden object picture books: British illustrator Martin Handford is credited with the conception of the Where's Wally? series. Despite the series christened title, his hidden picture books are more recognizable under the North American franchise’s version of the character, Waldo. The purpose of Handford’s hidden object picture books is for children of all ages to identify Wally in a specified location throughout his “world-wide hike.” Although various activities and outfit similarities easily camouflage the
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Activity book


as an activity book if it combines a variety of interactive elements and does not fall neatly into one of these more specific categories. Activity books are typically centred around a particular theme. This may be a generic theme, e.g. dinosaurs, or based on a toy, television show, book, or game. For example, the Where's Wally? series of books (known as Where's Waldo? in the USA) by Martin Handford consists of both puzzle books, wherein the reader must search for characters hidden in pictures
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the culture of various countries. "Everyone Poops" was first published in Japan in 1977, written and illustrated by the prolific children's author Tarō Gomi. It has been translated into several languages. Australian author Margaret Wild has written more than 40 books since 1984 and won several awards. In 1987 the first book was published in the "Where's Wally?" (known as "Where's Waldo?" in the United States and Canada) series by the British illustrator Martin Handford. The books were translated into many
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Abra Kadabra (comics)


in the process. Intrigued as to why history has been knocked askew, due to the fact Wally knows Linda (even hinting that he knows the true perpetrator), Abra Kadabra begins to craft an even greater trick and he kidnaps Linda from in front of Wally. He then attempts to force Wally into a position where Wally will run himself into the Speed Force, believing that Wally will be unable to return without Linda as his 'lightning rod', but Wally is able to return by using the Titans as his own
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Martin Handford


Martin Handford (born 27 September 1956) is an English children's author and illustrator who gained worldwide fame in the mid-1980s with his "Where's Wally?" creation (known as "Where's Waldo?" in North America). Born in Hampstead, London, Handford was a solitary child, born to divorced parents. He began drawing crowds when he was 4 or 5 years old, and later as a child, making stick figures on paper. After school, when most other children he knew would go out
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City Spectacular


sponsor terminated their contract leaving the festival organisers with nowhere near the funding needed to run the event. To raise the money needed the organisers decided on a World Record Attempt and set off to gather the worlds largest collection of real life Where's Wallys (AKA Where's Waldo). The money needed for the event would be raised through costume sales from stalls all over the park with a large percentage of the money raised going to Africa Aware. Over many weeks prior to the event there were various promotions for the world record
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, at the La Tomatina festival (Spain), in Hollywood and in the Picard crater on the Moon. On Thursday 2 April 2009, 1,052 students, alumni, and members of the community at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, America, captured the "Guinness World Record" for the largest gathering of people dressed as Waldo. The event raised money for local public schools. On Monday 31 May 2010, Great Yarmouth attempted to break this record, but fell short of 1,052 with only 930 fans. On
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Where's Waldo?: Exploring Geography


Where's Waldo? Exploring Geography is an interactive computer game based on the "Where's Waldo?" book series. In the game, the player must find Waldo, locate the missing athletes of the world, and find the missing Champions Cup. While finding Waldo and the athletes, the player will gather clues that lead to other athletes and the Champions Cup. The game's activities can be played at three levels of difficulty, and is appropriate for all ages. The software contains hundreds of bright, colorful images and
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Where's Waldo? (video game)


and in some levels Waldo would even change color, which made it hard to find Waldo in each of the levels. Cracked.com said of "Where's Waldo" to have the worst graphics of any NES game: "There are many other graphically challenged games that were made, but this game takes the cake." ConsoleClassix.com said that, although fans of the book may enjoy the game a little, other players may get bored. In an issue of GameInformer, they gave "Where's Waldo" a 1 out of
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Mr. Weatherbee


school, excelling in football and baseball. In "Archie Digest" #233 (May 2007), Archie's father accidentally reveals that Waldo was known as "Wild Wally" in high school. Wild Wally was a troublemaker, and, after the kids find out, contrary to what he expects, they learn to appreciate it. However, this conflicts with other stories suggesting Waldo was quite studious in his teen years. Many stories feature Archie and his friends discovering that Mr. Weatherbee in his younger days was thin with red
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Where's Waldo? (video game)


ten minutes, on medium, the time limit is seven minutes, and on hard, five minutes. Each time the game is played Waldo is moved to a new location in the scene. Not all levels in the game have the same format of finding Waldo as in the other levels; in the cave level, the player must find Waldo in the dark. To help, Waldo will pop-up briefly to give a clue where Waldo is. In the subway level, the player must go through a maze and
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Hummingbird (comics)


Aracely was rushed to the Park Plaza Hospital where, after a brief initial violent misunderstanding, she is placed by Kaine to the care of Dr. Donald Meland and police officer Wally Layton is informed of her situation and of the corpses at the harbor. She regained consciousness, bereft of her memories, just in time for a flame-manipulating assassin called The Salamander to attack the hospital while searching for her. Aracely fled the Salamander but he cornered her. Amused that she had no idea why he was going to kill her,
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William Waldo (California politician)


effort into recruiting and delivering supplies for them, and became well known for his relief attempts. In 1853 the Whig party nominated Waldo as their candidate for Governor, but he narrowly lost to the incumbent John Bigler. Following his defeat, he returned east, first to Minnesota and then back to Missouri where his wife and children had remained. In his later years he moved to Texas, where he died. William Waldo is said to be the namesake of Waldo, Oregon where he accidentally campaigned, believing the settlement was in
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The Waldo Waldo 5K


Waldo 5K has split raised funds between the Trails and Open Space Coalition and the Rocky Mountain Field Institute. Since 2012, event organizers have attempted to break the Guinness World Record for "Largest gathering of people dressed as Wally/Waldo" with no success. In an interview with Fox 21 News during the 2014 5K, Foster stated,"We have about 3,200 this year. But the world record has always been secondary. If we get the world record that’s great, but it’s really just a fun way to get
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The Wiggles Movie


their friendship grows more and more. When they visit Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate, a crew member falls in the water and Wally saves him and is rewarded a medal with a mini feathersword planted on it. Dorothy leaves and sits on a bench, sadly, complaining to Wally that nobody remembers her birthday. Wally then says "I didn't forget your birthday" which makes Dorothy a little bit better. Wally begins to daydream about his grandfather, Waldo, saying to him to believe in himself. Wally forgets all about
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Dwight Waldo


, and trained first in a local Wesleyan college and then a Nebraska normal school as a teacher, Waldo was eventually educated in political theory at the University of Nebraska (MA) and Yale University (PhD) where he was advised by Francis Coker. He came to shape much of the future of scholarship in the field of Public Administration. His Yale dissertation was reworked after civil service during World War II into a classic work of public administration called "The Administrative State", published in 1948. Waldo challenged mainstream scholars'
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Hazel Wood Waterman


Hazel met her future husband, Waldo Sprague Waterman, whose father was former California governor Robert Waterman. Hazel and Waldo married in 1889, after which they moved to Cuyamaca, where Waldo was a mine supervisor. In 1891, they moved to San Diego, where Waldo got a job with a railroad. The couple had three children: Robert Wood, Helen Gardner, and Waldo Dean. They joined the local College Graduate Club, through which they made the acquaintance of several people who would later be of great importance to Hazel
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Jim Wallis


Call to Renewal", Jim Wallis was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on June 2, 2000. In 2015, Wallis published the non-fiction book "America's Original Sin", which is about systemic racism in the United States. Wallis’s forthcoming book, "Christ in Crisis: Why We Need To Reclaim Jesus" was born out of Sojourners’ Reclaiming Jesus initiative. In the book, Wallis explores 8 questions Jesus asked or was asked. He emphasizes the importance of
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Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey (video game)


Waldo's pet dog. Woof alerts the players when they are near an object they are searching for. Players wanting to use this ability more often must collect 'Woof Bones' to prolong the effect. Unlike the NES video game adaptation of "Where's Waldo?" and "The Great Waldo Search", which relied on a directional pad to search for targets, this game allows players to utilize more superior pointer-based motion controls (the Wii Remote's infrared sensor, the DS and iPhone's touchscreen, or
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Terry Waldo


Mcgoon's with West Coast jazz revival musicians. Waldo played with Turk Murphy's Jazz Band and studied with other prominent jazz musicians such as Pops Foster, Lu Watters, Wally Rose, and Clancy Hayes, while living in a room above Mcgoon's for one dollar per day. Returning to Ohio, Waldo formed the Gutbucket Syncopators in 1969. This traditional jazz group included Frank Powers, Roy Tate, and Jim Snyder, among others. The Syncopators performed at festivals and clubs and made a number of recordings. This band attracted
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Tourist guy


across the Internet. He is also called numerous other names, including the "accidental tourist" (a reference to the novel and film "The Accidental Tourist"), "Waldo" (a reference to "Where's Waldo?"), the "WTC Guy", and the "tourist of death". Shortly after 9/11, an image surfaced on the internet, purportedly from a camera found in the debris of the World Trade Center. The image showed a man, dressed in a wool cap, heavy
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The Cider House Rules (film)


her boyfriend, Wally Worthington, a young couple who came to the clinic to have an abortion. Wally is a pilot on leave from the service. Wally's mother, Olive, owns the Worthington family apple orchard where Homer settles in as a worker. Homer lives on the Worthington estate in a bunkhouse called the Cider House. Wally leaves to fight in World War II. Homer is exempt from military service because Dr. Larch has diagnosed that he has a heart condition. While Wally is away, Homer and Candy have an
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The Waldo Waldo 5K


The Waldo Waldo 5K is an annual five kilometer walk/run hosted in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Participants dress in Where's Waldo costumes included with the price of admission, with raised funds going towards "Waldo Canyon restoration, disaster relief, fire recovery, outdoor activities and trails and open space maintenance in the local community." The race was founded by Chelise Foster in 2012 as a response to the Waldo Canyon Wildfire. According to a Q&A with Foster, it was originally meant to be a small gathering of volunteers
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John B. Waldo


entire Cascade range. John B. Waldo died on September 2, 1907, at the age of 62. He was buried at the Salem Pioneer Cemetery where other family members such as his father, brother, and wife were also buried. Waldo Lake in the Cascades and Waldo Glacier on Mount Jefferson are named in his honor. Waldo Hall at Oregon State University was named for his wife Clara H. Waldo, and Waldo Park in Salem is named for his brother William, while Waldo Middle School in Salem is named for his father
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The Waldo Waldo 5K


that would dress up in Where's Waldo costumes to clean up the Waldo Canyon, but instead became a fundraiser to help offset the financial burden following the disaster. Foster was an elope, Inc. employee at the time, and the company agreed to provide Waldo and Wenda costumes at a discount for the event, and has been the presenting sponsor since. The inaugural race at the America the Beautiful Park included over 1,000 participants, and raised approximately $20,000 for the Waldo Canyon Firefighter Relief Fund. In subsequent iterations, the Waldo
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Where's Waldo? (video game)


value, such as in a review by Gamecola.net. The game was listed #12 on Seanbaby.com's "Worst Nintendo Games". One year later, a sequel, "The Great Waldo Search", was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis. It was based on "", the third book of the "Where's Waldo?" series. Almost two decades later, however, in 2009, a more modern remake of that sequel was developed by Ludia and published by Ubisoft
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Bart's Comet


a reference to Charles Nelson Reilly's performance in "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir". Waldo from "Where's Waldo?" appears near the top-left of a frame during the first group shot in the bomb shelter, imitating the style of the "Where's Waldo?" books. The bomb shelter scenes were based on "The Twilight Zone" episodes "The Shelter" and "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". The episode makes references to "Back to the Future", including when Professor
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Where's Wally?


reprinted in 2009 in a smaller size with different packaging. A series of geographical magazines for children was published in the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Portugal, Poland, Brazil, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Malta, Bulgaria and Russia, called "Wally's World". In each issue Wally travelled to a different country or region of the world giving the reader interesting facts. 52 issues were published from January 1997 to January 1998, when "Wally's History of
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David Schramm (actor)


Joseph Discher cast understudy Wally Dunn as Schramm's replacement for the title role. Schramm stated in a 2008 interview, "I'm not a drinker, though I come from an area where drinking is like breathing. My father was a bookie, so consequently we went to the track a lot, where there was plenty of booze. My entire family drank; on weekends, there were always plenty of cases of beer in the house. Don't ask me why, but I just didn't get that gene."
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Where's Waldo at the Circus


Designed for "children ages 4 through 8", Where's Waldo at the Circus is a computer video game that immerses the player in a rich interactive environment complete with music, sound, and animation. A team of educators assisted with the game design, and the exercises within it conform to the guidelines of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the California Department of Education. The game is introduced by Waldo himself asking the player to type in his or her name. Once that is done, the player is off
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Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey (video game)


Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey is a video game published by Ubisoft and developed by Ludia based on the book of the same name. It is a puzzle adventure game released for the Nintendo DS, Wii, Microsoft Windows, and the iPhone, and is also a remake of "The Great Waldo Search", released in 1992. Like the other games in the series, the object of the game is to search for hidden characters and items within a time limit. Hints are awarded to the player through Woof,
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Where's Waldo at the Circus


to the Big Top to meet Wizard Whitebeard, who gives options of hearing the story behind the game or jumping right in. Ringmaster Piccalilli has lost his magic golden whistle, and without it the circus can't go on. Piccalilli asks the player to aid in its recovery. First the player has to find Waldo, who will help with the search. The detailed virtual "Where's Waldo?" spreads page are four times the size of the screen and fully scrollable, packed with point-and-click characters and
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Triple J


travel, calling him during a segment named "Where in the World is Jason "Jay" Whalley", a pun on Where's Wally? and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?. In 2009, Robbie, Marieke, and The Doctor had a serial called "Claytron". Tuesdays offered "Nerds of a Feather" with Paul Verhoeven, whilst Friday offered "The Friday Fuckwit" as well as "Like a Version", a segment where famous recording artists perform a cover version of a song of their
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Where's Waldo at the Circus


by instrument pitch, and more. By proceeding through the game's environments and activities collecting clues along the way, the player eventually enters the Wizard's Den, where he can assemble the evidence he's collected, review it with help from Waldo and the Wizard, identify the culprit and retrieve the whistle. All of the features in the game are designed for variable outcomes, with everything from the actual thief to Waldo's location in each screen being randomly determined each time through. This allows the player to play multiple times
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1984 (Van Halen album)


; a stereotypical nerd named "Waldo"; David Lee Roth as Waldo's bus driver; and numerous teachers stripping. To promote the album, the band ran a contest on MTV. The contest was called, "Lost Weekend" with Van Halen. Fans mailed over 1 million postcards to MTV in hopes of winning the contest. In the promo for MTV, David Lee Roth said, "You won't know where you are, you won't know what's going to happen, and when you come back,
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and the character is often given a different name and personality in the translations. As more books were released the cast of characters grew as well - including Wizard Whitebeard, Wilma, Wenda, Woof, Odlaw and the Waldo Watchers. More Waldo books followed - such as Where's Waldo in Hollywood?, (1997), (2006). Waldo became a huge pop culture sensation in the early 1990s. The United States, in particular, was swept with "Waldo-mania". Aside from the adaptations of Handford
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Where's Waldo? (video game)


which made it more difficult to find Waldo in each of the levels. The player's goal is to help Waldo get to the moon, by finding Waldo in various pictures in order to progress through the game. There are eight levels in the game. In the picture levels, the directional buttons control a magnifying glass and that must be placed over Waldo in order to "find" him and move to the next level and a new picture. In the easy and practice mode, the pictures are still images the size
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Elisabeth Waldo


1941 before disbanding when the U.S. entered World War II. It was on these tours that Waldo's interest in musical archeology grew and she began collecting pre-Columbian instruments. After the All-American Youth Orchestra, Waldo made her home in Southern California where she played as a first violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for one season. She returned to Latin America as a touring solo performer, playing in Panamá, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico before taking up residence in Mexico City where
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History of Williamsport, Pennsylvania


Susquehanna River Valley. Wallis had extensive holdings in Muncy Township. Wallis brought Michael Ross and his mother to Muncy Township where Ross was trained as a surveyor's assistant. Michael Ross must have made a good impression upon Wallis, since Wallis gave Ross of land and a favorable letter of recommendation. Ross quickly became a successful surveyor and farmer. He was able to use his profits to purchase of land along the West Branch Susquehanna River, between Loyalsock and Lycoming Creeks. This land originally called "Virginia" was to in time
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Waldo (short story)


cause. In desperation, Stevens approaches Doc Grimes, a physician who has known Waldo since birth, to try to persuade Waldo to help. Waldo has a grudge against NAPA after losing a legal battle with them some years before. Waldo lives in a satellite in high orbit, where the lack of gravity allows him to move around despite his weakness. He makes his living as a consulting engineer, with a specialty in fine motor skills. Once Grimes reveals Stevens' purpose, Waldo turns hostile. Nothing would persuade him to
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Waldo Machado


Waldo Machado da Silva (9 September 1934 – 25 February 2019), known simply as Waldo, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward. He is best known for his time at Fluminense, where he is the top scorer in the club's history with 314 goals in 401 matches, and Valencia. Waldo was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. After joining Madureira Esporte Clube's youth setup in the early 1950s, he made his debut as a senior in 1953. On 11 April 1954, Waldo signed
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The Great Waldo Pepper


of Dillhoefer's aircraft and begins buzzing the crowd away from the wreckage and ends up crashing into a carnival area, which leads to his permanent grounding. But that does not stop Waldo from flying for long. Waldo goes to Hollywood where Axel is working as a stuntman, and Waldo and Axel get jobs as stunt pilots in an upcoming film depicting the air battles of the Great War. Axel is cleared of his grounding and reinstated as a pilot; but being permanently grounded, Waldo has to use an alias so that he
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Waldo Holmes


Waldo T. "Wally" Holmes (born October 27, 1928) is an American musician and songwriter. He is the writer of the hit song "Rock The Boat" that was originally a hit for The Hues Corporation. His composition "I Got Caught Dancing Again" appears on the album "Falling in Love" by Rachelle Ann Go In 1968, Holmes was a trumpeter and songwriter residing in Los Angeles. A friend of his that he surfed with was St. Clair Lee who he would later work with in the music
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Stephan Martinière


as Animation Director for DIC Entertainment, and directed hundreds of episodes of "Where's Waldo" and "Dennis the Menace". His 5 half-hour musical specials for the show "Madeline" were nominated for an Emmy, and went on to win the Children's Hall of Fame "Humanitas", A.C.T., and the Parents' Choice Award. Stephan also drew the "Where's Waldo" Sunday syndicated strip for 1994-1997. His animation work lead him to Hollywood, where he designed for feature films such
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Australia All Over


phone call begins with McNamara saying: "G'day, this is Macca...?" or "Australia All Over, hello?". The program also regularly features Australia music, bush poetry, book readings, bird calls, interviews with special guests and the "Why I live where I live" segment, where McNamara reads aloud a letter sent in by a listener describing why they have chosen to live in a specific part of Australia. 250 contributions to the "Why I Live Where I Live" segment were compiled into
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The Wally


of National Dragster, in early 1969 Jack Jones was at his day job, and got a call from Wally Parks. Parks asked him if he would be willing to pose for pictures for a trophy at Pomona Raceway. Pomona is a 16 minute ride from Glendora where the NHRA is based. Jack agreed and a number of pictures were snapped, including the now iconic photo of him with his safety equipment and a tire. Later that year, the famous Wally trophy was introduced. It is the same design as in 1969
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The Road to Total Freedom


researching the book, individuals from the Scientology intelligence agency called the Guardian's Office investigated the author. Alan E. Aldridge notes in his book "Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction", "Roy Wallis gave graphic accounts of attempts by members of the Church of Scientology to discredit him personally and professionally, and to subvert or suppress his research findings." An undercover agent for Scientology went to Stirling University, where Wallis was a teacher. The individual pretended to be a student, and asked Wallis if he was
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Gus & Waldo


Gus and Waldo have made it. But Fame is fickle and a cooler penguin, Cedric, takes the world by storm. Gus and Waldo are soon forgotten. In the end Gus and Waldo, now reclining in rehab, have a shared moment of revelation about the capacity of fame and fortune to deliver happiness and increase the amount of love in their lives. A gin-swigging peacock delivers a line worth remembering: ‘Get the whole world to love you? Why bother!?! You already love each other!
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Where's Waldo? (video game)


collect Waldo and his dropped glasses in order to exit the stage. The player must also avoid Wizard Whitebeard, who can quickly subtract time if the player lands on his spot. And in the final level, the player must match three pictures of Waldo in order to get Waldo to the moon. Responses towards the game from reviewers were negative. One of the most known criticisms of the game is the graphics; Some of the pixelated objects in each of the game's levels had similar colors and stripes of Waldo's shirt
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Leave It to Beaver


boys to wash their faces, hands, and fingernails before dinner), both boys generally prefer being unwashed and dressed in dirty clothes. In the premiere episode, Wally and Beaver fake bathing by rumpling towels and tossing "turtle dirt" in the bathtub. In "Cleaning Up Beaver", June and Ward commend Wally on his neat appearance and chide Beaver for his untidiness. When Wally calls Beaver a "pig", Beaver moves into the guest room where he can be his own dirty, messy self without comment or
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Shani Wallis


on a scholarship and resumed her theatrical career appearing in many London and provincial productions. She made her theatrical debut in "Call Me Madam" at the London Coliseum (as "Princess Marie") with Anton Walbrook. Wallis is a naturalised citizen of the United States, where she has lived for more than forty years. She married her agent Bernie Rich on 13 September 1968, and they have one child and two granddaughters. Wallis is a patron of the theatre charity the Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
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Where's Waldo? (video game)


10 citing it as being "a game for those too lazy to turn a page." In giving the game an F, writer Cyril Lachel wrote, "It's hard to believe something this pointless came out of Bethesda Softworks... Where's Waldo? Hopefully in a landfill, because that's where this 8-bit piece of garbage belongs." A reviewer of Yahoo! Voices, who gave the game 0.5 out of 5 stars, even criticized the sound effects. Some reviewers also noted of the game's lack of replay
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Lela Cole Kitson


and geology, in Morenci, Arizona where he was employed. Following the death of their son in late 1917, the Kitsons moved to New York City, where they boarded with his mother, silent film actress May Kitson. In early 1918 Mrs. Kitson joined the Author's League of America. For the birth of their daughter she removed to El Paso where her parents had moved in 1917. Between 1919 and the 1931 suicide of her husband Waldo in Long Beach, the Kitsons lived in Arizona and California. Whenever Waldo was
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The Wiggles Movie


in North America as a direct-to-video film in 2003 from HIT Entertainment, under the title Magical Adventure! A Wiggly Movie. Wally the Great (Tony Harvey), great-grandson of Waldo the Magnificent, is an amateur magician whose dream is to win the competition at the Magic Club for Best Magician. He is confronted with a rival, Roland the Remarkable (Dale Burridge), who believes Wally is a nobody. Meanwhile, children's entertainers The Wiggles, consisting of lead singer Greg Page, guitarist
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Waldo Peirce


his death. “I spoke with my Aunt Karin,” Will Peirce, Waldo’s grandson, writes. “Her mother was Ellen Larsen, born in Minneapolis in 1920, passed away in 2001. She studied art in New York—she painted. A friend of Ellen’s used to model for Waldo, and she and Waldo went to a well-known cafe or restaurant where Ellen waited tables. It was during wartime. The romance started there. She preferred the quiet life in Maine, but she kept a
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List of Family Matters characters


nearly endangering Urkel. His character was rewritten as a good guy and to serve as a friend of Eddie's. Like Steve Urkel (the show's most famous character), Waldo was an outlandish, almost surrealistic person. While Steve was the resident nerd, Waldo was the resident idiot. Waldo eventually reached a point in his lack of intelligence to where he even manages to annoy Steve. In the season three episode "Food, Lies and Videotape," Waldo was discovered to be an excellent chef. It is later
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SpaceChem


two waldos, red and blue, manipulated through command icons placed on the grid. The player adds commands from an array to direct each waldo independently through the grid. The commands direct the movement of the waldo, to pick up, rotate, and drop atoms and molecules, and to trigger reactor events such as chemical bond formation. The two waldos can also be synchronized, forcing one to wait for the other to reach a synchronization command. The reactors may support specific nodes, set by the player, that act where
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Where's Wally?


rights to turn "Where's Wally?" into a live-action film, but the project was also cancelled. In November 2011, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Classic Media announced that a live-action film based on the "Where's Wally?" series is in development. Screenwriter Todd Berger has been hired to write the story for the film, which was slated to be released in the summer of 2015. On March 9, 2016, "Deadline" reported that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are in
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Where's Wally? The Incredible Paper Chase


binoculars, and a missing piece of paper in each scene. In addition to finding the characters, "The Incredible Paper Chase", as with "Where's Wally? The Great Picture Hunt!", has other challenges like "spot-the-differences" scenes. Some of the characters and scenes have appeared in one of the earlier "Where's Wally?" spin-off books. The book was originally released in a larger hardback book without the numbering system continuing on the cover with a '7'
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Wally West


the edge of the universe and beyond, where death didn't even exist and continued to run to get Linda back. There was a comic titled The Human Race in which Wally ran faster than instant teleportation, Reaching Trans-Time Velocity. Flash vol 2 #177 had Wally outrun the gravitational pull of a black hole. Using Jessie Quick's speed formula combined with his speed steal, Wally can temporally accelerate to the point where he escapes linear time, essentially allowing him to function like the chronokenetic Zoom. Wally's connection
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Boston


that illustrious model.' From this, Boston has been called the "Athens of America" (also a nickname of Philadelphia) for its literary culture, earning a reputation as "the intellectual capital of the United States." In the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in Boston. Some consider the Old Corner Bookstore to be the "cradle of American literature," the place where these writers met and where "
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1995 film)


the store's owner, Waldo Fudd (Vincent Schiavelli). Waldo reveals he has the same abilities they do and that they are extraterrestrials from another world where everyone has a twin. When they came to Earth to explore, everyone separated due to the quarrels they experienced on Earth. Waldo has been working to reunite them all and take them home. Meanwhile, Zoe sees the purple light from the front of the shop and recognizes it and confronts Waldo to discover the fate of the twins she saw years earlier. Though he
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J. Waldo Smith


Jonas Waldo Smith (March 9, 1861 – October 14, 1933) was an American civil engineer and chief engineer on the Board of Water Supply of New York from 1905 to 1922. He was awarded the 1918 John Fritz Medal. Waldo was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts as the youngest son of Francis Smith and Abigail Prescott (Baker) Smith. After attending the Phillips Academy, he studied civil engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1887. Waldo had started his career as chief engineer of the
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Where's Wally? (book)


special 10th anniversary edition form. The location of Wally was changed in each picture and additional characters were added for the reader to find (Woof, Wizard Whitebeard, Wenda, Odlaw, the Wally Watchers, and others). The "Wally" series is quite evocative of an earlier children's book titled "Where's Wallace?" (by Hilary Knight), in which a red-headed orangutan escapes from the zoo and "hides" in highly detailed picture panoramas, including beach, department store, circus, stadium
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Interactive children's book


character’s whereabouts, Wally always wears glasses and carries a walking stick and is famous for his outfit of a red and white horizontally striped shirt, blue trousers and a bobble hat. The first book in Handford’s series, originally titled "Where's Wally?", was published in 1987. The book was soon followed by the release of Where's Wally Now? (1988) and (1989). The books became extremely popular and were translated into many languages. The trademark of Wally was adopted in 28 countries
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Waldo (short story)


help NAPA. Stevens leaves, but Grimes has a few words with Waldo, pointing out where his food comes from and so forth. Waldo reluctantly takes the case, but Grimes insists on one more condition: Waldo must figure out what effect broadcast power has on humans. Grimes is seeing a slow weakening of the human physique, and he blames the radiant power industry. Stevens returns to Earth, to find that McLeod, one of his engineers who had experienced a power failure in his personal craft, has returned. He
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Black Flash


before reaching the museum where Linda was waiting, with Linda thus being struck by the lightning that was meant to kill Wally. It later returns to try to take Wally again, freezing time except for those who possess a connection to the Speed Force. Max Mercury, Jay Garrick, and Jesse Quick all attempt to assist Wally by distracting the Black Flash; Wally finally defeats the Black Flash by racing the creature to the end of time, to a point where Death would have no meaning, causing the creature to dissipate.
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Where's Wally?


Where's Wally? is a British series of children's puzzle books created by English illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things at a given location. Readers are challenged to find a character named Wally hidden in the group. Wally is identified by his red-and-white-striped shirt, bobble hat, and glasses, but many illustrations contain red herrings involving deceptive use of red-and-white striped objects
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Where's Wally?


format Wally book was the "". In addition to standard Wally scenes, this paperback activity book featured other types of games and activities, as well as cardboard punch-outs and stickers. "", which was a large-format book of posters including five scenes from past books and six new scenes (later included in "The Great Picture Hunt"). Several other "activity books" have also been published featuring art from the "Where's Wally" comic strip: The first six activity books mentioned were
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John Wallis


he continued for the rest of his life. Wallis wrote the first survey about mathematical concepts in England where he discussed the Hindu-Arabic system. Wallis joined the moderate Presbyterians in signing the remonstrance against the execution of Charles I, by which he incurred the lasting hostility of the Independents. In spite of their opposition he was appointed in 1649 to the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford University, where he lived until his death on 28 October 1703 (O.S.). In 1650, Wallis was ordained as a minister. After
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Call a spade a spade


classical Greek of Plutarch's "Apophthegmata Laconica," and was introduced into the English language in 1542 in Nicolas Udall's translation of the "Apophthegmes," where Erasmus had seemingly replaced Plutarch's images of "trough" and "fig" with the more familiar "spade." The idiom has appeared in many literary and popular works, including those of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. Somerset Maugham, and Jonathan Swift. To "call a spade a spade", or, "to call
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Clarence Abiathar Waldo


), Thayer Professor of Mathematics and Applied Mechanics, head of the Department of Mathematics (1910 to 1917), and Professor Emeritus (after 1917) at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1888 Waldo published "A manual of descriptive geometry, with numerous problems". Waldo was a charter member of the Indiana Academy of Science and served as the Academy's president in 1897. He achieved a modicum of fame that year when he explained to members of the Indiana State Senate why a bill that would redefine the value of
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The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty


story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". Each episode began with live action footage of Waldo and Felicia, who were usually being bullied by Tyrone. Waldo would then daydream about being a superhero and coming to the rescue of others. The series contained a lot of satire per the request of Filmation and cited television series "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and magazine "Mad" as the reason why. The live action sequences of real dogs and cats "talking" and "interacting" are very similar
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Where's Waldo? (TV series)


in their attempts to earn stripes and become wizard-level wanderers. Confirmed guest actors for the series include Bobby Moynihan, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Retta, Carlos Alazraqui, Rachel Dratch, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Tom Kenny, Oscar Nunez, Jerry O’Connell, and Hannah Simone. In 2018, it was revealed "Where's Waldo?" was in the works as part of the expansion of DreamWorks Animation Television. On April 5, 2019, it was announced the series would debut on Universal Kids along with 8
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The Story of an African Farm


to see her again; to stand where she once stood. Gregory leaves the farm. Seven months later, Em is startled when Waldo returns without warning one windy night, some eighteen months after he had left. While Em prepares a meal for Waldo, he begins to write a letter to Lyndall. He tells of his experiences and changes that he has undergone in his travels. Waldo continues to write throughout the night, until Em awakes and stops him. Em explains that Waldo cannot write any longer: Lyndall is
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