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* Polish contribution to World War II ( Polish Underground State ) Movie Youtube
* Polish contribution to World War II ( Regular Forces ) Movie Youtube
* Polish contribution to World War II ( Intelligence Service ) MOvie Youtube
Their campaign to have the Sydney Mardi Gras banned because of, as he puts it, " the lifestyle and perversion that it promotes " saw opposition from the RSL as one of their campaign Youtube videos, which featured Madden, labelled a " battle cry ", calls upon " 10, 000 warriors " to rally against the event and shows Madden in front of the Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park inviting viewers to become " lions " and join him.

War and parody
* Court-martialed Vietnam War mass-murderer William Calley sporting the guileless grin of Alfred E. Neuman, complete with the parody catchphrase ' What, My Lai?
The narrative tone of television espionage ranged from the drama of Danger Man ( 1960 – 68 ) to the sardonicism of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ( 1964 – 68 ) and the flippancy of I Spy ( 1965 – 68 ) until the exaggeration, akin to that of William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim before the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), degenerated to the parody of Get Smart ( 1965 – 70 ).
" General satisfaction with the quality of existing works led to parody, such as how the Russian anecdotal joke tradition turned the setting of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy into a grotesque world of sexual excess.
It was a parody of Paul Hardcastle's number one hit, 19, with Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, including Richie Benaud and Brian Johnston, and replacing references to the Vietnam War with references to the England cricket team's disastrous 1984 home series against the West Indies in which the England captain David Gower had averaged 19.
The film, set during the Second World War, was publicised as a parody of The Guns of Navarone.
Reed's most famous poem is Lessons of the War, a witty parody of British army basic training during World War II, which suffered from a lack of equipment at that time.
Before the Second World War Maskelyne was a " blaster " in the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, a charitable parody of the Freemasons that operated from 1926-31.
The parody lampooned advertisers, toy manufacturers, chemical companies, absurdly long legal disclaimers, alien conspiracies, and even mentioned the 1991 Gulf War ( stating that Happy Fun Ball was being dropped by US warplanes on Iraq ).
( In the 1932 film The Lost Squadron Stroheim played a parody of himself as a fanatic German film director making a World War I movie who orders extras playing dead soldiers to " Stay dead!
The phrase was also adapted by British soldiers into a trench song in the First World War, as a parody of, or rather to the tune of, the hymn The Church's One Foundation.
The epigraph to " Unknown Citizen " is a parody of the symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier commemorating unidentified soldiers ; tombs of unknown soldiers were first created following the first World War.
* Precious Roy's Home Shopping Netwerk-a parody of the Home Shopping Network with bizarre products like Civil War corpses, CAT scan glasses, chicken flavored air conditioning, and a bottomless swimming pool.
Roland seemed to parody the peace-loving, ' Make Love, Not War ,' long-haired ' good guy ' as a gentle, kind, and soft-hearted youth.
Initiative, ( a parody of the superhuman registration storyline of Marvel Comics ' Civil War event ), which requires superheroes to reveal their secret identities to the government and to wear identity collars.
A character named Tyrone Power appears in three plays: Gossip ( 1977 ), Filthy Rich ( 1979 ), and The Art of War ( 1983 ), though Filthy Rich, a film-noir parody, is most often performed.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated ( otherwise known as The Battle Hymn of the Republic ( Brought Down to Date )) was written in 1901 by Mark Twain, as a parody of American imperialism, in the wake of the Philippine – American War.
The song " Ditty Diego – War Chant " was written by Jack Nicholson and is a parody of the band's original Boyce and Hart written TV theme song ; its lyrics illustrate the tone of self-parody evident in parts of the film:
Webster made a guest appearance on the 15 July 2009 episode of The Chaser's War on Everything, in a music video parody of the Barack Obama viral video " Yes We Can ", the parody based on Kevin Rudd's speeches.
On 7 October 2007, Freedman posted a message on the band's official website, citing a parody of him which was written by Taylor, and had aired on 3 October 2007 episode of The War.
A chariot carrying an actor portraying Alexander the Great introduced images from the Hellenistic period, which in turn were followed by representations of Byzantine art, the Greek War of Independence, and lastly of 20th century elements of Greek culture, such as the popular shadow-theatre figure Karagiozis, who is said to be a humorous and self-deprecating depiction ( and parody ) of Greek mentality.
In the " Road to ..." series, which is a parody of the Road to film series, Brian and Stewie have gone on various trips to different locations, including Europe, World War II-era England, Poland, and Nazi Germany, as well as a number of different realities across the Multiverse.
The dialogue and scenarios parody Russian novels, particularly those by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, such as The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Gambler, The Idiot, and War and Peace.
* The War of the Wenuses ( 1898 ) with C. L. Graves, a parody of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds

War and Worlds
The Cold War era zeitgeist translated into a type of near-paranoia manifested in themes such as invading armies of evil aliens, ( Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The War of the Worlds ); and communist fifth columnists, ( The Manchurian Candidate ).
His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Statue of a The War of the Worlds Tripod ( The War of the Worlds ) | tripod, erected as a tribute to H. G. Wells in the centre of the town of Woking, England
Some of his early novels, called " scientific romances ", invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.
On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.
* " H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds ", by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 Jun 2005.
* Website examining the legacy of The War Of The Worlds
After the success of Welles's War of the Worlds 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, Welles gained a unique contract with RKO Pictures.
An early triumph of Luthor's first term occurs during the Our Worlds at War comic book crossover, in which he coordinates the U. S. Army, Earth's superheroes, and a number of untrustworthy alien forces to battle the main villain of the story arc, Imperiex.
The madness that is a side effect of Venom takes hold, and during the ensuing fight with Superman and Batman, Luthor admits he had traded the creature Doomsday to Darkseid in return for weapons during the Our Worlds at War crisis ; in doing so, he inadvertently provides a confession which is captured on video by Batman.
* The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) by H. G. Wells.
Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.
In the world of The League, the Martians from The War of the Worlds are not originally from Mars, but were invading aliens who moved on to try to conquer Earth.
Scarlet Traces is intended as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds and centres on a counter-invasion of Mars, beginning about 1908 and continuing over the next three decades.
* 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
In fact, several stories and books describing the aftermath of a total American victory in the Third World War — such as " Sam Hall " and its loose sequel " Three Worlds to Conquer " as well as " Shield "— are scarcely less bleak than the above-mentioned depictions of a Soviet victory.
The Radio Project also researched the 1938 Halloween broadcast of The War of the Worlds.
Wells ' The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry.
The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.
The War of the Worlds may also refer to:
* The War of the Worlds ( radio drama ), the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles

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