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dinah’s family restaurant

from nightcrawler (2014) posted in movies by pete_nice

Machivellian auteur Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) has Rick (Riz Ahmed) "sell himself" at Dinah's.

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chinatown express

from nightcrawler (2014) posted in movies by pete_nice

Enterprising sociopath Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) sets up a confrontation at this Chinatown Express in Nightcrawler.

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burbank burger king

from back to the future (1985) posted in movies by pete_nice

Marty skitches a truck's bumper outside this Burger King in the first installment of Back to the Future. The franchise is still open.

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corsier-sur-vevey cemetery

from charlie chaplin posted in movies by donkeyoti

On December 27, 1977, Sir Charles (Charlie) Chaplin was laid to rest after suffering a stroke in his sleep. He was 88 years old.

Shortly thereafter, on March 1, 1978, Chaplin's body was corpse-napped and held for ransom. The bandits demanded $600,000 for the return of The Tramp's remains.

The two immigrants who perpetrated the body snatching were arrested in May of that year. Both did time for the unauthorized exhumation and later apologized to the family. Chaplin was re-interred, only this time with a cement slab over his grave.

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mount tabor

from christianity, jesus posted in history by donkeyoti

Jesus was palling around with three disciples (Peter, James and John) while hiking a mountain, when suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared in a blinding radiance around Jesus. Then the voice of God called him Son...so all and all, it was a pretty significant trundle.

This event in Christianity is referred to as the "Transfiguration of Jesus", and it has been interpreted several different ways. Some believe that the transfiguring is the revealing of the divine to human sense perception. Another is the revelation that Jesus is the Son of God. Another still is that this really tees things up for a Crucifixion/Resurrection.

The Transfiguration event ranks much higher in the Eastern Orthodox greatest hits, but the Western church honors it through a number of celebrations.

One of the hypothesized locations for the Transfiguration is at Mount Tabor, where there are currently two churches (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) dedicated to Transfiguration on the summit.

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