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[11] In hindsight, there has been much criticism of the failure of WTC security personnel to evacuate the South Tower immediately following the attack on the North Tower.


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No one could expect another strike and evacuating thousands of people was already inherently risky.


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Conditions, moreover, were dangerous in some areas outside the towers.


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Twelve minutes after the attack, however, police officers were ordered to evacuate the building.


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[11] In Arlington, county, state and federal authorities cooperate significantly more smoothly than in New York City.


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An official command system (Incident Command System) for emergencies was in place in the area, and many police and fire units had already operated together in regional events and exercises earlier.


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Conditions were also easier in Arlington.


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Only one strike was carried out there, the venue was easily cordoned off and there were no other buildings in the surrounding area.


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No rescue workers were injured there.


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[11] Terrorists and Their Motives Naming suspects After the attacks, the FBI was able to quickly name the suspected hijackers and also provide more details about many.


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Namely, the authorities gained possession of the suitcase of Mohammed Atta, who had not made it from a previous flight to join the hijacked plane.


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The suitcase contained a Boeing 757 flight simulator-instructional video, a pick knife, pepper spray and papers that revealed the identities of all 19 hijackers and details of their plans, motives and backgrounds.


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[71] In addition, the passport of one of the hijackers was found near the WTC towers.


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[72] According to authorities, the National Security Agency NSA intercepted phone calls on the day of the attacks in which known Osama bin Laden supporters rejoiced in the attacks and said, “We have hit targets” [73].


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German intelligence officials also said they intercepted phone calls from bin Laden supporters giving details of the hijackers' plans [74].


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The day after the attacks, German, French and British intelligence officials said they suspected “strongly” that bin Laden was the culprit [75].


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Two days after the attacks, on 13 September, US Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the prime suspect is Osama bin Laden [76].


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On the third day after the attacks, the names of the hijackers were made public and they were linked to bin Laden [54].


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On 15 September, President Bush declared the United States to be at war and named bin Laden as the prime suspect [77].


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On September 27, 2001, the FBI released the names, photos of all 19 hijackers, as well as information about their likely nationality, dates of birth, places of residence, and pseudonyms they used [78].


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Fifteen of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon.


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The number of Saudi Arabians has been explained by the fact that the planners of the attacks would have deliberately wanted to damage US-Saudi relations.


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On the other hand, troubled Saudi Arabian youths were easy to recruit and got visas to the United States quickly.


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[79] The leader of the force was the Egyptian Mohammed Atta [80].


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Based on letters found in Atta's suitcase, it has been speculated that the hijackers have been psychologically maneuvered and influenced by religious mysticism, long prayers and other rituals that have led to self-suggestion.


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Opposing opinions have also been expressed: according to Jerrold Post, a professor of psychology at George Washington University, the hijackers were well-educated, mature adults with a history of strong religious beliefs.


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[81] Investigations into the FBI's attacks, codenamed “PENTTBOM”, were the most extensive and complex in FBI history, involving more than 7000 agents [82].


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According to Dale L. Watson, director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, the evidence linking Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to the attacks is “clear and irrefutable” [83].


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The British government also considers al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden to be responsible for the September attacks [84], on the basis of intelligence.


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However, bin Laden was not wanted for the attacks, despite being on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Persons list [85] [86].


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Al-Qaeda Al Qaeda was formed in 1989 when the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan.


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The foundation of the organisation was a network of volunteer fighters who arrived in the country in the 1980s.


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They waged anti-Soviet holy war jihad and received funding from both the United States and Saudi Arabia.


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[87] Between 1985 and 1992, an estimated 12,500 foreigners received training in bomb making, sabotage and urban warfare in camps established with CIA assistance [88].


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It has been suspected that the CIA might have trained Osama bin Laden as well.


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In the early 1990s, al Qaeda was active in Sudan, but after 1996 the organization's headquarters and training camps were moved to Afghanistan, where bin Laden forged firm ties with the Taliban.


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[87] In 1996, bin Laden issued his first fatwa.


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In it, he declared war on the Americans because they had troops in Saudi Arabia occupying a country with two Muslim holy cities.


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[89] According to former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, the 1996 fatwa amounted to a declaration of war by al-Qaeda on the United States [90].


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In 1998, another fatwa was declared, signed by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.


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It declared jihad against Western countries and Israel.


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Among other things, the fatwa declares that the killing of Americans and their allies is the personal duty of every Muslim in order to free holy mosques from their rule and their military to leave all Islamic countries.


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[91] [92] Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden initially denied any involvement in the attacks in a statement broadcast on 16 September 2001 by the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel [93].


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In December 2001, the U.S. government made public a videotape in which a right-handed figure resembling bin Laden rejoiced in the attacks and said he had known about them in advance.


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[94] Bin Laden was left-handed.


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[95] Authorities said the tape had been made in September in Kandahar.


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[96] In the same month, al-Jazeera posted a new video in which a person resembling bin Laden praised the terrorist attacks against the United States and called for strikes against the economy in particular.


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However, he did not say he was behind the attacks himself.


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[97] Four days before the U.S. presidential election, in October 2004, al-Jazeera broadcast a recording in which bin Laden admitted his involvement in the September 11 attacks.


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Al-Jazeera reported the tape originated in Pakistan and was deemed authentic by U.S. security officials.


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[98] [99] In the recording, bin Laden says, among other things: According to him, less damage would have come if Bush had acted faster.


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In September 2002, al-Jazeera broadcast an interview in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh detailed the planning of the attacks.


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According to what they reported, the attacks had been decided in early 1999 and bin Laden learned the exact date of September 6, 2001.


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[100] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed al-Jazeera journalist Yosri Fouda reported in April 2002 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted in an interview to his involvement in the “Holy Tuesday operation” along with Ramzi Binalshibh.


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“I am the chief of al Qaeda's military committee, and Ramzi is the mastermind of the Holy Tuesday operation.


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Yes, we did it.” [6] The Commission report calls Mohammed as the “chief architect” of the attacks [101].


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He was captured by Pakistani security officials in March 2003 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan [102].


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Mohammed confessed in March 2007 under questioning by US authorities that he was responsible for the September 11 attacks “from beginning to end.”


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He claimed to have been tortured after his arrest, but said he nevertheless made a confession without being coerced or pressured.


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[103] [104] Kenneth Roth, director of Human Rights Watch, has questioned the legality of closed-door interrogation and confession and considers it possible that the confession was obtained by torture [104].


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The CIA has admitted to using waterboarding in the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [105].


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According to a memo published in 2009, Mohammed was tortured by “water treatment” 183 times and another suspect Abu Zubaydah 83 times [106].


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A military tribunal trial was held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in June 2008, in addition to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, four other al-Qaeda members: Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Walid Bin Attash.


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Mohammed referred to the trial as an “inquisition” and refused counsel.


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On hearing that he could be sentenced to the death penalty, he replied: “That's exactly what I want, I have long wanted to be martyred.” [107] In November 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Mohammed and four other defendants would be transferred out of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, so they could participate in a civil trial in New York.


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However, no precise date was given for the trial.


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Holder believed prosecutors would come to demand the death sentence for all defendants, and the trial would be equitable and “open both to the public and the world at large.”


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[108] In January 2010, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that Mohammad would likely be sentenced to death and executed.


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His testimony has alarmed legal experts, who think the testimony has compromised the fairness of the trial.


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[109] Motive In addition to the 1996 and 1998 fatwas, Osama bin Laden has detailed his motives in his 2002 letter to the Americans published on the internet.


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In the letter, he briefly replies that he is fighting the Americans because “you have attacked and are still attacking us.”


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As examples, he cites the occupation of Palestine, the creation of the state of Israel, and attacks on Muslims by or supported by Americans in Somalia, Chechnya, Kashmir and Lebanon.


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He also blames the United States for the fact that 1.5 million children have died in Iraq as a result of economic sanctions.


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[110] Osama has also cited as one of the main reasons that the United States had kept its forces in Saudi Arabia since the 1991 Gulf War [111].


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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed studied in the United States in the 1980s and is not known then to have shown any hostility towards the country [112].


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According to the Commission's report, his hostile stance is motivated by US policies favoring Israel [113].


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Mohammed Atta, too, was very critical of US policy, viewing the UN as a partisan organization that has never acted against the United States or Israel.


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He grew most agitated, according to a student acquaintance, on two subjects: the Yugoslav civil war, which he felt was being fought specifically against Muslims, and American influence in the Middle East.


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[114] Hijacker Abdulaziz Alomari said his actions told the “infidels” that “you should leave the Arabian Peninsula, defeated, and stop supporting the poor Jews in Palestine” [115].


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According to American Middle East scholar Michael Scott Doran, Osama bin Laden's ultimate goal was for US retaliation to unite Muslims against the West, raise revolutions in Arab states and promote radical Islam.


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[116] Planning the attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has said during questioning that he first raised the idea of strikes with hijacked aircraft to Osama bin Laden in 1996.


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Mohammed's plan was to hijack ten planes, five on the east coast of the United States and five off the west coast, but bin Laden did not think the idea was viable.


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[117] By then bin Laden had returned from Sudan back to Afghanistan and was focused on strengthening his position there.


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According to Mohammed, it was not until the 1998 East African embassy bombings that demonstrated that bin Laden really wanted to attack the United States, and they were a turning point in the planning of the September 11 attacks.


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[101] At the end of 1998 or early the following year, Bin Laden gave Mohammed permission to continue planning attacks, and in March April he told Mohammed in Kandahar that al-Qaeda would support the plan. [101].


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In the spring of 1999, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden and his subordinate Mohammed Atef met several times in Kandahar and discussed the plan.


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Mohammed's original plan also included the idea of making a statement to the media about one of the hijacked aircraft, but the idea was dropped.


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Mohammed, bin Laden and Atef jointly chose the targets for the attacks, which were the White House, the Capitol, the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.


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[101] Bin Laden led the plans, gave financial support and was in the process of selecting the perpetrators.


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[118] Bin Laden first selected Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, both of whom were experienced jihad warriors and had fought in Bosnia.


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Hazmi and Mihdhar arrived in the United States in January 2000 after attending an al Qaeda rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before that.


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In the spring of 2000, Hazmi and Mihdhar took flying lessons in San Diego, California.


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They knew English only a little, so didn't excel in flying lessons.


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After all, they only serve as sidekicks.


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[119] [120] from Hamburg arrived in Afghanistan at the end of 1999, a group of men including Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi Binalshibh.


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[121] Bin Laden chose the men to carry out the plan because they were educated, spoke English and had lived in the West.


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[122] New aspirants were searched on the basis of special abilities, whereby al-Qaeda leaders also found Hani Hanjour, who already had a pilot's license.


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[123] Hanjour arrived in San Diego on 8 December 2000 and joined Hamzi.


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They soon left for Arizona, where Hanjour was still receiving refresher training.


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Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in the United States at the end of May, Atta on 3 June and Jarrah on 27 June 2000.


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Binalshibh applied several times for a visa to enter the United States, but it was not granted because he was a Yemenite and was feared to remain in the country as an illegal immigrant.


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Binalshibh remained in Hamburg and acted as an intermediary between Atta and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.


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The other three Hamburg cell members received flight instruction in South Florida.


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The hijackers' sidekicks began arriving in the United States in spring 2001.


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[124] In July 2001, Atta met with Binalshibh in Spain, and they discussed in secret the details of the plan, including the selection of final sites.


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Binalshibh also conveyed bin Laden's wish that attacks should take place as soon as possible.


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[125] Consequences of the attack Immediately after the incident, the United States and many other countries imposed security measures to prevent further attacks.


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Traffic in New York City was shut down immediately after the attacks, and a total ban on civil aviation was declared in the United States until September 13.


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A similar restriction was also imposed in London.


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As the US closed its airspace from Europe and Asia, about 500 flights were heading to North America, with planes no more than halfway around turning back.


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Of the rest, some were rerouted to fields in Mexico and the majority, some 239 planes, to Canadian fields.


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The Canadian Federal Aviation Administration launched an emergency program, Operation Yellow Ribbon, to coordinate the control of planes for fifteen fields around the country.


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In total, more than 33,000 passengers arrived in Canadian fields.


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[126] Subsequently, travel regulations to the United States were permanently tightened, especially with regard to air transport.


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The attacks had significant political consequences.


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Several countries toughened anti-terrorism laws even so drastically that the actions of the authorities were seen as restricting civil rights.


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The US government considerably tightened its attitude towards groups accused of terrorism and the governments that support them.


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Shortly after the attacks, the hastily prepared Patriot Act was passed in the United States, giving authorities the right to detain an alien person presumed to be a national threat indefinitely without trial or rights.


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This allows Taliban and al-Qaida suspects to be held in Cuba at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.


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Domestically, a whole new federal ministry, the Department of Homeland Security, was created for security oversight.


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The most significant U.S. response to the attacks was President Bush's declaration of the War on Terror, which included the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001.


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Criticism of official investigations, Thomas H. Kane, the chairman of the 9/11 Commission and former governor of New Jersey, as well as Lee H. Hamilton, vice chairman of the commission, have said in his book Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission that some information was withheld from the commission and their investigations were hampered on some issues including by the White House and various authorities.


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The White House said the independent commission's investigation interfered with the then-ongoing congressional investigation and the ongoing war on terror to justify the commission's various difficulties in conducting investigations.


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Former New Jersey public prosecutor John Farmer Jr., who also served as a senior adviser to the 9/11 Commission.


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has witnessed the same thing in terms of concealing and covering up facts related to the attacks.


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In his book The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America's Defense on 9/11, Farmer Jr.


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told The Washington Post in an interview in 2006 that one is “shocked at how much the right truth differed from what was told to the public.”


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This he justifies, among other things, with recordings from NORAD, whose contents differ from what is officially narrated.


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However, all the men were ultimately quite happy with the commission's final report.


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[127] [128] [129] Investigations of suspected financial crimes related to the attacks Shortly after the attacks, the media began reporting suspicions of insider dealing, and investigations were launched on three continents.


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[130] The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also began investigating unconventional trading in stocks affected by the attacks.


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[131] The financial audit listed 38 companies, including United Airlines and American Airlines, whose shares were traded unusually vigorously in the weeks leading up to the attacks, suggesting that some buyers and sellers had prior knowledge of terrorist attacks.


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Financial Audit Chairman Harvey Pitt told Congress that the investigation was the financial audit's “highest priority.”


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[132] In December 2001 and early 2002, media reported extensively on an operation by the German firm Convar, in which damaged hard drives recovered from the WTC rubble were sought to recover data.


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[133] Peter Henschel, the executive director of the company, pointed out that research was being done to some American entities cooperating with the FBI.


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Mr Henschel said the investigation was based on suspicions that criminals had exploited both inside information about the attacks and the chaos of the attacks in their money transfers.


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[134] [135] According to Convar 11:.


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Criminal money transfers worth more than $100 million may have been made on September.


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According to Germany's ZDF television channel, by March 2002, Convar had managed to recover data from several hundred hard drives.


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In its memo, “FBI Briefing on Stock Trades,” however, the 9/11 Commission referred to FBI agents it interviewed on October 18, 2003, who had no knowledge of the data recovery operation discussed in the media.


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According to the commission memo, a New York agent who was present stated that any hard drive would have been highly unlikely to remain recoverable.


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[136] [137] In 2004, the Commission concluded in its report that “thorough investigations” by the Financial Audit, the FBI and others did not reveal evidence that anyone with prior knowledge of the attacks benefited from stock trading.


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The commission clarified that sentence with a footnote stating that “unusual trading” had indeed taken place, but that all share trades had an innocent explanation, including trades on United Airlines and American Airlines.


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[138] In its report, the Commission did not return to the WTC hard drive data recovery operation.


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In 2006, Allen Poteshman, an economics professor at the University of Illinois, published an analysis of pre-strike stock trades involving airlines.


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[139] This peer-reviewed study, published by California University Press, concluded that the unusually high number of long-term put options slightly before strikes was indicative of the prior knowledge of future shocks by investors in the options market.


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A group of Swiss economics experts published a study in January 2010 that found investors had obvious prior knowledge of shocks in at least 13 trades.


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[140] In April 2010, an international group of economic experts showed that there was a significant spike in trading volumes in the options market just before the September 11th attacks.


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The team attributed the findings to suggest that some quarters had inside knowledge of impending strikes.


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[141] Alternative Views on 9/11 Terrorism The 9/11 truth movement holds that those behind 9/11 were representatives of the US administration who wanted to carry out the attacks to gain a reason for, for example, starting new wars.


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According to the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth group of the Truth movement, the destruction of the WTC towers, especially WTC7, filled several signs of blasting plume but no signs of cave-in due to fire.


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[142] However, the official investigation ignored any investigation referring to explosives and offered only an explanation based on fires, which they nevertheless considered an unlikely course of events.


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[143] As the most aggravating reason for suspecting the regime, the truth movement site 911truth.org, in turn, considers the driving down of air defenses, foreknowledge related to the attacks, and an attempt to cover up evidence suggesting administration involvement.


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[144] Subject in Media There have been several films made about the event, for example Paul Greengrass's United 93, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, Peter Markle's Flight 93 and Stephen Daldry's Extremely Strong and Incredibly Close, and also dozens of documentary films on conspiracy, for example 9 /11: Blueprint for Truth, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, 9/11 Mysteries, 9/11: The Falling Man, 9/11 Press for Truth and 9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Out.


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The Simpsons () is an Emmy Award-winning television animated series created by Matt Groening and produced by Gracie Films, about the lives of an American family of five.


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The rights to the series are owned by 20th Century Fox, and the first episode of the series aired in 1989.


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The Simpsons is the longest-running continuously running cartoon series and situation comedy in the United States of all time.


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[1] In the United States, the series is aired by the Fox television channel.


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27 production seasons of the series have aired in the United States by summer 2016.


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In Finland, the series is presented by Sub and FOX.


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Previously, the series has also aired on Channel Three and MTV3 channel.


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The series is considered a forerunner of animated series aimed at adults, and the series has contributed to the genesis of 1990s situation comedies aimed at adults.


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[2] The series has achieved great popularity both in the United States and around the world and has received several TV awards.


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A full-length film The Simpsons Movie has been produced about The Simpsons in 2007.


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General The series describes in a satirical way the lives of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie of the Simpson family.


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The family ventures in the fictional town of Springfield.


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Episodes are rich in references to American popular culture, politics, and other current phenomena, as well as problems in American society.


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Characters The main characters in The Simpsons are members of the Simpson family.


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Today the main role is played by Homer's father, but in the early days of the series, the family's mischievous firstborn son, Bart, was a central figure.


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The marketing of the series was mostly focused on Bart at the time, and stores featured a wide variety of BART products including video games and audio discs.


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After the first few seasons, the focus of the series began to be shifted to other family members and minor characters as well.


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[3] In addition to the Simpson family, the series features a large group of carricaned side characters, including religious neighbor Ned Flanders, owner of a nuclear power plant, a burly Mr. Burns, Krusty the Clown, Apu, a convenience store salesman from India, and a large group of Simpsons relatives, acquaintances and children schoolmates.


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Characters don't exactly age over the years and production seasons.


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The Simpsons regulars in the group photo Main characters Homer Simpson, father of Bart, Lisa and Maggie, and Marge's husband.


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Homer is employed as safety supervisor for the 7G sector of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.


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His free time he spends sleeping, watching TV, drinking Duff-brand beer and eating doughnuts.


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Homer's favourite pastimes also include drinking beer in Moe's tavern and bowling.


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Homer usually watches football and baseball on television.


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— Voice actor: Dan Castellaneta.


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Marge Simpson, o.s. Bouvier, mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie, and wife of Homer.


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Marge is known for her blue and tall hair.


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Marge is a housewife, but she has tried at least the profession of police, real estate broker, writer, Moe's sidekick, carpenter and pretzel seller.


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— Voice Actress: Julie Kavner.


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Bart Simpson, the first child of Homer and Marge, Lisa and Maggie's older brother.


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Bart is a 10-year-old boy attending the fourth grade of Springfield Elementary School.


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He happily plays all sorts of pranks on his father Homer, his teachers and his principal.


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— Voice actress: Nancy Cartwright.


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Lisa Simpson, Homer and Marge's second child, Bart's younger sister and Maggie's older sister.


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Lisa likes saxophone playing, reading and going to school.


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He's one of the best students in his school.


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Lisa is a vegetarian, a skeptic, a Buddhist, and a supporter of the Women's Agenda.


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— Voice actor: Yeardley Smith.


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Maggie Simpson, the third child of Homer and Marge, the younger sister of Bart and Lisa.


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Is in baby diaper and constantly sucks his pacifier.


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Venue The series takes the role of the fictional city of Springfield in the United States.


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[4] Events focus on the Simpsons' home at 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield Elementary School, Moe's Tavern, and the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.


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Springfield's landscape includes coastline, desert, countryside, and high mountain peaks.


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Groening himself has said the city contains similarities to Portland, Oregon, the city where he grew up.


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[5] Springfield was chosen as the town's name because of its ubiquity.


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Springfield's location is not specified in the series.


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[4] In the episode Behind the Laughter (Behind the Laughter), a reader talks about the Simpsons as a “northern Kentucky village family”.


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In the replay, however, the location had changed to Missouri.


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[6] Opening animation and theme music The opening section of The Simpsons features changing content in addition to the regular content: a chalkboard scene, a saxophone solo and a couch scene.


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The opening animation begins with a blackboard scene from Bart.


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The scene itself is different in every episode, and the text is always penitential.


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Lisa's saxophone solo has been varied in some episodes.


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Lisa's saxophone has been heard on tunes by Frank Zappa, James Brown and Charlie Parker, among others.


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[7] Lisa's saxophone color has also varied.


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In the couch scene, the Simpsons family crashes onto the couch, at which point something strange or jokey happens.


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The realism of the scenes vary from side to side, and they are recycled every now and then.


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[8] In recent years, the opening has been shortened from before, and often the picture moves directly to the couch scene after the program has begun.


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The theme music playing in the opening section was composed by Danny Elfman at the request of Matt Groening.


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[9] Cultural references to The Simpsons is filled with references to Western society, popular culture and history.


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It has been visited by dozens of the most famous public figures of its time.


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The storylines of the episodes are sometimes adaptations of well-known stories from, for example, Mark Twain or Edgar Allan Poe.


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Especially in the couch joke in the opening section, there are often direct references to the history of popular culture, animation as well as more.


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[10] Satire Simpsons satire often seeks to make all parties equally ridiculous.


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[11] Already in the blackboard scene of the opening section, the phrase Bart wrote has sometimes biting social criticism.


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At the time of its appearance, The Simpsons challenged the prevailing climate in the United States, which emphasized traditional family values and the notion of what a functioning family is like.


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As a result of the controversy, even President Bush criticized the series' concept of family, something Bart soon responded to in the series.


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[12] Despite the satirisation of family values, Simpsons' values can also be seen as traditional American: the series calls for suspicion of government and politicians, to rely on one's own advisability, and to fight for individual freedoms against oppression and arbitrary power.


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[13] History Background The Simpsons came about at a time when American animation was on the trough both in television and in cinema.


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Animations aimed only at children were shown on television, and in order to protect children, the cartoon programmes had been cut off anything that suggested violence and had no previous mockery.


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[14] [15] The new rise of animation was fuelled, along with the Simpsons, by the film Who set the trap, Roger Rabbit?


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(1988) and the Disney blockbuster animation The Little Mermaid (1989) released just before the Simpsons' own series began.


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[15] Genesis The Simpsons originated when television and film producer James L. Brooks wanted to spice up his production television series The Tracey Ullman Show with short animation snippets before and after the commercial breaks.


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To be the cartoonist of the series, Brooks wanted Matt Groening, as he liked the Life is Hell comic, drawn by Groening, which appeared in the Los Angeles Reader.


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Brooks contacted Groening in 1985.


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Groening was unwilling to transfer his existing cartoon into animation, so he invented the Simpsons family and sketched it over the course of a quarter of an hour while waiting for access to Brooks's talk.


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Character names he took from his own family, except for Bart's, which was an anagram of the word brat, 'brat'.


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[16] Brooks accepted Groening's idea, and the Tracey Ullman Show began to be made in conjunction with Groening's animations.


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The animations' handwriting was provided by Groening himself and were drawn in the United States by a total of four animators at the Klasky-Csupo animation studio, usually two at a time.


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Most voice actors were taken from The Tracey Ullman Show.


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[17] The yellow colour for the characters was probably invented by the animation studio Gyorgi Peluci.


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[18] The Simpsons first appeared in the third episode of the series on 19 April 1987.


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An episode of The Simpsons called Good Night (“Good night”) lasted less than two minutes.


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[19] The Simpsons short films were made over three seasons for a total of 48 songs.


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Included were all current family members and a few minor characters.


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The characters' personalities were not yet fully developed: Lisa, for example, was not an intellectual but akin to Bart.


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[20] The characters were still quite crudely drawn and resembled their current forms only remotely.


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Groening sent the raw sketches to the animators as they are and assumed they would tidy them up.


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However, the animators merely reproduced Groening's cartoons.


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[21] The Simpsons grew rapidly in popularity, their share became longer, and the level of animation improved.


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After the series' third season, preparations for the Simpsons' own series were already underway and they were never seen again on The Tracey Ullman Show.


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[22] Beginning of its own series The Simpsons received its own half-hour prime time programming slot from the young Fox channel in 1989.


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Fox proposed only four episodes, but Brooks managed to secure a contract for thirteen.


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At the same time, he pushed through his demands that control of the show's content remain with Brooks' own production company, Gracie Films.


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Thus, the preservation of the Simpsons' distinctive style was protected from the demands of the channel's executives.


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In addition to Brooks and Groening, Sam Simon became the series's executive producer.


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This trio contributed greatly to the shape of the series in its early seasons.


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The part of Brooks was in the development and direction of the series, with Groening and Simon being the production stage drag charge.


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[23] A big group of new screenwriters were hired for the series, including Jon Vitti, John Swartzwelder, Al Jean and Mike Reiss.


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The series wanted to be made into a realistic and believable adult situation comedy, as opposed to the stretchy and banging animations before it.


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It was decided to omit the laugh track.


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[24] Plenty of power-ups, including Rich Moore and Brad Bird, were hired to assist Wes Archer and David Silverman at the animation studio.


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In total, animators in Los Angeles numbered 50.


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The final color animation was decided to be commissioned at Akom in South Korea, where the quality was high but the cost was low.


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[25] More voice actors were also hired, as the series' cavalcade of characters had grown.


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[26] The animation of the episode Babysitter, which was intended to be the first season, was of low quality, so it was not moved to be aired until the last of the season.


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[27] The Simpsons' first episode “Christmas Peace” aired in the United States on Sunday, December 17, 1989.


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It immediately received an enthusiastic reception.


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[28] The series was the 28th most watched series of the year in the United States with 13.4 million weekly viewers.


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It received the Best Animated Series Emmy in 1990 and the TCA Best Comedy Series award.


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The series' first global fan community alt.tv.simpsons was established on Usenet in March 1990.


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[29] Production seasons on US television on Finnish television in Finland The Simpsons were first seen on Kolmoschannel on 26 August 1991.


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[70] After the beginning, the order of performance of the episodes was moved to that of the United States.


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Starting in 1993, in conjunction with television reform, the airing of the series moved to the MTV3 channel.


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For the 2010 spring season, The Simpsons switched entirely to Sub.


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[71] New episodes are usually aired in Finland with a delay of half a year and a half compared to the original US airtime.


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The series' Finnish subtitler for more than 20 years was Sari Luhtanen, who was forced to quit in the fall of 2012 when MTV outsourced its translation functions and the old translators were laid off in protest.


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[72] All characters names in Finnish (e.g.


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Krusty the Clown, Itchy and Scratchy, Fat Tony) are invented by Luhtase.


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[73] Production Producers and show runners Matt Groening and James L. Brooks have been the program's executive producers through the series.


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A more important part than the producer in the making of the episode is the show runner, supervisor in charge and producer, who is also the episode's lead screenwriter.


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Typically, these directors remain involved with the series for several production seasons.


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Show runners who served through the series: Seasons 1—2: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks & Sam Simon Seasons 3—4: Al Jean & Mike Reiss Seasons 5—6: David Mirkin Seasons 7—8: Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein Seasons 9—12: Mike Scully Seasons 13—: Al Jean Some production seasons have in individual episodes played a deviant show runner.


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Beginning with the 23rd season, for example, each season has contained a few episodes featuring Matt Selman as the second show runner with Al Jean.


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Screenwriting Screenwriting for the new production season begins around the turn of the season, eight to ten months before the first episode premieres.


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A team of screenwriters meets under the direction of an executive producer and develops the basic storylines for the season's episodes.


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After the gathering, each writer begins to develop individual basic plots into a roughly 25-page sketch.


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After receiving approval for the draft, the screenwriter prepares it into a full-length, or approximately 50-page episode.


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Full-length plots are brought back to a team of writers who can alter, delete, and add jokes or scenes.


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In a finished script, 10— 75% of the original writer's material remains, so a non-named screenwriter's share of the work is always high.


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[74] The series has occasionally featured guest screenwriters.


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Homer's voice actor Dan Castellaneta has scripted, along with his wife Deb Lacusta, eight episodes starting in 2000, voice actor Harry Shearer scripted one episode for the 28th production season in 2016, and the series' longtime director David Silverman one episode for 29. for the production season in 2018.


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Recording The semi-finished script will begin to be worked into an episode at an event where the voice actors read it aloud through.


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Then the script is still edited until it is ready to be sent to the recording studio.


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There, the episode's lines are recorded with all the main cast members present in the same room.


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Guest voices can be recorded separately.


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[75] [76] Animating The Simpsons is animated at Film Roman.


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The first three seasons of production were animated by the Klasky Csupo studio founded by Gábor Csupó.


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[77] After the audio tape is delivered to the animation studio, three artists begin working on a 200-page storyboard for the episode.


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Based on it, the group of animators assigned to the episode sketches the episode's scenes in black and white cartoons with their characters and event environments.


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The sketches are filmed and combined into the soundtrack into sketch animation.


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The material will go to the studio in South Korea, where the final color animation will be made.


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The images are currently coloured on a computer.


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After two to four months, the finished color animation is sent back to Film Roman and is finalized to the correct length.


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Sometimes small changes are made to the lines as well.


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[78] Music Sound effects and music added to episode last.


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[79] The music of the Simpsons is the handwriting of Alf Clausen.


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He makes his music at the request of Matt Groening to highlight the emotional states of the characters rather than the on-screen action as in traditional cartoons.


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In addition to his compositional work, Clausen also conducts an orchestra of about 35 people.


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[80] Voice Actors Voice acting is performed in The Simpsons carefully.


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An effort is always made to use the same actor as the character's voice.


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If temporarily not possible, the actor dies or otherwise only leaves the series, the character may be left out of the series.


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As far as the main cast is concerned, this has yet to happen, but with the deaths of Phil Hartman, Doris Grau and Marcia Wallace, for example, as well as Maggie Roswell being suspended temporarily on hiatus due to a pay dispute, their characters have been left out of the series.


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The only character played by Grau, though, was returned to the series more than a decade later in a recast.


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Main cast The main cast of The Simpsons and their main characters: Other regular cast members Guest stars The Simpsons has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the animated series that garnered the most guest celebrities.


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The series has guest starred with their own voices and characters such as Tony Blair, Meryl Streep, Aerosmith, Magic Johnson, Paul and Linda McCartney, Britney Spears and Michael Jackson.


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[81] However, many public figures drawn into the series have appeared with the voices of impersonators.


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Several fictional characters known elsewhere have also appeared in the series.


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The telecast of The Simpsons has been televised in numerous countries on several different channels, with a total of The Simpsons being watched in over 70 countries.


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The finished episodes will be the first to be delivered to the series' producer channel, American Fox.


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In Finland, the television rights are owned by MTV3 and its sister channel Sub.


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Episodes are subtitled in the Nordic countries and a few other countries, but dubbing is also common in several continental European countries, including France, Germany, Spain and Italy.


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Special Episodes “House of Horrors” Episodes An episode that hits close to Halloween is made into a special episode every year, the so-called “House of Horrors” (Treehouse of Horror).


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There are always three horror stories in the episode, with sometimes references to famous films and literature.


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This tradition began in the second period of production.


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[82] Trilogy episodes Along with the “House of Horrors” episodes, the series occasionally includes other so-called trilogy episodes, which consist of three separate stories and are not part of the series' normal plot continuum.


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The stories are often parodies of classic books, fairy tales, history, etc., with some unifying theme.


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Clip Episodes Starting with the fourth season, clip episodes composed of old scenes (clip show) have occasionally been shown in the series.


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These episodes have been made in order to bring more episodes into the season without employing the production team further.


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[83] So far, the most recent clip episode was in the 13th production season.


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Flashback and Future Episodes Flashback episodes is a recurring episode type with a peek into the characters' past.


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Flashbacks have detailed at least Marge and Homer's meeting, the birth of the family's children, and Homer's band career.


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As opposed to flashback episodes, the series also sometimes looks to the future of The Simpsons.


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Episodes have shown events such as Lisa as President of the United States and Bart in his future profession, as well as telling stories of Bart and Lisa's first loves.


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Impact Followers With the success of The Simpsons, other new animated series began to be made, some of which involved previous creators of The Simpsons.


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Among these were The Critic (1994), Family Dog (1993), Fish Police (1992), and Capitol Critters (1992).


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These series were short-lived, but Beavis and Butt-head (1993), King of the Hill (1997), South Park (1997), Futurama (1999) and Family Guy (1999) did well.


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[84] Hokemat Homer Simpson's most famous utterance “D'oh!” has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary of the English Dictionary.


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[85] Homer's voice actor Dan Castellaneta says he borrowed a phrase from the late Jimmy Finlayson, whose supporting character in the films Crepe and Thick often honked “douu” by some time.


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[86] A fictional word invented by Simpsons scriptwriters, the verb “embiggen” ('uplift') associated with the character Jebediah Springfield was accepted in 2018 into the prestigious Merriam-Webster dictionary.


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[87] Awards The Simpsons series has been awarded several times with various awards.


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The Simpsons has won 23 Emmy Awards, 22 Annie Awards and one Peabody Award.


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In January 2000, the series was admitted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


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The first episode to win an Emmy Award for an individual episode was the episode “Bridegroom” from season 1.


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In addition to this episode, nine other Simpsons episodes have won an individual episode Emmy, most recently the 19th production season episode “Amnesia”.


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In addition to this, the American magazine Time has chosen The Simpsons as the best series of the century [88] and the same magazine selected the characters of the series Bart and Lisa Simpson among the 50 best cartoon characters.


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[89] Apart from that, Bart has been selected by Time in 1998 among the 100 most significant 20th century persons as the only fictional person on the list.


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In the United Kingdom, The Simpsons reached the top spot in three viewer polls commissioned by Channel 4.


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The series was voted 1st place in the listing of both the 100 best children's series and the 100 best animations.


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[90] [91] Homer Simpson, on the other hand, was chosen as best television character.


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[92] Reviews Content Review The Simpsons deals with the topics of everyday life and its humour, which has led to critical viewer feedback from individual viewers as well as many groups and organisations over the years.


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Complaints have sometimes led to one-word exchanges or a half-hearted apology.


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Authors have defended ethnic jokes, for example, by the fact that all groups get their fair share of them.


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The violence of the series is meant as a parody, something viewers don't always understand.


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Sometimes changes are made to episodes due to pre-censorship even before the premiere, but always the creators ignore the sensors' instructions.


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In Finland, the series is not censored, but in Britain, for example, pre-censorship is even stricter than the United States.


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[93] In its early days, the series sparked debate among parents of children, as Bart Simpson was portrayed as a rebellious troublemaker who was never caught for his pranks.


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PTA saw Bart as a poor role model for children.


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President George H. W. Bush said that American families should be more reminiscent of the Walton TV family than the Simpsons.


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[94] Bush's wife Barbara Bush had also berated the Simpsons a few years earlier but subsequently cancelled her speeches.


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Declining Quality Review The series has received criticism from its fans for deteriorating quality.


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[95] This has been claimed to be related to screenwriter exchanges.


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The phenomenon of deteriorating episodes has also been evident in how various polls of the best episodes by fans and critics give only 1990s episodes as results.


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The latest episode of one of the fan-conducted “top-15 best episodes” voting dates from 1997, and the most recent episode in the 2003 listing by the series scriptwriters itself was from 2000.


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[96] [97] In 2004, Harry Shearer, the series' voice actor, said the 2000s production seasons had been bad.


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He considered the fourth season of production particularly good.


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[98] Plot Changing Review The episodes of the series were even down-to-earth in the early days and striving for realism, but since then episodes have repeatedly had more illogical features and the series has gone in an increasingly imaginative direction.


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Unrealism also manifests itself in the way that in more recent episodes, flashbacks and revelations about the characters' past have many times violated the previously created plot continuum.


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Finland references Some episodes of The Simpsons have had references to Finland.


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For example, in the 9th season episode “Shipwreck”, Martin Prince portrays the school on UN Day as Finland's representative in the Sami costume “Finnish national dance”, in the 16th season episode “Baby Fuumetta” Montgomery Burns mentions runner Paavo Nurmi, in the 21st season episode “Curvailua curling track” a flashback is seen From Agnes Skinner as a pole jumper at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and in the 22nd season episode “Innäinen”, she flashes representatives of the intelligence agency known as the “A-Team of Finland”.


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[99] Bonita Pietila, who has worked as the cast member of the series from the beginning, has Finnish ancestry.


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Accessories There are a lot of Simpsons-themed accessories on sale.


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Fan stores and retail merchandise stores sold for sale include Simpsons episodes as videos and DVDs, related computer games, and numerous cartoons and items such as figures, bottle openers, clothing, soft toys, and key chains.


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In addition, Western Pacific Airlines, an airline operating in the United States, has had [100] a Boeing 737 aircraft decorated with Simpsons characters at its disposal.


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Accessories such as T-shirts with Bart Simpson's slogan “Underachiever (And proud of it, man!


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)”, (Finnish. “Underperforming (and proud of it!


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)”), sold in the early days of the series for two billion dollars.


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[94] Even smaller companies have tried to benefit from the Simpsons brand.


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Krusty O's breakfast cereal, for example, has appeared on store shelves in the United States.


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In addition, an Australian brewer once began marketing a Duff-branded beer, but in court the sale of the drink was subsequently banned.


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Instead, the cans that had already made it for sale became sought-after collector's items.


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In 2009, the United States Post issued a series of five stamps of the Simpsons.


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The stamps feature Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.


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[101] Books and comics about the Simpsons published as both official and unofficial books starting in 1990.


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The official books go under Matt Groening's name and most of them contain new, scripted material for the books with rich colour illustration.


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In particular, the English-speaking market is also rich in unofficial books, which, for copyright reasons, almost simply text, focus on illuminating the background of the TV series and its links to our society.


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The first official books published in Finnish were The Simpsons Christmas Book (1991) and The Rainy Day Hoodbook (1992).


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[102] The Simpsons Library of Wisdoms series includes Homer, Bart, Lisa and Moe's own books published since 2007.


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The first unofficial book of entirely domestic origin, Jouni Paakkinen's book The Simpsons — Two Decades of the Yellow Family, was published in 2008.


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Several different comic book magazines have also been produced about The Simpsons, for example Simpsons Comics, Simpsons Comics and Stories, and Bartman.


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Today they are published mostly in the US and UK by American comics publisher Bongo Comics, named after Groening's Life is Hell comic book Bongo Hare.


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Comics have also been compiled into books.


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Like Kustannus has been publishing these comics collections in Finnish since 2007.


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The author of comics is Henrik Laine [103].


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Video Games Due to the high popularity of The Simpsons, several video games have been produced from the series.


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The first game was for all the most popular gaming devices of its time translated action-adventure Bart vs.


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Space Mutants.


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Around the same time, The Simpsons slot game appeared, which is a brawler in the genre.


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Soon another computer game appeared, Bart vs.


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A world in which moved around the world.


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The games were not great review successes, though not flops, but received an approving reception.


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Games in the 3D season include wrestling game The Simpsons Wrestling, car game The Simpsons Road Rage, skateboarding game The Simpsons Skateboarding, and sandbox game The Simpsons Hit & Run.


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The most recent Simpsons game went on sale in early 2012 on Playstation Network called The Simpsons Arcade which has only been in certain American arcades The first and so far only Simpsons Movie premiered on July 27 in 2007.


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The film was directed by David Silverman, and among the screenwriters was Matt Groening.


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The film follows the style of the television series in both animation and story.


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[104] The film was seen in Finland on the premiere day of the animated film with a record of over 30000 viewers and 176543 viewers in the first week.


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[105] [106] In addition to Finland, the film was also the most watched of the weekend in its native United States, where it garnered over $70 million in revenue on its opening weekend.


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[107] A number of music albums have been released from the Simpsons.


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A music album by The Simpsons Sing the Blues featuring songs inspired by the series was released on December 4, 1990.


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The songs were performed by the series' voice actors along with guest soloists.


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The single “Do the Bartman”, secretly written by Michael Jackson and sung by Nancy Cartwright in Bart's voice, became a chart hit, and the album sold double platinum in the United States.


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[108] The Yellow Album was soon recorded as a “sequel” to the album, which, however, was not released until 1998.


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Songs and background music heard in the series itself have been released on three soundtrack albums: Songs in the Key of Springfield (1997), Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons (1999), and The Simpsons: Testify (2007).


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DVD releases of episodes of The Simpsons have also been available for sale on VHS cassettes, but as the DVD became more widespread, entire production seasons of the series have gone on sale as DVD boxsets and subsequently as blu-ray compilations as well.


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Episodes have also been released as various, including Halloween and Christmas-themed collections.


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Released in 2001, the first production season became the best-selling DVD of the television series by then; though it was overtaken by the first production season of Chappelle's Show in 2004.


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[109] Twentieth Century Fox announced in spring 2015 that season releases of The Simpsons would no longer be released on DVD or blu-ray in the future.


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However, the seventeenth production season, with a total release appearing in December 2014, [110] received a follow-up in late 2017 when it was decided to continue publishing and the eighteenth production season appeared on DVD.


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The Continuation War was fought between Finland and the Soviet Union from 25 June 1941 to 19 September 1944.


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Continuation war was fought on the Finnish front at the same time as Germany was carrying out a widespread invasion of the Soviet Union known as Operation Barbarossa.


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The Finnish front had been divided between German and Finnish forces, with the Finns in charge of the Southern Front and the Germans for the Lapland Front.


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Finland was not, by law, an ally of Germany, as there was no treaty of alliance.


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Instead, Finland was effectively an ally of Germany, giving its territory at German disposal, subjecting its forces to Germany, and receiving arms aid from Germany.


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At the beginning of the war, on the southern front section, Finnish troops recaptured areas lost in the Winter War and advanced across Syyr and the Leningrad defensive lines.


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In December 1941, the offensive was halted and a station warfare phase that lasted more than two years began.


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The northern front sections were unable to obtain the severed Muurmann track and the German forces were unable to advance on Murmansk.


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The Soviet Grand Offensive in June 1944 broke through the Finns' foremost defensive lines.


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After heavy interceptor fighting, the guns were lowered to 4—5.


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The Moscow Intermediate Peace was signed on 19 September 1944 and was confirmed in the Peace of Paris 1947.


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The intermediate peace terms of the Continuation War included, among other things, forcing German troops out of Finland, leading to the Lapland War against Germany.


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Pre-war events The peace in Moscow, which ended the Winter War in March 1940, was not peace in the truest sense of the word.


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Europe was at war and Finland remained under martial law as well.


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During peacetime, the 100000 members of the lifting crew who remained untrained were ordered to enter service and their military training in the final stages of the Winter War to increase the low perceived reserve was commenced.


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Squad leaders who had rehabilitated in the Winter War were asked to remain as loyal sub-officers for the training mission.


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Finland was targeting an internationally identified possible maximum of the population, which could be disconnected from other duties to army service, i.e. 16%.


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In the case of Finland, this was considered sufficient only for the operational defence of the entire eastern border.


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General Aksel Airo had written a book on the subject after the Winter War, Honor - Motherland, in which he considered Finland's own defence possibilities superficially viewed only in the light of numbers to be almost non-existent.


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Foreign countries' estimates of Finland's defence capabilities before the Winter War were based on the same criteria.


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[1] Germany invaded Denmark and Norway in April 1940 and quickly captured the countries.


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In May, Germany invaded France.


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The northern part of the country was occupied directly by Germany and the southern part was formed by the German-controlled Vichy government, which refused to continue fighting.


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Britain prepared for major air battles to prevent extensive German bombardment aimed at capturing the British Isles against it.


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The Baltic Sea had been closed by the Soviet Union and Germany, the only free passage to the oceans for foreign trade was the troublesome and long Liinahamar route to Petsamo.


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When Germany had also occupied Northern Norway by mid-June, Finland's physical isolation was almost complete: Germany would have been able to quickly cut off Finland's last open foreign trade route to the west if it wished, [2] and the same could have been done by the Soviet Fishermen and From the central blockade.


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In June 1940, following the German takeover of Denmark, Norway and finally France, the Soviet Union began pressuring Finland.


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The first demand was to recover all equipment taken away from the Karelian Isthmus and Hanko rental area.


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A stake in Petsamo's nickel mines was also called for.


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In July, the Soviet Union made a demand for the demilitarization of Åland, and the right to train transport across Finnish territory to Hanko.


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[2] The agreement for transit from Finland's eastern border to Hankoniemi was signed in early September.


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The Soviet Union did not reduce its pressure on Finland until early spring the following year.


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[3] The political climate during the intermediate peace was pressing; for example, the demonstrations and the resulting riots of the Finnish and Soviet Peace and Friendship Society and the downshooting of the Aero airliner Kaleva in the Gulf of Finland in June 1940 at the same time as the occupation of the Soviet Union The Baltic States, was perceived very strongly in Finland.


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Finland was in a tight gap in foreign policy when Norway and the Baltics were overrun, Germany and the Soviet Union were in a diplomatic state of peace with each other, and Sweden's proposed confederation with Finland in October 1940 fell into opposition from the Soviet Union and Germany.


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The Soviet Red Army Staff had issued instructions to the Leningrad Military District for a new war against Finland on 18 September 1940.


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The order was further refined on 25 November with the requirement to draw up an attack plan in case of a situation in which Finland would be the enemy alone.


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The Baltic Fleet drew up a plan to take over Åland and the forces of the Hanko base were transferred under the Leningrad Military District and its defensive direction was reversed on 12 November 1940 parallel to the mainland.


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In the Soviet Union, the management of Finnish affairs was transferred to the Main Administration of State Security (GUGB) under the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (Ministry), and in addition, invasion forces began to be transferred to their grouping areas.


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Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov visited Berlin in November to ask German leader Adolf Hitler for consent to the occupation of Finland.


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However, as the Germans had already included Finland in their invasion plans Hitler warned the Soviet Union to stay out of Finland.


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The rapprochement of Finland and Germany on 6 September 1940 Finland concluded a transit agreement with the Soviet Union for traffic to Hanko.


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In August 1940, Field Marshal Gustaf Mannerheim, Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces, received an intelligence from Germany to allow the transit of German troops from ports in the Gulf of Bothnia to Kirkenes.


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At the same time, it was announced that it was possible for Finland to buy military equipment from Germany.


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Transit agreement: On 12 September, the Finnish General Staff and the German Air Force agreed to transport Luftwaffe crew and equipment through Finnish territory.


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A political agreement between the states on 22 September also allowed for transport by German land forces.


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A further increase in holiday traffic was negotiated in October.


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The first troops came ashore at Vaasa on the 22nd and 26 in Oulu.


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[4] The ore of the Kolo River in Petsamo, Germany saw as vital to its war industry and Petsamo as an indispensable stepping stone for the invasion of Murmansk.


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The Soviet Union, on the other hand, after the end of the Winter War, felt no interest in Petsamo's nickel reserves, nor Petsamoo as a military territory.


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[5] When the German authorities were planning to integrate Scandinavia into their own economic area, Finland was also included from April 1940, even though the country was part of the Soviet Union's interest.


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[6] The situation at the nickel mine changed sharply in July 1940 with the Finnish and German I.G.


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With the agreement reached by Farbenindustrie.


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Negotiations had been taking place since the spring, with the deal promising Germany 60% of production.


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German negotiators reported the ore to Berlin to be worth more than RM1 billion and enough for 20 years to cover the entire nickel need of Greater Germany.


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Late in the year, the Germans increased the ore volume estimate fourfold.


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After negotiations began, the Soviet Union already proposed the transfer of the mine concession to itself in June.


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Soviet forces intensified the claim by grouping to the frontier, and fortifying the Fishermen's blockade.


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England took a steeply negative view of mining negotiations with Germany, halting Liinahamar merchant ships.


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Finland negotiated with everyone in a politically tight gap.


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The Finns negotiated in tense moods in Moscow seven times, until February 1941 without agreeing to the Russians' demands.


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The Soviets also negotiated with Germany until March 1941, unsuccessfully.


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[5] In protest, the Soviet Union stopped its exports to Finland.